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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Information: Gerald Perrins
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Media Contact: Sheila Watkins
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HIGHLIGHTS OF JOHNSTOWN, PA
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY JULY 2008 (PDF)

Workers in the Johnstown, Pa. metropolitan area earned an average of $16.14 per hour in July 2008, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor.  Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $20.99 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $14.16 for transportation and material moving occupations.  Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $12.49.  The NCS data available for the Johnstown area include earnings for 16 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups.  (See table 1.)

Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, earned $25.27 per hour.  Within the transportation and material moving group, truck drivers, heavy and tractor trailer, averaged $14.66 per hour, while laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand, earned $10.56.  Executive secretaries and administrative assistants, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an hourly rate of $14.26, and tellers earned $10.93 per hour.

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $17.07 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $11.48.  Union workers earned $18.38 and non-union workers, $15.53.  Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.49 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $16.36, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $17.95

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/

The NCS data provided here covered 170 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 56,200 workers in the Johnstown, Pa., Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which consists of Cambria County in Pennsylvania. 

Survey Availability

Complete survey results are contained in the Johnstown, Pa. National Compensation Survey July 2008 which is available in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm. 

For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Mid-Atlantic Information Office by calling (215) 597-3282 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. 

Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Johnstown, PA MSA, July 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

 $16.14 4.0 $17.07 4.1 $11.48 7.5

Management occupations

 30.59 12.9 31.15 13.1 – –

Business and financial operations occupations

 19.43 6.5 19.43 6.5 – –

Community and social services occupations

 14.03 9.7 14.03 9.7 – –

Education, training, and library occupations

 31.80 4.0 32.62 4.3 13.87 11.0

Postsecondary teachers

 33.90 2.5 35.29 3.4 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

 36.46 3.4 36.46 3.4 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers

 36.11 0.5 36.11 0.5 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 20.99 6.1 21.58 6.0 19.83 11.9

Registered nurses

 25.27 7.2 25.43 9.3 – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

 14.47 5.4 14.64 8.2 – –

Healthcare support occupations

 11.49 6.7 11.77 7.9 10.55 6.7

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

 10.86 2.2 11.09 2.1 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

 11.07 1.6 11.09 2.1 – –

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations

 14.17 10.3 – – – –

Protective service occupations

 19.35 16.1 20.07 14.6 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations

 6.50 10.7 5.29 18.8 7.04 2.3

Cooks

 8.00 2.7 – – – –

Food service, tipped

 4.40 14.7 – – – –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 9.51 8.7 10.41 8.9 – –

Building cleaning workers

 8.77 6.6 9.46 7.0 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

 8.65 7.2 9.43 8.1 – –

Personal care and service occupations

 11.46 12.1 9.71 2.2 – –

Sales and related occupations

 13.89 6.9 15.06 8.2 8.15 6.7

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

 22.50 4.3 22.50 4.3 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers

 22.50 4.3 22.50 4.3 – –

Retail sales workers

 10.54 5.7 11.38 4.2 8.12 6.9

Cashiers, all workers

 7.73 2.2 – – 7.47 4.4

Cashiers

 7.73 2.2 – – 7.47 4.4

Retail salespersons

 12.43 8.2 13.52 10.5 8.80 2.9

Office and administrative support occupations

 12.49 2.8 12.86 2.8 9.72 4.7

Financial clerks

 12.09 4.7 12.40 5.4 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

 13.44 7.7 13.44 7.7 – –

Tellers

 10.93 8.4 – – – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

 10.66 12.7 – – – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.02 5.7 14.19 6.0 – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.26 7.2 14.41 7.5 – –

Office clerks, general

 12.52 7.2 13.13 5.1 – –

Construction and extraction occupations

 20.37 13.2 20.37 13.2 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 18.73 7.4 18.73 7.4 – –

Production occupations

 13.92 4.7 13.96 4.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 15.89 11.6 15.89 11.6 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

 13.62 9.1 13.62 9.1 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

 14.85 4.3 14.85 4.3 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

 14.85 4.3 14.85 4.3 – –

Miscellaneous production workers

 11.56 4.8 11.56 4.8 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations

 14.16 19.1 15.62 20.2 8.28 5.7

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

 12.17 8.7 12.91 8.3 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

 14.66 7.2 14.66 7.2 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand

 10.23 6.4 10.86 6.6 – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

 10.56 4.9 11.20 6.3 – –

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: March 26, 2009