Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV, National Compensation Survey (NCS) Bulletin
NC BL 01/00/2009 Table: Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV, Bulletin, April 2008
Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia,
DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Civilian Private industry State and local government
workers workers workers
Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings
Worker and establishment
characteristics Mean Mean Mean
weekly weekly weekly
Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(-
Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3)
(percen- (percen- (percen-
t) t) t)
All workers........................................................... $24.80 3.2 35.1 $24.16 3.9 34.9 $29.16 2.6 36.8
Worker characteristics(4)(5)
Management, professional, and related............................... 36.86 2.8 37.7 37.11 3.3 37.9 35.72 2.5 36.5
Management, business, and financial............................... 40.85 4.5 39.5 41.05 5.1 39.6 39.42 5.2 39.1
Professional and related.......................................... 35.04 2.9 36.9 35.12 3.6 37.1 34.72 2.1 35.9
Service............................................................. 13.37 1.6 29.5 11.45 2.6 28.3 22.29 2.7 36.5
Sales and office.................................................... 17.59 2.5 34.1 17.46 2.7 33.9 19.40 4.1 37.4
Sales and related................................................. 17.49 6.7 31.7 17.49 6.7 31.7 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. 17.65 1.4 35.6 17.45 1.5 35.4 19.43 4.2 37.5
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 22.10 2.4 39.7 21.96 2.6 39.7 23.98 4.9 39.6
Construction and extraction...................................... 20.42 2.7 39.7 20.19 2.7 39.8 24.41 6.5 39.5
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 24.65 2.3 39.7 24.76 2.4 39.7 23.58 6.5 39.7
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.48 3.8 35.7 17.33 4.0 35.7 19.95 6.6 36.6
Production........................................................ 15.42 4.2 36.9 15.40 4.2 36.9 17.23 14.5 36.6
Transportation and material moving................................ 19.31 4.1 34.7 19.20 4.5 34.5 20.23 6.8 36.6
Full time........................................................... 26.52 3.4 39.4 25.99 4.1 39.5 29.85 2.5 38.8
Part time........................................................... 12.84 3.9 20.0 12.49 4.3 20.0 18.17 7.3 20.2
Union............................................................... 25.07 5.2 35.5 21.06 6.2 34.0 30.37 4.1 37.6
Nonunion............................................................ 24.76 3.7 35.1 24.47 4.1 35.0 28.11 2.2 36.1
Time................................................................ 24.81 3.3 35.0 24.13 4.0 34.8 29.16 2.6 36.8
Incentive........................................................... 24.71 8.5 37.3 24.71 8.5 37.3 – – –
Establishment characteristics
Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6)
Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6)
1-99 workers........................................................ 21.55 5.6 34.3 21.55 5.6 34.3 20.65 4.8 39.2
100-499 workers..................................................... 24.73 4.3 36.3 24.79 4.5 36.3 23.23 6.3 37.6
500 workers or more................................................. 30.23 2.8 35.6 30.58 4.3 34.9 29.70 2.8 36.7
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),
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $24.80 3.2 $26.52 3.4 $12.84 3.9
Management occupations.............................................. 46.97 3.4 47.03 3.5 40.99 21.6
Level 8 .................................................. 25.85 3.6 25.85 3.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.48 7.5 29.48 7.5 – –
Level 10.................................................. 35.84 9.4 35.84 9.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.83 5.8 43.18 5.9 – –
Level 12.................................................. 59.66 3.9 59.73 3.9 – –
Level 13.................................................. 64.30 3.6 64.30 3.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.01 6.6 45.84 6.8 – –
General and operations managers................................... 45.68 12.0 45.68 12.0 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.04 7.6 42.04 7.6 – –
Marketing managers.............................................. 41.76 9.5 41.76 9.5 – –
Sales managers.................................................. 42.33 10.8 42.33 10.8 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.82 5.3 54.81 5.6 – –
Level 11.................................................. 58.78 11.3 58.78 11.3 – –
Financial managers................................................ 47.82 8.7 47.82 8.7 – –
Construction managers............................................. 49.44 6.8 49.44 6.8 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 43.21 10.4 43.21 10.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 47.20 6.8 47.20 6.8 – –
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.25 5.4 47.25 5.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 49.13 7.7 49.13 7.7 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 51.97 26.3 51.97 26.3 – –
Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.75 11.9 41.75 11.9 – –
Social and community service managers............................. 31.68 9.8 31.68 9.8 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.50 4.0 34.56 4.1 32.87 5.4
Level 6 .................................................. 23.18 9.9 22.32 8.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 24.54 3.6 24.54 3.6 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 28.03 8.7 28.03 8.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.10 7.1 35.18 7.0 – –
Level 10.................................................. 37.58 4.3 37.58 4.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.06 10.2 45.06 10.2 – –
Level 12.................................................. 59.12 6.8 59.12 6.8 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.26 6.9 34.08 8.4 – –
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.23 8.6 30.49 8.5 – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.75 2.7 33.75 2.7 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 35.38 14.6 35.38 14.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.88 22.4 38.88 22.4 – –
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 39.09 24.1 39.09 24.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.90 27.6 40.90 27.6 – –
Logisticians...................................................... 37.70 5.0 37.70 5.0 – –
Management analysts............................................... 41.31 9.4 41.31 9.4 – –
Level 12.................................................. 57.33 8.2 57.33 8.2 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.39 4.7 32.50 5.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.71 2.5 25.71 2.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.48 7.7 33.92 8.1 – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.17 24.6 36.17 24.6 – –
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.88 14.7 28.88 14.7 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.98 2.6 40.96 2.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.13 1.8 18.35 .7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.50 9.2 27.49 9.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.70 2.6 25.70 2.6 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 31.18 5.4 31.18 5.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.34 7.1 39.10 6.9 – –
Level 11.................................................. 49.02 7.3 48.95 7.3 – –
Level 12.................................................. 55.07 1.4 55.07 1.4 – –
Level 13.................................................. 63.06 5.4 63.06 5.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.51 6.5 45.49 6.6 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 40.60 2.4 39.91 1.9 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 44.51 4.3 44.51 4.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 50.09 6.1 50.09 6.1 – –
Level 12.................................................. 50.94 4.8 50.94 4.8 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.63 1.2 42.63 1.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 52.49 4.4 52.49 4.4 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 52.14 7.9 52.14 7.9 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.43 3.0 45.43 3.0 – –
Level 12.................................................. 52.50 6.0 52.50 6.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 63.42 7.8 63.42 7.8 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 30.73 4.4 30.79 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 24.87 4.5 24.87 4.5 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 44.12 5.9 43.93 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.71 1.2 35.71 1.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.84 3.0 43.09 5.8 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 34.65 6.5 34.65 6.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.66 10.9 38.66 10.9 – –
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.04 12.5 35.04 12.5 – –
Operations research analysts...................................... 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.10 5.4 38.39 5.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.60 4.1 24.60 4.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.31 8.8 27.31 8.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.24 4.2 35.24 4.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 55.14 8.3 55.26 8.5 – –
Level 12.................................................. 53.24 4.4 53.24 4.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.54 3.4 36.54 3.4 – –
Engineers......................................................... 44.45 5.1 44.56 5.0 – –
Level 11.................................................. 53.48 8.0 53.57 8.3 – –
Level 12.................................................. 53.24 4.4 53.24 4.4 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.29 2.3 40.15 2.2 – –
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.52 1.7 39.33 1.9 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 24.80 12.6 24.80 12.6 – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.29 2.6 24.29 2.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.65 4.3 24.65 4.3 – –
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.46 1.8 24.46 1.8 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.24 3.6 33.29 3.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.28 3.1 22.38 3.0 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 26.30 4.4 26.30 4.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.44 3.4 27.44 3.4 – –
Level 10.................................................. 36.45 7.6 36.45 7.6 – –
Level 11.................................................. 33.96 4.4 33.96 4.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.12 5.8 32.12 5.8 – –
Life scientists................................................... 30.83 4.3 30.83 4.3 – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 30.07 8.7 30.07 8.7 – –
Physical scientists............................................... 39.36 25.6 39.78 26.3 – –
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 29.18 12.8 29.50 12.1 – –
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 29.18 12.8 29.50 12.1 – –
Economists........................................................ 26.44 13.4 26.44 13.4 – –
Market and survey researchers..................................... 31.78 8.9 31.78 8.9 – –
Market research analysts........................................ 31.86 9.5 31.86 9.5 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 24.68 7.9 26.45 6.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 16.34 3.3 16.38 4.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 20.44 4.2 20.44 4.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.04 4.3 35.12 4.3 – –
Counselors........................................................ 31.15 8.7 31.15 8.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 37.89 6.6 37.89 6.6 – –
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 37.45 6.7 37.45 6.7 – –
Social workers.................................................... 25.08 8.5 25.92 9.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.69 5.7 29.78 5.8 – –
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 26.29 10.4 28.27 8.3 – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ – – 16.70 9.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 18.60 8.6 18.60 8.6 – –
Legal occupations
Level 11.................................................. 54.31 20.6 54.31 20.6 – –
Lawyers........................................................... 62.98 8.4 64.09 10.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 54.31 20.6 54.31 20.6 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.33 5.1 33.12 5.3 22.84 7.5
Level 2 .................................................. 11.57 6.4 12.05 6.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.93 7.7 16.93 7.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.09 10.3 13.78 10.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.15 2.9 – – 21.38 2.9
Level 7 .................................................. 20.19 26.1 – – – –
Level 8 .................................................. 28.16 7.1 28.37 7.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.80 1.2 39.29 1.3 26.42 9.1
Level 10.................................................. 45.45 18.6 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 38.15 5.4 37.05 6.4 – –
Level 12.................................................. 57.26 6.6 57.26 6.6 – –
Level 13.................................................. 59.14 14.8 58.80 14.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.51 33.0 34.73 37.1 24.50 21.0
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 41.94 10.8 42.19 11.3 39.48 9.5
Level 9 .................................................. 31.97 2.4 – – 28.95 11.2
Level 10.................................................. 36.64 12.9 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 39.42 5.2 38.26 6.5 – –
Level 13.................................................. 59.14 14.8 58.80 14.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.85 21.5 – – – –
Business teachers, postsecondary................................ 43.68 14.5 – – – –
Math and computer teachers, postsecondary....................... 46.38 13.8 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 39.02 7.8 39.60 8.2 – –
English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 34.19 9.8 – – – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.32 22.3 36.27 23.7 36.98 8.6
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.86 2.9 38.25 2.9 24.31 12.0
Level 8 .................................................. 34.18 8.8 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.09 1.3 39.40 1.5 – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 29.12 21.3 29.39 20.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.88 1.2 38.88 1.2 – –
Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 20.22 29.5 – – – –
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.85 1.7 39.25 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.70 1.0 39.05 1.6 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.31 1.3 38.83 1.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.40 1.2 38.85 1.6 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.53 5.5 40.53 5.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.70 4.9 39.70 4.9 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.98 1.1 39.00 1.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.61 3.2 39.61 3.2 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 39.68 3.1 39.70 3.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.64 3.2 39.64 3.2 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 39.45 3.5 41.08 2.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.65 3.5 40.85 2.1 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 38.72 3.8 40.56 1.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.90 4.0 40.25 1.2 – –
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 27.69 10.9 – – 21.71 2.1
Librarians........................................................ 35.29 10.1 36.08 9.3 – –
Library technicians............................................... 19.89 12.1 – – – –
Instructional coordinators........................................ 32.75 11.6 32.75 11.6 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.61 6.2 13.66 7.3 13.30 13.0
Level 2 .................................................. 10.78 3.5 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.77 1.5 17.77 1.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.09 10.3 13.78 10.8 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.47 6.8 29.73 6.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.81 8.9 30.33 8.7 – –
Designers......................................................... 21.74 15.2 21.85 16.2 – –
Graphic designers............................................... 25.95 14.5 – – – –
Public relations specialists...................................... 32.19 22.3 32.19 22.3 – –
Writers and editors............................................... 33.72 3.6 33.72 3.9 – –
Editors......................................................... 35.17 11.6 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.04 8.5 30.92 10.2 31.78 3.1
Level 4 .................................................. 16.15 6.4 16.32 6.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.94 5.4 20.99 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.21 3.2 22.57 3.5 27.33 6.9
Level 7 .................................................. 25.70 5.6 25.87 5.9 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 30.60 3.0 28.73 3.1 35.25 2.2
Level 9 .................................................. 33.51 3.2 32.93 3.2 36.15 10.7
Level 10.................................................. 33.31 9.5 32.54 9.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 46.13 9.1 46.18 9.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.59 15.7 17.59 11.6 – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 78.09 23.8 78.09 23.8 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 33.04 2.0 32.58 2.4 35.09 2.4
Level 8 .................................................. 32.83 1.0 31.33 2.4 35.28 2.3
Level 9 .................................................. 32.41 2.9 31.92 3.1 35.41 2.9
Level 11.................................................. 38.98 7.7 39.01 7.8 – –
Therapists........................................................ 31.83 8.6 30.47 7.2 37.14 27.3
Level 8 .................................................. 22.64 12.0 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.51 8.6 31.79 4.0 – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.42 4.5 20.08 4.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 1.7 15.58 1.7 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 26.08 7.5 25.82 8.4 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.68 4.0 16.68 4.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 1.7 15.58 1.7 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.29 9.8 26.49 8.9 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.96 11.8 24.89 9.7 – –
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.03 6.9 17.32 8.0 – –
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 16.47 7.7 16.83 9.5 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.82 5.0 22.84 6.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.47 3.2 23.72 4.7 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.04 3.6 14.09 2.5 13.83 10.6
Level 2 .................................................. 11.32 1.1 11.18 1.2 11.78 2.5
Level 3 .................................................. 12.20 3.7 12.69 3.8 10.66 7.4
Level 4 .................................................. 14.18 3.1 14.07 3.7 14.86 6.5
Level 5 .................................................. 15.95 6.8 16.04 6.4 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.27 2.3 12.54 2.6 11.36 4.9
Level 2 .................................................. 11.40 .9 11.34 .3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.33 4.5 13.17 3.7 10.66 7.4
Level 4 .................................................. 12.72 3.6 12.71 5.5 – –
Home health aides............................................... 9.83 1.7 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.62 2.3 12.61 2.6 12.65 6.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.77 3.0 11.56 2.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.99 3.4 13.17 3.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.74 3.7 12.68 5.5 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.82 3.1 14.94 3.2 14.09 12.0
Level 4 .................................................. 15.09 4.5 – – – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.76 3.1 16.89 2.2 – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 14.89 2.5 14.96 2.7 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 21.36 4.1 23.17 4.2 11.01 9.8
Level 2 .................................................. 10.01 9.8 – – 9.64 10.1
Level 3 .................................................. 11.04 6.9 11.29 9.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.86 9.4 17.03 10.3 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.34 5.7 23.35 5.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.84 6.0 25.91 6.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 32.10 6.8 32.10 6.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 37.50 8.4 37.50 8.4 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 40.63 2.4 40.63 2.4 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 41.52 1.7 41.52 1.7 – –
Fire fighters..................................................... 21.59 1.8 21.59 1.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.48 10.8 20.48 10.8 – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 31.06 4.6 31.06 4.6 – –
Police officers................................................... 28.53 6.4 28.59 6.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.14 3.4 26.21 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.99 7.0 28.99 7.0 – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.53 6.4 28.59 6.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.14 3.4 26.21 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.99 7.0 28.99 7.0 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.53 4.0 11.68 5.1 11.21 14.5
Level 3 .................................................. 10.91 4.8 11.23 5.2 – –
Security guards................................................. 11.53 4.0 11.68 5.1 11.21 14.5
Level 3 .................................................. 10.91 4.8 11.23 5.2 – –
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 12.24 21.5 – – – –
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective
service workers................................................ 8.41 7.4 – – – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.24 9.3 11.17 2.8 6.95 5.9
Level 1 .................................................. 6.87 5.8 8.24 3.7 6.21 1.9
Level 2 .................................................. 7.87 7.7 8.94 13.2 6.98 3.9
Level 3 .................................................. 9.54 11.6 10.59 3.4 7.57 19.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.57 3.5 12.57 3.9 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.56 17.2 17.13 5.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.56 17.2 17.13 5.3 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.70 3.4 12.04 1.5 10.52 9.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 4.0 – – 9.26 1.4
Level 3 .................................................. 11.98 6.2 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.40 2.0 12.35 2.4 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.94 3.8 12.13 4.1 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.42 1.0 12.69 2.7 11.58 4.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.66 2.6 12.64 3.2 – –
Cooks, short order.............................................. 11.06 5.6 11.21 5.7 – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.09 7.1 – – 8.60 9.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.73 8.6 – – 8.05 8.1
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.08 10.0 5.20 8.6 5.01 12.5
Level 1 .................................................. 5.32 12.3 7.49 17.4 4.48 7.3
Level 2 .................................................. 4.21 23.6 2.65 22.5 5.14 24.8
Level 3 .................................................. 6.16 19.8 – – 6.29 29.2
Bartenders...................................................... 8.12 3.8 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 9.3 3.10 24.2 3.76 1.7
Level 1 .................................................. 3.90 15.9 – – 3.87 17.8
Level 2 .................................................. 3.00 6.2 – – 3.28 8.8
Level 3 .................................................. 5.51 46.2 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.53 7.4 – – 6.10 8.5
Level 1 .................................................. 7.53 7.4 – – 6.10 8.5
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.74 5.9 10.30 12.5 7.72 3.0
Level 1 .................................................. 7.67 1.2 – – 7.49 1.2
Level 2 .................................................. 10.26 14.3 13.42 11.4 7.67 7.5
Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 7.9 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.66 5.7 10.44 16.2 7.69 2.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.52 1.3 – – 7.45 .9
Level 2 .................................................. 10.43 16.1 13.42 11.4 – –
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.37 8.2 – – 8.31 9.4
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 11.09 13.1 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.77 12.7 – – 8.25 9.2
Level 1 .................................................. 9.11 8.1 – – 8.25 9.2
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.11 23.3 – – 6.85 20.7
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.55 3.4 12.38 4.3 9.65 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 10.21 3.2 10.66 6.1 9.63 4.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.38 5.8 11.89 4.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.09 7.5 13.10 7.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 6.7 – – – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.15 3.1 11.96 3.7 9.65 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 10.27 3.1 10.86 5.8 9.63 4.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.04 7.0 11.63 5.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.12 7.7 13.12 7.7 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.25 3.9 12.61 4.4 9.60 4.0
Level 1 .................................................. 10.14 3.8 11.25 7.7 9.56 4.1
Level 2 .................................................. 10.61 5.4 11.19 3.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.53 9.6 13.53 9.6 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.03 5.0 10.95 6.1 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 10.68 6.6 10.56 8.3 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.47 15.9 12.49 16.1 – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.47 15.9 12.49 16.1 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.47 5.2 16.79 7.5 11.98 8.6
Level 1 .................................................. 11.89 7.9 – – 11.99 10.0
Level 2 .................................................. 9.72 4.8 10.01 7.5 8.91 4.9
Level 3 .................................................. 11.12 5.0 – – 10.48 3.3
Level 4 .................................................. 11.59 6.4 11.57 3.4 11.64 17.3
Level 5 .................................................. 18.41 24.7 18.81 28.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.34 9.3 24.65 9.4 – –
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.31 3.3 10.47 6.5 9.61 9.2
Level 2 .................................................. 9.59 4.5 9.72 6.9 – –
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 16.17 17.9 – – 12.75 12.4
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 15.75 17.3 – – – –
Recreation workers.............................................. 16.28 21.5 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.49 6.7 21.10 6.5 8.97 2.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.61 6.7 10.19 3.6 7.80 3.6
Level 2 .................................................. 9.12 3.1 9.98 5.3 8.59 2.3
Level 3 .................................................. 10.92 2.4 12.02 6.6 9.80 1.2
Level 4 .................................................. 14.40 8.4 14.86 8.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.68 4.0 18.87 2.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.53 5.4 24.53 5.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 34.78 11.4 34.78 11.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 38.09 17.0 38.09 17.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.19 19.9 30.89 19.7 9.54 2.8
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.34 17.3 19.34 17.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.07 17.9 19.07 17.9 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.08 6.3 12.89 9.5 8.90 3.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.61 6.7 10.19 3.6 7.80 3.6
Level 2 .................................................. 9.09 3.0 9.98 5.3 8.52 1.8
Level 3 .................................................. 10.72 1.6 11.78 6.6 9.65 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 14.36 10.8 15.29 11.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.57 8.4 18.10 5.2 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.92 3.3 11.09 3.9 8.78 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 8.5 – – 7.85 4.7
Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 4.1 10.17 7.5 8.55 1.1
Level 3 .................................................. 10.45 3.9 11.78 2.6 9.59 4.8
Cashiers...................................................... 9.92 3.3 11.09 3.9 8.78 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 8.5 – – 7.85 4.7
Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 4.1 10.17 7.5 8.55 1.1
Level 3 .................................................. 10.45 3.9 11.78 2.6 9.59 4.8
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.14 11.2 11.36 17.2 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 13.28 12.8 15.58 12.5 9.21 2.5
Level 2 .................................................. 8.84 3.3 – – 8.84 3.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.09 6.3 12.66 9.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.35 10.3 15.54 9.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.55 9.1 18.12 5.6 – –
Insurance sales agents............................................ 30.62 18.4 30.62 18.4 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 57.09 22.4 57.09 22.4 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.25 24.8 32.25 24.8 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 27.99 8.9 27.99 8.9 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.85 11.0 22.89 8.9 – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.65 1.4 18.15 1.5 13.52 4.8
Level 1 .................................................. 10.71 11.2 9.27 6.1 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.88 4.7 13.62 4.1 10.35 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 14.21 3.4 14.45 3.6 12.36 4.8
Level 4 .................................................. 16.55 3.0 16.52 3.1 17.05 3.5
Level 5 .................................................. 19.95 6.2 19.82 6.4 21.99 7.9
Level 6 .................................................. 23.21 2.4 22.98 2.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.81 7.8 29.81 7.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 28.00 5.1 28.00 5.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.34 9.1 20.81 8.6 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.44 4.2 25.44 4.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.48 2.8 24.48 2.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 26.84 4.2 26.84 4.2 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.27 2.9 17.61 2.9 15.32 13.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.63 3.3 12.90 3.8 11.72 3.6
Level 4 .................................................. 17.12 6.1 17.14 6.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.93 6.6 20.91 7.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.85 3.2 21.91 3.3 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.91 10.4 – – – –
Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.79 5.4 15.03 5.4 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 19.22 4.3 19.26 4.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.67 3.5 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.92 5.4 18.72 5.9 20.17 12.3
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 6.4 15.72 6.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.32 8.8 22.42 12.5 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 24.16 3.7 24.16 3.7 – –
Tellers......................................................... 13.38 2.7 13.81 1.9 12.08 3.1
Level 3 .................................................. 12.31 2.7 12.42 2.0 – –
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 24.36 18.6 18.68 3.4 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.81 4.1 17.23 4.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.43 7.7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 6.3 15.79 6.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.01 5.3 21.01 5.3 – –
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 19.10 5.0 19.10 5.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.46 7.0 19.46 7.0 – –
File clerks....................................................... 13.44 14.0 – – – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.32 13.0 14.77 1.4 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.20 3.8 16.33 4.1 – –
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 17.31 11.4 17.31 11.4 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.19 5.0 14.75 5.4 10.42 8.2
Level 2 .................................................. 14.47 7.7 15.36 7.9 9.80 11.8
Level 3 .................................................. 14.12 2.6 14.43 4.0 – –
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.94 10.2 16.99 10.5 – –
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 16.54 12.3 – – – –
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.03 6.8 22.03 6.8 – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.36 9.0 14.45 9.7 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.49 7.3 11.10 3.9 9.40 11.0
Level 1 .................................................. 8.34 2.1 – – 7.82 2.5
Level 2 .................................................. 11.86 .6 12.18 2.2 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.59 2.6 21.79 2.7 17.19 8.8
Level 3 .................................................. 14.84 10.5 15.00 11.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.49 3.5 17.46 3.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.70 14.3 19.70 14.3 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 25.29 2.6 25.23 2.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 32.22 10.5 32.22 10.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.79 12.8 25.79 12.8 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.69 5.0 24.96 4.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.27 2.1 18.27 2.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.58 3.4 24.58 3.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 31.63 12.1 31.63 12.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.07 14.7 30.07 14.7 – –
Legal secretaries............................................... 29.20 8.2 – – – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 15.39 3.8 15.38 4.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.87 2.4 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.29 5.0 17.33 5.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.17 11.7 15.38 13.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.76 4.8 17.75 4.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.00 13.5 16.00 13.5 – –
Computer operators................................................ 18.54 11.4 19.07 9.8 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.78 6.2 16.01 6.1 – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 15.83 6.4 16.06 6.3 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.03 4.3 16.47 4.2 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.61 5.0 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.74 4.8 16.81 4.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.40 13.6 17.79 13.9 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.42 2.7 20.39 2.9 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 12.85 3.8 12.85 3.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.89 1.1 12.89 1.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.42 3.8 16.42 3.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.57 4.0 19.57 4.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.82 1.1 21.82 1.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.86 4.8 26.86 4.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 31.60 4.8 31.60 4.8 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.94 3.8 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 27.83 1.7 27.73 1.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.20 3.0 27.20 3.0 – –
Carpenters........................................................ 20.99 4.8 20.99 4.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.24 1.6 20.24 1.6 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 13.18 2.8 13.18 2.8 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 13.59 12.2 13.59 12.2 – –
Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.79 10.6 20.79 10.6 – –
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 21.72 18.1 21.72 18.1 – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.43 8.6 27.43 8.6 – –
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 20.51 14.5 20.51 14.5 – –
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.42 7.8 13.42 7.8 – –
Helpers--electricians........................................... 12.68 2.4 12.68 2.4 – –
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 27.91 7.2 27.91 7.2 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.65 2.3 24.61 2.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.80 4.7 16.80 4.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.07 4.0 22.07 4.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.32 7.6 26.10 8.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.38 3.5 28.38 3.5 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 31.52 2.7 31.52 2.7 – –
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 24.72 15.1 24.72 15.1 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 24.22 7.7 24.22 7.7 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.09 3.7 27.09 3.7 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.18 4.3 21.17 4.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.71 3.2 20.67 3.3 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.43 6.0 21.42 6.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.64 3.7 20.58 3.9 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.04 7.0 26.04 7.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.23 2.5 28.23 2.5 – –
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 25.61 8.2 25.61 8.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.13 3.1 28.13 3.1 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 19.59 12.7 19.59 12.7 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 15.42 4.2 15.67 4.2 12.23 10.2
Level 1 .................................................. 8.53 8.2 8.88 7.3 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.42 8.2 11.03 8.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.36 4.3 15.85 5.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.19 3.0 19.24 2.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.58 8.5 19.09 6.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.39 14.8 25.39 14.8 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 23.79 9.3 23.79 9.3 – –
Printers.......................................................... 18.30 14.5 18.97 12.7 – –
Printing machine operators...................................... 17.64 15.8 18.32 14.4 – –
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 8.40 10.6 8.40 10.6 – –
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 15.85 14.9 15.85 14.9 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. – – 13.86 6.6 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.31 4.1 20.89 4.8 10.22 6.4
Level 1 .................................................. 10.12 5.1 11.30 7.8 9.12 8.4
Level 2 .................................................. 12.48 6.1 12.85 8.7 10.29 14.7
Level 3 .................................................. 17.95 9.2 18.07 9.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.22 5.5 19.57 5.9 16.13 3.3
Level 5 .................................................. 20.63 1.1 20.63 1.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.42 7.5 23.42 7.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.81 13.0 26.81 13.0 – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 18.95 10.5 19.47 11.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.12 17.0 16.14 17.2 – –
Bus drivers, transit and intercity.............................. 21.78 3.2 21.78 3.2 – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.74 17.6 18.18 21.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.88 18.3 15.89 18.5 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.73 8.6 18.83 8.6 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.97 13.5 11.97 13.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 20.17 11.1 20.32 11.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.62 4.7 17.68 5.0 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.50 4.5 17.54 4.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.09 2.8 16.12 2.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.85 3.1 16.87 3.5 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.07 14.2 19.23 13.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 22.46 11.5 – – – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.77 11.1 17.77 11.1 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.27 4.0 13.47 6.2 9.97 7.8
Level 1 .................................................. 10.52 5.7 11.37 9.6 9.82 7.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.76 3.4 12.25 8.9 10.13 15.2
Level 3 .................................................. 15.55 5.8 15.81 5.4 – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.92 4.7 13.70 6.5 10.83 8.6
Level 1 .................................................. 11.25 7.1 11.67 12.1 10.78 8.7
Level 2 .................................................. 12.16 3.2 12.44 8.2 10.70 25.2
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.67 6.1 – – 8.69 4.3
Level 1 .................................................. 9.08 2.6 – – 8.50 4.1
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by
totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment.
Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as
part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job
controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs.
Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the
occupation. See appendix A for more information.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may
include data for categories not shown separately
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3),
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $24.16 3.9 $25.99 4.1 $12.49 4.3
Management occupations.............................................. 47.39 3.8 47.46 4.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.34 3.7 27.34 3.7 – –
Level 10.................................................. 35.78 11.8 35.78 11.8 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.78 7.8 42.24 8.0 – –
Level 12.................................................. 59.53 4.6 59.61 4.7 – –
Level 13.................................................. 66.07 3.7 66.07 3.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.38 6.8 46.16 7.0 – –
General and operations managers................................... 45.79 12.1 45.79 12.1 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.04 7.6 42.04 7.6 – –
Marketing managers.............................................. 41.76 9.5 41.76 9.5 – –
Sales managers.................................................. 42.33 10.8 42.33 10.8 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 57.08 4.3 57.18 4.5 – –
Level 11.................................................. 58.78 11.3 58.78 11.3 – –
Financial managers................................................ 46.94 9.5 46.94 9.5 – –
Construction managers............................................. 49.44 6.8 49.44 6.8 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 35.72 20.0 35.72 20.0 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 58.14 32.2 58.14 32.2 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.00 4.4 35.09 4.6 32.92 5.3
Level 6 .................................................. 23.19 9.9 22.33 8.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.27 2.5 25.29 2.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 29.01 10.3 29.01 10.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.43 7.6 35.53 7.5 – –
Level 10.................................................. 38.69 5.5 38.69 5.5 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.12 10.4 45.12 10.4 – –
Level 12.................................................. 60.30 6.3 60.30 6.3 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.34 6.9 34.17 8.4 – –
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.30 8.6 30.56 8.5 – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.93 2.4 33.93 2.4 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 37.02 18.8 37.02 18.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.87 25.4 41.87 25.4 – –
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 41.46 25.9 41.46 25.9 – –
Logisticians...................................................... 37.70 5.0 37.70 5.0 – –
Management analysts............................................... 44.44 11.6 44.44 11.6 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.46 4.8 32.57 5.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.71 2.5 25.71 2.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.73 8.0 34.20 8.4 – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.17 24.6 36.17 24.6 – –
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.88 14.7 28.88 14.7 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.47 2.5 41.44 2.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.82 9.6 27.82 10.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.63 2.7 25.63 2.7 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 31.18 5.4 31.18 5.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.35 7.5 39.10 7.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 49.18 7.4 49.11 7.5 – –
Level 12.................................................. 55.07 1.4 55.07 1.4 – –
Level 13.................................................. 63.06 5.4 63.06 5.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.51 6.5 45.49 6.6 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 40.60 2.4 39.91 1.9 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 44.51 4.3 44.51 4.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 50.09 6.1 50.09 6.1 – –
Level 12.................................................. 50.94 4.8 50.94 4.8 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.63 1.2 42.63 1.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 52.49 4.4 52.49 4.4 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 52.14 7.9 52.14 7.9 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.43 3.0 45.43 3.0 – –
Level 12.................................................. 52.50 6.0 52.50 6.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 63.42 7.8 63.42 7.8 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 33.90 5.8 34.06 5.9 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 44.20 5.9 44.02 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.78 1.2 35.78 1.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.84 3.0 43.09 5.8 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 34.10 6.2 34.10 6.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.66 10.9 38.66 10.9 – –
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 34.62 13.4 34.62 13.4 – –
Operations research analysts...................................... 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.32 5.5 38.62 5.9 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.31 8.8 27.31 8.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.38 4.3 35.38 4.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 55.62 8.2 55.76 8.4 – –
Level 12.................................................. 53.24 4.4 53.24 4.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.54 3.4 36.54 3.4 – –
Engineers......................................................... 44.50 5.2 44.62 5.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 53.97 8.0 54.08 8.3 – –
Level 12.................................................. 53.24 4.4 53.24 4.4 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.29 2.3 40.15 2.2 – –
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.52 1.7 39.33 1.9 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 24.80 12.6 24.80 12.6 – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.21 3.1 24.21 3.1 – –
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.36 1.9 24.36 1.9 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.19 3.6 33.24 3.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.28 3.1 22.38 3.0 – –
Level 10.................................................. 34.54 7.2 34.54 7.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 33.55 4.6 33.55 4.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.28 5.9 32.28 5.9 – –
Life scientists................................................... 31.00 4.1 31.00 4.1 – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 30.07 8.7 30.07 8.7 – –
Physical scientists............................................... 39.60 26.3 40.04 27.0 – –
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 29.23 13.1 29.57 12.3 – –
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 29.23 13.1 29.57 12.3 – –
Economists........................................................ 26.44 13.4 26.44 13.4 – –
Market and survey researchers..................................... 31.78 8.9 31.78 8.9 – –
Market research analysts........................................ 31.86 9.5 31.86 9.5 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 19.08 7.3 20.12 6.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 16.23 3.1 16.03 4.3 – –
Social workers.................................................... 22.34 7.1 23.14 8.9 – –
Legal occupations
Level 11.................................................. 55.10 21.4 55.10 21.4 – –
Lawyers........................................................... 66.39 8.1 68.07 10.7 – –
Level 11.................................................. 55.10 21.4 55.10 21.4 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.34 12.6 24.80 13.6 18.63 11.0
Level 2 .................................................. 10.97 3.0 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 10.82 7.4 – – – –
Level 8 .................................................. 25.13 3.8 25.27 4.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.10 2.5 30.68 1.7 – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.64 4.5 – – – –
Level 13.................................................. 58.26 20.7 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.79 20.2 40.98 21.1 38.38 17.3
Level 11.................................................. 42.64 4.5 – – – –
Level 13.................................................. 58.26 20.7 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 44.52 10.5 46.14 10.7 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.75 14.4 26.07 14.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.41 1.5 30.69 .1 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 29.41 2.6 29.85 .8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.41 2.6 29.85 .8 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 29.36 7.4 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.36 7.4 – – – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 10.88 3.2 10.82 3.6 11.29 6.2
Level 2 .................................................. 10.97 3.0 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 10.82 7.4 – – – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 30.01 7.3 30.30 6.9 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.34 9.3 30.89 9.1 – –
Designers......................................................... 21.26 18.9 21.36 20.4 – –
Public relations specialists...................................... 32.19 22.3 32.19 22.3 – –
Writers and editors............................................... 33.72 3.6 33.72 3.9 – –
Editors......................................................... 35.17 11.6 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.28 9.3 31.19 11.4 31.78 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 16.21 6.8 16.39 6.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.95 5.4 21.00 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.52 2.5 23.86 3.1 27.33 6.9
Level 7 .................................................. 25.50 5.9 25.68 6.2 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 30.92 3.2 28.98 3.4 35.25 2.2
Level 9 .................................................. 33.68 3.4 33.06 3.4 36.19 10.8
Level 10.................................................. 32.72 10.8 31.75 10.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 46.60 11.9 46.60 11.9 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.52 14.9 18.37 12.8 – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 78.09 23.8 78.09 23.8 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 32.87 1.7 32.27 2.1 35.11 2.4
Level 8 .................................................. 33.07 .8 31.60 2.4 35.28 2.3
Level 9 .................................................. 32.75 3.3 32.24 3.5 35.47 2.9
Therapists........................................................ 30.87 9.8 28.89 6.2 37.14 27.3
Level 9 .................................................. 32.87 9.7 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.42 4.5 20.08 4.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 1.7 15.58 1.7 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 26.08 7.5 25.82 8.4 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.68 4.0 16.68 4.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 1.7 15.58 1.7 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.29 9.8 26.49 8.9 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.96 11.8 24.89 9.7 – –
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.77 8.2 17.21 9.7 – –
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 14.87 1.9 – – – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.97 5.1 23.02 6.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.91 3.1 – – – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.92 3.7 13.95 2.3 13.83 10.6
Level 2 .................................................. 11.32 1.1 11.18 1.2 11.78 2.5
Level 3 .................................................. 12.20 4.1 12.76 4.2 10.66 7.4
Level 4 .................................................. 13.92 2.3 13.77 3.0 14.86 6.5
Level 5 .................................................. 15.74 7.5 15.82 7.1 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.26 2.5 12.55 2.8 11.36 4.9
Level 2 .................................................. 11.40 .9 11.34 .3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.36 5.1 13.40 4.0 10.66 7.4
Level 4 .................................................. 12.70 3.7 12.68 5.5 – –
Home health aides............................................... 9.68 1.1 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.64 2.4 12.64 2.7 12.65 6.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.77 3.0 11.56 2.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.14 3.8 13.40 4.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.74 3.7 12.68 5.5 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.55 2.6 14.62 2.3 14.09 12.0
Level 4 .................................................. 14.72 2.6 – – – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.56 3.7 16.69 2.7 – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 14.81 2.4 14.88 2.5 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 11.46 7.4 12.00 10.0 10.48 10.9
Level 3 .................................................. 10.28 5.6 10.41 8.0 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.42 4.2 11.53 5.5 11.21 14.6
Level 3 .................................................. 10.91 4.8 11.23 5.2 – –
Security guards................................................. 11.42 4.2 11.53 5.5 11.21 14.6
Level 3 .................................................. 10.91 4.8 11.23 5.2 – –
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 10.85 29.4 – – – –
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective
service workers................................................ 8.16 7.3 – – – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.03 10.0 10.94 3.5 6.79 5.6
Level 1 .................................................. 6.82 5.8 8.24 3.7 6.13 1.0
Level 2 .................................................. 7.60 8.8 8.53 15.1 6.84 4.5
Level 3 .................................................. 9.36 12.5 10.59 3.5 6.81 11.4
Level 4 .................................................. 12.48 3.3 12.47 3.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.24 19.6 16.92 6.5 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.24 19.6 16.92 6.5 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.65 3.6 11.95 1.5 10.57 10.7
Level 2 .................................................. 9.40 4.3 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.38 2.0 12.33 2.5 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.09 4.2 12.09 4.5 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.42 1.0 12.69 2.7 11.58 4.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.66 2.6 12.64 3.2 – –
Cooks, short order.............................................. 11.06 5.6 11.21 5.7 – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.03 7.6 – – 8.26 9.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.63 9.5 – – – –
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.03 10.1 5.20 8.6 4.94 12.7
Level 1 .................................................. 5.22 11.9 7.49 17.4 4.33 8.7
Level 2 .................................................. 4.21 23.6 2.65 22.5 5.14 24.8
Level 3 .................................................. 6.16 19.8 – – 6.29 29.2
Bartenders...................................................... 8.12 3.8 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 9.3 3.10 24.2 3.76 1.7
Level 1 .................................................. 3.90 15.9 – – 3.87 17.8
Level 2 .................................................. 3.00 6.2 – – 3.28 8.8
Level 3 .................................................. 5.51 46.2 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.34 7.8 – – 5.62 1.2
Level 1 .................................................. 7.34 7.8 – – 5.62 1.2
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.57 6.4 10.20 12.9 7.49 .9
Level 1 .................................................. 7.63 1.1 – – 7.44 .9
Level 2 .................................................. 10.07 15.6 – – 7.63 7.5
Level 3 .................................................. 10.15 8.2 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.48 6.2 10.30 16.8 7.49 .8
Level 1 .................................................. 7.52 1.3 – – 7.45 .9
Level 2 .................................................. 10.23 17.4 – – – –
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.25 8.8 – – – –
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 9.24 12.6 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.77 12.7 – – 8.25 9.2
Level 1 .................................................. 9.11 8.1 – – 8.25 9.2
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.11 23.3 – – 6.85 20.7
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.84 4.2 11.51 6.3 9.65 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 10.08 3.1 10.45 6.4 9.63 4.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.04 5.8 11.55 3.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.44 15.6 12.44 15.6 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.72 3.7 11.42 5.4 9.65 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 10.14 3.0 10.63 6.1 9.63 4.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.01 7.4 11.62 6.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.44 15.6 12.44 15.6 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.65 5.1 11.84 7.3 9.60 4.0
Level 1 .................................................. 9.93 3.7 10.74 9.2 9.56 4.1
Level 2 .................................................. 10.55 5.6 11.14 3.7 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.99 5.4 10.91 6.6 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 10.68 6.6 10.56 8.3 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.55 5.9 16.70 8.1 12.10 10.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.24 3.8 9.37 6.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.30 5.1 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 11.57 6.8 11.50 3.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.05 30.6 18.98 30.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.27 10.1 – – – –
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Child care workers................................................ 9.46 1.2 9.65 1.9 8.71 4.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.98 1.5 8.95 2.4 – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.49 6.7 21.11 6.5 8.97 2.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.61 6.7 10.19 3.6 7.80 3.6
Level 2 .................................................. 9.12 3.1 9.98 5.3 8.59 2.3
Level 3 .................................................. 10.92 2.4 12.02 6.6 9.79 1.2
Level 4 .................................................. 14.28 8.7 14.73 9.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.70 4.1 18.90 2.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.53 5.4 24.53 5.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 34.78 11.4 34.78 11.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 38.09 17.0 38.09 17.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.19 19.9 30.89 19.7 9.54 2.8
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.34 17.3 19.34 17.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.08 17.9 19.08 17.9 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.00 6.4 12.78 9.8 8.89 3.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.61 6.7 10.19 3.6 7.80 3.6
Level 2 .................................................. 9.09 3.0 9.98 5.3 8.52 1.8
Level 3 .................................................. 10.71 1.6 11.78 6.6 9.64 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 14.13 11.7 15.05 12.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.55 9.1 18.12 5.6 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.76 3.5 10.81 4.0 8.78 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 8.5 – – 7.85 4.7
Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 4.1 10.17 7.5 8.55 1.1
Level 3 .................................................. 10.45 3.9 11.78 2.6 9.59 4.8
Cashiers...................................................... 9.76 3.5 10.81 4.0 8.78 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 8.5 – – 7.85 4.7
Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 4.1 10.17 7.5 8.55 1.1
Level 3 .................................................. 10.45 3.9 11.78 2.6 9.59 4.8
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.14 11.2 11.36 17.2 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 13.28 12.8 15.58 12.5 9.19 2.6
Level 2 .................................................. 8.84 3.3 – – 8.84 3.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.12 6.5 12.66 9.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.35 10.3 15.54 9.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.55 9.1 18.12 5.6 – –
Insurance sales agents............................................ 30.62 18.4 30.62 18.4 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 57.09 22.4 57.09 22.4 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.25 24.8 32.25 24.8 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 27.99 8.9 27.99 8.9 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.85 11.0 22.89 8.9 – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.45 1.5 18.00 1.7 13.32 5.0
Level 1 .................................................. 10.83 11.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.95 4.8 13.68 4.1 10.33 5.5
Level 3 .................................................. 14.14 3.7 14.42 3.9 11.98 4.2
Level 4 .................................................. 16.33 3.5 16.28 3.6 17.14 3.3
Level 5 .................................................. 19.84 7.2 19.76 7.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.70 2.6 23.43 2.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.94 8.2 29.94 8.2 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 28.00 5.1 28.00 5.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.75 10.2 20.23 9.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.45 4.3 25.45 4.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 26.84 4.2 26.84 4.2 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.04 3.1 17.35 3.1 15.36 13.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.64 3.3 12.91 3.8 11.72 3.6
Level 4 .................................................. 17.15 6.2 17.12 6.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.64 7.8 20.52 9.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.72 3.0 – – – –
Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.79 5.4 15.03 5.4 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 18.80 3.3 18.82 3.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.67 3.5 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.82 5.8 18.56 6.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 6.6 15.65 6.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.40 9.8 22.56 14.5 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 24.39 4.1 24.39 4.1 – –
Tellers......................................................... 13.38 2.7 13.81 1.9 12.08 3.1
Level 3 .................................................. 12.31 2.7 12.42 2.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.81 4.1 17.23 4.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.43 7.7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 6.3 15.79 6.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.01 5.3 21.01 5.3 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.32 13.0 14.77 1.4 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.20 3.8 16.33 4.1 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.12 5.2 14.67 5.6 10.42 8.2
Level 2 .................................................. 14.47 7.7 15.36 7.9 9.80 11.8
Level 3 .................................................. 14.12 2.6 14.43 4.0 – –
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.03 6.8 22.03 6.8 – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.36 9.0 14.45 9.7 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.49 7.3 11.10 3.9 9.40 11.0
Level 1 .................................................. 8.34 2.1 – – 7.82 2.5
Level 2 .................................................. 11.86 .6 12.18 2.2 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.92 2.9 22.16 3.0 17.17 9.1
Level 3 .................................................. 15.14 10.8 15.33 12.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.29 4.9 17.21 5.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.94 16.7 19.94 16.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 25.85 3.3 25.78 3.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 32.59 11.2 32.59 11.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.18 14.5 25.18 14.5 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 25.42 5.5 25.79 5.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.49 2.5 18.49 2.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 25.13 4.3 25.13 4.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 31.99 13.0 31.99 13.0 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 15.39 3.8 15.38 4.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.87 2.4 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.14 6.0 17.19 6.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.44 7.8 17.44 7.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 15.65 12.8 15.65 12.8 – –
Computer operators................................................ 18.21 13.9 18.81 12.2 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.83 6.4 16.06 6.3 – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 15.83 6.4 16.06 6.3 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 15.49 3.6 16.05 4.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.10 4.1 16.18 4.0 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.19 2.7 20.16 2.9 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 12.92 3.7 12.92 3.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.80 .7 12.80 .7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.38 3.9 16.38 3.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.38 4.1 19.38 4.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.74 1.1 21.74 1.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.61 5.1 26.61 5.1 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 27.75 1.8 27.65 1.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.02 2.8 27.02 2.8 – –
Carpenters........................................................ 20.84 4.9 20.84 4.9 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 13.16 2.8 13.16 2.8 – –
Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.64 12.4 20.64 12.4 – –
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 21.61 21.7 21.61 21.7 – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.43 8.7 27.43 8.7 – –
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.42 7.8 13.42 7.8 – –
Helpers--electricians........................................... 12.68 2.4 12.68 2.4 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.76 2.4 24.71 2.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.61 5.6 16.61 5.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.07 4.4 22.07 4.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.64 8.5 26.42 9.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.64 3.9 28.64 3.9 – –
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 24.23 7.8 24.23 7.8 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.14 3.6 27.14 3.6 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.31 5.5 21.30 5.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.12 2.8 – – – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.76 8.1 21.76 8.4 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.04 7.0 26.04 7.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.23 2.5 28.23 2.5 – –
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 25.61 8.2 25.61 8.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.13 3.1 28.13 3.1 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 15.40 4.2 15.65 4.3 12.21 10.3
Level 1 .................................................. 8.38 7.9 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.42 8.2 11.03 8.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.28 4.5 15.78 5.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.11 3.0 19.15 2.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.58 8.5 19.09 6.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.39 14.8 25.39 14.8 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 23.81 9.7 23.81 9.7 – –
Printers.......................................................... 18.30 14.5 18.97 12.7 – –
Printing machine operators...................................... 17.64 15.8 18.32 14.4 – –
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 15.85 14.9 15.85 14.9 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. – – 13.86 6.6 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.20 4.5 20.91 5.3 9.64 7.2
Level 1 .................................................. 10.08 5.1 11.22 7.9 9.12 8.4
Level 2 .................................................. 12.38 6.3 12.77 9.0 10.13 15.0
Level 3 .................................................. 18.01 10.3 18.14 10.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.13 6.3 19.31 6.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.52 1.1 20.52 1.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.42 7.5 23.42 7.5 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.78 8.9 18.88 8.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 20.22 11.2 20.36 11.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.69 5.1 17.76 5.5 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.50 4.9 17.55 4.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.05 2.8 16.08 2.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.86 3.5 16.89 4.0 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.10 14.2 19.23 13.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 22.46 11.5 – – – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.75 11.5 17.75 11.5 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.24 4.0 13.43 6.4 9.97 7.8
Level 1 .................................................. 10.52 5.7 11.37 9.6 9.82 7.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.76 3.4 12.25 8.9 10.13 15.2
Level 3 .................................................. 15.69 6.0 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.92 4.8 13.70 6.6 10.83 8.6
Level 1 .................................................. 11.25 7.1 11.67 12.1 10.78 8.7
Level 2 .................................................. 12.16 3.2 12.44 8.2 10.70 25.2
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.67 6.1 – – 8.69 4.3
Level 1 .................................................. 9.08 2.6 – – 8.50 4.1
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by
totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment.
Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as
part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job
controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs.
Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the
occupation. See appendix A for more information.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3),
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $29.16 2.6 $29.85 2.5 $18.17 7.3
Management occupations.............................................. 44.70 5.4 44.76 5.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 44.04 15.4 44.04 15.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.44 4.7 45.44 4.7 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 51.72 3.3 51.72 3.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 52.00 5.1 52.00 5.1 – –
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 53.71 2.3 53.71 2.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 52.74 5.2 52.74 5.2 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.97 6.3 28.98 6.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.17 6.8 30.17 6.8 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 30.55 10.7 30.55 10.7 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.73 10.0 29.73 10.0 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 23.12 12.8 23.12 12.8 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.49 12.7 31.49 12.7 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.67 15.7 33.67 15.7 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 32.12 3.6 32.47 3.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.83 3.9 22.83 3.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 36.45 5.2 36.55 5.4 – –
Counselors........................................................ 35.33 6.0 35.33 6.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 37.97 6.7 37.97 6.7 – –
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 37.54 6.8 37.54 6.8 – –
Social workers.................................................... 29.58 5.6 29.63 5.5 – –
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 29.97 6.3 30.04 6.2 – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 20.11 9.7 21.83 8.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 20.89 4.3 20.89 4.3 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 38.18 21.0 38.18 21.0 – –
Lawyers........................................................... 45.36 3.4 45.36 3.4 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.44 2.1 37.40 2.0 24.94 8.3
Level 3 .................................................. 16.93 7.7 16.93 7.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.65 .9 18.22 1.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.66 2.7 – – – –
Level 8 .................................................. 33.53 16.2 34.67 18.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.35 .8 40.76 .7 28.06 10.6
Level 10.................................................. 44.78 21.5 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 37.36 6.5 36.72 7.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.73 6.9 – – 24.50 21.0
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 43.12 7.9 43.51 7.5 40.18 10.9
Level 9 .................................................. 34.91 2.0 – – – –
Level 10.................................................. 33.48 8.5 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 38.74 6.5 38.08 7.9 – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 33.25 7.2 – – – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 46.47 21.4 47.99 20.9 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 40.59 .6 40.94 .5 26.52 11.9
Level 9 .................................................. 40.50 .5 40.81 .1 – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 38.88 1.2 38.88 1.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.88 1.2 38.88 1.2 – –
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 40.61 1.2 40.95 1.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.50 .3 40.78 .9 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.93 1.0 40.38 1.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.08 .8 40.43 1.3 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 42.72 3.7 42.72 3.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.98 2.6 41.98 2.6 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 41.26 .1 41.28 .1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.25 .1 41.25 .1 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.29 .0 41.31 .0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.28 .0 41.28 .0 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 40.21 3.6 41.47 2.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.97 3.5 41.25 2.0 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 39.57 3.8 41.01 1.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.24 4.0 40.72 .7 – –
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 29.06 10.4 – – 21.71 2.1
Librarians........................................................ 36.78 13.9 37.88 13.0 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 17.85 3.0 18.00 1.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.77 1.5 17.77 1.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.65 .9 18.22 1.2 – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.77 11.7 28.75 11.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.86 10.5 31.90 10.6 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 34.06 8.7 34.07 8.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.01 4.6 – – – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.84 19.9 16.84 19.9 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 26.75 1.5 27.22 2.0 13.93 11.2
Level 2 .................................................. 13.65 11.1 – – 13.34 18.3
Level 4 .................................................. 16.53 10.5 16.85 11.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.35 5.8 23.35 5.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.74 6.0 25.82 6.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 33.20 8.6 33.20 8.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 37.50 8.4 37.50 8.4 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 40.63 2.4 40.63 2.4 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 41.52 1.7 41.52 1.7 – –
Fire fighters..................................................... 21.59 1.8 21.59 1.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.48 10.8 20.48 10.8 – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 31.06 4.6 31.06 4.6 – –
Police officers................................................... 28.66 6.4 28.71 6.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.21 3.6 26.21 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.99 7.0 28.99 7.0 – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.66 6.4 28.71 6.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.21 3.6 26.21 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.99 7.0 28.99 7.0 – –
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 16.17 10.2 – – 13.14 15.6
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 14.71 7.7 16.40 7.5 11.91 9.2
Level 2 .................................................. 12.79 8.6 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.40 3.2 15.42 3.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.71 7.1 13.74 7.2 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.28 5.3 14.28 5.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.79 7.6 13.79 7.6 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.69 6.7 14.69 6.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.31 9.9 14.31 9.9 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 17.76 8.8 17.91 9.2 – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.76 8.8 17.91 9.2 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.95 10.5 17.65 13.2 11.53 8.5
Child care workers................................................ 14.50 7.4 – – – –
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 15.90 21.6 – – 11.16 16.6
Recreation workers.............................................. 16.28 21.5 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.43 4.2 19.48 4.2 18.36 19.1
Level 3 .................................................. 15.66 6.8 15.03 6.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.01 3.3 18.06 3.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.66 4.6 20.17 4.3 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.16 4.0 21.16 4.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.99 14.9 27.99 14.9 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 21.56 4.8 21.87 5.2 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 20.25 2.1 20.76 1.7 – –
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 18.68 3.3 18.68 3.4 – –
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 19.30 6.8 19.30 6.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.37 8.3 19.37 8.3 – –
Dispatchers....................................................... 19.48 5.7 – – – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.71 5.1 19.72 5.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.08 1.8 18.06 1.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.49 5.7 – – – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.22 2.3 21.22 2.3 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.20 8.1 21.20 8.1 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.96 4.8 17.95 4.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 1.0 18.35 1.1 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 18.24 12.3 17.98 12.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.25 9.8 18.26 9.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.27 9.4 – – – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.41 6.5 24.41 6.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.74 1.1 29.74 1.1 – –
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 30.04 7.3 30.04 7.3 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.58 6.5 23.58 6.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.05 6.7 22.05 6.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 24.29 12.6 24.29 12.6 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.79 4.7 20.79 4.7 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.79 4.7 20.79 4.7 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.23 14.5 17.35 15.8 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.23 6.8 20.75 6.8 16.44 1.0
Level 2 .................................................. 15.31 10.9 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.49 11.7 17.51 11.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.59 10.0 21.01 11.8 – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 19.76 9.6 20.47 10.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.72 14.1 17.75 14.4 – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 18.78 16.1 19.59 19.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.50 15.5 17.54 15.8 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.27 5.3 – – – –
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),
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $24.80 3.2 $26.52 3.4 $12.84 3.9
Management occupations.............................................. 46.97 3.4 47.03 3.5 40.99 21.6
Group II.................................................. 20.10 12.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 41.54 5.2 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 69.39 7.2 – – – –
General and operations managers................................... 45.68 12.0 45.68 12.0 – –
Group III................................................. 33.76 25.4 33.76 25.4 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.04 7.6 42.04 7.6 – –
Group III................................................. 41.96 10.7 – – – –
Marketing managers.............................................. 41.76 9.5 41.76 9.5 – –
Sales managers.................................................. 42.33 10.8 42.33 10.8 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.82 5.3 54.81 5.6 – –
Group III................................................. 53.39 9.3 53.32 9.6 – –
Financial managers................................................ 47.82 8.7 47.82 8.7 – –
Group III................................................. 45.44 9.4 45.44 9.4 – –
Construction managers............................................. 49.44 6.8 49.44 6.8 – –
Group III................................................. 48.95 8.6 48.95 8.6 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 43.21 10.4 43.21 10.4 – –
Group III................................................. 43.82 4.4 – – – –
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.25 5.4 47.25 5.4 – –
Group III................................................. 46.22 4.5 46.22 4.5 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 51.97 26.3 51.97 26.3 – –
Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.75 11.9 41.75 11.9 – –
Social and community service managers............................. 31.68 9.8 31.68 9.8 – –
Group III................................................. 30.96 10.5 30.96 10.5 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.50 4.0 34.56 4.1 32.87 5.4
Group II.................................................. 24.70 5.1 – – – –
Group III................................................. 40.25 3.6 – – – –
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.23 8.6 30.49 8.5 – –
Group III................................................. 33.74 3.3 – – – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.75 2.7 33.75 2.7 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 35.38 14.6 35.38 14.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.13 7.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.53 16.0 – – – –
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 39.09 24.1 39.09 24.1 – –
Group III................................................. 40.28 24.8 40.28 24.8 – –
Logisticians...................................................... 37.70 5.0 37.70 5.0 – –
Management analysts............................................... 41.31 9.4 41.31 9.4 – –
Group III................................................. 44.64 11.0 44.64 11.0 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.39 4.7 32.50 5.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 27.02 6.9 26.33 7.1 – –
Group III................................................. 34.23 6.0 34.50 6.2 – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.17 24.6 36.17 24.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 29.88 21.9 – – – –
Group III................................................. 52.59 28.9 – – – –
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.88 14.7 28.88 14.7 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.98 2.6 40.96 2.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.20 3.7 – – – –
Group III................................................. 45.21 4.6 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 67.22 10.3 – – – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 40.60 2.4 39.91 1.9 – –
Group III................................................. 52.90 16.8 52.89 18.1 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 44.51 4.3 44.51 4.3 – –
Group III................................................. 45.33 .8 – – – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.63 1.2 42.63 1.2 – –
Group III................................................. 45.22 1.1 45.22 1.1 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 52.14 7.9 52.14 7.9 – –
Group III................................................. 45.91 1.9 45.91 1.9 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 30.73 4.4 30.79 4.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.30 7.0 24.21 7.0 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 44.12 5.9 43.93 5.7 – –
Group III................................................. 45.26 5.8 45.06 5.7 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 34.65 6.5 34.65 6.5 – –
Group III................................................. 44.24 3.8 44.24 3.8 – –
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.04 12.5 35.04 12.5 – –
Group III................................................. 34.47 17.1 34.47 17.1 – –
Operations research analysts...................................... 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.10 5.4 38.39 5.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.22 5.6 – – – –
Group III................................................. 48.66 7.0 – – – –
Engineers......................................................... 44.45 5.1 44.56 5.0 – –
Group III................................................. 48.48 7.2 – – – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.29 2.3 40.15 2.2 – –
Group III................................................. 46.05 8.5 – – – –
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.52 1.7 39.33 1.9 – –
Group III................................................. 43.51 5.8 43.25 5.3 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 24.80 12.6 24.80 12.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.80 12.6 – – – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.29 2.6 24.29 2.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.44 2.8 – – – –
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.46 1.8 24.46 1.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.82 1.0 24.82 1.0 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.24 3.6 33.29 3.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.99 2.2 – – – –
Group III................................................. 39.23 11.5 – – – –
Life scientists................................................... 30.83 4.3 30.83 4.3 – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 30.07 8.7 30.07 8.7 – –
Physical scientists............................................... 39.36 25.6 39.78 26.3 – –
Group III................................................. 44.23 38.8 – – – –
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 29.18 12.8 29.50 12.1 – –
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 29.18 12.8 29.50 12.1 – –
Economists........................................................ 26.44 13.4 26.44 13.4 – –
Market and survey researchers..................................... 31.78 8.9 31.78 8.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 26.50 5.0 – – – –
Market research analysts........................................ 31.86 9.5 31.86 9.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 26.50 5.0 26.50 5.0 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 24.68 7.9 26.45 6.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.31 5.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 33.63 4.6 – – – –
Counselors........................................................ 31.15 8.7 31.15 8.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.70 7.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 37.99 6.4 – – – –
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 37.45 6.7 37.45 6.7 – –
Group III................................................. 43.33 1.8 43.33 1.8 – –
Social workers.................................................... 25.08 8.5 25.92 9.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.14 5.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 30.44 3.1 – – – –
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 26.29 10.4 28.27 8.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.88 3.8 20.74 6.9 – –
Group III................................................. 31.08 3.2 – – – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ – – 16.70 9.6 – –
Legal occupations
Group III................................................. 41.78 20.2 – – – –
Lawyers........................................................... 62.98 8.4 64.09 10.4 – –
Group III................................................. 59.42 9.5 60.65 11.8 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.33 5.1 33.12 5.3 22.84 7.5
Group I................................................... 13.70 6.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 24.14 9.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 39.49 1.5 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 59.14 14.8 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 41.94 10.8 42.19 11.3 39.48 9.5
Group III................................................. 40.84 4.2 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 59.14 14.8 – – – –
Business teachers, postsecondary................................ 43.68 14.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 43.68 14.5 – – – –
Math and computer teachers, postsecondary....................... 46.38 13.8 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 39.02 7.8 39.60 8.2 – –
Group III................................................. 35.43 4.6 – – – –
English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 34.19 9.8 – – – –
Group III................................................. 34.27 9.7 – – – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.32 22.3 36.27 23.7 36.98 8.6
Group III................................................. 40.21 14.9 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.86 2.9 38.25 2.9 24.31 12.0
Group II.................................................. 21.31 25.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 39.23 1.4 – – – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 29.12 21.3 29.39 20.9 – –
Group III................................................. 38.88 1.2 – – – –
Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 20.22 29.5 – – – –
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Group III................................................. 39.81 .3 39.81 .3 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.85 1.7 39.25 2.2 – –
Group III................................................. 38.97 1.5 – – – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.31 1.3 38.83 1.7 – –
Group III................................................. 38.40 1.2 38.85 1.6 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.53 5.5 40.53 5.5 – –
Group III................................................. 40.79 5.4 40.79 5.4 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.98 1.1 39.00 1.1 – –
Group III................................................. 39.61 3.2 – – – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 39.68 3.1 39.70 3.1 – –
Group III................................................. 39.64 3.2 39.64 3.2 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 39.45 3.5 41.08 2.3 – –
Group III................................................. 39.65 3.5 – – – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 38.72 3.8 40.56 1.5 – –
Group III................................................. 38.90 4.0 40.25 1.2 – –
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 27.69 10.9 – – 21.71 2.1
Group II.................................................. 21.90 4.4 – – – –
Librarians........................................................ 35.29 10.1 36.08 9.3 – –
Group III................................................. 34.04 12.9 35.32 10.7 – –
Library technicians............................................... 19.89 12.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.79 10.8 – – – –
Instructional coordinators........................................ 32.75 11.6 32.75 11.6 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.61 6.2 13.66 7.3 13.30 13.0
Group I................................................... 13.58 6.3 13.62 7.4 13.30 13.0
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.47 6.8 29.73 6.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.50 10.2 – – – –
Group III................................................. 43.05 14.0 – – – –
Designers......................................................... 21.74 15.2 21.85 16.2 – –
Graphic designers............................................... 25.95 14.5 – – – –
Public relations specialists...................................... 32.19 22.3 32.19 22.3 – –
Writers and editors............................................... 33.72 3.6 33.72 3.9 – –
Editors......................................................... 35.17 11.6 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.04 8.5 30.92 10.2 31.78 3.1
Group I................................................... 15.85 5.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 25.47 3.7 – – – –
Group III................................................. 40.10 9.6 – – – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 78.09 23.8 78.09 23.8 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 33.04 2.0 32.58 2.4 35.09 2.4
Group II.................................................. 31.55 1.7 29.99 3.3 34.89 2.4
Group III................................................. 33.85 3.4 33.65 3.8 35.42 2.8
Therapists........................................................ 31.83 8.6 30.47 7.2 37.14 27.3
Group II.................................................. 24.49 8.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 34.50 7.4 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.42 4.5 20.08 4.4 – –
Group I................................................... 15.54 1.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.58 4.2 – – – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 26.08 7.5 25.82 8.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.19 1.7 – – – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.68 4.0 16.68 4.0 – –
Group I................................................... 15.54 1.5 15.54 1.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.61 6.2 18.61 6.2 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.29 9.8 26.49 8.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 26.07 10.1 – – – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.96 11.8 24.89 9.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.23 7.5 24.23 7.5 – –
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
Group II.................................................. 18.92 19.1 – – – –
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.03 6.9 17.32 8.0 – –
Group I................................................... 14.57 3.6 – – – –
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 16.47 7.7 16.83 9.5 – –
Group I................................................... 14.57 3.6 – – – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.82 5.0 22.84 6.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.82 5.0 22.84 6.2 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.04 3.6 14.09 2.5 13.83 10.6
Group I................................................... 13.13 2.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.81 9.2 – – – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.27 2.3 12.54 2.6 11.36 4.9
Group I................................................... 12.27 2.3 – – – –
Home health aides............................................... 9.83 1.7 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.83 1.7 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.62 2.3 12.61 2.6 12.65 6.8
Group I................................................... 12.62 2.3 12.61 2.6 12.65 6.8
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.82 3.1 14.94 3.2 14.09 12.0
Group I................................................... 14.14 3.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 17.48 4.8 – – – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 14.89 2.5 14.96 2.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.48 9.0 – – – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 21.36 4.1 23.17 4.2 11.01 9.8
Group I................................................... 11.52 5.8 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 26.35 1.8 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.21 8.5 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 40.63 2.4 40.63 2.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 36.89 10.3 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 41.52 1.7 41.52 1.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 36.89 10.3 36.89 10.3 – –
Fire fighters..................................................... 21.59 1.8 21.59 1.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.49 9.5 20.49 9.5 – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.29 6.8 – – – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 22.25 6.6 22.25 6.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.29 6.8 22.29 6.8 – –
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 31.06 4.6 31.06 4.6 – –
Police officers................................................... 28.53 6.4 28.59 6.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.42 6.4 – – – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.53 6.4 28.59 6.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.42 6.4 28.49 6.4 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.53 4.0 11.68 5.1 11.21 14.5
Group I................................................... 10.83 3.7 – – – –
Security guards................................................. 11.53 4.0 11.68 5.1 11.21 14.5
Group I................................................... 10.83 3.7 11.42 4.7 9.57 1.7
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 12.24 21.5 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.46 15.0 – – – –
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective
service workers................................................ 8.41 7.4 – – – –
Group I................................................... 8.41 7.4 – – – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.24 9.3 11.17 2.8 6.95 5.9
Group I................................................... 8.57 7.3 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.34 9.8 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.56 17.2 17.13 5.3 – –
Group I................................................... 11.49 17.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.08 8.6 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.56 17.2 17.13 5.3 – –
Group I................................................... 11.49 17.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.08 8.6 19.08 8.6 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.70 3.4 12.04 1.5 10.52 9.9
Group I................................................... 11.57 3.8 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.94 3.8 12.13 4.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.63 4.1 11.83 4.2 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.42 1.0 12.69 2.7 11.58 4.5
Group I................................................... 12.42 1.0 12.69 2.7 11.58 4.5
Cooks, short order.............................................. 11.06 5.6 11.21 5.7 – –
Group I................................................... 11.06 5.6 11.21 5.7 – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.09 7.1 – – 8.60 9.8
Group I................................................... 9.96 8.8 – – 8.05 8.1
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.08 10.0 5.20 8.6 5.01 12.5
Group I................................................... 5.08 10.0 – – – –
Bartenders...................................................... 8.12 3.8 – – – –
Group I................................................... 8.12 3.8 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.56 9.3 3.10 24.2 3.76 1.7
Group I................................................... 3.56 9.3 3.10 24.2 3.76 1.7
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.53 7.4 – – 6.10 8.5
Group I................................................... 7.53 7.4 – – 6.10 8.5
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.74 5.9 10.30 12.5 7.72 3.0
Group I................................................... 8.74 5.9 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.66 5.7 10.44 16.2 7.69 2.6
Group I................................................... 8.66 5.7 10.44 16.2 7.69 2.6
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.37 8.2 – – 8.31 9.4
Group I................................................... 9.37 8.2 – – 8.31 9.4
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 11.09 13.1 – – – –
Group I................................................... 11.09 13.1 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.77 12.7 – – 8.25 9.2
Group I................................................... 9.77 12.7 – – 8.25 9.2
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 8.11 23.3 – – 6.85 20.7
Group I................................................... 8.11 23.3 – – 6.85 20.7
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.55 3.4 12.38 4.3 9.65 4.2
Group I................................................... 11.06 2.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.48 4.6 – – – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.15 3.1 11.96 3.7 9.65 4.2
Group I................................................... 10.90 3.0 – – – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.25 3.9 12.61 4.4 9.60 4.0
Group I................................................... 10.89 3.6 12.07 4.6 9.60 4.0
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.03 5.0 10.95 6.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.03 5.0 10.95 6.1 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.47 15.9 12.49 16.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.32 12.1 – – – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.47 15.9 12.49 16.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.32 12.1 11.33 12.3 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.47 5.2 16.79 7.5 11.98 8.6
Group I................................................... 10.95 4.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.74 5.8 – – – –
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.34 5.4 – – – –
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 18.83 9.9 19.16 7.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.34 5.4 – – – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.31 3.3 10.47 6.5 9.61 9.2
Group I................................................... 10.21 3.8 10.36 7.2 9.61 9.2
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 16.17 17.9 – – 12.75 12.4
Group I................................................... 10.65 7.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.36 16.3 – – – –
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 15.75 17.3 – – – –
Recreation workers.............................................. 16.28 21.5 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.49 6.7 21.10 6.5 8.97 2.4
Group I................................................... 11.01 5.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 25.94 8.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 48.80 4.6 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.34 17.3 19.34 17.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.35 3.5 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.07 17.9 19.07 17.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.77 3.2 20.77 3.2 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.08 6.3 12.89 9.5 8.90 3.4
Group I................................................... 10.45 4.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.11 13.1 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.92 3.3 11.09 3.9 8.78 4.4
Group I................................................... 9.86 3.5 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.92 3.3 11.09 3.9 8.78 4.4
Group I................................................... 9.86 3.5 11.08 4.2 8.78 4.5
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.14 11.2 11.36 17.2 – –
Group I................................................... 10.14 11.2 – – – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 13.28 12.8 15.58 12.5 9.21 2.5
Group I................................................... 11.94 12.1 14.63 12.3 9.01 1.1
Group II.................................................. 20.23 13.6 20.80 10.5 – –
Insurance sales agents............................................ 30.62 18.4 30.62 18.4 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 57.09 22.4 57.09 22.4 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.25 24.8 32.25 24.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 33.93 29.1 – – – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 27.99 8.9 27.99 8.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.54 11.0 25.54 11.0 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.85 11.0 22.89 8.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.97 8.5 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.65 1.4 18.15 1.5 13.52 4.8
Group I................................................... 14.60 2.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 22.36 3.0 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.44 4.2 25.44 4.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.36 2.2 25.36 2.2 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.27 2.9 17.61 2.9 15.32 13.3
Group I................................................... 14.44 4.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.90 4.6 – – – –
Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.79 5.4 15.03 5.4 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 19.22 4.3 19.26 4.7 – –
Group I................................................... 18.45 3.9 18.43 4.1 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.92 5.4 18.72 5.9 20.17 12.3
Group I................................................... 14.71 5.9 14.98 7.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.38 6.2 22.45 7.8 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 24.16 3.7 24.16 3.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.01 5.2 24.01 5.2 – –
Tellers......................................................... 13.38 2.7 13.81 1.9 12.08 3.1
Group I................................................... 12.73 4.0 12.96 3.7 12.03 4.0
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 24.36 18.6 18.68 3.4 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.81 4.1 17.23 4.3 – –
Group I................................................... 15.06 3.5 15.45 3.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.74 3.1 20.74 3.1 – –
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 19.10 5.0 19.10 5.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.14 5.2 19.14 5.2 – –
File clerks....................................................... 13.44 14.0 – – – –
Group I................................................... 13.44 14.0 – – – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.32 13.0 14.77 1.4 – –
Group I................................................... – – 14.55 .3 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.20 3.8 16.33 4.1 – –
Group I................................................... 15.92 2.7 – – – –
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 17.31 11.4 17.31 11.4 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.19 5.0 14.75 5.4 10.42 8.2
Group I................................................... 14.19 5.0 14.75 5.4 10.42 8.2
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.94 10.2 16.99 10.5 – –
Group I................................................... 14.61 12.3 – – – –
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 16.54 12.3 – – – –
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.03 6.8 22.03 6.8 – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.36 9.0 14.45 9.7 – –
Group I................................................... 16.36 20.8 16.36 20.8 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.49 7.3 11.10 3.9 9.40 11.0
Group I................................................... 10.20 6.8 10.72 3.8 9.40 11.0
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.59 2.6 21.79 2.7 17.19 8.8
Group I................................................... 16.56 3.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.86 6.7 – – – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.69 5.0 24.96 4.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.27 4.7 24.27 4.7 – –
Legal secretaries............................................... 29.20 8.2 – – – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 15.39 3.8 15.38 4.5 – –
Group I................................................... 14.85 4.7 14.70 6.1 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.29 5.0 17.33 5.3 – –
Group I................................................... 16.65 5.7 16.82 6.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.61 17.1 17.32 16.5 – –
Computer operators................................................ 18.54 11.4 19.07 9.8 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.78 6.2 16.01 6.1 – –
Group I................................................... 14.64 2.4 – – – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 15.83 6.4 16.06 6.3 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.03 4.3 16.47 4.2 – –
Group I................................................... 15.29 2.9 15.84 3.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.32 12.1 18.84 12.3 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.42 2.7 20.39 2.9 – –
Group I................................................... 14.76 3.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.61 1.1 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 27.83 1.7 27.73 1.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 27.71 1.5 27.71 1.5 – –
Carpenters........................................................ 20.99 4.8 20.99 4.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.56 2.3 21.56 2.3 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 13.18 2.8 13.18 2.8 – –
Group I................................................... 13.18 2.8 13.18 2.8 – –
Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.79 10.6 20.79 10.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.54 18.6 – – – –
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 21.72 18.1 21.72 18.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.71 19.3 22.71 19.3 – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.43 8.6 27.43 8.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 29.78 5.4 29.78 5.4 – –
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 20.51 14.5 20.51 14.5 – –
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.42 7.8 13.42 7.8 – –
Group I................................................... 13.34 8.9 – – – –
Helpers--electricians........................................... 12.68 2.4 12.68 2.4 – –
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 27.91 7.2 27.91 7.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 26.49 4.5 26.49 4.5 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.65 2.3 24.61 2.4 – –
Group I................................................... 14.19 7.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 26.15 2.3 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 31.52 2.7 31.52 2.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 31.79 4.3 31.79 4.3 – –
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 30.22 3.2 – – – –
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 30.22 3.2 30.22 3.2 – –
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 24.72 15.1 24.72 15.1 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 24.22 7.7 24.22 7.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.81 2.0 – – – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.09 3.7 27.09 3.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 27.66 1.4 27.66 1.4 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.18 4.3 21.17 4.4 – –
Group I................................................... 15.92 7.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.96 5.5 – – – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.43 6.0 21.42 6.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.72 8.4 21.72 8.6 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.04 7.0 26.04 7.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 27.36 3.7 – – – –
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 25.61 8.2 25.61 8.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 27.11 4.2 27.11 4.2 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 19.59 12.7 19.59 12.7 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 15.42 4.2 15.67 4.2 12.23 10.2
Group I................................................... 13.48 6.0 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.07 5.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 23.79 9.3 23.79 9.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.77 8.1 21.77 8.1 – –
Printers.......................................................... 18.30 14.5 18.97 12.7 – –
Printing machine operators...................................... 17.64 15.8 18.32 14.4 – –
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 8.40 10.6 8.40 10.6 – –
Group I................................................... 8.40 10.6 8.40 10.6 – –
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 15.85 14.9 15.85 14.9 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. – – 13.86 6.6 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.31 4.1 20.89 4.8 10.22 6.4
Group I................................................... 15.17 6.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.32 2.6 – – – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 18.95 10.5 19.47 11.6 – –
Group I................................................... 18.05 14.8 – – – –
Bus drivers, transit and intercity.............................. 21.78 3.2 21.78 3.2 – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.74 17.6 18.18 21.9 – –
Group I................................................... 17.74 17.6 18.18 21.9 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.73 8.6 18.83 8.6 – –
Group I................................................... 18.37 9.4 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.50 4.5 17.54 4.5 – –
Group I................................................... 16.49 1.9 16.50 1.9 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.07 14.2 19.23 13.9 – –
Group I................................................... 18.99 15.2 19.16 14.9 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.77 11.1 17.77 11.1 – –
Group I................................................... 16.87 10.2 16.87 10.2 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.27 4.0 13.47 6.2 9.97 7.8
Group I................................................... 12.14 4.1 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.92 4.7 13.70 6.5 10.83 8.6
Group I................................................... 12.79 4.6 13.55 6.1 10.83 8.6
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.67 6.1 – – 8.69 4.3
Group I................................................... 9.67 6.1 – – 8.69 4.3
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), Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $9.45 $13.15 $20.00 $31.55 $46.05
Management occupations.............................................. 23.03 31.98 44.46 61.03 68.91
General and operations managers................................... 20.00 28.06 38.46 60.90 84.14
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.05 35.03 38.11 44.46 67.60
Marketing managers.............................................. 34.10 34.10 38.11 39.72 67.31
Sales managers.................................................. 33.52 35.03 44.46 46.61 67.60
Computer and information systems managers......................... 36.46 41.98 58.72 67.31 69.27
Financial managers................................................ 25.46 35.10 40.74 65.31 72.33
Construction managers............................................. 39.13 39.86 48.13 53.35 67.31
Education administrators.......................................... 18.07 29.33 44.47 54.32 60.97
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 31.98 40.39 48.04 56.44 60.20
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.05 25.48 37.72 76.92 124.79
Medical and health services managers.............................. 30.90 30.90 34.17 55.28 60.80
Social and community service managers............................. 26.44 26.44 29.10 32.63 48.39
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.59 25.06 31.16 41.03 50.14
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.10 27.91 30.49 35.84 39.86
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 29.18 30.25 31.88 39.86 40.87
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.70 24.17 33.78 38.44 42.15
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 20.70 21.92 34.86 35.82 86.10
Logisticians...................................................... 21.88 34.35 41.03 41.85 44.40
Management analysts............................................... 22.88 31.16 33.01 50.24 60.91
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.32 25.78 29.21 38.46 47.80
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 20.32 22.25 27.41 38.46 60.10
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 18.63 20.56 27.69 33.95 46.69
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.08 29.53 42.12 49.94 58.27
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.75 19.19 37.75 50.00 81.73
Computer software engineers....................................... 27.64 38.86 44.01 50.07 60.24
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.64 34.42 44.01 44.50 55.77
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.63 40.77 51.91 60.24 74.27
Computer support specialists...................................... 18.03 21.55 28.10 36.06 52.00
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.97 36.73 43.42 53.85 53.85
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.78 23.96 33.22 41.20 53.17
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 23.08 23.08 36.06 43.27 50.34
Operations research analysts...................................... 18.69 23.23 32.27 41.57 53.97
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.99 26.51 34.57 47.33 59.20
Engineers......................................................... 30.25 33.65 43.76 51.45 62.36
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.89 31.49 43.76 47.10 50.68
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 21.99 31.49 43.76 46.11 48.10
Drafters.......................................................... 13.89 19.25 24.04 32.25 35.52
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 20.55 22.62 23.98 26.94 28.69
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.92 22.62 24.41 26.94 28.69
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 19.96 23.89 28.52 39.98 53.57
Life scientists................................................... 18.99 25.05 30.00 39.98 40.39
Medical scientists.............................................. 18.21 21.33 28.95 36.06 40.07
Physical scientists............................................... 18.27 23.89 30.78 46.26 84.13
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 18.03 19.23 24.96 36.72 46.26
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 18.03 19.23 24.96 36.72 46.26
Economists........................................................ 16.03 23.16 26.16 34.25 36.80
Market and survey researchers..................................... 24.44 27.60 28.52 31.63 45.40
Market research analysts........................................ 24.44 26.32 28.52 35.82 45.40
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.08 16.41 23.00 29.76 37.56
Counselors........................................................ 16.75 21.01 29.18 38.76 49.92
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 23.87 28.92 35.72 44.97 57.59
Social workers.................................................... 17.79 19.06 26.01 29.12 33.64
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 19.06 19.06 26.11 32.08 33.64
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 33.16 48.05 55.25 79.33 100.96
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.16 20.73 31.37 42.24 54.63
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 23.80 29.54 38.11 52.57 61.64
Business teachers, postsecondary................................ 21.67 31.53 49.25 56.62 59.27
Math and computer teachers, postsecondary....................... 32.77 32.77 40.86 59.69 64.97
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 29.54 30.24 36.92 45.42 58.54
English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 22.15 30.26 34.68 40.66 43.84
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 23.80 23.91 30.60 42.52 57.38
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.67 30.37 35.98 45.85 54.89
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 12.00 12.50 30.37 38.46 48.53
Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 10.60 12.50 12.50 30.05 36.40
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.52 32.99 38.39 45.79 54.53
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.30 31.07 36.30 46.36 55.03
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.30 30.89 35.82 45.72 54.26
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 27.39 31.54 38.85 48.82 55.76
Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.30 31.37 36.63 46.54 55.86
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 28.16 31.99 36.68 47.01 55.86
Special education teachers...................................... 24.27 30.87 37.67 48.57 55.65
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 23.35 30.87 36.88 47.57 54.23
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.27 19.92 23.21 27.51 54.58
Librarians........................................................ 21.14 27.72 30.97 41.21 62.77
Library technicians............................................... 15.27 15.27 17.29 24.14 26.60
Instructional coordinators........................................ 19.25 22.72 25.96 31.97 67.31
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.50 10.00 11.86 16.02 21.28
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.00 19.23 27.54 36.45 48.76
Designers......................................................... 14.00 16.00 19.48 23.52 35.99
Graphic designers............................................... 14.00 23.52 23.52 27.54 41.04
Public relations specialists...................................... 18.27 19.71 26.87 44.23 51.89
Writers and editors............................................... 19.47 29.57 29.57 36.45 51.28
Editors......................................................... 21.84 32.23 33.62 46.39 46.39
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.14 21.64 27.26 35.45 44.94
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 25.01 37.74 86.54 111.11 132.48
Registered nurses................................................. 26.00 28.69 32.00 36.10 40.50
Therapists........................................................ 20.55 26.63 29.71 37.59 47.00
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.05 15.61 18.44 24.71 27.75
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 18.69 22.45 24.71 27.03 36.00
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 13.25 14.65 16.32 18.12 21.64
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 22.00 22.00 25.62 35.00 37.99
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 22.00 22.00 22.50 30.73 37.99
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.94 14.66 15.63 20.53 21.67
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 12.94 14.50 15.63 19.07 21.67
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.85 20.60 23.61 25.27 26.97
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.00 11.71 13.75 15.02 17.72
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.76 10.63 12.00 13.75 15.25
Home health aides............................................... 9.14 9.25 9.50 10.18 10.99
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.29 10.92 12.32 13.98 15.39
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.99 13.00 14.61 16.42 17.86
Medical assistants.............................................. 12.74 14.61 14.61 14.61 17.50
Protective service occupations...................................... 9.00 10.64 20.32 28.19 36.78
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 28.87 36.54 41.10 44.68 49.79
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.14 37.07 42.30 45.13 49.79
Fire fighters..................................................... 13.88 16.83 20.27 22.92 32.75
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 24.34 27.41 28.97 36.78 38.58
Police officers................................................... 21.74 24.04 27.42 33.09 36.67
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.74 24.04 27.42 33.09 36.67
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 9.00 9.25 9.86 12.47 14.63
Security guards................................................. 9.00 9.25 9.86 12.47 14.63
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 7.35 7.35 8.25 15.23 23.82
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective
service workers................................................ 7.35 7.35 8.25 8.25 11.15
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.08 6.75 8.75 12.00 14.80
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.00 16.45 19.32 20.19
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.00 16.45 19.32 20.19
Cooks............................................................. 8.75 10.00 12.02 13.08 15.00
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.98 10.00 12.02 13.26 14.64
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.02 12.45 13.57 15.25
Cooks, short order.............................................. 8.00 10.00 11.00 12.21 15.00
Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.85 7.00 10.74 12.10 12.65
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.34 3.15 8.00 9.00
Bartenders...................................................... 2.30 6.15 8.00 9.00 11.58
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.16 3.08 3.15 6.83
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.08 5.15 8.21 9.00 11.87
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.75 7.00 8.00 9.82 12.35
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 6.75 7.00 7.50 9.16 13.00
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 6.75 7.50 10.00 10.97 11.00
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.00 7.65 9.00 15.44 16.00
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.50 7.55 10.00 11.03 14.80
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 3.08 6.15 9.00 10.00 10.75
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.74 10.50 13.21 16.90
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.74 10.30 13.15 15.90
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.74 10.34 13.21 16.90
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.00 8.50 10.43 13.46 14.80
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 8.50 9.00 10.50 14.46 20.18
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 8.50 9.00 10.50 14.46 20.18
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.41 12.45 16.32 26.33
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.40 9.50 11.00 14.69
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 7.16 9.45 14.23 21.84 27.66
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 9.82 11.67 11.79 17.42 30.00
Recreation workers.............................................. 6.92 8.79 16.69 21.92 27.54
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.72 8.99 12.15 18.22 34.61
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.50 12.18 13.35 19.79 35.00
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.50 12.18 12.81 19.33 35.00
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 8.00 9.81 12.30 15.72
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.48 7.75 9.00 11.33 13.55
Cashiers...................................................... 7.48 7.75 9.00 11.33 13.55
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.50 8.00 9.81 10.50 15.00
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.72 9.00 11.50 15.00 20.00
Insurance sales agents............................................ 14.89 20.44 28.85 41.07 41.07
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 24.04 25.93 38.38 98.56 145.36
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.27 17.60 26.41 38.97 56.56
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 17.60 17.60 22.99 34.61 38.97
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 9.90 11.63 17.92 28.96 30.87
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.15 13.00 16.25 20.83 25.94
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 20.46 21.50 25.14 27.28 30.40
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.54 12.65 15.85 20.72 24.92
Bill and account collectors..................................... 12.20 12.94 13.64 16.54 18.87
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.38 16.06 18.99 21.66 23.08
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.35 15.00 18.55 23.00 25.00
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.74 20.25 22.97 28.02 33.01
Tellers......................................................... 11.17 11.76 12.60 14.75 17.63
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 16.32 17.31 19.13 39.69 39.69
Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 12.66 17.26 19.11 22.61
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.83 17.09 18.74 20.02 21.74
File clerks....................................................... 9.00 10.00 11.54 15.99 23.21
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 7.50 8.75 12.66 14.64 16.95
Order clerks...................................................... 13.00 15.24 16.11 17.61 21.15
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 13.00 13.00 17.00 19.33 22.44
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 12.00 13.40 17.07 20.21
Dispatchers....................................................... 10.82 12.22 18.07 20.22 23.43
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 11.50 12.00 16.10 19.21 25.01
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.31 16.06 21.71 29.76 29.76
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.35 10.35 13.46 15.75 25.57
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.75 8.31 10.00 12.00 13.45
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.40 15.50 19.95 25.22 32.20
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.95 19.01 22.93 27.61 35.39
Legal secretaries............................................... 16.92 25.13 31.31 34.88 37.96
Medical secretaries............................................. 11.87 13.71 15.00 16.57 19.13
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.85 14.00 16.36 19.95 23.58
Computer operators................................................ 12.50 13.41 19.01 22.29 27.21
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.75 13.97 15.76 16.68 19.45
Data entry keyers............................................... 11.75 13.97 15.76 16.68 19.45
Office clerks, general............................................ 11.50 13.41 16.25 16.26 21.62
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.78 15.00 18.92 24.88 31.49
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 22.00 24.99 27.50 30.00 36.00
Carpenters........................................................ 17.00 17.58 21.00 24.00 26.00
Construction laborers............................................. 10.50 11.00 12.94 14.82 16.25
Construction equipment operators.................................. 13.75 17.70 18.00 23.86 28.75
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 15.10 17.90 19.70 25.00 28.75
Electricians...................................................... 16.24 18.30 29.50 35.30 36.30
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 13.52 16.69 23.40 23.40 26.55
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 10.07 12.30 13.21 14.50 18.92
Helpers--electricians........................................... 10.07 11.00 12.30 13.42 16.03
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 21.74 23.01 26.68 31.85 36.11
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.50 19.01 24.50 30.60 32.50
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 28.20 30.60 30.60 30.60 40.00
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 15.50 19.15 19.50 33.65 37.02
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 16.50 20.00 23.50 28.75 31.80
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.14 22.71 25.08 30.00 31.80
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.29 17.00 19.25 24.06 30.47
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.29 16.39 19.25 23.15 32.10
Line installers and repairers..................................... 17.00 23.84 28.04 29.97 30.36
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 17.00 22.00 25.92 29.97 30.62
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.50 17.40 19.37 22.07 28.72
Production occupations.............................................. 8.89 11.95 15.20 17.17 22.79
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 15.20 15.75 21.57 26.33 38.80
Printers.......................................................... 11.33 13.11 18.00 23.87 24.17
Printing machine operators...................................... 11.33 13.11 17.50 23.40 23.87
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 7.20 7.20 7.20 9.02 11.37
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 11.50 12.25 13.82 19.95 21.97
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.76 11.53 16.30 21.15 26.62
Bus drivers....................................................... 11.08 15.97 17.70 23.17 27.87
Bus drivers, transit and intercity.............................. 16.80 18.15 20.89 25.93 27.74
Bus drivers, school............................................. 9.11 14.58 16.93 20.61 29.33
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.64 15.25 17.61 22.11 28.17
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.68 15.00 16.75 20.00 21.00
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 10.23 15.48 17.61 28.17 28.17
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.07 14.07 17.25 22.11 22.21
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.74 9.73 10.87 14.40 18.47
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.03 10.18 11.26 14.87 20.49
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.55 7.50 10.00 11.45 13.50
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), Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April
2008
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $9.00 $12.50 $18.75 $30.62 $45.35
Management occupations.............................................. 21.35 31.98 44.47 63.35 70.32
General and operations managers................................... 20.00 28.06 38.46 60.90 84.14
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.05 35.03 38.11 44.46 67.60
Marketing managers.............................................. 34.10 34.10 38.11 39.72 67.31
Sales managers.................................................. 33.52 35.03 44.46 46.61 67.60
Computer and information systems managers......................... 36.55 46.64 59.94 67.31 70.32
Financial managers................................................ 25.46 28.13 40.74 63.93 72.33
Construction managers............................................. 39.13 39.86 48.13 53.35 67.31
Education administrators.......................................... 15.00 21.64 31.98 44.47 44.47
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.05 25.48 37.72 124.79 124.79
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.67 25.36 31.16 41.85 51.68
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.10 27.91 30.79 35.84 39.86
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 29.18 30.91 32.85 39.86 40.87
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.70 23.27 34.86 39.38 86.10
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 20.70 27.40 35.82 35.82 86.10
Logisticians...................................................... 21.88 34.35 41.03 41.85 44.40
Management analysts............................................... 31.16 31.16 34.23 55.05 64.00
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.32 25.78 29.21 38.46 47.80
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 20.32 22.25 27.41 38.46 60.10
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 18.63 20.56 27.69 33.95 46.69
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.08 30.72 43.00 50.00 58.94
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.75 19.19 37.75 50.00 81.73
Computer software engineers....................................... 27.64 38.86 44.01 50.07 60.24
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.64 34.42 44.01 44.50 55.77
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.63 40.77 51.91 60.24 74.27
Computer support specialists...................................... 18.03 22.76 30.72 44.00 53.15
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.97 36.96 44.12 53.85 53.85
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.78 23.96 31.73 36.90 53.17
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 23.08 23.08 36.06 43.27 50.82
Operations research analysts...................................... 18.69 23.23 32.27 41.57 53.97
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.99 26.75 34.57 47.72 59.23
Engineers......................................................... 30.25 33.65 43.76 51.45 62.50
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.89 31.49 43.76 47.10 50.68
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 21.99 31.49 43.76 46.11 48.10
Drafters.......................................................... 13.89 19.25 24.04 32.25 35.52
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 20.15 22.51 24.17 26.94 28.69
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.92 22.59 24.13 26.48 28.69
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 19.23 23.32 28.52 39.98 51.64
Life scientists................................................... 18.99 24.06 31.20 39.98 40.39
Medical scientists.............................................. 18.21 21.33 28.95 36.06 40.07
Physical scientists............................................... 18.27 23.89 30.78 46.26 84.13
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 18.13 19.23 24.96 36.72 46.26
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 18.13 19.23 24.96 36.72 46.26
Economists........................................................ 16.03 23.16 26.16 34.25 36.80
Market and survey researchers..................................... 24.44 27.60 28.52 31.63 45.40
Market research analysts........................................ 24.44 26.32 28.52 35.82 45.40
Community and social services occupations........................... 14.66 15.60 17.64 23.77 26.24
Social workers.................................................... 17.79 18.56 19.06 26.24 29.06
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 33.16 48.05 64.18 86.54 100.96
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.00 11.16 22.72 31.60 45.42
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 23.80 23.91 35.20 56.62 69.23
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 22.15 36.63 44.69 58.54 58.54
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 12.50 18.09 27.44 32.28 35.84
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 22.85 26.25 29.34 31.60 35.81
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 22.50 27.26 30.23 31.60 34.34
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.50 10.00 10.50 11.63 13.04
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.00 19.47 27.96 37.08 48.76
Designers......................................................... 14.00 16.00 16.83 27.54 35.99
Public relations specialists...................................... 18.27 19.71 26.87 44.23 51.89
Writers and editors............................................... 19.47 29.57 29.57 36.45 51.28
Editors......................................................... 21.84 32.23 33.62 46.39 46.39
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.10 21.67 27.16 35.45 43.24
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 25.01 37.74 86.54 111.11 132.48
Registered nurses................................................. 25.80 28.69 32.18 36.00 39.91
Therapists........................................................ 20.55 26.63 29.00 35.00 45.00
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.05 15.61 18.44 24.71 27.75
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 18.69 22.45 24.71 27.03 36.00
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 13.25 14.65 16.32 18.12 21.64
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 22.00 22.00 25.62 35.00 37.99
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 22.00 22.00 22.50 30.73 37.99
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.94 14.66 15.63 19.03 22.25
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 12.28 12.94 15.63 15.78 18.06
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.31 21.00 23.91 25.40 27.31
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.00 11.63 13.75 15.00 17.50
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.75 10.60 12.00 13.77 15.34
Home health aides............................................... 9.14 9.25 9.50 10.00 10.61
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.23 10.82 12.42 14.10 15.39
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.92 13.00 14.61 15.50 17.50
Medical assistants.............................................. 12.51 14.61 14.61 14.61 17.50
Protective service occupations...................................... 7.35 8.75 9.72 11.32 17.10
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 9.00 9.25 9.72 12.00 14.35
Security guards................................................. 9.00 9.25 9.72 12.00 14.35
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 7.35 7.35 8.25 9.56 29.33
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective
service workers................................................ 7.35 7.35 7.35 8.25 11.15
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.00 6.75 8.50 11.85 14.50
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 9.00 16.45 18.57 20.19
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 9.00 16.45 18.57 20.19
Cooks............................................................. 8.50 10.00 12.20 13.08 15.00
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.00 10.30 12.02 13.26 14.64
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.02 12.45 13.57 15.25
Cooks, short order.............................................. 8.00 10.00 11.00 12.21 15.00
Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.85 7.00 10.72 12.10 12.65
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.34 3.15 8.00 9.00
Bartenders...................................................... 2.30 6.15 8.00 9.00 11.58
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.16 3.08 3.15 6.83
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.08 5.15 8.21 9.00 11.87
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.75 7.00 7.50 9.50 11.00
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 6.75 7.00 7.50 9.16 11.25
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 6.75 7.50 10.00 10.97 11.00
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 6.28 7.00 8.05 10.40 15.44
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.50 7.55 10.00 11.03 14.80
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 3.08 6.15 9.00 10.00 10.75
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.50 10.08 12.21 14.82
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.50 10.20 12.00 14.80
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.71 10.20 12.00 14.47
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.00 8.50 10.30 13.37 14.80
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.27 12.00 16.29 26.33
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.25 9.13 10.25 11.37
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.72 8.99 12.11 18.22 34.61
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.50 12.18 13.27 19.79 35.00
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.50 12.18 12.81 19.33 35.00
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 8.00 9.81 12.15 15.61
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.35 7.75 9.00 11.15 13.33
Cashiers...................................................... 7.35 7.75 9.00 11.15 13.33
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.50 8.00 9.81 10.50 15.00
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.72 9.00 11.51 15.00 20.00
Insurance sales agents............................................ 14.89 20.44 28.85 41.07 41.07
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 24.04 25.93 38.38 98.56 145.36
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.27 17.60 26.41 38.97 56.56
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 17.60 17.60 22.99 34.61 38.97
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 9.90 11.63 17.92 28.96 30.87
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.00 12.96 16.16 20.67 25.94
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 20.46 21.50 25.14 27.28 30.40
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.50 12.57 15.47 20.43 24.04
Bill and account collectors..................................... 12.20 12.94 13.64 16.54 18.87
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.38 16.06 18.95 21.66 21.66
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.35 15.00 18.23 23.00 26.45
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.74 20.00 24.92 28.02 33.01
Tellers......................................................... 11.17 11.76 12.60 14.75 17.63
Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 12.66 17.26 19.11 22.61
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 7.50 8.75 12.66 14.64 16.95
Order clerks...................................................... 13.00 15.24 16.11 17.61 21.15
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.00 12.00 13.40 17.07 20.05
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.31 16.06 21.71 29.76 29.76
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.35 10.35 13.46 15.75 25.57
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.75 8.31 10.00 12.00 13.45
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.40 15.02 20.60 26.44 33.59
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.78 20.15 23.08 29.19 37.46
Medical secretaries............................................. 11.87 13.71 15.00 16.57 19.13
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.99 13.40 15.00 19.38 23.08
Computer operators................................................ 12.50 13.41 14.50 24.07 27.21
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.75 13.97 15.76 16.68 19.45
Data entry keyers............................................... 11.75 13.97 15.76 16.68 19.45
Office clerks, general............................................ 11.50 13.41 15.93 16.25 18.43
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.71 14.75 18.75 23.40 30.50
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 22.00 24.99 27.50 29.75 36.00
Carpenters........................................................ 17.00 17.58 20.75 23.75 26.00
Construction laborers............................................. 10.50 11.00 12.78 15.00 16.25
Construction equipment operators.................................. 13.75 17.50 18.00 22.75 28.75
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 15.10 17.90 19.25 25.00 28.75
Electricians...................................................... 16.24 18.30 29.50 35.30 36.30
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 10.07 12.30 13.21 14.50 18.92
Helpers--electricians........................................... 10.07 11.00 12.30 13.42 16.03
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.50 19.01 25.00 30.60 32.50
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.50 20.00 22.71 28.75 31.80
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.14 22.71 25.50 30.00 31.80
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.29 17.00 19.25 24.06 32.10
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.29 16.04 18.84 21.77 32.10
Line installers and repairers..................................... 17.00 23.84 28.04 29.97 30.36
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 17.00 22.00 25.92 29.97 30.62
Production occupations.............................................. 8.87 11.95 15.14 17.00 22.60
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 15.20 15.75 21.57 26.33 38.80
Printers.......................................................... 11.33 13.11 18.00 23.87 24.17
Printing machine operators...................................... 11.33 13.11 17.50 23.40 23.87
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 11.50 12.25 13.82 19.95 21.97
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 11.00 15.75 20.95 24.77
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.64 15.37 17.61 22.11 28.17
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.68 15.00 16.75 20.00 21.00
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 10.23 15.48 17.61 28.17 28.17
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.07 14.07 17.25 22.11 22.21
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.74 9.59 10.87 14.40 18.47
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.03 10.18 11.26 15.00 20.50
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.55 7.50 10.00 11.45 13.50
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), Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
CSA, April 2008
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $14.52 $19.01 $26.55 $36.77 $49.06
Management occupations.............................................. 28.10 33.80 42.62 56.07 61.08
Education administrators.......................................... 36.97 47.63 53.65 57.96 61.99
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 44.99 48.71 54.44 58.28 61.99
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 19.75 22.88 29.14 33.78 38.44
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.71 28.57 29.14 38.44 38.44
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.41 21.31 27.57 38.40 43.96
Computer support specialists...................................... 18.08 19.44 22.83 27.05 28.10
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.60 23.56 28.34 42.63 44.54
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.81 24.41 28.95 41.43 53.95
Community and social services occupations........................... 21.01 24.87 31.28 36.45 46.41
Counselors........................................................ 22.31 26.28 33.80 42.07 53.68
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 23.87 28.92 35.97 45.55 57.59
Social workers.................................................... 22.73 25.40 31.30 33.64 36.45
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 22.31 26.46 31.30 33.64 36.90
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.99 17.08 20.07 22.25 29.45
Legal occupations................................................... 25.99 28.19 33.90 49.06 49.06
Lawyers........................................................... 30.97 45.99 49.06 49.06 49.06
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 18.11 27.66 35.47 45.72 55.31
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 30.24 32.77 39.23 47.77 58.67
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 29.57 29.98 30.26 36.92 42.82
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 30.84 35.78 40.46 52.72 71.67
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.05 32.15 38.92 48.32 55.86
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 29.55 31.46 37.04 44.55 53.00
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.52 32.99 38.39 45.79 54.53
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 29.05 32.33 39.01 47.84 55.86
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.70 31.99 38.10 47.30 55.31
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 30.01 33.84 41.47 51.63 56.95
Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.59 32.72 39.59 48.53 55.92
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.66 32.81 39.61 48.53 55.92
Special education teachers...................................... 26.70 31.23 38.76 48.85 55.86
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 24.27 31.13 38.05 48.51 54.53
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.51 21.80 23.21 29.79 54.58
Librarians........................................................ 21.01 24.26 34.67 48.36 62.77
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.17 14.79 17.55 21.31 23.51
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.53 21.20 27.26 34.84 47.03
Registered nurses................................................. 26.75 28.07 29.99 40.97 47.58
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.26 12.06 14.35 23.14 24.73
Protective service occupations...................................... 16.96 20.20 24.62 32.70 39.26
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 28.87 36.54 41.10 44.68 49.79
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.14 37.07 42.30 45.13 49.79
Fire fighters..................................................... 13.88 16.83 20.27 22.92 32.75
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 24.34 27.41 28.97 36.78 38.58
Police officers................................................... 21.97 24.19 27.77 33.32 36.71
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.97 24.19 27.77 33.32 36.71
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 9.07 13.51 15.70 20.59 21.84
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.98 11.99 13.92 17.03 20.14
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.46 12.65 14.46 17.87 20.22
Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.90 11.94 13.73 16.02 19.59
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.53 12.45 14.05 16.74 20.22
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.21 14.46 15.82 20.87 25.40
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 13.21 14.46 15.82 20.87 25.40
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 10.04 14.48 16.69 23.72
Child care workers................................................ 9.00 13.50 14.69 15.91 18.75
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 6.92 9.09 14.23 21.84 27.42
Recreation workers.............................................. 6.92 8.79 16.69 21.92 27.54
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.17 16.36 19.01 21.90 25.95
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.21 19.54 21.83 24.19 26.33
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.21 19.54 21.55 21.83 24.19
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.07 16.37 17.99 19.28 23.78
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.27 17.30 18.74 20.23 23.35
Dispatchers....................................................... 14.46 16.64 18.50 22.08 25.01
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.78 16.40 18.87 21.38 25.52
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.23 16.87 19.15 22.62 28.98
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.85 16.36 17.51 19.95 23.61
Office clerks, general............................................ 10.50 13.98 17.98 21.51 26.15
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.99 18.08 26.19 29.71 34.27
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 21.70 25.82 30.15 34.34 36.87
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.03 19.37 23.15 27.58 31.77
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.58 17.62 20.31 24.06 25.79
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.58 17.62 20.31 24.06 25.79
Production occupations.............................................. 11.37 12.54 17.68 19.78 23.79
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.49 15.97 18.32 24.73 29.33
Bus drivers....................................................... 14.29 16.44 18.15 24.03 27.87
Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.98 15.87 16.93 21.56 29.33
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.30 14.97 17.00 20.13 20.86
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), Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA,
April 2008
Full-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $11.03 $14.80 $21.68 $33.60 $48.09
Management occupations.............................................. 22.92 32.01 44.46 61.21 68.91
General and operations managers................................... 20.00 28.06 38.46 60.90 84.14
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 34.05 35.03 38.11 44.46 67.60
Marketing managers.............................................. 34.10 34.10 38.11 39.72 67.31
Sales managers.................................................. 33.52 35.03 44.46 46.61 67.60
Computer and information systems managers......................... 36.06 41.98 58.72 67.31 70.32
Financial managers................................................ 25.46 35.10 40.74 65.31 72.33
Construction managers............................................. 39.13 39.86 48.13 53.35 67.31
Education administrators.......................................... 18.07 29.33 44.47 54.32 60.97
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 31.98 40.39 48.04 56.44 60.20
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 23.05 25.48 37.72 76.92 124.79
Medical and health services managers.............................. 30.90 30.90 34.17 55.28 60.80
Social and community service managers............................. 26.44 26.44 29.10 32.63 48.39
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.32 24.95 31.16 41.85 51.64
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.10 27.91 30.79 35.84 39.86
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 29.18 30.25 31.88 39.86 40.87
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.70 24.17 33.78 38.44 42.15
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 20.70 21.92 34.86 35.82 86.10
Logisticians...................................................... 21.88 34.35 41.03 41.85 44.40
Management analysts............................................... 22.88 31.16 33.01 50.24 60.91
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 22.48 25.36 29.21 39.46 48.80
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 20.32 22.25 27.41 38.46 60.10
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 18.63 20.56 27.69 33.95 46.69
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.08 29.53 41.94 49.60 58.65
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.75 19.19 37.75 50.00 81.73
Computer software engineers....................................... 27.64 38.86 44.01 50.07 60.24
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.64 34.42 44.01 44.50 55.77
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.63 40.77 51.91 60.24 74.27
Computer support specialists...................................... 18.03 21.42 28.10 36.06 52.00
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.97 36.63 42.53 53.85 53.85
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.78 23.96 33.22 41.20 53.17
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 23.08 23.08 36.06 43.27 50.34
Operations research analysts...................................... 18.69 23.23 32.27 41.57 53.97
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.99 26.83 34.57 47.50 59.23
Engineers......................................................... 30.25 33.65 43.76 51.45 62.50
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 27.65 31.49 43.76 46.24 50.68
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 21.99 31.49 43.76 46.11 48.10
Drafters.......................................................... 13.89 19.25 24.04 32.25 35.52
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 20.55 22.62 23.98 26.94 28.69
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.92 22.62 24.41 26.94 28.69
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.00 23.89 28.52 40.07 53.57
Life scientists................................................... 18.99 25.05 30.00 39.98 40.39
Medical scientists.............................................. 18.21 21.33 28.95 36.06 40.07
Physical scientists............................................... 18.34 23.89 31.06 46.26 84.13
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 18.13 19.23 24.96 36.78 46.26
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 18.13 19.23 24.96 36.78 46.26
Economists........................................................ 16.03 23.16 26.16 34.25 36.80
Market and survey researchers..................................... 24.44 27.60 28.52 31.63 45.40
Market research analysts........................................ 24.44 26.32 28.52 35.82 45.40
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.43 18.26 25.40 31.54 39.74
Counselors........................................................ 16.75 21.01 29.18 38.76 49.92
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 23.87 28.92 35.72 44.97 57.59
Social workers.................................................... 17.79 18.75 26.24 31.30 33.64
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 18.93 24.41 27.98 32.86 35.44
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 12.26 14.91 16.41 16.41 21.76
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 35.00 48.05 57.69 81.73 100.96
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.67 21.72 32.04 43.22 55.03
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 23.80 29.57 38.11 52.72 62.16
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 29.57 30.26 37.67 45.42 58.54
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 23.80 23.91 28.70 43.27 57.38
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.73 30.80 36.24 46.13 54.89
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 12.00 12.50 30.99 38.46 48.82
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 29.52 32.99 38.39 45.79 54.53
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.87 31.26 36.68 46.70 55.29
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.96 31.25 36.11 45.79 54.53
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 27.39 31.54 38.85 48.82 55.76
Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.30 31.37 36.63 46.54 55.86
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 28.17 31.99 36.68 47.01 55.86
Special education teachers...................................... 29.52 31.83 39.37 48.85 55.86
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 29.78 31.83 38.76 48.57 54.53
Librarians........................................................ 21.14 27.92 33.13 42.25 62.77
Instructional coordinators........................................ 19.25 22.72 25.96 31.97 67.31
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.75 10.00 12.00 16.28 20.73
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.00 19.23 27.88 37.08 48.76
Designers......................................................... 14.00 16.00 17.00 23.52 35.99
Public relations specialists...................................... 18.27 19.71 26.87 44.23 51.89
Writers and editors............................................... 19.47 29.57 29.57 46.39 51.28
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.45 21.64 26.63 34.37 45.00
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 25.01 37.74 86.54 111.11 132.48
Registered nurses................................................. 25.91 28.69 31.22 35.88 40.22
Therapists........................................................ 24.75 26.63 29.00 34.54 38.54
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 14.05 15.53 18.12 24.52 26.59
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 19.71 23.27 24.71 26.51 39.31
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 13.25 14.65 16.32 18.12 21.64
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 22.00 22.00 22.00 30.29 35.99
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 22.00 22.00 22.00 27.04 30.86
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.28 15.14 15.90 21.13 21.67
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 12.28 15.14 15.63 20.73 21.67
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.31 20.60 23.61 25.40 27.39
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.45 12.00 13.89 14.65 17.50
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 10.92 12.18 13.83 15.40
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.29 11.02 12.32 13.85 15.43
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.00 13.00 14.61 16.34 17.79
Medical assistants.............................................. 12.74 14.61 14.61 14.61 17.50
Protective service occupations...................................... 9.72 14.21 21.97 29.33 38.28
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 28.87 36.54 41.10 44.68 49.79
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 33.14 37.07 42.30 45.13 49.79
Fire fighters..................................................... 13.88 16.83 20.27 22.92 32.75
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.97 19.24 20.48 23.24 29.06
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 24.34 27.41 28.97 36.78 38.58
Police officers................................................... 21.75 24.19 27.66 33.32 36.67
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.75 24.19 27.66 33.32 36.67
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 9.00 9.72 10.00 13.49 14.28
Security guards................................................. 9.00 9.72 10.00 13.49 14.28
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.75 8.50 11.02 13.57 16.45
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 11.00 14.50 16.45 19.57 20.19
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 11.00 14.50 16.45 19.57 20.19
Cooks............................................................. 9.00 10.30 12.21 13.26 15.00
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.00 10.30 12.61 13.26 14.64
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.50 12.45 13.57 15.50
Cooks, short order.............................................. 8.00 10.00 11.25 12.21 15.00
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.83 8.05 11.87
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.15 2.83 8.01
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.00 8.36 9.75 11.00 14.45
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.00 8.36 9.16 12.50 14.45
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.25 9.08 11.75 14.59 17.34
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.25 9.30 11.55 14.01 16.90
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.41 10.25 12.21 14.48 17.34
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.00 8.50 10.30 13.06 14.80
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 8.50 9.00 10.50 14.46 20.23
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 8.50 9.00 10.50 14.46 20.23
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.90 12.50 20.47 35.45
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 7.34 11.11 16.10 23.14 28.13
Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.50 9.79 11.37 14.69
Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.99 11.00 15.00 22.20 41.07
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.50 12.18 13.35 19.79 35.00
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.50 12.18 12.81 19.33 35.00
Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.00 9.50 11.50 14.76 18.47
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.75 8.50 10.20 12.70 15.72
Cashiers...................................................... 7.75 8.50 10.20 12.70 15.72
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.00 9.50 9.81 12.11 17.57
Retail salespersons............................................. 9.55 11.00 13.47 16.76 25.40
Insurance sales agents............................................ 14.89 20.44 28.85 41.07 41.07
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 24.04 25.93 38.38 98.56 145.36
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.27 17.60 26.41 38.97 56.56
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 17.60 17.60 22.99 34.61 38.97
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 11.63 17.18 26.16 28.96 30.87
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.54 13.64 16.86 21.41 26.49
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 20.46 21.50 25.14 27.28 30.40
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.65 13.02 17.00 20.72 24.92
Bill and account collectors..................................... 12.50 13.45 14.06 16.83 18.87
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.38 16.06 19.06 21.66 23.08
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.41 15.00 17.97 21.50 26.45
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.74 20.25 22.97 28.02 33.01
Tellers......................................................... 11.50 12.25 12.65 15.17 17.63
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.03 16.32 17.99 19.28 23.78
Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 13.90 17.31 19.95 23.47
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.83 17.09 18.74 20.02 21.74
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.10 13.52 14.64 15.98 17.00
Order clerks...................................................... 11.50 15.11 16.11 17.61 21.15
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 13.00 13.00 17.00 19.33 22.44
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.70 12.00 13.63 17.50 20.21
Dispatchers....................................................... 10.82 12.22 18.12 20.22 23.43
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.31 16.06 21.71 29.76 29.76
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.40 10.40 13.50 15.84 25.57
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 9.45 11.00 12.50 14.50
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.40 15.80 20.15 25.54 32.76
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.88 19.23 22.93 28.77 37.46
Medical secretaries............................................. 11.40 13.49 15.00 16.79 20.00
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.85 14.00 16.67 19.95 23.54
Computer operators................................................ 12.92 13.41 19.01 24.07 27.21
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.46 14.04 15.76 16.68 19.45
Data entry keyers............................................... 13.81 14.04 15.87 16.68 19.45
Office clerks, general............................................ 11.54 14.97 16.25 17.59 21.86
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.78 14.83 18.92 24.75 31.50
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 22.00 24.99 27.50 29.50 36.00
Carpenters........................................................ 17.00 17.58 21.00 24.00 26.00
Construction laborers............................................. 10.50 11.00 12.94 14.82 16.25
Construction equipment operators.................................. 13.75 17.70 18.00 23.86 28.75
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 15.10 17.90 19.70 25.00 28.75
Electricians...................................................... 16.24 18.30 29.50 35.30 36.30
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 13.52 16.69 23.40 23.40 26.55
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 10.07 12.30 13.21 14.50 18.92
Helpers--electricians........................................... 10.07 11.00 12.30 13.42 16.03
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 21.74 23.01 26.68 31.85 36.11
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.50 19.01 24.50 30.60 32.50
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 28.20 30.60 30.60 30.60 40.00
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 25.60 28.76 30.62 32.50 32.50
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 15.50 19.15 19.50 33.65 37.02
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 16.50 20.00 23.50 28.75 31.80
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.14 22.71 25.08 30.00 31.80
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.29 17.00 19.25 24.16 30.47
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.29 16.37 19.25 23.15 32.10
Line installers and repairers..................................... 17.00 23.84 28.04 29.97 30.36
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 17.00 22.00 25.92 29.97 30.62
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.50 17.40 19.37 22.07 28.72
Production occupations.............................................. 9.25 12.00 15.20 17.25 23.24
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 15.20 15.75 21.57 26.33 38.80
Printers.......................................................... 11.97 13.31 18.19 23.87 24.17
Printing machine operators...................................... 11.97 13.31 18.00 23.87 23.87
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 7.20 7.20 7.20 9.02 11.37
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 11.50 12.25 13.82 19.95 21.97
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.95 11.95 12.38 16.45 17.65
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.18 13.64 17.50 22.11 27.87
Bus drivers....................................................... 9.71 15.68 18.65 24.64 27.87
Bus drivers, transit and intercity.............................. 16.80 18.15 20.89 25.93 27.74
Bus drivers, school............................................. 9.01 13.24 17.16 23.17 29.33
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.64 15.37 17.61 22.11 28.17
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.68 15.00 16.75 20.00 21.00
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 10.23 15.48 17.61 28.17 28.17
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.07 14.07 17.25 22.11 22.21
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.00 10.18 11.64 16.25 20.58
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.18 10.18 11.65 16.25 21.06
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), Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA,
April 2008
Part-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $6.75 $7.75 $9.82 $14.00 $23.77
Management occupations.............................................. 23.97 23.97 54.00 55.00 55.77
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.50 30.00 35.00 35.50 37.00
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.79 13.30 22.06 24.70 40.63
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 22.15 29.43 37.33 45.25 56.62
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 29.43 33.81 37.19 37.33 56.62
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 18.83 19.67 22.06 23.35 39.31
Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.51 20.25 23.21 23.21 23.21
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.29 9.00 11.00 15.47 23.12
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.00 24.30 35.00 38.00 42.48
Registered nurses................................................. 27.00 31.17 35.00 38.00 41.09
Therapists........................................................ 20.55 20.55 41.66 47.00 50.00
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 10.00 12.50 15.12 19.75
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.25 9.54 10.55 13.28 15.12
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.24 10.63 12.50 14.99 15.12
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.63 12.10 15.02 16.50 18.00
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.25 8.50 9.25 11.15 15.71
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.50 9.00 9.25 10.16 15.00
Security guards................................................. 8.50 9.00 9.25 10.16 15.00
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.00 5.00 7.25 8.34 10.95
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.75 10.13 12.20 12.20
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.20 10.13 12.20 12.20 15.25
Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.60 7.00 7.00 10.74 12.65
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.30 3.00 3.15 8.00 9.00
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.16 2.34 3.08 3.15 6.83
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.08 3.08 5.15 8.21 8.33
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.50 6.75 7.37 8.00 9.82
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 6.50 6.75 7.35 8.00 9.25
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 6.20 6.25 8.00 9.50 10.95
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.32 7.32 7.64 8.50 11.50
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 3.08 3.88 8.10 9.00 10.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.50 8.50 9.75 10.50 11.46
Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.50 8.50 9.75 10.50 11.50
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.50 8.50 9.75 10.20 11.35
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.87 8.75 11.19 13.17 16.69
Child care workers................................................ 7.03 8.00 8.71 9.15 15.00
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 6.68 7.88 10.37 16.69 17.50
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.35 7.58 8.03 10.00 11.46
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.48 7.58 8.00 9.79 11.05
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.50 10.79
Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.50 10.79
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.58 7.72 8.50 10.05 11.75
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.75 10.20 12.00 15.00 21.22
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.50 11.74 12.57 23.00 23.00
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 8.94 15.45 23.00 23.00 25.00
Tellers......................................................... 10.50 11.74 11.80 12.57 13.92
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 6.96 7.00 10.50 14.00 14.00
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.19 7.74 8.31 12.00 12.50
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.99 13.00 18.70 18.70 18.70
Production occupations.............................................. 7.00 10.00 13.00 15.00 15.00
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.15 7.50 9.50 12.00 16.93
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.00 7.74 9.50 11.26 14.40
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.00 10.00 12.37 16.77
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.15 7.00 8.50 10.39 11.25
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,
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $26.52 $21.68 $1,045 $863 39.4 $53,162 $44,219 2,004
Management occupations.............................................. 47.03 44.46 1,890 1,779 40.2 97,938 92,477 2,082
General and operations managers................................... 45.68 38.46 1,975 1,731 43.2 102,715 90,001 2,249
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.04 38.11 1,711 1,524 40.7 88,959 79,269 2,116
Marketing managers.............................................. 41.76 38.11 1,634 1,524 39.1 84,989 79,269 2,035
Sales managers.................................................. 42.33 44.46 1,797 1,864 42.5 93,447 96,953 2,208
Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.81 58.72 2,264 2,397 41.3 117,719 124,669 2,148
Financial managers................................................ 47.82 40.74 1,904 1,630 39.8 99,027 84,735 2,071
Construction managers............................................. 49.44 48.13 2,096 2,115 42.4 108,974 110,001 2,204
Education administrators.......................................... 43.21 44.47 1,676 1,747 38.8 85,308 84,001 1,974
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.25 48.04 1,793 1,779 38.0 90,567 92,500 1,917
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 51.97 37.72 2,039 1,509 39.2 105,185 78,458 2,024
Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.75 34.17 1,765 1,367 42.3 91,806 71,067 2,199
Social and community service managers............................. 31.68 29.10 1,267 1,164 40.0 65,889 60,518 2,080
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.56 31.16 1,387 1,247 40.1 72,144 64,819 2,087
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.49 30.79 1,220 1,232 40.0 63,418 64,043 2,080
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.75 31.88 1,350 1,275 40.0 70,205 66,300 2,080
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 35.38 33.78 1,387 1,351 39.2 72,105 70,258 2,038
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 39.09 34.86 1,559 1,394 39.9 81,055 72,509 2,073
Logisticians...................................................... 37.70 41.03 1,508 1,641 40.0 78,419 85,336 2,080
Management analysts............................................... 41.31 33.01 1,647 1,321 39.9 85,627 68,667 2,073
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.50 29.21 1,305 1,199 40.2 67,854 62,340 2,088
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.17 27.41 1,438 1,058 39.8 74,772 55,000 2,067
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.88 27.69 1,133 1,038 39.2 58,923 53,999 2,040
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 40.96 41.94 1,635 1,654 39.9 84,953 85,796 2,074
Computer programmers.............................................. 39.91 37.75 1,596 1,510 40.0 83,006 78,526 2,080
Computer software engineers....................................... 44.51 44.01 1,781 1,760 40.0 92,586 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.63 44.01 1,705 1,760 40.0 88,674 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 52.14 51.91 2,086 2,076 40.0 108,458 107,973 2,080
Computer support specialists...................................... 30.79 28.10 1,222 1,124 39.7 63,533 58,440 2,064
Computer systems analysts......................................... 43.93 42.53 1,755 1,701 39.9 91,237 88,469 2,077
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 34.65 33.22 1,385 1,329 40.0 71,429 67,671 2,061
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.04 36.06 1,395 1,442 39.8 72,557 75,001 2,071
Operations research analysts...................................... 32.89 32.27 1,302 1,291 39.6 67,727 67,115 2,059
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.39 34.57 1,535 1,385 40.0 79,824 72,004 2,079
Engineers......................................................... 44.56 43.76 1,781 1,750 40.0 92,626 91,012 2,079
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.15 43.76 1,606 1,750 40.0 83,527 91,012 2,080
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.33 43.76 1,573 1,750 40.0 81,811 91,012 2,080
Drafters.......................................................... 24.80 24.04 992 962 40.0 51,586 49,999 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.29 23.98 972 959 40.0 50,522 49,878 2,080
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.46 24.41 979 976 40.0 50,886 50,773 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.29 28.52 1,353 1,181 40.7 69,942 61,389 2,101
Life scientists................................................... 30.83 30.00 1,187 1,154 38.5 61,733 60,000 2,002
Medical scientists.............................................. 30.07 28.95 1,190 1,154 39.6 61,872 60,000 2,058
Physical scientists............................................... 39.78 31.06 1,768 1,534 44.4 91,922 79,748 2,311
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 29.50 24.96 1,351 1,135 45.8 70,274 59,011 2,382
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 29.50 24.96 1,351 1,135 45.8 70,274 59,011 2,382
Economists........................................................ 26.44 26.16 1,199 1,260 45.4 62,372 65,499 2,359
Market and survey researchers..................................... 31.78 28.52 1,252 1,104 39.4 65,085 57,400 2,048
Market research analysts........................................ 31.86 28.52 1,253 1,070 39.3 65,174 55,620 2,046
Community and social services occupations........................... 26.45 25.40 1,036 1,010 39.2 51,731 51,501 1,956
Counselors........................................................ 31.15 29.18 1,190 1,122 38.2 56,308 54,764 1,807
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 37.45 35.72 1,432 1,393 38.2 64,319 60,560 1,718
Social workers.................................................... 25.92 26.24 1,031 1,050 39.8 53,489 54,579 2,064
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 28.27 27.98 1,118 1,096 39.6 57,913 57,007 2,049
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.70 16.41 666 656 39.9 34,645 34,133 2,075
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 64.09 57.69 2,498 2,308 39.0 129,877 119,999 2,026
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 33.12 32.04 1,248 1,202 37.7 53,768 51,060 1,624
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 42.19 38.11 1,693 1,564 40.1 76,688 67,560 1,818
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 39.60 37.67 1,592 1,513 40.2 64,166 58,999 1,620
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.27 28.70 1,451 1,148 40.0 72,683 57,821 2,004
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.25 36.24 1,413 1,340 36.9 57,784 55,057 1,511
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 29.39 30.99 1,128 1,184 38.4 48,586 48,436 1,653
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.81 38.39 1,500 1,374 37.7 59,932 53,567 1,505
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 39.25 36.68 1,452 1,362 37.0 58,879 55,556 1,500
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.83 36.11 1,432 1,335 36.9 57,933 54,202 1,492
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.53 38.85 1,515 1,447 37.4 61,787 59,507 1,524
Secondary school teachers....................................... 39.00 36.63 1,427 1,342 36.6 58,271 56,812 1,494
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 39.70 36.68 1,450 1,361 36.5 59,219 57,491 1,492
Special education teachers...................................... 41.08 39.37 1,483 1,410 36.1 60,251 58,147 1,467
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 40.56 38.76 1,453 1,386 35.8 59,537 57,380 1,468
Librarians........................................................ 36.08 33.13 1,362 1,312 37.7 61,732 57,512 1,711
Instructional coordinators........................................ 32.75 25.96 1,301 1,038 39.7 66,396 54,001 2,027
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.66 12.00 513 450 37.6 23,490 21,758 1,720
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.73 27.88 1,188 1,115 40.0 61,293 57,433 2,061
Designers......................................................... 21.85 17.00 865 680 39.6 45,004 35,360 2,060
Public relations specialists...................................... 32.19 26.87 1,287 1,075 40.0 66,945 55,881 2,080
Writers and editors............................................... 33.72 29.57 1,324 1,183 39.3 68,870 61,499 2,042
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.92 26.63 1,216 1,050 39.3 62,959 54,363 2,036
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 78.09 86.54 3,148 3,153 40.3 163,705 163,976 2,096
Registered nurses................................................. 32.58 31.22 1,251 1,199 38.4 64,748 62,371 1,988
Therapists........................................................ 30.47 29.00 1,196 1,153 39.2 60,255 59,161 1,977
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.08 18.12 801 725 39.9 41,654 37,679 2,075
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 25.82 24.71 1,033 988 40.0 53,700 51,393 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.68 16.32 665 653 39.8 34,557 33,954 2,072
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.49 22.00 1,059 880 40.0 55,093 45,760 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.89 22.00 996 880 40.0 51,780 45,760 2,080
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.32 15.90 692 626 39.9 35,977 32,567 2,077
Pharmacy technicians............................................ 16.83 15.63 672 625 39.9 34,963 32,506 2,077
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 22.84 23.61 892 926 39.0 46,371 48,131 2,030
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.09 13.89 543 530 38.5 28,240 27,579 2,004
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.54 12.18 474 466 37.8 24,648 24,211 1,966
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.61 12.32 480 468 38.1 24,960 24,317 1,979
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.94 14.61 584 585 39.1 30,345 30,395 2,031
Medical assistants.............................................. 14.96 14.61 594 585 39.7 30,879 30,395 2,064
Protective service occupations...................................... 23.17 21.97 940 897 40.6 41,659 42,596 1,798
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 40.63 41.10 1,625 1,644 40.0 84,479 85,488 2,079
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 41.52 42.30 1,660 1,692 40.0 86,332 87,988 2,079
Fire fighters..................................................... 21.59 20.27 997 882 46.2 51,856 45,889 2,402
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 22.25 20.48 894 813 40.2 46,474 42,272 2,089
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 22.25 20.48 894 813 40.2 46,474 42,272 2,089
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 31.06 28.97 1,242 1,159 40.0 64,600 60,260 2,080
Police officers................................................... 28.59 27.66 1,140 1,097 39.9 59,304 57,034 2,074
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.59 27.66 1,140 1,097 39.9 59,304 57,034 2,074
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.68 10.00 464 400 39.7 24,135 20,800 2,066
Security guards................................................. 11.68 10.00 464 400 39.7 24,135 20,800 2,066
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.17 11.02 425 418 38.1 21,837 21,567 1,955
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 17.13 16.45 704 658 41.1 35,378 34,216 2,065
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 17.13 16.45 704 658 41.1 35,378 34,216 2,065
Cooks............................................................. 12.04 12.21 459 475 38.2 23,840 23,804 1,980
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.13 12.61 474 505 39.0 24,444 26,237 2,014
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.69 12.45 488 498 38.5 25,375 25,896 2,000
Cooks, short order.............................................. 11.21 11.25 433 416 38.6 22,523 21,645 2,009
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.20 2.83 187 108 36.0 9,746 5,606 1,873
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.10 2.15 112 85 36.2 5,833 4,430 1,881
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.30 9.75 391 350 38.0 19,975 18,135 1,938
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 10.44 9.16 391 338 37.4 19,864 17,387 1,903
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.38 11.75 475 461 38.4 24,688 23,966 1,994
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.96 11.55 456 452 38.1 23,669 23,483 1,978
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.61 12.21 480 462 38.1 24,909 24,042 1,976
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.95 10.30 418 400 38.1 21,719 20,800 1,983
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.49 10.50 500 420 40.0 25,977 21,840 2,080
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.49 10.50 500 420 40.0 25,977 21,840 2,080
Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.79 12.50 597 501 35.6 30,599 25,501 1,822
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Child care workers................................................ 10.47 9.79 411 392 39.2 20,924 20,592 1,998
Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.10 15.00 837 600 39.7 43,118 30,759 2,044
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.34 13.35 792 548 40.9 41,162 28,499 2,129
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.07 12.81 782 548 41.0 40,659 28,499 2,132
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.89 11.50 509 440 39.5 26,475 22,880 2,054
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.09 10.20 430 408 38.8 22,358 21,216 2,016
Cashiers...................................................... 11.09 10.20 430 408 38.8 22,358 21,216 2,016
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 11.36 9.81 460 392 40.5 23,929 20,401 2,107
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.58 13.47 626 528 40.2 32,542 27,473 2,089
Insurance sales agents............................................ 30.62 28.85 1,109 1,437 36.2 57,664 74,747 1,883
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 57.09 38.38 2,284 1,535 40.0 118,745 79,830 2,080
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.25 26.41 1,316 1,091 40.8 68,431 56,755 2,122
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 27.99 22.99 1,152 1,071 41.2 59,910 55,679 2,141
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 22.89 26.16 878 785 38.4 37,561 38,020 1,641
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.15 16.86 718 672 39.5 37,201 34,382 2,049
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.44 25.14 1,011 1,006 39.7 52,546 52,287 2,065
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.61 17.00 697 680 39.6 36,207 35,360 2,056
Bill and account collectors..................................... 15.03 14.06 601 562 40.0 31,252 29,245 2,080
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 19.26 19.06 762 762 39.5 39,600 39,645 2,056
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.72 17.97 736 719 39.3 38,261 37,378 2,044
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 24.16 22.97 967 919 40.0 49,937 45,572 2,067
Tellers......................................................... 13.81 12.65 549 506 39.7 28,522 26,314 2,066
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 18.68 17.99 747 720 40.0 38,862 37,419 2,080
Customer service representatives.................................. 17.23 17.31 687 692 39.9 35,735 36,001 2,074
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 19.10 18.74 764 749 40.0 39,737 38,971 2,080
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.77 14.64 591 586 40.0 30,731 30,451 2,080
Order clerks...................................................... 16.33 16.11 653 644 40.0 33,963 33,500 2,080
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 17.31 17.00 689 680 39.8 35,815 35,360 2,069
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.75 13.63 581 542 39.4 30,191 28,205 2,047
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.99 18.12 678 723 39.9 35,230 37,586 2,074
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.03 21.71 881 868 40.0 45,823 45,157 2,080
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.45 13.50 575 544 39.8 29,903 28,288 2,069
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.10 11.00 444 440 40.0 23,095 22,880 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.79 20.15 857 787 39.3 44,309 40,874 2,034
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.96 22.93 989 917 39.6 51,439 47,701 2,061
Medical secretaries............................................. 15.38 15.00 586 600 38.1 30,447 31,200 1,980
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.33 16.67 685 657 39.5 35,132 31,235 2,028
Computer operators................................................ 19.07 19.01 763 760 40.0 39,663 39,530 2,080
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.01 15.76 639 630 39.9 33,206 32,781 2,075
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.06 15.87 642 635 40.0 33,410 33,001 2,080
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.47 16.25 646 650 39.2 33,258 33,800 2,019
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.39 18.92 810 750 39.7 42,013 38,854 2,060
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 27.73 27.50 1,109 1,100 40.0 57,683 57,200 2,080
Carpenters........................................................ 20.99 21.00 814 760 38.8 42,313 39,520 2,016
Construction laborers............................................. 13.18 12.94 527 518 40.0 27,400 26,915 2,079
Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.79 18.00 831 720 40.0 41,918 37,440 2,017
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 21.72 19.70 869 788 40.0 45,171 40,976 2,080
Electricians...................................................... 27.43 29.50 1,092 1,180 39.8 56,767 61,360 2,070
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 20.51 23.40 814 936 39.7 42,294 48,680 2,062
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.42 13.21 537 528 40.0 27,920 27,481 2,080
Helpers--electricians........................................... 12.68 12.30 507 492 40.0 26,368 25,584 2,080
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 27.91 26.68 1,098 1,030 39.4 57,120 53,572 2,047
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.61 24.50 980 980 39.8 50,959 50,960 2,071
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 31.52 30.60 1,254 1,224 39.8 65,216 63,654 2,069
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 30.22 30.62 1,209 1,225 40.0 62,867 63,683 2,080
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 30.22 30.62 1,209 1,225 40.0 62,867 63,683 2,080
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 24.72 19.50 952 780 38.5 49,481 40,560 2,002
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 24.22 23.50 973 965 40.1 50,574 50,180 2,088
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.09 25.08 1,089 1,010 40.2 56,653 52,499 2,092
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.17 19.25 836 770 39.5 43,492 40,040 2,054
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.42 19.25 843 770 39.4 43,844 40,040 2,047
Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.04 28.04 1,041 1,122 40.0 54,154 58,323 2,080
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 25.61 25.92 1,025 1,037 40.0 53,277 53,914 2,080
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 19.59 19.37 784 775 40.0 40,743 40,290 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 15.67 15.20 624 608 39.8 32,444 31,616 2,071
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 23.79 21.57 952 863 40.0 49,481 44,866 2,080
Printers.......................................................... 18.97 18.19 740 720 39.0 38,464 37,440 2,027
Printing machine operators...................................... 18.32 18.00 712 716 38.9 37,021 37,245 2,021
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 8.40 7.20 331 288 39.4 17,214 14,976 2,050
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 15.85 13.82 634 553 40.0 32,961 28,746 2,080
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.86 12.38 546 495 39.4 28,398 25,757 2,048
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.89 17.50 807 693 38.6 41,216 35,871 1,973
Bus drivers....................................................... 19.47 18.65 692 680 35.5 30,029 27,080 1,542
Bus drivers, transit and intercity.............................. 21.78 20.89 871 836 40.0 45,309 43,457 2,080
Bus drivers, school............................................. 18.18 17.16 608 568 33.4 24,514 23,415 1,348
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.83 17.61 768 705 40.8 39,588 36,637 2,103
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.54 16.75 726 652 41.4 37,120 33,904 2,116
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.23 17.61 774 705 40.2 40,232 36,637 2,092
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.77 17.25 710 690 40.0 36,933 35,880 2,079
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.47 11.64 533 460 39.6 27,728 23,920 2,059
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.70 11.65 542 461 39.6 28,201 23,982 2,059
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,
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $25.99 $20.95 $1,026 $817 39.5 $52,885 $42,037 2,035
Management occupations.............................................. 47.46 44.46 1,915 1,779 40.4 99,581 92,500 2,098
General and operations managers................................... 45.79 38.46 1,981 1,731 43.3 103,023 90,001 2,250
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.04 38.11 1,711 1,524 40.7 88,959 79,269 2,116
Marketing managers.............................................. 41.76 38.11 1,634 1,524 39.1 84,989 79,269 2,035
Sales managers.................................................. 42.33 44.46 1,797 1,864 42.5 93,447 96,953 2,208
Computer and information systems managers......................... 57.18 60.10 2,371 2,500 41.5 123,317 130,000 2,157
Financial managers................................................ 46.94 40.74 1,868 1,630 39.8 97,145 84,735 2,070
Construction managers............................................. 49.44 48.13 2,096 2,115 42.4 108,974 110,001 2,204
Education administrators.......................................... 35.72 31.98 1,390 1,147 38.9 72,113 59,666 2,019
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 58.14 37.72 2,258 1,509 38.8 116,014 78,458 1,995
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.09 31.16 1,410 1,247 40.2 73,338 64,819 2,090
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.56 30.79 1,223 1,232 40.0 63,572 64,043 2,080
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.93 32.85 1,357 1,314 40.0 70,579 68,328 2,080
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 37.02 34.86 1,454 1,421 39.3 75,627 73,884 2,043
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 41.46 35.82 1,658 1,433 40.0 86,229 74,499 2,080
Logisticians...................................................... 37.70 41.03 1,508 1,641 40.0 78,419 85,336 2,080
Management analysts............................................... 44.44 34.23 1,770 1,369 39.8 92,039 71,207 2,071
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.57 29.21 1,308 1,199 40.2 68,013 62,340 2,088
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.17 27.41 1,438 1,058 39.8 74,772 55,000 2,067
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.88 27.69 1,133 1,038 39.2 58,923 53,999 2,040
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.44 43.00 1,655 1,720 39.9 86,079 89,446 2,077
Computer programmers.............................................. 39.91 37.75 1,596 1,510 40.0 83,006 78,526 2,080
Computer software engineers....................................... 44.51 44.01 1,781 1,760 40.0 92,586 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.63 44.01 1,705 1,760 40.0 88,674 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 52.14 51.91 2,086 2,076 40.0 108,458 107,973 2,080
Computer support specialists...................................... 34.06 31.96 1,347 1,198 39.6 70,050 62,320 2,057
Computer systems analysts......................................... 44.02 43.27 1,758 1,731 39.9 91,411 90,000 2,077
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 34.10 31.73 1,367 1,255 40.1 71,097 65,245 2,085
Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 34.62 36.06 1,378 1,442 39.8 71,669 75,001 2,070
Operations research analysts...................................... 32.89 32.27 1,302 1,291 39.6 67,727 67,115 2,059
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 38.62 34.62 1,545 1,385 40.0 80,343 72,004 2,080
Engineers......................................................... 44.62 43.76 1,785 1,750 40.0 92,812 91,012 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.15 43.76 1,606 1,750 40.0 83,527 91,012 2,080
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.33 43.76 1,573 1,750 40.0 81,811 91,012 2,080
Drafters.......................................................... 24.80 24.04 992 962 40.0 51,586 49,999 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.21 24.17 968 967 40.0 50,359 50,267 2,080
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.36 24.13 974 965 40.0 50,659 50,184 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.24 28.52 1,356 1,181 40.8 70,520 61,389 2,121
Life scientists................................................... 31.00 31.20 1,192 1,200 38.5 62,000 62,400 2,000
Medical scientists.............................................. 30.07 28.95 1,190 1,154 39.6 61,872 60,000 2,058
Physical scientists............................................... 40.04 31.06 1,784 1,539 44.5 92,746 80,018 2,316
Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 29.57 24.96 1,360 1,135 46.0 70,732 59,011 2,392
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 29.57 24.96 1,360 1,135 46.0 70,732 59,011 2,392
Economists........................................................ 26.44 26.16 1,199 1,260 45.4 62,372 65,499 2,359
Market and survey researchers..................................... 31.78 28.52 1,252 1,104 39.4 65,085 57,400 2,048
Market research analysts........................................ 31.86 28.52 1,253 1,070 39.3 65,174 55,620 2,046
Community and social services occupations........................... 20.12 18.26 800 712 39.8 41,539 37,001 2,064
Social workers.................................................... 23.14 26.01 919 1,040 39.7 47,603 51,137 2,057
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 68.07 67.31 2,638 2,692 38.8 137,184 140,001 2,015
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.80 23.80 962 923 38.8 45,337 38,708 1,828
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.98 36.63 1,646 1,524 40.2 75,937 59,450 1,853
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.14 44.75 1,864 1,842 40.4 73,288 71,557 1,588
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.07 27.71 1,002 1,080 38.4 42,503 40,404 1,630
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 29.85 29.34 1,149 1,166 38.5 44,923 42,545 1,505
Teacher assistants................................................ 10.82 10.50 412 410 38.1 21,242 21,320 1,963
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 30.30 27.96 1,202 1,118 39.7 61,993 57,990 2,046
Designers......................................................... 21.36 16.25 844 673 39.5 43,864 35,006 2,054
Public relations specialists...................................... 32.19 26.87 1,287 1,075 40.0 66,945 55,881 2,080
Writers and editors............................................... 33.72 29.57 1,324 1,183 39.3 68,870 61,499 2,042
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.19 26.58 1,226 1,045 39.3 63,748 54,330 2,044
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 78.09 86.54 3,148 3,153 40.3 163,705 163,976 2,096
Registered nurses................................................. 32.27 31.55 1,234 1,201 38.2 64,164 62,469 1,988
Therapists........................................................ 28.89 28.44 1,151 1,138 39.8 59,847 59,161 2,071
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.08 18.12 801 725 39.9 41,654 37,679 2,075
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 25.82 24.71 1,033 988 40.0 53,700 51,393 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.68 16.32 665 653 39.8 34,557 33,954 2,072
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.49 22.00 1,059 880 40.0 55,093 45,760 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.89 22.00 996 880 40.0 51,780 45,760 2,080
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.21 16.00 687 638 39.9 35,715 33,155 2,075
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.02 23.71 897 930 39.0 46,666 48,360 2,027
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.95 13.89 537 530 38.5 27,941 27,579 2,003
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.55 12.30 475 467 37.8 24,677 24,280 1,967
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.64 12.42 482 469 38.1 25,047 24,375 1,981
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.62 14.61 571 585 39.0 29,671 30,395 2,029
Medical assistants.............................................. 14.88 14.61 590 585 39.7 30,703 30,395 2,063
Protective service occupations...................................... 12.00 9.72 476 389 39.6 15,110 8,739 1,259
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.53 10.00 458 397 39.7 23,813 20,634 2,065
Security guards................................................. 11.53 10.00 458 397 39.7 23,813 20,634 2,065
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.94 11.00 418 412 38.2 21,711 21,424 1,985
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 16.92 16.45 705 658 41.6 36,642 34,216 2,165
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 16.92 16.45 705 658 41.6 36,642 34,216 2,165
Cooks............................................................. 11.95 12.21 456 458 38.1 23,700 23,804 1,984
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.09 12.61 472 505 39.0 24,525 26,237 2,028
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.69 12.45 488 498 38.5 25,375 25,896 2,000
Cooks, short order.............................................. 11.21 11.25 433 416 38.6 22,523 21,645 2,009
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.20 2.83 187 108 36.0 9,746 5,606 1,873
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.10 2.15 112 85 36.2 5,833 4,430 1,881
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.20 9.50 393 350 38.6 20,443 18,200 2,005
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 10.30 9.16 393 341 38.2 20,450 17,745 1,985
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.51 10.50 437 410 38.0 22,749 21,320 1,977
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.42 10.75 432 412 37.8 22,445 21,445 1,965
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.84 11.29 445 441 37.6 23,162 22,942 1,955
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.91 10.08 415 400 38.0 21,556 20,800 1,976
Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.70 12.45 587 480 35.2 30,522 24,960 1,828
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Child care workers................................................ 9.65 9.50 378 380 39.2 19,650 19,760 2,036
Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.11 15.00 838 592 39.7 43,143 30,759 2,043
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.34 13.27 792 548 40.9 41,172 28,499 2,129
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.08 12.81 782 548 41.0 40,668 28,499 2,132
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.78 11.49 505 440 39.5 26,247 22,880 2,053
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.81 10.00 419 400 38.7 21,770 20,800 2,014
Cashiers...................................................... 10.81 10.00 419 400 38.7 21,770 20,800 2,014
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 11.36 9.81 460 392 40.5 23,929 20,401 2,107
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.58 13.47 626 528 40.2 32,542 27,473 2,089
Insurance sales agents............................................ 30.62 28.85 1,109 1,437 36.2 57,664 74,747 1,883
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 57.09 38.38 2,284 1,535 40.0 118,745 79,830 2,080
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.25 26.41 1,316 1,091 40.8 68,431 56,755 2,122
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 27.99 22.99 1,152 1,071 41.2 59,910 55,679 2,141
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 22.89 26.16 878 785 38.4 37,561 38,020 1,641
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.00 16.25 712 650 39.6 37,038 33,800 2,058
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.45 25.14 1,011 1,006 39.7 52,546 52,287 2,065
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.35 16.06 688 642 39.6 35,754 33,405 2,061
Bill and account collectors..................................... 15.03 14.06 601 562 40.0 31,252 29,245 2,080
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 18.82 18.99 743 759 39.5 38,646 39,493 2,054
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.56 17.50 732 700 39.4 38,047 36,390 2,050
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 24.39 24.92 975 997 40.0 50,723 51,834 2,080
Tellers......................................................... 13.81 12.65 549 506 39.7 28,522 26,314 2,066
Customer service representatives.................................. 17.23 17.31 687 692 39.9 35,735 36,001 2,074
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.77 14.64 591 586 40.0 30,731 30,451 2,080
Order clerks...................................................... 16.33 16.11 653 644 40.0 33,963 33,500 2,080
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.67 13.63 577 520 39.3 30,024 27,040 2,046
Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.03 21.71 881 868 40.0 45,823 45,157 2,080
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.45 13.50 575 544 39.8 29,903 28,288 2,069
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.10 11.00 444 440 40.0 23,095 22,880 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.16 20.96 873 833 39.4 45,384 43,306 2,048
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 25.79 23.08 1,026 923 39.8 53,364 48,000 2,069
Medical secretaries............................................. 15.38 15.00 586 600 38.1 30,447 31,200 1,980
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.19 15.00 682 601 39.7 35,444 31,235 2,062
Computer operators................................................ 18.81 14.50 752 580 40.0 39,119 30,160 2,080
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.06 15.87 642 635 40.0 33,410 33,001 2,080
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.06 15.87 642 635 40.0 33,410 33,001 2,080
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.05 16.25 632 650 39.4 32,850 33,800 2,046
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.16 18.75 801 732 39.8 41,548 38,064 2,061
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 27.65 27.50 1,106 1,100 40.0 57,504 57,200 2,080
Carpenters........................................................ 20.84 20.75 807 750 38.7 41,963 39,000 2,014
Construction laborers............................................. 13.16 12.78 526 511 40.0 27,361 26,582 2,079
Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.64 18.00 825 720 40.0 41,387 37,440 2,005
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 21.61 19.25 864 770 40.0 44,952 40,040 2,080
Electricians...................................................... 27.43 29.50 1,092 1,180 39.8 56,773 61,360 2,070
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.42 13.21 537 528 40.0 27,920 27,481 2,080
Helpers--electricians........................................... 12.68 12.30 507 492 40.0 26,368 25,584 2,080
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.71 24.77 984 991 39.8 51,187 51,526 2,071
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 30.22 30.62 1,209 1,225 40.0 62,867 63,683 2,080
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except
line installers................................................ 30.22 30.62 1,209 1,225 40.0 62,867 63,683 2,080
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 24.23 22.71 974 965 40.2 50,623 50,180 2,089
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.14 25.50 1,093 1,020 40.3 56,823 53,040 2,094
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.30 19.25 840 770 39.4 43,674 40,040 2,050
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.76 18.84 852 753 39.2 44,328 39,179 2,037
Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.04 28.04 1,041 1,122 40.0 54,154 58,323 2,080
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 25.61 25.92 1,025 1,037 40.0 53,277 53,914 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 15.65 15.20 623 608 39.8 32,408 31,616 2,071
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 23.81 21.57 952 863 40.0 49,516 44,866 2,080
Printers.......................................................... 18.97 18.19 740 720 39.0 38,464 37,440 2,027
Printing machine operators...................................... 18.32 18.00 712 716 38.9 37,021 37,245 2,021
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 15.85 13.82 634 553 40.0 32,961 28,746 2,080
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.86 12.38 546 495 39.4 28,398 25,757 2,048
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.91 17.23 811 692 38.8 42,020 35,922 2,010
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.88 17.61 770 705 40.8 39,706 36,637 2,103
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.55 16.50 728 652 41.5 37,176 33,904 2,119
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.23 17.61 774 705 40.2 40,232 36,637 2,092
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.75 17.25 709 690 40.0 36,891 35,880 2,079
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.43 11.64 532 448 39.6 27,649 23,296 2,058
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.70 11.64 542 461 39.6 28,204 23,982 2,058
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,
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $29.85 $27.42 $1,158 $1,070 38.8 $54,727 $51,095 1,833
Management occupations.............................................. 44.76 43.13 1,758 1,703 39.3 89,639 81,906 2,003
Education administrators.......................................... 51.72 53.65 1,997 2,062 38.6 99,594 103,303 1,926
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 53.71 54.44 2,067 2,115 38.5 102,324 105,123 1,905
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.98 29.14 1,147 1,100 39.6 59,633 57,223 2,057
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 30.55 29.14 1,188 1,093 38.9 61,779 56,813 2,022
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.73 27.57 1,179 1,124 39.7 59,815 57,258 2,012
Computer support specialists...................................... 23.12 22.83 925 913 40.0 48,091 47,491 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.49 28.34 1,241 1,134 39.4 64,539 58,953 2,049
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.67 28.95 1,329 1,158 39.5 65,412 60,222 1,943
Community and social services occupations........................... 32.47 31.30 1,253 1,223 38.6 60,468 60,162 1,862
Counselors........................................................ 35.33 33.80 1,336 1,252 37.8 61,643 60,162 1,745
Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 37.54 35.97 1,437 1,397 38.3 64,430 60,560 1,716
Social workers.................................................... 29.63 31.30 1,181 1,252 39.9 61,429 65,112 2,073
Child, family, and school social workers........................ 30.04 31.30 1,197 1,252 39.9 62,249 65,112 2,072
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 21.83 21.17 864 816 39.6 44,949 42,432 2,059
Legal occupations................................................... 38.18 33.90 1,527 1,356 40.0 79,423 70,512 2,080
Lawyers........................................................... 45.36 49.06 1,814 1,962 40.0 94,339 102,047 2,080
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.40 36.22 1,390 1,342 37.2 57,418 54,810 1,535
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 43.51 39.23 1,744 1,625 40.1 77,476 69,987 1,781
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 47.99 42.97 1,919 1,719 40.0 92,944 85,837 1,937
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 40.94 39.07 1,499 1,428 36.6 60,853 57,689 1,487
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 38.88 37.04 1,453 1,346 37.4 57,880 52,497 1,489
Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 39.81 38.39 1,500 1,374 37.7 59,932 53,567 1,505
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 40.95 39.07 1,505 1,433 36.7 61,394 58,025 1,499
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 40.38 38.48 1,482 1,394 36.7 60,127 56,545 1,489
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 42.72 41.47 1,576 1,539 36.9 65,395 62,827 1,531
Secondary school teachers....................................... 41.28 39.61 1,504 1,447 36.4 61,022 58,499 1,478
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.31 39.66 1,505 1,452 36.4 61,078 58,650 1,479
Special education teachers...................................... 41.47 39.86 1,495 1,433 36.1 60,256 57,589 1,453
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 41.01 39.58 1,466 1,410 35.7 59,518 56,812 1,451
Librarians........................................................ 37.88 36.48 1,436 1,413 37.9 64,479 61,648 1,702
Teacher assistants................................................ 18.00 17.48 662 628 36.8 26,027 25,581 1,446
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.75 27.26 1,135 1,072 39.5 56,868 55,638 1,978
Registered nurses................................................. 34.07 29.99 1,334 1,199 39.1 67,567 62,371 1,983
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.84 14.35 652 518 38.7 33,908 26,949 2,013
Protective service occupations...................................... 27.22 25.06 1,114 1,021 40.9 57,938 53,092 2,128
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 40.63 41.10 1,625 1,644 40.0 84,479 85,488 2,079
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 41.52 42.30 1,660 1,692 40.0 86,332 87,988 2,079
Fire fighters..................................................... 21.59 20.27 997 882 46.2 51,856 45,889 2,402
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 22.25 20.48 894 813 40.2 46,474 42,272 2,089
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 22.25 20.48 894 813 40.2 46,474 42,272 2,089
Detectives and criminal investigators............................. 31.06 28.97 1,242 1,159 40.0 64,600 60,260 2,080
Police officers................................................... 28.71 27.93 1,145 1,106 39.9 59,555 57,529 2,074
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.71 27.93 1,145 1,106 39.9 59,555 57,529 2,074
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 16.40 16.00 589 579 35.9 23,914 24,994 1,459
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.42 14.46 611 578 39.6 31,638 30,068 2,052
Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.28 13.73 564 544 39.5 29,121 28,105 2,039
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.69 14.05 578 555 39.4 29,863 28,850 2,033
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 17.91 16.19 717 648 40.0 37,260 33,684 2,080
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.91 16.19 717 648 40.0 37,260 33,684 2,080
Personal care and service occupations............................... 17.65 15.00 698 600 39.5 31,259 28,080 1,771
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.48 19.01 760 732 39.0 38,500 37,831 1,976
Financial clerks.................................................. 21.87 21.83 843 810 38.6 43,329 40,643 1,982
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 20.76 21.83 786 764 37.8 40,859 39,738 1,968
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 18.68 17.99 747 720 40.0 38,862 37,419 2,080
Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 19.30 18.74 772 749 40.0 40,151 38,971 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.72 18.87 767 727 38.9 38,652 35,942 1,960
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.20 19.15 826 760 39.0 42,943 39,520 2,025
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.95 17.51 697 687 38.8 33,843 32,993 1,886
Office clerks, general............................................ 17.98 18.03 699 685 38.9 34,634 33,462 1,926
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.41 26.19 963 996 39.5 50,088 51,769 2,052
Construction and building inspectors.............................. 30.04 30.15 1,172 1,206 39.0 60,931 62,712 2,029
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.58 23.15 937 926 39.7 48,717 48,160 2,066
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.79 20.31 826 806 39.7 42,942 41,910 2,065
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.79 20.31 826 806 39.7 42,942 41,910 2,065
Production occupations.............................................. 17.35 17.69 681 688 39.3 35,414 35,794 2,041
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.75 19.50 775 728 37.3 35,458 34,403 1,709
Bus drivers....................................................... 20.47 19.44 731 708 35.7 31,053 29,005 1,517
Bus drivers, school............................................. 19.59 18.05 658 607 33.6 25,619 24,804 1,308
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia,
DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
1-99 100-499 500
Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers
or more
All workers.................................. $24.16 $21.55 $24.79 $30.58
Management, professional, and related...... 37.11 34.27 38.94 40.38
Management, business, and financial...... 41.05 37.94 43.58 44.68
Professional and related................. 35.12 32.33 36.09 38.74
Service.................................... 11.45 10.92 11.08 13.29
Sales and office........................... 17.46 16.16 18.06 21.84
Sales and related........................ 17.49 15.77 16.84 45.67
Office and administrative support........ 17.45 16.44 18.94 18.57
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance............................... 21.96 21.24 22.95 26.55
Construction and extraction............. 20.19 18.91 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 24.76 24.40 25.81 27.18
Production, transportation, and material
moving.................................... 17.33 13.46 17.06 27.67
Production............................... 15.40 13.26 17.16 16.03
Transportation and material moving....... 19.20 13.72 16.96 32.64
B
1-99 100-499 500
Total workers workers workers
or more
Occupational group(2)
Relative error(3)
(percent)
Relative error(3) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 3.9 5.6 4.5 4.3
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.3 5.3 2.9 4.1
Management, business, and financial............................... 5.1 8.3 3.6 5.5
Professional and related.......................................... 3.6 6.0 4.0 4.2
Service............................................................. 2.6 4.9 4.2 2.3
Sales and office.................................................... 2.7 4.2 7.7 6.5
Sales and related................................................. 6.7 9.7 13.4 20.2
Office and administrative support................................. 1.5 2.9 5.1 2.1
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.6 3.3 3.9 4.3
Construction and extraction...................................... 2.7 1.1 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 2.4 3.6 7.3 7.0
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.0 7.7 5.8 10.7
Production........................................................ 4.2 9.4 5.7 7.4
Transportation and material moving................................ 4.5 13.3 9.6 17.2
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $23.44 $18.75 $926 $742 39.5 $47,993 $38,480 2,048
Management occupations.............................................. 43.03 38.46 1,717 1,538 39.9 89,290 80,001 2,075
General and operations managers................................... 35.64 38.46 1,544 1,731 43.3 80,267 90,001 2,252
Education administrators.......................................... 24.53 21.64 945 1,076 38.5 49,143 55,953 2,003
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.71 31.16 1,334 1,247 40.8 69,352 64,819 2,120
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 33.17 29.21 1,344 1,287 40.5 69,884 66,947 2,107
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 38.91 43.00 1,556 1,720 40.0 80,892 89,446 2,079
Computer software engineers....................................... 43.30 44.01 1,732 1,760 40.0 90,067 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 41.21 44.01 1,648 1,760 40.0 85,710 91,532 2,080
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 59.68 60.00 2,387 2,400 40.0 124,136 124,800 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 36.42 32.25 1,457 1,290 40.0 75,751 67,080 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.10 29.56 1,247 1,260 41.4 64,844 65,499 2,154
Community and social services occupations........................... 19.51 17.79 780 712 40.0 40,580 37,001 2,080
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 19.40 13.46 751 500 38.7 36,454 26,000 1,879
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.60 27.26 946 1,034 38.4 41,276 38,708 1,678
Teacher assistants................................................ 10.83 10.50 414 410 38.2 21,296 21,320 1,966
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.63 27.88 1,182 1,115 39.9 61,457 57,990 2,074
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 37.22 22.00 1,478 880 39.7 76,877 45,760 2,065
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.31 14.61 551 585 38.5 28,634 30,395 2,001
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.39 14.61 559 585 38.8 29,063 30,395 2,020
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.43 10.50 398 385 38.1 20,679 20,010 1,982
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.68 16.45 663 658 42.3 34,476 34,216 2,199
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.68 16.45 663 658 42.3 34,476 34,216 2,199
Cooks............................................................. 11.37 11.50 432 441 38.0 22,484 22,915 1,978
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.10 12.45 467 498 38.6 24,305 25,896 2,009
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.01 3.00 178 108 35.6 9,265 5,606 1,851
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.82 2.15 102 86 36.2 5,301 4,472 1,881
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.55 9.16 367 341 38.5 19,101 17,745 2,000
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.17 8.50 377 320 37.1 19,605 16,640 1,927
Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.00 8.50 370 320 37.0 19,225 16,640 1,923
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.00 8.54 413 337 37.6 21,490 17,499 1,954
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.98 8.50 327 306 36.4 16,986 15,925 1,893
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.44 12.00 582 448 37.7 30,263 23,306 1,960
Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 19.16 16.10 702 580 36.7 36,526 30,139 1,906
Child care workers................................................ 9.43 9.50 368 360 39.0 19,133 18,720 2,029
Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.32 13.55 761 548 39.4 39,586 28,499 2,049
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.94 12.81 659 512 41.3 34,268 26,649 2,150
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 15.94 12.81 659 512 41.3 34,268 26,649 2,150
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.06 11.00 472 419 39.1 24,522 21,793 2,033
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.05 9.81 384 392 38.3 19,988 20,405 1,990
Cashiers...................................................... 10.05 9.81 384 392 38.3 19,988 20,405 1,990
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.95 14.79 639 592 40.0 33,217 30,759 2,082
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 33.94 32.78 1,358 1,311 40.0 70,593 68,172 2,080
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 29.08 34.61 1,163 1,384 40.0 60,492 71,980 2,080
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.10 16.25 676 650 39.5 35,127 33,800 2,055
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.84 15.17 666 600 39.5 34,609 31,200 2,055
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.72 21.50 773 850 39.2 40,218 44,200 2,040
Tellers......................................................... 13.86 12.65 550 506 39.7 28,596 26,314 2,063
Customer service representatives.................................. 17.13 17.26 684 690 39.9 35,554 35,892 2,076
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.39 13.40 566 520 39.3 29,416 27,040 2,044
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.41 9.50 416 380 40.0 21,655 19,760 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.55 20.00 805 769 39.2 41,865 40,000 2,038
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.67 22.93 900 917 39.7 46,778 47,701 2,063
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.66 14.00 659 560 39.6 34,271 29,120 2,057
Office clerks, general............................................ 15.74 16.25 625 650 39.7 32,477 33,800 2,063
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.85 18.00 748 700 39.7 38,769 36,400 2,056
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and
extraction workers............................................... 26.02 25.00 1,041 1,000 40.0 54,123 52,000 2,080
Carpenters........................................................ 20.76 20.75 800 750 38.5 41,585 39,000 2,003
Construction laborers............................................. 12.45 12.50 498 500 40.0 25,891 26,000 2,080
Construction equipment operators.................................. 17.39 17.90 696 716 40.0 34,285 37,226 1,971
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.33 24.50 970 980 39.9 50,421 50,960 2,073
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 23.78 22.71 956 965 40.2 49,712 50,180 2,090
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 26.97 25.50 1,087 1,040 40.3 56,534 54,080 2,096
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.07 19.25 869 770 39.4 45,206 40,040 2,048
Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.28 25.84 1,011 1,034 40.0 52,593 53,745 2,080
Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 24.49 25.84 979 1,034 40.0 50,930 53,745 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 13.46 12.00 539 480 40.0 28,014 24,960 2,081
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.90 14.55 595 590 39.9 30,650 29,640 2,056
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.23 16.00 693 640 40.2 35,279 32,240 2,048
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.27 16.00 651 640 40.0 32,491 31,200 1,997
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.43 10.28 452 407 39.5 23,483 21,179 2,055
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.29 10.21 446 407 39.5 23,179 21,179 2,053
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $28.91 $23.12 $1,140 $908 39.4 $58,397 $46,547 2,020
Management occupations.............................................. 52.30 49.08 2,137 1,963 40.9 111,073 102,086 2,124
General and operations managers................................... 66.74 63.47 2,882 3,279 43.2 149,854 170,500 2,245
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.49 44.46 1,914 1,864 41.2 99,537 96,953 2,141
Marketing managers.............................................. 43.40 37.18 1,680 1,364 38.7 87,341 70,936 2,012
Computer and information systems managers......................... 57.38 60.10 2,401 2,500 41.8 124,850 130,000 2,176
Financial managers................................................ 44.75 40.74 1,790 1,630 40.0 93,096 84,735 2,080
Construction managers............................................. 55.07 52.89 2,203 2,115 40.0 114,548 110,001 2,080
Education administrators.......................................... 50.76 44.47 2,003 1,779 39.5 103,559 92,500 2,040
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 58.14 37.72 2,258 1,509 38.8 116,014 78,458 1,995
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.98 33.65 1,470 1,346 39.8 76,448 70,000 2,067
Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 30.56 30.79 1,223 1,232 40.0 63,572 64,043 2,080
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.93 32.85 1,357 1,314 40.0 70,579 68,328 2,080
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 28.76 27.40 1,120 1,096 39.0 58,264 57,000 2,026
Management analysts............................................... 53.20 50.77 2,113 2,064 39.7 109,858 107,336 2,065
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 32.17 27.26 1,284 1,090 39.9 66,762 56,701 2,075
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 36.41 24.04 1,443 963 39.6 75,050 50,082 2,061
Insurance underwriters.......................................... 29.49 27.69 1,155 1,058 39.2 60,046 55,000 2,036
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 44.01 42.22 1,756 1,678 39.9 91,332 87,231 2,075
Computer software engineers....................................... 46.53 46.24 1,861 1,850 40.0 96,779 96,188 2,080
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.81 45.67 1,832 1,827 40.0 95,281 95,000 2,080
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 47.94 47.27 1,917 1,891 40.0 99,710 98,326 2,080
Computer support specialists...................................... 35.89 31.96 1,413 1,229 39.4 73,481 63,898 2,047
Computer systems analysts......................................... 40.30 40.01 1,608 1,597 39.9 83,600 83,032 2,074
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 45.47 45.41 1,830 1,814 40.2 95,170 94,353 2,093
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 39.25 35.52 1,570 1,421 40.0 81,659 73,882 2,080
Engineers......................................................... 42.77 42.13 1,711 1,685 40.0 88,974 87,624 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.15 43.76 1,606 1,750 40.0 83,527 91,012 2,080
Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 39.33 43.76 1,573 1,750 40.0 81,811 91,012 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.21 24.17 968 967 40.0 50,359 50,267 2,080
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.36 24.13 974 965 40.0 50,659 50,184 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 34.27 28.52 1,391 1,135 40.6 72,345 59,011 2,111
Life scientists................................................... 29.33 26.00 1,105 1,040 37.7 57,466 54,070 1,960
Medical scientists.............................................. 26.68 26.00 1,046 1,040 39.2 54,413 54,070 2,039
Physical scientists............................................... 42.22 33.79 1,902 1,690 45.1 98,907 87,859 2,343
Market and survey researchers..................................... 33.77 28.52 1,324 1,104 39.2 68,828 57,400 2,038
Market research analysts........................................ 34.03 28.52 1,332 1,104 39.1 69,249 57,400 2,035
Community and social services occupations........................... 21.06 18.56 830 696 39.4 42,979 36,192 2,041
Social workers.................................................... 26.30 27.03 1,036 1,081 39.4 53,456 54,092 2,032
Legal occupations................................................... 69.26 61.50 2,673 2,308 38.6 139,001 119,999 2,007
Lawyers........................................................... 75.89 69.71 2,932 2,788 38.6 152,474 145,001 2,009
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.27 37.56 1,610 1,524 39.0 69,703 59,450 1,689
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 53.10 53.00 2,138 2,133 40.3 91,331 91,322 1,720
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.14 44.75 1,864 1,842 40.4 73,288 71,557 1,588
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.68 30.26 1,218 1,172 38.4 46,615 44,000 1,471
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 31.65 29.42 1,243 1,177 39.3 63,030 58,151 1,991
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.45 26.63 1,154 1,058 39.2 60,008 55,037 2,037
Registered nurses................................................. 32.20 30.84 1,229 1,173 38.2 63,918 60,971 1,985
Therapists........................................................ 29.74 28.26 1,181 1,130 39.7 61,411 58,781 2,065
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.20 18.12 806 725 39.9 41,904 37,679 2,074
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 25.82 24.71 1,033 988 40.0 53,700 51,393 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.21 16.02 646 640 39.8 33,567 33,301 2,070
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 30.09 29.61 1,204 1,184 40.0 62,584 61,589 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 28.57 28.00 1,143 1,120 40.0 59,428 58,240 2,080
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.21 16.00 687 638 39.9 35,715 33,155 2,075
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 24.58 25.25 946 974 38.5 49,185 50,648 2,001
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.44 13.00 519 510 38.6 26,964 26,499 2,006
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.97 12.65 497 487 38.3 25,831 25,309 1,992
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.97 12.65 497 487 38.3 25,831 25,309 1,992
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.58 13.89 619 558 39.7 32,199 28,995 2,066
Protective service occupations...................................... 12.33 9.86 490 394 39.8 15,150 3,528 1,228
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.91 10.09 472 400 39.7 24,563 20,800 2,062
Security guards................................................. 11.91 10.09 472 400 39.7 24,563 20,800 2,062
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.17 12.00 466 464 38.3 24,257 24,128 1,993
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 20.66 17.56 822 727 39.8 42,758 37,795 2,069
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 20.66 17.56 822 727 39.8 42,758 37,795 2,069
Cooks............................................................. 14.00 13.26 539 488 38.5 28,034 25,384 2,003
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 12.03 11.25 467 400 38.8 24,292 20,800 2,019
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 12.03 11.25 467 400 38.8 24,292 20,800 2,019
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.32 11.68 476 462 38.6 24,761 24,042 2,009
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.52 12.34 481 462 38.4 25,020 24,042 1,998
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 12.68 12.82 503 510 39.6 26,133 26,541 2,060
Personal care and service occupations............................... 20.78 13.80 599 650 28.8 31,166 33,806 1,500
Sales and related occupations....................................... 24.40 16.49 980 648 40.2 49,598 32,698 2,033
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 28.62 20.79 1,141 832 39.9 59,346 43,243 2,073
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 28.56 18.27 1,142 731 40.0 59,409 38,002 2,080
Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.00 12.11 562 481 40.2 29,241 25,002 2,089
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 12.30 11.33 488 453 39.7 25,396 23,566 2,064
Cashiers...................................................... 12.30 11.33 488 453 39.7 25,396 23,566 2,064
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.17 12.50 612 490 40.3 31,809 25,480 2,097
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.10 17.73 758 709 39.7 39,402 36,878 2,062
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.72 25.05 1,020 1,002 39.6 53,032 52,096 2,062
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.02 17.30 717 692 39.8 37,295 35,976 2,069
Bill and account collectors..................................... 15.38 14.95 615 598 40.0 31,980 31,096 2,080
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.85 17.30 669 692 39.7 34,792 35,976 2,065
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 25.40 24.92 1,016 997 40.0 52,832 51,834 2,080
Tellers......................................................... 13.55 12.84 542 514 40.0 28,180 26,707 2,080
Customer service representatives.................................. 17.31 17.73 690 709 39.9 35,878 36,878 2,073
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.77 14.64 591 586 40.0 30,731 30,451 2,080
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.89 16.83 628 673 39.5 32,670 35,000 2,056
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.08 12.96 519 518 39.7 27,005 26,953 2,065
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.69 12.15 508 486 40.0 26,397 25,272 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 24.61 22.36 977 895 39.7 50,764 46,517 2,063
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 28.49 27.08 1,136 1,083 39.9 59,096 56,326 2,074
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.63 18.67 745 747 40.0 38,643 38,834 2,075
Office clerks, general............................................ 17.90 17.41 672 629 37.5 34,935 32,684 1,952
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.99 21.06 917 842 39.9 47,593 43,070 2,071
Electricians...................................................... 30.49 34.30 1,209 1,372 39.6 62,847 71,344 2,061
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 26.25 29.39 1,043 1,176 39.7 54,245 61,127 2,066
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.28 20.63 800 825 39.5 41,624 42,910 2,053
Production occupations.............................................. 17.10 16.34 679 630 39.7 35,306 32,781 2,065
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 16.30 16.60 630 615 38.7 32,775 31,980 2,010
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 23.64 18.74 905 755 38.3 47,024 39,250 1,989
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.98 19.00 823 756 41.2 42,805 39,312 2,142
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.51 18.74 790 749 42.7 41,093 38,973 2,221
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 21.23 20.53 849 821 40.0 44,169 42,702 2,080
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 17.94 17.23 717 689 40.0 37,278 35,838 2,079
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.69 13.15 582 526 39.6 30,272 27,348 2,060
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 15.54 15.35 616 614 39.7 32,048 31,928 2,062
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia,
DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Union Nonunion
Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and
Civilian industry local Civilian industry local
workers workers government workers workers government
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $25.07 $21.06 $30.37 $24.76 $24.47 $28.11
Management, professional, and related............................... 36.38 27.95 37.11 36.91 37.19 34.50
Management, business, and financial............................... 41.81 – 42.36 40.81 41.08 37.67
Professional and related.......................................... 35.34 28.12 36.03 35.00 35.21 33.45
Service............................................................. 19.05 14.02 24.32 12.15 11.14 20.38
Sales and office.................................................... 18.04 17.07 19.39 17.56 17.48 19.41
Sales and related................................................. 14.25 13.81 – 17.67 17.67 –
Office and administrative support................................. 19.71 20.21 19.34 17.51 17.36 19.48
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 26.27 26.86 22.34 21.11 20.89 24.92
Construction and extraction...................................... 23.77 24.30 19.95 19.81 19.50 26.77
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 28.65 29.36 24.30 23.33 23.35 23.14
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 21.59 21.74 20.41 14.77 14.66 18.69
Production........................................................ – – – 14.59 14.57 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 24.80 25.74 20.46 14.95 14.75 19.43
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........................................................... 5.2 6.2 4.1 3.7 4.1 2.2
Management, professional, and related............................... 4.3 13.1 4.5 3.1 3.3 4.1
Management, business, and financial............................... 13.7 – 14.2 4.7 5.1 6.3
Professional and related.......................................... 2.3 14.0 2.1 3.3 3.6 4.1
Service............................................................. 8.2 8.6 3.5 2.1 2.8 5.3
Sales and office.................................................... 5.8 9.0 5.0 2.6 2.8 4.3
Sales and related................................................. 4.3 5.1 – 6.8 6.8 –
Office and administrative support................................. 5.4 10.2 5.1 1.4 1.5 4.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.5 5.4 9.1 2.9 3.1 4.4
Construction and extraction...................................... 6.2 7.6 12.5 2.9 2.8 6.2
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.6 4.1 7.6 4.0 4.3 7.9
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 10.6 12.3 6.6 6.0 6.1 10.1
Production........................................................ – – – 8.3 8.4 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 8.6 11.5 6.9 8.3 8.6 9.4
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,
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Time Incentive
Occupational group(3)
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $24.81 $24.13 $24.71 $24.71
Management, professional, and related............................... 36.88 37.14 35.22 35.22
Management, business, and financial............................... 41.05 41.28 34.58 34.58
Professional and related.......................................... 35.03 35.11 – –
Service............................................................. 13.00 10.93 24.53 24.53
Sales and office.................................................... 16.69 16.47 24.26 24.26
Sales and related................................................. 14.09 14.05 29.33 29.33
Office and administrative support................................. 17.86 17.68 14.40 14.40
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 22.00 21.85 24.44 24.44
Construction and extraction...................................... – 20.25 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 24.50 24.60 26.36 26.36
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.36 17.18 19.25 19.25
Production........................................................ 15.36 15.34 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 19.20 19.07 20.53 20.53
Time Incentive
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 3.3 4.0 8.5 8.5
Management, professional, and related............................... 2.7 3.3 19.2 19.2
Management, business, and financial............................... 4.4 5.0 25.6 25.6
Professional and related.......................................... 2.9 3.6 – –
Service............................................................. 1.5 2.7 17.5 17.5
Sales and office.................................................... 2.1 2.3 12.6 12.6
Sales and related................................................. 6.3 6.4 12.5 12.5
Office and administrative support................................. 1.3 1.3 6.4 6.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.6 2.7 11.0 11.0
Construction and extraction...................................... – 3.1 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 2.3 2.4 9.3 9.3
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.5 3.7 17.1 17.1
Production........................................................ 4.4 4.5 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 3.4 3.6 20.5 20.5
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia,
DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Goods producing Service providing
Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure
Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other
tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services
and es business services ity
utilities services
All workers........................................................... – $21.33 – – – – $22.81 $10.60 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – 39.84 – – – – 29.14 28.42 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – 45.31 – – – – 32.82 30.17 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 37.68 – – – – 28.30 – –
Service............................................................. – – – – – – 12.58 9.39 –
Sales and office.................................................... – 20.45 – – – – 16.83 11.55 –
Sales and related................................................. – – – – – – – 9.54 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 19.60 – – – – 16.83 14.84 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 18.42 – – – – 26.71 – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 20.22 – – – – 29.23 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 15.32 – – – – 12.20 9.59 –
Production........................................................ – 15.46 – – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – 14.68 – – – – 12.12 – –
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........................................................... – 6.8 – – – – 8.0 6.3 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – 8.8 – – – – 9.3 15.6 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – 3.3 – – – – 12.1 14.5 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 9.6 – – – – 8.8 – –
Service............................................................. – – – – – – 1.3 7.0 –
Sales and office.................................................... – 4.0 – – – – 3.6 4.2 –
Sales and related................................................. – – – – – – – 10.6 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 3.3 – – – – 3.6 9.4 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – .8 – – – – 10.5 – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 8.5 – – – – 10.1 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 2.3 – – – – 8.5 19.2 –
Production........................................................ – 3.8 – – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – 5.8 – – – – 9.2 – –
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern
Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA, April 2008
Private State and
Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local
workers workers government
workers
All workers........................................................... 3,731,900 3,231,000 500,800
Management, professional, and related............................... 1,368,100 1,081,800 286,300
Management, business, and financial............................... 393,100 344,500 48,600
Professional and related.......................................... 975,000 737,400 237,700
Service............................................................. 751,000 642,800 108,200
Sales and office.................................................... 925,900 865,600 60,300
Sales and related................................................. 350,900 348,700 –
Office and administrative support................................. 575,000 516,800 58,200
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 315,500 293,900 21,700
Construction and extraction...................................... 190,600 180,200 10,400
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 124,900 113,600 11,300
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 371,400 346,900 24,400
Production........................................................ 169,400 167,400 2,000
Transportation and material moving................................ 202,000 179,500 22,500
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, Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
CSA, April 2008
Private State and
Establishments Total industry local
government
Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 144,617 141,734 2,883
Total in sample....................................................... 1,029 918 111
Responding........................................................ 595 497 98
Refused or unable to provide data................................. 295 282 13
Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 139 139 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.
Last Modified Date: January 13, 2009
