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HIGHLIGHTS OF CINCINNATI-MIDDLETOWN-WILMINGTON, OH-KY-IN
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY OCTOBER 2008

 

Workers in the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington Combined Statistical Area earned an average of $20.93 per hour in October 2008, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).  Regional Commissioner Jay A. Mousa noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $38.21 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $20.58 for sales and related occupations.  Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $15.06.  The NCS data available for the Cincinnati area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups.  (See table 1.)


Pharmacy technicians, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, were paid $12.85 per hour.  Within the sales and related group, cashiers averaged $9.23 per hour.  Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, an occupation within office and administrative support, earned $17.17 per hour.  (See table 1.)

 
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from the NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $22.35 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $11.93.  Union workers earned $23.43 and non-union workers, $20.51.  Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $18.39 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $19.47, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $26.84.


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


The NCS data provided here covered 402 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments.  Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey.  This sample of establishments represented 1,004,700 workers in the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, and Warren Counties, in Ohio; Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn, Franklin, and Ohio Counties in Indiana.


Survey Availability


Complete survey results are contained in the Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN National Compensation Survey October 2008.  The bulletin is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.


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



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Bulletin tables  - PDF format
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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN CSA, October 2008
Occupation (3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

$20.93 5.0 $22.35 5.0 $11.93 8.6

Management occupations

40.70 4.1 40.70 4.1

Marketing and sales managers

53.63 12.2 53.63 12.2

Sales managers

57.73 11.3 57.73 11.3

Financial managers

34.84 12.9 34.84 12.9

Education administrators

45.27 8.7 45.27 8.7

Business and financial operations occupations

27.07 5.2 27.74 4.1

Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists

24.61 21.7 27.50 8.8

Accountants and auditors

28.22 5.7 28.22 5.7

Financial analysts and advisors

23.92 11.3 23.92 11.3

Financial analysts

26.76 18.5 26.76 18.5

Computer and mathematical science occupations

31.25 18.1 31.63 17.1

Architecture and engineering occupations

35.14 5.7 35.42 5.9

Engineers

35.84 5.0 36.17 5.2

Industrial engineers, including health and safety

34.16 7.2 35.19 7.9

Industrial engineers

34.16 7.2 35.19 7.9

Mechanical engineers

41.67 7.5 41.67 7.5

Life, physical, and social science occupations

32.87 9.2 32.87 9.2

Community and social services occupations

22.02 7.3 21.80 7.6

Social workers

22.75 4.9

Legal occupations

38.32 5.6 38.32 5.6

Education, training, and library occupations

31.10 6.3 31.67 5.7 17.42 27.5

Postsecondary teachers

36.77 18.0 36.56 19.6

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

38.17 5.3 38.27 5.3

Elementary and middle school teachers

40.75 2.0 40.75 2.0

Elementary school teachers, except special education

40.89 2.4 40.89 2.4

Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education

40.26 0.8 40.26 0.8

Secondary school teachers

38.52 4.2 38.97 3.7

Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education

38.52 4.2 38.97 3.7

Teacher assistants

11.09 2.1 11.28 1.8

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

18.83 11.2 21.12 12.5

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

38.21 22.3 39.66 25.2 32.83 12.1

Registered nurses

36.60 13.4 37.91 14.8

Therapists

29.83 9.8

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians

19.10 8.9

Radiologic technologists and technicians

18.64 7.1

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians

13.99 6.5 14.10 6.9

Pharmacy technicians

12.85 4.8

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

19.98 4.1 20.35 3.2

Healthcare support occupations

13.04 2.6 13.02 1.9 13.16 12.8

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

11.78 4.0 11.81 3.8 11.52 7.1

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

11.39 4.6 11.43 4.9

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations

15.07 4.7 15.14 3.9

Police and sheriff's patrol officers

24.20 10.5 24.20 10.5

Protective service occupations

17.47 7.2 18.69 6.9 10.56 6.5

Police officers

24.20 10.5 24.20 10.5

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers

9.90 7.6

Security guards

9.63 8.3

Food preparation and serving related occupations

8.09 9.3 9.60 8.8 6.77 3.5

Cooks

10.31 1.6 10.91 2.5

Cooks, institution and cafeteria

11.34 9.2 11.25 9.6

Food preparation workers

9.11 5.9 10.57 1.6 7.82 2.4

Food service, tipped

4.10 6.2 4.28 13.4 4.00 18.4

Bartenders

5.98 1.0 5.91 3.2

Waiters and waitresses

3.27 6.5 3.21 10.0 3.31 5.3

Fast food and counter workers

8.28 3.1 9.77 4.0 7.72 3.5

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

7.97 2.0

Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop

8.82 1.2

Food servers, nonrestaurant

8.63 9.4

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

12.87 3.1 14.02 5.0 8.42 3.0

Building cleaning workers

11.44 9.8 12.23 8.1

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

11.67 10.9 12.63 8.4

Grounds maintenance workers

16.10 13.3

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers

14.99 9.9

Personal care and service occupations

12.97 13.1 14.09 16.6 10.68 15.5

Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers

7.94 6.3

Amusement and recreation attendants

7.94 6.3

Sales and related occupations

20.58 11.6 23.09 14.7 8.92 5.8

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

23.70 11.0 23.70 11.0

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers

20.75 4.1 20.75 4.1

Retail sales workers

11.89 6.1 13.42 15.2 8.73 5.9

Cashiers, all workers

9.45 3.5 10.20 5.6 8.30 1.6

Cashiers

9.23 3.8 9.93 3.9 8.25 1.7

Retail salespersons

13.58 7.8 15.01 14.4 9.00 11.5

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing

31.18 7.2 33.20 8.3

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products

31.41 6.8 33.54 8.1

Office and administrative support occupations

15.06 2.9 15.54 2.7 12.16 8.5

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

16.65 11.2 16.97 12.5

Financial clerks

15.07 9.3 15.07 9.5

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

17.17 2.6 17.22 2.6

Customer service representatives

13.85 10.2 13.89 10.4

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan

13.08 5.5

Order clerks

13.64 2.3

Receptionists and information clerks

15.17 6.1 15.24 6.5

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

14.79 10.4 14.79 10.4

Stock clerks and order fillers

12.07 7.0

Secretaries and administrative assistants

18.42 6.4 18.81 7.9 16.72 8.2

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

21.54 3.4 21.54 3.4

Medical secretaries

15.90 13.0

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

17.42 10.6 18.12 13.1

Data entry and information processing workers

14.64 14.3 13.32 13.2

Data entry keyers

13.32 13.2 13.32 13.2

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks

15.69 2.3

Office clerks, general

14.86 3.6 15.62 3.7 10.76 12.8

Construction and extraction occupations

19.01 15.2 19.01 15.2

Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters

25.62 13.3 25.62 13.3

Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters

25.62 13.3 25.62 13.3

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

20.61 3.9 20.70 3.8

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

24.09 2.6 24.09 2.6

Maintenance and repair workers, general

21.11 7.5 21.11 7.5

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers

13.39 14.4 13.39 14.4

Production occupations

17.48 4.0 17.72 4.0

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

25.10 4.2 25.10 4.2

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

20.23 5.3 20.70 7.1

Machinists

22.22 8.9 22.22 8.9

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

14.30 9.2 14.30 9.2

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

14.98 6.0 14.98 6.0

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

18.39 20.2 18.39 20.2

Miscellaneous production workers

13.47 6.4 13.54 6.5

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

13.32 1.2 13.32 1.2

Helpers--production workers

13.57 8.9 13.67 9.3

Transportation and material moving occupations

16.75 7.3 17.77 7.2 9.51 4.3

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

18.56 6.1

Bus drivers

19.04 6.3

Bus drivers, school

19.04 6.3

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

18.81 11.8 19.91 9.1

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

22.08 7.9 22.16 8.1

Truck drivers, light or delivery services

18.95 12.0 20.47 10.4

Industrial truck and tractor operators

16.13 6.0 16.13 6.0

Laborers and material movers, hand

12.30 5.5 12.90 5.3 9.43 4.3

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

12.94 6.1 14.19 2.8 10.48 8.5

Packers and packagers, hand

10.50 7.8 11.35 10.7 7.98 7.3

Footnotes:
(1) Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
(2) Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
(3) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

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


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

 

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

 

Last Modified Date: June 11, 2009