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Highlights of Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN
National Compensation Survey, January 2008

 

Workers in the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus Combined Statistical Area earned an average of $18.72 per hour in January 2008, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).  Regional Commissioner Jay A. Mousa noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $32.28 for architecture and engineering occupations and $14.61 for office and administrative support occupations.  Another occupational group, transportation and material moving, had a mean hourly wage rate of $14.10.  The NCS data available for the Indianapolis area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups.  (See table 1.)


Industrial engineers, part of the architecture and engineering occupational group, were paid $30.28 per hour.  Within the office and administrative support group, medical secretaries averaged $13.45 per hour.  Hand packers and packagers, an occupation within transportation and material moving, earned $9.41 per hour.

 
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $19.98 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $11.38.  Union workers earned $24.42 and non-union workers, $18.07.  Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.62 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $17.37, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $24.43.


The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations.  Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers.  NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process.  The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment.  Details on the NCS are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/home.htm.


The NCS data provided here covered 397 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments.  Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey.  This sample of establishments represented 949,800 workers in the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Jennings, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Putnam, and Shelby Counties in Indiana.


Survey Availability


Complete survey results are contained in Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN National Compensation Survey January 2008.  The bulletin is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.


For additional information, please contact the Bureau of Labor Statistics Midwest Information Office in Chicago at (312) 353-1880 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. 



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Bulletin tables  - PDF format
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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings (1) for full-time and part-time workers (2), Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN CSA, January 2008
Occupation (3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

$18.72 2.2 $19.98 2.3 $11.38 5.2

Management occupations

36.71 8.3 38.01 7.9

Financial managers

36.34 19.4 36.34 19.4

Medical and health services managers

40.78 13.4 40.78 13.4

Business and financial operations occupations

24.50 5.0 24.54 5.1

Accountants and auditors

24.49 8.9 24.49 8.9

Computer and mathematical science occupations

31.84 4.0 31.84 4.0

Computer systems analysts

33.92 3.2 33.92 3.2

Architecture and engineering occupations

32.28 5.9 32.28 5.9

Engineers

36.82 8.7 36.82 8.7

Electrical and electronics engineers

40.19 5.8 40.19 5.8

Electrical engineers

40.33 6.1 40.33 6.1

Industrial engineers, including health and safety

30.28 3.4 30.28 3.4

Industrial engineers

30.28 3.4 30.28 3.4

Life, physical, and social science occupations

28.71 6.8 28.73 6.8

Community and social services occupations

17.99 13.2 15.80 11.6

Social workers

19.85 7.5 19.76 7.7

Mental health and substance abuse social workers

21.31 7.4

Legal occupations

43.74 31.3 43.74 31.3

Education, training, and library occupations

28.30 2.1 29.52 2.2 17.91 14.2

Postsecondary teachers

28.42 12.6 29.30 15.0 25.24 7.0

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

36.48 1.2 36.49 1.2

Elementary and middle school teachers

35.32 1.0 35.31 1.1

Elementary school teachers, except special education

35.80 2.2 35.79 2.3

Secondary school teachers

38.23 3.1 38.23 3.1

Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education

37.75 4.4 37.75 4.4

Teacher assistants

10.59 3.8 10.59 3.8

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

19.00 13.4 22.97 11.0

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

25.52 6.4 25.37 6.7 26.36 7.8

Pharmacists

46.93 4.8

Registered nurses

29.52 2.9 29.57 3.7 29.37 3.2

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians

23.05 15.0

Radiologic technologists and technicians

26.36 7.6

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians.

12.52 5.1

Pharmacy technicians

12.61 7.0

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

20.15 9.6 20.23 10.1

Healthcare support occupations

13.27 7.1 13.13 7.6 14.18 17.4

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

11.06 2.6 11.10 2.7

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

10.68 1.3 10.73 1.6

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations

15.27 6.4 15.85 3.7

Protective service occupations

14.57 14.0 16.58 11.1

Food preparation and serving related occupations

8.16 4.0 9.11 2.5 6.76 1.9

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers

13.78 7.7 13.98 7.9

Cooks

11.01 3.7 11.23 6.0

Cooks, institution and cafeteria

11.42 7.8 11.65 8.6

Cooks, restaurant

10.77 3.7

Food preparation workers

9.31 7.1

Food service, tipped

3.43 18.9 4.07 20.1 2.75 6.0

Waiters and waitresses

2.44 2.6 2.70 0.2 2.22 2.9

Fast food and counter workers

8.20 2.1 9.10 4.8 7.32 5.0

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

8.23 1.6 8.96 3.2 7.25 8.3

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

10.27 8.4 10.55 9.1 9.01 4.1

Building cleaning workers

9.49 5.3 9.62 5.7 9.01 4.1

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

9.65 6.7 9.94 7.3

Maids and housekeeping cleaners

8.60 4.3

Personal care and service occupations

11.37 12.6 12.78 7.9

Child care workers

10.51 8.0

Sales and related occupations

13.42 7.3 15.82 7.7 8.04 4.9

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

15.27 12.3 15.27 12.3

Retail sales workers

11.07 6.8 13.50 2.6 8.04 4.9

Cashiers, all workers

10.02 3.2 10.97 2.7 8.38 3.6

Cashiers

10.02 3.2 10.97 2.7 8.38 3.6

Retail salespersons

12.91 5.6 14.77 3.1 8.57 8.7

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing

23.10 20.5 23.10 20.5

Office and administrative support occupations

14.61 3.7 14.91 4.2 11.41 6.7

First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers

22.25 11.6 22.25 11.6

Financial clerks

14.10 8.2 14.09 8.2

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

15.56 7.8 15.56 7.8

Payroll and timekeeping clerks

17.34 6.0 17.34 6.0

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

18.63 4.1 18.63 4.1

Medical secretaries

13.45 1.6 13.45 1.6

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

16.91 4.6 17.10 5.1

Customer service representatives

13.71 10.0 13.71 10.0

Receptionists and information clerks

13.61 9.3 13.90 9.8

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

16.00 15.2 16.34 15.3

Stock clerks and order fillers

10.06 12.5 10.05 15.8 10.11 9.2

Secretaries and administrative assistants

17.11 3.3 17.23 3.4

Office clerks, general

13.97 2.0 14.28 2.1

Construction and extraction occupations

19.91 5.1 19.91 5.1

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

18.57 5.7 18.57 5.7

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists

19.69 6.1 19.69 6.1

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

21.05 13.3 21.05 13.3

Production occupations

18.17 3.8 18.23 3.8

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

22.39 6.2 22.39 6.2

Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

16.10 7.0 16.10 7.0

Printers

18.36 1.8 18.36 1.8

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

20.65 8.0 20.65 8.0

Miscellaneous production workers

17.35 1.7 17.35 1.7

Transportation and material moving occupations

14.10 5.4 15.27 4.6 11.38 6.3

First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand

25.32 14.9 25.32 14.9

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

14.06 15.3 16.17 13.1

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

17.47 6.6 17.47 6.6

Truck drivers, light or delivery services

17.52 12.7

Industrial truck and tractor operators

14.12 3.6 13.60 2.1

Laborers and material movers, hand

12.81 6.7 13.59 8.0 11.15 7.8

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

13.29 6.2 14.00 8.2 11.81 6.5

Packers and packagers, hand

9.41 5.2

Footnotes:
(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) 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) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

(4) The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate.


NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

 

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

 

Last Modified Date: November 7, 2008