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NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY JUNE 2007
Workers in the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Truckee metropolitan area earned an average of $22.19 per hour in June 2007, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $39.34 for management occupations and $37.51 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $16.53. The NCS data available for the Sacramento area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)
Computer and information systems managers, part of the management occupational group, earned $44.71 per hour. Within the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, registered nurses averaged $44.22 per hour and licensed practical and vocational nurses, $25.85. Insurance claims and policy processing clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an average hourly rate of $18.28, and general office clerks earned $16.41 per hour.
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $23.38 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $13.75. Among civilian employees, union workers earned $25.05 and non-union workers, $21.19. Civilian workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $18.84 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $21.48, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $27.15.
The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/.
The NCS data reported here covered 392 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 908,600 workers in the Sacramento Combined Statistical Area (CSA) which is comprised of El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo Counties in California and Douglas County in Nevada.
Complete survey results are contained in the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Truckee, CA-NV National Compensation Survey June 2007 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.
For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey data, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Western Information Office by calling (415) 625-2270 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PT.
Please click here for a text formatted copy of the table issued with this release.
Last Modified Date: May 1, 2008