NC BL 06/00/2007 Table: Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, Bulletin 3135-60, October 2006 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $24.80 2.7 34.4 $24.41 3.0 34.2 $28.14 1.4 35.6 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 35.77 2.9 36.8 35.62 3.3 37.2 36.82 2.1 33.9 Management, business, and financial............................... 41.21 3.0 39.7 41.50 3.1 39.9 36.27 8.6 36.1 Professional and related.......................................... 32.95 3.2 35.5 32.21 3.8 35.8 36.92 1.4 33.6 Service............................................................. 12.89 2.3 29.4 11.31 2.4 28.1 20.61 2.3 37.9 Sales and office.................................................... 19.24 4.6 33.1 19.30 4.9 33.0 18.53 2.9 35.0 Sales and related................................................. 21.73 9.6 31.0 21.72 9.7 30.9 22.25 3.0 35.5 Office and administrative support................................. 17.73 2.3 34.6 17.66 2.5 34.6 18.31 3.1 34.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.59 2.5 39.3 24.61 2.7 39.3 24.29 1.4 39.1 Construction and extraction...................................... 25.56 2.8 39.3 25.71 3.0 39.3 24.11 3.1 39.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.98 2.8 39.6 22.84 3.1 39.6 24.80 3.8 39.7 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.84 4.1 34.2 14.61 4.3 34.1 21.30 4.6 38.2 Production........................................................ 15.88 5.0 38.9 15.74 5.1 38.9 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.91 3.3 30.8 13.58 3.5 30.6 22.18 4.7 37.4 Full time........................................................... 26.77 2.7 39.2 26.50 3.1 39.4 28.76 1.6 37.3 Part time........................................................... 13.03 2.3 19.8 12.89 2.4 19.9 16.72 6.4 19.2 Union............................................................... 26.17 2.1 34.2 23.93 4.0 32.3 28.37 1.0 36.4 Nonunion............................................................ 24.50 3.4 34.4 24.46 3.5 34.5 26.74 6.2 31.4 Time................................................................ 24.39 2.4 34.2 23.93 2.8 34.0 28.14 1.4 35.6 Incentive........................................................... 34.15 14.0 38.4 34.15 14.0 38.4 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 27.18 4.5 39.9 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 23.71 3.4 33.0 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 20.64 4.2 33.5 20.63 4.2 33.4 21.79 2.2 35.0 100-499 workers..................................................... 25.32 3.4 34.2 24.60 3.9 34.1 30.16 2.6 34.4 500 workers or more................................................. 30.13 5.2 35.9 30.92 6.5 35.8 27.34 .9 36.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $24.80 2.7 $26.77 2.7 $13.03 2.3 Management occupations.............................................. 47.46 3.4 47.57 3.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.84 7.2 23.84 7.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 26.93 6.1 26.93 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.54 7.4 32.63 7.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 42.13 8.7 42.13 8.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 43.60 1.8 43.60 1.8 – – Level 12.................................................. 59.71 6.2 60.17 5.9 – – Level 13.................................................. 72.29 6.8 72.29 6.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.07 4.6 48.20 4.7 – – General and operations managers................................... 54.94 11.3 54.94 11.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.49 13.4 51.49 13.4 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 55.63 7.7 55.63 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 54.90 7.4 54.90 7.4 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.03 13.2 56.03 13.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.64 7.8 46.64 7.8 – – Sales managers.................................................. 54.98 11.2 54.98 11.2 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.91 8.7 49.91 8.7 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.90 2.9 55.90 2.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 50.87 4.6 50.87 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 50.39 6.6 50.39 6.6 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 48.39 16.2 48.39 16.2 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 41.32 1.3 41.32 1.3 – – Education administrators.......................................... 41.81 3.7 42.41 3.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.12 13.6 31.80 16.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.13 4.4 48.13 4.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 53.42 8.1 53.42 8.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.85 10.3 37.34 11.9 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.06 2.0 50.06 2.0 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 40.05 3.3 40.37 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.38 12.1 36.95 14.4 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 56.21 10.3 56.21 10.3 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.43 17.2 44.43 17.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.74 8.0 33.79 8.0 26.65 8.7 Level 6 .................................................. 19.67 4.5 19.67 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.17 6.7 25.17 6.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 26.91 5.6 26.91 5.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.88 5.8 28.99 6.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 34.11 7.0 34.11 7.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.17 6.0 40.17 6.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 78.15 30.8 78.15 30.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.86 14.9 30.88 15.0 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.50 10.9 30.50 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.12 19.6 32.12 19.6 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ $25.82 3.8 $25.71 4.3 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.61 10.0 26.50 10.7 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.54 12.1 23.54 12.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 20.45 6.9 20.45 6.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.93 5.2 28.58 5.5 – – Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 27.11 3.8 27.59 3.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.16 4.7 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 21.64 14.7 21.64 14.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 41.85 11.2 41.85 11.2 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.36 6.3 27.36 6.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.34 12.0 27.34 12.1 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.99 7.8 43.99 7.8 – – Financial analysts.............................................. 44.77 8.5 44.77 8.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.69 2.3 38.65 2.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.23 7.1 19.23 7.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.63 7.1 26.63 7.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.61 11.8 31.61 11.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.49 3.5 34.50 3.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 39.35 3.8 39.35 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.98 3.9 45.98 3.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.05 5.4 48.03 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.59 3.8 37.59 3.8 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 29.90 3.2 29.90 3.2 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 43.41 3.9 43.43 3.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.31 2.5 36.42 2.7 – – Level 10.................................................. 40.63 5.2 40.63 5.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.37 7.0 45.37 7.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.31 7.4 46.31 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.51 10.9 44.51 10.9 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.92 4.1 42.92 4.1 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.88 5.7 43.94 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.41 6.4 – – – – Level 11.................................................. 46.13 5.8 46.13 5.8 – – Level 12.................................................. 50.14 1.7 50.14 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.23 15.4 40.23 15.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.53 9.3 35.53 9.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.75 3.5 34.75 3.5 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 36.94 5.0 36.75 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.04 6.2 31.04 6.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.05 3.1 33.05 3.1 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 37.65 10.7 37.65 10.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.25 1.7 35.13 1.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.71 5.8 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.36 2.9 26.36 2.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. $36.51 4.8 $36.51 4.8 – – Level 10.................................................. 40.57 8.7 40.57 8.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.79 2.9 40.79 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.05 5.7 48.07 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.26 6.7 38.31 6.8 – – Engineers......................................................... 39.66 1.5 39.59 1.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.37 6.0 28.37 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.50 5.1 34.50 5.1 – – Level 10.................................................. 43.29 7.5 43.29 7.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.79 2.9 40.79 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.05 5.7 48.07 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.09 3.9 42.09 3.9 – – Civil engineers................................................. 31.84 7.1 31.84 7.1 – – Computer hardware engineers..................................... 41.80 8.3 41.80 8.3 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.46 3.8 41.46 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.03 4.3 44.03 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.67 12.1 42.67 12.1 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 40.55 3.0 40.55 3.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.21 6.5 38.21 6.5 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 5.0 41.92 5.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.03 4.7 44.03 4.7 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 44.08 3.7 44.08 3.7 – – Drafters.......................................................... 28.97 10.0 29.07 10.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.35 2.9 24.37 2.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.43 8.2 23.43 8.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 22.11 4.5 22.11 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.54 5.2 22.54 5.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.76 9.2 30.81 9.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.35 6.8 23.35 6.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.52 12.4 26.52 12.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 28.44 4.2 – – – – Level 12.................................................. 35.94 6.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.54 9.1 31.37 8.8 – – Life scientists Level 9 .................................................. 22.68 9.8 22.68 9.8 – – Biological scientists........................................... 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Market research analysts........................................ 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 22.14 8.4 22.46 9.6 $20.19 14.5 Level 7 .................................................. 20.59 5.1 20.65 5.4 – – Counselors........................................................ 21.62 13.5 21.80 16.9 20.58 24.6 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. $24.76 13.2 $25.29 17.9 – – Social workers.................................................... 22.79 6.7 22.90 7.1 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 22.58 21.4 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 50.43 11.5 52.40 12.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.56 23.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.74 29.8 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 67.13 16.9 67.13 16.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 33.99 11.0 36.79 6.9 $15.78 14.7 Level 2 .................................................. 12.86 8.8 13.44 7.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.94 10.7 13.89 12.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.18 16.3 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 35.73 22.6 36.46 21.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 43.81 3.6 44.04 3.8 33.88 12.3 Level 10.................................................. 37.20 6.1 37.58 5.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.59 15.2 46.66 15.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 52.94 10.3 52.59 10.1 – – Level 13.................................................. 71.28 12.4 71.28 12.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.16 12.1 43.83 12.8 22.39 18.0 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.93 5.9 49.10 6.1 31.29 14.9 Level 9 .................................................. 40.45 5.3 41.48 6.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 37.32 6.9 37.88 6.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.59 15.2 46.66 15.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 52.94 10.3 52.59 10.1 – – Level 13.................................................. 71.28 12.4 71.28 12.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.53 12.7 50.01 14.0 27.74 30.3 Engineering and architecture teachers, postsecondary............ 67.31 1.4 – – – – Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.30 6.4 51.84 7.7 – – English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 48.98 18.9 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 43.04 6.8 44.01 7.5 33.01 22.1 Level 9 .................................................. 41.30 3.1 – – – – Level 11.................................................. 43.98 11.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.33 18.4 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.04 17.4 36.74 9.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 38.20 19.2 38.97 17.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.66 3.4 45.66 3.4 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. – – 16.73 22.9 – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. – – 13.20 8.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 44.58 3.8 44.68 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.08 5.6 45.08 5.6 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.42 3.5 44.54 3.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 44.73 4.9 44.73 4.9 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.74 6.0 45.74 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.39 8.9 47.39 8.9 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... $45.93 2.2 $45.93 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.74 2.9 47.74 2.9 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.84 2.2 45.84 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.78 2.9 47.78 2.9 – – Special education teachers...................................... 35.82 15.1 35.82 15.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.97 9.7 40.97 9.7 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 32.78 25.4 – – $21.70 21.1 Level 9 .................................................. 39.15 21.4 – – – – Librarians........................................................ 34.75 11.6 34.89 11.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.24 12.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 14.50 6.8 14.94 6.6 12.24 13.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.86 8.8 13.44 7.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.14 5.1 15.57 3.1 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.80 5.4 28.36 5.4 14.19 18.8 Level 9 .................................................. 29.23 5.0 29.23 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.31 9.5 24.68 10.4 – – Designers......................................................... 25.22 12.5 – – – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.70 9.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.70 9.0 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 23.64 15.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.64 15.0 – – – – Public relations specialists...................................... 26.96 4.8 26.96 4.8 – – Writers and editors............................................... 38.45 5.4 39.32 7.0 – – Editors......................................................... 36.31 8.7 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.23 3.3 25.96 4.3 32.13 4.6 Level 3 .................................................. 12.08 5.2 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.29 6.3 17.25 7.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.12 4.3 17.74 4.5 21.86 7.0 Level 6 .................................................. 24.13 8.2 24.27 10.7 23.67 8.5 Level 7 .................................................. 25.38 3.7 25.40 2.1 25.30 13.4 Level 8 .................................................. 30.09 16.7 26.63 21.3 40.33 5.7 Level 9 .................................................. 35.64 1.4 33.69 1.8 38.88 2.2 Level 10.................................................. 35.37 12.3 35.06 13.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.76 7.5 48.25 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.99 3.3 25.14 1.5 24.23 15.6 Pharmacists....................................................... 43.65 2.2 – – – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 37.20 15.7 33.88 15.9 – – Level 10.................................................. 23.33 3.3 23.33 3.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.93 2.8 33.90 4.6 37.77 1.5 Level 7 .................................................. – – – – 30.04 7.4 Level 8 .................................................. 38.67 3.6 36.99 7.9 41.42 6.8 Level 9 .................................................. 35.36 1.7 33.29 1.4 39.00 3.4 Level 11.................................................. 47.74 13.9 48.87 14.2 – – Therapists........................................................ $27.97 8.1 $29.18 12.4 $24.95 34.1 Level 9 .................................................. 35.36 7.1 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.50 9.3 18.87 10.4 23.15 4.9 Level 4 .................................................. 15.68 6.3 15.56 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 2.5 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.60 21.5 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.34 5.8 17.28 7.0 17.65 10.0 Level 4 .................................................. 15.68 6.3 15.56 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.87 6.0 – – – – Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.93 4.5 15.44 6.5 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.67 3.3 17.14 6.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.33 1.8 22.57 .8 21.92 5.4 Level 5 .................................................. 22.67 2.3 – – – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.03 4.7 14.95 4.3 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.16 1.4 14.10 1.9 14.37 3.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.95 1.4 12.88 1.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.21 1.9 13.63 .8 12.26 2.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.05 8.2 14.70 9.3 16.26 6.0 Level 5 .................................................. 16.82 10.0 16.13 4.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.00 11.6 14.40 10.2 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.00 1.7 13.10 2.1 12.59 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 13.01 1.5 12.89 1.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.22 2.0 13.57 1.3 12.27 1.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.83 7.3 12.85 7.6 – – Home health aides............................................... 11.96 2.6 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.00 4.0 13.24 3.4 11.94 .4 Level 2 .................................................. 12.58 .9 12.42 1.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.02 3.8 13.29 2.5 12.01 .5 Level 4 .................................................. 13.83 6.4 14.01 5.9 – – Psychiatric aides............................................... 13.86 2.2 13.78 2.5 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.20 3.3 16.55 3.2 15.44 4.6 Level 4 .................................................. 17.45 5.9 18.02 7.3 16.46 6.3 Medical assistants.............................................. 16.07 3.6 – – – – Medical transcriptionists....................................... 14.92 8.4 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 19.77 9.3 20.57 10.5 10.69 8.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.94 8.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.20 5.8 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.90 14.3 19.18 15.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.40 5.8 22.40 5.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.28 4.1 24.28 4.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.67 6.5 27.67 6.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.76 29.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 33.77 9.5 33.77 9.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.77 9.5 33.77 9.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... $27.66 1.7 $27.66 1.7 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 22.73 2.5 22.75 2.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 24.29 4.3 24.34 4.5 – – Police officers................................................... 24.37 5.7 24.38 5.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.88 3.7 23.91 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.75 5.4 25.75 5.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.37 5.7 24.38 5.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.88 3.7 23.91 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.75 5.4 25.75 5.4 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 15.53 9.9 17.37 11.1 $11.50 11.0 Security guards................................................. 15.53 9.9 17.37 11.1 11.50 11.0 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 11.73 11.3 – – 9.58 4.4 Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers................................................ 10.68 17.4 – – 8.96 1.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.88 1.9 10.91 5.8 6.99 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.67 1.5 7.48 15.3 7.74 3.7 Level 2 .................................................. 7.26 5.9 7.99 13.8 6.74 4.1 Level 3 .................................................. 8.81 9.5 11.55 3.3 5.94 11.9 Level 4 .................................................. 12.59 4.1 12.49 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.38 5.4 15.85 8.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.98 2.4 17.98 2.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.96 2.4 17.96 2.4 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.19 1.9 12.36 3.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.40 5.6 11.63 3.1 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.48 6.1 12.48 6.1 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.39 2.3 12.51 5.3 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.13 9.1 13.12 17.8 9.99 6.7 Level 2 .................................................. 11.09 16.0 – – 9.14 2.0 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.22 13.5 6.05 26.4 4.82 7.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.20 16.7 – – 6.49 11.8 Level 2 .................................................. 4.82 10.8 4.98 17.6 4.70 14.8 Level 3 .................................................. 5.12 24.9 – – 4.21 21.6 Bartenders...................................................... 6.58 7.8 – – 6.64 7.6 Level 2 .................................................. 6.89 9.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 6.28 21.3 – – 6.28 21.3 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.60 27.9 – – 3.04 10.0 Level 2 .................................................. 2.96 5.9 – – 3.08 6.3 Level 3 .................................................. 4.61 37.2 – – 3.10 16.0 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.17 4.0 – – 7.68 4.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.78 5.4 – – 7.70 10.4 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.32 3.0 9.86 4.2 7.63 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 7.71 3.8 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. $8.43 9.8 – – $7.69 7.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.28 3.7 – – 7.52 4.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.24 10.0 – – 7.86 8.9 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop. 8.35 5.7 – – – – Dishwashers....................................................... 8.82 7.9 $8.44 2.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.82 7.9 8.44 2.1 – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.96 .9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.21 2.3 13.80 2.8 11.19 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.60 4.5 11.70 7.4 11.44 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 12.54 3.5 13.02 4.2 10.64 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 15.51 7.3 15.77 7.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.76 2.3 18.16 1.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 17.96 6.0 18.90 4.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers........................................................ 17.12 4.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.03 2.9 13.64 3.7 11.13 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.61 5.0 11.72 8.7 11.44 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 12.62 3.1 – – 10.53 5.6 Level 3 .................................................. 16.19 9.7 16.21 10.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.72 2.8 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.37 3.3 14.57 5.1 11.15 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 12.35 2.3 13.14 3.9 11.55 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.92 3.3 12.87 4.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.19 9.7 16.21 10.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.72 2.8 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.60 9.2 9.16 9.7 10.94 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.85 10.4 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.07 10.1 12.94 10.3 – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.66 9.5 12.51 9.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.79 7.4 15.42 7.9 9.77 3.7 Level 1 .................................................. 10.15 6.1 – – 10.96 2.4 Level 2 .................................................. 8.75 9.8 – – 8.24 8.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.36 5.3 – – 9.36 5.3 Level 4 .................................................. 12.47 8.8 12.77 9.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.72 14.7 – – – – Transportation attendants......................................... 31.21 4.5 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 9.75 9.9 – – 8.12 8.3 Personal and home care aides...................................... 10.61 3.3 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 12.40 2.1 – – 12.20 .8 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 12.20 1.0 – – 12.20 1.0 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.73 9.6 26.74 8.5 9.74 4.0 Level 1 .................................................. $8.54 1.6 – – $8.60 0.9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.29 2.2 – – 9.07 2.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.02 4.4 $13.57 5.9 10.92 8.1 Level 4 .................................................. 16.26 8.5 17.45 8.7 11.16 6.9 Level 5 .................................................. 18.97 4.0 19.19 4.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.84 13.4 19.84 13.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 32.39 12.5 32.39 12.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 37.30 24.1 37.30 24.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 50.94 22.5 50.94 22.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 55.82 10.2 56.04 10.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.82 19.5 17.54 21.5 11.80 16.4 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.75 13.6 24.06 12.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.11 4.1 17.42 3.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.99 13.3 28.99 13.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.33 9.0 13.73 11.7 9.17 .9 Level 1 .................................................. 8.54 1.6 – – 8.60 .9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.28 2.4 – – 9.05 2.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.10 4.7 13.70 6.3 10.92 8.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.36 10.4 16.32 14.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.09 4.9 20.62 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.58 11.4 9.65 13.7 9.28 1.5 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.91 3.0 13.36 5.0 9.17 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.5 – – 8.81 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.12 6.9 – – 9.02 6.5 Level 3 .................................................. 17.05 7.7 18.33 11.9 – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.90 3.0 13.36 5.0 9.14 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.5 – – 8.81 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.12 6.9 – – 9.02 6.5 Level 3 .................................................. 17.35 7.9 18.33 11.9 – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 9.65 6.9 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.05 4.0 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.91 15.5 15.16 13.6 9.34 4.9 Level 2 .................................................. 10.11 4.6 – – 9.70 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.92 3.7 13.90 3.5 10.04 4.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.71 11.7 16.32 14.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.48 8.4 20.03 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.12 1.2 – – – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 3.5 83.95 3.5 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.82 11.7 30.15 11.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 34.66 17.8 34.66 17.8 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 25.89 15.6 26.36 13.4 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 24.33 16.8 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.73 2.3 18.31 2.4 13.40 4.5 Level 1 .................................................. $8.55 3.4 – – $8.58 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.50 4.9 $12.47 5.7 10.04 7.0 Level 3 .................................................. 14.09 2.8 14.17 2.9 12.71 3.2 Level 4 .................................................. 16.55 2.0 16.57 2.2 16.46 2.4 Level 5 .................................................. 19.89 5.7 19.99 6.0 18.10 5.1 Level 6 .................................................. 21.38 5.1 21.43 5.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.19 4.3 24.07 4.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.30 4.8 28.30 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.38 5.9 20.22 5.9 13.07 11.7 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 26.10 7.6 26.10 7.6 – – Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 10.73 11.8 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 16.96 6.4 17.38 7.0 14.34 8.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.11 3.4 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.85 8.5 12.85 8.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.83 5.1 16.02 6.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.76 5.3 17.43 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.43 15.8 19.78 14.2 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.64 8.1 14.77 8.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.35 11.8 13.35 11.8 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.43 9.2 19.15 10.6 13.83 6.3 Level 4 .................................................. 15.12 6.4 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.58 8.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.43 16.7 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 13.18 4.3 – – – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 6.3 18.09 6.3 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 18.84 7.0 19.34 6.6 12.01 15.6 Level 3 .................................................. 15.41 7.4 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.53 7.2 16.36 7.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.79 14.7 22.81 14.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.42 6.8 18.42 6.8 – – Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.03 1.0 – – – – Library assistants, clerical...................................... 17.16 7.2 – – – – Order clerks...................................................... 16.17 5.2 16.58 5.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.37 4.2 13.39 3.7 13.25 16.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.81 8.4 – – 9.01 9.2 Level 3 .................................................. 12.95 5.1 12.95 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.40 8.2 – – – – Dispatchers....................................................... 17.59 6.9 17.83 7.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.80 7.3 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 10.5 19.85 10.5 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.21 12.4 18.46 13.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.21 5.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.37 18.5 19.37 18.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.08 12.6 16.05 9.5 8.96 7.2 Level 1 .................................................. 8.57 3.9 – – 8.57 3.9 Level 2 .................................................. $11.07 5.1 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.25 2.0 $20.43 2.2 $18.32 8.7 Level 4 .................................................. 17.28 5.5 17.53 6.7 16.39 5.6 Level 5 .................................................. 18.31 3.9 18.32 3.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.28 2.9 23.28 2.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.37 2.1 24.14 2.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.67 7.7 18.69 8.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.69 2.2 23.69 2.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.76 3.5 23.76 3.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.31 3.1 24.31 3.1 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 16.98 4.4 17.00 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.53 5.9 16.37 7.0 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.68 4.6 19.99 4.9 16.79 13.2 Level 4 .................................................. 18.46 11.0 19.07 11.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.73 9.5 17.73 9.5 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.30 3.7 15.35 4.1 14.27 9.2 Level 2 .................................................. 14.40 11.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.26 4.5 15.30 4.7 – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.46 3.2 – – – – Word processors and typists..................................... 17.07 4.4 17.09 4.7 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.39 2.0 16.39 2.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.22 1.0 17.22 1.0 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 17.64 5.2 18.77 3.9 12.34 18.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.93 19.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.66 4.1 15.50 3.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.66 5.8 16.34 6.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.50 4.0 21.68 3.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.56 2.8 25.62 3.0 22.45 10.5 Level 3 .................................................. 29.76 19.3 29.76 19.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.77 3.2 17.77 3.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.64 6.4 22.77 7.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 26.89 4.3 26.91 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.28 4.7 29.35 5.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.47 15.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 33.22 6.5 33.22 6.5 – – Carpenters........................................................ 25.96 17.7 25.96 17.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.63 9.2 26.63 9.2 – – Construction laborers............................................. 27.77 16.1 27.77 16.1 – – Construction equipment operators.................................. 29.86 17.2 29.86 17.2 – – Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 30.91 21.7 30.91 21.7 – – Electricians...................................................... 24.32 5.5 24.32 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.11 13.5 28.11 13.5 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 27.17 5.2 27.17 5.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.40 6.7 27.40 6.7 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... $27.17 5.2 $27.17 5.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.40 6.7 27.40 6.7 – – Helpers, construction trades...................................... 17.67 23.1 17.67 23.1 – – Miscellaneous construction and related workers.................... 21.13 26.0 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.98 2.8 23.06 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.20 2.4 17.22 2.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.10 7.3 20.17 7.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.92 5.0 24.92 5.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.96 1.7 25.96 1.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.54 1.6 28.54 1.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.63 20.7 23.63 20.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 28.96 5.4 28.96 5.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.03 8.3 29.03 8.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.48 6.1 19.50 6.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.05 6.0 23.05 6.0 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.31 1.2 21.31 1.2 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.71 9.2 18.71 9.2 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.55 6.2 25.55 6.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.18 5.6 28.18 5.6 – – Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.56 1.4 30.56 1.4 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.88 5.0 16.09 4.9 $10.86 6.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.72 1.6 9.74 1.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.68 3.1 11.88 3.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.81 10.2 11.75 10.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.34 3.0 16.34 3.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.61 3.0 18.61 3.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.44 7.2 20.44 7.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.55 6.4 24.55 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.51 12.0 15.51 12.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.76 12.6 26.76 12.6 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.19 5.8 15.38 6.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.70 6.0 12.86 7.3 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.96 2.4 16.35 2.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.69 9.4 – – – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.95 3.6 15.05 3.5 – – Machinists........................................................ 22.88 .4 22.88 .4 – – Printers.......................................................... 21.39 4.5 21.39 4.5 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.16 11.9 15.16 11.9 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.15 6.4 13.34 6.2 10.25 10.5 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.91 3.3 15.36 4.7 10.10 6.9 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 5.0 9.28 9.1 7.42 4.7 Level 2 .................................................. $11.62 1.9 – – $12.19 4.7 Level 3 .................................................. 16.97 7.2 $17.38 6.4 14.45 17.8 Level 4 .................................................. 17.38 8.0 17.36 8.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.69 5.0 19.84 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.50 6.7 17.14 5.1 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.99 11.5 – – 14.37 3.4 Level 2 .................................................. 13.93 1.4 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.05 4.1 – – 15.34 4.2 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.79 6.5 17.92 8.0 9.47 16.6 Level 3 .................................................. 19.73 8.0 20.36 6.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.74 8.3 18.76 8.5 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.54 6.0 19.48 6.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.52 12.9 18.52 12.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.34 26.8 – – 7.62 39.9 Level 3 .................................................. 18.06 13.8 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.97 8.8 17.18 8.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.00 6.0 12.01 8.9 9.19 1.6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 6.7 9.57 10.7 8.57 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 11.65 7.3 – – 10.97 5.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.68 3.4 14.15 4.3 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.61 12.9 12.19 17.9 10.37 5.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.84 14.1 9.87 17.8 9.73 11.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.65 7.3 – – 10.97 5.5 Level 3 .................................................. 11.23 4.3 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.18 4.0 10.37 9.9 8.08 2.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.52 5.2 9.22 14.7 8.08 2.4 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $24.41 3.0 $26.50 3.1 $12.89 2.4 Management occupations.............................................. 47.98 3.6 48.04 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.86 7.3 23.86 7.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.12 6.7 27.12 6.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.50 8.1 32.50 8.1 – – Level 10.................................................. 42.16 8.8 42.16 8.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 43.78 1.9 43.78 1.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 60.74 6.7 61.29 6.3 – – Level 13.................................................. 73.73 7.7 73.73 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.74 4.8 48.88 4.9 – – General and operations managers................................... 54.96 11.3 54.96 11.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.49 13.4 51.49 13.4 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 55.63 7.7 55.63 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 54.90 7.4 54.90 7.4 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.03 13.2 56.03 13.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.64 7.8 46.64 7.8 – – Sales managers.................................................. 54.98 11.2 54.98 11.2 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.67 9.0 49.67 9.0 – – Financial managers................................................ 51.82 4.7 51.82 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 50.44 6.7 50.44 6.7 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 48.39 16.2 48.39 16.2 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 41.32 1.3 41.32 1.3 – – Education administrators.......................................... 39.60 2.5 39.92 3.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.60 12.0 36.10 14.0 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 39.69 3.0 40.04 4.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.94 13.0 35.51 16.1 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 56.81 11.1 56.81 11.1 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.43 17.2 44.43 17.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.06 8.1 34.12 8.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.67 4.5 19.67 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.66 7.1 25.66 7.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 26.98 5.8 26.98 5.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.65 6.1 28.76 6.3 – – Level 10.................................................. 34.11 7.0 34.11 7.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.17 6.0 40.17 6.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 78.15 30.8 78.15 30.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.84 14.9 30.88 15.0 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.50 10.9 30.50 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.12 19.6 32.12 19.6 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.82 3.8 25.71 4.3 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.61 10.0 26.50 10.7 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 12.3 23.61 12.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.93 5.2 28.58 5.5 – – Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 27.11 3.8 27.59 3.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. $28.16 4.7 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 21.64 14.7 $21.64 14.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 42.07 11.4 42.07 11.4 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.04 6.1 28.04 6.1 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.99 7.8 43.99 7.8 – – Financial analysts.............................................. 44.77 8.5 44.77 8.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.95 2.2 38.91 2.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.23 7.1 19.23 7.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.63 7.1 26.63 7.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.61 11.8 31.61 11.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.56 2.8 35.58 2.8 – – Level 10.................................................. 39.35 3.8 39.35 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.98 3.9 45.98 3.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.05 5.4 48.03 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.59 3.8 37.59 3.8 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 29.90 3.5 29.90 3.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 43.41 3.9 43.43 3.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.31 2.5 36.42 2.7 – – Level 10.................................................. 40.63 5.2 40.63 5.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.37 7.0 45.37 7.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.31 7.4 46.31 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.51 10.9 44.51 10.9 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.92 4.1 42.92 4.1 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.88 5.7 43.94 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.41 6.4 – – – – Level 11.................................................. 46.13 5.8 46.13 5.8 – – Level 12.................................................. 50.14 1.7 50.14 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.23 15.4 40.23 15.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.53 9.3 35.53 9.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.75 3.5 34.75 3.5 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.72 4.1 37.53 3.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.37 4.8 33.37 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.05 3.1 33.05 3.1 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 37.65 10.7 37.65 10.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.30 1.8 35.17 1.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.71 5.8 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.36 2.9 26.36 2.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.51 4.8 36.51 4.8 – – Level 10.................................................. 40.57 8.7 40.57 8.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.20 2.9 44.20 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.05 5.7 48.07 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.28 6.8 38.33 6.9 – – Engineers......................................................... 40.33 1.6 40.27 1.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.37 6.0 28.37 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. $34.50 5.1 $34.50 5.1 – – Level 10.................................................. 43.29 7.5 43.29 7.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.20 2.9 44.20 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 46.05 5.7 48.07 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.18 4.0 42.18 4.0 – – Computer hardware engineers..................................... 41.80 8.3 41.80 8.3 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.46 3.8 41.46 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.03 4.3 44.03 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.67 12.1 42.67 12.1 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 40.55 3.0 40.55 3.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.21 6.5 38.21 6.5 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 5.0 41.92 5.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.03 4.7 44.03 4.7 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 44.08 3.7 44.08 3.7 – – Drafters.......................................................... 28.97 10.0 29.07 10.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.35 2.9 24.37 2.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.43 8.2 23.43 8.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 22.11 4.5 22.11 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.54 5.2 22.54 5.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.80 9.3 30.85 9.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.35 6.8 23.35 6.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.50 12.5 26.50 12.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 28.44 4.2 – – – – Level 12.................................................. 35.94 6.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.54 9.1 31.37 8.8 – – Biological scientists........................................... 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Market research analysts........................................ 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.15 7.5 18.04 7.1 $18.77 15.2 Level 7 .................................................. 18.43 6.8 18.36 7.6 – – Counselors........................................................ 18.40 9.3 18.61 9.0 – – Social workers.................................................... 20.56 7.5 20.38 8.8 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.69 19.9 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 54.88 13.0 57.75 13.8 – – Lawyers........................................................... 75.58 15.0 75.58 15.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 27.75 21.7 31.54 15.9 15.38 16.3 Level 9 .................................................. 29.60 7.1 29.28 7.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 40.56 5.8 41.28 4.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 51.72 1.6 51.72 1.6 – – Level 12.................................................. $52.69 11.1 $52.31 10.9 – – Level 13.................................................. 71.28 12.4 71.28 12.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.16 12.1 43.83 12.8 $22.39 18.0 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 50.65 6.8 52.02 6.7 29.15 18.1 Level 9 .................................................. 41.56 21.8 – – – – Level 10.................................................. 40.20 7.1 – – – – Level 11.................................................. 51.72 1.6 51.72 1.6 – – Level 12.................................................. 52.69 11.1 52.31 10.9 – – Level 13.................................................. 71.28 12.4 71.28 12.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.53 12.7 50.01 14.0 27.74 30.3 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.89 8.2 50.88 9.0 – – English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 44.13 30.3 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.30 10.9 47.49 11.6 27.06 27.2 Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.33 18.4 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... – – 15.32 2.9 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. – – 13.20 8.5 – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. – – 13.20 8.5 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 21.33 7.1 – – 26.37 15.2 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.55 5.5 28.12 5.5 14.15 19.0 Level 9 .................................................. 29.23 5.0 29.23 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.31 9.5 24.68 10.4 – – Designers......................................................... 25.22 12.5 – – – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.70 9.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.70 9.0 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 23.64 15.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.64 15.0 – – – – Writers and editors............................................... 38.45 5.4 39.32 7.0 – – Editors......................................................... 36.31 8.7 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.09 3.4 25.71 4.5 32.21 4.7 Level 4 .................................................. 16.99 6.6 16.93 7.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.86 4.7 17.43 4.9 21.86 7.0 Level 6 .................................................. 24.10 8.4 24.25 11.3 23.67 8.5 Level 7 .................................................. 25.37 3.7 25.41 2.1 25.27 13.5 Level 8 .................................................. 30.23 17.0 26.64 21.3 41.52 5.8 Level 9 .................................................. 35.63 1.3 33.28 .6 38.84 2.3 Level 10.................................................. 36.33 12.0 36.06 13.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.20 7.4 50.03 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.99 3.3 25.14 1.5 24.23 15.6 Pharmacists....................................................... 43.65 2.2 – – – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 37.61 15.9 34.45 15.7 – – Registered nurses................................................. 35.13 3.0 34.12 4.9 37.74 1.5 Level 7 .................................................. – – – – 29.97 7.5 Level 8 .................................................. 38.70 3.6 37.04 7.9 41.42 6.8 Level 9 .................................................. 35.68 1.9 33.60 1.5 38.95 3.4 Level 11.................................................. $50.70 13.5 – – – – Therapists........................................................ 25.89 8.0 $26.36 6.9 $24.95 34.1 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.51 9.3 18.87 10.4 23.22 5.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.66 6.4 15.56 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 2.5 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.60 21.5 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.34 5.8 17.28 7.0 17.65 10.3 Level 4 .................................................. 15.66 6.4 15.56 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.87 6.0 – – – – Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.94 4.5 15.44 6.5 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.67 3.3 17.14 6.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.60 2.3 23.11 .7 21.92 5.4 Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.03 4.7 14.95 4.3 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.21 1.5 14.15 2.4 14.36 3.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.67 2.7 12.26 1.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.96 2.5 13.34 1.7 12.26 2.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.06 8.4 14.71 9.5 16.29 6.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.00 11.6 14.40 10.2 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.80 2.4 12.87 3.2 12.58 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.83 2.7 12.31 1.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.94 2.8 13.25 2.7 12.27 1.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.82 7.4 12.84 7.7 – – Home health aides............................................... 11.96 2.6 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.96 4.3 13.20 3.8 11.92 .3 Level 2 .................................................. – – 12.31 1.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.95 4.1 13.22 2.8 12.01 .5 Level 4 .................................................. 13.86 6.6 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.18 3.3 16.52 3.3 15.43 4.6 Level 4 .................................................. 17.46 6.0 18.04 7.5 16.46 6.4 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.71 8.8 – – 10.77 10.9 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 15.33 10.1 17.15 11.6 11.50 11.0 Security guards................................................. 15.33 10.1 17.15 11.6 11.50 11.0 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.79 1.8 10.83 5.9 6.93 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.65 1.5 7.48 15.3 7.71 3.8 Level 2 .................................................. 7.17 5.8 7.88 14.0 6.66 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 8.67 10.2 11.42 3.6 5.87 12.2 Level 4 .................................................. 12.59 4.1 12.49 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.36 5.5 15.84 8.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.97 2.4 17.97 2.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.96 2.4 17.96 2.4 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.05 1.8 12.21 3.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. $11.21 6.8 $11.45 3.5 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.00 6.9 12.00 6.9 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.39 2.3 12.51 5.3 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.13 9.1 – – $9.99 6.7 Level 2 .................................................. 11.09 16.0 – – 9.14 2.0 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.13 13.9 6.05 26.4 4.69 7.8 Level 1 .................................................. 6.08 17.0 – – 6.31 12.7 Level 2 .................................................. 4.68 11.0 4.98 17.6 4.46 16.1 Level 3 .................................................. 5.12 24.9 – – 4.21 21.6 Bartenders...................................................... 6.58 7.8 – – 6.64 7.6 Level 2 .................................................. 6.89 9.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 6.28 21.3 – – 6.28 21.3 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.60 27.9 – – 3.04 10.0 Level 2 .................................................. 2.96 5.9 – – 3.08 6.3 Level 3 .................................................. 4.61 37.2 – – 3.10 16.0 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.90 4.8 – – 7.17 1.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.66 5.5 – – 7.52 9.8 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.32 3.0 9.86 4.2 7.63 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.43 9.8 – – 7.69 7.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.28 3.8 – – 7.51 4.3 Level 2 .................................................. 8.24 10.0 – – 7.86 8.9 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop. 8.35 5.7 – – – – Dishwashers....................................................... 8.82 7.9 8.44 2.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.82 7.9 8.44 2.1 – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.96 .9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.61 2.6 13.14 3.6 11.10 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.16 4.2 10.94 7.2 11.44 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 12.37 4.2 – – 10.64 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 14.21 3.3 14.45 3.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 18.11 6.0 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.38 3.5 12.91 4.9 11.03 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.11 5.0 10.80 8.9 11.44 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 12.46 3.8 – – 10.53 5.6 Level 3 .................................................. 14.91 4.2 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.34 3.5 13.38 6.0 11.04 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 11.86 1.2 12.35 1.7 11.55 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.46 2.6 12.29 3.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.91 4.2 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.58 9.3 9.13 9.7 10.94 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.81 10.4 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.23 9.6 12.03 9.6 – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.23 9.6 12.03 9.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... $12.63 7.5 $15.18 8.1 $9.67 3.7 Level 1 .................................................. 10.07 6.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.66 10.1 – – 8.10 8.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.36 5.3 – – 9.36 5.3 Level 4 .................................................. 12.19 9.3 12.47 9.8 – – Transportation attendants......................................... 31.72 4.5 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 9.64 10.1 – – 8.00 7.7 Personal and home care aides...................................... 10.61 3.3 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 12.41 2.4 – – 12.20 1.0 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 12.20 1.0 – – 12.20 1.0 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.72 9.7 26.76 8.6 9.66 4.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.54 1.6 – – 8.60 .9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.29 2.3 – – 9.06 2.5 Level 3 .................................................. 12.32 4.1 12.88 6.0 10.11 5.7 Level 4 .................................................. 16.26 8.5 17.45 8.7 11.16 6.9 Level 5 .................................................. 18.97 4.0 19.19 4.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.84 13.4 19.84 13.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 32.53 12.6 32.53 12.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 37.30 24.1 37.30 24.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 50.94 22.5 50.94 22.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 55.82 10.2 56.04 10.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.82 19.5 17.54 21.5 11.80 16.4 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.77 13.7 24.10 13.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.04 4.0 17.36 3.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.99 13.3 28.99 13.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.13 9.2 13.44 12.2 9.08 1.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.54 1.6 – – 8.60 .9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.27 2.4 – – 9.04 2.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.37 4.3 12.99 6.3 10.11 5.7 Level 4 .................................................. 15.36 10.4 16.32 14.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.09 4.9 20.62 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.58 11.4 9.65 13.7 9.28 1.5 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.28 5.1 10.82 8.1 9.00 3.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.5 – – 8.81 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.11 7.0 – – 9.01 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 12.54 9.5 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.26 5.2 10.82 8.1 8.97 4.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.5 – – 8.81 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.11 7.0 – – 9.01 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 12.69 9.8 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 9.65 6.9 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.05 4.0 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.91 15.5 15.16 13.6 9.34 4.9 Level 2 .................................................. 10.11 4.6 – – 9.70 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. $12.92 3.7 $13.90 3.5 $10.04 4.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.71 11.7 16.32 14.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.48 8.4 20.03 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.12 1.2 – – – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 3.5 83.95 3.5 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.82 11.7 30.15 11.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 34.66 17.8 34.66 17.8 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 25.89 15.6 26.36 13.4 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 24.33 16.8 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.66 2.5 18.29 2.7 13.24 4.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.57 3.9 – – 8.57 3.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.24 5.2 12.11 6.2 10.05 7.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.57 3.7 13.63 3.8 12.64 3.5 Level 4 .................................................. 16.27 2.0 16.27 2.3 16.25 2.0 Level 5 .................................................. 19.83 6.4 19.91 6.7 18.40 5.4 Level 6 .................................................. 21.49 5.5 21.49 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.11 4.7 23.98 4.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.35 4.9 28.35 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.39 6.1 20.24 6.1 13.07 11.7 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 26.19 7.9 26.19 7.9 – – Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 10.75 12.8 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 16.86 6.8 17.28 7.5 14.18 8.7 Level 2 .................................................. 11.11 3.4 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.84 9.3 12.84 9.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.44 4.5 15.60 5.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.94 6.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.13 18.5 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.64 8.1 14.77 8.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.35 11.8 13.35 11.8 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.52 10.2 19.29 11.8 13.44 6.6 Tellers......................................................... 13.18 4.3 – – – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 6.3 18.09 6.3 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 18.86 7.0 19.37 6.6 12.01 15.6 Level 3 .................................................. 15.41 7.4 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.59 7.3 16.41 7.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.79 14.7 22.81 14.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.42 6.8 18.42 6.8 – – Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.40 .1 – – – – Order clerks...................................................... 16.17 5.2 16.58 5.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.39 4.3 13.37 3.8 13.50 16.4 Level 2 .................................................. 12.86 9.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.95 5.1 12.95 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. $16.40 8.2 – – – – Dispatchers....................................................... 17.05 7.0 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 10.5 $19.85 10.5 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.21 12.4 18.46 13.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.21 5.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.37 18.5 19.37 18.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.50 14.0 15.48 11.2 $8.96 7.2 Level 1 .................................................. 8.57 3.9 – – 8.57 3.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.07 5.1 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.07 2.0 20.22 2.3 18.51 9.0 Level 4 .................................................. 16.64 4.2 16.66 4.3 16.57 5.1 Level 5 .................................................. 18.17 4.6 18.17 4.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.60 2.8 23.60 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.19 2.2 23.91 2.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.77 8.0 18.79 8.3 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.78 2.2 23.78 2.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.13 3.3 24.13 3.3 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 16.99 4.4 17.01 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.53 5.9 16.37 7.0 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.97 6.4 19.22 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.59 3.4 16.88 4.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.54 14.5 16.54 14.5 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.80 7.2 – – 14.27 9.2 Level 2 .................................................. 14.40 11.8 – – – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.26 5.6 – – – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.39 2.0 16.39 2.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.22 1.0 17.22 1.0 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 17.47 6.8 19.09 5.2 11.06 16.8 Level 4 .................................................. 16.07 7.4 16.04 7.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.53 5.3 21.76 5.3 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.71 3.0 25.78 3.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.23 1.4 17.23 1.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.98 7.2 23.16 8.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 26.91 4.2 26.91 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.60 5.7 29.69 6.2 – – Carpenters........................................................ 26.10 18.9 26.10 18.9 – – Electricians...................................................... 24.11 5.5 24.11 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.85 14.7 27.85 14.7 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.70 4.3 26.70 4.3 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.70 4.3 26.70 4.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.84 3.1 22.92 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.20 2.3 17.22 2.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.10 7.3 20.17 7.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.92 5.0 24.92 5.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. $25.69 1.9 $25.69 1.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.52 1.7 28.52 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.63 20.7 23.63 20.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 28.54 5.9 28.54 5.9 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.36 6.9 19.37 6.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.16 6.3 23.16 6.3 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.31 1.2 21.31 1.2 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.29 11.4 18.29 11.4 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.07 5.1 25.07 5.1 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.74 5.1 15.95 5.1 $10.86 6.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.72 1.6 9.74 1.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.64 3.1 11.85 3.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.81 10.2 11.75 10.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.34 3.0 16.34 3.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.61 3.0 18.61 3.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.44 7.2 20.44 7.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.60 6.0 25.60 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.51 12.0 15.51 12.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.76 12.6 26.76 12.6 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.19 5.8 15.38 6.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.70 6.0 12.86 7.3 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.96 2.4 16.35 2.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.69 9.4 – – – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.95 3.6 15.05 3.5 – – Machinists........................................................ 22.88 .4 22.88 .4 – – Printers.......................................................... 21.39 4.5 21.39 4.5 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.16 11.9 15.16 11.9 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.15 6.4 13.34 6.2 10.25 10.5 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.58 3.5 14.98 4.8 10.00 7.2 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 5.0 9.28 9.1 7.42 4.7 Level 2 .................................................. 11.61 1.9 – – 12.19 4.9 Level 3 .................................................. 16.98 7.4 17.39 6.6 14.52 17.9 Level 4 .................................................. 17.19 8.5 17.17 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.93 6.8 18.00 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.49 6.8 17.13 5.1 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 14.24 1.9 – – 14.27 2.5 Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.44 3.1 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.75 6.7 17.94 8.2 9.47 16.6 Level 3 .................................................. 19.96 7.9 20.69 6.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.70 8.6 18.72 8.9 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.54 6.1 19.48 6.3 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.32 28.0 – – 7.62 39.9 Level 3 .................................................. $18.37 14.3 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.97 8.8 $17.18 8.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.00 6.1 12.00 8.9 $9.19 1.6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 6.7 9.57 10.7 8.57 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 11.65 7.3 – – 10.97 5.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.68 3.4 14.15 4.3 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.60 12.9 12.19 17.9 10.37 5.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.84 14.1 9.87 17.8 9.73 11.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.65 7.3 – – 10.97 5.5 Level 3 .................................................. 11.23 4.3 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.18 4.0 10.37 9.9 8.08 2.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.52 5.2 9.22 14.7 8.08 2.4 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $28.14 1.4 $28.76 1.6 $16.72 6.4 Management occupations.............................................. 40.85 7.8 41.39 6.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.92 12.2 34.18 17.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 51.17 4.5 51.17 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.41 9.4 37.48 9.4 – – Education administrators.......................................... 46.29 7.2 47.65 3.8 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.06 2.0 50.06 2.0 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.88 7.6 24.72 8.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.65 2.8 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 28.52 9.7 29.18 11.5 – – Counselors........................................................ 31.10 20.9 – – – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 31.26 21.5 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 32.66 12.0 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 39.39 2.2 40.44 2.5 17.58 20.6 Level 2 .................................................. 14.09 .9 14.45 .0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.14 5.1 15.57 3.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 41.18 14.1 41.18 14.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.79 3.8 45.96 4.0 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.98 9.8 41.47 12.2 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 40.23 4.3 39.90 4.5 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 45.66 1.9 45.72 1.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 42.61 6.8 42.61 6.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.62 3.5 46.62 3.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.44 3.4 45.55 3.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.17 5.8 46.17 5.8 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 45.39 3.1 45.52 2.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.97 5.2 45.97 5.2 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.74 6.0 45.74 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.39 8.9 47.39 8.9 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 46.66 1.4 46.66 1.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 48.89 2.1 48.89 2.1 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 46.58 1.4 46.58 1.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 48.93 2.1 48.93 2.1 – – Special education teachers...................................... 41.79 5.7 41.79 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 41.33 9.2 41.33 9.2 – – Librarians........................................................ 36.95 10.9 37.20 10.7 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 16.00 3.2 16.47 2.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 14.09 .9 14.45 .0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.14 5.1 15.57 3.1 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... $30.12 7.7 $30.30 8.3 $27.81 23.3 Level 9 .................................................. 35.73 6.9 35.54 7.4 – – Registered nurses................................................. 31.36 3.1 31.02 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.43 .5 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.88 2.4 13.87 2.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.20 1.0 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.76 2.4 13.76 2.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.78 5.2 13.78 5.3 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 23.86 1.8 24.42 1.2 10.50 6.0 Level 4 .................................................. 18.71 7.8 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.31 3.2 23.34 3.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.05 6.3 23.05 6.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.30 4.1 24.30 4.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.65 7.5 27.65 7.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 33.78 10.3 33.78 10.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.78 10.3 33.78 10.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 27.66 1.7 27.66 1.7 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 22.73 2.5 22.75 2.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 24.29 4.3 24.34 4.5 – – Police officers................................................... 24.43 5.8 24.44 5.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.88 3.7 23.91 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.85 5.4 25.85 5.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.43 5.8 24.44 5.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.88 3.7 23.91 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.85 5.4 25.85 5.4 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 11.66 14.6 – – 10.16 4.8 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 13.65 3.3 14.63 3.8 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.65 3.4 16.73 3.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 14.43 4.3 14.49 4.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 15.44 7.4 15.44 7.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.95 17.3 17.95 17.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.74 2.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.64 3.7 16.71 3.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 14.47 4.2 14.49 4.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 15.36 7.7 15.36 7.7 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 16.67 3.7 16.75 3.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 14.54 4.4 14.57 4.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 15.36 7.7 15.36 7.7 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.98 24.5 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... $22.25 3.0 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.31 3.1 $18.48 2.7 $15.92 10.3 Level 2 .................................................. 14.30 5.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.06 .5 16.12 .6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.87 7.0 18.82 7.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.36 3.1 20.67 2.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.93 4.0 20.45 4.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.08 2.4 25.08 2.4 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.25 9.3 18.54 10.0 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.71 13.1 – – – – Library assistants, clerical...................................... 16.82 7.7 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.55 15.7 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.62 6.1 21.84 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.61 18.1 22.44 17.4 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.73 11.8 22.73 11.8 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 21.33 5.3 21.62 6.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 22.17 17.8 23.14 16.8 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.77 2.1 15.77 2.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 18.13 5.2 17.99 5.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.24 5.1 – – – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.11 3.1 24.11 2.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.65 5.0 20.65 5.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.61 2.7 27.62 2.8 – – Electricians...................................................... 30.71 6.4 30.71 6.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.87 7.9 30.87 7.9 – – Construction and building inspectors.............................. 29.74 6.8 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.80 3.8 24.80 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.52 4.5 27.52 4.5 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.30 5.6 20.32 5.7 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.30 5.6 20.32 5.7 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 22.18 4.7 23.45 2.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $24.80 2.7 $26.77 2.7 $13.03 2.3 Management occupations.............................................. 47.46 3.4 47.57 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 25.48 5.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 43.63 4.5 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 81.76 5.9 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 54.94 11.3 54.94 11.3 – – Group III................................................. 34.56 12.9 34.56 12.9 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 55.63 7.7 55.63 7.7 – – Group III................................................. 51.73 7.9 – – – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.03 13.2 56.03 13.2 – – Group III................................................. 53.64 10.6 53.64 10.6 – – Sales managers.................................................. 54.98 11.2 54.98 11.2 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.91 8.7 49.91 8.7 – – Group III................................................. 46.64 6.6 46.64 6.6 – – Financial managers................................................ 50.87 4.6 50.87 4.6 – – Group III................................................. 47.07 11.5 47.07 11.5 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 48.39 16.2 48.39 16.2 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 41.32 1.3 41.32 1.3 – – Education administrators.......................................... 41.81 3.7 42.41 3.5 – – Group III................................................. 44.39 3.1 – – – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.06 2.0 50.06 2.0 – – Group III................................................. 50.06 2.0 50.06 2.0 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 40.05 3.3 40.37 4.2 – – Group III................................................. 44.36 2.1 44.36 2.1 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 56.21 10.3 56.21 10.3 – – Group III................................................. 50.31 2.7 50.31 2.7 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.43 17.2 44.43 17.2 – – Group III................................................. 36.10 9.0 36.10 9.0 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.74 8.0 33.79 8.0 26.65 8.7 Group II.................................................. 24.39 4.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 44.29 14.7 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.50 10.9 30.50 10.9 – – Group III................................................. 38.87 14.2 – – – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.82 3.8 25.71 4.3 – – Group II.................................................. 23.58 8.3 – – – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.61 10.0 26.50 10.7 – – Group II.................................................. 23.87 4.4 23.87 4.4 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.54 12.1 23.54 12.4 – – Group II.................................................. 21.17 3.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.97 12.1 – – – – Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 27.11 3.8 27.59 3.5 – – Group III................................................. 28.16 4.7 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 21.64 14.7 21.64 14.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 41.85 11.2 41.85 11.2 – – Group III................................................. $43.83 12.6 $43.83 12.6 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.36 6.3 27.36 6.3 – – Group II.................................................. 26.47 10.2 26.46 10.2 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.99 7.8 43.99 7.8 – – Group III................................................. 45.75 17.6 – – – – Financial analysts.............................................. 44.77 8.5 44.77 8.5 – – Group III................................................. 47.58 20.4 47.58 20.4 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.69 2.3 38.65 2.3 – – Group II.................................................. 26.41 8.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 41.74 1.7 – – – – Computer programmers.............................................. 29.90 3.2 29.90 3.2 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 43.41 3.9 43.43 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 36.32 12.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 43.10 2.3 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.92 4.1 42.92 4.1 – – Group II.................................................. 36.57 13.2 36.57 13.2 – – Group III................................................. 41.74 3.0 41.74 3.0 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.88 5.7 43.94 5.7 – – Group III................................................. 44.39 2.3 44.50 2.3 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.53 9.3 35.53 9.3 – – Group II.................................................. 18.32 6.9 18.32 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 42.70 6.2 42.70 6.2 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 36.94 5.0 36.75 4.8 – – Group III................................................. 39.88 6.4 39.66 6.2 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 37.65 10.7 37.65 10.7 – – Group III................................................. 44.90 3.6 44.90 3.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.25 1.7 35.13 1.5 – – Group II.................................................. 25.57 3.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.86 1.7 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 39.66 1.5 39.59 1.4 – – Group II.................................................. 29.61 3.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 40.66 1.6 – – – – Civil engineers................................................. 31.84 7.1 31.84 7.1 – – Computer hardware engineers..................................... 41.80 8.3 41.80 8.3 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.46 3.8 41.46 3.8 – – Group III................................................. 41.32 1.1 – – – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 40.55 3.0 40.55 3.0 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 5.0 41.92 5.0 – – Group III................................................. 41.67 1.4 41.67 1.4 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Group III................................................. 38.21 .9 – – – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 .1 37.26 .1 – – Group III................................................. 38.21 .9 38.21 .9 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 44.08 3.7 44.08 3.7 – – Drafters.......................................................... $28.97 10.0 $29.07 10.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.82 8.4 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.35 2.9 24.37 2.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.19 5.0 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 22.11 4.5 22.11 4.5 – – Group II.................................................. 21.56 4.5 21.56 4.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.76 9.2 30.81 9.4 – – Group II.................................................. 24.36 12.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 28.87 6.7 – – – – Biological scientists........................................... 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 41.32 7.2 41.32 7.2 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Market research analysts........................................ 41.57 22.3 41.80 22.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 22.14 8.4 22.46 9.6 $20.19 14.5 Group II.................................................. 19.86 8.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 25.19 16.7 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 21.62 13.5 21.80 16.9 20.58 24.6 Group II.................................................. 20.03 13.1 – – – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 24.76 13.2 25.29 17.9 – – Group II.................................................. 24.64 12.2 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 22.79 6.7 22.90 7.1 – – Group II.................................................. 20.45 6.7 – – – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 22.58 21.4 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 50.43 11.5 52.40 12.9 – – Group III................................................. 49.80 13.3 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 67.13 16.9 67.13 16.9 – – Group III................................................. 56.16 19.3 56.16 19.3 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 33.99 11.0 36.79 6.9 15.78 14.7 Group I................................................... 14.02 4.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.49 32.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 44.72 3.7 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 71.28 12.4 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.93 5.9 49.10 6.1 31.29 14.9 Group III................................................. 46.44 7.1 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 71.28 12.4 – – – – Engineering and architecture teachers, postsecondary............ 67.31 1.4 – – – – Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.30 6.4 51.84 7.7 – – Group III................................................. 47.15 6.9 – – – – English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 48.98 18.9 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 43.04 6.8 44.01 7.5 33.01 22.1 Group III................................................. 42.15 3.6 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.04 17.4 36.74 9.8 – – Group II.................................................. $21.06 36.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 45.66 3.4 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. – – $16.73 22.9 – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. – – 13.20 8.5 – – Group II.................................................. – – 13.60 3.6 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 44.58 3.8 44.68 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 42.41 3.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 45.08 5.6 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.42 3.5 44.54 3.3 – – Group II.................................................. 43.19 3.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 44.73 4.9 44.73 4.9 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.74 6.0 45.74 6.0 – – Group III................................................. 47.39 8.9 47.39 8.9 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 45.93 2.2 45.93 2.2 – – Group III................................................. 47.74 2.9 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.84 2.2 45.84 2.2 – – Group III................................................. 47.78 2.9 47.78 2.9 – – Special education teachers...................................... 35.82 15.1 35.82 15.1 – – Group III................................................. 40.97 9.7 – – – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 32.78 25.4 – – $21.70 21.1 Group III................................................. 39.15 21.4 – – – – Librarians........................................................ 34.75 11.6 34.89 11.6 – – Group III................................................. 37.92 10.7 38.16 10.4 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 14.50 6.8 14.94 6.6 12.24 13.0 Group I................................................... 14.50 6.8 14.94 6.6 12.24 13.0 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.80 5.4 28.36 5.4 14.19 18.8 Group II.................................................. 17.24 15.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.16 7.2 – – – – Designers......................................................... 25.22 12.5 – – – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.70 9.0 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 23.64 15.0 – – – – Public relations specialists...................................... 26.96 4.8 26.96 4.8 – – Writers and editors............................................... 38.45 5.4 39.32 7.0 – – Group III................................................. 41.85 6.4 – – – – Editors......................................................... 36.31 8.7 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.23 3.3 25.96 4.3 32.13 4.6 Group I................................................... 14.78 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.87 3.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.29 3.8 – – – – Pharmacists....................................................... 43.65 2.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 44.05 1.3 – – – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 37.20 15.7 33.88 15.9 – – Group III................................................. $37.65 16.7 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.93 2.8 $33.90 4.6 $37.77 1.5 Group II.................................................. 31.70 4.0 30.21 5.3 35.84 4.2 Group III................................................. 38.07 5.2 37.59 7.4 39.12 3.2 Therapists........................................................ 27.97 8.1 29.18 12.4 24.95 34.1 Group II.................................................. 20.92 5.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.69 5.7 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.50 9.3 18.87 10.4 23.15 4.9 Group I................................................... 15.66 5.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.72 15.0 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.60 21.5 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.34 5.8 17.28 7.0 17.65 10.0 Group I................................................... 15.66 5.8 15.56 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 19.59 7.7 19.42 8.5 – – Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.93 4.5 15.44 6.5 – – Group II.................................................. 15.87 4.2 15.44 6.5 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.67 3.3 17.14 6.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.33 1.8 22.57 .8 21.92 5.4 Group II.................................................. 22.80 1.2 22.63 2.0 – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.03 4.7 14.95 4.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.52 4.3 14.36 3.8 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.16 1.4 14.10 1.9 14.37 3.8 Group I................................................... 14.02 2.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.83 9.7 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.00 1.7 13.10 2.1 12.59 3.0 Group I................................................... 13.04 2.1 – – – – Home health aides............................................... 11.96 2.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.96 2.6 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.00 4.0 13.24 3.4 11.94 .4 Group I................................................... 13.20 3.3 13.40 3.0 12.18 .6 Psychiatric aides............................................... 13.86 2.2 13.78 2.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.67 2.2 13.64 2.3 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.20 3.3 16.55 3.2 15.44 4.6 Group I................................................... 16.72 4.5 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 16.07 3.6 – – – – Medical transcriptionists....................................... 14.92 8.4 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 19.77 9.3 20.57 10.5 10.69 8.0 Group I................................................... 12.92 10.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.11 9.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 30.37 14.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 33.77 9.5 33.77 9.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.77 9.5 33.77 9.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 27.66 1.7 27.66 1.7 – – Fire fighters..................................................... $22.73 2.5 $22.75 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 22.78 2.2 22.79 2.2 – – Police officers................................................... 24.37 5.7 24.38 5.7 – – Group II.................................................. 24.32 5.9 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.37 5.7 24.38 5.7 – – Group II.................................................. 24.32 5.9 24.33 5.9 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 15.53 9.9 17.37 11.1 $11.50 11.0 Group I................................................... 14.88 5.7 – – – – Security guards................................................. 15.53 9.9 17.37 11.1 11.50 11.0 Group I................................................... 14.88 5.7 15.61 6.2 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 11.73 11.3 – – 9.58 4.4 Group I................................................... 12.11 10.9 – – – – Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers................................................ 10.68 17.4 – – 8.96 1.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.88 1.9 10.91 5.8 6.99 5.7 Group I................................................... 8.19 1.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.57 2.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.98 2.4 17.98 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 18.28 4.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.96 2.4 17.96 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 18.28 4.8 18.28 4.8 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.19 1.9 12.36 3.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.89 2.9 – – – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.48 6.1 12.48 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.21 6.7 12.21 6.7 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.39 2.3 12.51 5.3 – – Group I................................................... 11.94 .9 11.99 2.0 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.13 9.1 13.12 17.8 9.99 6.7 Group I................................................... 11.13 9.1 13.12 17.8 9.99 6.7 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.22 13.5 6.05 26.4 4.82 7.4 Group I................................................... 5.22 13.5 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 6.58 7.8 – – 6.64 7.6 Group I................................................... 6.58 7.8 – – 6.64 7.6 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.60 27.9 – – 3.04 10.0 Group I................................................... 3.60 27.9 – – 3.04 10.0 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.17 4.0 – – 7.68 4.2 Group I................................................... 8.17 4.0 – – 7.68 4.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.32 3.0 9.86 4.2 7.63 2.5 Group I................................................... 8.32 3.0 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.28 3.7 – – 7.52 4.2 Group I................................................... 8.28 3.7 – – 7.52 4.2 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop. 8.35 5.7 – – – – Group I................................................... $8.35 5.7 – – – – Dishwashers....................................................... 8.82 7.9 $8.44 2.1 – – Group I................................................... 8.82 7.9 8.44 2.1 – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.96 .9 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.96 .9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.21 2.3 13.80 2.8 $11.19 4.3 Group I................................................... 12.70 2.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.25 5.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 17.96 6.0 18.90 4.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers........................................................ 17.12 4.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.03 2.9 13.64 3.7 11.13 4.3 Group I................................................... 12.74 2.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.37 3.3 14.57 5.1 11.15 4.8 Group I................................................... 12.92 1.9 13.98 4.0 11.15 4.8 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.60 9.2 9.16 9.7 10.94 4.4 Group I................................................... 9.45 9.1 8.91 9.6 10.94 4.4 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.07 10.1 12.94 10.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.20 11.3 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.66 9.5 12.51 9.6 – – Group I................................................... 11.66 9.8 11.48 9.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.79 7.4 15.42 7.9 9.77 3.7 Group I................................................... 10.56 7.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.63 23.9 – – – – Transportation attendants......................................... 31.21 4.5 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 9.75 9.9 – – 8.12 8.3 Group I................................................... 9.49 10.4 – – 8.14 8.4 Personal and home care aides...................................... 10.61 3.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.61 3.3 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 12.40 2.1 – – 12.20 .8 Group I................................................... 11.27 7.7 – – – – Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 12.20 1.0 – – 12.20 1.0 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.73 9.6 26.74 8.5 9.74 4.0 Group I................................................... 11.27 8.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 27.81 5.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 51.05 17.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.75 13.6 24.06 12.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.77 19.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.11 4.1 17.42 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 17.19 6.7 17.19 6.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.99 13.3 28.99 13.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.33 9.0 13.73 11.7 9.17 .9 Group I................................................... $10.87 9.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.66 12.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.91 3.0 $13.36 5.0 $9.17 3.3 Group I................................................... 9.91 2.8 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.90 3.0 13.36 5.0 9.14 3.4 Group I................................................... 9.89 2.8 13.88 4.1 9.15 3.4 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 9.65 6.9 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.05 4.0 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.91 15.5 15.16 13.6 9.34 4.9 Group I................................................... 11.99 15.8 14.21 11.4 9.16 6.4 Group II.................................................. 22.52 15.7 23.25 15.6 – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 3.5 83.95 3.5 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.82 11.7 30.15 11.1 – – Group I................................................... 17.24 19.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.18 14.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 41.91 4.7 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 34.66 17.8 34.66 17.8 – – Group II.................................................. 19.29 23.2 19.29 23.2 – – Group III................................................. 44.54 8.7 44.54 8.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 25.89 15.6 26.36 13.4 – – Group I................................................... 17.24 19.0 – – – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 24.33 16.8 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.73 2.3 18.31 2.4 13.40 4.5 Group I................................................... 14.66 2.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.52 4.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 26.10 7.6 26.10 7.6 – – Group II.................................................. 25.93 6.5 25.93 6.5 – – Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 10.73 11.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.03 12.2 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 16.96 6.4 17.38 7.0 14.34 8.0 Group I................................................... 14.62 3.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.78 7.6 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.64 8.1 14.77 8.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.11 8.2 14.31 8.2 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.43 9.2 19.15 10.6 13.83 6.3 Group I................................................... 14.76 4.4 – – 14.17 5.9 Group II.................................................. 23.25 7.3 23.64 7.0 – – Tellers......................................................... 13.18 4.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.41 .0 – – – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 6.3 18.09 6.3 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 18.84 7.0 19.34 6.6 12.01 15.6 Group I................................................... 15.45 3.6 15.91 3.6 12.18 14.9 Group II.................................................. $21.37 13.0 $21.37 13.1 – – Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.03 1.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.06 2.7 – – – – Library assistants, clerical...................................... 17.16 7.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.32 3.6 – – – – Order clerks...................................................... 16.17 5.2 16.58 5.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.37 4.2 13.39 3.7 $13.25 16.0 Group I................................................... 13.47 4.7 13.38 3.9 14.50 22.8 Dispatchers....................................................... 17.59 6.9 17.83 7.6 – – Group I................................................... 17.06 6.8 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 10.5 19.85 10.5 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.21 12.4 18.46 13.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.75 12.7 15.12 15.6 – – Group II.................................................. 21.99 2.5 21.99 2.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.08 12.6 16.05 9.5 8.96 7.2 Group I................................................... 11.46 7.3 12.96 7.0 8.96 7.2 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.25 2.0 20.43 2.2 18.32 8.7 Group I................................................... 17.11 5.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.99 3.3 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.69 2.2 23.69 2.2 – – Group II.................................................. 24.12 1.7 24.12 1.7 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 16.98 4.4 17.00 4.8 – – Group I................................................... 16.51 5.9 16.36 6.9 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.68 4.6 19.99 4.9 16.79 13.2 Group I................................................... 17.95 11.0 18.43 11.8 – – Group II.................................................. 20.66 6.7 20.66 6.7 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.30 3.7 15.35 4.1 14.27 9.2 Group I................................................... 15.27 3.7 – – – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.46 3.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.46 3.2 – – – – Word processors and typists..................................... 17.07 4.4 17.09 4.7 – – Group I................................................... 17.09 4.7 17.09 4.7 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.39 2.0 16.39 2.0 – – Group I................................................... 15.31 9.3 15.31 9.3 – – Group II.................................................. 16.97 1.1 16.97 1.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 17.64 5.2 18.77 3.9 12.34 18.0 Group I................................................... 14.79 7.4 15.95 4.6 11.75 19.2 Group II.................................................. 21.80 3.1 22.06 3.0 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.56 2.8 25.62 3.0 22.45 10.5 Group I................................................... 18.45 9.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.82 1.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 33.22 6.5 33.22 6.5 – – Carpenters........................................................ 25.96 17.7 25.96 17.7 – – Group II.................................................. 22.29 7.8 22.29 7.8 – – Construction laborers............................................. $27.77 16.1 $27.77 16.1 – – Group I................................................... 28.78 21.3 28.78 21.3 – – Construction equipment operators.................................. 29.86 17.2 29.86 17.2 – – Group II.................................................. 30.99 22.5 – – – – Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 30.91 21.7 30.91 21.7 – – Group II.................................................. 31.09 22.7 31.09 22.7 – – Electricians...................................................... 24.32 5.5 24.32 5.5 – – Group I................................................... 15.72 .1 15.72 .1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.57 6.8 25.57 6.8 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 27.17 5.2 27.17 5.2 – – Group II.................................................. 27.17 5.2 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 27.17 5.2 27.17 5.2 – – Group II.................................................. 27.17 5.2 27.17 5.2 – – Helpers, construction trades...................................... 17.67 23.1 17.67 23.1 – – Miscellaneous construction and related workers.................... 21.13 26.0 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.98 2.8 23.06 2.7 – – Group I................................................... 15.40 3.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.80 2.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 28.96 5.4 28.96 5.4 – – Group II.................................................. 28.30 5.8 28.30 5.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.48 6.1 19.50 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 15.69 5.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.58 4.5 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.31 1.2 21.31 1.2 – – Group II.................................................. 20.83 2.0 20.83 2.0 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.71 9.2 18.71 9.2 – – Group II.................................................. 22.34 8.1 22.34 8.1 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.55 6.2 25.55 6.2 – – Group II.................................................. 25.17 6.0 – – – – Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.56 1.4 30.56 1.4 – – Group II.................................................. 30.73 2.1 30.73 2.1 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.88 5.0 16.09 4.9 $10.86 6.4 Group I................................................... 12.02 5.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.20 4.5 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.76 12.6 26.76 12.6 – – Group II.................................................. 26.76 12.6 26.76 12.6 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.19 5.8 15.38 6.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.46 8.8 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.96 2.4 16.35 2.1 – – Group I................................................... 13.63 9.9 13.97 10.9 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.95 3.6 15.05 3.5 – – Machinists........................................................ 22.88 .4 22.88 .4 – – Group II.................................................. $22.20 4.6 $22.20 4.6 – – Printers.......................................................... 21.39 4.5 21.39 4.5 – – Group II.................................................. 23.12 6.2 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.16 11.9 15.16 11.9 – – Group I................................................... 10.92 11.0 10.92 11.0 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.15 6.4 13.34 6.2 $10.25 10.5 Group I................................................... 12.29 7.6 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.91 3.3 15.36 4.7 10.10 6.9 Group I................................................... 12.36 3.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.32 4.2 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.99 11.5 – – 14.37 3.4 Group I................................................... 13.89 1.6 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.05 4.1 – – 15.34 4.2 Group I................................................... 14.75 5.2 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.79 6.5 17.92 8.0 9.47 16.6 Group I................................................... 14.95 7.8 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.54 6.0 19.48 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 19.64 8.8 19.46 9.2 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.34 26.8 – – 7.62 39.9 Group I................................................... 14.34 26.8 – – 7.62 39.9 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.97 8.8 17.18 8.1 – – Group I................................................... 16.97 8.8 17.18 8.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.00 6.0 12.01 8.9 9.19 1.6 Group I................................................... 10.44 4.7 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.61 12.9 12.19 17.9 10.37 5.4 Group I................................................... 10.73 11.2 10.94 17.3 10.37 5.4 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.18 4.0 10.37 9.9 8.08 2.3 Group I................................................... 8.80 5.4 9.71 12.2 8.08 2.4 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.50 $13.09 $20.21 $31.27 $46.54 Management occupations.............................................. 25.09 30.84 44.83 57.17 76.92 General and operations managers................................... 22.93 32.27 51.62 76.92 104.63 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.19 40.52 52.62 67.02 87.54 Marketing managers.............................................. 34.19 37.79 52.62 75.26 96.95 Sales managers.................................................. 44.14 45.13 52.55 55.29 87.54 Computer and information systems managers......................... 38.48 39.66 45.91 58.04 78.26 Financial managers................................................ 23.74 30.39 48.08 68.87 76.85 Human resources managers.......................................... 30.13 40.06 46.70 46.70 84.13 Industrial production managers.................................... 23.56 38.97 41.66 47.24 48.93 Education administrators.......................................... 23.90 30.33 41.92 53.50 55.70 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.03 46.03 51.50 51.50 61.18 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.90 27.62 36.07 53.50 55.70 Engineering managers.............................................. 43.14 48.08 50.02 58.16 88.22 Medical and health services managers.............................. 25.00 31.25 35.95 49.59 103.37 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.00 21.29 28.72 36.46 52.70 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.67 19.36 26.86 34.03 54.98 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 16.82 19.94 27.01 29.86 34.23 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.49 21.43 27.30 30.69 34.23 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.00 18.00 20.21 28.08 30.59 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 22.00 23.50 28.08 29.07 30.59 Training and development specialists............................ 15.00 18.00 18.00 21.75 30.20 Management analysts............................................... 25.00 30.44 36.46 50.70 72.80 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.44 21.29 26.31 32.75 36.65 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 30.00 35.93 51.83 82.50 Financial analysts.............................................. 24.04 27.64 35.93 54.99 82.50 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.18 29.71 38.26 47.46 52.31 Computer programmers.............................................. 26.70 26.70 31.32 32.54 32.97 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.57 35.87 44.19 51.28 54.76 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 29.49 32.69 46.32 51.28 51.42 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 29.81 38.99 43.13 49.15 58.09 Computer support specialists...................................... 16.26 26.18 34.10 44.82 52.89 Computer systems analysts......................................... 26.00 28.21 36.11 43.03 49.68 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 18.96 28.85 42.12 44.28 49.19 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.64 27.89 35.33 41.65 47.50 Engineers......................................................... 27.89 33.20 39.55 44.71 50.97 Civil engineers................................................. 24.15 27.89 29.23 36.68 36.68 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 31.15 34.99 43.64 46.60 52.45 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.61 32.99 41.64 47.40 54.02 Electrical engineers.......................................... 28.80 32.88 41.72 44.71 55.42 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.61 34.52 41.51 49.07 53.98 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Industrial engineers.......................................... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Mechanical engineers............................................ 39.90 41.19 43.82 45.68 49.78 Drafters.......................................................... 18.56 26.54 27.52 33.24 39.74 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.53 19.04 23.09 28.13 33.75 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.53 19.04 22.72 24.81 27.85 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... $17.58 $21.19 $25.48 $36.73 $49.45 Biological scientists........................................... 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 21.64 26.44 33.65 46.21 92.53 Market research analysts........................................ 21.64 26.44 33.65 46.21 92.53 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.33 15.36 20.79 26.04 34.19 Counselors........................................................ 12.31 15.18 19.43 23.71 39.36 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 15.87 19.23 20.79 23.71 43.69 Social workers.................................................... 15.87 20.62 23.13 27.09 27.91 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.87 13.00 23.67 33.35 34.19 Legal occupations................................................... 20.88 26.36 35.46 68.38 79.53 Lawyers........................................................... 35.39 35.46 68.38 79.53 91.35 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.96 15.04 33.80 48.25 54.60 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 30.87 36.79 42.08 54.49 71.52 Engineering and architecture teachers, postsecondary............ 61.80 63.94 67.26 71.82 76.92 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 25.96 32.17 47.43 59.93 68.79 English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 26.61 33.19 48.42 60.74 69.93 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 29.78 31.68 42.33 46.47 64.35 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 11.96 14.36 33.30 49.85 54.60 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 29.92 36.16 47.47 53.17 56.25 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 29.39 36.16 47.02 53.17 55.89 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.70 34.43 48.70 54.67 56.66 Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.59 38.93 47.60 54.60 55.08 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.52 38.72 47.60 54.60 54.67 Special education teachers...................................... 17.21 30.49 32.48 47.47 50.88 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 15.04 19.23 33.91 48.25 48.25 Librarians........................................................ 22.64 26.18 31.70 41.57 47.01 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 11.69 14.39 18.03 20.21 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.00 20.50 26.24 32.97 44.75 Designers......................................................... 10.00 26.24 26.24 31.00 33.35 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 13.11 22.64 26.67 31.29 31.29 Coaches and scouts.............................................. 13.11 15.83 30.18 31.29 31.29 Public relations specialists...................................... 23.35 25.76 28.00 30.18 30.24 Writers and editors............................................... 23.74 32.97 39.31 44.75 54.51 Editors......................................................... 23.74 25.55 32.97 43.27 55.29 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.04 16.89 25.08 32.92 45.00 Pharmacists....................................................... 39.40 40.45 40.45 51.00 51.00 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 22.28 23.27 26.61 59.51 62.50 Registered nurses................................................. 24.75 27.03 31.09 41.13 52.15 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 16.80 30.00 37.14 39.94 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.78 15.45 16.61 22.50 31.14 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 14.78 14.78 15.45 28.19 34.12 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 13.33 16.02 16.69 18.83 22.50 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... $12.94 $13.25 $14.42 $16.89 $21.49 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 15.35 15.74 16.72 19.18 22.98 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.43 21.00 22.22 24.50 25.00 Medical records and health information technicians................ 11.44 14.04 15.77 16.45 16.45 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.93 11.87 13.79 15.66 18.50 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.61 11.21 12.54 14.42 16.12 Home health aides............................................... 10.20 10.93 11.07 12.25 14.70 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.50 11.28 12.59 14.54 16.53 Psychiatric aides............................................... 11.91 12.44 13.83 15.11 16.11 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.00 14.37 15.61 17.52 20.08 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.40 14.84 16.92 16.92 17.19 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 13.00 13.00 13.44 16.66 18.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 13.50 20.20 25.55 28.57 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 26.03 27.32 32.64 39.02 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 26.03 27.32 32.64 39.02 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 24.27 25.73 25.78 31.27 32.09 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.44 19.58 21.83 24.14 31.01 Police officers................................................... 19.72 21.97 24.01 26.25 30.39 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.72 21.97 24.01 26.25 30.39 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.92 12.35 14.21 16.48 24.54 Security guards................................................. 8.92 12.35 14.21 16.48 24.54 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.17 9.48 11.40 14.48 15.49 Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers................................................ 8.00 9.00 9.48 14.08 14.90 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.63 6.75 8.00 12.00 14.50 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 Cooks............................................................. 9.15 11.00 12.00 13.24 14.83 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.15 10.00 11.51 14.83 15.98 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.75 11.00 12.50 13.50 14.50 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.25 8.00 11.50 12.19 14.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.58 2.63 3.50 7.00 9.01 Bartenders...................................................... 4.00 5.25 7.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.58 2.63 2.63 3.05 3.80 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 4.59 6.75 8.00 9.74 12.04 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.84 7.25 8.00 8.75 10.90 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.84 6.84 7.25 9.55 11.90 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop........................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.00 8.65 9.72 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.69 8.00 8.00 9.35 12.50 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.85 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.54 11.00 12.30 16.00 18.00 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. $11.55 $17.84 $18.00 $19.66 $21.09 First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers........................................................ 11.55 17.84 18.00 18.00 20.54 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.58 11.00 12.15 15.96 17.03 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.84 11.50 12.30 15.07 18.92 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.61 7.61 9.62 11.43 12.00 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 6.00 10.75 12.48 14.70 19.40 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 6.00 10.60 12.00 13.00 16.47 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.00 8.88 10.77 12.70 19.46 Transportation attendants......................................... 9.75 25.43 29.46 45.82 45.82 Child care workers................................................ 6.83 7.25 9.00 12.25 12.70 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.36 10.00 10.74 11.12 11.23 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.00 9.84 13.39 14.64 15.85 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 7.25 8.50 11.25 15.30 16.55 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 9.37 13.75 26.44 41.01 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.44 16.00 24.04 31.88 31.88 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 8.50 15.00 16.11 20.17 26.92 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 12.60 24.04 31.88 31.88 32.03 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 8.12 10.00 11.99 17.89 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 8.00 9.00 10.30 12.73 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 8.00 9.00 10.08 12.75 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.50 7.75 8.25 10.00 13.50 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 7.50 7.75 8.25 10.00 11.38 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.12 8.76 11.01 13.00 21.14 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 33.92 38.83 68.92 85.39 147.52 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 12.00 17.26 26.92 38.46 50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 7.81 25.00 37.57 44.94 50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 12.50 16.35 22.22 27.35 48.72 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 13.93 18.39 19.00 30.85 48.33 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.28 13.94 16.63 21.15 25.76 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 16.50 21.64 25.84 33.16 35.00 Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 7.50 7.50 11.30 12.33 14.27 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.92 14.00 15.70 20.59 26.19 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.50 11.79 15.70 17.50 18.30 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.91 14.13 15.75 22.49 27.09 Tellers......................................................... 10.30 10.78 11.55 16.60 16.65 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 15.55 16.03 17.64 18.65 21.13 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.72 14.60 16.67 22.88 27.81 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 11.50 12.22 14.00 15.30 16.91 Library assistants, clerical...................................... 11.94 14.85 17.45 19.73 19.73 Order clerks...................................................... 10.85 15.39 17.79 17.79 19.72 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.10 11.51 13.69 14.50 16.20 Dispatchers....................................................... 14.31 14.94 16.69 21.00 22.83 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.75 19.26 19.40 22.92 24.92 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... $10.77 $14.06 $18.41 $22.21 $24.86 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 9.26 12.56 16.23 24.49 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.94 16.50 19.25 23.51 26.44 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.44 21.18 23.68 26.44 29.78 Medical secretaries............................................. 13.39 15.16 17.00 18.00 20.00 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.00 15.62 19.49 22.50 27.18 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.49 14.00 14.00 16.77 19.03 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.49 13.33 14.00 14.59 16.58 Word processors and typists..................................... 13.69 14.77 18.15 18.84 19.73 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.02 15.39 16.44 17.52 19.65 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.00 13.22 18.36 21.05 24.52 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.25 19.00 24.70 32.43 37.61 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 25.17 27.17 36.43 36.43 41.35 Carpenters........................................................ 16.85 19.00 20.35 34.33 36.28 Construction laborers............................................. 17.88 21.15 25.10 39.66 39.66 Construction equipment operators.................................. 17.96 18.70 26.32 35.11 52.00 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators...................................................... 18.70 19.40 28.50 35.11 52.00 Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.00 23.00 29.00 37.61 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 20.62 24.48 28.42 29.37 31.34 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 20.62 24.48 28.42 29.37 31.34 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 10.00 15.00 15.16 15.51 28.00 Miscellaneous construction and related workers.................... 8.77 8.77 19.00 32.98 32.98 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.25 18.56 22.10 27.73 30.18 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.41 26.50 27.00 32.94 34.25 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 11.00 17.15 19.53 22.07 26.22 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 15.48 20.00 20.60 22.91 26.22 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.00 16.61 17.98 21.30 27.61 Line installers and repairers..................................... 20.35 21.62 25.85 27.73 30.34 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 24.72 30.18 30.18 32.78 36.61 Production occupations.............................................. 9.02 11.00 14.19 19.26 24.28 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 18.00 18.85 27.26 33.33 33.33 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.73 13.10 14.04 17.50 20.12 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 10.73 13.00 15.35 19.60 21.22 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 6.75 11.59 15.91 19.25 21.30 Machinists........................................................ 19.81 19.83 22.60 27.89 28.68 Printers.......................................................... 13.11 19.00 22.50 26.01 27.91 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.09 9.62 13.50 20.60 24.28 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.45 10.05 12.15 16.00 18.59 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.24 9.25 13.00 18.75 22.00 Bus drivers....................................................... 13.00 13.00 13.44 18.75 26.55 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.27 13.44 14.04 18.12 18.75 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 5.00 10.35 19.05 20.14 23.45 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ $13.64 $19.05 $19.85 $22.00 $24.26 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 4.00 9.50 15.00 20.14 23.75 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.00 14.95 18.22 19.08 20.31 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.24 7.52 10.00 13.50 17.30 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.52 7.58 10.25 13.97 17.50 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.83 7.24 8.00 11.00 13.34 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.00 $12.61 $19.81 $30.66 $45.77 Management occupations.............................................. 24.97 31.28 44.83 57.20 76.92 General and operations managers................................... 22.93 32.27 51.62 76.92 104.63 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.19 40.52 52.62 67.02 87.54 Marketing managers.............................................. 34.19 37.79 52.62 75.26 96.95 Sales managers.................................................. 44.14 45.13 52.55 55.29 87.54 Computer and information systems managers......................... 38.48 39.66 45.91 55.63 78.26 Financial managers................................................ 23.74 30.39 53.43 68.87 76.85 Human resources managers.......................................... 30.13 40.06 46.70 46.70 84.13 Industrial production managers.................................... 23.56 38.97 41.66 47.24 48.93 Education administrators.......................................... 23.90 27.62 37.21 53.50 55.70 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.90 27.62 36.07 53.50 55.70 Engineering managers.............................................. 43.34 48.08 50.02 58.47 88.46 Medical and health services managers.............................. 25.00 31.25 35.95 49.59 103.37 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.00 21.29 28.88 36.46 54.98 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.67 19.36 26.86 34.03 54.98 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 16.82 19.94 27.01 29.86 34.23 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.49 21.43 27.30 30.69 34.23 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.00 18.00 20.21 28.08 30.59 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 22.00 23.50 28.08 29.07 30.59 Training and development specialists............................ 15.00 18.00 18.00 21.75 30.20 Management analysts............................................... 25.00 31.68 36.46 50.70 72.80 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.44 21.29 30.70 32.75 36.65 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 30.00 35.93 51.83 82.50 Financial analysts.............................................. 24.04 27.64 35.93 54.99 82.50 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.20 30.14 38.63 47.80 52.50 Computer programmers.............................................. 26.70 26.70 31.32 32.54 32.97 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.57 35.87 44.19 51.28 54.76 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 29.49 32.69 46.32 51.28 51.42 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 29.81 38.99 43.13 49.15 58.09 Computer support specialists...................................... 16.26 26.18 34.10 44.82 52.89 Computer systems analysts......................................... 28.04 29.57 36.11 43.73 50.00 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 18.96 28.85 42.12 44.28 49.19 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.16 27.61 36.19 41.93 48.19 Engineers......................................................... 27.89 32.88 40.77 45.73 51.48 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 31.15 34.99 43.64 46.60 52.45 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.61 32.99 41.64 47.40 54.02 Electrical engineers.......................................... 28.80 32.88 41.72 44.71 55.42 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.61 34.52 41.51 49.07 53.98 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Industrial engineers.......................................... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Mechanical engineers............................................ 39.90 41.19 43.82 45.68 49.78 Drafters.......................................................... 18.56 26.54 27.52 33.24 39.74 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.53 19.04 23.09 28.13 33.75 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.53 19.04 22.72 24.81 27.85 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... $17.58 $21.19 $25.48 $36.73 $49.45 Biological scientists........................................... 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 21.64 26.44 33.65 46.21 92.53 Market research analysts........................................ 21.64 26.44 33.65 46.21 92.53 Community and social services occupations........................... 11.87 13.00 18.68 21.30 25.44 Counselors........................................................ 11.85 12.95 18.96 22.51 24.23 Social workers.................................................... 13.68 19.28 20.62 23.39 26.63 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.87 11.87 13.00 14.25 28.07 Legal occupations................................................... 20.88 26.36 35.46 79.13 79.53 Lawyers........................................................... 35.46 66.19 68.38 79.53 93.27 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.50 14.36 18.44 40.53 55.03 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 31.68 39.18 44.56 63.98 78.03 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 19.38 36.92 47.43 60.74 69.93 English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 26.61 26.61 37.94 60.74 73.14 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 28.64 31.68 42.27 49.71 76.04 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.50 18.60 19.23 19.23 33.32 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.00 20.50 26.24 32.97 44.75 Designers......................................................... 10.00 26.24 26.24 31.00 33.35 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 13.11 22.64 26.67 31.29 31.29 Coaches and scouts.............................................. 13.11 15.83 30.18 31.29 31.29 Writers and editors............................................... 23.74 32.97 39.31 44.75 54.51 Editors......................................................... 23.74 25.55 32.97 43.27 55.29 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.00 16.80 25.00 32.91 45.04 Pharmacists....................................................... 39.40 40.45 40.45 51.00 51.00 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 22.67 23.36 26.61 59.51 62.50 Registered nurses................................................. 24.60 27.03 30.94 42.35 52.23 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 16.59 28.01 34.36 38.00 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.78 15.45 16.61 22.50 31.14 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 14.78 14.78 15.45 28.19 34.12 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 13.33 16.02 16.69 18.83 22.50 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 12.94 13.25 14.50 16.89 21.76 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 15.35 15.74 16.72 19.18 22.98 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.43 21.14 22.61 24.50 25.29 Medical records and health information technicians................ 11.44 14.04 15.77 16.45 16.45 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.75 11.71 13.86 15.74 19.51 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.33 11.00 12.25 14.35 16.10 Home health aides............................................... 10.20 10.93 11.07 12.25 14.70 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.33 11.15 12.48 14.50 16.50 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.00 14.37 15.61 17.52 20.08 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 10.00 13.38 14.50 17.00 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.92 12.35 14.12 16.48 23.10 Security guards................................................. $8.92 $12.35 $14.12 $16.48 $23.10 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.63 6.75 8.00 11.87 14.50 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 Cooks............................................................. 9.15 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.50 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.15 10.00 10.80 14.05 15.98 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.75 11.00 12.50 13.50 14.50 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.25 8.00 11.50 12.19 14.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.58 2.63 3.46 7.00 8.85 Bartenders...................................................... 4.00 5.25 7.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.58 2.63 2.63 3.05 3.80 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 4.59 6.75 8.00 9.00 11.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.84 7.25 8.00 8.75 10.90 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.84 6.84 7.25 9.55 11.90 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop........................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.00 8.65 9.72 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.69 8.00 8.00 9.35 12.50 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.85 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.50 11.00 12.15 14.16 16.00 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 11.55 17.84 18.00 20.34 21.09 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.54 11.00 12.00 13.73 16.00 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.54 10.45 12.15 12.70 15.30 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.61 7.61 9.62 11.43 12.00 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 6.00 10.60 11.75 13.00 14.70 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 6.00 10.60 11.75 13.00 14.70 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.00 8.50 10.74 12.70 19.26 Transportation attendants......................................... 9.75 13.99 30.13 45.82 45.82 Child care workers................................................ 6.82 7.25 9.00 12.25 12.70 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.36 10.00 10.74 11.12 11.23 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.00 9.68 13.39 14.64 15.74 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 7.25 8.50 11.25 15.30 16.55 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.86 9.32 13.50 26.92 41.01 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.44 16.00 24.04 31.88 31.88 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 8.50 15.00 16.11 20.17 26.92 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 12.60 24.04 31.88 31.88 32.03 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 8.12 9.90 11.93 16.08 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.75 8.94 10.00 11.82 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.94 10.00 11.80 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.50 7.75 8.25 10.00 13.50 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 7.50 7.75 8.25 10.00 11.38 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.12 8.76 11.01 13.00 21.14 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 33.92 38.83 68.92 85.39 147.52 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ $12.00 $17.26 $26.92 $38.46 $50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 7.81 25.00 37.57 44.94 50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 12.50 16.35 22.22 27.35 48.72 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 13.93 18.39 19.00 30.85 48.33 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.26 13.75 16.50 21.16 25.84 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 16.50 21.64 25.84 33.16 35.00 Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 7.50 7.50 11.30 12.50 14.27 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.90 14.05 15.19 19.55 26.19 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.50 11.79 15.70 17.50 18.30 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.28 14.13 15.05 23.01 27.09 Tellers......................................................... 10.30 10.78 11.55 16.60 16.65 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 15.55 16.03 17.64 18.65 21.13 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.72 14.60 16.67 22.88 27.81 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 11.50 12.85 14.70 16.34 16.94 Order clerks...................................................... 10.85 15.39 17.79 17.79 19.72 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.10 11.51 13.52 14.50 16.61 Dispatchers....................................................... 14.31 14.57 16.04 18.27 21.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.75 19.26 19.40 22.92 24.92 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 10.77 14.06 18.41 22.21 24.86 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 9.25 12.52 13.63 24.49 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.94 16.50 19.00 23.30 26.44 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.90 21.18 23.56 26.44 29.90 Medical secretaries............................................. 13.39 15.16 17.00 18.00 20.00 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.00 15.17 19.00 22.20 24.04 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.49 14.00 14.00 14.00 18.84 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.49 14.00 14.00 14.00 20.42 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.02 15.39 16.44 17.52 19.65 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.30 12.50 18.44 21.82 25.21 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.16 19.00 25.00 32.98 37.61 Carpenters........................................................ 16.85 19.00 20.35 34.33 36.28 Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.00 23.00 28.00 37.61 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.80 26.38 28.42 29.36 29.37 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.80 26.38 28.42 29.36 29.37 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.14 18.56 22.10 27.73 30.00 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.25 26.50 27.00 32.38 34.25 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 11.00 17.65 19.81 22.07 25.25 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 15.48 20.00 20.60 22.91 26.22 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.00 16.00 17.98 20.76 22.07 Line installers and repairers..................................... 19.94 21.62 24.99 27.73 30.18 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 11.00 13.90 19.25 24.28 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... $18.00 $18.85 $27.26 $33.33 $33.33 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.73 13.10 14.04 17.50 20.12 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 10.73 13.00 15.35 19.60 21.22 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 6.75 11.59 15.91 19.25 21.30 Machinists........................................................ 19.81 19.83 22.60 27.89 28.68 Printers.......................................................... 13.11 19.00 22.50 26.01 27.91 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.09 9.62 13.50 20.60 24.28 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.45 10.05 12.15 16.00 18.59 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.14 9.00 12.75 18.05 20.31 Bus drivers....................................................... 13.00 13.00 13.00 14.04 18.75 Bus drivers, school............................................. 13.44 13.44 14.04 18.75 18.75 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 5.00 10.35 19.05 20.14 23.45 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.64 19.05 19.85 22.00 24.26 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 4.00 8.73 15.00 20.14 23.76 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.00 14.95 18.22 19.08 20.31 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.24 7.52 10.00 13.50 17.30 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.52 7.58 10.25 13.97 17.50 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.83 7.24 8.00 11.00 13.34 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $14.17 $17.94 $24.98 $34.93 $49.23 Management occupations.............................................. 25.41 30.33 43.14 51.50 60.33 Education administrators.......................................... 26.88 44.62 46.40 54.29 60.33 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.03 46.03 51.50 51.50 61.18 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.10 19.54 23.75 28.11 32.02 Community and social services occupations........................... 20.79 23.13 27.91 34.19 43.69 Counselors........................................................ 14.88 17.47 20.79 43.69 48.66 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 14.88 19.80 20.79 43.69 48.66 Legal occupations................................................... 15.79 27.17 35.39 36.82 36.82 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 15.77 30.87 43.02 50.88 54.60 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.47 34.58 37.57 46.47 53.55 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 30.29 35.00 42.76 46.47 47.06 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.70 38.30 48.60 53.17 55.94 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 31.70 37.68 48.64 53.17 56.25 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.52 38.07 48.64 53.17 55.94 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.70 34.43 48.70 54.67 56.66 Secondary school teachers....................................... 32.51 40.53 49.03 54.60 55.52 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 32.51 40.37 49.03 54.60 55.24 Special education teachers...................................... 31.25 32.48 40.98 49.57 52.14 Librarians........................................................ 26.18 31.08 38.61 47.01 47.01 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.83 13.86 15.51 18.03 20.79 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 19.92 22.34 29.68 33.00 44.42 Registered nurses................................................. 24.91 25.99 32.43 33.79 34.24 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.67 12.27 13.67 15.19 16.60 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.67 12.27 13.60 15.19 16.60 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.91 12.69 12.85 14.74 16.60 Protective service occupations...................................... 17.44 20.79 23.70 26.06 31.27 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 26.03 27.32 27.80 44.18 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 26.03 27.32 27.80 44.18 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 24.27 25.73 25.78 31.27 32.09 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.44 19.58 21.83 24.14 31.01 Police officers................................................... 19.72 22.03 24.01 26.25 30.49 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.72 22.03 24.01 26.25 30.49 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 9.00 9.50 10.08 14.08 14.90 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.06 12.85 13.24 14.83 15.19 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.41 14.55 16.47 18.92 20.23 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.33 14.34 15.96 18.92 20.23 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... $12.46 $14.34 $15.96 $18.92 $20.23 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.77 10.77 13.58 25.63 29.08 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.56 22.50 25.12 25.12 25.85 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.24 15.24 17.51 21.05 24.01 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.84 12.91 20.43 20.94 22.49 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.84 12.91 16.08 22.49 22.49 Library assistants, clerical...................................... 11.94 14.85 16.69 19.73 19.73 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 7.95 7.95 14.86 14.86 14.86 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.27 17.73 22.03 26.40 27.35 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.27 19.14 23.70 27.85 27.85 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.22 17.82 22.03 25.60 27.35 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.07 13.90 15.93 17.54 19.03 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.48 15.70 17.35 20.76 22.56 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.04 18.70 23.82 30.89 33.08 Electricians...................................................... 26.18 26.18 31.32 34.11 36.30 Construction and building inspectors.............................. 27.15 27.15 31.33 32.88 33.30 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.15 17.95 25.28 30.24 32.94 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 15.18 17.15 17.95 23.70 30.24 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.18 17.15 17.95 23.70 30.24 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.74 17.99 23.90 26.55 26.82 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.24 $15.15 $22.36 $33.09 $48.21 Management occupations.............................................. 25.09 31.25 44.83 57.17 76.92 General and operations managers................................... 22.93 32.27 51.62 76.92 104.63 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.19 40.52 52.62 67.02 87.54 Marketing managers.............................................. 34.19 37.79 52.62 75.26 96.95 Sales managers.................................................. 44.14 45.13 52.55 55.29 87.54 Computer and information systems managers......................... 38.48 39.66 45.91 58.04 78.26 Financial managers................................................ 23.74 30.39 48.08 68.87 76.85 Human resources managers.......................................... 30.13 40.06 46.70 46.70 84.13 Industrial production managers.................................... 23.56 38.97 41.66 47.24 48.93 Education administrators.......................................... 23.90 31.28 43.27 53.50 55.70 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.03 46.03 51.50 51.50 61.18 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.90 27.62 37.21 53.50 55.70 Engineering managers.............................................. 43.14 48.08 50.02 58.16 88.22 Medical and health services managers.............................. 25.00 31.25 35.95 49.59 103.37 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.00 21.29 28.85 36.46 52.70 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.67 19.36 26.86 34.03 54.98 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 16.82 19.64 26.40 30.00 34.23 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.49 21.43 27.24 31.02 34.23 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.00 18.00 20.21 28.08 33.08 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 23.50 23.50 28.08 29.92 30.59 Training and development specialists............................ 15.00 18.00 18.00 21.75 30.20 Management analysts............................................... 25.00 30.44 36.46 50.70 72.80 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.44 21.29 26.31 32.75 36.65 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 30.00 35.93 51.83 82.50 Financial analysts.............................................. 24.04 27.64 35.93 54.99 82.50 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.18 29.59 38.14 47.34 52.37 Computer programmers.............................................. 26.70 26.70 31.32 32.54 32.97 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.57 35.87 44.23 51.28 54.76 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 29.49 32.69 46.32 51.28 51.42 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 29.81 39.10 43.13 49.21 58.12 Computer support specialists...................................... 16.26 26.18 34.10 44.82 52.89 Computer systems analysts......................................... 25.28 28.21 36.06 43.03 49.35 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 18.96 28.85 42.12 44.28 49.19 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.64 27.89 35.00 41.51 47.60 Engineers......................................................... 27.89 32.99 39.55 44.90 51.25 Civil engineers................................................. 24.15 27.89 29.23 36.68 36.68 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 31.15 34.99 43.64 46.60 52.45 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.61 32.99 41.64 47.40 54.02 Electrical engineers.......................................... 28.80 32.88 41.72 44.71 55.42 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.61 34.52 41.51 49.07 53.98 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Industrial engineers.......................................... 30.32 32.44 37.33 41.51 46.64 Mechanical engineers............................................ $39.90 $41.19 $43.82 $45.68 $49.78 Drafters.......................................................... 18.56 26.54 27.52 33.24 39.74 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.53 19.04 23.22 28.13 33.75 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.53 19.04 22.72 24.81 27.85 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.58 21.19 25.48 37.14 49.45 Biological scientists........................................... 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 27.00 29.68 33.48 57.21 58.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 21.64 26.44 33.65 47.12 92.53 Market research analysts........................................ 21.64 26.44 33.65 47.12 92.53 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.33 17.94 20.79 26.05 34.19 Counselors........................................................ 12.31 16.50 20.27 23.71 39.36 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 18.68 19.43 20.79 23.71 43.69 Social workers.................................................... 15.50 20.62 23.49 27.36 27.91 Legal occupations................................................... 20.88 26.36 35.71 68.51 79.53 Lawyers........................................................... 35.39 35.46 68.38 79.53 91.35 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 14.17 19.23 38.61 49.03 55.52 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 31.68 38.57 43.02 55.56 71.52 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 36.92 39.53 47.81 62.71 69.93 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 31.60 32.96 42.33 46.87 64.35 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 14.00 17.25 39.44 51.95 54.60 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 9.50 11.50 14.36 14.36 17.75 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 9.50 11.50 14.36 14.36 16.06 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.01 36.16 47.47 53.17 56.25 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 29.82 36.26 47.47 53.17 55.89 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.70 34.43 48.70 54.67 56.66 Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.59 38.93 47.60 54.60 55.08 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.52 38.72 47.60 54.60 54.67 Special education teachers...................................... 17.21 30.49 32.48 47.47 50.88 Librarians........................................................ 23.20 26.88 31.70 41.57 47.01 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.00 11.69 14.85 18.03 20.35 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 17.43 20.50 26.24 32.97 44.75 Public relations specialists...................................... 23.35 25.76 28.00 30.18 30.24 Writers and editors............................................... 24.82 32.97 39.90 45.99 55.29 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.45 16.13 24.50 30.71 43.93 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 22.28 23.27 26.61 59.51 59.51 Registered nurses................................................. 24.44 26.07 30.51 37.61 52.23 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 16.59 30.00 35.59 39.94 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.78 15.38 16.58 22.47 28.19 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 12.98 16.02 16.69 18.83 22.50 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... $12.94 $13.00 $14.25 $16.80 $19.44 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 15.35 15.74 15.74 18.71 19.50 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.00 21.22 22.34 24.50 25.00 Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.44 14.25 15.77 16.45 16.45 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.93 11.87 13.72 15.66 17.60 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.53 11.10 12.69 14.74 16.52 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.35 11.58 12.73 14.92 16.53 Psychiatric aides............................................... 11.67 12.27 13.67 15.19 16.11 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.00 14.75 15.61 17.69 20.08 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.00 14.00 20.96 25.73 30.08 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 26.03 27.32 32.64 39.02 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 26.03 27.32 32.64 39.02 45.86 First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 24.27 25.73 25.78 31.27 32.09 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.44 19.58 21.83 24.14 31.01 Police officers................................................... 19.72 21.97 24.01 26.25 30.39 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.72 21.97 24.01 26.25 30.39 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.61 13.50 14.51 17.00 33.11 Security guards................................................. 12.61 13.50 14.51 17.00 33.11 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.80 7.75 11.00 13.50 17.50 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.00 16.67 17.50 18.90 25.00 Cooks............................................................. 9.75 11.00 12.00 13.88 14.83 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.15 10.00 11.51 14.83 15.98 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.00 13.00 14.50 14.50 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.25 11.50 12.69 14.00 23.28 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.58 2.58 5.54 7.00 11.78 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.75 8.65 9.30 10.90 11.96 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.69 7.69 8.00 8.26 9.20 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.13 11.00 12.84 16.00 18.56 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 17.84 17.84 18.00 20.54 22.50 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.29 11.00 12.76 16.00 18.00 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.00 12.15 13.50 16.63 19.15 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.61 7.61 7.61 11.10 12.31 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 6.00 10.75 12.48 14.33 17.91 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 6.00 10.60 12.00 13.00 16.47 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.00 10.69 11.63 14.64 29.03 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.37 12.24 22.50 31.25 48.33 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... $12.40 $16.11 $24.04 $31.88 $31.88 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 8.50 15.47 16.11 20.17 26.92 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 12.60 24.04 31.88 31.88 32.03 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.75 10.00 11.78 15.14 24.04 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 8.50 11.47 16.08 25.12 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 8.50 11.47 16.08 25.12 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.20 11.01 12.24 18.13 24.04 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 33.92 38.83 68.92 85.39 147.52 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 12.31 18.03 26.92 39.42 50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 7.81 25.00 37.57 44.94 50.48 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.00 16.35 22.22 27.89 50.00 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.32 14.13 17.50 21.97 26.09 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 16.50 21.64 25.84 33.16 35.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.92 14.13 15.70 20.75 26.19 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.50 13.43 15.70 17.50 18.54 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.28 14.13 15.90 23.01 27.09 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 15.55 16.03 17.64 18.65 21.13 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.00 15.39 16.67 23.97 27.81 Order clerks...................................................... 10.85 16.30 17.79 17.79 19.93 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.28 11.51 13.48 14.50 15.15 Dispatchers....................................................... 14.31 14.94 16.96 21.00 22.83 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.75 19.26 19.40 22.92 24.92 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.70 14.49 18.41 22.21 24.86 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.25 11.25 13.63 24.01 24.49 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.94 16.72 19.44 23.72 26.44 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.44 21.18 23.68 26.44 29.78 Medical secretaries............................................. 13.09 15.16 18.00 18.00 19.90 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.00 15.62 19.86 22.67 27.35 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.49 14.00 14.00 16.58 19.03 Word processors and typists..................................... 13.69 14.77 18.15 18.84 19.73 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.02 15.39 16.44 17.52 19.65 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.50 15.44 19.00 21.82 25.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.25 18.70 24.70 32.98 37.61 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 25.17 27.17 36.43 36.43 41.35 Carpenters........................................................ 16.85 19.00 20.35 34.33 36.28 Construction laborers............................................. 17.88 21.15 25.10 39.66 39.66 Construction equipment operators.................................. 17.96 18.70 26.32 35.11 52.00 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators...................................................... 18.70 19.40 28.50 35.11 52.00 Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.00 23.00 29.00 37.61 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 20.62 24.48 28.42 29.37 31.34 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... $20.62 $24.48 $28.42 $29.37 $31.34 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 10.00 15.00 15.16 15.51 28.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.25 18.78 22.10 27.73 30.18 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.41 26.50 27.00 32.94 34.25 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 11.00 17.15 19.53 22.07 26.22 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 15.48 20.00 20.60 22.91 26.22 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.00 16.61 17.98 21.30 27.61 Line installers and repairers..................................... 20.35 21.62 25.85 27.73 30.34 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 24.72 30.18 30.18 32.78 36.61 Production occupations.............................................. 9.02 11.24 14.93 19.74 24.64 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 18.00 18.85 27.26 33.33 33.33 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.82 13.20 14.45 17.50 20.39 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.33 13.21 16.50 19.69 21.22 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 6.75 11.59 15.91 19.25 21.30 Machinists........................................................ 19.81 19.83 22.60 27.89 28.68 Printers.......................................................... 13.11 19.00 22.50 26.01 27.91 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.09 9.62 13.50 20.60 24.28 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.75 10.05 12.25 16.40 18.59 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.52 10.00 14.88 19.58 22.10 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.00 14.88 19.58 21.29 23.91 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.64 19.05 19.81 22.00 24.26 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.25 14.96 18.22 20.31 20.31 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.24 7.52 12.00 15.07 17.49 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.52 7.52 12.50 15.07 17.72 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.83 7.14 11.55 13.34 13.34 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.75 $8.00 $10.00 $14.36 $22.15 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.00 22.00 26.08 29.86 29.86 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.80 11.96 14.36 14.53 23.18 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 15.97 19.83 25.00 45.71 71.82 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 16.88 21.67 24.00 45.71 45.71 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 10.30 10.30 18.60 27.00 34.49 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.00 10.74 11.95 14.70 14.70 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 10.00 12.50 20.00 20.00 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.80 21.77 30.71 40.45 48.25 Registered nurses................................................. 25.67 29.99 36.17 45.00 50.96 Therapists........................................................ 16.50 16.80 16.95 38.00 38.00 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.97 17.37 21.75 31.25 33.41 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 15.00 15.97 17.39 18.11 21.75 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.92 19.67 21.77 24.28 25.01 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.90 12.18 14.19 16.50 20.00 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.87 11.50 12.25 13.75 14.42 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.53 10.95 11.76 12.75 13.59 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.33 14.19 15.14 16.92 18.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.24 8.92 9.79 12.88 14.12 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.92 8.92 11.78 13.92 14.51 Security guards................................................. 8.92 8.92 11.78 13.92 14.51 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.00 9.00 9.48 10.08 12.00 Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers................................................ 7.90 8.15 9.00 9.48 9.50 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.63 3.50 7.65 8.50 11.06 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.30 8.00 10.00 12.00 12.19 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.63 2.63 3.05 8.00 8.00 Bartenders...................................................... 3.00 5.14 8.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.63 2.63 2.63 2.65 3.46 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 4.00 6.75 8.00 8.85 11.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.84 7.00 7.50 8.00 8.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.75 6.84 7.00 8.00 9.30 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.50 9.84 11.43 12.15 12.45 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.50 9.84 11.43 12.15 12.45 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.50 9.84 11.85 12.15 12.45 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.75 10.82 11.43 11.43 11.43 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.89 7.28 9.36 11.14 12.86 Child care workers................................................ $6.75 $6.89 $7.45 $8.50 $12.00 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 7.50 9.00 10.77 15.30 17.05 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 7.25 8.50 11.25 15.30 16.55 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.30 8.00 8.89 10.25 12.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 8.00 8.75 10.00 11.51 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.20 7.75 8.94 10.00 10.80 Cashiers...................................................... 7.10 7.75 8.94 10.00 10.75 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.75 8.12 8.50 10.25 11.75 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.00 9.39 12.75 16.50 20.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.78 11.15 14.00 16.08 21.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.15 11.15 14.00 15.94 16.08 Customer service representatives.................................. 7.75 8.61 9.55 14.84 20.66 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 7.89 8.28 14.00 14.00 20.00 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.30 8.00 8.25 10.00 11.18 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.38 16.00 16.50 20.00 29.89 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.48 13.38 14.77 21.82 21.82 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.00 11.74 14.21 16.80 16.80 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.00 8.00 12.43 15.43 18.65 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.60 20.60 20.60 26.00 26.00 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 10.00 10.73 12.50 13.00 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.41 9.13 9.13 12.50 12.50 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 5.00 7.50 9.34 13.00 17.26 Bus drivers....................................................... 13.00 13.00 13.00 13.44 18.75 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.27 13.25 13.44 18.75 18.75 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 4.00 4.00 6.00 15.00 21.32 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 4.00 4.00 4.00 10.57 15.50 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.10 7.50 8.61 10.00 11.78 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 8.50 9.83 11.30 13.77 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.95 7.50 7.75 8.80 9.80 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $26.77 $22.36 $1,048 $874 39.2 $53,174 $45,001 1,987 Management occupations.............................................. 47.57 44.83 1,888 1,743 39.7 97,807 90,001 2,056 General and operations managers................................... 54.94 51.62 2,187 2,053 39.8 113,721 106,748 2,070 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 55.63 52.62 2,213 2,019 39.8 115,062 105,000 2,068 Marketing managers.............................................. 56.03 52.62 2,239 2,105 40.0 116,411 109,439 2,078 Sales managers.................................................. 54.98 52.55 2,170 2,000 39.5 112,834 103,999 2,052 Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.91 45.91 1,957 1,836 39.2 101,753 95,487 2,039 Financial managers................................................ 50.87 48.08 2,068 2,155 40.7 107,544 112,059 2,114 Human resources managers.......................................... 48.39 46.70 1,897 1,635 39.2 98,643 84,999 2,038 Industrial production managers.................................... 41.32 41.66 1,711 1,666 41.4 88,996 86,647 2,154 Education administrators.......................................... 42.41 43.27 1,589 1,731 37.5 80,089 83,598 1,888 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.06 51.50 2,080 1,856 41.5 97,543 96,502 1,948 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 40.37 37.21 1,446 1,399 35.8 73,630 72,754 1,824 Engineering managers.............................................. 56.21 50.02 2,272 2,001 40.4 118,165 104,035 2,102 Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.43 35.95 1,848 1,335 41.6 96,108 69,420 2,163 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.79 28.85 1,361 1,123 40.3 69,228 57,500 2,049 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.50 26.86 1,251 1,075 41.0 65,033 55,877 2,132 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.71 26.40 986 987 38.3 51,263 51,346 1,994 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.50 27.24 1,017 1,034 38.4 52,858 53,793 1,995 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.54 20.21 944 808 40.1 42,577 42,037 1,809 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 27.59 28.08 1,144 1,123 41.5 59,504 58,400 2,157 Training and development specialists............................ 21.64 18.00 864 720 39.9 37,225 37,440 1,720 Management analysts............................................... 41.85 36.46 1,733 1,458 41.4 90,093 75,828 2,153 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.36 26.31 1,054 940 38.5 54,824 48,854 2,004 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.99 35.93 1,876 1,437 42.6 97,528 74,724 2,217 Financial analysts.............................................. 44.77 35.93 1,941 1,437 43.4 100,948 74,724 2,255 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.65 38.14 1,551 1,533 40.1 80,651 79,717 2,087 Computer programmers.............................................. 29.90 31.32 1,174 1,183 39.3 61,033 61,506 2,041 Computer software engineers....................................... 43.43 44.23 1,777 1,768 40.9 92,417 91,946 2,128 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.92 46.32 1,803 1,866 42.0 93,746 97,014 2,184 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.94 43.13 1,754 1,717 39.9 91,184 89,294 2,075 Computer support specialists...................................... 35.53 34.10 1,407 1,369 39.6 73,155 71,196 2,059 Computer systems analysts......................................... 36.75 36.06 1,472 1,402 40.0 76,528 72,900 2,082 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 37.65 42.12 1,522 1,706 40.4 79,148 88,724 2,102 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.13 35.00 1,425 1,376 40.6 74,097 71,532 2,109 Engineers......................................................... 39.59 39.55 1,607 1,596 40.6 83,543 82,971 2,110 Civil engineers................................................. 31.84 29.23 1,274 1,315 40.0 66,253 68,401 2,081 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 41.80 43.64 1,803 1,864 43.1 93,731 96,934 2,243 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.46 41.64 1,700 1,736 41.0 88,391 90,296 2,132 Electrical engineers.......................................... 40.55 41.72 1,622 1,669 40.0 84,344 86,778 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 41.51 1,741 1,766 41.5 90,542 91,847 2,160 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... $37.26 $37.33 $1,508 $1,496 40.5 $78,404 $77,771 2,104 Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 37.33 1,508 1,496 40.5 78,404 77,771 2,104 Mechanical engineers............................................ 44.08 43.82 1,846 1,854 41.9 95,987 96,385 2,177 Drafters.......................................................... 29.07 27.52 1,130 1,032 38.9 58,773 53,662 2,022 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.37 23.22 975 929 40.0 50,681 48,298 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 22.11 22.72 884 909 40.0 45,990 47,260 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.81 25.48 1,213 1,019 39.4 62,813 53,000 2,039 Biological scientists........................................... 41.32 33.48 1,638 1,288 39.6 85,188 66,997 2,061 Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 41.32 33.48 1,638 1,288 39.6 85,188 66,997 2,061 Market and survey researchers..................................... 41.80 33.65 1,686 1,346 40.3 87,664 70,000 2,097 Market research analysts........................................ 41.80 33.65 1,686 1,346 40.3 87,664 70,000 2,097 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.46 20.79 836 780 37.2 41,552 40,541 1,850 Counselors........................................................ 21.80 20.27 796 719 36.5 38,544 37,401 1,768 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.29 20.79 909 780 35.9 42,467 40,541 1,679 Social workers.................................................... 22.90 23.49 857 869 37.4 42,899 45,197 1,873 Legal occupations................................................... 52.40 35.71 1,996 1,418 38.1 103,810 73,751 1,981 Lawyers........................................................... 67.13 68.38 2,623 2,735 39.1 136,374 142,220 2,032 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.79 38.61 1,314 1,380 35.7 52,792 52,684 1,435 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 49.10 43.02 1,899 1,783 38.7 79,508 71,933 1,619 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 51.84 47.81 1,920 1,859 37.0 74,668 72,490 1,440 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 44.01 42.33 1,619 1,506 36.8 63,052 59,707 1,433 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.74 39.44 1,301 1,427 35.4 50,489 54,948 1,374 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 16.73 14.36 646 560 38.6 29,452 22,962 1,760 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 13.20 14.36 519 560 39.3 24,367 22,962 1,845 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 44.68 47.47 1,523 1,644 34.1 56,290 60,231 1,260 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.54 47.47 1,519 1,644 34.1 56,128 60,231 1,260 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.74 48.70 1,553 1,644 33.9 57,455 60,577 1,256 Secondary school teachers....................................... 45.93 47.60 1,575 1,675 34.3 57,746 60,973 1,257 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.84 47.60 1,573 1,666 34.3 57,672 60,973 1,258 Special education teachers...................................... 35.82 32.48 1,283 1,220 35.8 49,574 49,605 1,384 Librarians........................................................ 34.89 31.70 1,280 1,351 36.7 57,690 60,545 1,654 Teacher assistants................................................ 14.94 14.85 502 503 33.6 20,148 19,416 1,349 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 28.36 26.24 1,111 1,050 39.2 57,700 54,579 2,035 Public relations specialists...................................... 26.96 28.00 1,072 1,058 39.8 55,747 54,995 2,068 Writers and editors............................................... 39.32 39.90 1,489 1,572 37.9 77,430 81,769 1,969 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.96 24.50 994 922 38.3 51,366 47,798 1,979 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 33.88 26.61 1,387 1,064 40.9 72,106 55,349 2,128 Registered nurses................................................. $33.90 $30.51 $1,237 $1,125 36.5 $64,276 $58,500 1,896 Therapists........................................................ 29.18 30.00 1,092 1,152 37.4 52,229 54,600 1,790 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.87 16.58 750 647 39.7 38,989 33,657 2,066 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.28 16.69 681 664 39.4 35,438 34,549 2,051 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.44 14.25 618 570 40.0 32,120 29,640 2,080 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.14 15.74 680 629 39.7 34,794 32,733 2,029 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.57 22.34 880 884 39.0 45,735 45,947 2,027 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.95 15.77 581 600 38.9 30,200 31,200 2,021 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.10 13.72 552 535 39.2 28,691 27,830 2,035 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.10 12.69 513 502 39.2 26,697 26,125 2,038 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.24 12.73 512 509 38.6 26,612 26,478 2,010 Psychiatric aides............................................... 13.78 13.67 551 547 40.0 28,673 28,442 2,080 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.55 15.61 646 624 39.0 33,473 32,469 2,023 Protective service occupations...................................... 20.57 20.96 835 843 40.6 43,305 43,832 2,105 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 33.77 32.64 1,338 1,305 39.6 69,586 67,885 2,061 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.77 32.64 1,338 1,305 39.6 69,586 67,885 2,061 First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 27.66 25.78 1,160 1,083 41.9 60,296 56,304 2,180 Fire fighters..................................................... 22.75 21.83 991 950 43.5 51,512 49,400 2,264 Police officers................................................... 24.38 24.01 971 955 39.8 50,493 49,681 2,071 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.38 24.01 971 955 39.8 50,493 49,681 2,071 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 17.37 14.51 690 580 39.7 35,892 30,181 2,066 Security guards................................................. 17.37 14.51 690 580 39.7 35,892 30,181 2,066 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.91 11.00 418 428 38.3 20,969 20,800 1,921 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.98 17.50 766 719 42.6 38,581 36,400 2,146 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.96 17.50 766 719 42.6 38,567 36,400 2,147 Cooks............................................................. 12.36 12.00 482 480 39.0 24,566 24,960 1,988 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.48 11.51 486 460 38.9 23,781 22,464 1,906 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.51 13.00 481 473 38.5 25,016 24,570 2,000 Food preparation workers.......................................... 13.12 12.69 518 508 39.5 26,942 26,397 2,054 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.05 5.54 215 203 35.5 10,243 8,320 1,692 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.86 9.30 374 342 38.0 18,936 17,503 1,920 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.44 8.00 328 320 38.8 17,053 16,640 2,020 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.80 12.84 547 509 39.6 27,862 25,896 2,018 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 18.90 18.00 752 720 39.8 39,094 37,440 2,068 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.64 12.76 540 498 39.6 28,104 25,896 2,060 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.57 13.50 575 534 39.4 29,883 27,789 2,051 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.16 7.61 358 305 39.1 18,635 15,835 2,035 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... $12.94 $12.48 $514 $499 39.7 $21,573 $15,600 1,667 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.51 12.00 496 480 39.7 20,496 15,600 1,639 Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.42 11.63 517 485 33.5 26,238 22,924 1,701 Sales and related occupations....................................... 26.74 22.50 1,062 867 39.7 54,986 45,001 2,056 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.06 24.04 973 962 40.5 49,752 49,999 2,067 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.42 16.11 716 725 41.1 37,242 37,700 2,138 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.99 31.88 1,159 1,275 40.0 58,511 66,300 2,018 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.73 11.78 536 440 39.0 27,708 22,895 2,018 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 13.36 11.47 523 428 39.1 26,203 20,883 1,961 Cashiers...................................................... 13.36 11.47 523 428 39.1 26,203 20,883 1,961 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.16 12.24 586 478 38.6 30,447 24,856 2,008 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 68.92 3,205 2,810 38.2 166,668 146,139 1,985 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 30.15 26.92 1,205 1,077 40.0 62,678 55,983 2,079 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 34.66 37.57 1,397 1,503 40.3 72,648 78,146 2,096 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 26.36 22.22 1,047 889 39.7 54,431 46,226 2,065 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.31 17.50 708 666 38.7 36,764 34,632 2,008 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 26.10 25.84 1,011 1,034 38.7 52,581 53,747 2,014 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.38 15.70 674 628 38.8 35,030 32,656 2,016 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.77 15.70 585 628 39.6 30,436 32,656 2,060 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.15 15.90 729 641 38.0 37,897 33,346 1,979 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 17.64 695 676 38.4 36,161 35,163 1,999 Customer service representatives.................................. 19.34 16.67 741 633 38.3 38,518 32,924 1,991 Order clerks...................................................... 16.58 17.79 652 712 39.3 33,921 36,999 2,045 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.39 13.48 518 530 38.7 26,942 27,564 2,012 Dispatchers....................................................... 17.83 16.96 713 678 40.0 37,088 35,277 2,080 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 19.40 765 776 38.6 39,792 40,352 2,005 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.46 18.41 733 736 39.7 38,103 38,293 2,064 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 16.05 13.63 635 545 39.5 33,001 28,355 2,056 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.43 19.44 786 750 38.5 40,890 39,000 2,002 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.69 23.68 914 914 38.6 47,544 47,526 2,007 Medical secretaries............................................. 17.00 18.00 665 720 39.1 34,578 37,440 2,034 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.99 19.86 751 746 37.5 39,028 38,790 1,952 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.35 14.00 582 560 37.9 30,011 29,120 1,955 Word processors and typists..................................... 17.09 18.15 619 681 36.2 31,461 35,391 1,841 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.39 16.44 636 638 38.8 33,089 33,197 2,019 Office clerks, general............................................ 18.77 19.00 720 738 38.4 37,438 38,357 1,994 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.62 24.70 1,024 988 40.0 52,465 51,376 2,048 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... $33.22 $36.43 $1,329 $1,457 40.0 $69,096 $75,774 2,080 Carpenters........................................................ 25.96 20.35 1,038 814 40.0 54,001 42,328 2,080 Construction laborers............................................. 27.77 25.10 1,111 1,004 40.0 55,510 52,208 1,999 Construction equipment operators.................................. 29.86 26.32 1,194 1,053 40.0 60,962 54,748 2,042 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators...................................................... 30.91 28.50 1,237 1,140 40.0 63,023 59,280 2,039 Electricians...................................................... 24.32 23.00 973 920 40.0 50,585 47,840 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 27.17 28.42 1,084 1,137 39.9 56,389 59,114 2,076 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 27.17 28.42 1,084 1,137 39.9 56,389 59,114 2,076 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 17.67 15.16 707 606 40.0 32,470 31,533 1,837 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.06 22.10 924 884 40.1 47,806 45,968 2,073 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 28.96 27.00 1,158 1,080 40.0 60,240 56,160 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 19.50 19.53 779 781 40.0 40,515 40,622 2,078 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.31 20.60 853 824 40.0 44,334 42,848 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.71 17.98 747 719 39.9 38,858 37,398 2,077 Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.55 25.85 1,022 1,034 40.0 53,146 53,768 2,080 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.56 30.18 1,223 1,207 40.0 63,571 62,774 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.09 14.93 638 581 39.7 33,188 30,202 2,063 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.76 27.26 1,045 1,125 39.0 54,322 58,510 2,030 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.38 14.45 615 578 40.0 31,984 30,056 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 16.35 16.50 654 660 40.0 34,007 34,328 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.05 15.91 579 616 38.5 30,094 32,032 2,000 Machinists........................................................ 22.88 22.60 915 904 40.0 47,593 47,008 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 21.39 22.50 849 900 39.7 44,142 46,800 2,064 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. $15.16 $13.50 $606 $540 40.0 $31,507 $28,080 2,079 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.34 12.25 533 490 40.0 27,727 25,480 2,079 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.36 14.88 598 570 38.9 30,974 29,120 2,017 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.92 19.58 724 768 40.4 37,655 39,936 2,101 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.48 19.81 797 792 40.9 41,406 41,205 2,125 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.18 18.22 672 729 39.1 34,924 37,898 2,033 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.01 12.00 477 480 39.7 24,814 24,960 2,067 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.19 12.50 486 500 39.9 25,290 26,000 2,074 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.37 11.55 410 462 39.5 21,320 24,016 2,055 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $26.50 $22.00 $1,045 $849 39.4 $53,773 $44,013 2,029 Management occupations.............................................. 48.04 44.83 1,911 1,762 39.8 99,188 91,474 2,065 General and operations managers................................... 54.96 51.62 2,188 2,053 39.8 113,757 106,748 2,070 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 55.63 52.62 2,213 2,019 39.8 115,062 105,000 2,068 Marketing managers.............................................. 56.03 52.62 2,239 2,105 40.0 116,411 109,439 2,078 Sales managers.................................................. 54.98 52.55 2,170 2,000 39.5 112,834 103,999 2,052 Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.67 45.91 1,946 1,836 39.2 101,192 95,487 2,037 Financial managers................................................ 51.82 53.43 2,110 2,156 40.7 109,712 112,125 2,117 Human resources managers.......................................... 48.39 46.70 1,897 1,635 39.2 98,643 84,999 2,038 Industrial production managers.................................... 41.32 41.66 1,711 1,666 41.4 88,996 86,647 2,154 Education administrators.......................................... 39.92 37.21 1,452 1,467 36.4 73,804 72,754 1,849 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 40.04 36.07 1,423 1,399 35.5 72,259 70,170 1,805 Engineering managers.............................................. 56.81 50.02 2,323 2,001 40.9 120,777 104,035 2,126 Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.43 35.95 1,848 1,335 41.6 96,108 69,420 2,163 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.12 28.88 1,378 1,138 40.4 70,004 58,400 2,052 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.50 26.86 1,251 1,075 41.0 65,033 55,877 2,132 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.71 26.40 986 987 38.3 51,263 51,346 1,994 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.50 27.24 1,017 1,034 38.4 52,858 53,793 1,995 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 20.21 948 808 40.2 42,686 42,037 1,808 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 27.59 28.08 1,144 1,123 41.5 59,504 58,400 2,157 Training and development specialists............................ 21.64 18.00 864 720 39.9 37,225 37,440 1,720 Management analysts............................................... 42.07 36.46 1,745 1,458 41.5 90,735 75,828 2,157 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.04 30.70 1,084 1,228 38.7 56,394 63,862 2,011 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.99 35.93 1,876 1,437 42.6 97,528 74,724 2,217 Financial analysts.............................................. 44.77 35.93 1,941 1,437 43.4 100,948 74,724 2,255 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.91 38.48 1,564 1,539 40.2 81,325 80,040 2,090 Computer programmers.............................................. 29.90 31.32 1,177 1,183 39.4 61,193 61,506 2,047 Computer software engineers....................................... 43.43 44.23 1,777 1,768 40.9 92,417 91,946 2,128 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.92 46.32 1,803 1,866 42.0 93,746 97,014 2,184 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.94 43.13 1,754 1,717 39.9 91,184 89,294 2,075 Computer support specialists...................................... 35.53 34.10 1,407 1,369 39.6 73,155 71,196 2,059 Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.53 36.11 1,510 1,442 40.2 78,532 75,005 2,092 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 37.65 42.12 1,522 1,706 40.4 79,148 88,724 2,102 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.17 35.33 1,436 1,407 40.8 74,667 73,147 2,123 Engineers......................................................... 40.27 40.77 1,653 1,675 41.0 85,933 87,104 2,134 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 41.80 43.64 1,803 1,864 43.1 93,731 96,934 2,243 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.46 41.64 1,700 1,736 41.0 88,391 90,296 2,132 Electrical engineers.......................................... 40.55 41.72 1,622 1,669 40.0 84,344 86,778 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 41.51 1,741 1,766 41.5 90,542 91,847 2,160 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 37.26 37.33 1,508 1,496 40.5 78,404 77,771 2,104 Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 37.33 1,508 1,496 40.5 78,404 77,771 2,104 Mechanical engineers............................................ $44.08 $43.82 $1,846 $1,854 41.9 $95,987 $96,385 2,177 Drafters.......................................................... 29.07 27.52 1,130 1,032 38.9 58,773 53,662 2,022 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.37 23.22 975 929 40.0 50,681 48,298 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 22.11 22.72 884 909 40.0 45,990 47,260 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.85 25.48 1,215 1,021 39.4 62,917 53,000 2,039 Biological scientists........................................... 41.32 33.48 1,638 1,288 39.6 85,188 66,997 2,061 Biochemists and biophysicists................................. 41.32 33.48 1,638 1,288 39.6 85,188 66,997 2,061 Market and survey researchers..................................... 41.80 33.65 1,686 1,346 40.3 87,664 70,000 2,097 Market research analysts........................................ 41.80 33.65 1,686 1,346 40.3 87,664 70,000 2,097 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.04 18.68 678 680 37.6 34,024 33,998 1,886 Counselors........................................................ 18.61 19.23 689 680 37.0 34,936 34,999 1,877 Social workers.................................................... 20.38 20.62 766 732 37.6 36,525 30,744 1,792 Legal occupations................................................... 57.75 66.19 2,210 2,647 38.3 114,926 137,669 1,990 Lawyers........................................................... 75.58 68.38 2,984 2,740 39.5 155,193 142,501 2,053 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.54 26.37 1,226 923 38.9 56,350 48,000 1,786 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 52.02 44.56 2,047 2,031 39.3 88,592 85,030 1,703 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 50.88 47.43 1,853 1,660 36.4 72,038 68,497 1,416 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 47.49 42.85 1,794 1,682 37.8 72,753 69,520 1,532 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 15.32 14.36 608 560 39.7 28,065 22,962 1,832 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 13.20 14.36 519 560 39.3 24,367 22,962 1,845 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 13.20 14.36 519 560 39.3 24,367 22,962 1,845 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 28.12 26.24 1,103 1,050 39.2 57,308 54,579 2,038 Writers and editors............................................... 39.32 39.90 1,489 1,572 37.9 77,430 81,769 1,969 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.71 23.99 983 907 38.3 51,106 47,154 1,988 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 34.45 26.61 1,391 1,064 40.4 72,316 55,349 2,099 Registered nurses................................................. 34.12 30.51 1,237 1,125 36.3 64,321 58,500 1,885 Therapists........................................................ 26.36 30.00 1,000 1,050 37.9 51,995 54,600 1,972 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.87 16.58 750 647 39.7 38,989 33,657 2,066 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.28 16.69 681 664 39.4 35,438 34,549 2,051 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.44 14.25 618 570 40.0 32,120 29,640 2,080 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.14 15.74 680 629 39.7 34,794 32,733 2,029 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.11 23.04 893 894 38.6 46,441 46,467 2,009 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.95 15.77 581 600 38.9 30,200 31,200 2,021 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.15 13.77 552 531 39.0 28,677 27,612 2,026 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.87 12.27 501 484 38.9 26,055 25,168 2,025 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.20 12.73 509 509 38.6 26,470 26,478 2,005 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.52 15.61 646 624 39.1 33,472 32,469 2,026 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 17.15 14.51 681 580 39.7 35,417 30,181 2,065 Security guards................................................. $17.15 $14.51 $681 $580 39.7 $35,417 $30,181 2,065 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.83 11.00 416 422 38.4 20,970 20,800 1,937 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.97 17.50 766 719 42.6 38,573 36,400 2,146 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.96 17.50 766 719 42.6 38,558 36,400 2,147 Cooks............................................................. 12.21 12.00 480 480 39.3 24,936 24,960 2,043 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.00 10.80 477 432 39.7 24,798 22,464 2,067 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.51 13.00 481 473 38.5 25,016 24,570 2,000 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.05 5.54 215 203 35.5 10,243 8,320 1,692 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.86 9.30 374 342 38.0 18,936 17,503 1,920 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.44 8.00 328 320 38.8 17,053 16,640 2,020 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.14 12.35 520 486 39.6 26,361 24,648 2,006 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.91 12.30 510 480 39.5 26,541 24,960 2,056 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.38 12.35 525 494 39.2 27,284 25,688 2,039 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.13 7.61 357 305 39.1 18,571 15,835 2,034 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.03 11.50 477 460 39.7 19,259 15,600 1,601 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.03 11.50 477 460 39.7 19,259 15,600 1,601 Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.18 11.40 507 469 33.4 25,669 22,746 1,691 Sales and related occupations....................................... 26.76 22.16 1,062 853 39.7 55,024 44,240 2,056 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.10 24.04 975 962 40.5 49,816 49,999 2,067 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.36 16.11 714 725 41.1 37,130 37,700 2,139 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.99 31.88 1,159 1,275 40.0 58,511 66,300 2,018 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.44 11.53 524 440 39.0 27,109 22,895 2,016 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.82 10.20 421 408 38.9 20,963 19,462 1,937 Cashiers...................................................... 10.82 10.20 421 408 38.9 20,963 19,462 1,937 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.16 12.24 586 478 38.6 30,447 24,856 2,008 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 68.92 3,205 2,810 38.2 166,668 146,139 1,985 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 30.15 26.92 1,205 1,077 40.0 62,678 55,983 2,079 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 34.66 37.57 1,397 1,503 40.3 72,648 78,146 2,096 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 26.36 22.22 1,047 889 39.7 54,431 46,226 2,065 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.29 17.50 711 666 38.9 36,969 34,632 2,021 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 26.19 25.84 1,016 1,034 38.8 52,832 53,747 2,017 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.28 15.70 671 628 38.9 34,916 32,656 2,020 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.77 15.70 585 628 39.6 30,436 32,656 2,060 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.29 15.90 734 636 38.1 38,186 33,072 1,980 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 17.64 695 676 38.4 36,161 35,163 1,999 Customer service representatives.................................. $19.37 $16.67 $742 $633 38.3 $38,562 $32,924 1,991 Order clerks...................................................... 16.58 17.79 652 712 39.3 33,921 36,999 2,045 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.37 13.48 518 530 38.7 26,913 27,564 2,013 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 19.40 765 776 38.6 39,792 40,352 2,005 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.46 18.41 733 736 39.7 38,103 38,293 2,064 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 15.48 13.41 618 536 39.9 32,116 27,893 2,075 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.22 19.23 782 750 38.7 40,649 39,000 2,010 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.78 23.56 918 914 38.6 47,759 47,526 2,008 Medical secretaries............................................. 17.01 18.00 666 720 39.1 34,624 37,440 2,036 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.22 19.11 725 721 37.7 37,690 37,500 1,961 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.39 16.44 636 638 38.8 33,089 33,197 2,019 Office clerks, general............................................ 19.09 19.00 743 760 38.9 38,657 39,520 2,025 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.78 25.00 1,031 1,000 40.0 52,737 51,376 2,046 Carpenters........................................................ 26.10 20.35 1,044 814 40.0 54,284 42,328 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 24.11 23.00 964 920 40.0 50,145 47,840 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.70 28.42 1,065 1,137 39.9 55,360 59,114 2,074 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.70 28.42 1,065 1,137 39.9 55,360 59,114 2,074 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.92 22.10 919 884 40.1 47,507 45,968 2,073 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 28.54 27.00 1,142 1,080 40.0 59,366 56,160 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 19.37 19.81 775 793 40.0 40,296 41,211 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.31 20.60 853 824 40.0 44,334 42,848 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.29 17.98 732 719 40.0 38,043 37,398 2,080 Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.07 24.99 1,003 1,000 40.0 52,149 51,979 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.95 14.38 633 569 39.7 32,917 29,598 2,063 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.76 27.26 1,045 1,125 39.0 54,322 58,510 2,030 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.38 14.45 615 578 40.0 31,984 30,056 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 16.35 16.50 654 660 40.0 34,007 34,328 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.05 15.91 579 616 38.5 30,094 32,032 2,000 Machinists........................................................ 22.88 22.60 915 904 40.0 47,593 47,008 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 21.39 22.50 849 900 39.7 44,142 46,800 2,064 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.16 13.50 606 540 40.0 31,507 28,080 2,079 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.34 12.25 533 490 40.0 27,727 25,480 2,079 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.98 14.07 582 560 38.9 30,168 28,367 2,014 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.94 19.76 725 783 40.4 37,706 40,585 2,102 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.48 19.85 797 792 40.9 41,413 41,205 2,126 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.18 18.22 672 729 39.1 34,924 37,898 2,033 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.00 12.00 477 480 39.7 24,806 24,960 2,067 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.19 12.50 486 500 39.9 25,276 26,000 2,074 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... $10.37 $11.55 $410 $462 39.5 $21,320 $24,016 2,055 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $28.76 $25.50 $1,074 $1,022 37.3 $49,335 $50,408 1,715 Management occupations.............................................. 41.39 43.14 1,591 1,402 38.4 80,607 70,988 1,947 Education administrators.......................................... 47.65 48.06 1,908 1,856 40.0 94,229 92,799 1,977 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.06 51.50 2,080 1,856 41.5 97,543 96,502 1,948 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.72 23.75 933 891 37.7 48,503 46,313 1,962 Community and social services occupations........................... 29.18 27.91 1,071 1,047 36.7 52,433 54,419 1,797 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.44 44.07 1,366 1,447 33.8 51,048 53,651 1,262 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 41.47 38.21 1,537 1,383 37.1 59,486 54,804 1,434 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 39.90 40.71 1,424 1,446 35.7 53,084 52,736 1,330 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 45.72 48.60 1,549 1,661 33.9 56,874 60,846 1,244 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.55 48.65 1,548 1,664 34.0 56,863 60,846 1,248 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 45.52 48.64 1,547 1,664 34.0 56,778 60,846 1,247 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.74 48.70 1,553 1,644 33.9 57,455 60,577 1,256 Secondary school teachers....................................... 46.66 49.03 1,569 1,666 33.6 57,563 60,973 1,234 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 46.58 49.03 1,567 1,666 33.6 57,482 60,846 1,234 Special education teachers...................................... 41.79 40.98 1,436 1,381 34.4 52,876 51,092 1,265 Librarians........................................................ 37.20 38.61 1,342 1,351 36.1 56,725 60,545 1,525 Teacher assistants................................................ 16.47 16.18 534 539 32.4 20,475 20,205 1,243 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.30 31.02 1,185 1,152 39.1 55,543 54,059 1,833 Registered nurses................................................. 31.02 32.43 1,231 1,297 39.7 63,630 67,454 2,051 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.87 13.67 553 545 39.9 28,753 28,330 2,073 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.76 13.60 550 544 40.0 28,606 28,288 2,079 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.78 12.99 549 508 39.9 28,552 26,437 2,073 Protective service occupations...................................... 24.42 24.01 1,002 1,014 41.0 52,119 52,722 2,134 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 33.78 27.80 1,338 1,112 39.6 69,565 57,832 2,059 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.78 27.80 1,338 1,112 39.6 69,565 57,832 2,059 First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers.......................................................... 27.66 25.78 1,160 1,083 41.9 60,296 56,304 2,180 Fire fighters..................................................... 22.75 21.83 991 950 43.5 51,512 49,400 2,264 Police officers................................................... 24.44 24.01 973 960 39.8 50,614 49,935 2,071 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.44 24.01 973 960 39.8 50,614 49,935 2,071 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 14.63 14.83 522 482 35.7 20,938 17,542 1,431 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.73 16.47 668 659 39.9 34,721 34,258 2,076 Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.71 15.96 667 638 39.9 34,683 33,193 2,075 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... $16.75 $15.96 $668 $638 39.9 $34,758 $33,193 2,075 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.48 17.82 685 665 37.1 35,256 34,129 1,908 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.54 20.43 700 766 37.7 36,392 39,839 1,963 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.84 22.03 818 804 37.4 42,514 41,810 1,946 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.73 23.70 870 889 38.3 45,215 46,219 1,989 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 21.62 22.03 804 774 37.2 41,831 40,248 1,935 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.77 15.93 581 583 36.9 29,811 30,297 1,890 Office clerks, general............................................ 17.99 17.35 665 651 37.0 34,582 33,831 1,923 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.11 23.11 959 950 39.8 49,845 49,415 2,068 Electricians...................................................... 30.71 31.32 1,229 1,253 40.0 63,886 65,146 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.80 25.28 991 1,011 40.0 51,534 52,582 2,078 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 20.32 17.95 807 718 39.7 41,940 37,336 2,064 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.32 17.95 807 718 39.7 41,940 37,336 2,064 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 23.45 26.55 938 1,062 40.0 48,782 55,224 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $24.41 $20.63 $24.60 $30.92 Management, professional, and related...... 35.62 32.24 34.72 38.91 Management, business, and financial...... 41.50 39.51 38.94 45.07 Professional and related................. 32.21 26.88 32.53 35.80 Service.................................... 11.31 10.24 11.50 14.04 Sales and office........................... 19.30 17.13 22.28 20.54 Sales and related........................ 21.72 17.42 26.60 34.11 Office and administrative support........ 17.66 16.90 18.17 18.58 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 24.61 23.73 27.36 26.34 Construction and extraction............. 25.71 24.62 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 22.84 21.67 24.11 24.81 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 14.61 13.47 15.57 15.91 Production............................... 15.74 14.24 16.78 16.89 Transportation and material moving....... 13.58 12.94 13.89 15.07 B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.0 4.2 3.9 6.5 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.3 6.9 3.4 5.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 3.1 7.5 3.5 6.7 Professional and related.......................................... 3.8 7.0 4.5 5.4 Service............................................................. 2.4 5.9 3.5 4.2 Sales and office.................................................... 4.9 2.6 10.0 6.5 Sales and related................................................. 9.7 5.8 16.1 16.3 Office and administrative support................................. 2.5 3.8 6.4 2.7 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.7 4.2 3.4 2.7 Construction and extraction...................................... 3.0 4.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.1 6.3 4.2 4.8 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.3 7.3 3.3 16.6 Production........................................................ 5.1 9.2 4.0 14.8 Transportation and material moving................................ 3.5 8.6 9.2 18.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $22.78 $19.00 $902 $750 39.6 $46,267 $38,480 2,031 Management occupations.............................................. 43.46 37.79 1,752 1,587 40.3 90,615 82,499 2,085 General and operations managers................................... 55.60 57.69 2,244 2,308 40.4 116,685 119,999 2,099 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 53.11 48.08 2,112 1,923 39.8 109,815 100,000 2,068 Marketing managers.............................................. 45.60 35.10 1,843 1,417 40.4 95,850 73,681 2,102 Financial managers................................................ 37.19 40.39 1,541 1,615 41.4 80,128 84,001 2,155 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.97 25.64 1,429 1,075 40.9 70,112 52,000 2,005 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 27.10 25.51 1,133 1,075 41.8 58,906 55,877 2,173 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.78 42.31 1,676 1,692 41.1 87,169 88,001 2,137 Computer software engineers....................................... 48.27 51.28 2,037 2,057 42.2 105,946 106,962 2,195 Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.24 41.59 1,664 1,692 41.4 86,537 88,001 2,150 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 26.39 27.89 1,064 1,115 40.3 55,309 58,001 2,096 Engineers......................................................... 35.95 32.99 1,463 1,320 40.7 76,070 68,619 2,116 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.48 29.68 1,299 1,187 40.0 67,554 61,730 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.77 19.28 649 680 36.5 32,371 30,744 1,822 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.84 14.36 536 560 38.7 25,496 22,962 1,842 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 13.83 14.36 541 560 39.1 25,248 22,962 1,826 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 13.25 14.36 520 560 39.3 24,382 22,962 1,841 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 13.25 14.36 520 560 39.3 24,382 22,962 1,841 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.55 22.96 982 918 40.0 51,056 47,751 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.98 19.89 892 796 38.8 46,390 41,380 2,019 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.46 13.82 559 522 38.7 29,063 27,164 2,010 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.04 10.00 385 366 38.3 19,502 19,013 1,942 Cooks............................................................. 11.87 12.00 465 480 39.2 24,201 24,960 2,039 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.55 13.00 480 473 38.3 24,971 24,570 1,990 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.31 2.63 152 95 35.2 7,182 4,950 1,666 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.75 10.74 411 400 38.2 21,371 20,800 1,989 Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.67 20.39 825 801 39.9 42,908 41,642 2,076 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.58 16.11 881 725 40.8 45,835 37,700 2,124 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.17 11.00 518 424 39.3 26,932 22,052 2,045 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.76 12.44 613 498 38.9 31,861 25,875 2,021 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 24.46 23.90 977 923 39.9 50,806 48,000 2,077 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ $27.89 $29.81 $1,116 $1,192 40.0 $58,010 $62,005 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.39 20.46 853 808 39.9 44,360 41,999 2,074 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.55 16.50 687 633 39.1 35,726 32,924 2,035 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.75 14.35 656 577 39.2 34,137 30,000 2,038 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.02 14.13 734 577 38.6 38,166 30,000 2,007 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.22 15.90 645 615 37.5 33,540 32,001 1,948 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.25 12.98 510 519 38.5 26,529 27,000 2,002 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.91 18.41 747 736 39.5 38,822 38,293 2,053 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.11 18.75 788 746 39.2 40,977 38,790 2,037 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.03 22.18 887 847 38.5 46,131 44,048 2,003 Office clerks, general............................................ 18.66 19.00 743 760 39.8 38,636 39,520 2,071 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.67 24.00 987 960 40.0 50,325 49,920 2,040 Carpenters........................................................ 24.99 19.20 1,000 768 40.0 51,985 39,940 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 21.66 21.50 867 860 40.0 45,063 44,720 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.70 22.00 868 880 40.0 44,676 45,760 2,059 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 16.57 17.98 663 719 40.0 34,455 37,398 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 14.47 12.50 571 500 39.5 29,696 26,000 2,052 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.29 13.50 551 510 38.5 28,447 26,009 1,991 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.71 19.05 685 762 41.0 35,615 39,624 2,131 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.91 19.85 785 798 41.5 40,798 41,496 2,158 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.35 13.25 491 500 39.7 25,521 26,009 2,067 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.26 13.50 570 540 40.0 29,659 28,080 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $29.62 $24.96 $1,163 $956 39.2 $60,042 $49,500 2,027 Management occupations.............................................. 51.06 48.08 2,014 1,837 39.5 104,745 95,499 2,052 General and operations managers................................... 52.41 51.62 1,980 1,871 37.8 102,973 97,306 1,965 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 57.97 52.62 2,306 2,105 39.8 119,906 109,439 2,068 Marketing managers.............................................. 61.28 57.17 2,434 2,287 39.7 126,586 118,903 2,066 Computer and information systems managers......................... 51.06 46.28 1,995 1,851 39.1 103,736 96,262 2,032 Financial managers................................................ 56.38 59.39 2,283 2,324 40.5 118,735 120,860 2,106 Education administrators.......................................... 40.45 37.21 1,439 1,467 35.6 74,849 76,300 1,850 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 40.45 37.21 1,439 1,467 35.6 74,849 76,300 1,850 Engineering managers.............................................. 60.01 54.69 2,473 2,240 41.2 128,615 116,465 2,143 Medical and health services managers.............................. 45.78 39.66 1,932 1,348 42.2 100,445 70,103 2,194 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.56 29.92 1,345 1,177 40.1 69,931 61,191 2,084 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 34.59 29.86 1,387 1,081 40.1 72,115 56,237 2,085 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.32 25.92 970 987 38.3 50,429 51,346 1,992 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.10 27.24 1,000 1,024 38.3 51,993 53,225 1,992 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.09 28.08 1,174 1,123 40.3 61,028 58,400 2,098 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 26.74 27.98 1,115 1,123 41.7 58,003 58,400 2,169 Training and development specialists............................ 28.80 23.74 1,144 890 39.7 59,494 46,295 2,066 Management analysts............................................... 48.24 47.16 1,864 1,972 38.6 96,934 102,519 2,009 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.01 32.75 1,072 1,283 38.3 55,746 66,699 1,990 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.11 35.93 1,874 1,437 43.5 97,460 74,724 2,261 Financial analysts.............................................. 43.35 35.67 1,910 1,437 44.1 99,345 74,724 2,291 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.21 37.69 1,523 1,508 39.9 79,198 78,399 2,073 Computer programmers.............................................. 30.29 31.32 1,166 1,183 38.5 60,634 61,506 2,002 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.34 42.19 1,720 1,679 40.6 89,454 87,300 2,113 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 39.72 36.93 1,659 1,538 41.8 86,279 80,001 2,172 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 44.10 43.57 1,760 1,725 39.9 91,500 89,700 2,075 Computer support specialists...................................... 33.15 33.13 1,309 1,253 39.5 68,085 65,154 2,054 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.32 36.11 1,390 1,381 39.4 72,304 71,800 2,047 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 43.45 42.66 1,766 1,756 40.6 91,808 91,300 2,113 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 36.79 38.59 1,505 1,578 40.9 78,286 82,033 2,128 Engineers......................................................... 40.83 40.85 1,677 1,675 41.1 87,223 87,104 2,136 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 41.77 41.72 1,715 1,746 41.1 89,205 90,813 2,136 Electrical engineers.......................................... 41.39 42.31 1,656 1,692 40.0 86,095 88,005 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 41.92 41.51 1,741 1,766 41.5 90,542 91,847 2,160 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 37.26 37.33 1,508 1,496 40.5 78,404 77,771 2,104 Industrial engineers.......................................... 37.26 37.33 1,508 1,496 40.5 78,404 77,771 2,104 Drafters.......................................................... 29.07 27.52 1,130 1,032 38.9 58,773 53,662 2,022 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.54 24.68 1,021 987 40.0 53,115 51,334 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.24 23.09 929 924 40.0 48,333 48,031 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... $29.95 $24.97 $1,170 $999 39.1 $60,430 $51,927 2,017 Market and survey researchers..................................... 50.15 43.21 2,037 1,885 40.6 105,932 97,999 2,112 Market research analysts........................................ 50.15 43.21 2,037 1,885 40.6 105,932 97,999 2,112 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.30 18.60 708 670 38.7 35,729 34,819 1,953 Counselors........................................................ 17.21 17.94 660 670 38.3 33,035 33,559 1,920 Legal occupations................................................... 61.09 68.38 2,323 2,735 38.0 120,787 142,220 1,977 Lawyers........................................................... 85.62 79.13 3,370 3,165 39.4 175,242 164,599 2,047 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 44.86 42.08 1,749 1,660 39.0 78,362 71,939 1,747 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 52.02 44.56 2,047 2,031 39.3 88,592 85,030 1,703 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 50.88 47.43 1,853 1,660 36.4 72,038 68,497 1,416 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 47.49 42.85 1,794 1,682 37.8 72,753 69,520 1,532 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 33.04 31.00 1,264 1,154 38.2 65,534 60,000 1,984 Writers and editors............................................... 37.71 32.97 1,403 1,154 37.2 72,945 60,000 1,934 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.76 24.91 1,018 927 38.0 52,894 48,223 1,976 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 32.18 26.61 1,300 1,064 40.4 67,594 55,349 2,101 Registered nurses................................................. 34.67 30.71 1,251 1,138 36.1 65,075 59,197 1,877 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.58 16.02 738 641 39.7 38,373 33,322 2,065 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.33 16.61 643 663 39.4 33,422 34,486 2,046 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.14 15.74 680 629 39.7 34,794 32,733 2,029 Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.39 15.77 595 631 38.6 30,924 32,802 2,009 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.97 13.77 548 531 39.2 28,445 27,612 2,036 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.43 12.73 523 509 38.9 27,183 26,478 2,024 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.26 12.73 515 509 38.8 26,757 26,478 2,017 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.65 14.75 586 590 40.0 30,266 30,682 2,066 Protective service occupations...................................... 16.66 15.00 666 600 40.0 34,657 31,200 2,080 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 15.27 14.51 611 580 40.0 31,758 30,181 2,080 Security guards................................................. 15.27 14.51 611 580 40.0 31,758 30,181 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.71 12.04 489 476 38.5 24,465 23,920 1,925 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.50 17.98 694 719 39.6 33,310 36,150 1,903 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.24 12.31 519 486 39.2 26,976 25,272 2,037 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.46 12.15 487 474 39.1 25,342 24,648 2,034 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.49 12.45 528 492 39.1 27,445 25,607 2,034 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.13 7.61 357 305 39.1 18,571 15,835 2,034 Personal care and service occupations............................... $18.82 $13.25 $569 $516 30.2 $28,348 $25,588 1,506 Sales and related occupations....................................... 35.03 25.00 1,380 950 39.4 71,105 48,660 2,030 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.90 11.95 534 461 38.4 27,388 23,976 1,971 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.61 10.65 409 418 38.5 19,992 19,462 1,884 Cashiers...................................................... 10.61 10.65 409 418 38.5 19,992 19,462 1,884 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.40 11.95 552 475 38.3 28,685 24,690 1,992 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 83.95 68.92 3,205 2,810 38.2 166,668 146,139 1,985 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 37.30 37.57 1,493 1,503 40.0 77,644 78,146 2,081 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 43.90 48.95 1,789 2,019 40.7 93,007 105,000 2,119 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.94 18.14 732 696 38.6 38,056 36,173 2,009 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.25 17.65 698 641 38.2 36,301 33,346 1,989 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.07 14.53 593 580 39.3 30,821 30,181 2,045 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.84 18.32 735 641 37.1 38,226 33,346 1,927 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.09 17.64 695 676 38.4 36,161 35,163 1,999 Customer service representatives.................................. 20.35 17.75 787 722 38.7 40,939 37,544 2,011 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.53 13.77 527 550 39.0 27,416 28,600 2,027 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.85 19.40 765 776 38.6 39,792 40,352 2,005 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 17.83 18.50 713 740 40.0 37,077 38,480 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.06 13.19 559 528 39.7 29,050 27,435 2,066 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.30 19.60 777 760 38.3 40,426 39,520 1,992 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.23 24.72 937 935 38.7 48,734 48,625 2,011 Medical secretaries............................................. 16.28 15.16 636 607 39.0 33,055 31,539 2,030 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.32 18.46 678 674 37.0 35,281 35,031 1,926 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.36 16.40 640 633 39.1 33,285 32,906 2,034 Office clerks, general............................................ 19.60 19.20 744 752 37.9 38,681 39,125 1,973 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 31.26 32.43 1,249 1,297 40.0 64,935 67,454 2,078 Electricians...................................................... 32.47 37.61 1,299 1,504 40.0 67,546 78,229 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.70 28.42 1,065 1,137 39.9 55,360 59,114 2,074 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.70 28.42 1,065 1,137 39.9 55,360 59,114 2,074 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.44 24.95 982 1,009 40.2 51,089 52,487 2,090 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 22.19 21.31 888 852 40.0 46,158 44,325 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.63 21.05 865 842 40.0 44,983 43,784 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.96 15.87 676 630 39.8 35,135 32,760 2,071 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.89 14.93 636 597 40.0 33,056 31,052 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 17.79 18.76 712 750 40.0 37,004 39,021 2,080 Machinists........................................................ 23.92 25.20 957 1,008 40.0 49,747 52,416 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 18.43 20.30 736 812 39.9 38,272 42,224 2,077 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. $12.89 $12.15 $515 $486 40.0 $26,795 $25,272 2,079 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.74 14.90 618 602 39.3 32,121 31,296 2,040 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 20.18 19.81 796 792 39.5 41,370 41,205 2,050 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.67 11.55 464 462 39.8 24,122 24,016 2,067 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.42 11.55 457 462 40.0 23,746 24,016 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $26.17 $23.93 $28.37 $24.50 $24.46 $26.74 Management, professional, and related............................... 37.88 36.29 38.42 35.45 35.60 30.67 Management, business, and financial............................... 29.99 – 29.96 41.47 41.53 39.83 Professional and related.......................................... 38.38 36.46 39.05 31.71 31.95 22.18 Service............................................................. 18.62 13.45 20.95 11.17 11.11 15.44 Sales and office.................................................... 18.47 18.62 18.25 19.38 19.37 19.87 Sales and related................................................. 12.18 10.85 22.51 22.64 22.65 – Office and administrative support................................. 20.33 22.61 17.95 17.16 17.10 19.93 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 29.49 31.02 23.87 21.50 21.42 31.25 Construction and extraction...................................... 30.69 32.47 23.47 21.50 21.36 31.72 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 26.05 26.49 24.80 21.75 21.75 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.76 16.96 21.60 14.18 14.17 – Production........................................................ 17.86 17.47 – 15.35 15.35 – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.65 16.33 22.86 13.18 13.15 – Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.1 4.0 1.0 3.4 3.5 6.2 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.4 5.2 2.8 3.4 3.4 6.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 14.0 – 15.7 3.0 3.1 9.9 Professional and related.......................................... 2.5 5.5 2.9 4.0 4.1 11.6 Service............................................................. 2.8 3.5 2.5 2.8 2.9 11.6 Sales and office.................................................... 7.3 12.3 1.3 5.0 5.0 10.9 Sales and related................................................. 6.8 5.6 2.7 8.9 8.9 – Office and administrative support................................. 4.4 5.7 1.3 2.2 2.2 10.6 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 1.6 2.1 1.2 3.6 3.6 6.6 Construction and extraction...................................... 1.3 2.2 2.4 5.0 5.1 4.7 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.3 4.7 3.8 4.4 4.4 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.8 9.6 4.2 4.6 4.6 – Production........................................................ 10.9 13.6 – 5.8 5.8 – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.3 18.9 3.0 4.7 4.7 – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $24.39 $23.93 $34.15 $34.15 Management, professional, and related............................... 35.36 35.16 60.52 60.52 Management, business, and financial............................... 40.25 40.50 60.52 60.52 Professional and related.......................................... 32.95 32.21 – – Service............................................................. 12.87 11.27 – – Sales and office.................................................... 17.44 17.35 35.58 35.58 Sales and related................................................. 16.94 16.87 36.43 36.43 Office and administrative support................................. 17.68 17.60 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.59 24.63 24.38 24.38 Construction and extraction...................................... – 25.60 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.05 22.90 22.31 22.31 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.80 14.55 15.34 15.34 Production........................................................ 16.01 15.87 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.65 13.27 16.35 16.35 Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.4 2.8 14.0 14.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.9 3.3 12.4 12.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 2.8 2.9 12.4 12.4 Professional and related.......................................... 3.2 3.8 – – Service............................................................. 2.5 2.8 – – Sales and office.................................................... 3.2 3.5 11.3 11.3 Sales and related................................................. 9.7 9.9 13.1 13.1 Office and administrative support................................. 2.2 2.5 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.4 2.6 13.7 13.7 Construction and extraction...................................... – 2.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 2.7 3.0 14.1 14.1 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.6 4.8 15.5 15.5 Production........................................................ 5.0 5.1 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 4.7 4.9 19.4 19.4 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... $26.16 $27.31 $19.65 - - - $23.01 - - Management, professional, and related............................... 33.06 38.33 36.38 - - - 28.74 - - Management, business, and financial............................... – 40.05 42.03 - - - 36.46 - - Professional and related.......................................... – 37.46 28.62 - - - 27.32 - - Service............................................................. – – 13.99 - - - 13.44 - - Sales and office.................................................... – 22.23 15.43 - - - 17.48 - - Sales and related................................................. – 39.28 15.73 - - - – - - Office and administrative support................................. – 17.45 14.61 - - - 17.40 - - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 25.77 20.92 24.56 - - - 24.03 - - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.80 20.53 24.15 - - - – - - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 16.34 15.24 - - - 11.74 - - Production........................................................ – 16.55 18.79 - - - – - - Transportation and material moving................................ – 15.10 14.54 - - - 12.96 - - B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 1.9 6.3 11.9 - - - 1.7 - - Management, professional, and related............................... 13.4 2.7 11.7 - - - 6.3 - - Management, business, and financial............................... – 4.6 3.8 - - - 2.7 - - Professional and related.......................................... – 2.1 18.3 - - - 6.2 - - Service............................................................. – – 4.0 - - - 1.8 - - Sales and office.................................................... – 7.8 12.2 - - - 3.4 - - Sales and related................................................. – 3.5 16.8 - - - – - - Office and administrative support................................. – 2.5 4.5 - - - 3.0 - - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.5 5.3 6.8 - - - 4.3 - - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.2 3.8 6.6 - - - – - - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – .4 7.9 - - - 2.6 - - Production........................................................ – 1.6 20.3 - - - – - - Transportation and material moving................................ – 13.3 4.6 - - - 3.8 - - 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 2,555,600 2,267,600 287,900 Management, professional, and related............................... 979,700 824,400 155,200 Management, business, and financial............................... 296,800 278,400 18,400 Professional and related.......................................... 682,900 546,100 136,800 Service............................................................. 496,900 429,800 67,100 Sales and office.................................................... 595,900 556,000 39,900 Sales and related................................................. 238,900 236,900 2,100 Office and administrative support................................. 356,900 319,200 37,800 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 192,000 175,100 16,900 Construction and extraction...................................... 124,300 112,500 11,800 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 65,400 60,700 4,800 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 291,200 282,300 8,900 Production........................................................ 121,500 118,000 – Transportation and material moving................................ 169,700 164,300 5,400 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, October 2006 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 138,870 138,293 577 Total in sample....................................................... 874 813 61 Responding........................................................ 540 488 52 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 201 196 5 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 133 129 4 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.