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Highlights of York-Hanover, PA
National Compensation Survey September 2007 (PDF)

Workers in the York-Hanover metropolitan area earned an average of $17.46 per hour in September 2007, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics 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 $27.96 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $15.10 for production occupations.  Another occupational group, transportation and material moving, had a mean hourly wage rate of $13.96.  The NCS data available for the York-Hanover 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 occupations group, earned $28.39 per hour, while licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses earned $17.82.  Within the production occupational group, printing machine operators averaged $21.06 per hour.  Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer, an occupation within the transportation and material moving group, registered an average hourly rate of $16.23, and packers and packagers, hand earned $11.67 per hour. 

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $18.61 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $9.55.  Union workers earned $21.95 and non-union workers, $16.76.  Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.16 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $17.56, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $21.59.

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

The NCS data reported here covered 203 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 169,400 workers in the York-Hanover Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which consists of York County, Pennsylvania.

Survey Availability

Complete survey results are contained in the York-Hanover, PA National Compensation Survey September 2007 which is available on the Internet 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), York-Hanover, PA, September 2007
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

 $17.46 4.3 $18.61 4.4 $9.55 7.2

Management occupations

 $34.47 6.6 $34.47 6.6 – –

Business and financial operations occupations

 $25.73 11.3 $25.73 11.3 – –

Accountants and auditors

 $22.04 12.6 $22.04 12.6 – –

Computer and mathematical science occupations

 $23.20 9.0 $23.20 9.0 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations

 $33.48 4.2 $33.96 4.0 – –

Engineers

 $35.62 4.0 $36.43 2.8 – –

Mechanical engineers

 $38.24 2.6 $38.24 2.6 – –

Engineering technicians, except drafters

 $23.97 3.7 $23.97 3.7 – –

Community and social services occupations

 $22.51 20.1 $23.70 20.5 – –

Education, training, and library occupations

 $32.86 6.8 $33.55 4.2 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

 $40.15 3.8 $40.15 3.8 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers

 $39.57 3.8 $39.57 3.8 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 $27.96 5.3 $28.72 5.4 $24.18 9.5

Registered nurses

 $28.39 3.8 $29.12 3.9 – –

Therapists

 $27.41 3.3 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

 $17.82 2.0 $17.81 2.0 – –

Healthcare support occupations

 $12.02 9.5 $12.00 9.7 – –

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

 $10.95 3.2 $10.87 2.9 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

 $11.81 0.8 $11.71 0.8 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations

 $7.31 1.8 $9.43 9.4 $6.02 2.6

Cooks

 $10.31 2.2 – – – –

Food service, tipped

 $3.06 5.4 – – $3.08 5.5

Waiters and waitresses

 $2.94 1.3 – – $2.95 1.6

Fast food and counter workers

 $8.55 8.0 – – $7.34 5.1

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

 $8.61 9.6 – – – –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 $9.92 5.5 – – – –

Building cleaning workers

 $9.28 3.5 – – – –

Sales and related occupations

 $13.95 8.3 $18.21 8.6 $7.91 0.6

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

 $27.62 20.4 $27.62 20.4 – –

Retail sales workers

 $9.07 0.5 $11.16 3.1 $7.91 0.6

Cashiers, all workers

 $8.34 6.0 $10.24 6.4 $7.60 2.8

Cashiers

 $8.34 6.0 $10.24 6.4 $7.60 2.8

Retail salespersons

 $10.14 0.8 $11.56 4.8 $8.50 2.6

Office and administrative support occupations

 $13.55 5.2 $14.13 4.1 $9.02 13.0

Financial clerks

 $12.64 4.1 $12.67 4.0 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

 $13.41 6.1 $13.41 6.1 – –

Tellers

 $11.63 2.8 $11.67 2.7 – –

Customer service representatives

 $13.91 7.0 $13.91 7.0 – –

Stock clerks and order fillers

 – – $11.62 21.6 – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants

 $17.26 5.6 $18.53 2.7 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

 $17.62 5.8 $18.56 3.3 – –

Office clerks, general

 $13.41 5.3 $13.46 5.4 – –

Construction and extraction occupations

 $19.04 4.9 $19.03 4.9 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 $19.40 7.3 $19.45 7.3 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

 $18.39 4.6 $18.39 4.6 – –

Industrial machinery mechanics

 $20.85 2.9 $20.85 2.9 – –

Production occupations

 $15.10 5.9 $15.12 5.8 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 $23.28 1.1 $23.28 1.1 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

 $15.50 13.5 $15.50 13.5 – –

Miscellaneous food processing workers

 $14.71 5.0 $14.71 5.0 – –

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

 $15.01 9.9 $15.01 9.9 – –

Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 $14.74 6.2 $14.74 6.2 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

 $19.43 15.0 $19.43 15.0 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

 $19.75 14.1 $19.75 14.1 – –

Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers

 $18.79 20.9 $18.79 20.9 – –

Printers

 $20.43 1.3 $20.43 1.3 – –

Printing machine operators

 $21.06 1.6 $21.06 1.6 – –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

 $19.30 1.2 $19.58 2.6 – –

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

 $14.94 2.3 $14.94 2.3 – –

Miscellaneous production workers

 $11.09 19.4 $11.12 19.4 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations

 $13.96 3.3 $14.11 3.5 – –

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

 $15.13 3.5 $15.13 3.5 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

 $16.23 2.5 $16.23 2.5 – –

Industrial truck and tractor operators

 $15.30 6.5 $15.30 6.5 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand

 $13.22 4.0 $13.35 4.4 – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

 – – $14.30 4.2 – –

Packers and packagers, hand

 $11.67 6.3 $11.90 6.9 – –

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.

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.

 

Last Modified Date: June 26, 2008