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National Compensation Survey - Wages provides data on occupational wages for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation.
July 24, 2009
Average pay for civilian workers in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA metropolitan area was 19 percent above the
national average in 2008. In the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metropolitan area, workers earned an average of 77 cents
for every dollar earned by workers nationwide.
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Beginning with the NCS wage bulletins published in September 2006, occupations were classified using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) and industries the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The Create Customized Table applications are currently being developed to access the SOC data. Currently, only select wage data from the most recent years (with references dates of December 2006 and later) of NCS national, census region and local areas are available through the multi-screen data search query system. Data from bulletins can be obtained at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm. See the Special Notice below for more information.
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- Series Report —Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
- Flat files FTP Site —For those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.
- Wages Search--allows you to search through all National Compensation Survey - Occupational Wage publications and tables that are currently available electronically.
- National Summary (PDF 126K)—summarizes findings in the 2006 National Bulletin.
- NEW National Bulletin, July 2008
- National Bulletin, July 2007
- National Bulletin, June 2006
- Nine Census Summaries—provides estimates of occupational pay in the 9 census divisions in the United States.
- Published NCS Areas—provides data on the occupational wages for selected localities.
- Supplementary Tables, June 2005 (PDF 348K)—provides for selected occupations, mean weekly and annual hours and earnings, plus mean hourly earnings and hourly earnings at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles.
- Occupational Pay Relatives
- List of Special Industry Surveys—provides data on the occupational wages for special published areas listed by industry.
- Additional estimates of occupational wages, such as occupational earnings by detailed industry division, may be available upon request. These additional estimates typically are based on fewer observations and so may be subject to greater variation than those regularly published by BLS. Although the data have been reviewed and the estimates meet our automated publication criteria, the estimates have not received the same level of scrutiny as those regularly published by BLS. Therefore, users are cautioned to exercise care in using and interpreting these estimates. Additional information may be obtained by calling (202) 691-6199 or sending email to NCSinfo@bls.gov. Regional information offices, listed on the Internet site, www.bls.gov/bls/regncon.htm, also are available to answer your questions.
- Pay relatives for major occupational groups in metropolitan areas in the United States have been posted.
- NCS locality wage publications have introduced a number of changes.
The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system replaced the 1990 Occupational Classification System (OCS) based on the Census of Population. The 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) replaced the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. For more information see the web sites http://www.bls.gov/soc/ and http://www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm . The tables have also been reordered and renumbered. For a crosswalk between the new and old tables, see the BLS website at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/wage_crswlk_by_new.htm .
- 8/31/2006 The nine census division publications containing 2005 data have been revised to correct errors for "metropolitan" and "nonmetropolitan" estimates included in tables 1 and 2. Bulletin 2581, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, June 2005, includes revisions to "metropolitan" and "nonmetropolitan" estimates previously published in Summary 06-04.
- The Occupational Compensation Survey was replaced by the National Compensation Survey. 1992-96 OCS data is still available and can be viewed by clicking on Archives.
Related Links to Other BLS Programs
- National Compensation Survey—designed to integrate data from separate BLS compensation surveys—currently provides earnings data by worker characteristics and establishment characteristics and by geographic area.
- Benefits—comprehensive data on incidence and provisions of selected employee benefit plans.
- Compensation Cost Trends—quarterly indexes measuring change over time in labor costs and quarterly data measuring level of average costs per hour worked.
- Occupational Employment Statistics—data on employment and wages for over 800 occupations and for about 400 nonfarm industries for the nation, plus occupational data for States and metropolitan areas.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook—provides data for 250 occupations, by nature of the work, working conditions, employment, job outlook and earnings, related occupations, sources of additional information, and training, other qualifications, and advancement.
Other Useful Links
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Latest Numbers
Civilian Workers, Compensation
3-Month % Change (SA)
0.4% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
12-Month % Change (NSA)
1.8% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
Private Industry, Compensation
3-Month % Change (SA)
0.2% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
12-Month % Change (NSA)
1.5% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
3-Month % Change (SA)
1.0% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
12-Month % Change (NSA)
3.2% in 2nd Qtr of 2009
Historical Data
- SA- Seasonally Adjusted
- NSA- Not Seasonally Adjusted
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