NC BL 03/00/2009 Table: Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, Bulletin, June 2008 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $21.65 3.6 35.6 $21.53 4.1 35.7 $22.60 3.4 35.5 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 37.14 5.7 37.6 40.85 7.9 38.5 25.88 5.4 34.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 51.49 8.7 39.8 53.13 9.4 39.8 35.08 27.5 40.0 Professional and related.......................................... 26.27 6.8 36.0 27.50 9.8 37.3 24.15 5.2 34.0 Service............................................................. 11.05 4.8 29.7 9.61 2.8 28.8 18.68 10.9 35.5 Sales and office.................................................... 15.96 5.0 35.3 16.05 5.1 35.2 13.37 3.6 39.2 Sales and related................................................. 16.53 11.7 31.8 16.53 11.7 31.8 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 15.60 3.8 37.9 15.73 4.0 37.9 13.37 3.6 39.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.73 7.0 40.0 18.79 7.2 40.0 – – – Construction and extraction...................................... 15.26 1.9 40.0 15.29 1.9 40.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 21.34 9.1 40.0 21.43 9.4 40.0 – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.47 5.3 37.5 15.53 5.4 37.5 – – – Production........................................................ 16.18 5.7 38.6 16.18 5.7 38.6 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.89 6.1 36.7 14.98 6.4 36.6 – – – Full time........................................................... 23.28 3.7 39.7 23.35 4.2 39.8 22.77 4.1 39.0 Part time........................................................... 9.84 4.0 20.5 9.12 4.7 20.9 20.22 7.1 15.8 Union............................................................... 25.64 11.0 35.6 25.64 11.0 35.6 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 21.54 3.8 35.6 21.40 4.3 35.7 22.60 3.4 35.5 Time................................................................ 18.21 3.8 35.3 17.56 4.4 35.3 22.60 3.4 35.5 Incentive........................................................... 52.42 9.9 38.5 52.42 9.9 38.5 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 19.32 6.0 39.9 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 22.08 4.5 34.7 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 16.24 6.0 34.3 16.19 6.2 34.2 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 17.63 6.3 36.6 17.44 6.6 36.5 21.41 8.5 38.4 500 workers or more................................................. 33.73 4.1 37.2 38.84 6.0 38.4 23.16 4.0 35.0 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $21.65 3.6 $23.28 3.7 $9.84 4.0 Management occupations.............................................. 41.46 11.3 41.59 11.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.04 10.0 24.89 10.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.19 5.8 40.19 5.8 – – Level 12.................................................. 63.86 5.4 63.86 5.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.95 9.9 46.95 9.9 – – General and operations managers................................... 32.68 15.4 – – – – Financial managers................................................ 39.13 12.0 39.13 12.0 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 61.25 9.7 61.25 9.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 41.94 15.9 41.94 15.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.98 6.0 27.98 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.65 10.8 30.65 10.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.22 5.5 42.22 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.84 15.9 46.84 15.9 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.49 11.2 28.49 11.2 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.65 11.7 31.65 11.7 – – Training and development specialists............................ 26.09 13.1 26.09 13.1 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 6.9 29.98 6.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 48.43 10.1 48.43 10.1 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.37 6.6 40.37 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.25 6.5 33.25 6.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.75 4.8 46.75 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 49.78 9.4 49.78 9.4 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 5.2 48.40 5.2 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.14 10.9 41.14 10.9 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.03 18.9 30.03 18.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.89 13.2 31.89 13.2 – – Engineers......................................................... 36.95 8.6 36.95 8.6 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 8.1 28.68 8.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.97 8.7 23.03 8.9 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.05 6.7 16.85 6.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 18.03 2.7 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 19.00 5.6 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.00 5.6 – – – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 13.92 24.0 13.92 24.0 – – Legal occupations................................................... 39.95 13.2 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.50 6.7 25.52 6.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.08 5.1 11.08 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.60 3.4 13.60 3.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.79 .4 27.79 .4 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.60 14.5 47.84 12.7 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.95 16.7 48.86 15.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.60 14.5 47.84 12.7 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.99 1.0 28.00 1.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.79 .4 27.79 .4 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.80 .4 27.82 .4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.75 .2 27.75 .2 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.77 .6 27.79 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.84 .7 27.84 .7 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.91 1.8 27.91 1.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.43 1.5 27.43 1.5 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 28.46 4.3 28.46 4.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.67 3.5 27.67 3.5 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 28.46 4.3 28.46 4.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.67 3.5 27.67 3.5 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.42 4.4 11.42 4.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.08 5.1 11.08 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.60 3.4 13.60 3.4 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.92 11.7 – – 7.98 5.3 Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 15.69 24.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.69 3.4 21.92 3.7 25.70 2.4 Level 4 .................................................. 14.85 11.6 14.92 12.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.47 6.6 24.62 6.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.56 11.2 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.85 3.5 25.98 4.7 25.61 1.7 Level 7 .................................................. 26.32 3.8 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.03 1.9 20.03 1.9 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.55 5.1 12.27 5.4 13.34 4.8 Level 3 .................................................. 11.59 2.5 11.46 2.2 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.30 2.8 11.33 3.2 11.23 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 2.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.40 2.9 – – 11.23 3.9 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.87 7.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.75 11.3 21.35 10.9 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.81 5.9 7.86 5.8 6.34 7.3 Level 1 .................................................. 6.26 6.7 7.75 10.9 5.95 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 6.10 14.7 6.74 17.3 5.90 15.2 Level 3 .................................................. 7.56 5.5 – – 7.99 7.5 Level 4 .................................................. 10.39 8.0 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 10.33 6.0 11.20 9.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 10.39 8.0 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.72 1.4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.30 15.4 3.80 21.2 3.07 14.1 Level 1 .................................................. 3.57 31.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 2.87 32.6 – – 2.29 10.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.37 3.6 – – 2.30 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 2.28 .1 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.06 2.1 – – 7.66 .5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.39 10.8 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.08 2.4 – – 7.75 1.3 Level 2 .................................................. 8.46 11.1 – – – – Dishwashers....................................................... 7.32 .8 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.32 .8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.98 5.5 11.09 7.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.74 2.3 10.08 2.6 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.36 6.2 10.36 7.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 5.3 10.53 4.4 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.90 5.5 11.17 7.6 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.77 1.4 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.92 15.3 17.91 17.2 8.35 14.9 Level 3 .................................................. 8.98 13.1 – – 9.69 18.5 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 11.49 10.9 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 11.66 11.4 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.53 11.7 19.54 13.0 9.60 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.84 2.4 – – 7.66 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.21 4.7 – – 7.92 9.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.20 1.3 10.30 2.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. – – 13.84 7.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.94 9.3 21.40 8.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 36.32 21.5 36.32 21.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.82 9.8 21.82 9.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.36 8.5 11.21 7.5 9.27 7.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.84 2.4 – – 7.66 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.21 4.7 – – 7.92 9.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.46 2.3 10.30 2.0 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 1.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .9 – – 8.12 4.0 Cashiers...................................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 1.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .9 – – 8.12 4.0 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.88 4.4 11.71 5.7 9.85 3.7 Level 3 .................................................. 10.07 2.3 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.32 8.2 32.32 8.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.56 4.0 24.56 4.0 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 38.72 10.2 38.72 10.2 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.60 3.8 15.90 3.9 10.74 7.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.67 6.8 11.23 8.8 9.08 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 12.50 3.2 12.58 3.3 11.08 8.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.18 2.4 15.31 2.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 3.7 18.21 3.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.44 4.9 20.72 4.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.91 2.5 22.91 2.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.83 3.0 12.83 3.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.68 2.9 15.78 2.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.49 4.7 15.49 4.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.28 3.6 17.28 3.6 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.45 6.3 15.73 4.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.78 5.2 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.87 6.6 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.70 4.5 11.35 3.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.32 6.3 20.35 6.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.88 16.2 19.88 16.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.49 2.1 22.49 2.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 8.8 20.43 8.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.88 16.2 19.88 16.2 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.25 1.2 15.69 4.3 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.19 6.9 14.24 7.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.98 4.4 14.11 4.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.05 6.8 18.05 6.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.26 1.9 15.26 1.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.67 1.6 21.67 1.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.34 9.1 21.34 9.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.12 5.1 16.12 5.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.69 6.9 24.69 6.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.92 4.2 22.92 4.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 30.99 28.4 30.99 28.4 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.34 7.8 18.34 7.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.62 8.3 16.62 8.3 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.59 8.2 16.59 8.2 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.18 5.7 16.36 5.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.79 12.4 9.79 12.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.77 7.7 10.81 9.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.18 15.3 15.18 15.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.35 1.2 16.35 1.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.51 6.7 20.51 6.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.90 2.8 20.90 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.83 2.9 23.83 2.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.13 9.1 24.13 9.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 4.1 17.87 4.1 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 14.21 8.3 14.21 8.3 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.21 .3 15.21 .3 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.15 3.2 15.15 3.2 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.89 6.1 15.22 6.5 11.56 9.3 Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.55 4.7 12.58 4.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.22 4.9 13.10 5.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.55 5.9 15.55 5.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.20 5.2 20.20 5.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.12 31.9 14.12 31.9 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.2 17.07 9.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.00 8.5 15.00 8.5 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.25 11.4 18.25 11.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.17 5.6 14.24 5.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.96 5.1 14.06 5.3 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.21 7.9 11.14 8.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.70 5.7 12.74 5.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.53 7.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.67 6.7 11.35 6.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.53 5.2 12.57 5.4 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.93 14.0 – – – – 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $21.53 4.1 $23.35 4.2 $9.12 4.7 Management occupations.............................................. 40.67 11.8 40.81 12.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.04 10.0 24.89 10.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.12 6.1 41.12 6.1 – – Level 12.................................................. 64.72 4.9 64.72 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.35 10.6 47.35 10.6 – – General and operations managers................................... 32.68 15.4 – – – – Financial managers................................................ 39.13 12.0 39.13 12.0 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 65.49 9.7 65.49 9.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 41.94 15.9 41.94 15.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.98 6.0 27.98 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.91 11.4 32.91 11.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.22 5.5 42.22 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.79 13.6 51.79 13.6 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.49 11.2 28.49 11.2 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 33.67 14.2 33.67 14.2 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 6.9 29.98 6.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 48.43 10.1 48.43 10.1 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.29 7.3 41.29 7.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.25 6.5 33.25 6.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.75 4.8 46.75 4.8 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 5.2 48.40 5.2 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.67 12.2 41.67 12.2 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.03 18.9 30.03 18.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.89 13.2 31.89 13.2 – – Engineers......................................................... 36.95 8.6 36.95 8.6 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 8.1 28.68 8.1 – – Legal occupations................................................... 39.95 13.2 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 23.69 25.6 23.86 26.5 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.48 10.8 30.69 11.2 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.92 11.7 – – 7.98 5.3 Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 15.69 24.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.36 5.1 21.78 5.1 26.86 6.9 Level 4 .................................................. 14.78 14.9 14.88 15.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.20 8.1 25.48 8.7 – – Registered nurses................................................. 26.81 2.2 26.65 2.2 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.70 6.6 12.48 6.0 14.11 10.0 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.22 3.9 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.22 3.9 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.87 7.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 12.27 6.1 12.77 5.0 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.79 6.0 7.84 5.8 6.34 7.3 Level 1 .................................................. 6.23 6.7 7.63 11.3 5.95 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 6.09 14.7 6.74 17.3 5.88 15.2 Level 3 .................................................. 7.56 5.5 – – 7.99 7.5 Level 4 .................................................. 10.39 8.0 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 10.33 6.0 11.20 9.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 10.39 8.0 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.72 1.4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.26 15.4 3.80 21.2 3.02 13.7 Level 1 .................................................. 3.57 31.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 2.80 31.9 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.37 3.6 – – 2.30 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 2.28 .1 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.05 2.1 – – 7.66 .5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.39 10.8 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.07 2.4 – – 7.75 1.3 Level 2 .................................................. 8.46 11.1 – – – – Dishwashers....................................................... 7.32 .8 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.32 .8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.02 6.3 11.16 8.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.48 3.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.24 9.3 10.14 12.1 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.31 5.8 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.77 1.4 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.24 17.6 19.00 19.9 8.25 15.1 Level 3 .................................................. 8.98 13.1 – – 9.69 18.5 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 11.57 13.9 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.53 11.7 19.54 13.0 9.60 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.84 2.4 – – 7.66 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.21 4.7 – – 7.92 9.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.20 1.3 10.30 2.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. – – 13.84 7.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.94 9.3 21.40 8.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 36.32 21.5 36.32 21.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.82 9.8 21.82 9.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.36 8.5 11.21 7.5 9.27 7.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.84 2.4 – – 7.66 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.21 4.7 – – 7.92 9.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.46 2.3 10.30 2.0 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 1.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .9 – – 8.12 4.0 Cashiers...................................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 1.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .9 – – 8.12 4.0 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.88 4.4 11.71 5.7 9.85 3.7 Level 3 .................................................. 10.07 2.3 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.32 8.2 32.32 8.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.56 4.0 24.56 4.0 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 38.72 10.2 38.72 10.2 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.73 4.0 16.05 4.2 10.74 7.2 Level 2 .................................................. 9.77 4.7 10.08 6.4 9.08 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 12.55 3.2 12.63 3.4 11.08 8.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.40 2.4 15.54 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 3.7 18.21 3.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.67 4.9 20.97 4.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.91 2.5 22.91 2.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.54 2.4 12.54 2.4 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.68 2.9 15.78 2.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.49 4.7 15.49 4.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.28 3.6 17.28 3.6 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.45 6.3 15.73 4.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.78 5.2 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.87 6.6 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.70 4.5 11.35 3.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.32 6.3 20.35 6.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.88 16.2 19.88 16.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.49 2.1 22.49 2.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 8.8 20.43 8.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.88 16.2 19.88 16.2 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.25 1.2 15.69 4.3 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.38 8.0 14.45 8.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.58 6.7 14.93 7.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.05 6.8 18.05 6.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.29 1.9 15.29 1.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.67 1.6 21.67 1.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.43 9.4 21.43 9.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.12 5.1 16.12 5.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.69 6.9 24.69 6.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.42 4.6 23.42 4.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 32.18 30.3 32.18 30.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.31 7.9 18.31 7.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.62 8.3 16.62 8.3 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.52 8.3 16.52 8.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.18 5.7 16.36 5.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.79 12.4 9.79 12.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.77 7.7 10.81 9.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.18 15.3 15.18 15.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.35 1.2 16.35 1.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.51 6.7 20.51 6.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.90 2.8 20.90 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.83 2.9 23.83 2.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.13 9.1 24.13 9.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 4.1 17.87 4.1 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 14.21 8.3 14.21 8.3 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.21 .3 15.21 .3 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.15 3.2 15.15 3.2 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.98 6.4 15.33 6.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.61 4.9 12.64 5.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.22 4.9 13.10 5.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.55 5.9 15.55 5.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.20 5.2 20.20 5.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.38 40.3 14.38 40.3 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.2 17.07 9.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.00 8.5 15.00 8.5 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.25 11.4 18.25 11.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.17 5.6 14.24 5.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.96 5.1 14.06 5.3 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.16 8.2 11.07 8.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.70 5.7 12.74 5.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.53 7.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.62 7.2 11.26 7.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.53 5.2 12.57 5.4 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.93 14.0 – – – – 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $22.60 3.4 $22.77 4.1 $20.22 7.1 Management occupations.............................................. 50.39 23.4 50.39 23.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.11 5.4 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.26 4.4 19.14 4.3 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.70 6.9 25.69 6.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.39 4.7 11.39 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.14 2.1 13.14 2.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.82 .3 27.82 .3 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 49.91 17.4 50.17 16.8 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.82 .3 27.82 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.82 .3 27.82 .3 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.79 .2 27.79 .2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.79 .2 27.79 .2 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.86 .7 27.86 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.86 .7 27.86 .7 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.69 3.6 27.69 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.69 3.6 27.69 3.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.69 3.6 27.69 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.69 3.6 27.69 3.6 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.63 4.0 11.63 4.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.39 4.7 11.39 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.14 2.1 13.14 2.1 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.16 4.4 22.17 5.0 25.13 1.8 Registered nurses................................................. 25.25 5.2 25.37 8.4 25.09 2.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.22 6.3 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 23.96 10.7 24.42 9.9 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.61 6.6 10.61 6.6 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.61 6.6 10.61 6.6 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.35 5.9 10.35 5.9 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.37 3.6 13.37 3.6 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.16 3.0 13.16 3.0 – – 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $21.65 3.6 $23.28 3.7 $9.84 4.0 Management occupations.............................................. 41.46 11.3 41.59 11.5 – – Group III................................................. 37.97 16.6 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 32.68 15.4 – – – – Financial managers................................................ 39.13 12.0 39.13 12.0 – – Group III................................................. 40.47 13.9 40.47 13.9 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 61.25 9.7 61.25 9.7 – – Group II.................................................. 33.61 7.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 74.43 15.0 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.49 11.2 28.49 11.2 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.65 11.7 31.65 11.7 – – Group III................................................. 28.90 8.9 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 26.09 13.1 26.09 13.1 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 6.9 29.98 6.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 48.43 10.1 48.43 10.1 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.37 6.6 40.37 6.6 – – Group III................................................. 40.56 6.0 – – – – Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 5.2 48.40 5.2 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.14 10.9 41.14 10.9 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.03 18.9 30.03 18.9 – – Group III................................................. 36.04 9.2 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 36.95 8.6 36.95 8.6 – – Group III................................................. 35.11 13.0 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 8.1 28.68 8.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.97 8.7 23.03 8.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.11 11.0 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.05 6.7 16.85 6.6 – – Group II.................................................. 16.63 6.0 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 19.00 5.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.00 5.6 – – – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 13.92 24.0 13.92 24.0 – – Legal occupations................................................... 39.95 13.2 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.50 6.7 25.52 6.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.42 4.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 29.57 4.3 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.95 16.7 48.86 15.8 – – Group III................................................. 46.60 14.5 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.99 1.0 28.00 1.0 – – Group III................................................. 27.79 .4 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.80 .4 27.82 .4 – – Group III................................................. 27.75 .2 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.77 .6 27.79 .7 – – Group III................................................. 27.84 .7 27.84 .7 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.91 1.8 27.91 1.8 – – Group III................................................. 27.43 1.5 27.43 1.5 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 28.46 4.3 28.46 4.3 – – Group III................................................. 27.67 3.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 28.46 4.3 28.46 4.3 – – Group III................................................. 27.67 3.5 27.67 3.5 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.42 4.4 11.42 4.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.42 4.4 11.42 4.4 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.92 11.7 – – 7.98 5.3 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 15.69 24.9 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 15.69 24.9 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.69 3.4 21.92 3.7 25.70 2.4 Group I................................................... 14.85 11.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.07 2.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 28.52 6.7 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.85 3.5 25.98 4.7 25.61 1.7 Group II.................................................. 26.28 1.7 25.84 1.7 – – Group III................................................. 26.94 6.0 27.07 7.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.03 1.9 20.03 1.9 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.55 5.1 12.27 5.4 13.34 4.8 Group I................................................... 12.20 5.5 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.30 2.8 11.33 3.2 11.23 3.9 Group I................................................... 11.27 3.1 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.40 2.9 – – 11.23 3.9 Group I................................................... 11.39 3.3 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.87 7.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.59 7.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.75 11.3 21.35 10.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.45 7.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.93 7.0 – – – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.40 6.2 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.81 5.9 7.86 5.8 6.34 7.3 Group I................................................... 6.79 6.1 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 10.33 6.0 11.20 9.4 – – Group I................................................... 10.30 6.2 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.72 1.4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.30 15.4 3.80 21.2 3.07 14.1 Group I................................................... 3.30 15.4 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.37 3.6 – – 2.30 6.2 Group I................................................... 2.37 3.6 – – 2.30 6.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.06 2.1 – – 7.66 .5 Group I................................................... 8.06 2.1 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.08 2.4 – – 7.75 1.3 Group I................................................... 8.08 2.4 – – 7.75 1.3 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.32 .8 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.32 .8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.98 5.5 11.09 7.1 – – Group I................................................... 10.69 1.8 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.36 6.2 10.36 7.2 – – Group I................................................... 10.49 6.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.90 5.5 11.17 7.6 – – Group I................................................... 11.17 4.5 11.72 5.8 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.77 1.4 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.77 1.4 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.92 15.3 17.91 17.2 8.35 14.9 Group I................................................... 9.61 10.5 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 11.49 10.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.43 12.0 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 11.66 11.4 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.53 11.7 19.54 13.0 9.60 2.7 Group I................................................... 10.65 6.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.27 11.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.82 9.8 21.82 9.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.36 8.5 11.21 7.5 9.27 7.6 Group I................................................... 10.34 9.2 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Group I................................................... 9.07 8.4 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.13 7.3 9.75 5.7 8.49 5.7 Group I................................................... 9.07 8.4 9.67 7.6 8.49 5.7 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.88 4.4 11.71 5.7 9.85 3.7 Group I................................................... 10.88 4.6 11.75 5.5 9.85 3.7 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.32 8.2 32.32 8.2 – – Group II.................................................. 32.26 8.7 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 38.72 10.2 38.72 10.2 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.60 3.8 15.90 3.9 10.74 7.2 Group I................................................... 13.39 3.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.49 2.8 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.68 2.9 15.78 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 14.82 2.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.43 3.1 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.45 6.3 15.73 4.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 15.78 5.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.36 7.2 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.87 6.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.87 6.6 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.70 4.5 11.35 3.7 – – Group I................................................... 10.80 4.3 11.58 .4 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.32 6.3 20.35 6.3 – – Group II.................................................. 21.76 6.3 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 8.8 20.43 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 21.35 8.4 21.35 8.4 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.25 1.2 15.69 4.3 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.19 6.9 14.24 7.4 – – Group I................................................... 12.87 6.6 12.79 7.3 – – Group II.................................................. 18.05 6.8 18.05 6.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.26 1.9 15.26 1.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.08 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.90 1.4 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.34 9.1 21.34 9.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.10 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.90 8.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 30.99 28.4 30.99 28.4 – – Group II.................................................. 21.07 4.2 21.07 4.2 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.34 7.8 18.34 7.8 – – Group II.................................................. 19.86 7.4 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.59 8.2 16.59 8.2 – – Group II.................................................. 17.83 9.0 17.83 9.0 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.18 5.7 16.36 5.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.64 5.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.51 3.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.13 9.1 24.13 9.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.38 6.6 25.38 6.6 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 4.1 17.87 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 17.83 4.5 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 14.21 8.3 14.21 8.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.03 9.8 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.21 .3 15.21 .3 – – Group I................................................... 13.51 7.0 13.51 7.0 – – Group II.................................................. 20.20 18.1 20.20 18.1 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.15 3.2 15.15 3.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.66 4.1 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.89 6.1 15.22 6.5 11.56 9.3 Group I................................................... 13.12 3.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.00 4.3 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.2 17.07 9.2 – – Group I................................................... 14.34 6.9 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.25 11.4 18.25 11.4 – – Group I................................................... 14.86 9.8 14.86 9.8 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.17 5.6 14.24 5.7 – – Group I................................................... 14.16 5.8 14.23 5.9 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.21 7.9 11.14 8.3 – – Group I................................................... 11.74 5.5 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.67 6.7 11.35 6.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.90 6.0 11.57 6.0 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.93 14.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.19 14.2 – – – – 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.77 $11.18 $16.00 $23.75 $35.93 Management occupations.............................................. 21.12 22.50 33.87 52.56 69.38 General and operations managers................................... 22.50 22.50 23.91 30.40 80.34 Financial managers................................................ 20.23 21.12 40.87 52.29 59.81 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.52 25.48 31.25 45.35 72.66 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 20.56 20.69 26.00 36.06 39.52 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.15 23.38 30.77 34.62 44.68 Training and development specialists............................ 18.27 20.47 24.01 29.09 40.76 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.90 26.21 28.85 33.65 37.85 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.25 32.69 45.67 63.56 65.75 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.53 30.52 39.29 47.12 60.95 Computer software engineers....................................... 36.92 39.29 44.72 60.95 64.90 Computer systems analysts......................................... 19.81 30.00 40.02 47.12 59.53 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 16.00 18.51 28.81 40.70 46.19 Engineers......................................................... 18.51 29.27 40.70 44.99 48.32 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.07 21.44 30.59 34.59 36.64 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 12.72 18.83 23.96 27.19 32.89 Community and social services occupations........................... 10.11 15.39 17.20 19.38 21.54 Counselors........................................................ 14.90 16.47 19.62 20.41 22.79 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 8.75 9.01 10.64 16.57 29.74 Legal occupations................................................... 17.44 22.36 25.00 60.16 72.61 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.66 15.50 24.84 32.04 38.45 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.39 36.32 43.56 61.34 81.14 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.85 22.94 27.02 32.56 36.55 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.85 22.73 26.94 32.07 36.06 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.85 22.54 26.96 32.04 35.48 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.85 23.53 26.43 32.27 37.04 Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.85 23.55 27.27 33.57 39.06 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.85 23.55 27.27 33.57 39.06 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.24 10.02 10.71 11.99 14.71 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 7.64 18.38 18.84 18.84 18.84 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 7.24 9.00 14.78 21.88 27.70 Coaches and scouts.............................................. 7.24 9.00 14.78 21.88 27.70 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.84 18.56 22.15 27.35 30.60 Registered nurses................................................. 20.71 23.65 25.51 28.88 30.80 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.28 18.56 19.47 21.22 22.15 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.98 10.80 11.66 13.60 16.45 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.92 10.50 11.00 11.86 13.01 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.89 10.50 11.00 11.99 13.45 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.98 12.19 13.60 16.23 16.90 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.54 12.37 20.23 26.75 29.00 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.00 11.93 12.00 12.41 15.39 Security guards................................................. 10.00 11.93 12.00 12.41 15.39 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 4.50 7.00 9.00 10.64 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.00 9.75 12.00 12.88 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 8.50 9.75 10.75 12.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.35 3.50 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.43 3.13 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.55 6.75 7.75 9.00 10.30 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.55 6.75 7.50 8.98 10.60 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.31 6.31 6.75 8.50 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.00 9.75 10.00 11.27 14.00 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.50 8.68 10.99 11.08 13.87 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.48 10.46 11.00 11.24 13.87 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.00 9.75 10.00 11.00 13.55 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.55 8.00 10.00 16.81 37.97 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.82 8.82 11.31 11.33 16.81 Recreation workers.............................................. 8.82 8.82 11.31 12.16 16.81 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 9.45 12.13 19.25 27.98 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.02 17.02 20.31 23.96 35.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.37 8.35 9.90 12.04 13.70 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.40 12.00 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.40 12.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.37 9.23 10.70 12.60 14.55 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 20.77 22.56 24.81 34.74 69.21 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 22.14 23.66 27.98 56.38 76.88 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.58 11.93 15.00 17.84 21.73 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.03 14.50 15.48 17.19 20.10 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.50 14.50 14.50 16.60 17.94 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.00 14.22 15.48 17.57 18.03 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.77 11.11 14.54 14.54 16.88 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.83 9.25 11.35 11.86 13.50 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.00 15.90 20.96 24.22 28.31 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.42 16.26 21.73 24.04 26.54 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.61 12.85 15.30 16.74 16.86 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.00 11.31 13.43 16.07 20.32 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.75 12.00 14.50 17.00 24.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.50 14.42 19.41 24.04 30.93 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 19.41 20.00 20.40 29.47 76.92 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.36 13.91 16.23 21.80 26.12 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.36 12.50 15.22 20.38 21.38 Production occupations.............................................. 9.20 11.07 15.00 19.00 24.45 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 18.74 19.44 24.63 25.00 30.29 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.03 19.06 23.61 23.61 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 9.45 12.50 14.55 15.60 18.83 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.25 12.15 15.76 16.42 23.75 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.20 10.00 17.54 17.79 18.29 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.48 10.76 13.00 16.17 21.72 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.50 12.75 14.78 19.38 21.72 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 12.00 14.39 17.50 20.05 24.04 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.84 11.00 13.00 15.43 22.97 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 8.80 11.07 13.00 15.05 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.48 10.31 11.54 12.92 14.71 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.00 7.00 7.75 10.51 13.85 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.00 $15.48 $23.08 $36.30 Management occupations.............................................. 21.12 22.41 32.81 52.29 69.38 General and operations managers................................... 22.50 22.50 23.91 30.40 80.34 Financial managers................................................ 20.23 21.12 40.87 52.29 59.81 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.69 26.44 33.65 48.08 74.38 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 20.56 20.69 26.00 36.06 39.52 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.15 24.01 34.38 36.06 51.92 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.90 26.21 28.85 33.65 37.85 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.25 32.69 45.67 63.56 65.75 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 24.66 30.52 39.29 48.87 60.95 Computer software engineers....................................... 36.92 39.29 44.72 60.95 64.90 Computer systems analysts......................................... 19.76 30.00 40.39 50.00 59.62 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 16.00 18.51 28.81 40.70 46.19 Engineers......................................................... 18.51 29.27 40.70 44.99 48.32 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.07 21.44 30.59 34.59 36.64 Legal occupations................................................... 17.44 22.36 25.00 60.16 72.61 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.24 9.24 23.16 35.07 39.06 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.35 24.95 29.32 39.06 39.06 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 7.64 18.38 18.84 18.84 18.84 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 7.24 9.00 14.78 21.88 27.70 Coaches and scouts.............................................. 7.24 9.00 14.78 21.88 27.70 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.41 18.25 22.04 28.88 30.60 Registered nurses................................................. 21.20 24.45 27.67 30.13 31.01 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.98 10.80 12.05 14.45 16.45 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.70 10.28 11.00 11.75 13.45 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.70 10.28 11.00 11.75 13.45 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.98 12.19 13.60 16.23 16.90 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 11.80 12.00 12.41 15.39 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.00 11.93 12.00 12.41 15.39 Security guards................................................. 10.00 11.93 12.00 12.41 15.39 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 4.00 7.00 9.00 10.64 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.00 9.75 12.00 12.88 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 8.50 9.75 10.75 12.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.35 3.50 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.43 3.13 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.55 6.75 7.75 9.00 10.30 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.55 6.75 7.50 8.98 10.50 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.31 6.31 6.75 8.50 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.00 9.75 10.00 11.25 14.50 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.50 8.50 10.99 11.00 13.87 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.77 11.00 11.00 11.44 13.87 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.00 9.75 10.00 11.00 13.55 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.55 7.55 9.19 16.81 37.97 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.82 8.82 11.33 16.81 16.81 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 9.45 12.13 19.25 27.98 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.02 17.02 20.31 23.96 35.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.37 8.35 9.90 12.04 13.70 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.40 12.00 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.40 12.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.37 9.23 10.70 12.60 14.55 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 20.77 22.56 24.81 34.74 69.21 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 22.14 23.66 27.98 56.38 76.88 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.58 11.93 15.26 18.03 21.86 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.03 14.50 15.48 17.19 20.10 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.50 14.50 14.50 16.60 17.94 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.00 14.22 15.48 17.57 18.03 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.77 11.11 14.54 14.54 16.88 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.83 9.25 11.35 11.86 13.50 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.00 15.90 20.96 24.22 28.31 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.42 16.26 21.73 24.04 26.54 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.61 12.85 15.30 16.74 16.86 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.00 10.45 14.14 17.47 20.32 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.50 12.00 14.50 17.00 24.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.36 14.42 19.42 24.45 30.93 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 20.00 20.00 20.40 30.43 76.92 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.36 13.91 16.23 21.80 26.12 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.36 12.50 15.22 20.38 20.85 Production occupations.............................................. 9.20 11.07 15.00 19.00 24.45 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 18.74 19.44 24.63 25.00 30.29 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.03 19.06 23.61 23.61 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 9.45 12.50 14.55 15.60 18.83 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.25 12.15 15.76 16.42 23.75 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.20 10.00 17.54 17.79 18.29 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.48 10.76 13.03 16.41 21.72 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.50 12.75 14.78 19.38 21.72 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 12.00 14.39 17.50 20.05 24.04 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.84 11.00 13.00 15.43 22.97 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.22 8.50 11.00 13.00 15.05 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.48 10.31 11.54 12.90 14.75 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.00 7.00 7.75 10.51 13.85 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.03 $13.87 $20.67 $27.00 $33.86 Management occupations.............................................. 24.05 27.52 41.39 68.68 92.40 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.64 21.05 24.12 25.39 27.19 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.42 16.47 19.04 20.98 26.26 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.66 18.73 24.95 31.67 37.94 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.39 36.32 44.18 61.34 81.14 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.85 22.79 26.96 32.14 36.00 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.85 22.75 26.93 31.96 35.71 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.85 22.75 27.03 32.12 35.63 Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.85 22.97 26.98 32.12 35.26 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.85 22.97 26.98 32.12 35.26 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.02 10.66 11.09 12.16 14.62 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.77 19.65 23.65 26.45 30.24 Registered nurses................................................. 20.48 23.64 25.49 27.40 30.63 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.99 10.76 11.00 12.90 14.63 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.61 17.93 26.30 27.21 30.45 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.48 8.94 10.46 11.70 12.70 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.48 8.94 10.46 11.70 12.70 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.45 8.84 10.46 11.19 11.96 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.78 11.84 13.37 14.35 15.79 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.56 11.84 13.37 13.51 15.36 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.00 $12.17 $17.21 $25.00 $38.35 Management occupations.............................................. 21.12 22.50 35.56 52.56 69.38 Financial managers................................................ 20.23 21.12 40.87 52.29 59.81 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.52 25.48 31.25 45.35 72.66 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 20.56 20.69 26.00 36.06 39.52 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.15 23.38 30.77 34.62 44.68 Training and development specialists............................ 18.27 20.47 24.01 29.09 40.76 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.90 26.21 28.85 33.65 37.85 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.25 32.69 45.67 63.56 65.75 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.53 30.52 39.29 47.12 60.95 Computer software engineers....................................... 36.92 39.29 44.72 60.95 64.90 Computer systems analysts......................................... 19.81 30.00 40.02 47.12 59.53 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 16.00 18.51 28.81 40.70 46.19 Engineers......................................................... 18.51 29.27 40.70 44.99 48.32 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.07 21.44 30.59 34.59 36.64 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 12.72 18.21 23.96 27.19 32.89 Community and social services occupations........................... 10.08 15.39 16.86 18.66 20.41 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 8.75 9.01 10.64 16.57 29.74 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.66 15.50 24.84 32.08 38.45 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.39 36.32 44.01 61.34 81.14 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.85 22.96 27.02 32.56 36.55 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.85 22.74 26.96 32.07 36.06 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.85 22.54 26.98 32.04 35.48 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.85 23.53 26.43 32.27 37.04 Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.85 23.55 27.27 33.57 39.06 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 20.85 23.55 27.27 33.57 39.06 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.24 10.02 10.71 11.99 14.71 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.41 17.45 21.27 27.27 30.42 Registered nurses................................................. 20.45 21.41 26.82 29.21 31.05 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.28 18.56 19.47 21.22 22.15 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.98 10.72 11.40 13.54 15.65 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.92 10.32 10.93 11.75 13.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.93 13.86 20.61 26.75 29.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 4.00 9.00 10.35 11.80 Cooks............................................................. 9.00 9.00 12.00 12.88 12.88 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 3.07 4.00 8.50 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.00 9.75 10.00 12.00 14.75 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.50 8.50 10.10 11.72 13.87 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.61 9.67 10.99 12.37 13.87 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.00 11.33 33.68 37.97 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.50 10.84 16.87 23.08 34.74 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.02 17.02 20.31 23.96 35.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.45 9.54 10.84 12.35 13.70 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.00 8.50 9.54 10.75 12.00 Cashiers...................................................... 8.00 8.50 9.54 10.75 12.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.30 9.68 11.40 12.95 13.70 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 20.77 22.56 24.81 34.74 69.21 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 22.14 23.66 27.98 56.38 76.88 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.00 12.35 15.30 18.08 21.86 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.00 14.50 15.48 17.21 20.10 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.50 14.50 15.21 16.60 17.94 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 9.50 11.45 11.86 13.50 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.00 15.90 20.99 24.22 28.31 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.42 16.26 21.73 24.04 26.54 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.61 12.85 16.35 16.86 18.45 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.00 11.18 13.83 16.53 20.32 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.75 12.00 14.50 17.00 24.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.50 14.42 19.41 24.04 30.93 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 19.41 20.00 20.40 29.47 76.92 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.36 13.91 16.23 21.80 26.12 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.36 12.50 15.22 20.38 21.38 Production occupations.............................................. 9.20 11.55 15.33 19.10 24.45 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 18.74 19.44 24.63 25.00 30.29 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.50 13.03 19.06 23.61 23.61 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 9.45 12.50 14.55 15.60 18.83 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.25 12.15 15.76 16.42 23.75 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.20 10.00 17.54 17.79 18.29 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.80 10.76 13.35 17.21 21.72 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.50 12.75 14.78 19.38 21.72 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 12.00 14.39 17.50 20.05 24.04 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.84 11.00 13.00 16.00 22.97 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 8.80 10.58 12.94 15.05 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.48 10.00 11.07 12.35 14.63 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), Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $5.15 $6.75 $8.50 $11.05 $15.96 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 6.50 6.70 7.24 9.00 9.00 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.30 23.65 25.49 27.50 30.60 Registered nurses................................................. 23.65 23.65 25.49 26.00 28.73 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.28 10.86 11.99 13.60 16.45 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.22 10.84 11.00 11.99 12.90 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.22 10.84 11.00 11.99 12.90 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 4.50 6.65 8.00 10.02 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.13 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.35 3.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.55 6.65 7.00 8.00 10.30 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.55 6.65 7.00 8.50 10.30 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.25 6.55 7.23 9.19 12.50 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.75 7.37 8.76 10.95 13.95 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.75 7.37 8.50 10.40 12.80 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.50 8.04 9.00 12.04 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.50 8.04 9.00 12.04 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.50 7.37 9.70 11.20 14.55 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.83 9.00 10.58 13.00 14.53 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.22 9.59 11.72 13.80 14.71 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $23.28 $17.21 $924 $680 39.7 $47,158 $35,085 2,026 Management occupations.............................................. 41.59 35.56 1,680 1,438 40.4 87,186 74,672 2,096 Financial managers................................................ 39.13 40.87 1,587 1,635 40.6 82,545 85,010 2,109 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 61.25 31.25 2,478 1,250 40.5 128,853 65,000 2,104 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.49 26.00 1,140 1,040 40.0 59,267 54,080 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.65 30.77 1,269 1,231 40.1 65,971 64,000 2,085 Training and development specialists............................ 26.09 24.01 1,043 960 40.0 54,259 49,935 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 28.85 1,219 1,173 40.7 63,386 60,999 2,115 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 48.43 45.67 1,937 1,827 40.0 100,742 94,989 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.37 39.29 1,623 1,572 40.2 84,384 81,721 2,090 Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 44.72 1,936 1,789 40.0 100,681 93,007 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.14 40.02 1,663 1,608 40.4 86,467 83,606 2,102 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.03 28.81 1,200 1,152 40.0 62,396 59,925 2,077 Engineers......................................................... 36.95 40.70 1,478 1,628 40.0 76,850 84,656 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 30.59 1,138 1,224 39.7 59,188 63,627 2,064 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.03 23.96 921 958 40.0 47,897 49,835 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.85 16.86 665 663 39.5 34,566 34,501 2,052 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 13.92 10.64 537 414 38.6 27,922 21,519 2,006 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.52 24.84 961 936 37.7 40,863 40,562 1,601 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 48.86 44.01 1,872 1,742 38.3 75,881 68,659 1,553 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.00 27.02 1,051 1,017 37.5 44,563 43,626 1,591 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.82 26.96 1,043 1,011 37.5 44,421 43,470 1,597 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.79 26.98 1,041 1,014 37.5 44,355 43,584 1,596 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.91 26.43 1,053 991 37.7 44,658 42,623 1,600 Secondary school teachers....................................... 28.46 27.27 1,074 1,048 37.8 45,147 44,725 1,586 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 28.46 27.27 1,074 1,048 37.8 45,147 44,725 1,586 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.42 10.71 432 402 37.8 18,802 18,210 1,646 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.92 21.27 854 833 39.0 44,102 43,285 2,012 Registered nurses................................................. 25.98 26.82 998 1,027 38.4 51,502 53,290 1,982 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.03 19.47 785 768 39.2 39,692 39,915 1,982 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.27 11.40 442 429 36.0 22,970 22,302 1,872 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.33 10.93 405 413 35.7 21,049 21,466 1,858 Protective service occupations...................................... 21.35 20.61 866 842 40.6 45,041 43,767 2,109 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.86 9.00 305 340 38.8 15,792 17,680 2,009 Cooks............................................................. 11.20 12.00 446 469 39.9 23,210 24,375 2,073 Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.80 3.07 142 99 37.3 7,372 5,158 1,942 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.09 10.00 441 400 39.7 20,284 17,160 1,828 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.36 10.10 403 400 38.9 20,924 20,800 2,020 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.17 10.99 447 440 40.0 23,196 22,865 2,077 Personal care and service occupations............................... 17.91 11.33 605 470 33.8 30,343 23,566 1,695 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.54 16.87 774 675 39.6 40,273 35,085 2,062 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.82 20.31 873 812 40.0 45,381 42,234 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.21 10.84 440 416 39.3 22,886 21,632 2,042 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.75 9.54 385 381 39.5 20,024 19,835 2,053 Cashiers...................................................... 9.75 9.54 385 381 39.5 20,024 19,835 2,053 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.71 11.40 457 421 39.0 23,757 21,913 2,028 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.32 24.81 1,293 992 40.0 67,233 51,603 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 38.72 27.98 1,549 1,119 40.0 80,540 58,198 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.90 15.30 632 608 39.8 32,869 31,637 2,068 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.78 15.48 629 619 39.9 32,712 32,205 2,073 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.73 15.21 629 608 40.0 32,718 31,637 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.35 11.45 450 458 39.7 23,411 23,816 2,063 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.35 20.99 810 837 39.8 42,135 43,499 2,071 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 21.73 817 869 40.0 42,489 45,200 2,080 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.69 16.35 619 654 39.5 32,213 34,000 2,053 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.24 13.83 558 530 39.2 29,019 27,560 2,038 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.26 14.50 611 580 40.0 31,638 29,580 2,073 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.34 19.41 854 776 40.0 44,387 40,371 2,080 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 30.99 20.40 1,239 816 40.0 64,451 42,432 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.34 16.23 732 663 39.9 38,019 33,758 2,073 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.59 15.22 664 609 40.0 34,475 31,658 2,078 Production occupations.............................................. 16.36 15.33 649 600 39.7 33,766 31,200 2,064 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.13 24.63 980 974 40.6 50,974 50,623 2,113 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 19.06 715 762 40.0 37,174 39,645 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 14.21 14.55 556 582 39.2 28,934 30,264 2,037 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.21 15.76 607 630 39.9 31,578 32,781 2,076 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.15 17.54 590 676 38.9 30,658 35,153 2,024 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.22 13.35 608 540 39.9 31,566 28,080 2,074 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 14.78 698 590 40.9 36,186 30,680 2,120 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.25 17.50 752 689 41.2 38,915 35,818 2,133 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.24 13.00 570 488 40.0 29,631 25,350 2,081 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.14 10.58 445 423 39.9 23,123 22,006 2,076 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.35 11.07 453 440 39.9 23,531 22,880 2,074 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $23.35 $16.83 $929 $668 39.8 $47,828 $34,461 2,048 Management occupations.............................................. 40.81 32.81 1,650 1,313 40.4 85,820 68,251 2,103 Financial managers................................................ 39.13 40.87 1,587 1,635 40.6 82,545 85,010 2,109 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 65.49 33.65 2,653 1,346 40.5 137,956 70,000 2,106 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.49 26.00 1,140 1,040 40.0 59,267 54,080 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 33.67 34.38 1,351 1,375 40.1 70,244 71,500 2,086 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 28.85 1,219 1,173 40.7 63,386 60,999 2,115 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 48.43 45.67 1,937 1,827 40.0 100,742 94,989 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.29 39.29 1,660 1,572 40.2 86,342 81,721 2,091 Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 44.72 1,936 1,789 40.0 100,681 93,007 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.67 40.39 1,685 1,627 40.5 87,645 84,579 2,104 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.03 28.81 1,200 1,152 40.0 62,396 59,925 2,077 Engineers......................................................... 36.95 40.70 1,478 1,628 40.0 76,850 84,656 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 30.59 1,138 1,224 39.7 59,188 63,627 2,064 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 23.86 23.98 954 959 40.0 40,511 43,634 1,698 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.69 29.32 1,228 1,173 40.0 47,373 46,826 1,544 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.78 21.63 857 853 39.3 44,323 44,088 2,035 Registered nurses................................................. 26.65 27.89 1,052 1,112 39.5 53,894 57,616 2,022 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.48 11.75 444 424 35.5 23,070 22,062 1,848 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.77 12.00 487 472 38.1 25,315 24,544 1,982 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.84 9.00 304 340 38.8 15,823 17,680 2,017 Cooks............................................................. 11.20 12.00 446 469 39.9 23,210 24,375 2,073 Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.80 3.07 142 99 37.3 7,372 5,158 1,942 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.16 10.00 443 400 39.7 20,091 17,160 1,801 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.14 9.07 385 340 38.0 20,022 17,680 1,974 Personal care and service occupations............................... 19.00 11.33 621 672 32.7 32,291 34,965 1,700 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.54 16.87 774 675 39.6 40,273 35,085 2,062 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.82 20.31 873 812 40.0 45,381 42,234 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.21 10.84 440 416 39.3 22,886 21,632 2,042 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.75 9.54 385 381 39.5 20,024 19,835 2,053 Cashiers...................................................... 9.75 9.54 385 381 39.5 20,024 19,835 2,053 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.71 11.40 457 421 39.0 23,757 21,913 2,028 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.32 24.81 1,293 992 40.0 67,233 51,603 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 38.72 27.98 1,549 1,119 40.0 80,540 58,198 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.05 15.48 639 614 39.8 33,221 31,943 2,069 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.78 15.48 629 619 39.9 32,712 32,205 2,073 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.73 15.21 629 608 40.0 32,718 31,637 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.35 11.45 450 458 39.7 23,411 23,816 2,063 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.35 20.99 810 837 39.8 42,135 43,499 2,071 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 21.73 817 869 40.0 42,489 45,200 2,080 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.69 16.35 619 654 39.5 32,213 34,000 2,053 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.45 14.14 569 553 39.3 29,542 28,766 2,044 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.29 14.50 612 580 40.0 31,691 29,580 2,072 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.43 19.42 857 777 40.0 44,589 40,394 2,081 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 32.18 20.40 1,287 816 40.0 66,930 42,432 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.31 16.23 730 649 39.9 37,982 33,758 2,074 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.52 15.22 661 609 40.0 34,357 31,658 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.36 15.33 649 600 39.7 33,766 31,200 2,064 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.13 24.63 980 974 40.6 50,974 50,623 2,113 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 19.06 715 762 40.0 37,174 39,645 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 14.21 14.55 556 582 39.2 28,934 30,264 2,037 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.21 15.76 607 630 39.9 31,578 32,781 2,076 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.15 17.54 590 676 38.9 30,658 35,153 2,024 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.33 13.71 612 550 39.9 31,789 28,560 2,074 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 14.78 698 590 40.9 36,186 30,680 2,120 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.25 17.50 752 689 41.2 38,915 35,818 2,133 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.24 13.00 570 488 40.0 29,631 25,350 2,081 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.07 10.58 442 423 39.9 22,971 22,006 2,076 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.26 11.00 449 437 39.9 23,337 22,734 2,073 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $22.77 $20.65 $889 $816 39.0 $42,758 $40,269 1,877 Management occupations.............................................. 50.39 41.39 2,016 1,656 40.0 101,980 86,091 2,024 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.14 18.90 751 724 39.2 39,046 37,647 2,040 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.69 24.92 962 936 37.4 40,898 40,417 1,592 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 50.17 44.18 1,910 1,760 38.1 77,406 68,919 1,543 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.82 26.96 1,040 1,011 37.4 44,372 43,475 1,595 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.79 26.93 1,040 1,011 37.4 44,454 43,470 1,599 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.86 27.03 1,042 1,014 37.4 44,462 43,584 1,596 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.69 26.98 1,034 1,014 37.3 44,094 43,584 1,592 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.69 26.98 1,034 1,014 37.3 44,094 43,584 1,592 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.63 11.09 435 416 37.4 18,621 17,883 1,601 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.17 20.81 850 804 38.3 43,686 41,101 1,970 Registered nurses................................................. 25.37 25.87 950 966 37.4 49,390 50,207 1,947 Protective service occupations...................................... 24.42 26.36 1,014 1,054 41.5 52,708 54,823 2,159 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.61 10.46 424 418 40.0 22,012 21,757 2,075 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.61 10.46 424 418 40.0 22,012 21,757 2,075 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.35 10.46 414 418 40.0 21,467 21,757 2,075 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.37 13.37 525 505 39.2 27,279 26,250 2,040 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.16 13.37 509 484 38.7 26,448 25,178 2,010 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $21.53 $16.19 $17.44 $38.84 Management, professional, and related...... 40.85 27.23 28.44 60.41 Management, business, and financial...... 53.13 34.02 30.45 77.61 Professional and related................. 27.50 20.75 26.76 35.88 Service.................................... 9.61 8.73 9.97 20.98 Sales and office........................... 16.05 16.31 14.56 17.70 Sales and related........................ 16.53 16.44 14.59 – Office and administrative support........ 15.73 16.18 14.52 16.06 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 18.79 15.58 22.80 28.49 Construction and extraction............. 15.29 14.64 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 21.43 16.68 23.61 31.52 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 15.53 14.83 13.24 20.87 Production............................... 16.18 15.85 13.00 20.10 Transportation and material moving....... 14.98 14.05 13.40 22.20 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........................................................... 4.1 6.2 6.6 6.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 7.9 12.1 12.0 6.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 9.4 13.5 6.8 11.4 Professional and related.......................................... 9.8 12.1 23.1 4.7 Service............................................................. 2.8 4.8 4.1 21.4 Sales and office.................................................... 5.1 10.5 6.5 10.9 Sales and related................................................. 11.7 20.7 11.9 – Office and administrative support................................. 4.0 3.3 8.1 7.7 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.2 2.9 9.3 17.1 Construction and extraction...................................... 1.9 7.1 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 9.4 5.1 9.8 15.5 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.4 2.8 8.1 10.7 Production........................................................ 5.7 5.0 10.5 7.1 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.4 4.3 10.4 23.0 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $17.92 $15.48 $714 $615 39.8 $36,460 $31,741 2,034 Management occupations.............................................. 34.80 22.50 1,399 900 40.2 72,732 46,800 2,090 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.82 29.38 1,326 1,231 41.7 68,949 63,999 2,167 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.03 27.00 1,121 1,080 40.0 58,301 56,160 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.61 8.00 258 300 39.1 13,430 15,600 2,031 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.36 10.00 451 400 39.7 20,127 17,160 1,773 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.30 17.02 767 681 39.8 39,890 35,402 2,067 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.79 9.68 425 387 39.3 22,080 20,134 2,046 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.11 24.23 1,244 969 40.0 64,702 50,398 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.47 15.75 653 619 39.7 33,972 32,205 2,062 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.13 14.90 602 580 39.8 31,305 30,160 2,069 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.80 16.26 746 650 39.6 38,768 33,821 2,062 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.25 17.64 770 706 40.0 40,036 36,695 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.64 14.00 586 560 40.0 30,321 29,120 2,071 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.68 16.25 668 650 40.1 34,752 33,800 2,084 Production occupations.............................................. 16.36 15.15 651 593 39.8 33,842 30,826 2,069 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.46 13.75 580 560 40.1 30,072 28,600 2,080 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.71 14.18 552 564 40.3 28,548 29,349 2,082 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $28.48 $18.90 $1,132 $756 39.7 $58,726 $39,312 2,062 Management occupations.............................................. 47.84 41.84 1,949 1,674 40.7 101,359 87,033 2,119 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 72.02 34.38 2,902 1,375 40.3 150,890 71,500 2,095 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.18 20.69 1,167 828 40.0 60,699 43,033 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 33.67 34.38 1,351 1,375 40.1 70,244 71,500 2,086 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.98 28.85 1,219 1,173 40.7 63,386 60,999 2,115 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.29 39.29 1,660 1,572 40.2 86,342 81,721 2,091 Computer software engineers....................................... 48.40 44.72 1,936 1,789 40.0 100,681 93,007 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.67 40.39 1,685 1,627 40.5 87,645 84,579 2,104 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.77 32.79 1,307 1,312 39.9 67,956 68,203 2,074 Engineers......................................................... 35.11 35.93 1,405 1,437 40.0 73,037 74,741 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.68 30.59 1,138 1,224 39.7 59,188 63,627 2,064 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 33.12 35.07 1,325 1,403 40.0 51,762 54,819 1,563 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.53 21.20 880 834 39.1 45,426 43,389 2,016 Registered nurses................................................. 26.09 25.67 1,027 1,025 39.4 52,384 53,248 2,008 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.36 12.84 528 502 39.5 27,458 26,083 2,056 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.10 10.25 351 392 38.5 18,232 20,384 2,004 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.74 9.07 381 340 39.1 19,789 17,680 2,032 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.23 9.07 360 320 39.0 18,735 16,640 2,030 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.95 12.90 787 507 39.5 40,931 26,374 2,052 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.73 15.35 628 612 39.9 32,630 31,824 2,075 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.99 17.16 680 687 40.0 35,339 35,699 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.87 21.73 875 869 40.0 45,487 45,200 2,080 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.02 21.73 881 869 40.0 45,794 45,200 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.36 11.00 493 440 39.9 25,585 22,880 2,070 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 26.65 24.45 1,065 978 39.9 55,358 50,856 2,077 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.73 14.31 706 572 39.8 36,723 29,765 2,072 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.00 13.91 640 556 40.0 33,284 28,933 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.36 15.33 649 600 39.6 33,726 31,200 2,061 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.87 19.06 715 762 40.0 37,174 39,645 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 14.98 16.00 599 640 40.0 31,156 33,280 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 16.02 17.79 620 676 38.7 32,215 35,153 2,011 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.95 12.35 635 494 39.8 33,027 25,688 2,070 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 22.31 20.05 936 802 42.0 48,678 41,704 2,182 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 22.31 20.05 936 802 42.0 48,678 41,704 2,182 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.37 12.17 575 487 40.0 29,886 25,312 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.90 10.58 435 423 39.9 22,609 22,006 2,074 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.19 11.00 445 434 39.8 23,161 22,589 2,071 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $25.64 $25.64 – $21.54 $21.40 $22.60 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 37.14 40.85 25.88 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 51.49 53.13 35.08 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 26.27 27.50 24.15 Service............................................................. – – – 10.58 9.03 18.68 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 15.96 16.05 13.37 Sales and related................................................. – – – 16.53 16.53 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 15.60 15.73 13.37 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 18.07 18.12 – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 15.26 15.29 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 20.52 20.60 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 22.79 22.79 – 14.68 14.73 – Production........................................................ 23.08 23.08 – 15.41 15.41 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 14.07 14.14 – 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........................................................... 11.0 11.0 – 3.8 4.3 3.4 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 5.7 7.9 5.4 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 8.7 9.4 27.5 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 6.8 9.8 5.2 Service............................................................. – – – 5.0 3.6 10.9 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 5.0 5.1 3.6 Sales and related................................................. – – – 11.7 11.7 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 3.8 4.0 3.6 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 6.9 7.1 – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 1.9 1.9 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 10.4 10.7 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.3 17.3 – 5.3 5.4 – Production........................................................ .4 .4 – 6.1 6.1 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 5.9 6.1 – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $18.21 $17.56 $52.42 $52.42 Management, professional, and related............................... 28.44 29.51 84.21 84.21 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.61 34.54 100.47 100.47 Professional and related.......................................... 24.67 25.01 44.71 44.71 Service............................................................. 11.02 9.57 – – Sales and office.................................................... 14.65 14.70 25.46 25.46 Sales and related................................................. 13.85 13.85 39.24 39.24 Office and administrative support................................. 15.17 15.29 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.59 17.62 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 15.29 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.57 19.62 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.87 14.92 – – Production........................................................ 15.59 15.59 23.97 23.97 Transportation and material moving................................ 14.24 14.32 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.8 4.4 9.9 9.9 Management, professional, and related............................... 5.7 7.7 11.6 11.6 Management, business, and financial............................... 7.2 7.5 14.1 14.1 Professional and related.......................................... 7.9 12.4 10.9 10.9 Service............................................................. 4.8 3.0 – – Sales and office.................................................... 2.8 2.9 15.5 15.5 Sales and related................................................. 6.1 6.1 19.9 19.9 Office and administrative support................................. 3.9 4.2 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.1 5.2 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 1.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7.5 7.7 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.9 5.0 – – Production........................................................ 4.8 4.8 30.4 30.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.4 6.7 – – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 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........................................................... $16.67 $21.11 $17.56 – $49.20 – $18.07 $10.20 $16.23 Management, professional, and related............................... 28.02 35.03 35.56 – 76.10 – 20.90 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 28.02 40.51 38.55 – 85.56 – 23.82 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 29.33 33.06 – 42.22 – 19.72 – – Service............................................................. – – 19.36 – – – 10.55 6.80 9.22 Sales and office.................................................... – 23.61 15.08 – 17.47 – 15.44 12.54 – Sales and related................................................. – – 15.32 – – – – 8.96 – Office and administrative support................................. – 15.74 14.52 – 17.47 – 15.54 14.98 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 15.32 19.74 25.56 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 22.92 25.56 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 16.93 15.02 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 17.15 11.15 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 15.75 15.82 – – – – – – 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........................................................... 10.0 4.8 8.6 – 11.7 – 3.0 25.4 16.4 Management, professional, and related............................... 12.7 3.7 12.6 – 5.0 – 6.2 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 12.7 3.5 4.6 – 8.3 – 2.2 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 15.0 23.5 – 11.3 – 9.5 – – Service............................................................. – – 13.0 – – – 1.7 7.5 22.8 Sales and office.................................................... – 16.5 11.1 – 1.1 – 2.9 11.1 – Sales and related................................................. – – 15.2 – – – – 7.8 – Office and administrative support................................. – 3.1 6.2 – 1.0 – 3.4 15.5 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 1.0 5.3 10.0 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 1.8 10.0 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – .7 7.0 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 1.6 5.6 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 5.3 6.6 – – – – – – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 833,700 731,400 102,300 Management, professional, and related............................... 237,000 169,100 67,800 Management, business, and financial............................... 93,500 85,000 8,500 Professional and related.......................................... 143,500 84,200 59,300 Service............................................................. 172,000 149,400 22,700 Sales and office.................................................... 212,900 206,500 6,400 Sales and related................................................. 90,400 90,400 – Office and administrative support................................. 122,500 116,000 6,400 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 85,200 82,800 – Construction and extraction...................................... 35,000 34,000 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 49,300 47,900 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 126,600 123,700 – Production........................................................ 55,600 55,600 – Transportation and material moving................................ 71,000 68,100 – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC, June 2008 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 38,152 37,274 878 Total in sample....................................................... 315 292 23 Responding........................................................ 207 186 21 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 59 57 2 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 49 49 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.