NC BL 08/00/1999 Table: Reading, PA, Bulletin 3095-30, September 1998 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Reading, PA, September 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $15.36 2.5% $7.16 $9.49 $13.27 $19.32 $25.39 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.68 2.6 7.50 9.82 13.54 19.33 26.25 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.29 3.6 8.25 11.37 16.27 24.70 35.43 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.80 3.4 9.95 12.74 17.52 26.30 36.54 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 25.27 3.7 13.86 17.52 23.39 32.36 41.20 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.40 3.7 15.45 19.22 26.30 35.43 42.86 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.80 5.5 12.02 22.60 26.30 26.30 28.85 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.48 6.4 11.55 18.67 24.70 27.79 28.85 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.43 3.4 15.95 17.52 19.32 20.03 21.50 Registered nurses........................................... 19.16 1.6 16.86 18.00 19.32 20.03 20.87 Teachers, college and university.............................. 41.05 5.1 31.01 35.24 42.72 43.37 51.98 Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.26 1.2 23.99 27.56 35.43 41.11 46.61 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.19 1.3 24.66 27.13 33.82 44.25 49.65 Secondary school teachers................................... 35.30 1.4 25.00 28.65 36.06 42.30 46.50 Teachers, N.E.C............................................. 33.83 1.8 24.69 29.48 35.43 35.66 41.44 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 17.30 5.4 13.28 14.00 16.26 19.42 23.67 Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.91 5.4 12.60 13.55 13.87 16.28 18.98 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.35 5.5 16.30 20.11 25.03 30.48 40.73 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.75 7.0 16.30 20.58 27.40 36.54 45.67 Financial managers.......................................... 31.76 11.4 17.55 24.04 32.55 36.54 45.67 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.77 5.8 33.58 33.58 38.21 38.77 52.56 Managers, medicine and health............................... 38.56 21.3 21.53 24.48 34.61 60.58 60.58 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 30.38 9.1 20.58 22.02 27.56 31.63 50.48 Management related occupations................................ 22.61 4.7 15.87 19.50 22.93 27.64 28.70 Sales occupations................................................. 10.49 8.3 5.60 6.25 8.31 12.00 20.22 Sales workers, apparel...................................... 7.03 5.7 5.63 6.00 6.50 8.65 9.29 Sales workers, furniture and home furnishings............... 8.61 14.0 5.85 6.75 6.75 10.54 10.54 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.80 6.5 5.62 6.30 8.56 10.48 12.00 Cashiers.................................................... 6.59 5.3 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 12.29 2.6 8.25 9.95 12.02 15.09 16.25 Secretaries................................................. 13.07 3.3 10.21 11.71 12.70 15.26 16.00 Order clerks................................................ 12.35 5.7 10.46 10.56 11.43 13.25 15.21 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.20 4.8 9.05 10.10 12.01 13.79 16.17 General office clerks....................................... 12.13 7.6 8.56 11.10 12.50 13.67 15.29 Teachers' aides............................................. 9.16 6.0 6.25 7.62 8.54 9.96 13.13 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 10.37 4.2 7.32 10.27 11.10 11.10 12.41 Blue-collar occupations............................................. $13.45 2.2% $7.50 $9.49 $12.74 $16.71 $20.90 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.34 3.3 12.22 14.00 17.55 20.65 22.66 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.19 5.1 10.00 13.00 14.83 15.06 17.53 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 19.12 4.9 15.40 17.07 18.67 22.66 22.88 Machinists.................................................. 15.67 3.2 13.48 13.75 16.00 16.93 18.50 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.61 3.8 8.00 10.10 12.66 16.71 20.90 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 14.56 14.3 7.80 11.15 14.34 20.01 20.01 Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 12.46 10.9 8.57 9.50 13.69 14.53 15.63 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 14.29 6.0 10.95 12.17 15.55 16.71 16.71 Assemblers.................................................. 10.10 5.8 7.25 7.80 9.33 12.02 13.38 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 14.82 12.0 10.94 11.70 12.76 19.33 19.33 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 12.99 4.6 9.10 10.39 12.25 16.23 18.27 Truck drivers............................................... 12.84 8.4 9.00 9.50 12.50 16.23 16.23 Bus drivers................................................. 12.25 5.3 10.50 10.50 12.55 12.55 16.23 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.38 5.4 8.00 10.29 11.60 12.75 14.28 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.11 4.2 6.75 7.21 9.00 12.85 15.33 Production helpers.......................................... 11.54 7.7 6.52 9.60 11.81 13.09 15.16 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.41 5.5 6.33 6.75 7.73 9.29 12.65 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.55 10.7 6.25 8.10 9.00 9.20 14.18 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.39 8.0 6.88 6.88 10.70 12.85 15.09 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.98 5.5 6.80 7.21 8.67 13.11 15.33 Service occupations................................................. 9.93 5.9 5.54 6.72 9.49 12.20 15.61 Protective service occupations................................ 16.10 4.7 12.36 14.53 15.61 18.35 20.49 Police and detectives, public service....................... 20.05 4.3 18.35 18.35 19.67 21.10 23.24 Food service occupations...................................... 6.53 7.1 2.83 5.15 6.20 8.00 10.83 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.79 20.6 2.83 2.83 5.67 5.82 6.55 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.28 8.3 5.07 5.82 6.70 7.78 11.58 Health service occupations.................................... 9.84 2.2 8.24 8.66 9.49 10.88 11.68 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.86 2.4 8.24 8.66 9.49 10.66 11.90 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 11.88 5.9 6.95 8.70 11.97 14.05 18.13 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.65 7.5 7.15 8.70 11.14 13.64 18.13 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.93 10.2 5.43 5.79 6.00 8.25 9.93 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to 'the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Reading, PA, September 1998 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $14.42 3.0% $6.92 $9.00 $12.74 $18.13 $22.66 $20.83 3.1% $9.85 $12.20 $15.75 $28.70 $39.06 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.72 3.1 7.25 9.49 12.96 18.27 22.66 20.86 3.1 9.89 12.20 15.76 28.79 39.11 White-collar occupations............................................ 17.49 4.9 7.82 10.54 16.00 21.73 29.09 25.93 3.5 11.91 14.21 25.07 35.43 43.37 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 19.07 4.9 9.60 12.36 16.30 22.93 31.20 26.00 3.5 11.91 14.38 25.07 35.43 43.37 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 21.60 8.1 13.55 16.24 19.40 25.48 34.38 31.54 3.4 16.47 23.59 31.06 40.44 46.20 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 23.39 9.2 14.43 18.27 20.19 28.13 36.25 32.59 3.2 18.00 25.35 32.69 41.11 46.37 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 24.08 5.4 11.55 24.70 26.30 26.30 28.85 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.80 6.5 11.51 14.12 24.70 27.79 28.85 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 18.83 2.7 15.69 17.52 19.22 20.03 21.34 - - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.99 1.4 16.81 18.00 19.32 19.95 20.65 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - - 34.45 1.2 24.29 27.68 35.43 41.11 46.61 Elementary school teachers.................................. - - - - - - - 35.76 1.0 25.15 27.40 34.11 44.40 49.65 Secondary school teachers................................... - - - - - - - 35.30 1.4 25.00 28.65 36.06 42.30 46.50 Teachers, N.E.C............................................. - - - - - - - 33.83 1.8 24.69 29.48 35.43 35.66 41.44 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 17.32 6.0 13.26 13.87 16.24 21.80 23.95 - - - - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.84 1.1 12.35 13.55 13.86 14.20 14.90 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.13 6.5 16.30 19.90 24.04 29.97 45.67 28.53 5.3 21.49 23.59 26.17 33.58 37.97 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.66 8.3 16.30 20.00 25.49 36.54 45.67 30.18 5.9 22.44 25.03 30.21 33.58 38.21 Financial managers.......................................... 31.76 11.4 17.55 24.04 32.55 36.54 45.67 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 30.87 9.4 20.58 22.02 28.32 31.63 50.48 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 22.31 5.3 15.87 19.50 22.12 27.64 28.70 24.52 8.1 15.75 21.49 23.59 25.07 35.39 Sales occupations................................................. 10.50 8.3 5.60 6.25 8.31 12.00 20.22 - - - - - - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 7.03 5.7 5.63 6.00 6.50 8.65 9.29 - - - - - - - Sales workers, furniture and home furnishings............... 8.61 14.0 5.85 6.75 6.75 10.54 10.54 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.80 6.5 5.62 6.30 8.56 10.48 12.00 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.51 5.1 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 12.25 3.1 8.25 9.64 11.71 15.26 16.25 12.50 3.0 8.23 11.27 12.94 14.10 16.12 Secretaries................................................. 12.95 4.4 9.96 11.71 12.70 15.26 16.00 13.46 2.0 11.51 11.99 13.28 14.38 15.77 Order clerks................................................ 12.35 5.7 10.46 10.56 11.43 13.25 15.21 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.06 5.7 9.05 9.80 11.70 12.88 16.27 12.74 6.4 7.00 12.01 13.53 14.06 15.34 General office clerks....................................... 11.94 10.5 8.56 10.91 11.88 13.91 15.29 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. - - - - - - - 9.16 6.0 6.25 7.62 8.54 9.96 13.13 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.43 2.3 7.50 9.34 12.66 16.71 20.90 14.08 4.4 10.17 12.45 13.88 16.23 17.95 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.54 3.4 12.22 14.14 17.83 21.06 22.66 14.66 6.0 11.47 12.52 13.88 17.23 17.95 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.19 5.1 10.00 13.00 14.83 15.06 17.53 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... $19.12 4.9% $15.40 $17.07 $18.67 $22.66 $22.88 - - - - - - - Machinists.................................................. 15.67 3.2 13.48 13.75 16.00 16.93 18.50 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.61 3.8 8.00 10.09 12.66 16.71 20.90 - - - - - - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 14.56 14.3 7.80 11.15 14.34 20.01 20.01 - - - - - - - Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 12.46 10.9 8.57 9.50 13.69 14.53 15.63 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 14.29 6.0 10.95 12.17 15.55 16.71 16.71 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.10 5.8 7.25 7.80 9.33 12.02 13.38 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 14.82 12.0 10.94 11.70 12.76 19.33 19.33 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 12.83 5.1 9.00 10.35 12.00 16.00 18.38 $14.71 4.0% $11.35 $13.15 $16.23 $17.23 $17.23 Truck drivers............................................... 12.79 8.6 9.00 9.50 12.30 16.23 16.23 - - - - - - - Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 13.63 5.1 9.95 11.36 13.56 16.23 16.23 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.38 5.4 8.00 10.29 11.60 12.75 14.28 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.95 4.4 6.75 7.16 8.80 12.09 15.33 13.04 11.0 5.17 12.26 13.11 15.59 18.75 Production helpers.......................................... 11.39 8.1 6.50 9.60 11.81 13.09 15.16 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.41 5.5 6.33 6.75 7.73 9.29 12.65 - - - - - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.55 10.7 6.25 8.10 9.00 9.20 14.18 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.37 8.1 6.88 6.88 10.70 11.65 15.09 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.92 5.6 6.80 7.16 8.67 14.25 15.33 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 8.86 7.6 5.25 6.00 8.35 10.40 14.10 12.62 3.3 9.15 10.31 12.08 14.72 16.52 Protective service occupations................................ - - - - - - - 16.10 4.8 12.36 14.53 15.61 18.35 20.49 Police and detectives, public service....................... - - - - - - - 20.05 4.3 18.35 18.35 19.67 21.10 23.24 Food service occupations...................................... 5.78 4.4 2.83 5.15 5.82 6.72 8.84 10.75 2.8 8.72 9.65 11.10 11.75 12.43 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.79 20.6 2.83 2.83 5.67 5.82 6.55 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.43 3.1 4.65 5.82 6.28 6.72 7.78 10.32 7.3 7.28 8.17 11.30 11.75 11.75 Health service occupations.................................... 9.21 2.4 7.85 8.35 9.15 9.74 11.23 11.28 2.6 9.15 9.94 10.88 11.91 15.09 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.01 1.8 7.83 8.30 9.15 9.49 9.90 11.44 2.6 9.02 10.18 11.05 12.43 15.09 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 12.00 7.6 6.75 8.55 11.94 15.34 18.13 11.55 4.2 8.49 9.65 12.09 13.50 14.07 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.78 10.8 6.83 8.30 10.72 18.13 18.13 11.39 4.4 8.39 9.61 11.93 13.17 14.07 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.98 10.8 5.50 6.00 6.00 8.25 9.93 6.15 8.9 5.25 5.25 5.59 5.59 7.74 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to 'the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Reading, PA, September 1998 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $15.90 2.4% $7.76 $10.15 $13.74 $19.42 $26.30 $9.28 9.0% (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.11 2.4 8.00 10.34 14.00 19.50 26.75 $9.92 10.7% $5.15 $5.82 $8.24 11.25 18.33 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.01 3.5 9.00 12.02 16.83 25.39 36.09 11.89 11.6 5.50 6.06 8.90 14.79 20.03 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 21.12 3.5 10.27 12.85 17.55 26.80 36.54 15.73 10.7 6.87 9.54 13.86 19.22 25.00 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 25.79 3.9 14.08 18.00 23.95 33.34 41.35 20.22 10.2 13.64 13.93 18.33 20.03 35.76 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.88 4.0 15.79 19.40 26.45 35.63 42.72 22.43 10.7 15.22 18.33 19.22 21.50 44.44 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.80 5.5 12.02 22.60 26.30 26.30 28.85 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.48 6.4 11.55 18.67 24.70 27.79 28.85 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.51 4.1 15.50 17.52 19.32 20.19 21.68 19.10 2.4 17.50 18.33 19.22 20.03 21.50 Registered nurses........................................... 19.25 2.0 16.86 17.54 19.40 20.06 20.96 18.91 2.3 17.50 18.33 19.22 20.03 20.03 Teachers, college and university.............................. 41.20 5.1 31.01 37.46 42.72 43.37 51.98 - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.79 1.0 24.70 27.74 35.43 41.23 46.65 21.69 20.2 8.67 9.33 21.00 33.19 35.97 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.19 1.3 24.66 27.13 33.82 44.25 49.65 - - - - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 35.46 1.4 25.00 28.65 36.38 42.48 46.61 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 17.76 5.5 13.35 14.30 16.76 21.80 23.95 - - - - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.54 6.7 12.78 13.55 14.70 17.94 19.34 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.34 5.5 16.30 20.11 25.03 30.48 40.73 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.74 7.0 16.30 20.58 27.40 36.54 45.67 - - - - - - - Financial managers.......................................... 31.76 11.4 17.55 24.04 32.55 36.54 45.67 - - - - - - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 38.56 21.3 21.53 24.48 34.61 60.58 60.58 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 30.38 9.1 20.58 22.02 27.56 31.63 50.48 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 22.61 4.7 15.87 19.50 22.93 27.64 28.70 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.84 8.0 6.15 6.75 9.80 14.50 21.63 6.57 5.6 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Sales workers, apparel...................................... 7.30 8.1 5.75 6.15 6.50 8.65 9.29 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.46 8.2 6.00 7.00 8.78 11.37 13.26 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.23 3.5 5.85 6.20 6.80 7.90 9.40 6.07 6.4 (4) (4) (4) 4) (4) Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 12.54 2.5 8.60 10.26 12.53 15.26 16.25 8.51 4.3 6.25 6.83 8.50 9.75 10.14 Secretaries................................................. 13.07 3.3 10.50 11.71 12.70 15.26 16.00 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 12.35 5.7 10.46 10.56 11.43 13.25 15.21 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.20 4.8 9.05 10.10 12.01 13.79 16.17 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 12.30 7.7 8.56 11.10 12.89 13.67 15.29 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 10.44 5.5 8.23 8.36 9.55 12.83 13.82 7.54 4.4 6.25 6.60 7.62 8.42 8.72 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.56 2.2 7.50 9.50 12.74 16.71 20.90 9.18 9.1 5.61 6.31 8.80 11.85 12.55 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... $17.35 3.3% $12.22 $14.00 $17.55 $20.87 $22.66 - - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.19 5.1 10.00 13.00 14.83 15.06 17.53 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 19.12 4.9 15.40 17.07 18.67 22.66 22.88 - - - - - - - Machinists.................................................. 15.67 3.2 13.48 13.75 16.00 16.93 18.50 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.64 3.8 8.00 10.18 12.66 16.71 20.90 - - - - - - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 14.56 14.3 7.80 11.15 14.34 20.01 20.01 - - - - - - - Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 12.46 10.9 8.57 9.50 13.69 14.53 15.63 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 14.29 6.0 10.95 12.17 15.55 16.71 16.71 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.12 5.8 7.25 7.80 9.36 12.02 13.39 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 14.82 12.0 10.94 11.70 12.76 19.33 19.33 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.22 4.9 9.10 10.35 12.41 16.23 19.00 $11.19 6.3% $8.50 $10.50 $11.35 $12.55 $12.55 Truck drivers............................................... 13.03 7.8 9.10 9.50 12.50 16.23 16.23 - - - - - - - Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 11.59 5.9 10.50 10.50 12.12 12.55 12.82 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.38 5.4 8.00 10.29 11.60 12.75 14.28 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.25 4.2 6.80 7.36 9.00 13.09 15.33 6.20 3.7 5.17 5.50 5.86 6.75 7.66 Production helpers.......................................... 11.54 7.7 6.52 9.60 11.81 13.09 15.16 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.66 5.9 6.75 6.90 8.25 9.45 13.09 - - - - - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.55 10.7 6.25 8.10 9.00 9.20 14.18 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.39 8.0 6.88 6.88 10.70 12.85 15.09 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 10.04 5.5 6.80 7.21 8.76 14.25 15.33 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 10.96 4.8 6.45 8.35 10.43 13.33 16.34 6.51 8.5 2.83 5.25 5.82 8.30 9.40 Protective service occupations................................ 16.18 4.8 12.36 14.53 15.61 18.35 20.49 - - - - - - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 20.05 4.3 18.35 18.35 19.67 21.10 23.24 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 7.70 8.4 2.69 6.28 6.79 10.00 11.34 5.21 13.2 2.83 2.83 5.82 5.82 7.14 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.93 9.4 6.14 6.28 6.72 9.48 11.75 6.04 5.1 4.35 5.07 5.82 6.87 8.00 Health service occupations.................................... 10.16 2.4 8.40 9.15 9.70 11.08 11.91 8.65 1.8 7.50 8.24 8.35 9.15 9.90 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.25 2.7 8.55 9.15 9.49 11.08 13.05 8.59 1.8 7.50 8.24 8.35 8.66 9.90 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 12.01 5.9 7.01 8.76 12.01 14.10 18.13 8.25 5.8 6.49 7.46 8.35 8.94 10.30 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.75 7.6 7.17 8.70 11.32 13.64 18.13 8.02 8.6 6.49 6.56 7.69 8.94 10.30 Personal service occupations.................................. 7.45 10.6 6.00 6.00 7.00 8.75 10.91 6.38 12.6 3.00 5.53 5.79 7.50 9.93 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Reading, PA, September 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 39.6 $630 2.4% $544 2,014 $32,021 $28,574 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 39.6 639 2.4 554 2,013 32,441 29,120 White-collar occupations............................................ 39.2 785 3.6 660 1,944 38,904 34,112 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 39.3 830 3.6 701 1,934 40,853 35,984 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 38.5 994 4.1 943 1,772 45,703 42,141 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 38.3 1,069 4.1 1,046 1,712 47,732 44,990 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 40.0 952 5.5 1,052 2,080 49,509 54,704 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 40.0 899 6.4 988 2,080 46,750 51,376 Health related occupations.................................... 39.8 776 4.1 773 2,069 40,375 40,186 Registered nurses........................................... 39.8 766 2.1 776 2,069 39,818 40,352 Teachers, college and university.............................. 38.0 1,567 4.5 1,602 1,451 59,775 64,075 Teachers, except college and university....................... 36.0 1,253 1.2 1,299 1,348 46,909 48,616 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.2 1,240 1.8 1,218 1,313 46,198 45,755 Secondary school teachers................................... 36.2 1,283 1.6 1,309 1,349 47,829 48,857 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 39.4 700 5.7 656 2,049 36,399 34,118 Licensed practical nurses................................... 38.7 602 5.7 588 2,013 31,284 30,576 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 40.6 1,110 5.5 1,000 2,111 57,719 52,000 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 41.1 1,221 6.7 1,102 2,136 63,516 57,325 Financial managers.......................................... 40.0 1,270 11.4 1,302 2,080 66,051 67,704 Managers, medicine and health............................... 39.7 1,532 21.4 1,308 2,066 79,666 67,997 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 41.5 1,261 7.7 1,133 2,158 65,554 58,906 Management related occupations................................ 39.7 897 4.7 885 2,064 46,651 46,001 Sales occupations................................................. 38.9 460 8.6 353 2,020 23,916 18,361 Sales workers, apparel...................................... 36.1 263 6.7 245 1,875 13,693 12,740 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 39.5 374 8.2 351 2,055 19,443 18,262 Cashiers.................................................... 39.1 283 2.6 260 2,034 14,702 13,520 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 39.3 493 2.6 481 2,018 25,312 24,960 Secretaries................................................. 39.4 515 3.4 508 2,049 26,791 26,416 Order clerks................................................ 40.0 494 5.7 457 2,080 25,679 23,774 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 39.3 479 4.5 477 2,043 24,918 24,794 General office clerks....................................... 38.7 476 8.4 460 2,014 24,767 23,924 Teachers' aides............................................. 30.4 318 9.7 299 1,123 11,718 10,941 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 40.0 542 2.2 510 2,079 28,185 26,499 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 40.0 693 3.4 706 2,078 36,060 36,712 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 39.6 562 5.1 591 2,058 29,209 30,742 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 40.9 781 4.3 792 2,125 40,622 41,205 Machinists.................................................. 40.0 627 3.2 640 2,080 32,585 33,280 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 40.0 $545 3.8% $506 2,079 $28,363 $26,333 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 40.0 582 14.3 574 2,080 30,284 29,827 Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 40.0 498 10.9 548 2,080 25,915 28,475 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 40.0 572 6.0 622 2,080 29,728 32,344 Assemblers.................................................. 40.0 405 5.8 374 2,080 21,053 19,461 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 40.0 593 12.0 510 2,080 30,829 26,541 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 39.9 527 4.9 496 2,076 27,429 25,813 Truck drivers............................................... 40.0 521 7.8 500 2,080 27,095 26,000 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 40.0 455 5.4 464 2,080 23,677 24,128 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 40.0 410 4.2 360 2,079 21,318 18,720 Production helpers.......................................... 40.0 462 7.7 472 2,080 24,001 24,565 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 346 5.9 330 2,080 18,007 17,160 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 40.0 382 10.7 360 2,080 19,867 18,720 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 40.0 416 8.0 428 2,080 21,608 22,256 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 40.0 402 5.5 350 2,080 20,878 18,221 Service occupations................................................. 39.3 431 4.7 400 2,019 22,123 20,592 Protective service occupations................................ 39.6 641 5.1 602 2,061 33,344 31,294 Police and detectives, public service....................... 40.5 811 4.2 820 2,105 42,192 42,619 Food service occupations...................................... 38.9 299 7.5 272 1,933 14,880 13,659 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 37.6 298 6.3 269 1,735 13,759 13,659 Health service occupations.................................... 38.8 394 2.5 380 1,983 20,145 19,739 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 38.6 396 2.5 380 1,967 20,174 19,739 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 39.7 477 6.0 480 2,063 24,783 24,981 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 39.6 465 7.7 440 2,057 24,171 22,880 Personal service occupations.................................. 40.1 298 10.6 280 2,049 15,259 13,832 1 Earnings 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, 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. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Reading, PA, September 1998 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $15.36 2.5% $14.42 3.0% $20.83 3.1% $15.90 2.4% $9.28 9.0% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.68 2.6 14.72 3.1 20.86 3.1 16.11 2.4 9.92 10.7 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.29 3.6 17.49 4.9 25.93 3.5 20.01 3.5 11.89 11.6 Level 1................................................... 6.34 7.3 6.12 7.7 - - - - 5.95 5.8 Level 2................................................... 7.51 5.6 7.50 6.0 7.60 7.7 7.51 6.5 7.49 5.4 Level 3................................................... 8.36 3.6 8.26 3.7 9.48 7.9 8.68 3.0 7.45 6.9 Level 4................................................... 11.19 2.7 10.89 3.0 12.89 2.6 11.45 2.4 7.98 8.2 Level 5................................................... 13.53 3.4 13.22 4.1 14.28 5.7 13.65 3.4 - - Level 6................................................... 15.02 3.9 14.65 4.8 16.31 6.0 15.06 4.1 14.63 12.0 Level 7................................................... 19.90 4.6 16.14 2.8 31.35 3.6 19.97 4.7 16.82 11.8 Level 8................................................... 24.78 3.5 19.61 2.9 34.04 2.4 25.27 3.8 19.93 6.0 Level 9................................................... 23.95 2.8 21.63 2.0 32.61 4.1 24.08 2.9 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.99 3.8 29.77 4.0 - - 29.15 3.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 32.22 4.5 31.47 6.0 35.53 7.0 32.22 4.5 - - Level 13.................................................. 41.68 7.8 - - - - 41.79 7.9 - - White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.80 3.4 19.07 4.9 26.00 3.5 21.12 3.5 15.73 10.7 Level 2................................................... 8.46 5.0 8.60 5.2 7.60 7.7 8.85 5.4 7.49 5.4 Level 3................................................... 9.24 2.8 9.20 2.8 9.50 9.0 9.26 3.2 9.13 3.9 Level 4................................................... 11.77 2.1 11.50 2.5 12.89 2.6 11.82 2.1 - - Level 5................................................... 13.80 3.6 13.56 4.5 14.28 5.7 13.83 3.7 - - Level 6................................................... 14.63 3.7 14.01 4.2 16.31 6.0 14.63 3.8 14.63 12.0 Level 7................................................... 19.98 4.9 15.86 2.5 31.35 3.6 20.05 5.1 16.82 11.8 Level 8................................................... 24.97 3.5 19.69 2.9 34.04 2.4 25.50 3.8 19.93 6.0 Level 9................................................... 23.90 3.0 21.31 2.1 32.61 4.1 24.03 3.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.99 3.8 29.77 4.0 - - 29.15 3.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 32.22 4.5 31.47 6.0 35.53 7.0 32.22 4.5 - - Level 13.................................................. 41.68 7.8 - - - - 41.79 7.9 - - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 25.27 3.7 21.60 8.1 31.54 3.4 25.79 3.9 20.22 10.2 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.40 3.7 23.39 9.2 32.59 3.2 27.88 4.0 22.43 10.7 Level 5................................................... 12.16 3.8 - - - - - - - - Level 6................................................... 14.70 11.9 - - - - - - - - Level 7................................................... 28.21 5.8 17.47 8.4 32.37 3.3 28.55 5.9 19.12 15.9 Level 8................................................... 25.79 4.2 19.06 2.4 34.04 2.4 26.55 4.6 19.93 6.0 Level 9................................................... 28.54 6.1 20.48 3.7 35.73 1.0 29.67 6.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 31.72 10.6 31.72 10.6 - - 27.87 3.3 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.80 5.5 24.08 5.4 - - 23.80 5.5 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.43 3.4 18.83 2.7 - - 19.51 4.1 19.10 2.4 Level 8................................................... 19.34 2.6 19.17 2.5 - - 19.47 3.1 18.86 2.6 Teachers, college and university.............................. 41.05 5.1 - - - - 41.20 5.1 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.26 1.2 - - 34.45 1.2 34.79 1.0 21.69 20.2 Level 7................................................... 34.08 1.4 - - 34.08 1.4 34.28 1.5 - - Level 8................................................... $34.78 1.7% - - $35.17 1.6% $34.76 1.7% - - Level 9................................................... 35.73 1.0 - - 35.73 1.0 35.73 1.0 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 17.30 5.4 $17.32 6.0% - - 17.76 5.5 - - Level 5................................................... 15.92 6.6 - - - - 16.39 7.0 - - Level 6................................................... 14.65 3.5 14.65 3.5 - - 14.92 3.7 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.35 5.5 27.13 6.5 28.53 5.3 27.34 5.5 - - Level 7................................................... 17.00 5.8 16.53 6.2 - - 17.00 5.8 - - Level 9................................................... 21.95 2.5 21.74 2.6 - - 21.92 2.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.45 3.5 28.95 3.1 - - 29.45 3.5 - - Level 12.................................................. 29.49 5.8 28.70 7.1 - - 29.49 5.8 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.75 7.0 29.66 8.3 30.18 5.9 29.74 7.0 - - Level 9................................................... 22.50 4.1 22.53 4.3 - - 22.45 4.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.82 4.8 29.64 4.4 - - 29.82 4.8 - - Level 12.................................................. 29.99 7.3 29.12 10.0 - - 29.99 7.3 - - Management related occupations................................ 22.61 4.7 22.31 5.3 24.52 8.1 22.61 4.7 - - Level 9................................................... 21.48 3.0 21.00 3.3 - - 21.48 3.0 - - Sales occupations................................................. 10.49 8.3 10.50 8.3 - - 11.84 8.0 $6.57 5.6% Level 1................................................... 5.65 4.9 5.65 4.9 - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 6.57 1.9 6.57 1.9 - - 6.57 1.9 - - Level 3................................................... 7.31 3.1 7.26 3.2 - - 7.74 3.7 6.60 3.9 Level 4................................................... 9.05 6.3 9.05 6.3 - - 9.67 7.1 - - Level 5................................................... 11.52 5.9 11.52 5.9 - - 12.08 5.1 - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 12.29 2.6 12.25 3.1 12.50 3.0 12.54 2.5 8.51 4.3 Level 2................................................... 8.46 5.0 8.60 5.2 7.60 7.7 8.85 5.4 7.49 5.4 Level 3................................................... 9.24 2.8 9.20 2.8 9.50 9.0 9.26 3.2 9.13 3.9 Level 4................................................... 11.64 2.2 11.45 2.6 12.56 2.5 11.69 2.2 - - Level 5................................................... 12.85 4.0 12.35 6.4 13.62 2.6 12.85 4.0 - - Level 6................................................... 14.57 5.2 - - - - 14.62 5.3 - - Level 7................................................... 15.44 2.8 15.44 2.8 - - 15.44 2.8 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 13.45 2.2 13.43 2.3 14.08 4.4 13.56 2.2 9.18 9.1 Level 1................................................... 8.37 3.0 8.35 3.0 - - 8.40 3.0 - - Level 2................................................... 8.59 2.5 8.53 2.5 - - 8.65 2.6 7.02 5.1 Level 3................................................... 12.16 3.8 12.17 3.8 11.72 5.9 12.23 4.0 11.18 5.8 Level 4................................................... 12.02 1.8 11.96 2.0 12.72 2.9 12.02 1.8 - - Level 5................................................... 14.86 3.0 14.85 3.2 14.90 3.6 14.86 3.0 - - Level 6................................................... 15.91 5.0 15.91 5.1 - - 15.91 5.0 - - Level 7................................................... 18.80 2.1 18.89 2.2 17.16 3.2 18.81 2.1 - - Level 9................................................... 23.51 8.0 23.51 8.0 - - 23.51 8.0 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.34 3.3 17.54 3.4 14.66 6.0 17.35 3.3 - - Level 5................................................... $15.03 8.3% $15.31 9.5% - - $15.03 8.3% - - Level 6................................................... 13.69 3.6 13.69 3.6 - - 13.69 3.6 - - Level 7................................................... 18.77 3.0 18.85 3.1 $17.15 2.3% 18.79 3.0 - - Level 9................................................... 20.57 2.9 20.57 2.9 - - 20.57 2.9 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.61 3.8 13.61 3.8 - - 13.64 3.8 - - Level 1................................................... 8.78 2.6 8.78 2.6 - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 8.76 4.4 8.76 4.4 - - 8.78 4.4 - - Level 3................................................... 12.04 4.4 12.04 4.4 - - 12.04 4.4 - - Level 4................................................... 11.56 2.0 11.56 2.0 - - 11.56 2.0 - - Level 5................................................... 14.93 3.8 14.94 3.8 - - 14.93 3.8 - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 12.99 4.6 12.83 5.1 14.71 4.0 13.22 4.9 $11.19 6.3% Level 3................................................... 12.35 5.8 12.35 6.1 - - 12.57 7.5 - - Level 4................................................... 12.91 3.8 12.96 4.0 - - 12.91 3.8 - - Level 5................................................... 15.65 8.6 15.39 13.0 - - 15.65 8.6 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 10.11 4.2 9.95 4.4 13.04 11.0 10.25 4.2 6.20 3.7 Level 1................................................... 8.25 3.6 8.23 3.6 - - 8.31 3.6 - - Level 2................................................... 8.36 2.5 8.18 2.2 - - 8.47 2.3 - - Level 3................................................... 12.28 7.1 12.30 7.1 - - 12.37 7.1 - - Level 4................................................... 12.61 5.6 12.50 6.5 - - 12.61 5.6 - - Level 5................................................... 12.56 2.8 12.56 2.8 - - 12.56 2.8 - - Service occupations................................................. 9.93 5.9 8.86 7.6 12.62 3.3 10.96 4.8 6.51 8.5 Level 1................................................... 7.35 8.5 6.96 8.9 9.61 6.5 8.08 9.4 5.91 4.4 Level 2................................................... 11.14 12.4 11.32 17.0 10.67 2.3 11.91 11.8 6.50 11.3 Level 3................................................... 9.76 4.3 8.54 4.3 11.97 2.0 10.22 4.6 8.45 4.3 Level 4................................................... 7.85 19.7 7.49 20.6 - - 10.01 5.0 - - Level 5................................................... 11.94 6.1 - - 12.97 5.0 12.12 5.9 - - Protective service occupations.............................. 16.10 4.7 - - 16.10 4.8 16.18 4.8 - - Food service occupations..................................... 6.53 7.1 5.78 4.4 10.75 2.8 7.70 8.4 5.21 13.2 Level 1................................................... 5.96 3.3 5.87 3.5 - - 6.03 5.4 - - Level 3................................................... 8.95 14.5 - - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................. 9.84 2.2 9.21 2.4 11.28 2.6 10.16 2.4 8.65 1.8 Level 3................................................... 9.97 4.5 8.58 1.7 - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 11.88 5.9 12.00 7.6 11.55 4.2 12.01 5.9 8.25 5.8 Level 1................................................... 9.58 7.2 9.26 10.6 10.32 5.5 9.71 7.7 - - Level 2................................................... 14.34 12.5 - - - - 14.34 12.5 - - Level 3................................................... 10.85 7.8 - - 12.34 2.7 10.85 7.9 - - Personal service occupations................................ 6.93 10.2 6.98 10.8 6.15 8.9 7.45 10.6 6.38 12.6 Level 1................................................... 5.52 4.3 - - - - - - 5.11 11.4 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Reading, PA, September 1998 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... $22.48 6.4% $22.80 6.5% - - $22.48 6.4% - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.16 1.6 18.99 1.4 - - 19.25 2.0 $18.91 2.3% Level 8................................................... 19.27 1.8 19.05 1.5 - - 19.49 2.2 18.61 2.5 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.19 1.3 - - $35.76 1.0% 35.19 1.3 - - Level 8................................................... 35.25 1.7 - - 36.04 1.2 35.25 1.7 - - Secondary school teachers................................... 35.30 1.4 - - 35.30 1.4 35.46 1.4 - - Level 7................................................... 34.35 2.5 - - 34.35 2.5 - - - - Level 8................................................... 35.06 2.2 - - 35.06 2.2 35.06 2.2 - - Level 9................................................... 36.80 1.3 - - 36.80 1.3 36.80 1.3 - - Teachers, N.E.C............................................. 33.83 1.8 - - 33.83 1.8 - - - - Technical occupations: Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.91 5.4 13.84 1.1 - - 15.54 6.7 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Financial managers.......................................... 31.76 11.4 31.76 11.4 - - 31.76 11.4 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.77 5.8 - - - - - - - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 38.56 21.3 - - - - 38.56 21.3 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 30.38 9.1 30.87 9.4 - - 30.38 9.1 - - Level 12.................................................. 27.12 12.8 27.12 12.8 - - 27.12 12.8 - - Sales occupations: Sales workers, apparel...................................... 7.03 5.7 7.03 5.7 - - 7.30 8.1 - - Sales workers, furniture and home furnishings............... 8.61 14.0 8.61 14.0 - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.80 6.5 8.80 6.5 - - 9.46 8.2 - - Level 4................................................... 8.08 8.2 8.08 8.2 - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.59 5.3 6.51 5.1 - - 7.23 3.5 6.07 6.4 Level 3................................................... 6.81 2.9 6.67 2.0 - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Secretaries................................................. 13.07 3.3 12.95 4.4 13.46 2.0 13.07 3.3 - - Level 4................................................... 11.70 3.1 11.29 3.1 - - 11.70 3.1 - - Level 5................................................... 13.72 2.2 - - - - 13.72 2.2 - - Order clerks................................................ 12.35 5.7 12.35 5.7 - - 12.35 5.7 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.20 4.8 12.06 5.7 12.74 6.4 12.20 4.8 - - Level 4................................................... 11.74 6.1 11.52 6.5 - - 11.74 6.1 - - General office clerks....................................... 12.13 7.6 11.94 10.5 - - 12.30 7.7 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 9.16 6.0 - - 9.16 6.0 10.44 5.5 7.54 4.4 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 10.37 4.2 - - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.19 5.1 14.19 5.1 - - 14.19 5.1 - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 19.12 4.9 19.12 4.9 - - 19.12 4.9 - - Level 7................................................... 18.05 8.3 18.05 8.3 - - 18.05 8.3 - - Machinists.................................................. 15.67 3.2 15.67 3.2 - - 15.67 3.2 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ $14.56 14.3% $14.56 14.3% - - $14.56 14.3% - - Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 12.46 10.9 12.46 10.9 - - 12.46 10.9 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 14.29 6.0 14.29 6.0 - - 14.29 6.0 - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.10 5.8 10.10 5.8 - - 10.12 5.8 - - Level 3................................................... 12.62 6.6 12.62 6.6 - - 12.62 6.6 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 14.82 12.0 14.82 12.0 - - 14.82 12.0 - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers............................................... 12.84 8.4 12.79 8.6 - - 13.03 7.8 - - Bus drivers................................................. 12.25 5.3 - - $13.63 5.1% - - $11.59 5.9% Level 3................................................... 11.76 4.5 - - - - - - 11.76 4.5 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.38 5.4 11.38 5.4 - - 11.38 5.4 - - Level 3................................................... 10.94 8.7 10.94 8.7 - - 10.94 8.7 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Production helpers.......................................... 11.54 7.7 11.39 8.1 - - 11.54 7.7 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.41 5.5 8.41 5.5 - - 8.66 5.9 - - Level 2................................................... 8.05 3.8 8.05 3.8 - - - - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.55 10.7 9.55 10.7 - - 9.55 10.7 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.39 8.0 10.37 8.1 - - 10.39 8.0 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.98 5.5 9.92 5.6 - - 10.04 5.5 - - Level 1................................................... 8.24 5.1 8.24 5.1 - - 8.33 5.2 - - Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Police and detectives, public service....................... 20.05 4.3 - - 20.05 4.3 20.05 4.3 - - Food service occupations: Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.79 20.6 4.79 20.6 - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.28 8.3 6.43 3.1 10.32 7.3 7.93 9.4 6.04 5.1 Level 1................................................... 6.82 5.0 - - - - - - - - Health service occupations: Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.86 2.4 9.01 1.8 11.44 2.6 10.25 2.7 8.59 1.8 Level 3................................................... 10.13 4.8 8.55 2.1 - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.65 7.5 11.78 10.8 11.39 4.4 11.75 7.6 8.02 8.6 Level 1................................................... 9.80 7.5 9.54 11.2 10.32 5.5 9.90 7.7 - - Level 3................................................... 10.55 8.0 - - - - 10.55 8.1 - - 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Reading, PA, September 1998 Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) Occupational group(2) 3) 3) 3) 3) Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $15.90 $9.28 $16.97 $14.55 $15.51 $12.41 2.4% 9.0% 2.8% 3.8% 2.6% 5.5% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.11 9.92 16.98 14.95 15.81 12.60 2.4 10.7 2.7 4.0 2.6 5.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.01 11.89 26.01 17.78 19.51 11.45 3.5 11.6 4.2 4.7 3.6 14.7 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 21.12 15.73 26.09 19.35 20.83 - 3.5 10.7 4.2 4.6 3.4 - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 25.79 20.22 30.55 22.11 25.27 - 3.9 10.2 4.1 7.7 3.7 - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.88 22.43 32.35 23.78 27.40 - 4.0 10.7 3.4 8.6 3.7 - Technical occupations........................................... 17.76 - - 17.62 17.30 - 5.5 - - 6.3 5.4 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.34 - - 27.49 27.35 - 5.5 - - 5.9 5.5 - Sales occupations................................................. 11.84 6.57 - 10.50 10.23 11.73 8.0 5.6 - 8.3 9.4 14.6 Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 12.54 8.51 13.08 12.17 12.32 - 2.5 4.3 4.2 3.0 2.6 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.56 9.18 14.57 12.47 13.52 12.46 2.2 9.1 2.7 3.4 2.3 6.6 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.35 - 18.19 16.63 17.52 - 3.3 - 3.3 4.8 3.4 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.64 - 13.98 13.22 13.88 10.46 3.8 - 4.4 6.4 3.9 5.4 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.22 11.19 13.76 12.10 12.69 - 4.9 6.3 2.8 9.6 5.0 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 10.25 6.20 12.82 8.49 10.03 - 4.2 3.7 4.3 3.3 4.2 - Service occupations................................................. 10.96 6.51 13.28 7.99 9.65 - 4.8 8.5 4.0 5.3 6.0 - 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers(2), Reading, PA, September 1998 All All private Goods-producing indust- pri- Goods-producing indust- industries ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) vate ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) indus- tries Trans- Fin- Trans- Fin- Occupational group(3) port- Whole- ance, port- Whole- ance, Con- Manu- ation sale in- Con- Manu- ation sale in- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- tion turing public retail ance, ices tion turing public retail ance, ices Mean util- trade and RSE util- trade and ities real ities real estate estate Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $14.42 $16.08 - $16.81 $16.06 - - - - $14.54 3.0% 3.9% - 22.9% 3.9% - - - - 6.8% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.72 16.07 - 16.81 16.05 - - - - 14.52 3.1 3.9 - 22.9 4.0 - - - - 6.9 White-collar occupations............................................ 17.49 22.22 - - 22.23 - - - - 19.22 4.9 7.8 - - 7.9 - - - - 6.3 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 19.07 22.39 - - 22.41 - - - - 19.39 4.9 7.8 - - 8.0 - - - - 6.5 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 21.60 26.48 - - 26.48 - - - - 18.12 8.1 10.0 - - 10.0 - - - - 4.1 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 23.39 - - - - - - - - 19.39 9.2 - - - - - - - - 4.4 Technical occupations........................................... 17.32 20.37 - - 20.37 - - - - 14.41 6.0 6.1 - - 6.1 - - - - 3.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.13 28.37 - - 28.30 - - - - - 6.5 6.6 - - 6.9 - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 10.50 - - - - - - - - - 8.3 - - - - - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 12.25 13.05 - - 13.14 - - - - 10.97 3.1 3.5 - - 3.5 - - - - 4.6 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.43 14.36 - 15.93 14.31 - - - - 8.97 2.3 2.4 - 18.3 2.4 - - - - 9.7 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.54 17.90 - 15.93 18.20 - - - - - 3.4 3.5 - 18.3 2.8 - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.61 13.89 - - 13.89 - - - - 7.84 3.8 3.7 - - 3.7 - - - - 2.6 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 12.83 12.93 - - 12.93 - - - - - 5.1 6.9 - - 7.1 - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.95 11.33 - - 11.33 - - - - 7.52 4.4 6.1 - - 6.1 - - - - 2.9 Service occupations................................................. 8.86 14.27 - - 14.27 - - - - 8.98 7.6 9.2 - - 9.2 - - - - 7.9 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers(2), Reading, PA, September 1998 All All private Mean private RSE industry industry workers workers Occupational group(3) 100 workers or more 100 workers or more Mean 50 - 99 RSE 50 - 99 workers 100 - 499 500 workers 100 - 499 500 Total workers workers Total workers workers or more or more All occupations....................................................... $14.42 $14.88 $14.33 $12.67 $17.53 3.0% 7.7% 3.4% 3.3% 5.5% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.72 15.15 14.64 12.96 17.64 3.1 8.4 3.4 3.2 5.6 White-collar occupations............................................ 17.49 19.52 17.01 15.18 20.33 4.9 9.5 6.0 4.5 10.6 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 19.07 21.60 18.52 16.95 20.76 4.9 10.1 5.8 3.4 10.7 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 21.60 - 21.70 18.74 23.79 8.1 - 8.3 4.9 10.7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 23.39 - 23.44 20.30 25.45 9.2 - 9.4 6.1 11.5 Technical occupations........................................... 17.32 - 17.37 15.59 18.99 6.0 - 6.3 5.1 8.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.13 - 25.84 23.04 35.61 6.5 - 9.0 6.3 18.8 Sales occupations................................................. 10.50 12.51 9.88 9.75 - 8.3 17.1 10.1 11.0 - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 12.25 11.00 12.49 12.96 11.52 3.1 8.6 3.5 4.2 4.6 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.43 13.30 13.45 11.88 16.27 2.3 5.1 2.5 2.9 2.8 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 17.54 15.43 18.34 16.19 20.01 3.4 8.6 2.9 4.2 2.8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.61 13.18 13.66 11.17 18.06 3.8 7.3 4.1 3.8 3.3 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 12.83 9.86 13.34 13.18 - 5.1 5.0 4.8 3.9 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.95 - 10.05 10.76 8.39 4.4 - 4.5 5.9 3.3 Service occupations................................................. 8.86 5.61 9.72 8.90 12.45 7.6 5.7 7.9 7.8 11.1 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-4. Number of workers(1) represented by occupational group, Reading, PA, September 1998 All workers All indus- Private State and All indus- Private State and Occupational group(2) tries industry local tries industry local government government Workers RSE All occupations....................................................... 88,625 73,009 15,616 3.6% 4.4% 2.9% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 82,594 67,073 15,521 3.7 4.5 3.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 38,285 28,300 9,984 6.1 8.0 5.9 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 32,254 22,364 9,889 6.1 8.4 5.9 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 14,261 7,956 6,305 9.8 16.3 8.0 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 11,652 5,653 5,999 11.3 21.8 7.9 Technical occupations........................................... 2,609 2,302 - 19.2 20.2 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 6,133 5,170 963 12.2 13.5 28.3 Sales occupations................................................. 6,031 5,936 - 19.0 19.3 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 11,860 9,239 2,621 10.4 12.5 16.1 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 35,646 34,241 1,405 6.3 6.5 19.5 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 7,124 6,616 508 11.9 12.4 40.4 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 15,448 15,418 - 9.4 9.4 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4,441 4,022 419 19.0 20.8 29.8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 8,633 8,185 448 12.7 13.3 31.9 Service occupations................................................. 14,694 10,467 4,227 16.9 23.3 11.7 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Reading, PA, September 1998 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 499 135 35 100 78 22 Private industry.................................................... 461 101 26 75 64 11 Goods-producing industries........................................ 168 52 12 40 34 6 Mining.......................................................... 1 1 1 - - - Construction.................................................... 21 3 3 - - - Manufacturing................................................... 147 48 8 40 34 6 Service-producing industries...................................... 293 49 14 35 30 5 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 19 4 1 3 3 - Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 132 21 8 13 10 3 Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 23 4 2 2 2 - Services........................................................ 119 20 3 17 15 2 State and local government.......................................... 37 34 9 25 14 11 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers(2), Reading, PA, September 1998 All State and Occupation(3) indus- Private local tries industry govern- ment All occupations....................................................... 2.5 3.0 3.1 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 2.6 3.1 3.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 3.6 4.9 3.5 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 3.4 4.9 3.5 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 3.7 8.1 3.4 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 3.7 9.2 3.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 5.5 5.4 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 6.4 6.5 - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 3.4 2.7 - Registered nurses........................................... 1.6 1.4 - Teachers, college and university.............................. 5.1 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 1.2 - 1.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1.3 - 1.0 Secondary school teachers................................... 1.4 - 1.4 Teachers, N.E.C............................................. 1.8 - 1.8 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - Technical occupations........................................... 5.4 6.0 - Licensed practical nurses................................... 5.4 1.1 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 5.5 6.5 5.3 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 7.0 8.3 5.9 Financial managers.......................................... 11.4 11.4 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 5.8 - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 21.3 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 9.1 9.4 - Management related occupations................................ 4.7 5.3 8.1 Sales occupations................................................. 8.3 8.3 - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 5.7 5.7 - Sales workers, furniture and home furnishings............... 14.0 14.0 - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 6.5 6.5 - Cashiers.................................................... 5.3 5.1 - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 2.6 3.1 3.0 Secretaries................................................. 3.3 4.4 2.0 Order clerks................................................ 5.7 5.7 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 4.8 5.7 6.4 General office clerks....................................... 7.6 10.5 - Teachers' aides............................................. 6.0 - 6.0 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 4.2 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 2.2 2.3 4.4 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 3.3 3.4 6.0 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 5.1 5.1 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 4.9 4.9 - Machinists.................................................. 3.2 3.2 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.8 3.8 - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 14.3 14.3 - Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 10.9 10.9 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 6.0 6.0 - Assemblers.................................................. 5.8 5.8 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.0 12.0 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4.6 5.1 4.0 Truck drivers............................................... 8.4 8.6 - Bus drivers................................................. 5.3 - 5.1 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 5.4 5.4 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.2 4.4 11.0 Production helpers.......................................... 7.7 8.1 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.5 5.5 - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.7 10.7 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.0 8.1 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 5.5 5.6 - Service occupations................................................. 5.9 7.6 3.3 Protective service occupations................................ 4.7 - 4.8 Police and detectives, public service....................... 4.3 - 4.3 Food service occupations...................................... 7.1 4.4 2.8 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 20.6 20.6 - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 8.3 3.1 7.3 Health service occupations.................................... 2.2 2.4 2.6 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 2.4 1.8 2.6 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 5.9 7.6 4.2 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.5 10.8 4.4 Personal service occupations.................................. 10.2 10.8 8.9 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Reading, PA, September 1998 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(1) workers ime me workers workers All occupations....................................................... 5 5 3 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 5 6 4 White-collar occupations............................................ 7 7 5 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 7 7 6 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 8 8 8 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 9 9 8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 10 10 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 9 9 - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 8 8 8 Registered nurses........................................... 8 8 8 Teachers, college and university.............................. 12 12 - Teachers, except college and university....................... 8 8 7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 8 8 - Secondary school teachers................................... 8 8 - Teachers, N.E.C............................................. 7 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - Technical occupations........................................... 6 6 - Licensed practical nurses................................... 6 5 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 10 10 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 11 11 - Financial managers.......................................... 12 12 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 11 - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 12 12 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 11 11 - Management related occupations................................ 9 9 - Sales occupations................................................. 4 5 3 Sales workers, apparel...................................... 3 3 - Sales workers, furniture and home furnishings............... 4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 4 4 - Cashiers.................................................... 2 3 2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 5 5 3 Secretaries................................................. 5 5 - Order clerks................................................ 5 5 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 4 4 - General office clerks....................................... 4 4 - Teachers' aides............................................. 3 4 2 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 4 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 4 4 3 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 6 6 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 6 6 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 8 8 - Machinists.................................................. 6 6 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4 4 - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 5 5 - Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 4 4 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 5 5 - Assemblers.................................................. 3 3 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 5 5 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4 4 3 Truck drivers............................................... 3 3 - Bus drivers................................................. 3 - 3 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 4 4 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2 2 2 Production helpers.......................................... 4 4 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 3 3 - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 2 2 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 2 2 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 2 2 - Service occupations................................................. 3 3 2 Protective service occupations................................ 6 6 - Police and detectives, public service....................... 8 8 - Food service occupations...................................... 2 2 2 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2 - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 2 2 2 Health service occupations.................................... 3 3 3 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 3 3 3 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 3 3 1 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 2 2 2 Personal service occupations.................................. 2 3 2 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 1. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in construction industries(2), Reading, PA, September 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $15.62 18.5% $13.25 $10.00 $19.50 $15.62 18.5% $13.25 $10.00 $19.50 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 2. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in non-construction industries(2), Reading, PA, September 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $19.06 6.4% $21.06 $16.65 $21.06 $19.06 6.4% $21.06 $16.65 $21.06 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 3. Number of workers in construction trades occupations, Reading, PA, September 1998 Workers RSE Construction industries(2) Non-construction Construction industries(2) Non-construction Occupational group(1) and level industries(2) industries(2) All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers 3) 3) 3) 3) Construction trades occupations....................................... 586 586 - 1,301 1,301 - 9.3% 9.3% - 38.7% 38.7% - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation.