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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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| 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
