Web site : www.bls.gov/ro3/ | PLS - 4518 For Release: Monday, April 6, 2009 |
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HIGHLIGHTS OF VIRGINIA BEACH-NORFOLK-NEWPORT NEWS, VA-NC
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Occupation(3) | Total | Full-time workers | Part-time workers | |||
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Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | |
All workers |
$16.94 | 3.1 | $18.69 | 2.7 | $10.17 | 3.8 |
Management occupations |
$40.40 | 11.8 | $40.69 | 11.7 | – | – |
Business and financial operations occupations |
$26.88 | 6.4 | $26.68 | 7.1 | – | – |
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists |
$25.30 | 7.2 | $25.30 | 7.2 | – | – |
Accountants and auditors |
$24.74 | 4.4 | $23.07 | 6.3 | – | – |
Computer and mathematical science occupations |
$24.13 | 9.0 | $24.13 | 9.0 | – | – |
Architecture and engineering occupations |
$28.24 | 2.7 | $28.24 | 2.7 | – | – |
Engineers |
$31.38 | 1.8 | $31.38 | 1.8 | – | – |
Community and social services occupations |
$18.65 | 11.9 | $18.66 | 12.4 | – | – |
Social workers |
$23.21 | 6.6 | $23.21 | 6.6 | – | – |
Education, training, and library occupations |
$26.92 | 7.2 | $28.57 | 6.7 | $15.12 | 12.0 |
Postsecondary teachers |
$33.34 | 11.6 | $36.54 | 7.9 | $15.53 | 32.2 |
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers |
$26.92 | 18.2 | – | – | – | – |
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers |
$30.52 | 7.1 | $31.41 | 4.8 | – | – |
Elementary and middle school teachers |
$32.42 | 3.9 | $32.42 | 3.9 | – | – |
Elementary school teachers, except special education |
$31.83 | 2.6 | $31.83 | 2.6 | – | – |
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education |
$33.68 | 6.0 | $33.68 | 6.0 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers |
$33.18 | 2.9 | $33.18 | 2.9 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocatApril 6, 2009.8 | $32.56 | 1.8 | – | – | ||
Other teachers and instructors |
$15.66 | 13.2 | – | – | $14.35 | 18.8 |
Teacher assistants |
$12.14 | 4.5 | $12.14 | 4.5 | – | – |
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations |
$23.29 | 11.2 | $22.98 | 12.9 | $26.55 | 7.9 |
Registered nurses |
$24.84 | 4.6 | $24.18 | 5.3 | $27.52 | 3.0 |
Therapists |
$26.45 | 7.5 | $26.45 | 7.5 | – | – |
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians |
$13.28 | 13.7 | $13.28 | 13.7 | – | – |
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses |
$17.06 | 1.5 | – | – | – | – |
Healthcare support occupations |
$11.90 | 5.8 | $12.71 | 9.5 | $10.30 | 7.8 |
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides |
$10.56 | 4.7 | $11.07 | 3.6 | $9.74 | 3.6 |
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants |
$10.71 | 4.3 | $11.07 | 3.6 | $9.97 | 3.3 |
Protective service occupations |
$13.89 | 11.3 | $15.33 | 11.0 | $8.68 | 3.5 |
Police officers |
$20.42 | 4.4 | $20.42 | 4.4 | – | – |
Police and sheriff's patrol officers |
$20.42 | 4.4 | $20.42 | 4.4 | – | – |
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers |
$9.41 | 3.7 | $9.91 | 4.7 | – | – |
Security guards |
$9.41 | 3.7 | $9.91 | 4.7 | – | – |
Food preparation and serving related occupations |
$8.80 | 7.7 | $10.38 | 2.8 | $8.08 | 10.4 |
Cooks |
$8.35 | 11.5 | – | – | $7.72 | 4.3 |
Food service, tipped |
$8.15 | 17.2 | – | – | $8.82 | 21.9 |
Waiters and waitresses |
$3.66 | 33.2 | – | – | – | – |
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers |
$10.05 | 9.9 | – | – | – | – |
Fast food and counter workers |
$7.43 | 3.6 | – | – | $7.21 | 4.4 |
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food |
$7.41 | 3.6 | – | – | $7.19 | 4.6 |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations |
$10.85 | 7.1 | $10.43 | 3.1 | $11.74 | 19.0 |
Building cleaning workers |
$10.68 | 8.0 | $10.10 | 3.6 | $11.74 | 19.0 |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
$10.89 | 10.3 | $10.15 | 3.2 | $11.74 | 19.0 |
Personal care and service occupations |
$9.12 | 12.6 | – | – | $8.95 | 13.6 |
Child care workers |
$7.30 | 2.8 | – | – | $7.18 | 2.0 |
Recreation and fitness workers |
$10.52 | 6.9 | – | – | $9.74 | 2.5 |
Recreation workers |
$11.20 | 9.4 | – | – | – | – |
Sales and related occupations |
$14.16 | 13.1 | $16.48 | 10.0 | $8.12 | 6.2 |
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers |
$15.50 | 12.2 | $15.50 | 12.2 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers |
$15.47 | 12.3 | $15.47 | 12.3 | – | – |
Retail sales workers |
$10.68 | 14.8 | $12.39 | 9.8 | $8.00 | 5.8 |
Cashiers, all workers |
$8.48 | 7.4 | – | – | $7.20 | 0.7 |
Cashiers |
$8.48 | 7.4 | – | – | $7.20 | 0.7 |
Retail salespersons |
$12.72 | 22.6 | $14.43 | 22.4 | $9.05 | 9.5 |
Office and administrative support occupations |
$13.74 | 1.8 | $13.80 | 2.1 | $13.49 | 2.1 |
Financial clerks |
$15.21 | 3.4 | $14.27 | 6.8 | – | – |
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks |
– | – | $14.16 | 7.6 | – | – |
Customer service representatives |
$13.00 | 5.3 | $13.00 | 5.5 | – | – |
Order clerks |
$10.13 | 6.6 | – | – | – | – |
Receptionists and information clerks |
$11.77 | 6.2 | – | – | – | – |
Stock clerks and order fillers |
$10.00 | 7.9 | $10.44 | 10.6 | – | – |
Secretaries and administrative assistants |
$13.75 | 5.5 | $13.87 | 5.9 | – | – |
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants |
$16.21 | 6.1 | $16.42 | 5.8 | – | – |
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive |
$11.53 | 3.2 | – | – | – | – |
Office clerks, general |
$13.10 | 3.8 | $13.70 | 4.4 | – | – |
Construction and extraction occupations |
$15.95 | 8.8 | $16.05 | 8.7 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers |
$27.07 | 7.6 | – | – | – | – |
Construction laborers |
$11.99 | 4.3 | $11.99 | 4.3 | – | – |
Construction equipment operators |
$15.02 | 4.8 | $15.02 | 4.8 | – | – |
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators |
$15.02 | 4.8 | $15.02 | 4.8 | – | – |
Helpers, construction trades |
$10.01 | 7.0 | $10.02 | 7.4 | – | – |
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations |
$16.38 | 3.9 | $16.93 | 4.0 | – | – |
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers |
$19.08 | 16.1 | $19.26 | 16.3 | – | – |
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers |
$13.35 | 11.6 | – | – | – | – |
Production occupations |
$17.19 | 21.1 | $17.24 | 21.2 | – | – |
Miscellaneous production workers |
$9.18 | 18.4 | $9.18 | 18.4 | – | – |
Transportation and material moving occupations |
$11.98 | 8.6 | $13.04 | 7.7 | $8.29 | 3.9 |
Bus drivers |
$14.34 | 3.7 | $14.42 | 3.6 | – | – |
Bus drivers, school |
$14.34 | 3.7 | $14.42 | 3.6 | – | – |
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers |
$13.57 | 10.6 | $13.57 | 10.6 | – | – |
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer |
$15.48 | 16.2 | $15.48 | 16.2 | – | – |
Laborers and material movers, hand |
$9.66 | 7.1 | $10.72 | 6.8 | $8.30 | 6.9 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
$9.74 | 10.8 | $11.42 | 10.2 | $8.30 | 7.2 |
Footnotes: |
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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.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. |
Last Modified Date: April 6, 2009
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