NC BL 03/00/2009 Table: Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI, Bulletin, April 2008 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $23.00 2.7 34.6 $22.00 3.0 34.3 $30.61 4.1 37.4 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 35.29 3.2 37.2 34.34 4.0 37.0 39.23 4.2 38.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 38.54 7.5 39.3 38.55 8.3 39.4 38.46 9.6 38.3 Professional and related.......................................... 33.56 2.5 36.2 31.69 3.2 35.6 39.41 4.8 38.0 Service............................................................. 13.23 5.5 28.0 11.58 4.8 27.0 22.32 5.5 35.1 Sales and office.................................................... 18.35 3.7 34.2 18.31 4.0 33.9 18.92 3.9 38.1 Sales and related................................................. 21.53 7.9 31.3 21.53 7.9 31.3 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 16.88 1.4 35.7 16.63 1.4 35.4 18.92 3.9 38.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 25.29 6.3 40.0 25.36 6.8 40.0 24.43 8.0 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 27.68 13.8 39.8 27.91 14.8 39.7 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.90 4.1 40.2 22.62 4.4 40.3 25.57 9.4 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.20 6.6 36.7 17.07 6.8 36.7 22.15 4.8 36.3 Production........................................................ 17.19 3.9 39.3 17.11 3.9 39.3 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.21 13.1 33.8 17.03 13.9 33.7 21.08 5.1 35.6 Full time........................................................... 25.25 2.7 39.9 24.28 3.1 39.9 31.62 4.1 39.6 Part time........................................................... 12.56 3.1 21.4 12.46 3.2 21.5 14.98 7.6 20.0 Union............................................................... 26.76 4.0 36.4 23.66 6.1 35.2 30.91 4.2 38.2 Nonunion............................................................ 21.85 3.4 34.1 21.71 3.4 34.1 28.66 12.0 32.8 Time................................................................ 22.24 2.3 34.4 21.09 2.5 34.0 30.61 4.1 37.4 Incentive........................................................... 38.96 15.7 39.9 38.96 15.7 39.9 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 21.03 3.9 32.8 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 20.99 6.3 33.2 20.90 6.5 33.3 24.67 9.7 32.1 100-499 workers..................................................... 20.65 3.3 35.1 19.98 3.6 34.8 29.15 4.7 38.4 500 workers or more................................................. 28.71 3.1 36.4 27.38 3.8 35.8 31.74 5.2 37.9 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $23.00 2.7 $25.25 2.7 $12.56 3.1 Management occupations.............................................. 42.01 3.6 42.15 3.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.41 11.1 20.34 12.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.48 9.2 32.48 9.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.27 2.8 47.05 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 52.80 3.8 52.80 3.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.30 5.1 45.33 5.1 – – General and operations managers................................... 37.45 8.2 37.45 8.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.29 10.9 39.29 10.9 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.11 3.1 46.11 3.1 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 3.9 54.39 3.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 42.84 13.4 42.23 14.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.96 19.9 48.96 19.9 – – Education administrators.......................................... 40.11 12.7 40.11 12.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.95 8.7 45.95 8.7 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.08 8.2 50.08 8.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.95 8.7 45.95 8.7 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.84 6.1 44.88 6.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.55 16.4 35.57 16.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.46 5.8 22.46 5.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.14 4.4 22.12 4.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.17 4.1 25.17 4.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.10 5.0 30.10 5.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 36.66 3.0 36.66 3.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 53.25 18.5 53.25 18.5 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.79 7.4 24.79 7.4 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 21.53 9.7 21.53 9.7 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 21.22 9.5 21.22 9.5 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.69 12.6 24.70 12.9 – – Management analysts............................................... 31.39 3.8 31.39 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 35.51 3.1 35.51 3.1 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.14 3.3 27.14 3.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.34 8.9 29.34 8.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.57 7.9 28.57 7.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.97 2.9 36.97 2.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.32 4.9 26.32 4.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 30.50 6.5 30.50 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.62 6.4 35.62 6.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.89 4.5 42.89 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.89 6.5 40.89 6.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.30 6.4 42.30 6.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.61 6.7 45.61 6.7 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.46 8.8 41.46 8.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.33 5.1 44.33 5.1 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.34 8.0 43.34 8.0 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 27.85 5.8 27.85 5.8 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.72 5.2 40.72 5.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.23 5.0 40.23 5.0 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 32.65 6.5 32.65 6.5 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 30.59 5.6 30.59 5.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.23 8.0 33.69 7.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.80 4.9 25.80 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.58 9.5 29.95 8.4 – – Engineers......................................................... 40.54 10.2 40.54 10.2 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.31 6.8 25.91 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.78 9.5 22.71 11.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.89 6.9 34.22 6.5 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.75 9.6 21.27 9.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.61 9.5 21.61 9.5 – – Counselors........................................................ 23.63 2.2 23.33 2.9 – – Social workers.................................................... 23.63 11.2 23.63 11.2 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 17.40 8.1 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.46 1.9 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 36.72 9.3 37.09 9.4 – – Lawyers........................................................... 42.96 1.8 42.96 1.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.61 10.0 42.54 10.1 14.89 10.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.70 5.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.81 4.7 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.31 5.7 34.31 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.62 2.9 38.72 3.1 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 64.45 22.8 64.82 22.9 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.07 4.5 36.13 4.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.31 5.7 34.31 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.29 2.9 38.39 3.1 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 33.31 9.8 33.31 9.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.83 6.5 38.83 6.5 – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.43 6.5 39.43 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.83 6.5 38.83 6.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.78 6.3 35.78 6.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 33.39 6.5 33.39 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.65 3.7 37.65 3.7 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.28 7.0 35.28 7.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.77 5.3 36.77 5.3 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.37 5.6 37.37 5.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.34 2.8 39.34 2.8 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.34 2.8 39.34 2.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.84 4.8 14.63 1.5 12.95 6.9 Level 3 .................................................. 12.70 5.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.81 4.7 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.36 7.9 25.57 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.51 14.4 24.87 15.9 – – Designers......................................................... 22.84 8.7 22.02 9.6 – – Graphic designers............................................... 22.62 8.2 21.73 9.0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.25 2.2 30.04 3.3 30.72 3.6 Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 8.7 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.02 1.5 18.81 2.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.20 5.6 23.46 4.9 18.93 1.8 Level 7 .................................................. 27.46 4.6 27.47 4.6 27.45 8.9 Level 9 .................................................. 34.12 1.6 34.09 1.8 34.14 1.9 Level 11.................................................. 45.30 6.2 45.50 6.2 – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.60 1.9 35.62 2.8 33.58 2.5 Level 9 .................................................. 34.68 1.4 35.38 2.1 34.14 1.9 Level 11.................................................. 40.24 9.2 – – – – Therapists........................................................ 31.65 6.7 31.75 6.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.11 4.9 31.11 4.9 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 23.39 7.1 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.02 2.1 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.89 2.3 20.09 2.3 19.30 1.9 Level 5 .................................................. 18.94 3.6 18.90 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.52 1.7 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.71 6.1 15.33 8.6 13.46 5.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.94 4.1 – – 10.85 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.31 5.3 13.69 4.8 12.82 6.9 Level 4 .................................................. 16.96 1.3 16.87 1.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.62 7.7 18.67 4.3 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.94 5.9 13.21 7.8 12.47 5.6 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 11.08 4.4 Level 3 .................................................. 13.23 6.1 13.57 5.8 12.82 6.9 Home health aides............................................... 12.00 4.2 – – 11.69 5.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.50 6.6 14.03 6.6 12.76 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.39 7.3 13.81 7.6 12.94 7.5 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.07 5.2 17.83 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.18 2.1 16.91 2.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.62 7.7 18.67 4.3 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.98 11.9 20.88 12.9 21.67 22.4 Level 7 .................................................. 28.40 2.8 28.40 2.8 – – Police officers................................................... 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.19 2.5 29.19 2.5 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.19 2.5 29.19 2.5 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.04 2.4 11.73 4.3 8.03 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.34 1.9 8.09 2.4 7.25 2.4 Level 2 .................................................. 8.37 3.1 9.04 6.5 8.12 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.59 5.3 12.39 8.6 9.79 6.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.41 4.2 12.75 7.3 11.75 5.7 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 16.87 16.5 17.22 18.0 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.13 2.8 12.66 4.0 11.25 6.1 Level 3 .................................................. 11.99 7.1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.65 8.0 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.74 1.8 11.80 .8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.20 7.7 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.50 6.5 – – 9.40 7.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.98 6.7 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.50 1.8 7.36 6.6 6.36 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.19 2.9 – – 6.15 3.3 Level 2 .................................................. 7.19 4.4 – – 6.85 4.4 Bartenders...................................................... 7.27 6.1 – – 6.76 1.4 Level 2 .................................................. 7.59 6.8 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.23 .4 – – 6.13 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.08 3.9 – – 6.04 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 6.58 2.5 – – 6.32 .8 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.85 5.0 – – 6.87 5.2 Level 1 .................................................. 6.49 2.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.40 4.5 – – 8.36 5.0 Level 1 .................................................. 7.31 3.2 – – 7.24 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.76 9.9 – – 8.64 12.0 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.97 8.5 – – 9.02 9.5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.79 10.9 – – 8.67 13.2 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.38 3.0 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.24 1.8 – – – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.13 3.2 – – 7.79 5.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.20 4.7 – – 7.79 7.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.33 5.7 15.35 5.9 10.20 1.6 Level 1 .................................................. 11.77 4.4 12.92 5.3 9.94 2.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.39 3.2 11.60 4.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 18.38 8.4 18.40 8.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.87 7.3 16.87 7.3 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.18 3.7 13.91 3.7 10.38 1.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.94 4.6 12.92 5.3 10.10 1.6 Level 2 .................................................. 11.47 3.3 11.60 4.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.13 5.1 16.12 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.87 7.3 16.87 7.3 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.32 5.3 15.34 3.6 10.27 1.5 Level 1 .................................................. 12.63 7.6 13.79 6.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.12 3.4 17.12 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.87 7.3 16.87 7.3 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.17 2.5 11.34 3.6 10.57 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.59 3.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.19 8.4 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 20.25 7.5 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 20.25 7.5 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.26 7.6 11.28 10.2 8.87 8.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 9.4 – – 7.58 3.6 Level 2 .................................................. 9.79 6.4 – – 8.99 7.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.54 10.7 – – 9.30 24.4 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.66 4.3 – – 8.78 3.9 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 10.39 18.2 – – 7.83 19.9 Recreation workers.............................................. 10.37 23.8 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.53 7.9 27.25 7.3 9.37 2.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 3.6 – – 9.00 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 3.6 10.06 9.6 8.42 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.10 4.5 12.24 5.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.83 13.2 17.94 14.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.90 6.5 18.90 6.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.63 19.2 28.63 19.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.78 9.8 33.78 9.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... – – – – 10.36 12.6 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.15 11.4 23.15 11.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.75 1.3 19.75 1.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.91 2.0 12.99 3.0 9.26 1.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 3.7 – – 8.94 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.02 3.8 – – 8.42 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 10.57 .8 11.53 2.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.17 1.0 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.24 10.9 18.24 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 10.40 7.9 11.50 6.3 9.13 2.4 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.85 2.2 – – 9.70 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 9.6 – – 8.58 1.5 Cashiers...................................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.85 2.2 – – 9.70 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 9.6 – – 8.58 1.5 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.21 1.9 13.21 2.8 9.18 6.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.81 6.2 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.14 2.4 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.50 9.3 17.50 9.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 10.61 9.6 – – 9.20 3.0 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 81.33 22.8 81.33 22.8 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.31 11.0 29.31 11.0 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 28.00 13.8 28.00 13.8 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.88 1.4 17.72 1.6 12.68 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 3.5 – – 8.57 5.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.55 5.1 11.67 7.5 11.49 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.03 2.8 13.60 3.2 11.83 4.4 Level 4 .................................................. 16.39 1.8 16.41 1.7 16.21 7.4 Level 5 .................................................. 18.84 3.0 19.01 3.2 16.76 6.0 Level 6 .................................................. 20.70 4.6 21.17 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.58 5.7 24.58 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.12 4.7 18.19 4.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.51 7.9 23.58 8.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.23 2.7 26.23 2.7 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.00 6.8 18.22 7.6 16.29 10.3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.11 4.9 12.11 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.23 3.9 16.00 2.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.24 4.6 17.66 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.37 5.9 18.37 5.9 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.12 10.8 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.65 9.6 18.73 10.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.94 2.8 15.91 2.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.75 3.8 17.79 4.6 – – Tellers......................................................... 11.20 6.5 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.15 4.8 17.30 4.8 12.34 2.6 Level 3 .................................................. 13.11 4.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.26 3.9 17.26 3.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 8.1 19.05 6.7 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.30 6.6 15.89 6.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.65 4.2 15.05 4.7 13.23 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 12.61 8.2 – – 13.15 8.5 Level 3 .................................................. 14.58 4.4 14.77 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.24 8.3 16.24 8.4 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.09 4.4 21.09 4.4 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.01 11.0 14.01 11.0 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.47 5.0 15.96 5.4 10.37 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.60 6.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.21 8.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.66 6.1 16.74 6.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.82 3.9 20.23 3.9 15.81 4.5 Level 4 .................................................. 17.35 3.9 17.42 4.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.22 9.8 19.29 12.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.86 6.4 21.14 4.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.10 5.3 21.10 5.3 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.23 4.5 20.86 4.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.78 5.2 21.78 5.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.64 4.4 17.84 4.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.95 6.6 17.95 6.6 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 16.09 5.8 16.41 5.9 13.28 8.7 Level 3 .................................................. 14.00 4.6 14.05 5.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.05 7.9 17.36 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.25 11.3 20.25 11.3 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.68 13.8 27.75 13.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 24.12 10.0 24.12 10.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.62 5.4 21.62 5.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 32.98 10.7 32.98 10.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.23 6.3 33.23 6.3 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.43 7.9 20.43 7.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.90 4.1 22.90 4.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.76 11.2 18.76 11.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.78 11.0 19.78 11.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 26.06 3.7 26.06 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.21 5.5 24.21 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.92 2.7 23.92 2.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 27.81 10.9 27.81 10.9 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 21.05 7.3 21.05 7.3 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 22.76 4.8 22.76 4.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.69 6.7 21.69 6.7 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 24.68 4.3 24.68 4.3 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.51 10.8 18.51 10.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.19 3.9 17.48 3.8 9.58 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 10.17 3.8 10.61 3.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.47 2.1 11.56 2.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.87 3.0 15.88 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.30 6.5 18.30 6.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.63 5.7 18.63 5.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.28 8.3 22.28 8.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.80 4.4 24.80 4.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.21 7.6 18.21 7.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 25.65 4.8 25.65 4.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.59 18.2 13.97 20.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.88 1.5 – – – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 12.6 18.71 12.6 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 5.3 23.20 5.3 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.37 6.8 17.37 6.8 – – Printers.......................................................... 19.74 4.8 19.74 4.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.12 15.0 19.12 15.0 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.79 4.2 13.20 4.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.78 2.5 10.20 2.9 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.37 7.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.21 13.1 19.77 15.1 10.90 5.6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.53 6.7 10.77 13.7 8.98 4.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.36 6.2 11.67 6.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.55 5.4 15.58 7.2 15.47 3.4 Level 4 .................................................. 20.40 5.8 20.52 5.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.49 4.7 20.49 4.7 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.95 9.1 – – 14.38 9.7 Level 3 .................................................. 17.98 9.8 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.65 8.6 – – 14.18 10.1 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.47 4.2 19.47 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.99 6.9 20.99 6.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.45 8.7 20.45 8.7 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.32 4.4 19.32 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.22 7.1 20.22 7.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.40 9.9 20.40 9.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.89 13.8 19.89 13.8 – – Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 24.86 11.3 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.57 8.7 15.57 8.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.38 7.3 12.98 11.3 9.92 4.7 Level 1 .................................................. 9.80 8.6 11.90 17.6 9.16 5.2 Level 3 .................................................. 14.55 10.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.26 8.6 14.25 10.8 10.26 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.36 7.2 – – 9.41 8.1 Level 3 .................................................. 14.71 12.6 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.51 5.7 11.00 11.5 9.86 6.1 Level 1 .................................................. 10.62 10.2 – – 9.09 4.1 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $22.00 3.0 $24.28 3.1 $12.46 3.2 Management occupations.............................................. 41.25 3.8 41.32 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.61 12.4 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.47 8.8 30.47 8.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.75 3.7 46.42 3.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.29 5.3 45.31 5.3 – – General and operations managers................................... 37.45 8.2 37.45 8.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.29 10.9 39.29 10.9 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.11 3.1 46.11 3.1 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 3.9 54.39 3.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 41.98 14.4 41.27 15.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.96 19.9 48.96 19.9 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 45.09 7.5 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.33 17.3 36.35 17.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.60 8.8 22.60 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.16 4.4 22.14 4.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.75 4.9 24.75 4.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.14 5.5 30.14 5.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 36.99 3.5 36.99 3.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 53.25 18.5 53.25 18.5 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.79 7.4 24.79 7.4 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 19.73 15.3 19.73 15.3 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 19.02 13.9 19.02 13.9 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.99 12.8 24.00 13.1 – – Management analysts............................................... 31.20 4.0 31.20 4.0 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.63 3.5 27.63 3.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.34 8.9 29.34 8.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.40 7.6 27.40 7.6 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.47 3.0 37.47 3.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.32 4.9 26.32 4.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.01 1.3 28.01 1.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.90 6.9 36.90 6.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.88 4.6 42.88 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.89 6.5 40.89 6.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.61 6.5 42.61 6.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.61 6.7 45.61 6.7 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.98 9.1 41.98 9.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.33 5.1 44.33 5.1 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.34 8.0 43.34 8.0 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 27.85 6.1 27.85 6.1 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.50 5.6 41.50 5.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.23 5.0 40.23 5.0 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 33.82 5.7 33.82 5.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.64 8.7 34.17 8.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.97 5.1 25.97 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.58 9.5 29.95 8.4 – – Engineers......................................................... 40.85 10.7 40.85 10.7 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.79 7.2 26.54 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.78 9.5 22.71 11.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 35.10 9.5 35.74 9.1 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.89 7.3 19.22 7.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.94 10.6 20.94 10.6 – – Social workers.................................................... 21.35 10.5 21.35 10.5 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.26 .1 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.26 .1 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 35.29 10.2 35.62 10.3 – – Lawyers........................................................... 43.47 1.6 43.47 1.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 20.79 9.3 22.47 9.5 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.54 7.0 22.54 7.0 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.36 8.0 25.57 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.51 14.4 24.87 15.9 – – Designers......................................................... 22.84 8.7 22.02 9.6 – – Graphic designers............................................... 22.62 8.2 21.73 9.0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.11 2.3 29.59 3.7 31.18 3.9 Level 5 .................................................. 18.91 1.4 18.67 2.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.21 5.6 23.46 4.9 18.97 1.8 Level 7 .................................................. 27.69 4.6 27.75 4.7 27.45 8.9 Level 9 .................................................. 33.72 1.7 33.26 1.7 34.14 1.9 Level 11.................................................. 45.42 6.8 45.64 6.8 – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.55 2.1 35.81 3.3 33.58 2.5 Level 9 .................................................. 34.47 1.6 35.01 2.6 34.14 1.9 Therapists........................................................ 28.79 2.9 28.78 3.0 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 23.63 8.2 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.35 1.5 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.96 2.3 20.15 2.3 19.40 2.0 Level 5 .................................................. 18.94 3.6 18.90 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.52 1.7 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.55 6.2 15.14 8.7 13.29 5.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.92 4.2 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.28 5.4 13.64 4.9 12.82 6.9 Level 4 .................................................. 17.07 1.2 16.87 1.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.62 7.7 18.67 4.3 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.93 6.0 13.17 7.8 12.49 5.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.20 6.1 13.51 6.0 12.82 6.9 Home health aides............................................... 12.00 4.2 – – 11.69 5.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.49 6.7 13.99 6.8 12.79 6.8 Level 3 .................................................. 13.34 7.4 13.73 8.0 12.94 7.5 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.07 5.2 17.83 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.18 2.1 16.91 2.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.62 7.7 18.67 4.3 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 15.06 14.1 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.98 2.3 11.73 4.3 7.90 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 2.1 8.09 2.4 7.20 2.7 Level 2 .................................................. 8.10 3.2 9.04 6.5 7.72 3.2 Level 3 .................................................. 10.56 5.4 12.39 8.6 9.71 6.5 Level 4 .................................................. 12.41 4.2 12.75 7.3 11.75 5.7 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 16.87 16.5 17.22 18.0 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.13 2.8 12.66 4.0 11.25 6.1 Level 3 .................................................. 11.99 7.1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.65 8.0 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.74 1.8 11.80 .8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.20 7.7 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.34 5.6 – – 9.19 5.5 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.50 1.8 7.36 6.6 6.36 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.19 2.9 – – 6.15 3.3 Level 2 .................................................. 7.19 4.4 – – 6.85 4.4 Bartenders...................................................... 7.27 6.1 – – 6.76 1.4 Level 2 .................................................. 7.59 6.8 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.23 .4 – – 6.13 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.08 3.9 – – 6.04 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 6.58 2.5 – – 6.32 .8 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.85 5.0 – – 6.87 5.2 Level 1 .................................................. 6.49 2.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.05 4.2 – – 7.95 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 7.33 3.2 – – 7.26 3.1 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.51 4.9 – – 8.46 6.0 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.38 3.0 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.24 1.8 – – – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.13 3.2 – – 7.79 5.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.20 4.7 – – 7.79 7.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.92 7.0 13.83 7.9 10.30 1.0 Level 1 .................................................. 11.52 2.9 12.40 3.9 10.12 1.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.18 2.9 11.34 5.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 19.11 12.7 19.16 12.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.12 3.7 12.72 4.2 10.40 1.3 Level 1 .................................................. 11.61 3.1 12.40 3.9 10.17 1.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.26 3.0 11.34 5.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.75 7.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.92 6.6 14.01 5.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 12.17 5.8 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.18 2.6 11.35 3.7 10.57 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.59 3.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.21 9.0 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.06 8.4 11.09 11.2 8.70 8.9 Level 1 .................................................. 8.25 9.6 – – 7.59 3.9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.54 6.5 – – 8.94 2.4 Level 3 .................................................. 9.33 11.4 – – – – Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.51 3.8 – – 8.60 3.4 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.73 23.0 – – 7.87 21.1 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.53 7.9 27.25 7.3 9.37 2.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 3.6 – – 9.00 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 3.6 10.06 9.6 8.42 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.10 4.5 12.24 5.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.83 13.2 17.94 14.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.90 6.5 18.90 6.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.63 19.2 28.63 19.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.78 9.8 33.78 9.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... – – – – 10.36 12.6 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.15 11.4 23.15 11.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.75 1.3 19.75 1.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.91 2.0 12.99 3.0 9.26 1.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 3.7 – – 8.94 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.02 3.8 – – 8.42 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 10.57 .8 11.53 2.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.17 1.0 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.24 10.9 18.24 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 10.40 7.9 11.50 6.3 9.13 2.4 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.85 2.2 – – 9.70 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 9.6 – – 8.58 1.5 Cashiers...................................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.85 2.2 – – 9.70 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 9.6 – – 8.58 1.5 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.21 1.9 13.21 2.8 9.18 6.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.81 6.2 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.14 2.4 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.50 9.3 17.50 9.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 10.61 9.6 – – 9.20 3.0 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 81.33 22.8 81.33 22.8 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.31 11.0 29.31 11.0 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 28.00 13.8 28.00 13.8 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.63 1.4 17.52 1.8 12.62 5.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 3.5 – – 8.57 5.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.54 5.2 11.60 8.1 11.51 6.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.83 3.0 13.41 3.6 11.78 4.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.95 1.7 15.91 1.3 16.21 7.9 Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 3.3 18.40 3.6 16.74 6.5 Level 6 .................................................. 20.46 5.0 20.95 4.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.58 5.7 24.58 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.09 4.9 18.15 5.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.58 8.4 23.65 8.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.23 2.7 26.23 2.7 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 17.84 8.2 18.08 9.3 16.29 10.3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.11 4.9 12.11 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.80 5.3 15.39 3.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.21 3.9 16.37 3.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.80 6.9 17.80 6.9 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.58 11.9 18.68 12.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.70 3.1 15.64 3.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.83 2.6 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 11.20 6.5 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.15 4.8 17.31 4.8 12.34 2.6 Level 3 .................................................. 13.11 4.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.27 3.9 17.27 3.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 8.1 19.05 6.7 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.30 6.6 15.89 6.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.56 4.4 14.98 4.9 13.23 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 12.61 8.2 – – 13.15 8.5 Level 3 .................................................. 14.85 4.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.88 8.4 15.88 8.5 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.09 4.4 21.09 4.4 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.01 11.0 14.01 11.0 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.70 5.9 15.16 4.1 10.37 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.60 6.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.21 8.8 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.65 4.3 20.07 4.2 15.72 4.7 Level 4 .................................................. 17.49 4.1 17.57 4.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.45 9.1 17.12 9.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.06 5.8 20.37 2.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.34 5.1 21.34 5.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.67 4.4 20.30 4.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.78 5.2 21.78 5.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.73 5.4 17.96 5.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.94 8.5 15.24 8.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.12 5.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.12 8.4 15.13 10.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.04 16.9 20.04 16.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.91 14.8 27.98 14.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 24.12 10.0 24.12 10.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.41 5.2 21.41 5.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 33.49 10.7 33.49 10.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.23 6.3 33.23 6.3 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.43 7.9 20.43 7.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.62 4.4 22.62 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.63 12.9 18.63 12.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.38 12.7 19.38 12.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.11 5.6 24.11 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.92 2.7 23.92 2.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 21.05 7.3 21.05 7.3 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 22.79 5.4 22.79 5.4 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.26 7.6 21.26 7.6 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.11 3.9 17.40 3.9 9.58 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 10.17 3.8 10.61 3.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.47 2.1 11.56 2.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.87 3.0 15.88 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.30 6.5 18.30 6.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.63 5.7 18.63 5.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.84 8.9 21.84 8.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.77 4.5 24.77 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.21 7.6 18.21 7.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 25.65 4.8 25.65 4.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.59 18.2 13.97 20.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.88 1.5 – – – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 12.6 18.71 12.6 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 5.3 23.20 5.3 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.37 6.8 17.37 6.8 – – Printers.......................................................... 19.74 4.8 19.74 4.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.12 15.0 19.12 15.0 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.79 4.2 13.20 4.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.78 2.5 10.20 2.9 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.37 7.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.03 13.9 19.63 16.0 10.73 5.6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.53 6.7 10.77 13.7 8.98 4.9 Level 2 .................................................. 10.97 5.5 11.26 5.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.81 4.0 14.66 4.8 15.28 3.7 Level 4 .................................................. 20.40 5.8 20.52 5.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.13 4.5 20.13 4.5 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 14.12 10.0 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.12 10.0 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.46 4.3 19.46 4.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.99 6.9 20.99 6.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.45 8.7 20.45 8.7 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.32 4.4 19.32 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.22 7.1 20.22 7.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.40 9.9 20.40 9.9 – – Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 24.86 11.3 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.57 8.7 15.57 8.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.38 7.3 12.98 11.3 9.92 4.7 Level 1 .................................................. 9.80 8.6 11.90 17.6 9.16 5.2 Level 3 .................................................. 14.55 10.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.26 8.6 14.25 10.8 10.26 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.36 7.2 – – 9.41 8.1 Level 3 .................................................. 14.71 12.6 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.51 5.7 11.00 11.5 9.86 6.1 Level 1 .................................................. 10.62 10.2 – – 9.09 4.1 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $30.61 4.1 $31.62 4.1 $14.98 7.6 Management occupations.............................................. 47.16 8.1 47.86 7.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.67 3.2 48.67 3.2 – – Education administrators.......................................... 49.81 11.9 49.81 11.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 50.14 1.5 50.14 1.5 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 53.24 .6 53.24 .6 – – Level 11.................................................. 50.14 1.5 50.14 1.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.45 8.8 27.45 8.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.16 2.4 22.16 2.4 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.10 6.6 32.10 6.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.17 9.4 29.17 9.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 31.85 5.7 31.85 5.7 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 25.52 4.6 25.52 4.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 45.06 9.5 46.34 9.7 16.14 12.4 Level 3 .................................................. 13.78 .0 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.86 5.3 35.86 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.29 2.4 39.40 2.7 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 67.32 24.2 67.32 24.2 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.38 3.0 38.47 3.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.86 5.3 35.86 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.97 2.4 39.09 2.7 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 39.43 6.5 39.43 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.83 6.5 38.83 6.5 – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.43 6.5 39.43 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.83 6.5 38.83 6.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.32 1.9 38.32 1.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 36.03 2.8 36.03 2.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.92 2.0 38.92 2.0 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 37.85 2.8 37.85 2.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.35 3.1 38.35 3.1 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 39.64 1.5 39.64 1.5 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.34 2.8 39.34 2.8 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.34 2.8 39.34 2.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 14.31 5.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.78 .0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.63 7.5 33.41 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.47 2.3 37.47 2.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 35.01 4.5 35.01 4.5 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 27.45 5.9 27.89 5.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.40 2.8 28.40 2.8 – – Police officers................................................... 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.19 2.5 29.19 2.5 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.19 2.5 29.19 2.5 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.79 6.0 – – 11.79 6.0 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 11.40 10.5 – – 11.40 10.5 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.08 3.5 18.49 4.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.42 5.7 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.48 6.8 17.48 6.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.91 3.3 17.11 3.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.48 6.8 17.48 6.8 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.02 3.2 17.23 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.48 6.8 17.48 6.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.29 9.0 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.92 3.9 19.07 3.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.60 3.2 14.63 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.44 4.2 18.53 4.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.44 1.9 21.56 2.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.90 3.4 18.90 3.4 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.96 4.7 18.96 4.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.27 9.7 21.53 11.0 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 18.12 6.0 18.30 6.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.22 4.6 19.40 4.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.71 1.9 20.71 1.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.57 9.4 25.57 9.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 21.08 5.1 – – – – 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $23.00 2.7 $25.25 2.7 $12.56 3.1 Management occupations.............................................. 42.01 3.6 42.15 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 20.87 7.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 42.39 4.7 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 37.45 8.2 37.45 8.2 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.11 3.1 46.11 3.1 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 3.9 54.39 3.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 42.84 13.4 42.23 14.3 – – Education administrators.......................................... 40.11 12.7 40.11 12.7 – – Group III................................................. 46.62 11.4 – – – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.08 8.2 50.08 8.2 – – Group III................................................. 50.14 9.2 50.14 9.2 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.84 6.1 44.88 6.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.55 16.4 35.57 16.4 – – Group II.................................................. 22.38 3.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.45 3.5 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.79 7.4 24.79 7.4 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 21.53 9.7 21.53 9.7 – – Group II.................................................. 20.39 9.6 – – – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 21.22 9.5 21.22 9.5 – – Group II.................................................. 20.39 9.6 20.39 9.6 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.69 12.6 24.70 12.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.50 10.4 – – – – Management analysts............................................... 31.39 3.8 31.39 3.8 – – Group III................................................. 34.89 1.9 34.89 1.9 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.14 3.3 27.14 3.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.80 4.4 22.80 4.4 – – Group III................................................. 29.78 7.7 29.78 7.7 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.57 7.9 28.57 7.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.97 2.9 36.97 2.9 – – Group II.................................................. 27.31 5.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 40.11 2.6 – – – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.30 6.4 42.30 6.4 – – Group III................................................. 43.24 5.4 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.46 8.8 41.46 8.8 – – Group III................................................. 41.23 6.5 41.23 6.5 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.34 8.0 43.34 8.0 – – Group III................................................. 45.24 9.4 45.24 9.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 27.85 5.8 27.85 5.8 – – Group II.................................................. 24.67 7.4 24.67 7.4 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.72 5.2 40.72 5.2 – – Group III................................................. 40.26 6.8 40.26 6.8 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 32.65 6.5 32.65 6.5 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 30.59 5.6 30.59 5.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.23 8.0 33.69 7.7 – – Group II.................................................. 24.94 4.6 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 40.54 10.2 40.54 10.2 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.31 6.8 25.91 7.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.14 6.9 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.89 6.9 34.22 6.5 – – Group II.................................................. 28.72 6.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.85 8.7 – – – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.98 11.1 34.98 11.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.75 9.6 21.27 9.1 – – Group II.................................................. 19.59 10.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 27.35 9.6 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 23.63 2.2 23.33 2.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.71 3.2 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 23.63 11.2 23.63 11.2 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 17.40 8.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.40 8.1 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.46 1.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.46 1.9 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 36.72 9.3 37.09 9.4 – – Group II.................................................. 28.37 16.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.89 12.2 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 42.96 1.8 42.96 1.8 – – Group III................................................. 44.24 3.9 44.24 3.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.61 10.0 42.54 10.1 14.89 10.8 Group I................................................... 13.84 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 29.48 7.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.49 2.5 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 64.45 22.8 64.82 22.9 – – Group III................................................. 43.26 5.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.07 4.5 36.13 4.7 – – Group II.................................................. 29.81 8.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.29 2.9 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 33.31 9.8 33.31 9.8 – – Group III................................................. 38.83 6.5 – – – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.43 6.5 39.43 6.5 – – Group III................................................. 38.83 6.5 38.83 6.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.78 6.3 35.78 6.3 – – Group II.................................................. 30.50 11.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.65 3.7 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.28 7.0 35.28 7.0 – – Group II.................................................. 30.98 10.0 30.98 10.0 – – Group III................................................. 36.77 5.3 36.77 5.3 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.37 5.6 37.37 5.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Group III................................................. 39.34 2.8 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.55 3.8 38.55 3.8 – – Group III................................................. 39.34 2.8 39.34 2.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.84 4.8 14.63 1.5 12.95 6.9 Group I................................................... 13.84 4.8 14.63 1.5 12.95 6.9 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.36 7.9 25.57 7.7 – – Group III................................................. 31.05 14.0 – – – – Designers......................................................... 22.84 8.7 22.02 9.6 – – Graphic designers............................................... 22.62 8.2 21.73 9.0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.25 2.2 30.04 3.3 30.72 3.6 Group I................................................... 15.79 8.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.17 2.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.60 2.0 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.60 1.9 35.62 2.8 33.58 2.5 Group II.................................................. 25.96 7.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.55 1.3 36.82 2.8 34.18 1.9 Therapists........................................................ 31.65 6.7 31.75 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 32.93 6.8 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 23.39 7.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.19 6.0 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.02 2.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 27.02 2.1 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.89 2.3 20.09 2.3 19.30 1.9 Group II.................................................. 19.95 2.4 20.16 2.5 19.40 2.0 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.71 6.1 15.33 8.6 13.46 5.2 Group I................................................... 13.91 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.07 7.6 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.94 5.9 13.21 7.8 12.47 5.6 Group I................................................... 12.86 5.9 – – – – Home health aides............................................... 12.00 4.2 – – 11.69 5.0 Group I................................................... 12.00 4.2 – – 11.69 5.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.50 6.6 14.03 6.6 12.76 6.7 Group I................................................... 13.48 6.3 14.04 6.0 12.87 6.5 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.07 5.2 17.83 5.3 – – Group I................................................... 16.51 4.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.62 7.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.98 11.9 20.88 12.9 21.67 22.4 Group II.................................................. 27.39 6.1 – – – – Police officers................................................... 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Group II.................................................. 28.52 2.4 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Group II.................................................. 28.52 2.4 28.94 2.0 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.04 2.4 11.73 4.3 8.03 2.9 Group I................................................... 8.63 1.5 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 16.87 16.5 17.22 18.0 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.13 2.8 12.66 4.0 11.25 6.1 Group I................................................... 12.11 2.8 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.74 1.8 11.80 .8 – – Group I................................................... 11.74 1.8 11.80 .8 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.50 6.5 – – 9.40 7.0 Group I................................................... 9.50 6.5 – – 9.40 7.0 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.50 1.8 7.36 6.6 6.36 1.9 Group I................................................... 6.50 1.8 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 7.27 6.1 – – 6.76 1.4 Group I................................................... 7.27 6.1 – – 6.76 1.4 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.23 .4 – – 6.13 1.9 Group I................................................... 6.23 .4 – – 6.13 1.9 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.85 5.0 – – 6.87 5.2 Group I................................................... 6.85 5.0 – – 6.87 5.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.40 4.5 – – 8.36 5.0 Group I................................................... 8.40 4.5 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.97 8.5 – – 9.02 9.5 Group I................................................... 8.97 8.5 – – 9.02 9.5 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.38 3.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.24 1.8 – – – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.13 3.2 – – 7.79 5.6 Group I................................................... 8.13 3.2 – – 7.79 5.6 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.33 5.7 15.35 5.9 10.20 1.6 Group I................................................... 14.07 5.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.18 3.7 13.91 3.7 10.38 1.3 Group I................................................... 13.30 4.0 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.32 5.3 15.34 3.6 10.27 1.5 Group I................................................... 14.34 5.5 15.29 3.6 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.17 2.5 11.34 3.6 10.57 2.9 Group I................................................... 11.16 3.0 11.36 4.8 10.57 2.9 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 20.25 7.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 18.63 14.5 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 20.25 7.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 18.63 14.5 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.26 7.6 11.28 10.2 8.87 8.8 Group I................................................... 9.72 7.6 – – – – Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.66 4.3 – – 8.78 3.9 Group I................................................... 8.66 4.3 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 10.39 18.2 – – 7.83 19.9 Group I................................................... 9.27 20.1 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 10.37 23.8 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.53 7.9 27.25 7.3 9.37 2.1 Group I................................................... 11.50 7.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 30.12 19.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.65 8.2 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.15 11.4 23.15 11.4 – – Group II.................................................. 24.20 12.2 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.75 1.3 19.75 1.3 – – Group II.................................................. 24.20 12.2 24.20 12.2 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.91 2.0 12.99 3.0 9.26 1.8 Group I................................................... 10.21 .4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.24 10.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Group I................................................... 10.01 1.0 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 10.00 .8 11.32 4.0 9.34 2.2 Group I................................................... 10.01 1.0 11.50 4.2 9.36 2.1 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.21 1.9 13.21 2.8 9.18 6.1 Group I................................................... 10.14 2.1 11.47 2.4 9.17 6.7 Group II.................................................. 17.50 9.3 17.50 9.3 – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 81.33 22.8 81.33 22.8 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.31 11.0 29.31 11.0 – – Group II.................................................. 26.07 14.6 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 28.00 13.8 28.00 13.8 – – Group II.................................................. 26.07 14.6 26.07 14.6 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.88 1.4 17.72 1.6 12.68 4.8 Group I................................................... 14.33 1.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.51 3.2 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.51 7.9 23.58 8.1 – – Group II.................................................. 22.52 7.1 22.56 7.4 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.00 6.8 18.22 7.6 16.29 10.3 Group I................................................... 14.89 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.65 12.4 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.12 10.8 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.65 9.6 18.73 10.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.99 3.7 14.94 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 22.54 15.4 23.26 14.4 – – Tellers......................................................... 11.20 6.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.20 6.5 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.15 4.8 17.30 4.8 12.34 2.6 Group I................................................... 14.66 5.5 16.11 6.1 – – Group II.................................................. 17.79 6.4 18.04 6.7 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.30 6.6 15.89 6.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.65 4.2 15.05 4.7 13.23 7.1 Group I................................................... 14.67 4.5 15.13 5.1 13.23 7.1 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.09 4.4 21.09 4.4 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.01 11.0 14.01 11.0 – – Group I................................................... 13.33 13.3 13.33 13.3 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.47 5.0 15.96 5.4 10.37 4.4 Group I................................................... 14.06 6.3 15.62 7.9 10.37 4.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.82 3.9 20.23 3.9 15.81 4.5 Group I................................................... 17.05 4.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.49 4.4 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.23 4.5 20.86 4.1 – – Group II.................................................. 20.58 5.8 21.84 4.4 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.64 4.4 17.84 4.6 – – Group I................................................... 17.23 6.5 17.59 6.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 16.09 5.8 16.41 5.9 13.28 8.7 Group I................................................... 14.88 5.7 15.17 6.2 13.28 8.7 Group II.................................................. 20.25 11.3 20.25 11.3 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.68 13.8 27.75 13.9 – – Group I................................................... 21.52 3.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 28.90 13.7 – – – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.43 7.9 20.43 7.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.90 4.1 22.90 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 18.23 13.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.07 4.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 27.81 10.9 27.81 10.9 – – Group II.................................................. 27.81 10.9 27.81 10.9 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 21.05 7.3 21.05 7.3 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 22.76 4.8 22.76 4.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.69 6.7 21.69 6.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.84 11.4 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 24.68 4.3 24.68 4.3 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.51 10.8 18.51 10.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.19 3.9 17.48 3.8 9.58 2.7 Group I................................................... 13.96 9.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.62 2.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 25.65 4.8 25.65 4.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.59 18.2 13.97 20.7 – – Group I................................................... 13.92 22.5 – – – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 12.6 18.71 12.6 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 5.3 23.20 5.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.24 2.2 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.37 6.8 17.37 6.8 – – Printers.......................................................... 19.74 4.8 19.74 4.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.12 15.0 19.12 15.0 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.79 4.2 13.20 4.4 – – Group I................................................... 12.45 4.4 – – – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.37 7.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.21 13.1 19.77 15.1 10.90 5.6 Group I................................................... 13.83 6.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.01 5.5 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.95 9.1 – – 14.38 9.7 Group I................................................... 17.45 8.5 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.65 8.6 – – 14.18 10.1 Group I................................................... 15.94 4.0 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.47 4.2 19.47 4.2 – – Group I................................................... 18.98 8.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.45 8.7 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.32 4.4 19.32 4.4 – – Group I................................................... 18.72 9.5 18.72 9.5 – – Group II.................................................. 20.40 9.9 20.40 9.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.89 13.8 19.89 13.8 – – Group I................................................... 19.89 13.8 19.89 13.8 – – Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 24.86 11.3 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.57 8.7 15.57 8.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.38 7.3 12.98 11.3 9.92 4.7 Group I................................................... 11.40 7.5 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.26 8.6 14.25 10.8 10.26 5.9 Group I................................................... 12.35 8.7 14.25 11.1 10.34 6.1 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.51 5.7 11.00 11.5 9.86 6.1 Group I................................................... 10.51 5.7 11.00 11.5 9.86 6.1 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.49 $13.00 $19.00 $28.51 $40.49 Management occupations.............................................. 23.73 30.29 40.80 52.89 62.07 General and operations managers................................... 20.22 29.57 41.06 46.30 48.69 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.62 38.22 46.63 53.85 53.85 Computer and information systems managers......................... 44.71 47.53 55.89 60.19 65.87 Financial managers................................................ 23.73 24.02 31.83 57.47 77.81 Education administrators.......................................... 25.75 29.82 38.46 50.96 59.17 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 29.82 40.49 53.46 59.17 62.51 Medical and health services managers.............................. 28.23 32.81 43.86 62.07 62.07 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.89 22.80 27.53 37.02 82.70 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.73 20.23 24.71 26.92 34.78 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 15.51 16.35 21.20 26.92 28.37 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 15.51 16.35 20.73 26.75 28.48 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.17 19.76 23.06 28.03 35.72 Management analysts............................................... 22.88 26.44 30.47 35.05 44.07 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.29 21.50 26.15 32.29 36.54 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 21.55 22.82 25.48 34.97 37.98 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.10 29.74 36.06 42.72 51.91 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.65 35.10 42.14 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 26.92 33.22 38.70 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 34.33 38.65 42.14 43.99 54.97 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.85 22.68 27.45 33.64 36.06 Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.44 35.61 40.80 44.86 48.38 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 26.10 26.68 33.64 39.42 42.18 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 25.24 27.09 29.74 33.38 36.37 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.88 23.32 29.34 41.26 48.44 Engineers......................................................... 23.32 30.57 41.26 43.88 62.72 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.36 20.74 26.33 28.12 33.42 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.33 26.08 32.05 39.34 45.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Market research analysts........................................ 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.67 16.00 18.75 23.84 27.51 Counselors........................................................ 20.19 22.26 22.56 25.33 27.51 Social workers.................................................... 14.81 17.60 22.77 28.06 33.81 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.66 15.00 17.08 17.89 21.15 Social and human service assistants............................. 14.66 15.00 17.08 17.89 17.89 Legal occupations................................................... 23.58 29.87 35.59 39.35 54.78 Lawyers........................................................... 31.69 37.02 39.35 45.67 62.03 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 16.08 26.38 37.21 45.89 53.66 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 35.35 43.63 45.89 76.71 130.29 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.94 28.27 36.24 43.90 48.37 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.21 20.21 39.05 40.95 46.17 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.01 37.99 39.92 43.34 46.60 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.27 27.58 35.69 43.66 48.31 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.37 27.36 34.72 42.85 47.10 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.87 29.02 37.99 45.89 51.07 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.50 11.67 13.90 15.61 17.31 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.39 19.70 22.65 31.25 39.47 Designers......................................................... 17.56 19.70 19.77 23.46 34.79 Graphic designers............................................... 17.56 19.70 19.71 23.46 34.79 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.74 21.28 29.33 36.27 43.91 Registered nurses................................................. 25.73 29.70 34.68 39.78 43.38 Therapists........................................................ 25.76 28.92 29.33 32.26 43.54 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.45 20.54 22.01 28.78 29.90 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 16.59 26.00 28.39 28.75 29.28 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.80 18.25 20.00 21.52 23.21 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.51 11.77 14.38 17.33 19.14 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.51 10.60 12.40 14.67 16.65 Home health aides............................................... 10.51 10.51 10.65 13.22 14.98 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.50 11.77 13.05 15.58 17.35 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 14.50 17.59 19.10 21.42 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.05 12.85 18.60 30.00 32.59 Police officers................................................... 21.82 25.13 30.09 32.00 32.77 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.82 25.13 30.09 32.00 32.77 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.55 8.00 10.80 13.36 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.47 12.59 15.38 20.01 23.36 Cooks............................................................. 9.00 10.75 11.81 14.00 15.93 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.00 11.81 13.00 14.00 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 9.49 10.10 12.50 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.94 6.15 6.55 6.55 7.50 Bartenders...................................................... 6.23 6.50 7.00 8.00 9.16 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.86 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.55 8.60 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.55 7.00 7.89 9.00 10.90 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.90 7.60 8.15 10.38 11.86 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.15 7.50 8.50 9.50 9.55 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 7.15 8.19 8.59 9.47 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.60 10.90 12.65 16.80 21.63 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.60 10.50 12.30 15.22 18.76 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.13 12.16 13.50 17.03 19.35 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.32 9.91 11.21 11.70 13.68 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.23 16.36 24.42 24.42 26.45 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 9.23 16.36 24.42 24.42 26.45 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.50 8.49 9.50 12.30 14.48 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.00 8.20 8.49 8.80 9.25 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.63 7.09 11.00 13.00 16.54 Recreation workers.............................................. 4.38 4.75 13.00 13.13 16.54 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.90 9.46 13.50 23.95 38.31 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.93 13.50 19.56 26.03 45.83 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 18.26 24.61 26.03 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.35 8.07 9.88 12.50 15.40 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 8.00 9.15 12.00 13.75 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 8.00 9.15 12.00 13.75 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.25 8.50 10.00 12.47 15.97 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.87 23.47 43.11 122.68 191.07 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 13.77 22.15 31.25 33.51 43.63 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.77 22.02 31.03 31.50 38.31 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.00 13.10 16.28 19.98 23.23 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.60 19.05 24.83 28.54 29.21 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 14.40 16.88 20.67 23.67 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.86 14.85 18.21 20.01 23.65 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.00 14.92 16.77 20.67 28.21 Tellers......................................................... 10.25 10.50 10.75 12.21 12.99 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 12.87 16.39 18.04 21.05 Order clerks...................................................... 13.00 14.32 15.50 15.50 17.71 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.01 12.00 14.00 17.76 18.30 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 11.45 14.61 20.11 28.25 28.25 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.19 12.50 14.49 15.25 18.55 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 11.40 15.98 17.54 19.47 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.90 15.85 20.20 22.60 25.65 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.90 15.85 20.44 23.21 26.30 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.49 14.93 17.06 20.62 21.85 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.46 12.43 15.31 19.38 20.61 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.88 22.00 29.62 33.10 37.58 Carpenters........................................................ 14.88 14.88 14.88 27.80 32.84 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.25 18.80 23.52 27.22 29.27 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 15.23 25.40 32.69 32.82 33.72 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.25 17.35 18.80 24.62 27.12 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 18.50 20.02 23.51 25.15 25.15 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.00 18.60 22.75 25.21 27.75 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.23 23.23 24.46 25.45 28.05 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.50 18.60 18.66 22.75 23.52 Production occupations.............................................. 9.78 12.07 16.10 21.21 27.07 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.84 19.63 27.07 29.47 31.51 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.29 9.78 10.97 13.65 28.60 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.00 13.20 22.94 23.29 24.29 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.45 19.56 22.85 28.07 31.35 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.75 15.00 17.00 19.56 21.26 Printers.......................................................... 13.50 16.10 19.73 21.50 25.81 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.16 14.80 20.36 22.50 27.73 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.39 12.35 15.11 17.24 Helpers--production workers..................................... 8.00 10.35 15.11 15.78 17.24 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.12 10.00 15.00 19.10 24.00 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.50 12.50 15.55 16.24 23.20 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.50 12.50 15.15 15.55 16.00 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.25 16.00 19.00 22.50 27.54 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.50 18.34 22.50 24.30 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.00 15.00 15.75 28.17 28.52 Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 19.50 19.50 28.40 28.50 28.60 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.11 13.11 16.02 17.24 18.28 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.55 8.15 9.79 13.35 16.91 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 8.25 11.85 15.00 18.51 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.50 8.35 9.68 11.17 15.00 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.15 $12.44 $17.94 $27.39 $38.60 Management occupations.............................................. 22.64 29.81 39.42 51.38 62.07 General and operations managers................................... 20.22 29.57 41.06 46.30 48.69 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.62 38.22 46.63 53.85 53.85 Computer and information systems managers......................... 44.71 47.53 55.89 60.19 65.87 Financial managers................................................ 23.73 24.02 31.75 55.43 77.81 Medical and health services managers.............................. 28.23 32.81 44.79 62.07 62.07 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.85 22.77 27.53 38.60 82.70 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.73 20.23 24.71 26.92 34.78 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 15.51 15.96 17.22 26.92 27.06 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 15.51 15.62 16.93 21.20 26.92 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.00 19.48 22.79 28.03 32.59 Management analysts............................................... 22.88 26.44 30.43 34.62 44.07 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.23 21.50 27.53 32.29 37.02 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 21.02 22.47 24.64 30.74 39.66 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.10 30.29 36.55 43.99 53.13 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.65 36.54 42.14 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 26.92 32.96 39.66 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 34.33 38.65 42.14 43.99 54.97 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.85 22.68 27.27 33.64 36.06 Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.10 36.72 41.53 44.86 48.68 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 26.10 26.68 33.64 39.42 42.18 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.84 24.00 29.40 41.26 51.13 Engineers......................................................... 23.32 29.81 41.26 46.68 63.25 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.00 21.11 27.24 28.12 33.46 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Market research analysts........................................ 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.66 15.00 17.45 22.26 26.49 Social workers.................................................... 14.67 17.45 22.56 24.30 28.06 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.66 15.00 16.00 17.16 17.89 Social and human service assistants............................. 14.66 15.00 16.00 17.16 17.89 Legal occupations................................................... 22.74 28.63 34.19 38.87 45.67 Lawyers........................................................... 27.83 36.83 39.89 45.67 62.50 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.00 14.85 20.14 23.83 33.31 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 16.23 20.06 20.87 24.88 30.16 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.39 19.70 21.84 31.25 39.47 Designers......................................................... 17.56 19.70 19.77 23.46 34.79 Graphic designers............................................... 17.56 19.70 19.71 23.46 34.79 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.92 21.37 29.28 35.45 43.91 Registered nurses................................................. 25.73 29.67 34.68 39.80 43.22 Therapists........................................................ 25.76 28.74 29.33 30.98 31.98 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.45 20.54 21.72 28.84 29.90 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 16.59 28.39 28.39 29.18 29.28 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.80 18.25 20.00 21.52 23.21 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.51 11.77 14.05 17.24 19.10 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.51 10.60 12.40 14.67 16.65 Home health aides............................................... 10.51 10.51 10.65 13.22 14.98 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.60 11.77 13.05 15.58 17.35 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 14.50 17.59 19.10 21.42 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.66 11.50 12.96 15.41 30.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.55 8.00 10.50 13.35 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.47 12.59 15.38 20.01 23.36 Cooks............................................................. 9.00 10.75 11.81 14.00 15.93 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.00 11.81 13.00 14.00 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 9.25 10.10 11.50 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.94 6.15 6.55 6.55 7.50 Bartenders...................................................... 6.23 6.50 7.00 8.00 9.16 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.86 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.55 8.60 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 7.00 7.75 8.36 10.38 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.75 7.60 8.15 9.00 10.80 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.15 7.50 8.50 9.50 9.55 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 7.15 8.19 8.59 9.47 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.35 10.25 11.70 13.50 18.75 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.40 10.25 11.45 12.67 16.00 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.13 10.50 12.30 13.89 18.70 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.32 9.91 11.21 11.70 13.68 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.50 8.25 9.24 11.43 14.48 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.00 8.20 8.49 8.63 9.09 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.38 4.75 9.25 13.00 16.54 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.90 9.46 13.50 23.95 38.31 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.93 13.50 19.56 26.03 45.83 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 18.26 24.61 27.10 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.35 8.07 9.88 12.50 15.40 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 8.00 9.15 12.00 13.75 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 8.00 9.15 12.00 13.75 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.25 8.50 10.00 12.47 15.97 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.87 23.47 43.11 122.68 191.07 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 13.77 22.15 31.25 33.51 43.63 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.77 22.02 31.03 31.50 38.31 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.79 13.00 15.87 19.38 23.28 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.60 19.05 24.83 28.54 30.01 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.46 13.78 16.51 20.67 28.21 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.00 14.40 16.51 20.67 28.21 Tellers......................................................... 10.25 10.50 10.75 12.21 12.99 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 12.87 16.39 18.04 21.05 Order clerks...................................................... 13.00 14.32 15.50 15.50 17.71 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.01 12.00 14.70 17.00 18.14 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 11.45 14.61 20.11 28.25 28.25 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.19 12.50 14.49 15.25 18.55 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.98 10.70 13.10 16.55 18.99 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.90 15.87 20.08 22.00 25.00 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.83 15.50 20.10 21.95 25.62 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.49 15.77 17.39 20.62 21.18 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.95 12.00 13.18 17.00 19.38 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.88 22.00 29.70 33.42 37.58 Carpenters........................................................ 14.88 14.88 14.88 27.80 32.84 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.23 18.80 23.52 26.55 27.75 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.25 17.35 18.80 24.62 27.12 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 18.50 20.02 22.78 25.15 25.15 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.25 18.60 23.11 25.16 27.75 Production occupations.............................................. 9.78 12.00 16.10 21.00 26.28 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.84 19.63 27.07 29.47 31.51 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.29 9.78 10.97 13.65 28.60 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.00 13.20 22.94 23.29 24.29 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.45 19.56 22.85 28.07 31.35 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.75 15.00 17.00 19.56 21.26 Printers.......................................................... 13.50 16.10 19.73 21.50 25.81 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.16 14.80 20.36 22.50 27.73 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.39 12.35 15.11 17.24 Helpers--production workers..................................... 8.00 10.35 15.11 15.78 17.24 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.10 10.00 14.21 18.51 24.00 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.50 12.50 14.00 15.55 15.73 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.50 12.50 14.00 15.55 15.73 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.00 15.25 18.50 22.50 27.70 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.50 18.34 22.50 24.30 Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 19.50 19.50 28.40 28.50 28.60 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.11 13.11 16.02 17.24 18.28 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.55 8.15 9.79 13.35 16.91 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 8.25 11.85 15.00 18.51 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.50 8.35 9.68 11.17 15.00 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $15.45 $19.99 $26.45 $36.52 $47.37 Management occupations.............................................. 32.57 40.49 45.74 53.82 62.40 Education administrators.......................................... 25.75 40.49 53.46 59.17 62.51 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 40.49 50.19 53.69 60.22 62.73 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.43 22.99 27.46 33.09 35.05 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 22.12 27.79 33.07 36.37 42.77 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.47 22.41 26.02 35.13 45.31 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.09 28.01 30.73 34.48 42.28 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.40 21.29 24.01 27.46 33.81 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.01 32.87 40.85 47.10 76.71 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 35.35 43.63 47.57 76.71 130.29 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.42 32.08 39.05 44.86 49.28 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 29.01 37.99 39.92 43.34 46.60 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.01 37.99 39.92 43.34 46.60 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 26.37 32.08 38.89 44.75 49.24 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 26.31 31.62 38.89 44.48 48.31 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.57 33.93 39.92 46.63 51.81 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.07 12.11 13.79 16.16 18.07 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.58 21.13 32.75 38.69 46.60 Registered nurses................................................. 26.62 31.61 34.13 37.70 44.37 Protective service occupations...................................... 18.46 23.06 28.30 32.29 35.37 Police officers................................................... 21.82 25.13 30.09 32.00 32.77 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.82 25.13 30.09 32.00 32.77 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.00 10.92 12.01 13.34 14.16 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.00 10.48 11.86 13.57 13.75 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.36 15.43 16.80 21.21 26.45 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.96 14.70 16.80 19.86 21.21 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.36 14.76 16.80 19.86 21.21 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.15 12.46 13.00 13.60 15.33 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.88 15.76 19.46 21.57 23.02 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.49 17.77 18.53 21.46 22.01 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.49 17.11 18.53 21.46 22.01 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.67 14.91 22.98 25.87 27.74 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.72 15.66 19.22 20.61 21.57 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.84 19.84 24.01 29.27 33.72 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.24 19.72 21.66 23.20 27.20 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.56 $15.15 $21.17 $30.35 $42.18 Management occupations.............................................. 23.73 30.29 40.80 52.89 62.07 General and operations managers................................... 20.22 29.57 41.06 46.30 48.69 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.62 38.22 46.63 53.85 53.85 Computer and information systems managers......................... 44.71 47.53 55.89 60.19 65.87 Financial managers................................................ 23.73 24.02 31.75 57.47 77.81 Education administrators.......................................... 25.75 29.82 38.46 50.96 59.17 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 29.82 40.49 53.46 59.17 62.51 Medical and health services managers.............................. 28.23 32.81 43.86 62.07 62.07 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.86 22.79 27.53 37.02 82.70 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.73 20.23 24.71 26.92 34.78 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 15.51 16.35 21.20 26.92 28.37 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 15.51 16.35 20.73 26.75 28.48 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.17 19.63 23.06 28.03 35.72 Management analysts............................................... 22.88 26.44 30.47 35.05 44.07 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.29 21.50 26.15 32.29 36.54 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 21.55 22.82 25.48 34.97 37.98 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.10 29.74 36.06 42.72 51.91 Computer software engineers....................................... 29.65 35.10 42.14 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 26.92 33.22 38.70 53.13 55.87 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 34.33 38.65 42.14 43.99 54.97 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.85 22.68 27.45 33.64 36.06 Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.44 35.61 40.80 44.86 48.38 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 26.10 26.68 33.64 39.42 42.18 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 25.24 27.09 29.74 33.38 36.37 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.40 24.00 29.40 41.26 49.50 Engineers......................................................... 23.32 30.57 41.26 43.88 62.72 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.64 22.35 26.56 28.12 33.43 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 26.08 26.08 32.47 41.18 45.93 Market and survey researchers..................................... 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Market research analysts........................................ 26.08 26.08 34.18 45.93 45.93 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.67 17.08 20.83 24.01 28.06 Counselors........................................................ 20.19 22.26 22.56 24.88 27.46 Social workers.................................................... 14.81 17.60 22.77 28.06 33.81 Legal occupations................................................... 24.28 29.87 35.47 39.89 54.81 Lawyers........................................................... 31.69 37.02 39.35 45.67 62.03 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 20.21 29.23 39.05 46.17 55.51 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 35.35 43.63 45.89 76.71 130.29 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.94 28.38 36.48 43.92 48.39 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.21 20.21 39.05 40.95 46.17 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.01 37.99 39.92 43.34 46.60 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.27 27.58 35.69 43.66 48.31 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.37 27.36 34.72 42.85 47.10 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.87 29.02 37.99 45.89 51.07 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.37 32.50 37.69 45.87 50.40 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.54 13.07 14.53 15.79 17.31 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.39 19.70 23.10 30.91 39.47 Designers......................................................... 17.56 19.70 19.70 23.46 34.79 Graphic designers............................................... 17.56 19.70 19.70 23.10 34.79 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.63 20.89 28.84 36.37 44.01 Registered nurses................................................. 26.40 29.70 34.68 41.82 43.91 Therapists........................................................ 25.76 28.92 29.33 32.26 43.77 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.80 18.63 20.41 22.00 23.21 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.51 12.35 15.66 18.21 21.00 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.51 10.51 12.70 15.02 17.35 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.96 12.00 13.93 16.02 17.52 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 16.25 18.21 19.50 21.42 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.25 12.93 18.30 29.04 32.88 Police officers................................................... 23.70 26.17 30.09 32.00 32.77 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.70 26.17 30.09 32.00 32.77 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.15 9.16 11.33 14.10 16.14 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.47 13.46 15.38 20.60 23.36 Cooks............................................................. 9.75 11.33 11.81 15.00 15.93 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.50 11.33 11.44 13.00 14.25 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.15 6.55 7.00 7.50 9.16 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.90 12.00 13.68 18.70 24.42 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.06 11.25 12.67 16.00 19.31 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.30 12.65 14.49 18.34 19.86 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.35 10.24 11.25 11.70 13.56 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.00 9.17 10.00 13.00 14.48 Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.00 12.34 19.18 31.25 43.96 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.93 13.50 19.56 26.03 45.83 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 18.26 24.61 26.03 Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.46 10.00 11.40 15.04 20.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.75 9.65 11.33 13.50 14.05 Cashiers...................................................... 7.75 9.65 11.33 13.50 14.05 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.71 10.00 11.76 15.20 22.58 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.87 23.47 43.11 122.68 191.07 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 13.77 22.15 31.25 33.51 43.63 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 13.77 22.02 31.03 31.50 38.31 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.00 14.49 16.85 20.61 24.44 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.60 19.05 24.83 28.54 29.21 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 14.40 16.85 20.67 28.21 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.00 14.86 16.51 21.46 28.21 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.15 14.93 17.31 19.71 21.09 Order clerks...................................................... 13.50 14.32 15.50 17.00 17.71 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.50 12.14 14.85 17.78 19.40 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 11.45 14.61 20.11 28.25 28.25 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.19 12.50 14.49 15.25 18.55 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.00 12.25 16.55 18.25 19.47 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.90 17.06 20.67 22.93 25.76 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.61 17.88 21.05 24.27 26.48 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.49 15.14 17.06 21.13 21.85 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.15 12.43 16.09 19.38 20.61 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.88 22.00 29.62 33.10 37.58 Carpenters........................................................ 14.88 14.88 14.88 27.80 32.84 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.25 18.80 23.52 27.22 29.27 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 15.23 25.40 32.69 32.82 33.72 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.25 17.35 18.80 24.62 27.12 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 18.50 20.02 23.51 25.15 25.15 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.00 18.60 22.75 25.21 27.75 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 21.23 23.23 24.46 25.45 28.05 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.50 18.60 18.66 22.75 23.52 Production occupations.............................................. 10.00 12.50 16.45 21.50 27.07 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.84 19.63 27.07 29.47 31.51 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.29 9.78 11.22 14.00 28.60 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.00 13.20 22.94 23.29 24.29 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.45 19.56 22.85 28.07 31.35 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.75 15.00 17.00 19.56 21.26 Printers.......................................................... 13.50 16.10 19.73 21.50 25.81 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.16 14.80 20.36 22.50 27.73 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.69 10.70 12.50 15.11 17.24 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.68 13.11 16.80 20.30 28.17 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.25 16.00 19.00 22.50 27.54 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.50 18.34 22.50 24.30 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.00 15.00 15.75 28.17 28.52 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.11 13.11 16.02 17.24 18.28 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.05 9.68 12.50 15.00 18.51 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.25 11.00 14.21 18.51 18.51 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.50 9.68 9.68 11.65 15.00 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. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.55 $8.00 $10.13 $14.00 $20.19 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.30 10.82 13.26 17.32 20.95 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.30 10.50 11.84 14.60 17.69 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 18.25 22.29 31.43 36.07 40.19 Registered nurses................................................. 25.25 29.70 34.00 38.66 40.79 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.13 18.25 18.94 20.89 21.52 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.25 11.00 13.50 15.54 17.55 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.25 10.76 11.77 14.38 15.58 Home health aides............................................... 9.90 10.50 10.97 12.60 14.45 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.25 11.00 11.77 14.67 15.60 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.81 12.25 30.00 30.00 30.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.50 7.21 9.00 11.76 Cooks............................................................. 9.00 9.00 11.50 13.00 14.00 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 8.40 10.10 12.80 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.25 6.15 6.50 6.55 7.00 Bartenders...................................................... 6.50 6.50 6.66 7.00 7.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.59 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.15 6.15 6.55 6.55 8.60 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 7.00 7.60 8.70 11.40 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.75 7.60 8.15 10.52 12.10 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 7.15 7.90 8.25 8.59 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.70 9.32 10.13 10.50 11.45 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.85 10.00 10.15 10.50 11.45 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.13 10.13 10.25 10.50 10.90 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.85 8.85 10.15 11.45 13.82 Personal care and service occupations............................... 5.88 6.75 8.25 10.22 14.19 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.00 8.45 8.49 8.80 9.27 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.38 4.63 8.00 9.25 12.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.00 7.75 8.50 10.00 13.35 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.00 7.65 8.50 10.00 13.35 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.45 7.82 8.50 10.00 13.35 Cashiers...................................................... 7.45 7.82 8.50 10.00 13.35 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.55 7.34 8.50 10.00 13.04 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.85 10.00 12.25 14.50 17.59 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.50 12.99 17.59 20.19 20.80 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.58 11.58 12.87 12.87 14.09 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.72 11.70 13.00 15.50 17.00 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 8.00 8.65 13.10 13.53 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.05 15.35 15.50 15.50 19.10 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.75 9.75 14.50 14.50 15.66 Production occupations.............................................. 7.75 8.00 9.27 10.52 10.52 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.10 8.10 10.00 13.10 15.55 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.50 12.50 15.55 15.55 16.00 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.50 12.50 15.10 15.55 15.73 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.10 8.00 9.00 11.50 13.35 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.30 7.76 8.75 13.10 13.35 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.50 8.00 9.50 11.17 14.97 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $25.25 $21.17 $1,007 $845 39.9 $51,100 $43,000 2,024 Management occupations.............................................. 42.15 40.80 1,685 1,632 40.0 86,807 84,860 2,060 General and operations managers................................... 37.45 41.06 1,496 1,642 40.0 77,802 85,394 2,078 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.11 46.63 1,844 1,865 40.0 95,911 96,990 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 55.89 2,176 2,236 40.0 113,126 116,251 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 42.23 31.75 1,689 1,270 40.0 87,830 66,040 2,080 Education administrators.......................................... 40.11 38.46 1,599 1,538 39.9 78,923 76,158 1,968 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.08 53.46 1,991 2,038 39.8 99,109 101,080 1,979 Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.88 43.86 1,795 1,754 40.0 93,347 91,229 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.57 27.53 1,421 1,077 39.9 73,873 56,000 2,077 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.79 24.71 991 988 40.0 51,557 51,391 2,080 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 21.53 21.20 858 848 39.9 44,629 44,096 2,073 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 21.22 20.73 847 829 39.9 44,060 43,118 2,076 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.70 23.06 988 922 40.0 51,385 47,965 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 31.39 30.47 1,256 1,219 40.0 65,295 63,378 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.14 26.15 1,082 1,059 39.9 56,276 55,058 2,073 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.57 25.48 1,116 1,002 39.1 58,030 52,119 2,031 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.97 36.06 1,478 1,442 40.0 76,623 75,001 2,073 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.30 42.14 1,692 1,685 40.0 87,980 87,645 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.46 38.70 1,658 1,548 40.0 86,239 80,500 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.34 42.14 1,734 1,685 40.0 90,144 87,645 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 27.85 27.45 1,114 1,098 40.0 57,928 57,092 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.72 40.80 1,629 1,632 40.0 84,692 84,864 2,080 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 32.65 33.64 1,301 1,346 39.8 65,898 69,973 2,018 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 30.59 29.74 1,223 1,190 40.0 63,617 61,859 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.69 29.40 1,348 1,176 40.0 70,080 61,152 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 40.54 41.26 1,622 1,650 40.0 84,327 85,825 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.91 26.56 1,037 1,062 40.0 53,900 55,245 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 34.22 32.47 1,369 1,299 40.0 70,169 67,330 2,050 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.98 34.18 1,399 1,367 40.0 72,754 71,101 2,080 Market research analysts........................................ 34.98 34.18 1,399 1,367 40.0 72,754 71,101 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.27 20.83 848 821 39.9 42,479 41,309 1,997 Counselors........................................................ 23.33 22.56 927 893 39.7 48,184 46,426 2,065 Social workers.................................................... 23.63 22.77 942 911 39.9 43,495 46,800 1,841 Legal occupations................................................... 37.09 35.47 1,553 1,445 41.9 80,741 75,130 2,177 Lawyers........................................................... 42.96 39.35 1,828 1,827 42.5 95,047 95,000 2,212 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 42.54 39.05 1,646 1,496 38.7 64,240 54,998 1,510 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 64.82 45.89 2,564 1,836 39.6 112,817 90,750 1,741 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.13 36.48 1,392 1,393 38.5 51,605 51,634 1,428 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 33.31 39.05 1,298 1,461 39.0 48,553 46,167 1,458 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.43 39.92 1,519 1,586 38.5 52,576 55,102 1,333 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.78 35.69 1,379 1,367 38.6 50,438 50,519 1,410 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.28 34.72 1,368 1,367 38.8 49,516 49,118 1,403 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.37 37.99 1,413 1,442 37.8 53,422 53,297 1,430 Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.55 37.69 1,475 1,443 38.3 55,243 53,792 1,433 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.55 37.69 1,475 1,443 38.3 55,243 53,792 1,433 Teacher assistants................................................ 14.63 14.53 542 556 37.0 22,692 19,055 1,551 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.57 23.10 1,023 924 40.0 53,190 48,052 2,080 Designers......................................................... 22.02 19.70 881 788 40.0 45,794 40,968 2,080 Graphic designers............................................... 21.73 19.70 869 788 40.0 45,194 40,968 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.04 28.84 1,189 1,150 39.6 60,287 59,051 2,007 Registered nurses................................................. 35.62 34.68 1,407 1,387 39.5 70,379 72,132 1,976 Therapists........................................................ 31.75 29.33 1,259 1,173 39.6 58,583 61,000 1,845 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.09 20.41 788 800 39.2 40,977 41,600 2,039 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.33 15.66 611 626 39.9 30,239 31,158 1,972 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.21 12.70 528 508 40.0 25,180 25,688 1,906 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.03 13.93 561 557 40.0 25,171 27,144 1,794 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.83 18.21 707 728 39.7 36,776 37,877 2,063 Protective service occupations...................................... 20.88 18.30 847 732 40.6 44,048 38,064 2,109 Police officers................................................... 28.94 30.09 1,158 1,204 40.0 60,197 62,587 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.94 30.09 1,158 1,204 40.0 60,197 62,587 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.73 11.33 456 453 38.9 23,547 23,566 2,007 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.22 15.38 714 673 41.5 37,153 34,996 2,158 Cooks............................................................. 12.66 11.81 506 472 40.0 26,329 24,565 2,080 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.80 11.44 472 458 40.0 24,552 23,795 2,080 Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.36 7.00 268 280 36.5 13,957 14,560 1,896 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.35 13.68 611 547 39.8 30,667 28,454 1,997 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.91 12.67 553 507 39.7 28,469 26,308 2,046 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.34 14.49 607 577 39.6 31,114 29,120 2,028 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.34 11.25 454 450 40.0 23,585 23,400 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.28 10.00 442 400 39.1 18,426 19,067 1,633 Sales and related occupations....................................... 27.25 19.18 1,074 753 39.4 55,863 39,146 2,050 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.15 19.56 904 774 39.1 47,011 40,227 2,031 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.75 18.26 768 716 38.9 39,948 37,232 2,023 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.99 11.40 503 448 38.7 26,140 23,275 2,012 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.32 11.33 453 453 40.0 23,540 23,558 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 11.32 11.33 453 453 40.0 23,540 23,558 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 13.21 11.76 502 408 38.0 26,104 21,216 1,976 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 81.33 43.11 3,253 1,724 40.0 169,176 89,669 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.31 31.25 1,172 1,250 40.0 60,965 65,004 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 28.00 31.03 1,120 1,241 40.0 58,234 64,547 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.72 16.85 706 674 39.8 36,445 34,880 2,057 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.58 24.83 943 993 40.0 49,036 51,651 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.22 16.85 725 674 39.8 37,307 35,048 2,048 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.73 16.51 743 660 39.7 38,098 34,341 2,034 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.30 17.31 697 692 40.3 36,230 35,980 2,094 Order clerks...................................................... 15.89 15.50 636 620 40.0 33,056 32,242 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.05 14.85 600 594 39.9 31,197 30,888 2,073 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.09 20.11 844 804 40.0 43,863 41,829 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.01 14.49 561 579 40.0 29,150 30,133 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 15.96 16.55 632 662 39.6 32,858 34,424 2,059 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.23 20.67 814 825 40.3 41,776 42,016 2,065 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.86 21.05 832 842 39.9 43,249 43,776 2,073 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.84 17.06 708 682 39.7 34,987 34,819 1,961 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.41 16.09 650 644 39.6 33,463 32,781 2,039 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.75 29.62 1,110 1,185 40.0 55,645 55,723 2,005 Carpenters........................................................ 20.43 14.88 817 595 40.0 42,503 30,942 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.90 23.52 922 946 40.2 47,921 49,171 2,093 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 27.81 32.69 1,171 1,308 42.1 60,882 67,999 2,189 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 21.05 18.80 842 752 40.0 43,792 39,104 2,080 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 22.76 23.51 910 940 40.0 47,332 48,901 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.69 22.75 868 910 40.0 45,112 47,320 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 24.68 24.46 987 978 40.0 51,341 50,877 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.51 18.66 741 746 40.0 38,507 38,813 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.48 16.45 699 658 40.0 36,328 34,216 2,078 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 25.65 27.07 1,026 1,083 40.0 53,345 56,306 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.97 11.22 556 447 39.8 28,931 23,234 2,071 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 22.94 749 918 40.0 38,925 47,715 2,080 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 22.85 928 914 40.0 48,249 47,528 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.37 17.00 695 680 40.0 36,129 35,360 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 19.74 19.73 790 789 40.0 41,065 41,038 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.12 20.36 765 814 40.0 39,770 42,349 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.20 12.50 528 500 40.0 27,448 26,000 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.77 16.80 793 672 40.1 41,177 34,923 2,083 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.47 19.00 794 748 40.8 41,314 38,896 2,122 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.32 18.34 792 730 41.0 41,203 37,960 2,132 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.89 15.75 796 630 40.0 41,370 32,760 2,080 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.57 16.02 623 641 40.0 32,383 33,322 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.98 12.50 515 497 39.7 26,774 25,862 2,063 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.25 14.21 560 530 39.3 29,125 27,560 2,044 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.00 9.68 440 387 40.0 22,875 20,141 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $24.28 $20.01 $969 $797 39.9 $49,882 $40,968 2,055 Management occupations.............................................. 41.32 39.42 1,653 1,577 40.0 85,744 82,000 2,075 General and operations managers................................... 37.45 41.06 1,496 1,642 40.0 77,802 85,394 2,078 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.11 46.63 1,844 1,865 40.0 95,911 96,990 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 55.89 2,176 2,236 40.0 113,126 116,251 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 41.27 30.57 1,651 1,223 40.0 85,846 63,592 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.35 27.53 1,451 1,077 39.9 75,475 56,000 2,077 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.79 24.71 991 988 40.0 51,557 51,391 2,080 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 19.73 17.22 785 690 39.8 40,806 35,901 2,068 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 19.02 16.93 759 677 39.9 39,445 35,214 2,074 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.00 22.77 960 911 40.0 49,916 47,362 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 31.20 30.43 1,248 1,217 40.0 64,888 63,301 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.63 27.53 1,101 1,069 39.9 57,268 55,593 2,073 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.40 24.64 1,066 955 38.9 55,419 49,667 2,023 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.47 36.55 1,499 1,462 40.0 77,929 76,030 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.61 42.14 1,704 1,685 40.0 88,624 87,645 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.98 39.66 1,679 1,586 40.0 87,312 82,493 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.34 42.14 1,734 1,685 40.0 90,144 87,645 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 27.85 27.27 1,114 1,091 40.0 57,938 56,717 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.50 41.53 1,660 1,661 40.0 86,330 86,382 2,080 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 33.82 33.64 1,353 1,346 40.0 70,336 69,973 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.17 29.75 1,367 1,190 40.0 71,068 61,880 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 40.85 41.26 1,634 1,650 40.0 84,977 85,825 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 26.54 27.24 1,062 1,090 40.0 55,207 56,663 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 35.74 34.18 1,430 1,367 40.0 74,347 71,101 2,080 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.98 34.18 1,399 1,367 40.0 72,754 71,101 2,080 Market research analysts........................................ 34.98 34.18 1,399 1,367 40.0 72,754 71,101 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.22 17.89 766 716 39.9 39,312 36,606 2,045 Social workers.................................................... 21.35 22.56 854 902 40.0 42,828 38,153 2,006 Legal occupations................................................... 35.62 34.19 1,500 1,427 42.1 78,001 74,199 2,190 Lawyers........................................................... 43.47 39.89 1,871 1,827 43.0 97,288 95,000 2,238 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.47 20.21 899 808 40.0 38,629 32,843 1,719 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.54 20.87 902 835 40.0 35,791 34,867 1,588 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.57 23.10 1,023 924 40.0 53,179 48,052 2,080 Designers......................................................... 22.02 19.70 881 788 40.0 45,794 40,968 2,080 Graphic designers............................................... 21.73 19.70 869 788 40.0 45,194 40,968 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.59 28.39 1,173 1,136 39.7 61,020 59,051 2,062 Registered nurses................................................. 35.81 34.68 1,422 1,387 39.7 73,922 72,132 2,064 Therapists........................................................ 28.78 29.33 1,151 1,173 40.0 59,870 61,000 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.15 20.60 790 808 39.2 41,069 42,016 2,039 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.14 15.07 604 609 39.9 29,828 30,098 1,970 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.17 12.63 527 505 40.0 25,092 25,688 1,905 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.99 13.86 560 554 40.0 25,024 27,144 1,788 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.83 18.21 707 728 39.7 36,776 37,877 2,063 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.73 11.33 456 453 38.9 23,547 23,566 2,007 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 17.22 15.38 714 673 41.5 37,153 34,996 2,158 Cooks............................................................. 12.66 11.81 506 472 40.0 26,329 24,565 2,080 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.80 11.44 472 458 40.0 24,552 23,795 2,080 Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.36 7.00 268 280 36.5 13,957 14,560 1,896 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.83 12.30 548 492 39.7 27,397 25,592 1,981 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.72 12.30 504 492 39.6 26,206 25,592 2,060 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.01 12.67 550 507 39.3 28,595 26,354 2,041 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.35 11.25 454 450 40.0 23,602 23,400 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.09 9.50 438 380 39.4 18,105 19,067 1,632 Sales and related occupations....................................... 27.25 19.18 1,074 753 39.4 55,865 39,146 2,050 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 23.15 19.56 904 774 39.1 47,017 40,227 2,031 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.75 18.26 768 716 38.9 39,946 37,232 2,023 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.99 11.40 503 448 38.7 26,140 23,275 2,012 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.32 11.33 453 453 40.0 23,540 23,558 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 11.32 11.33 453 453 40.0 23,540 23,558 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 13.21 11.76 502 408 38.0 26,104 21,216 1,976 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 81.33 43.11 3,253 1,724 40.0 169,176 89,669 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.31 31.25 1,172 1,250 40.0 60,965 65,004 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 28.00 31.03 1,120 1,241 40.0 58,234 64,547 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.52 16.55 698 662 39.9 36,221 34,424 2,068 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.65 24.83 946 993 40.0 49,200 51,651 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.08 16.51 718 660 39.7 36,995 34,341 2,046 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.68 16.15 740 646 39.6 37,923 33,600 2,030 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.31 17.36 697 692 40.3 36,235 35,980 2,094 Order clerks...................................................... 15.89 15.50 636 620 40.0 33,056 32,242 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.98 14.85 599 594 40.0 31,165 30,888 2,080 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.09 20.11 844 804 40.0 43,863 41,829 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.01 14.49 561 579 40.0 29,150 30,133 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 15.16 16.55 599 662 39.5 31,155 34,424 2,055 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.07 20.44 811 812 40.4 42,153 42,203 2,100 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.30 20.67 809 827 39.8 42,061 42,994 2,072 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.96 17.68 718 707 40.0 37,348 36,764 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.24 13.00 601 520 39.5 31,271 27,040 2,052 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.98 29.70 1,119 1,188 40.0 56,012 60,320 2,002 Carpenters........................................................ 20.43 14.88 817 595 40.0 42,503 30,942 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.62 23.52 911 941 40.3 47,376 48,922 2,094 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 21.05 18.80 842 752 40.0 43,792 39,104 2,080 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 22.79 22.78 912 911 40.0 47,410 47,382 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.26 23.11 850 924 40.0 44,221 48,069 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.40 16.40 695 656 40.0 36,160 34,112 2,078 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 25.65 27.07 1,026 1,083 40.0 53,345 56,306 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.97 11.22 556 447 39.8 28,931 23,234 2,071 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 22.94 749 918 40.0 38,925 47,715 2,080 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 22.85 928 914 40.0 48,249 47,528 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.37 17.00 695 680 40.0 36,129 35,360 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 19.74 19.73 790 789 40.0 41,065 41,038 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.12 20.36 765 814 40.0 39,770 42,349 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.20 12.50 528 500 40.0 27,448 26,000 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.63 16.02 788 641 40.1 40,896 33,322 2,083 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.46 18.50 794 730 40.8 41,312 37,960 2,123 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.32 18.34 792 730 41.0 41,203 37,960 2,132 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.57 16.02 623 641 40.0 32,383 33,322 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.98 12.50 515 497 39.7 26,774 25,862 2,063 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.25 14.21 560 530 39.3 29,125 27,560 2,044 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.00 9.68 440 387 40.0 22,875 20,141 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $31.62 $27.46 $1,252 $1,099 39.6 $58,297 $52,125 1,843 Management occupations.............................................. 47.86 48.60 1,906 1,944 39.8 93,791 91,229 1,960 Education administrators.......................................... 49.81 53.46 1,977 2,031 39.7 93,724 98,366 1,882 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 53.24 53.69 2,115 2,138 39.7 104,568 105,000 1,964 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.45 27.46 1,098 1,098 40.0 57,106 57,117 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.10 33.07 1,278 1,321 39.8 64,333 68,224 2,004 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.17 26.02 1,167 1,041 40.0 60,674 54,122 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 31.85 30.73 1,274 1,229 40.0 63,886 63,918 2,006 Community and social services occupations........................... 25.52 24.01 1,017 960 39.9 48,592 49,587 1,904 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 46.34 41.62 1,783 1,586 38.5 68,411 57,690 1,476 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 67.32 47.57 2,661 1,836 39.5 115,531 90,750 1,716 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.47 39.05 1,473 1,500 38.3 54,013 54,485 1,404 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 39.43 39.92 1,519 1,586 38.5 52,576 55,102 1,333 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.43 39.92 1,519 1,586 38.5 52,576 55,102 1,333 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.32 38.89 1,466 1,497 38.2 53,456 54,012 1,395 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 37.85 38.89 1,457 1,497 38.5 52,486 53,296 1,387 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 39.64 39.92 1,490 1,496 37.6 56,274 54,610 1,419 Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.55 37.69 1,475 1,443 38.3 55,243 53,792 1,433 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.55 37.69 1,475 1,443 38.3 55,243 53,792 1,433 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 33.41 33.69 1,302 1,311 39.0 55,881 59,731 1,673 Registered nurses................................................. 35.01 34.13 1,362 1,348 38.9 60,628 60,744 1,732 Protective service occupations...................................... 27.89 28.30 1,149 1,204 41.2 59,729 62,587 2,142 Police officers................................................... 28.94 30.09 1,158 1,204 40.0 60,197 62,587 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.94 30.09 1,158 1,204 40.0 60,197 62,587 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.49 17.55 740 702 40.0 37,580 34,944 2,032 Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.11 16.80 684 672 40.0 34,392 34,611 2,010 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.23 16.80 689 672 40.0 34,615 34,611 2,009 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.07 19.67 755 780 39.6 37,914 38,022 1,988 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.90 18.53 756 741 40.0 38,868 37,877 2,056 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.96 18.53 758 741 40.0 38,847 38,501 2,049 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.53 23.62 844 903 39.2 39,161 34,911 1,819 Office clerks, general............................................ 18.30 19.94 729 775 39.8 36,953 38,022 2,019 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.57 24.01 1,023 960 40.0 53,192 49,941 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $22.00 $20.90 $19.98 $27.38 Management, professional, and related...... 34.34 33.67 32.59 36.43 Management, business, and financial...... 38.55 38.93 37.67 38.90 Professional and related................. 31.69 30.05 28.81 35.21 Service.................................... 11.58 10.66 12.09 14.02 Sales and office........................... 18.31 19.30 16.47 18.48 Sales and related........................ 21.53 22.38 16.74 34.56 Office and administrative support........ 16.63 17.02 16.35 16.16 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 25.36 23.66 26.48 29.90 Construction and extraction............. 27.91 25.19 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 22.62 21.57 22.30 – Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 17.07 16.56 15.43 21.44 Production............................... 17.11 18.13 15.50 17.98 Transportation and material moving....... 17.03 14.33 15.35 26.51 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........................................................... 3.0 6.5 3.6 3.8 Management, professional, and related............................... 4.0 11.3 3.4 2.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 8.3 19.5 4.6 8.1 Professional and related.......................................... 3.2 11.7 7.9 2.9 Service............................................................. 4.8 7.7 2.4 6.6 Sales and office.................................................... 4.0 5.8 2.5 6.4 Sales and related................................................. 7.9 9.1 6.0 14.9 Office and administrative support................................. 1.4 2.4 2.7 4.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 6.8 3.1 7.5 11.3 Construction and extraction...................................... 14.8 7.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.4 5.2 7.0 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.8 3.4 7.1 20.6 Production........................................................ 3.9 3.7 6.3 3.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 13.9 6.7 9.3 38.6 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $23.63 $19.73 $941 $788 39.8 $47,967 $40,500 2,030 Management occupations.............................................. 33.35 32.81 1,339 1,312 40.2 69,632 68,245 2,088 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 42.16 27.06 1,688 1,049 40.0 87,798 54,528 2,082 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.70 31.25 1,148 1,250 40.0 59,697 65,000 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.29 33.89 1,491 1,356 40.0 77,555 70,500 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 45.05 48.08 1,802 1,923 40.0 93,700 100,000 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.96 27.24 1,039 1,090 40.0 54,004 56,663 2,080 Legal occupations................................................... 36.52 36.73 1,509 1,356 41.3 78,458 70,500 2,149 Lawyers........................................................... 42.61 39.89 1,849 1,827 43.4 96,162 95,000 2,257 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 23.10 21.78 924 871 40.0 34,982 33,171 1,514 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.25 29.33 1,209 1,173 38.7 62,879 61,000 2,012 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.40 16.25 650 650 39.6 29,435 32,978 1,795 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.89 9.75 422 380 38.7 21,706 19,748 1,993 Cooks............................................................. 12.22 11.81 489 472 40.0 25,410 24,565 2,080 Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.36 7.00 268 280 36.5 13,957 14,560 1,896 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.69 12.21 587 488 40.0 27,578 25,397 1,878 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.58 11.25 463 450 40.0 24,076 23,400 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.43 9.50 409 380 39.3 15,902 19,067 1,525 Sales and related occupations....................................... 28.27 19.18 1,109 767 39.2 57,683 39,894 2,040 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.80 11.33 490 420 38.3 25,464 21,840 1,989 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.77 10.20 474 400 37.1 24,649 20,800 1,930 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.36 17.00 732 680 39.9 37,922 35,108 2,066 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.60 24.83 904 993 40.0 47,017 51,651 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 19.81 20.41 783 816 39.5 39,989 38,160 2,019 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 22.07 20.67 865 827 39.2 43,628 43,000 1,976 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.28 17.56 745 772 40.8 38,739 40,168 2,119 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.33 15.77 613 631 40.0 31,891 32,802 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.35 20.67 774 827 40.0 40,251 43,000 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.89 12.75 659 500 39.0 34,255 26,000 2,029 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.29 29.62 1,012 1,185 40.0 49,638 45,760 1,963 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.57 22.09 874 883 40.5 45,450 45,939 2,107 Production occupations.............................................. 18.13 19.00 724 760 39.9 37,670 39,520 2,077 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 23.20 22.85 928 914 40.0 48,249 47,528 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.28 15.00 611 600 40.0 31,774 31,200 2,080 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.27 17.12 691 685 40.0 35,919 35,603 2,080 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.32 17.50 693 700 40.0 36,018 36,400 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.08 15.00 563 600 40.0 29,286 31,200 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $24.83 $20.25 $993 $804 40.0 $51,558 $41,600 2,076 Management occupations.............................................. 45.18 42.77 1,803 1,711 39.9 93,464 88,367 2,069 General and operations managers................................... 39.25 39.42 1,570 1,577 40.0 81,632 82,000 2,080 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 45.82 46.15 1,833 1,846 40.0 95,295 95,992 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.39 55.89 2,176 2,236 40.0 113,126 116,251 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 49.23 47.48 1,969 1,899 40.0 102,394 98,758 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.30 27.95 1,247 1,077 39.8 64,838 56,000 2,072 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 27.93 26.92 1,117 1,077 40.0 58,084 56,000 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 31.20 30.43 1,248 1,217 40.0 64,888 63,301 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.89 24.54 1,069 982 39.8 55,588 51,043 2,068 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.74 25.06 1,079 981 38.9 56,134 51,012 2,023 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.58 37.26 1,503 1,490 40.0 78,157 77,501 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.57 42.14 1,663 1,685 40.0 86,466 87,645 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 43.01 40.38 1,720 1,615 40.0 89,460 83,990 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 40.01 42.14 1,600 1,685 40.0 83,212 87,645 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 26.33 26.66 1,053 1,066 40.0 54,776 55,447 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.53 39.15 1,621 1,566 40.0 84,292 81,426 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 37.54 37.40 1,502 1,496 40.0 78,088 77,798 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 44.54 41.26 1,782 1,650 40.0 92,640 85,825 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.90 25.42 1,036 1,017 40.0 53,882 52,874 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 40.08 45.93 1,603 1,837 40.0 83,360 95,524 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.90 22.77 907 911 39.6 45,104 46,927 1,970 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.19 23.10 1,047 924 40.0 54,467 48,052 2,080 Designers......................................................... 22.25 19.70 890 788 40.0 46,278 40,968 2,080 Graphic designers............................................... 21.94 19.70 878 788 40.0 45,642 40,968 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.02 28.19 1,161 1,128 40.0 60,363 58,635 2,080 Registered nurses................................................. 36.15 34.68 1,446 1,387 40.0 75,184 72,132 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.10 20.88 804 835 40.0 41,813 43,430 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.46 14.38 578 575 40.0 30,076 29,910 2,080 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.20 12.53 528 501 40.0 27,452 26,062 2,080 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.44 14.05 578 562 40.0 30,033 29,224 2,080 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.85 17.84 714 714 40.0 37,131 37,107 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 14.33 14.10 566 564 39.5 29,407 29,328 2,052 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.29 12.65 524 506 39.5 27,273 26,308 2,051 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.29 12.65 524 492 39.4 27,243 25,592 2,050 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.13 12.67 553 507 39.2 28,758 26,354 2,036 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.58 11.00 463 440 40.0 24,085 22,880 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 24.97 18.55 995 742 39.8 51,736 38,584 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 28.31 24.17 1,133 967 40.0 58,891 50,274 2,080 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.90 19.56 916 782 40.0 47,631 40,685 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.35 12.85 529 500 39.6 27,484 26,000 2,058 Retail salespersons............................................. 13.89 13.10 548 514 39.4 28,487 26,728 2,050 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 35.47 35.20 1,419 1,408 40.0 73,769 73,212 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 33.50 33.51 1,340 1,340 40.0 69,676 69,690 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.84 16.23 672 644 39.9 34,854 33,467 2,069 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.03 15.69 641 628 40.0 33,342 32,635 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.67 15.69 627 628 40.0 32,585 32,635 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.78 16.77 671 671 40.0 34,907 34,882 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.34 13.18 574 527 40.0 29,836 27,414 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.80 13.00 537 520 38.9 27,903 27,040 2,023 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.29 20.44 822 808 40.5 42,740 42,016 2,106 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.70 20.77 824 829 39.8 42,860 43,098 2,070 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.42 17.06 697 682 40.0 36,236 35,485 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.27 13.00 531 520 40.0 27,598 27,040 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 33.15 36.06 1,326 1,442 40.0 68,946 75,005 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.75 24.43 950 977 40.0 49,409 50,814 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.09 21.63 844 865 40.0 43,875 44,990 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.84 14.80 673 591 40.0 35,001 30,742 2,078 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 28.37 28.82 1,135 1,153 40.0 59,010 59,946 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.84 11.99 590 478 39.8 30,690 24,856 2,068 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 18.71 22.94 749 918 40.0 38,925 47,715 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 20.06 18.90 802 756 40.0 41,728 39,312 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.73 17.60 669 704 40.0 34,799 36,608 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.76 12.35 510 494 40.0 26,545 25,688 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 23.48 17.95 945 718 40.3 48,970 37,336 2,086 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 23.41 23.90 993 945 42.4 51,641 49,130 2,206 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 22.75 22.50 975 900 42.8 50,676 46,800 2,227 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.49 17.30 700 692 40.0 36,383 35,986 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.32 9.70 486 387 39.5 25,285 20,141 2,052 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.56 12.61 523 497 38.5 27,173 25,862 2,005 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... $26.76 $23.66 $30.91 $21.85 $21.71 $28.66 Management, professional, and related............................... 36.07 28.71 39.07 35.04 34.88 40.44 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.91 – 35.71 38.80 38.62 42.36 Professional and related.......................................... 36.19 28.83 39.56 32.22 32.16 36.24 Service............................................................. 18.85 14.33 22.98 11.26 11.12 17.20 Sales and office.................................................... 16.21 13.07 18.87 18.62 18.61 19.11 Sales and related................................................. – – – 21.92 21.92 – Office and administrative support................................. 16.85 13.84 18.87 16.89 16.83 19.11 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 28.70 29.16 24.45 21.07 20.91 – Construction and extraction...................................... 31.56 32.00 – 19.62 19.38 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 24.25 23.94 – 21.90 21.78 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 23.95 24.11 22.47 15.12 15.12 – Production........................................................ 21.40 21.15 – 16.19 16.19 – Transportation and material moving................................ 26.08 26.90 21.44 13.56 13.56 – 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........................................................... 4.0 6.1 4.2 3.4 3.4 12.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.6 2.4 4.2 4.2 4.3 8.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 9.1 – 9.6 7.9 8.3 11.3 Professional and related.......................................... 4.2 2.5 5.0 3.5 3.6 11.4 Service............................................................. 7.2 6.4 6.2 4.8 4.8 27.7 Sales and office.................................................... 6.3 6.4 4.2 4.3 4.3 5.6 Sales and related................................................. – – – 8.3 8.3 – Office and administrative support................................. 5.5 7.1 4.2 1.7 1.7 5.6 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.4 5.1 9.7 7.4 7.6 – Construction and extraction...................................... 6.5 6.9 – 16.6 17.0 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.4 4.7 – 5.5 5.8 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.9 16.4 4.7 2.8 2.9 – Production........................................................ 11.2 12.0 – 2.2 2.2 – Transportation and material moving................................ 22.9 25.8 4.9 5.7 5.7 – 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $22.24 $21.09 $38.96 $38.96 Management, professional, and related............................... 34.24 32.97 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 35.56 35.17 – – Professional and related.......................................... 33.59 31.71 – – Service............................................................. 13.23 11.58 – – Sales and office.................................................... 16.71 16.51 38.46 38.46 Sales and related................................................. 16.49 16.49 40.30 40.30 Office and administrative support................................. 16.79 16.52 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 26.06 26.22 20.55 20.55 Construction and extraction...................................... – 27.91 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.83 23.57 20.55 20.55 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.17 17.05 – – Production........................................................ 17.19 17.11 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.16 16.96 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.3 2.5 15.7 15.7 Management, professional, and related............................... 1.7 1.7 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 3.1 3.3 – – Professional and related.......................................... 2.5 3.1 – – Service............................................................. 5.5 4.8 – – Sales and office.................................................... 2.5 2.7 15.7 15.7 Sales and related................................................. 8.1 8.1 17.0 17.0 Office and administrative support................................. 1.3 1.3 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.4 8.3 9.1 9.1 Construction and extraction...................................... – 14.8 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.6 3.9 9.1 9.1 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.8 7.0 – – Production........................................................ 3.9 3.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.9 14.8 – – 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 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........................................................... – $24.03 $18.11 – $34.95 – $21.27 $9.61 $17.39 Management, professional, and related............................... – 38.80 35.35 – 41.20 – 28.34 26.03 23.57 Management, business, and financial............................... – 43.74 32.88 – 43.69 – 33.79 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 36.62 41.19 – 32.93 – 26.89 28.53 – Service............................................................. – – 10.36 – – – 13.46 8.72 16.43 Sales and office.................................................... – 21.84 14.04 – 27.59 – 16.00 11.58 16.04 Sales and related................................................. – 37.63 13.15 – 53.39 – – 10.45 – Office and administrative support................................. – 19.15 15.29 – 16.64 – 16.02 – 16.04 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 22.68 23.35 – – – – – 19.64 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 22.53 23.49 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 17.66 18.85 – – – 16.21 8.61 – Production........................................................ – 17.58 19.83 – – – 16.47 – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 18.13 18.73 – – – – – – 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........................................................... – 2.2 5.6 – 10.8 – 2.2 7.1 2.5 Management, professional, and related............................... – 3.0 6.5 – 15.9 – 4.6 8.0 23.3 Management, business, and financial............................... – 7.9 9.6 – 18.2 – 3.8 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 1.6 8.6 – 3.6 – 4.7 24.0 – Service............................................................. – – 12.1 – – – 6.9 1.6 25.0 Sales and office.................................................... – 3.6 1.9 – 6.4 – 3.1 3.4 4.2 Sales and related................................................. – 5.5 1.8 – 23.2 – – 12.5 – Office and administrative support................................. – 1.1 1.1 – 1.2 – 3.0 – 4.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 8.7 5.5 – – – – – 14.0 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 5.0 5.3 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 6.0 17.8 – – – 13.1 15.1 – Production........................................................ – 4.5 6.7 – – – 18.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 15.2 20.3 – – – – – – 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 1,850,400 1,630,400 220,100 Management, professional, and related............................... 537,000 418,200 118,700 Management, business, and financial............................... 171,000 150,800 20,200 Professional and related.......................................... 366,000 267,400 98,500 Service............................................................. 396,200 345,400 50,800 Sales and office.................................................... 467,700 434,800 33,000 Sales and related................................................. 161,500 161,500 – Office and administrative support................................. 306,200 273,300 33,000 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 119,600 110,800 8,800 Construction and extraction...................................... 61,900 59,000 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 57,200 51,800 5,400 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 329,900 321,200 8,800 Production........................................................ 171,200 169,800 – Transportation and material moving................................ 158,700 151,400 7,400 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, April 2008 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 62,140 59,643 2,498 Total in sample....................................................... 586 533 53 Responding........................................................ 366 316 50 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 147 144 3 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 73 73 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.