NC BL 03/00/2009 Table: Huntsville-Decatur, AL, Bulletin, May 2008 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $20.38 2.4 37.1 $19.82 2.8 36.9 $23.72 3.6 38.2 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 33.66 2.5 38.4 34.71 3.0 38.7 30.14 3.8 37.6 Management, business, and financial............................... 35.76 5.4 40.5 35.74 6.0 40.6 35.93 11.2 39.7 Professional and related.......................................... 32.93 2.3 37.7 34.28 2.9 37.9 29.18 3.3 37.3 Service............................................................. 10.86 5.3 33.3 9.08 5.4 31.9 17.18 8.3 39.4 Sales and office.................................................... 15.04 3.8 37.4 15.14 4.1 37.3 13.91 4.9 39.1 Sales and related................................................. 15.79 4.9 36.0 15.81 4.9 36.0 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 14.50 3.1 38.6 14.58 3.5 38.5 14.02 5.1 39.3 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.62 6.5 39.5 16.81 5.5 39.4 23.28 12.9 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 16.58 7.6 39.1 16.04 7.0 39.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.34 8.5 39.8 17.34 8.1 39.8 25.52 7.0 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.80 3.4 37.6 14.79 3.5 37.8 15.18 5.6 28.9 Production........................................................ 15.22 4.1 38.3 15.24 4.2 38.3 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.79 9.3 36.0 13.67 10.0 36.5 15.95 5.2 28.2 Full time........................................................... 21.54 3.0 39.8 21.09 3.5 40.1 23.96 3.5 38.7 Part time........................................................... 11.19 14.0 24.0 11.09 14.5 23.9 14.44 14.5 25.2 Union............................................................... 22.86 1.2 38.9 22.86 1.2 38.9 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 20.25 2.6 37.0 19.63 3.0 36.8 23.72 3.6 38.2 Time................................................................ 20.48 2.1 36.9 19.88 2.4 36.7 23.72 3.6 38.2 Incentive........................................................... 19.22 13.8 39.5 19.22 13.8 39.5 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 22.05 5.0 39.7 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.91 3.4 35.9 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 16.35 7.9 35.7 16.35 7.9 35.7 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 19.63 6.5 37.5 19.55 7.2 37.3 20.37 9.5 39.5 500 workers or more................................................. 26.92 3.3 38.9 28.44 4.8 39.6 24.53 4.2 37.8 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Estimates for goods-producing and service-providing industries are published for private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.38 2.4 $21.54 3.0 $11.19 14.0 Management occupations.............................................. 38.86 8.9 38.86 8.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.98 15.0 24.98 15.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.70 8.4 49.70 8.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.83 10.5 41.83 10.5 – – General and operations managers................................... 58.99 11.1 58.99 11.1 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 30.91 25.7 30.91 25.7 – – Financial managers................................................ 23.93 6.1 23.93 6.1 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 35.26 9.8 35.26 9.8 – – Education administrators.......................................... 34.16 3.2 34.16 3.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.75 4.2 32.78 4.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 23.37 5.5 23.47 5.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.03 10.4 27.03 10.4 – – Level 10.................................................. 35.99 6.3 35.99 6.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.34 1.2 40.34 1.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.12 3.7 43.12 3.7 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.89 3.6 22.89 3.6 – – Management analysts............................................... 40.40 9.6 40.40 9.6 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 34.41 12.6 34.41 12.6 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.45 5.3 37.19 5.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.37 2.4 28.37 2.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.85 10.7 32.99 8.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.54 3.6 33.29 3.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.72 4.9 44.67 9.7 – – Level 12.................................................. 50.43 4.2 50.43 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.81 8.5 34.81 8.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 41.77 2.3 42.49 2.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.99 8.6 – – – – Level 12.................................................. 50.96 3.3 50.96 3.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.82 13.1 37.82 13.1 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 39.30 9.6 40.71 7.6 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.97 8.7 44.01 9.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.72 18.3 35.19 21.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.47 5.4 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.17 1.2 37.77 1.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.89 2.2 30.89 2.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.95 3.0 34.95 3.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.72 .4 34.72 .4 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.68 2.0 41.68 2.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.20 5.1 48.20 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.27 4.1 42.27 4.1 – – Engineers......................................................... 43.84 1.7 43.28 3.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.26 2.3 36.26 2.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.68 2.0 41.68 2.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.20 5.1 48.20 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.64 2.0 44.64 2.0 – – Aerospace engineers............................................. 47.77 5.2 45.57 8.5 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 5.9 46.86 5.9 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Drafters.......................................................... 28.55 8.9 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.96 9.9 24.96 9.9 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.95 15.5 25.95 15.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.55 13.6 32.55 13.6 – – Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 20.4 31.15 20.4 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.56 8.6 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.99 2.8 28.99 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 35.44 1.2 35.44 1.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.74 5.4 31.74 5.4 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.69 3.0 30.69 3.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 35.80 1.9 35.80 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.59 8.9 31.59 8.9 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.68 9.3 28.68 9.3 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.27 8.5 24.27 8.5 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.11 1.4 33.11 1.4 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 23.77 17.5 24.47 17.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.12 26.6 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.91 4.6 26.37 4.9 21.09 13.2 Level 4 .................................................. 13.96 6.2 14.14 5.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 18.92 5.8 18.92 5.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.09 3.5 24.90 3.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.99 7.0 25.93 7.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.03 3.6 24.83 3.4 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.00 1.8 15.80 1.7 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.34 10.1 11.98 6.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.02 6.9 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.93 5.4 10.52 1.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.31 1.3 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.07 11.9 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 17.23 11.3 17.49 11.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.66 3.9 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.71 2.3 17.71 2.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.11 15.1 23.11 15.1 – – Police officers................................................... 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.29 15.2 10.22 16.4 – – Security guards................................................. 10.29 15.2 10.22 16.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.05 1.5 9.28 5.4 6.67 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.52 8.0 6.80 11.0 6.39 9.9 Level 2 .................................................. 5.92 8.8 4.87 20.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 6.99 3.7 – – 6.86 .0 Level 4 .................................................. 10.78 5.9 10.78 5.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.56 9.3 14.56 9.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.08 13.6 15.08 13.6 – – Cooks............................................................. 8.66 5.6 9.67 6.6 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.21 26.2 – – 5.71 15.3 Level 1 .................................................. 5.40 23.2 – – 5.67 18.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 39.6 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 4.71 38.3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.14 1.3 – – 7.09 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.34 2.1 – – 7.24 2.8 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.15 1.5 – – 7.10 1.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.38 2.6 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.39 9.0 10.78 6.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.66 4.0 7.85 3.8 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.80 2.1 11.80 2.1 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.64 4.6 9.98 3.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.62 4.0 7.79 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.80 2.1 11.80 2.1 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.02 4.9 10.54 2.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.58 5.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.89 2.0 11.89 2.0 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.28 32.6 10.58 21.8 12.41 46.4 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.79 4.9 17.43 5.2 8.86 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.33 5.9 – – 8.34 6.1 Level 2 .................................................. 10.30 10.2 10.58 12.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.62 9.5 13.26 19.3 9.12 1.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.39 10.4 12.49 10.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.03 19.0 22.03 19.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.00 24.0 22.00 24.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.51 19.3 21.51 19.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.20 3.7 12.06 3.9 8.60 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.82 9.2 – – 7.61 6.7 Level 2 .................................................. 9.17 3.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.55 6.0 11.58 2.0 9.07 1.3 Level 4 .................................................. 10.58 10.2 10.64 10.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.51 7.1 18.51 7.1 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.20 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.6 Cashiers...................................................... 9.20 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.6 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 13.14 15.5 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.63 4.0 12.46 5.4 8.99 .7 Level 3 .................................................. 10.79 3.6 – – 9.18 3.4 Level 4 .................................................. 9.80 2.5 9.78 2.6 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.53 15.7 32.53 15.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.43 27.4 21.43 27.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.50 3.1 14.74 3.3 10.96 8.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.81 4.3 10.97 4.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.86 5.8 11.98 5.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.18 3.2 14.20 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.92 6.7 20.67 5.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.97 4.6 18.98 4.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.72 23.0 26.72 23.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.38 2.6 14.38 2.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 24.66 23.3 24.66 23.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.26 6.1 13.47 6.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.60 3.2 11.60 3.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.80 8.6 14.11 8.4 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.64 10.6 14.63 10.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.39 8.3 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 11.46 .2 11.46 .2 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.94 9.4 15.98 9.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.50 5.8 14.56 5.9 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.83 6.9 15.96 6.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.57 1.4 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.60 4.7 14.60 4.7 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.23 6.7 18.23 6.7 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.27 7.9 13.48 7.9 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 11.87 7.4 11.95 7.6 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.58 7.6 16.79 7.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.32 7.1 15.32 7.1 – – Electricians...................................................... 21.74 9.7 21.74 9.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.34 8.5 18.37 8.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.14 4.8 14.14 4.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.69 10.7 15.69 10.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.63 5.9 22.63 5.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.86 15.7 21.86 15.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.48 14.7 17.48 14.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.66 9.6 16.66 9.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 13.71 18.4 13.71 18.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.76 6.1 22.76 6.1 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.77 .5 18.77 .5 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.25 14.8 15.25 14.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.22 4.1 15.89 5.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.78 2.0 8.65 2.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.14 6.8 10.22 6.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.50 4.0 17.74 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.39 2.6 14.44 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.13 6.7 17.13 6.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.24 7.4 21.24 7.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.34 6.8 23.36 7.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.48 1.9 19.63 1.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.23 10.2 24.23 10.2 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.88 5.0 12.21 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 10.38 4.5 11.47 2.5 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.15 6.8 17.15 6.8 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.55 16.6 17.55 16.6 – – Machinists........................................................ 18.58 .5 18.58 .5 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 12.36 16.4 12.36 16.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.26 5.8 16.43 6.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.70 13.1 16.70 13.1 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.23 8.8 14.32 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.77 12.5 18.16 12.3 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.79 9.3 14.49 9.3 8.62 10.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.88 10.5 9.31 11.8 8.01 12.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.68 4.5 11.82 4.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.39 15.3 17.39 15.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.32 14.5 18.32 14.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.20 14.6 18.20 14.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.84 12.6 16.66 9.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.36 14.6 21.36 14.6 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.44 6.3 16.43 6.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.36 14.6 21.36 14.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.26 3.9 11.63 2.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.46 4.9 11.93 3.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.26 6.8 10.41 7.8 9.45 7.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 9.2 9.81 11.7 9.45 7.4 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.48 7.9 10.56 9.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.89 11.8 9.84 15.7 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $19.82 2.8 $21.09 3.5 $11.09 14.5 Management occupations.............................................. 39.32 10.6 39.32 10.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 23.85 15.5 23.85 15.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 52.67 7.1 52.67 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.56 9.8 45.56 9.8 – – General and operations managers................................... 58.99 11.1 58.99 11.1 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 30.91 25.7 30.91 25.7 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 35.26 9.8 35.26 9.8 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.79 4.2 32.83 4.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.31 4.2 24.45 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.03 10.4 27.03 10.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.34 1.2 40.34 1.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.12 3.7 43.12 3.7 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.89 3.6 22.89 3.6 – – Management analysts............................................... 40.40 9.6 40.40 9.6 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 35.70 15.0 35.70 15.0 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.06 5.6 37.85 5.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.37 2.4 28.37 2.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.85 10.7 32.99 8.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.73 3.8 33.48 3.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.72 4.9 44.67 9.7 – – Level 12.................................................. 50.43 4.2 50.43 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.15 6.9 41.15 6.9 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.67 1.2 43.49 2.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.99 8.6 – – – – Level 12.................................................. 50.96 3.3 50.96 3.3 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.02 10.3 42.79 7.4 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.97 8.7 44.01 9.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.72 18.3 35.19 21.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.47 5.4 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.07 1.1 37.66 1.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.89 2.2 30.89 2.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.95 3.0 34.95 3.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.72 .4 34.72 .4 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.68 2.0 41.68 2.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.20 5.1 48.20 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.83 4.6 41.83 4.6 – – Engineers......................................................... 43.82 1.7 43.24 3.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.26 2.3 36.26 2.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.68 2.0 41.68 2.0 – – Level 12.................................................. 48.20 5.1 48.20 5.1 – – Aerospace engineers............................................. 48.12 6.6 45.69 10.4 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 5.9 46.86 5.9 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Drafters.......................................................... 28.55 8.9 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.96 9.9 24.96 9.9 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.95 15.5 25.95 15.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 20.4 31.15 20.4 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.00 18.9 24.00 18.9 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.49 19.1 22.07 20.1 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.42 9.4 23.87 11.3 20.88 14.8 Level 7 .................................................. 18.71 5.7 18.71 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.49 6.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.38 10.7 24.90 11.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.49 6.3 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.00 1.8 15.80 1.7 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.29 12.5 12.09 8.3 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.46 7.8 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 10.29 15.7 – – – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.29 15.7 – – – – Security guards................................................. 10.29 15.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.94 .9 9.15 5.1 6.67 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.48 8.2 6.66 10.4 6.39 9.9 Level 2 .................................................. 5.56 6.4 3.92 11.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 6.86 .0 – – 6.86 .0 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.53 9.4 14.53 9.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.05 13.8 15.05 13.8 – – Cooks............................................................. 8.30 6.7 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.21 26.2 – – 5.71 15.3 Level 1 .................................................. 5.40 23.2 – – 5.67 18.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 39.6 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 4.71 38.3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.14 1.3 – – 7.09 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.34 2.1 – – 7.24 2.8 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.15 1.5 – – 7.10 1.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.38 2.6 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.60 12.4 9.99 9.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.51 3.8 7.66 3.3 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.67 4.3 8.95 3.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.46 3.7 7.60 3.3 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.89 4.6 9.35 1.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.52 40.3 – – 12.41 46.4 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.81 4.9 17.43 5.2 8.88 3.5 Level 1 .................................................. 8.35 6.1 – – 8.37 6.3 Level 2 .................................................. 10.30 10.2 10.58 12.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.62 9.5 13.26 19.3 9.12 1.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.39 10.4 12.49 10.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.03 19.0 22.03 19.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.00 24.0 22.00 24.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.51 19.3 21.51 19.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.22 3.7 12.06 3.9 8.61 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.82 9.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.17 3.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.55 6.0 11.58 2.0 9.07 1.3 Level 4 .................................................. 10.58 10.2 10.64 10.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.51 7.1 18.51 7.1 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.23 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.9 Cashiers...................................................... 9.23 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.9 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 13.14 15.5 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.63 4.0 12.46 5.4 8.99 .7 Level 3 .................................................. 10.79 3.6 – – 9.18 3.4 Level 4 .................................................. 9.80 2.5 9.78 2.6 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.53 15.7 32.53 15.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.43 27.4 21.43 27.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.58 3.5 14.85 3.7 10.38 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.82 4.8 10.94 5.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.18 6.4 12.24 6.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.96 3.6 14.07 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.91 7.0 20.69 5.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.32 4.4 19.33 4.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.72 23.0 26.72 23.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.08 3.3 14.08 3.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 24.95 24.6 24.95 24.6 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.31 6.3 13.53 6.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.60 3.2 11.60 3.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.92 9.1 14.26 8.8 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.64 10.6 14.63 10.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.39 8.3 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 11.46 .2 11.46 .2 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.94 9.4 15.98 9.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.50 5.8 14.56 5.9 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.77 8.3 16.77 8.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.61 5.3 14.61 5.3 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.21 8.2 19.21 8.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.07 10.7 14.07 10.7 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 11.85 7.7 11.93 7.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.04 7.0 16.27 6.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.33 7.5 15.33 7.5 – – Electricians...................................................... 21.74 9.7 21.74 9.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.34 8.1 17.37 8.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.39 5.4 14.39 5.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.69 10.7 15.69 10.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.92 5.1 21.92 5.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.68 17.4 19.68 17.4 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.48 14.7 17.48 14.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.66 9.6 16.66 9.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 13.71 18.4 13.71 18.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.76 6.1 22.76 6.1 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.77 .5 18.77 .5 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.25 14.8 15.25 14.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.24 4.2 15.91 5.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.80 2.0 8.68 2.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.14 6.8 10.22 6.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.50 4.0 17.74 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.39 2.6 14.44 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.13 6.7 17.13 6.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.24 7.4 21.24 7.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.34 6.8 23.36 7.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.48 1.9 19.63 1.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.23 10.2 24.23 10.2 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.88 5.0 12.21 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 10.38 4.5 11.47 2.5 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.15 6.8 17.15 6.8 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.55 16.6 17.55 16.6 – – Machinists........................................................ 18.58 .5 18.58 .5 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 12.36 16.4 12.36 16.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.26 5.8 16.43 6.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.70 13.1 16.70 13.1 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.23 8.8 14.32 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.77 12.5 18.16 12.3 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.67 10.0 14.39 10.0 8.58 10.9 Level 1 .................................................. 8.88 10.5 9.31 11.8 8.01 12.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.57 4.4 11.68 4.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.39 16.1 17.39 16.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.64 16.6 18.64 16.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.20 14.6 18.20 14.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.84 13.0 16.68 9.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.86 14.5 21.86 14.5 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.49 6.5 16.49 6.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.86 14.5 21.86 14.5 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.26 3.9 11.63 2.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.46 4.9 11.93 3.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.26 6.8 10.41 7.8 9.45 7.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 9.2 9.81 11.7 9.45 7.4 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.48 7.9 10.56 9.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.89 11.8 9.84 15.7 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $23.72 3.6 $23.96 3.5 $14.44 14.5 Management occupations.............................................. 37.02 12.9 37.02 12.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.08 2.8 29.08 2.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.74 5.4 31.74 5.4 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.68 3.0 30.68 3.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.59 8.9 31.59 8.9 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.65 9.3 28.65 9.3 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.74 2.1 28.83 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 23.93 1.1 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 26.30 8.9 26.38 9.1 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.93 8.1 21.05 7.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.89 2.5 17.89 2.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.11 15.1 23.11 15.1 – – Police officers................................................... 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.79 5.3 12.98 5.3 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.47 3.7 12.67 3.5 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.47 3.7 12.67 3.5 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.02 5.1 14.05 4.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.75 7.1 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.73 7.7 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.29 4.7 14.92 4.4 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.50 7.6 13.80 6.7 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.83 4.4 15.83 4.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.52 7.0 25.52 7.0 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.95 5.2 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.38 2.4 $21.54 3.0 $11.19 14.0 Management occupations.............................................. 38.86 8.9 38.86 8.9 – – Group II.................................................. 21.78 7.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.32 15.1 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 58.99 11.1 58.99 11.1 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 30.91 25.7 30.91 25.7 – – Financial managers................................................ 23.93 6.1 23.93 6.1 – – Industrial production managers.................................... 35.26 9.8 35.26 9.8 – – Education administrators.......................................... 34.16 3.2 34.16 3.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.75 4.2 32.78 4.2 – – Group II.................................................. 22.55 7.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.04 6.5 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.89 3.6 22.89 3.6 – – Management analysts............................................... 40.40 9.6 40.40 9.6 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 34.41 12.6 34.41 12.6 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.45 5.3 37.19 5.0 – – Group II.................................................. 28.72 7.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 41.63 3.2 – – – – Computer software engineers....................................... 41.77 2.3 42.49 2.9 – – Group II.................................................. 31.37 5.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 46.71 1.4 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 39.30 9.6 40.71 7.6 – – Group III................................................. 43.34 7.5 43.34 7.5 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.97 8.7 44.01 9.3 – – Group III................................................. 48.80 4.7 49.21 6.0 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.72 18.3 35.19 21.7 – – Group III................................................. 40.31 6.1 35.26 1.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.17 1.2 37.77 1.2 – – Group II.................................................. 27.23 6.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 42.10 5.3 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 43.84 1.7 43.28 3.2 – – Group III................................................. 42.71 4.0 – – – – Aerospace engineers............................................. 47.77 5.2 45.57 8.5 – – Group III................................................. 40.90 .0 40.90 .0 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 5.9 46.86 5.9 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Group III................................................. 41.23 3.3 – – – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 6.1 40.09 6.1 – – Group III................................................. 41.23 3.3 41.23 3.3 – – Drafters.......................................................... 28.55 8.9 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.96 9.9 24.96 9.9 – – Group II.................................................. 24.85 10.7 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.95 15.5 25.95 15.5 – – Group II.................................................. 25.89 16.0 25.89 16.0 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.55 13.6 32.55 13.6 – – Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 20.4 31.15 20.4 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.56 8.6 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.99 2.8 28.99 2.8 – – Group II.................................................. 34.09 .7 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.57 5.0 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.69 3.0 30.69 3.0 – – Group II.................................................. 34.31 .8 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.59 8.9 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.68 9.3 28.68 9.3 – – Group II.................................................. 34.01 .8 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.27 8.5 24.27 8.5 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.11 1.4 33.11 1.4 – – Group II.................................................. 33.70 .2 33.70 .2 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 23.77 17.5 24.47 17.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.64 6.9 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.91 4.6 26.37 4.9 21.09 13.2 Group I................................................... 13.17 4.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.66 4.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.26 8.1 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.99 7.0 25.93 7.5 – – Group III................................................. 26.67 6.6 26.68 7.1 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.00 1.8 15.80 1.7 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.34 10.1 11.98 6.5 – – Group I................................................... 10.95 11.2 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.93 5.4 10.52 1.4 – – Group I................................................... 9.93 5.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.31 1.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.31 1.3 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.07 11.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.07 11.9 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 17.23 11.3 17.49 11.1 – – Group I................................................... 10.66 14.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.80 10.2 – – – – Police officers................................................... 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 20.71 8.8 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 20.71 8.8 20.71 8.8 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.29 15.2 10.22 16.4 – – Group I................................................... 10.17 16.1 – – – – Security guards................................................. 10.29 15.2 10.22 16.4 – – Group I................................................... 10.17 16.1 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.05 1.5 9.28 5.4 6.67 2.4 Group I................................................... 6.76 4.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 14.58 7.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.56 9.3 14.56 9.3 – – Group II.................................................. 15.75 1.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.08 13.6 15.08 13.6 – – Group II.................................................. 16.68 6.6 16.68 6.6 – – Cooks............................................................. 8.66 5.6 9.67 6.6 – – Group I................................................... 8.57 7.3 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.21 26.2 – – 5.71 15.3 Group I................................................... 4.21 26.2 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 39.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 3.56 39.6 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.14 1.3 – – 7.09 1.7 Group I................................................... 7.14 1.3 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.15 1.5 – – 7.10 1.8 Group I................................................... 7.15 1.5 – – 7.10 1.8 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.39 9.0 10.78 6.4 – – Group I................................................... 9.85 5.8 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.64 4.6 9.98 3.9 – – Group I................................................... 9.61 4.9 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.02 4.9 10.54 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 10.02 5.3 10.60 2.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.28 32.6 10.58 21.8 12.41 46.4 Group I................................................... 8.85 22.3 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.79 4.9 17.43 5.2 8.86 3.4 Group I................................................... 11.12 6.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.29 15.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.51 19.3 21.51 19.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.20 3.7 12.06 3.9 8.60 1.7 Group I................................................... 9.88 6.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.51 7.1 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.20 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.6 Group I................................................... 8.96 3.5 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.20 1.6 9.95 2.6 7.70 4.6 Group I................................................... 8.96 3.5 – – 7.68 5.0 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 13.14 15.5 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.63 4.0 12.46 5.4 8.99 .7 Group I................................................... 10.12 6.7 10.67 8.2 8.99 .8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.53 15.7 32.53 15.7 – – Group II.................................................. 29.82 18.6 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.43 27.4 21.43 27.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.50 3.1 14.74 3.3 10.96 8.6 Group I................................................... 12.81 2.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.81 6.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 24.66 23.3 24.66 23.3 – – Group II.................................................. 24.66 23.3 24.66 23.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.26 6.1 13.47 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 13.29 6.4 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.64 10.6 14.63 10.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.64 10.6 14.63 10.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 11.46 .2 11.46 .2 – – Group I................................................... 11.46 .2 11.46 .2 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.94 9.4 15.98 9.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.90 5.6 13.94 5.6 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.83 6.9 15.96 6.7 – – Group I................................................... 12.84 6.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.64 5.7 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.23 6.7 18.23 6.7 – – Group II.................................................. 20.06 7.5 20.06 7.5 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.27 7.9 13.48 7.9 – – Group I................................................... 11.69 9.3 11.86 9.7 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 11.87 7.4 11.95 7.6 – – Group I................................................... 11.09 5.2 11.16 5.2 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.58 7.6 16.79 7.2 – – Group I................................................... 11.80 4.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.37 8.1 – – – – Electricians...................................................... 21.74 9.7 21.74 9.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.74 9.7 21.74 9.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.34 8.5 18.37 8.4 – – Group I................................................... 12.81 4.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.54 12.3 – – – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.48 14.7 17.48 14.7 – – Group II.................................................. 18.30 22.3 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.66 9.6 16.66 9.6 – – Group II.................................................. 17.75 11.5 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.77 .5 18.77 .5 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.25 14.8 15.25 14.8 – – Group II.................................................. 16.07 18.0 16.07 18.0 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.22 4.1 15.89 5.0 – – Group I................................................... 13.18 4.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.83 6.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.23 10.2 24.23 10.2 – – Group II.................................................. 20.83 11.5 20.83 11.5 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.88 5.0 12.21 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 10.38 4.5 11.47 2.5 – – Group I................................................... – – 11.39 3.6 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.15 6.8 17.15 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 17.20 7.0 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.55 16.6 17.55 16.6 – – Group I................................................... 17.41 17.3 – – – – Machinists........................................................ 18.58 .5 18.58 .5 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 12.36 16.4 12.36 16.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.26 5.8 16.43 6.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.67 5.3 14.98 5.9 – – Group II.................................................. 17.94 2.4 17.80 3.2 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.23 8.8 14.32 9.0 – – Group I................................................... 12.08 7.5 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.79 9.3 14.49 9.3 8.62 10.7 Group I................................................... 13.38 10.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.43 16.5 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.84 12.6 16.66 9.2 – – Group I................................................... 15.86 13.4 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.44 6.3 16.43 6.3 – – Group I................................................... 16.29 6.6 16.29 6.7 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.26 3.9 11.63 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 11.26 3.9 11.63 2.6 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.26 6.8 10.41 7.8 9.45 7.4 Group I................................................... 10.26 6.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.48 7.9 10.56 9.3 – – Group I................................................... 10.48 7.9 10.56 9.3 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.84 $10.40 $15.39 $27.59 $40.80 Management occupations.............................................. 15.18 24.62 33.00 51.60 67.81 General and operations managers................................... 25.64 45.19 67.81 78.90 78.90 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 15.18 15.18 28.82 32.79 57.94 Financial managers................................................ 18.00 19.47 24.52 28.04 30.31 Industrial production managers.................................... 20.05 20.96 39.34 39.34 64.65 Education administrators.......................................... 30.60 32.07 32.40 37.43 38.63 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.96 24.24 31.20 42.31 47.98 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 17.50 17.76 21.23 27.28 31.20 Management analysts............................................... 28.85 35.66 40.87 47.98 48.24 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 20.12 25.00 32.27 38.47 63.42 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 24.50 29.19 34.38 48.45 52.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 25.24 33.07 44.90 49.60 53.38 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 23.10 31.78 41.62 49.00 49.60 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.99 36.54 47.39 52.00 55.42 Computer systems analysts......................................... 20.95 28.60 34.55 44.82 60.10 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.65 29.81 38.47 46.94 50.85 Engineers......................................................... 32.79 37.80 44.27 48.74 53.04 Aerospace engineers............................................. 36.67 41.41 45.67 52.16 60.58 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.29 44.27 44.27 52.56 57.69 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Industrial engineers.......................................... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Drafters.......................................................... 23.00 24.00 29.35 32.97 32.97 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.88 18.06 25.46 30.55 35.33 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 16.08 19.65 25.22 33.94 35.33 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.64 23.26 30.31 41.72 45.83 Physical scientists............................................... 20.83 22.77 25.18 41.72 45.83 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.63 16.63 19.78 19.78 19.82 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 7.30 25.32 32.12 37.42 40.04 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 7.30 26.17 33.08 37.95 40.04 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 7.30 25.13 32.12 35.81 39.36 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 7.30 7.30 27.76 35.38 40.82 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.44 30.56 34.06 35.97 38.64 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 13.35 24.89 36.06 36.06 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.00 16.42 22.31 31.90 45.14 Registered nurses................................................. 18.25 20.55 26.00 30.76 33.60 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.50 14.61 16.00 17.00 18.30 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 7.75 9.25 10.61 13.42 14.05 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 7.72 9.05 9.83 10.61 12.09 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.20 9.50 10.00 10.61 12.48 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.14 10.56 12.81 13.86 14.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.50 12.28 16.79 22.71 26.97 Police officers................................................... 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Security guards................................................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.38 6.50 7.00 9.14 15.39 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.00 10.75 15.39 16.54 20.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 9.62 11.54 15.98 18.25 20.00 Cooks............................................................. 6.00 6.75 9.00 9.14 11.54 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 3.00 6.55 7.50 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.38 5.85 6.55 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 6.65 7.00 7.50 8.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.50 6.60 7.00 7.50 8.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 6.70 7.60 9.67 11.75 14.07 Building cleaning workers......................................... 6.55 7.50 8.80 11.57 13.81 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 6.55 7.70 9.67 11.75 13.81 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.16 7.00 8.00 14.37 20.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 9.23 11.21 16.35 32.62 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.55 16.60 17.17 30.26 30.26 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 8.50 10.00 11.56 15.33 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.50 9.00 10.40 12.20 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.50 9.00 10.40 12.20 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.00 9.25 11.00 16.63 21.46 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.85 9.00 10.46 12.00 15.08 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.44 14.44 39.43 42.85 45.97 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.00 14.44 14.44 27.78 39.43 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.34 10.68 13.41 16.81 20.28 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 13.00 18.32 20.15 41.91 41.91 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.00 10.50 12.50 15.39 18.87 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 8.67 11.50 14.25 14.90 19.23 Tellers......................................................... 9.41 10.21 11.00 12.44 14.62 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.25 11.70 14.61 17.88 24.73 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.36 12.75 15.82 18.13 21.40 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.10 15.36 18.13 19.46 25.05 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.34 9.36 13.49 18.00 18.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.50 10.68 11.47 16.53 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.00 11.25 13.25 15.50 33.67 Electricians...................................................... 13.00 13.25 15.25 33.67 34.54 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.50 16.02 23.69 27.69 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.96 24.93 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 10.00 11.00 16.40 20.72 25.73 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 12.56 12.56 19.39 21.27 25.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 10.00 10.00 12.33 19.00 26.56 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 9.50 13.79 19.32 24.96 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 24.38 35.74 35.74 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 8.50 8.70 9.50 12.36 14.53 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 8.50 8.50 9.50 11.90 13.25 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.34 14.20 23.84 29.28 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 8.00 19.97 24.96 24.96 Machinists........................................................ 15.75 18.64 18.64 18.82 20.55 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 8.00 8.00 12.50 14.69 18.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.13 13.00 15.75 19.90 25.80 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.00 13.76 16.21 22.70 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 9.64 11.41 17.04 22.84 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.00 11.25 13.20 21.03 28.54 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.00 11.25 15.00 19.85 28.64 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.38 9.64 11.00 12.50 14.30 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 8.25 9.50 11.50 13.10 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 13.46 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.50 $10.00 $14.61 $26.22 $41.72 Management occupations.............................................. 15.18 24.52 33.00 53.54 67.81 General and operations managers................................... 25.64 45.19 67.81 78.90 78.90 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 15.18 15.18 28.82 32.79 57.94 Industrial production managers.................................... 20.05 20.96 39.34 39.34 64.65 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 19.16 24.25 30.36 42.31 47.98 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 17.50 17.76 21.23 27.28 31.20 Management analysts............................................... 28.85 35.66 40.87 47.98 48.24 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 22.95 25.00 32.27 36.91 63.42 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 24.05 29.96 36.06 49.00 52.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 26.78 35.58 46.81 49.60 53.38 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 23.10 33.27 46.81 49.00 49.60 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.99 36.54 47.39 52.00 55.42 Computer systems analysts......................................... 20.95 28.60 34.55 44.82 60.10 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.65 29.81 38.41 47.12 50.85 Engineers......................................................... 32.78 37.49 44.13 48.74 53.04 Aerospace engineers............................................. 36.28 41.21 47.45 53.04 60.58 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.29 44.27 44.27 52.56 57.69 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Industrial engineers.......................................... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Drafters.......................................................... 23.00 24.00 29.35 32.97 32.97 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.88 18.06 25.46 30.55 35.33 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 16.08 19.65 25.22 33.94 35.33 Life, physical, and social science occupations Physical scientists............................................... 20.83 22.77 25.18 41.72 45.83 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 18.87 18.87 22.06 23.64 37.77 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 12.98 20.67 26.05 37.13 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.00 15.00 18.94 28.05 38.54 Registered nurses................................................. 18.83 22.43 26.34 28.52 30.27 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.50 14.61 16.00 17.00 18.30 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 7.56 9.00 10.30 13.50 14.07 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 7.40 8.30 9.40 10.05 11.25 Protective service occupations...................................... 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Security guards................................................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.38 6.25 7.00 9.00 15.39 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.00 10.75 15.39 16.54 20.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 9.62 11.54 15.98 18.25 20.00 Cooks............................................................. 6.00 6.55 9.00 9.14 10.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 3.00 6.55 7.50 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.38 5.85 6.55 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 6.65 7.00 7.50 8.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.50 6.60 7.00 7.50 8.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 6.55 7.25 8.50 11.00 11.75 Building cleaning workers......................................... 6.55 7.00 8.50 10.10 11.40 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 6.55 7.00 8.50 11.00 11.75 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.16 7.00 7.00 15.87 21.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 9.23 11.21 16.35 32.62 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.55 16.60 17.17 30.26 30.26 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 8.55 10.00 11.61 15.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.50 9.00 10.40 12.50 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.50 9.00 10.40 12.50 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.00 9.25 11.00 16.63 21.46 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.85 9.00 10.46 12.00 15.08 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.44 14.44 39.43 42.85 45.97 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.00 14.44 14.44 27.78 39.43 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.34 10.68 13.41 17.44 21.02 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 13.00 18.32 22.37 41.91 41.91 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.94 10.50 12.50 15.39 19.23 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 8.67 11.50 14.25 14.90 19.23 Tellers......................................................... 9.41 10.21 11.00 12.44 14.62 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.25 11.70 14.61 17.88 24.73 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.34 12.90 18.13 19.00 22.73 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.04 18.05 18.13 21.85 25.69 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.34 9.34 13.51 18.13 18.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.50 10.68 11.40 16.53 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.00 11.00 13.25 15.25 33.67 Electricians...................................................... 13.00 13.25 15.25 33.67 34.54 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.50 15.50 21.27 26.56 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.96 24.93 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 10.00 11.00 16.40 20.72 25.73 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 12.56 12.56 19.39 21.27 25.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 10.00 10.00 12.33 19.00 26.56 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 9.50 13.79 19.34 24.96 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 24.38 35.74 35.74 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 8.50 8.70 9.50 12.36 14.53 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 8.50 8.50 9.50 11.90 13.25 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.34 14.20 23.84 29.28 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 8.00 19.97 24.96 24.96 Machinists........................................................ 15.75 18.64 18.64 18.82 20.55 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 8.00 8.00 12.50 14.69 18.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.13 13.00 15.75 19.90 25.80 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.00 13.76 16.21 22.70 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 9.64 11.25 16.99 23.26 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.00 11.25 13.20 21.17 28.54 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.00 11.25 15.00 20.21 28.64 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.38 9.64 11.00 12.50 14.30 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 8.25 9.50 11.50 13.10 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 13.46 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.34 $14.27 $21.65 $31.90 $38.43 Management occupations.............................................. 20.03 30.31 32.40 38.37 48.78 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 7.30 25.32 32.19 37.56 40.04 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 7.30 26.17 33.08 37.95 40.04 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 7.30 25.13 32.12 35.81 39.36 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.76 18.94 25.57 33.60 51.50 Registered nurses................................................. 18.25 19.36 25.68 31.90 35.94 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.17 16.95 21.95 23.04 27.64 Police officers................................................... 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.65 11.33 13.37 14.07 14.94 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.48 11.20 13.13 14.07 14.93 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.48 11.20 13.13 14.07 14.93 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.36 11.42 13.57 15.92 19.30 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.36 10.50 13.49 15.74 18.00 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 12.04 15.25 15.74 15.82 18.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.77 21.29 28.71 30.44 34.25 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.18 15.14 17.16 17.24 17.67 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.00 $11.50 $16.50 $28.97 $41.72 Management occupations.............................................. 15.18 24.62 33.00 51.60 67.81 General and operations managers................................... 25.64 45.19 67.81 78.90 78.90 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 15.18 15.18 28.82 32.79 57.94 Financial managers................................................ 18.00 19.47 24.52 28.04 30.31 Industrial production managers.................................... 20.05 20.96 39.34 39.34 64.65 Education administrators.......................................... 30.60 32.07 32.40 37.43 38.63 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.96 24.24 31.44 42.31 47.98 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 17.50 17.76 21.23 27.28 31.20 Management analysts............................................... 28.85 35.66 40.87 47.98 48.24 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 20.12 25.00 32.27 38.47 63.42 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.16 29.19 34.30 48.45 52.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 26.44 33.27 46.81 49.60 53.38 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 25.24 33.27 43.89 49.00 49.60 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.92 35.39 48.45 52.00 55.42 Computer systems analysts......................................... 20.66 26.02 32.93 39.57 57.42 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.73 29.81 38.37 46.38 50.85 Engineers......................................................... 32.78 37.24 42.91 48.43 52.44 Aerospace engineers............................................. 36.06 40.00 44.41 49.13 55.73 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.29 44.27 44.27 52.56 57.69 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Industrial engineers.......................................... 28.47 37.24 40.92 45.67 48.43 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.88 18.06 25.46 30.55 35.33 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 16.08 19.65 25.22 33.94 35.33 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.64 23.26 30.31 41.72 45.83 Physical scientists............................................... 20.83 22.77 25.18 41.72 45.83 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 7.30 25.32 32.12 37.42 40.04 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 7.30 26.17 33.08 37.95 40.04 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 7.30 25.13 32.12 35.81 39.36 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 7.30 7.30 27.76 35.38 40.82 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.44 30.56 34.06 35.97 38.64 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.38 14.75 25.02 36.06 36.06 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.00 17.45 22.32 31.90 45.14 Registered nurses................................................. 18.25 19.88 26.00 31.63 34.82 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.50 14.00 16.00 16.08 18.51 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.18 9.88 11.66 13.64 14.33 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 9.53 10.00 11.60 12.48 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.50 12.28 16.95 22.71 26.97 Police officers................................................... 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 16.39 17.72 22.71 22.71 22.71 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Security guards................................................. 6.55 7.50 12.28 12.55 12.55 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 6.84 9.00 12.00 16.15 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.00 10.75 15.39 16.54 20.00 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 9.62 11.54 15.98 18.25 20.00 Cooks............................................................. 7.00 9.00 9.14 10.89 12.75 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.05 8.01 10.25 12.05 14.07 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.00 7.62 9.64 11.75 13.81 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.25 8.50 10.34 12.00 14.07 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.00 7.00 8.00 14.37 15.87 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.50 10.00 12.02 16.80 41.89 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.55 16.60 17.17 30.26 30.26 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 9.23 10.76 12.84 16.63 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.75 9.71 11.25 12.83 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.75 9.71 11.25 12.83 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.55 9.23 10.76 13.00 17.67 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.44 14.44 39.43 42.85 45.97 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.00 14.44 14.44 27.78 39.43 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.57 10.91 13.49 17.31 20.64 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 13.00 18.32 20.15 41.91 41.91 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.00 10.82 12.50 15.39 19.23 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.50 11.50 14.25 15.56 19.23 Tellers......................................................... 9.41 10.21 11.00 12.44 14.62 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.25 11.77 14.61 17.88 24.73 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.36 12.75 15.82 18.13 21.66 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.10 15.36 18.13 19.46 25.05 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.34 9.36 13.49 18.00 18.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.50 10.68 11.53 16.53 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.52 11.25 13.25 15.50 33.67 Electricians...................................................... 13.00 13.25 15.25 33.67 34.54 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.50 16.02 23.69 27.69 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.96 24.93 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 10.00 11.00 16.40 20.72 25.73 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 12.56 12.56 19.39 21.27 25.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 10.00 10.00 12.33 19.00 26.56 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 10.60 14.09 19.93 25.21 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 24.38 35.74 35.74 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.14 9.85 11.87 13.34 15.41 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 9.00 9.84 11.22 13.00 14.53 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.34 14.20 23.84 29.28 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 8.00 19.97 24.96 24.96 Machinists........................................................ 15.75 18.64 18.64 18.82 20.55 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 8.00 8.00 12.50 14.69 18.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.35 13.00 15.77 19.90 25.80 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.39 10.00 13.76 16.21 22.70 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.20 10.26 12.24 17.24 24.31 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 11.25 15.00 21.65 28.64 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.00 11.25 15.00 19.87 28.64 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.38 10.00 12.00 12.90 14.30 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 8.25 10.00 11.93 13.25 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 8.00 10.00 12.36 13.46 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.25 $6.95 $8.11 $10.00 $19.82 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.50 15.00 20.08 28.52 28.52 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 5.85 6.50 6.65 7.25 8.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.00 5.00 6.55 6.55 7.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 6.55 7.00 7.35 8.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.50 6.60 7.00 7.25 8.00 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.05 6.16 7.07 20.00 21.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.91 7.50 8.65 10.00 10.73 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.91 7.25 8.42 9.45 10.46 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.75 7.00 7.40 8.00 9.00 Cashiers...................................................... 6.75 7.00 7.40 8.00 9.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.91 7.98 8.65 10.34 10.80 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.50 8.67 9.84 12.12 15.02 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.00 6.00 8.75 9.64 10.85 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.25 8.00 9.50 10.00 11.00 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $21.54 $16.50 $858 $660 39.8 $43,913 $34,320 2,039 Management occupations.............................................. 38.86 33.00 1,586 1,320 40.8 81,223 68,207 2,090 General and operations managers................................... 58.99 67.81 2,389 2,713 40.5 123,601 141,051 2,095 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 30.91 28.82 1,330 1,153 43.0 69,164 59,941 2,237 Financial managers................................................ 23.93 24.52 957 981 40.0 49,768 51,002 2,080 Industrial production managers.................................... 35.26 39.34 1,410 1,573 40.0 73,335 81,817 2,080 Education administrators.......................................... 34.16 32.40 1,321 1,283 38.7 62,231 63,642 1,822 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.78 31.44 1,318 1,248 40.2 68,532 64,896 2,090 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.89 21.23 933 955 40.8 48,538 49,681 2,120 Management analysts............................................... 40.40 40.87 1,616 1,635 40.0 84,038 84,999 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 34.41 32.27 1,376 1,291 40.0 71,578 67,130 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.19 34.30 1,527 1,402 41.1 79,398 72,904 2,135 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.49 46.81 1,740 1,856 40.9 90,468 96,533 2,129 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 40.71 43.89 1,628 1,756 40.0 84,670 91,287 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 44.01 48.45 1,839 1,884 41.8 95,633 97,989 2,173 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.19 32.93 1,408 1,317 40.0 73,194 68,494 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 37.77 38.37 1,514 1,527 40.1 78,711 79,414 2,084 Engineers......................................................... 43.28 42.91 1,736 1,730 40.1 90,282 89,960 2,086 Aerospace engineers............................................. 45.57 44.41 1,823 1,776 40.0 94,787 92,373 2,080 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 44.27 1,930 1,771 41.2 100,369 92,077 2,142 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.96 25.46 998 1,018 40.0 51,910 52,957 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.95 25.22 1,038 1,009 40.0 53,972 52,458 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.55 30.31 1,394 1,223 42.8 72,504 63,580 2,227 Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 25.18 1,376 1,171 44.2 71,562 60,893 2,297 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.99 32.12 1,070 1,167 36.9 40,835 45,719 1,408 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.69 33.08 1,146 1,236 37.3 43,337 46,758 1,412 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.68 32.12 1,093 1,198 38.1 41,660 45,719 1,453 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.27 27.76 925 1,010 38.1 35,044 38,335 1,444 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.11 34.06 1,263 1,323 38.1 48,393 49,673 1,462 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.47 25.02 979 1,001 40.0 50,807 52,042 2,076 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.37 22.32 1,033 829 39.2 53,217 41,704 2,018 Registered nurses................................................. 25.93 26.00 988 1,000 38.1 50,520 52,000 1,948 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.80 16.00 605 640 38.3 31,470 33,280 1,992 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.98 11.66 470 459 39.2 24,443 23,886 2,041 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.52 10.00 411 400 39.1 21,375 20,800 2,033 Protective service occupations...................................... 17.49 16.95 710 690 40.6 36,945 35,859 2,112 Police officers................................................... 20.71 22.71 828 908 40.0 43,081 47,228 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.71 22.71 828 908 40.0 43,081 47,228 2,080 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.22 12.28 409 491 40.0 21,250 25,547 2,080 Security guards................................................. 10.22 12.28 409 491 40.0 21,250 25,547 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.28 9.00 362 320 39.0 18,318 15,600 1,975 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.56 15.39 660 654 45.4 34,169 34,000 2,346 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.08 15.98 696 730 46.2 35,998 37,960 2,388 Cooks............................................................. 9.67 9.14 358 360 37.0 16,774 18,200 1,735 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.78 10.25 393 383 36.4 19,961 18,928 1,851 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.98 9.64 357 352 35.8 18,117 18,117 1,814 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.54 10.34 367 383 34.8 18,472 18,928 1,752 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.58 8.00 423 320 40.0 22,000 16,640 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.43 12.02 701 481 40.2 36,461 25,000 2,091 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.51 17.17 865 721 40.2 44,989 37,513 2,091 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.06 10.76 486 430 40.3 25,289 22,375 2,097 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.95 9.71 397 388 40.0 20,666 20,176 2,078 Cashiers...................................................... 9.95 9.71 397 388 40.0 20,666 20,176 2,078 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.46 10.76 503 460 40.4 26,155 23,935 2,099 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.53 39.43 1,301 1,577 40.0 67,670 82,016 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.43 14.44 857 578 40.0 44,567 30,044 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.74 13.49 592 537 40.2 30,768 27,918 2,087 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 24.66 20.15 986 806 40.0 51,284 41,912 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.47 12.50 535 500 39.7 27,834 26,000 2,066 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.63 14.25 565 513 38.6 29,362 26,680 2,006 Tellers......................................................... 11.46 11.00 459 440 40.0 23,844 22,880 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.98 14.61 660 584 41.3 34,328 30,389 2,148 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.96 15.82 636 633 39.8 32,983 32,897 2,067 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.23 18.13 729 725 40.0 37,762 37,710 2,072 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.48 13.49 533 540 39.5 27,711 28,068 2,056 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.95 10.68 478 427 40.0 24,851 22,206 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.79 13.25 672 530 40.0 34,930 27,560 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 21.74 15.25 869 610 40.0 45,214 31,720 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.37 16.02 744 660 40.5 38,694 34,320 2,107 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.48 15.50 731 660 41.8 38,024 34,320 2,175 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.66 16.40 665 656 39.9 34,568 34,112 2,075 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.77 19.39 744 776 39.7 38,708 40,331 2,062 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.25 12.33 610 493 40.0 31,719 25,646 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.89 14.09 633 564 39.9 32,927 29,309 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.23 24.38 1,023 975 42.2 53,198 50,700 2,196 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 12.21 11.87 488 475 40.0 25,391 24,696 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.47 11.22 459 449 40.0 23,851 23,336 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.15 14.20 686 568 40.0 35,667 29,536 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.55 19.97 701 799 39.9 36,447 41,538 2,077 Machinists........................................................ 18.58 18.64 743 746 40.0 38,649 38,777 2,080 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 12.36 12.50 494 500 40.0 25,711 26,000 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.43 15.77 655 631 39.8 34,040 32,802 2,072 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.32 13.76 569 550 39.7 29,598 28,621 2,067 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.49 12.24 575 480 39.7 29,614 24,960 2,043 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.66 15.00 674 600 40.4 35,001 31,637 2,101 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.43 15.00 667 600 40.6 34,682 31,200 2,110 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.63 12.00 465 480 40.0 24,185 24,960 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.41 10.00 417 400 40.0 21,663 20,800 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.56 10.00 422 400 40.0 21,965 20,800 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $21.09 $15.80 $845 $639 40.1 $43,918 $33,197 2,083 Management occupations.............................................. 39.32 33.00 1,616 1,379 41.1 83,963 71,706 2,136 General and operations managers................................... 58.99 67.81 2,389 2,713 40.5 123,601 141,051 2,095 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 30.91 28.82 1,330 1,153 43.0 69,164 59,941 2,237 Industrial production managers.................................... 35.26 39.34 1,410 1,573 40.0 73,335 81,817 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.83 30.53 1,320 1,214 40.2 68,650 63,149 2,091 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.89 21.23 933 955 40.8 48,538 49,681 2,120 Management analysts............................................... 40.40 40.87 1,616 1,635 40.0 84,038 84,999 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 35.70 32.27 1,428 1,291 40.0 74,253 67,130 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.85 35.52 1,555 1,442 41.1 80,834 75,005 2,136 Computer software engineers....................................... 43.49 47.49 1,783 1,899 41.0 92,719 98,769 2,132 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.79 47.49 1,712 1,899 40.0 89,007 98,769 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 44.01 48.45 1,839 1,884 41.8 95,633 97,989 2,173 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.19 32.93 1,408 1,317 40.0 73,194 68,494 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 37.66 37.50 1,509 1,495 40.1 78,481 77,759 2,084 Engineers......................................................... 43.24 42.79 1,735 1,716 40.1 90,216 89,253 2,086 Aerospace engineers............................................. 45.69 44.00 1,828 1,760 40.0 95,040 91,520 2,080 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 44.27 1,930 1,771 41.2 100,369 92,077 2,142 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.96 25.46 998 1,018 40.0 51,910 52,957 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.95 25.22 1,038 1,009 40.0 53,972 52,458 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 25.18 1,376 1,171 44.2 71,562 60,893 2,297 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.00 22.06 942 838 39.3 41,396 39,250 1,725 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.07 21.70 883 868 40.0 45,793 45,136 2,075 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.87 18.97 968 722 40.6 50,344 37,534 2,109 Registered nurses................................................. 24.90 26.00 978 1,040 39.3 50,881 54,080 2,044 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.80 16.00 605 640 38.3 31,470 33,280 1,992 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.09 11.66 474 466 39.2 24,646 24,253 2,038 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.15 9.00 362 316 39.5 18,807 16,430 2,056 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.53 15.39 662 654 45.6 34,430 34,000 2,369 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.05 15.98 699 730 46.4 36,341 37,960 2,415 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.99 8.80 356 340 35.6 18,510 17,680 1,854 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.95 8.50 312 340 34.8 16,219 17,680 1,811 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.35 8.80 309 340 33.0 16,046 17,680 1,715 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.43 12.02 701 481 40.2 36,461 25,000 2,091 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.51 17.17 865 721 40.2 44,989 37,513 2,091 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.06 10.76 486 430 40.3 25,289 22,375 2,097 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.95 9.71 397 388 40.0 20,666 20,176 2,078 Cashiers...................................................... 9.95 9.71 397 388 40.0 20,666 20,176 2,078 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.46 10.76 503 460 40.4 26,155 23,935 2,099 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.53 39.43 1,301 1,577 40.0 67,670 82,016 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 21.43 14.44 857 578 40.0 44,567 30,044 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.85 13.46 596 537 40.2 31,018 27,899 2,089 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 24.95 22.37 998 895 40.0 51,902 46,532 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.53 13.25 537 513 39.7 27,949 26,680 2,066 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.63 14.25 565 513 38.6 29,362 26,680 2,006 Tellers......................................................... 11.46 11.00 459 440 40.0 23,844 22,880 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.98 14.61 660 584 41.3 34,328 30,389 2,148 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.77 18.13 667 725 39.8 34,679 37,710 2,068 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.21 18.13 768 725 40.0 39,957 37,710 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.07 13.51 554 540 39.4 28,810 28,097 2,048 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.93 10.68 477 427 40.0 24,815 22,206 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.27 13.25 651 530 40.0 33,847 27,560 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 21.74 15.25 869 610 40.0 45,214 31,720 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.37 15.50 705 660 40.6 36,655 34,320 2,111 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.48 15.50 731 660 41.8 38,024 34,320 2,175 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.66 16.40 665 656 39.9 34,568 34,112 2,075 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.77 19.39 744 776 39.7 38,708 40,331 2,062 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.25 12.33 610 493 40.0 31,719 25,646 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.91 14.20 634 564 39.9 32,969 29,309 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.23 24.38 1,023 975 42.2 53,198 50,700 2,196 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 12.21 11.87 488 475 40.0 25,391 24,696 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.47 11.22 459 449 40.0 23,851 23,336 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.15 14.20 686 568 40.0 35,667 29,536 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.55 19.97 701 799 39.9 36,447 41,538 2,077 Machinists........................................................ 18.58 18.64 743 746 40.0 38,649 38,777 2,080 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 12.36 12.50 494 500 40.0 25,711 26,000 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.43 15.77 655 631 39.8 34,040 32,802 2,072 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.32 13.76 569 550 39.7 29,598 28,621 2,067 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.39 12.00 579 477 40.2 30,094 24,814 2,092 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.68 15.00 675 600 40.4 35,094 31,200 2,103 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.49 15.00 670 600 40.6 34,818 31,200 2,111 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.63 12.00 465 480 40.0 24,185 24,960 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.41 10.00 417 400 40.0 21,663 20,800 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.56 10.00 422 400 40.0 21,965 20,800 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $23.96 $22.02 $926 $866 38.7 $43,890 $41,018 1,832 Management occupations.............................................. 37.02 32.40 1,468 1,283 39.7 71,280 63,642 1,925 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.08 32.19 1,072 1,167 36.9 40,827 45,825 1,404 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.68 33.08 1,145 1,235 37.3 43,319 46,758 1,412 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.65 32.12 1,092 1,198 38.1 41,617 45,719 1,452 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.83 25.97 1,092 960 37.9 55,802 48,651 1,935 Registered nurses................................................. 26.38 26.11 992 966 37.6 50,377 48,934 1,910 Protective service occupations...................................... 21.05 21.95 862 898 40.9 44,812 46,714 2,129 Police officers................................................... 20.71 22.71 828 908 40.0 43,081 47,228 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.71 22.71 828 908 40.0 43,081 47,228 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.98 13.37 503 494 38.7 23,939 23,820 1,844 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.67 13.18 489 480 38.6 23,096 23,296 1,822 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.67 13.18 489 480 38.6 23,096 23,296 1,822 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.05 14.82 562 593 40.0 29,130 28,456 2,074 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.80 13.49 552 540 40.0 28,480 28,068 2,064 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.83 15.74 633 630 40.0 32,475 32,739 2,052 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.52 28.71 1,021 1,148 40.0 53,086 59,717 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $19.82 $16.35 $19.55 $28.44 Management, professional, and related...... 34.71 32.94 33.75 37.03 Management, business, and financial...... 35.74 26.98 36.88 43.01 Professional and related................. 34.28 35.48 32.42 34.60 Service.................................... 9.08 9.03 9.20 – Sales and office........................... 15.14 14.96 13.75 20.62 Sales and related........................ 15.81 16.60 12.19 – Office and administrative support........ 14.58 13.11 15.00 17.79 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 16.81 13.22 22.68 25.77 Construction and extraction............. 16.04 12.31 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 17.34 13.97 23.99 20.64 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 14.79 12.61 14.38 18.17 Production............................... 15.24 13.36 13.26 18.32 Transportation and material moving....... 13.67 11.81 17.18 – B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.8 7.9 7.2 4.8 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.0 10.4 6.2 4.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 6.0 11.2 9.4 5.3 Professional and related.......................................... 2.9 10.1 7.2 2.6 Service............................................................. 5.4 6.3 4.6 – Sales and office.................................................... 4.1 2.6 5.9 29.3 Sales and related................................................. 4.9 3.1 8.5 – Office and administrative support................................. 3.5 3.2 5.3 17.5 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.5 3.6 12.5 6.4 Construction and extraction...................................... 7.0 .1 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.1 4.4 11.0 6.4 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.5 6.6 7.6 6.5 Production........................................................ 4.2 7.3 3.4 6.1 Transportation and material moving................................ 10.0 8.0 15.4 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $17.53 $13.25 $705 $520 40.2 $36,653 $27,040 2,091 Management occupations.............................................. 25.27 24.52 1,088 981 43.1 56,437 51,002 2,233 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.22 26.38 1,129 1,055 40.0 58,705 54,860 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 43.99 49.00 1,759 1,960 40.0 91,493 101,920 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 43.04 41.83 1,722 1,673 40.0 89,522 87,000 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 45.07 46.82 1,803 1,873 40.0 93,751 97,386 2,080 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 12.44 10.38 498 415 40.0 25,880 21,580 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.34 19.60 1,021 647 42.0 53,099 33,628 2,182 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.18 9.00 365 320 39.8 18,998 16,640 2,069 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.51 15.39 663 700 45.7 34,450 36,400 2,374 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.03 15.63 700 769 46.6 36,402 40,001 2,422 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.99 11.00 444 440 40.4 23,071 22,880 2,100 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.84 12.02 720 500 40.3 37,415 26,000 2,097 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.05 10.76 489 440 40.6 25,408 22,880 2,109 Retail salespersons............................................. 13.18 11.23 536 460 40.7 27,893 23,935 2,116 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.96 39.43 1,278 1,577 40.0 66,473 82,016 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.49 13.00 540 513 40.0 28,063 26,680 2,081 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.05 14.25 557 513 39.6 28,950 26,680 2,061 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.63 14.25 565 513 38.6 29,362 26,680 2,006 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.49 12.64 499 505 40.0 25,972 26,283 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.00 14.50 571 588 40.8 29,704 30,576 2,122 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.48 11.00 499 440 40.0 25,959 22,880 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 13.59 13.00 538 520 39.6 27,970 27,040 2,058 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.15 13.00 606 520 40.0 31,514 27,040 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.50 11.25 501 450 40.1 26,045 23,400 2,084 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.22 11.25 531 450 40.2 27,602 23,400 2,088 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.10 11.25 567 450 40.2 29,474 23,400 2,091 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.65 10.00 426 400 40.0 22,156 20,800 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.65 10.00 426 400 40.0 22,156 20,800 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $24.36 $20.83 $973 $817 39.9 $50,556 $42,432 2,075 Management occupations.............................................. 45.64 43.46 1,838 1,770 40.3 95,584 92,040 2,094 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.53 35.34 1,433 1,408 40.3 74,534 73,195 2,098 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.06 34.25 1,493 1,372 41.4 77,615 71,340 2,153 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.07 43.51 1,711 1,691 41.7 88,975 87,949 2,166 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 38.42 37.79 1,537 1,512 40.0 79,914 78,599 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 42.08 44.90 1,781 1,767 42.3 92,604 91,909 2,201 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.19 32.93 1,408 1,317 40.0 73,194 68,494 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.36 35.33 1,419 1,413 40.1 73,767 73,493 2,086 Engineers......................................................... 42.09 41.88 1,692 1,683 40.2 87,979 87,506 2,090 Aerospace engineers............................................. 45.69 44.00 1,828 1,760 40.0 95,040 91,520 2,080 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Industrial engineers.......................................... 40.09 40.92 1,604 1,637 40.0 83,390 85,112 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.11 25.46 1,004 1,018 40.0 52,220 52,957 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 26.37 25.99 1,055 1,040 40.0 54,844 54,059 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations Physical scientists............................................... 31.15 25.18 1,376 1,171 44.2 71,562 60,893 2,297 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.78 25.02 991 1,001 40.0 51,401 52,042 2,074 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.11 18.84 891 722 38.5 46,323 37,534 2,004 Registered nurses................................................. 24.03 25.01 930 1,000 38.7 48,370 52,021 2,013 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.54 10.00 451 400 39.1 23,472 20,800 2,034 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.83 8.53 277 308 31.4 14,427 16,016 1,633 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.83 8.53 277 308 31.4 14,427 16,016 1,633 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.72 8.53 255 185 29.3 13,279 9,620 1,523 Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.48 11.50 658 448 40.0 34,237 23,308 2,078 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.08 10.65 483 420 39.9 25,091 21,840 2,077 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.54 10.50 461 410 39.9 23,962 21,320 2,076 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.02 14.11 646 564 40.3 33,585 29,351 2,096 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.85 11.48 474 459 40.0 24,651 23,878 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.43 14.04 690 607 42.0 35,894 31,574 2,185 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.34 18.13 734 725 40.0 38,156 37,710 2,080 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.21 18.13 768 725 40.0 39,957 37,710 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.31 18.13 652 725 40.0 33,916 37,710 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.26 10.68 530 427 40.0 27,585 22,206 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.33 33.67 1,093 1,347 40.0 56,846 70,034 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 28.05 33.67 1,122 1,347 40.0 58,342 70,034 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.80 23.69 918 948 40.3 47,729 49,275 2,093 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.68 19.67 784 787 39.8 40,756 40,914 2,071 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.90 18.23 796 729 40.0 41,394 37,918 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.83 14.85 672 594 40.0 34,967 30,888 2,078 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 12.16 11.31 486 452 40.0 25,295 23,525 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.38 11.22 455 449 40.0 23,665 23,336 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 18.70 14.85 748 594 40.0 38,894 30,888 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 18.26 19.97 729 799 39.9 37,917 41,538 2,077 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.44 16.49 693 660 39.7 36,031 34,299 2,066 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 17.04 16.18 682 647 40.0 35,448 33,654 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.33 15.00 701 600 40.4 36,441 31,200 2,103 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 22.13 24.31 905 1,010 40.9 47,071 52,510 2,127 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.84 8.95 394 358 40.0 20,465 18,622 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $22.86 $22.86 – $20.25 $19.63 $23.72 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 33.65 34.71 30.14 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 35.76 35.74 35.93 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 32.90 34.27 29.18 Service............................................................. – – – 10.86 9.08 17.18 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 15.03 15.13 13.91 Sales and related................................................. – – – 15.79 15.81 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 14.48 14.56 14.02 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 29.43 29.43 – 16.33 15.21 23.28 Construction and extraction...................................... 32.76 32.76 – 13.96 12.86 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 24.93 24.93 – 17.84 16.67 25.52 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 20.69 20.69 – 13.28 13.23 15.18 Production........................................................ 20.65 20.65 – 13.68 13.70 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 12.36 12.12 15.95 Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 1.2 1.2 – 2.6 3.0 3.6 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 2.6 3.0 3.8 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 5.4 6.0 11.2 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 2.3 2.9 3.3 Service............................................................. – – – 5.3 5.4 8.3 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 3.8 4.1 4.9 Sales and related................................................. – – – 4.9 4.9 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 3.1 3.5 5.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.2 5.2 – 7.0 4.1 12.9 Construction and extraction...................................... 1.7 1.7 – 8.3 3.6 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 2.7 2.7 – 8.7 7.6 7.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.0 3.0 – 2.4 2.4 5.6 Production........................................................ .3 .3 – 3.0 3.1 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 4.9 5.2 5.2 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $20.48 $19.88 $19.22 $19.22 Management, professional, and related............................... 33.79 34.91 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 36.49 36.58 – – Professional and related.......................................... 32.93 34.28 – – Service............................................................. 11.01 9.23 – – Sales and office.................................................... 14.04 14.06 19.16 19.16 Sales and related................................................. 13.39 13.42 19.26 19.26 Office and administrative support................................. 14.34 14.39 18.42 18.42 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.51 16.52 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 16.04 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.36 16.97 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.61 14.60 19.18 19.18 Production........................................................ 15.16 15.17 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.18 13.01 19.43 19.43 Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.1 2.4 13.8 13.8 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.4 2.8 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 3.5 3.6 – – Professional and related.......................................... 2.3 2.9 – – Service............................................................. 5.1 5.4 – – Sales and office.................................................... 3.7 4.0 12.3 12.3 Sales and related................................................. 9.8 9.9 13.7 13.7 Office and administrative support................................. 2.9 3.3 12.2 12.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 6.7 5.4 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 7.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.2 7.4 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.0 4.1 3.5 3.5 Production........................................................ 4.2 4.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.5 12.6 4.7 4.7 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... $13.29 $24.04 $14.68 – $15.69 $28.37 $16.58 $8.17 $13.87 Management, professional, and related............................... – 36.09 20.44 – 26.00 38.42 24.75 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 43.95 – – 26.00 35.07 28.76 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 32.34 – – – 39.47 24.35 – – Service............................................................. – – 9.18 – – 10.13 10.72 8.00 – Sales and office.................................................... – 21.96 14.24 – 14.23 15.71 12.75 – – Sales and related................................................. – – 15.02 – 16.99 14.69 – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 18.87 11.57 – 13.45 15.89 12.74 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 12.32 24.32 17.81 – – 20.25 – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 20.68 17.81 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 16.74 14.25 – – 10.22 – – – Production........................................................ – 17.03 12.32 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 12.57 14.83 – – – – – – B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 6.5 4.9 7.9 – 4.1 4.8 6.6 2.3 0.0 Management, professional, and related............................... – 7.9 17.4 – 7.3 2.5 5.4 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 1.2 – – 7.3 5.5 8.1 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 6.1 – – – 1.5 5.7 – – Service............................................................. – – 2.3 – – 6.7 18.8 1.5 – Sales and office.................................................... – 22.5 4.2 – 6.6 3.9 .8 – – Sales and related................................................. – – 3.3 – 16.3 17.6 – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 14.2 8.0 – 5.3 2.1 .8 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... .2 2.9 17.2 – – 12.2 – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 2.7 17.2 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 5.0 10.8 – – 6.4 – – – Production........................................................ – 5.4 18.2 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 15.3 10.8 – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 238,900 202,700 36,200 Management, professional, and related............................... 75,200 55,700 19,500 Management, business, and financial............................... 18,000 15,600 2,400 Professional and related.......................................... 57,300 40,100 17,100 Service............................................................. 47,500 38,300 9,200 Sales and office.................................................... 53,400 49,300 4,100 Sales and related................................................. 23,300 23,200 – Office and administrative support................................. 30,100 26,100 4,000 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17,700 15,500 2,200 Construction and extraction...................................... 7,300 6,400 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 10,400 9,100 1,300 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 45,100 43,900 1,200 Production........................................................ 31,100 31,100 – Transportation and material moving................................ 14,000 12,900 1,100 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Huntsville-Decatur, AL CSA, May 2008 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 10,757 10,274 483 Total in sample....................................................... 340 311 29 Responding........................................................ 235 209 26 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 58 55 3 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 47 47 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.