Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD National Compensation Survey (NCS) Bulletin
NC BL 10/00/2010 Table: Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD, Bulletin, January 2010
Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $23.53 3.0 34.6 $22.82 3.5 34.5 $29.08 2.5 35.5
Worker characteristics(4)(5)
Management, professional, and related............................... 35.94 3.0 35.7 35.54 3.6 36.0 38.36 1.1 33.8
Management, business, and financial............................... 41.55 5.8 39.2 41.73 6.1 39.5 38.61 2.8 34.3
Professional and related.......................................... 33.79 3.5 34.5 32.86 4.3 34.7 38.33 1.4 33.7
Service............................................................. 13.53 2.1 29.2 11.16 2.3 27.9 24.20 5.4 37.0
Sales and office.................................................... 17.46 2.8 34.8 17.26 3.0 34.7 20.02 3.9 36.6
Sales and related................................................. 17.73 7.9 31.8 17.72 7.9 31.8 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. 17.32 2.9 36.6 17.00 3.2 36.7 20.06 4.1 36.5
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 23.08 8.9 38.9 23.11 9.8 39.1 22.88 3.4 37.0
Construction and extraction...................................... 22.23 14.9 38.2 22.53 16.2 38.5 19.31 1.9 34.9
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.99 5.3 39.6 23.69 5.9 39.6 27.03 3.3 39.5
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.29 1.8 37.8 17.11 1.8 37.9 20.28 4.7 37.0
Production........................................................ 16.90 3.4 39.6 16.81 3.5 39.5 19.93 13.8 40.0
Transportation and material moving................................ 17.55 3.0 36.7 17.32 3.1 36.8 20.37 3.3 36.3
Full time........................................................... 25.34 3.1 39.3 24.72 3.7 39.5 29.61 2.3 37.5
Part time........................................................... 12.43 4.2 20.1 12.32 4.3 20.3 15.78 8.3 15.1
Union............................................................... 26.20 4.2 36.3 23.54 7.8 36.5 29.66 3.5 36.1
Nonunion............................................................ 22.92 3.6 34.3 22.73 3.8 34.3 27.62 4.7 34.2
Time................................................................ 23.14 2.0 34.5 22.32 2.3 34.3 29.08 2.5 35.5
Incentive........................................................... 29.24 16.7 37.7 29.24 16.7 37.7 – – –
Establishment characteristics
Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6)
Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 22.72 4.1 33.8 (6) (6) (6)
1-99 workers........................................................ 19.44 6.2 33.4 19.44 6.3 33.4 19.52 12.9 31.7
100-499 workers..................................................... 23.04 3.8 35.5 22.28 4.4 35.4 32.94 4.1 36.6
500 workers or more................................................. 30.84 2.2 36.1 31.63 2.8 36.2 29.12 2.9 35.7
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 2007 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),
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $23.53 3.0 $25.34 3.1 $12.43 4.2
Management occupations.............................................. 50.76 7.8 50.79 7.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 32.06 3.4 32.06 3.4 – –
Level 10.................................................. 40.65 5.4 40.68 5.5 – –
Level 11.................................................. 49.01 4.4 49.00 4.6 – –
Level 12.................................................. 63.40 10.7 63.40 10.7 – –
Level 13.................................................. 84.64 10.7 84.64 10.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 55.28 7.3 55.28 7.3 – –
General and operations managers................................... 61.54 15.0 61.54 15.0 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 74.77 17.5 74.77 17.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 59.41 4.6 59.41 4.6 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.59 4.8 55.59 4.8 – –
Financial managers................................................ 57.57 10.5 57.57 10.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 75.01 13.2 75.01 13.2 – –
Human resources managers.......................................... 50.69 8.3 50.78 8.9 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 35.94 6.9 35.94 6.9 – –
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 42.46 15.2 42.46 15.2 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 31.74 6.9 31.74 6.9 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.56 4.0 32.62 4.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.62 14.1 19.62 14.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 24.08 1.3 24.09 1.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 24.89 4.9 24.89 4.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.54 3.2 31.54 3.2 – –
Level 10.................................................. 36.42 4.0 36.42 4.0 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.45 11.1 45.45 11.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.47 2.8 32.63 2.8 – –
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and
safety, and transportation....................................... 33.89 17.4 33.89 17.4 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 38.53 9.2 38.53 9.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.49 7.6 32.49 7.6 – –
Management analysts............................................... 39.36 17.6 39.36 17.6 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.73 5.5 28.10 5.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.65 8.7 27.65 8.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.16 9.5 – – – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.13 5.9 31.13 5.9 – –
Financial analysts.............................................. 36.85 12.6 36.85 12.6 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.53 3.5 36.97 3.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.23 9.4 22.23 9.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 24.49 14.3 26.97 10.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 36.46 2.2 36.46 2.2 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.00 4.4 43.00 4.4 – –
Level 12.................................................. 54.98 3.9 54.98 3.9 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.59 8.1 40.59 8.1 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.23 7.6 47.23 7.6 – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.16 7.6 42.16 7.6 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 12.9 45.13 12.9 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.79 7.4 49.79 7.4 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 25.93 8.3 25.93 8.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.19 11.5 22.19 11.5 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.64 6.0 39.64 6.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.96 3.0 35.96 3.0 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 40.92 14.4 40.92 14.4 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 13.0 32.95 13.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.46 9.0 23.46 9.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.07 3.6 28.07 3.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.24 4.7 29.24 4.7 – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.75 10.7 37.75 10.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.72 3.1 30.72 3.1 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.64 23.4 36.64 23.4 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.88 24.8 35.88 24.8 – –
Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.93 10.6 36.93 10.6 – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.85 13.3 22.85 13.3 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.50 9.7 33.52 9.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.74 8.8 19.68 8.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.93 7.8 31.93 7.8 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.80 4.5 41.80 4.5 – –
Life scientists................................................... 48.97 13.9 49.11 14.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.80 4.5 41.80 4.5 – –
Biological scientists........................................... 42.58 8.1 42.58 8.1 – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.31 25.9 55.76 26.5 – –
Physical scientists............................................... 35.57 19.6 35.57 19.6 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 19.68 11.3 21.28 8.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.13 2.8 19.13 2.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 26.63 8.6 29.02 4.9 – –
Counselors........................................................ 21.02 15.4 21.51 16.6 – –
Social workers.................................................... 21.09 5.2 20.75 6.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 18.40 3.0 18.40 3.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 24.27 3.9 – – – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ – – 22.41 18.5 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 41.79 24.1 41.54 25.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.38 .9 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.21 21.0 47.21 21.0 – –
Lawyers........................................................... 54.97 25.7 54.90 26.5 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.38 .9 – – – –
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.36 15.1 22.36 15.1 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.34 5.9 36.07 5.9 20.16 12.8
Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 14.8 11.41 15.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.67 8.8 15.87 10.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 15.11 12.5 15.14 13.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.69 21.1 19.62 21.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 40.50 4.5 40.60 4.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 45.54 7.8 45.54 7.8 – –
Level 11.................................................. 44.71 1.7 44.34 2.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.83 20.2 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 45.68 4.9 45.65 5.3 46.57 13.6
Level 11.................................................. 45.57 1.2 45.19 1.9 – –
Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 44.92 9.7 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 43.90 9.6 – – – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.38 10.3 35.64 10.1 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.22 5.6 39.31 5.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.27 23.8 19.27 23.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 41.50 4.8 41.62 4.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 46.80 7.3 46.80 7.3 – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.02 18.5 22.02 18.5 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 40.88 8.0 41.06 8.2 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 41.13 8.3 41.26 8.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 47.07 5.5 47.07 5.5 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.48 9.3 39.68 9.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 40.02 10.0 40.18 10.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 46.64 4.1 46.64 4.1 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 45.32 4.3 45.42 4.0 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 43.71 3.4 43.71 3.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 48.65 9.0 48.65 9.0 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 43.58 7.5 43.67 7.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 38.85 12.5 38.90 13.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 49.47 6.9 49.47 6.9 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 43.30 8.7 43.40 9.1 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 38.85 12.5 38.90 13.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 50.42 6.3 50.42 6.3 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 43.08 6.8 43.08 6.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 45.81 3.4 45.81 3.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.89 18.0 39.89 18.0 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.59 4.6 45.59 4.6 – –
Librarians........................................................ 34.40 16.0 34.40 16.0 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.45 13.4 13.65 13.8 12.11 14.1
Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 14.8 11.41 15.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.67 8.8 15.87 10.1 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 31.62 19.0 34.46 19.3 12.89 29.5
Level 7 .................................................. 22.41 11.3 – – – –
Designers......................................................... 21.65 3.8 22.56 5.7 – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 35.06 4.8 36.00 6.7 31.10 7.6
Level 4 .................................................. 16.08 5.4 16.08 5.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.94 6.6 16.49 14.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.46 6.4 20.95 7.8 19.24 13.3
Level 7 .................................................. 28.39 4.8 28.33 5.5 28.79 3.8
Level 8 .................................................. 35.70 1.7 35.33 3.2 36.98 5.1
Level 9 .................................................. 33.77 3.3 34.05 4.2 32.73 2.8
Level 10.................................................. 34.77 9.8 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.14 7.3 41.35 7.9 57.82 10.4
Level 13.................................................. 94.24 3.0 94.24 3.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.45 19.0 36.67 18.2 – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 49.44 15.5 – – – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.51 7.2 75.51 7.2 – –
Level 13.................................................. 94.24 3.0 94.24 3.0 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 34.82 2.5 34.32 2.8 36.52 4.2
Level 7 .................................................. 31.05 4.4 – – – –
Level 8 .................................................. 36.46 2.2 36.25 4.5 37.03 5.3
Level 9 .................................................. 32.73 1.9 32.93 2.3 32.14 4.4
Level 11.................................................. 40.22 8.5 37.21 6.0 – –
Therapists........................................................ 30.99 6.7 32.80 4.3 – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.74 4.7 22.63 4.7 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 29.33 8.4 28.82 10.3 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.88 1.5 23.60 1.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.27 2.1 – – – –
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 5.5 12.95 5.5 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.15 3.5 14.70 4.1 12.07 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.95 4.3 – – 9.74 4.8
Level 3 .................................................. 13.10 4.9 13.25 4.5 12.63 7.5
Level 4 .................................................. 15.04 2.6 15.21 2.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.82 2.8 17.82 2.8 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.51 3.6 13.81 4.0 12.04 1.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.85 4.3 12.90 3.8 12.62 8.6
Level 4 .................................................. 14.46 3.9 14.46 3.9 – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.24 2.5 13.23 2.6 13.33 5.5
Level 3 .................................................. 13.13 3.4 12.94 3.4 14.29 4.5
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.94 5.0 15.89 5.6 11.99 7.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.78 6.5 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.07 7.4 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.39 4.4 15.75 5.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.23 3.2 17.23 3.2 – –
Dental assistants............................................... 16.69 1.2 – – – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 15.95 10.9 16.56 9.8 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 23.93 4.6 25.09 2.9 10.14 6.4
Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 8.0 11.81 7.2 9.46 5.0
Level 5 .................................................. 21.23 8.1 21.46 7.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.92 4.5 27.92 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.26 3.5 29.26 3.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.02 7.6 35.02 7.6 – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.11 4.9 27.11 4.9 – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.11 4.9 27.11 4.9 – –
Police officers................................................... 29.00 1.7 29.21 1.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.56 2.5 29.56 2.5 – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.00 1.7 29.21 1.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.56 2.5 29.56 2.5 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.52 9.2 13.19 8.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 8.2 11.81 7.2 – –
Security guards................................................. 12.52 9.2 13.19 8.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 8.2 11.81 7.2 – –
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 11.90 2.7 – – 11.90 2.7
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.75 4.3 11.13 6.0 6.64 3.7
Level 1 .................................................. 6.55 5.4 8.17 14.1 6.30 7.0
Level 2 .................................................. 7.30 10.8 7.92 8.8 6.51 11.8
Level 3 .................................................. 8.50 22.3 10.44 14.0 6.53 23.6
Level 4 .................................................. 14.07 8.1 14.90 7.7 10.60 4.1
Level 5 .................................................. 17.51 4.2 17.51 4.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 10.29 12.9 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 19.02 7.5 19.07 7.5 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 19.02 7.5 19.07 7.5 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.27 2.8 12.28 2.6 9.57 6.2
Level 2 .................................................. 10.25 8.7 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 10.70 9.1 11.21 7.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.67 4.8 13.11 2.9 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.86 6.3 13.41 5.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.00 4.5 – – – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.92 6.9 12.24 5.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 11.62 7.4 – – – –
Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.55 1.7 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.91 8.4 11.63 13.9 9.73 7.1
Level 2 .................................................. 9.98 6.1 – – 9.02 8.8
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.48 5.2 5.28 9.1 4.14 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 4.74 5.2 6.16 21.4 4.56 6.2
Level 2 .................................................. 4.30 12.9 4.85 13.5 3.70 15.0
Level 3 .................................................. 3.84 21.4 – – 3.29 20.1
Bartenders...................................................... 4.26 10.5 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.62 3.5 4.21 3.8 3.37 5.2
Level 1 .................................................. 3.68 11.2 – – 3.72 11.8
Level 2 .................................................. 3.69 6.4 3.86 .4 3.47 15.7
Level 3 .................................................. 3.25 1.9 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.12 19.5 13.85 11.8 6.52 22.9
Level 1 .................................................. 6.67 25.1 – – 6.09 25.9
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.15 4.8 10.57 12.2 8.30 3.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.75 1.5 – – 7.77 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 13.2 – – 8.06 4.6
Level 3 .................................................. 11.87 2.7 11.75 3.0 – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.72 6.1 9.74 15.7 8.31 4.3
Level 1 .................................................. 7.76 1.6 – – 7.78 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 8.10 3.1 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.32 4.6 – – – –
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 10.42 9.2 – – – –
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 10.04 4.5 – – 9.78 10.9
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.26 3.4 – – 7.92 .6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.22 2.3 – – 7.92 .6
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 10.78 9.1 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.33 4.1 14.43 2.6 9.63 4.5
Level 1 .................................................. 11.70 4.0 12.02 5.0 10.90 2.6
Level 2 .................................................. 10.56 5.5 11.84 4.9 9.06 4.0
Level 3 .................................................. 15.13 5.2 15.17 5.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.01 7.7 15.88 7.9 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance workers.............................................. 23.37 18.5 23.37 18.5 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.87 3.5 14.06 2.4 9.67 4.7
Level 1 .................................................. 11.70 4.1 12.02 5.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.67 5.7 11.93 4.9 9.13 4.3
Level 3 .................................................. 16.35 4.9 16.45 4.6 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.08 4.1 14.42 2.8 9.27 4.7
Level 1 .................................................. 11.97 4.3 12.22 4.9 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.31 6.7 11.78 6.2 8.83 3.4
Level 3 .................................................. 16.49 4.7 16.59 4.4 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.71 2.8 11.92 3.5 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.23 7.5 12.34 8.0 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.49 8.0 13.92 4.9 – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.64 6.8 13.00 3.7 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 13.03 5.6 15.80 8.2 9.88 10.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.84 5.2 9.23 8.6 10.04 5.8
Level 3 .................................................. – – 10.58 6.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.52 12.5 19.71 13.9 – –
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.14 2.7 7.51 .7 – –
Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.99 .0 7.51 .7 – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.41 6.1 10.45 8.4 – –
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 13.80 12.1 – – – –
Recreation workers.............................................. 12.48 11.9 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.73 7.9 21.45 8.3 9.05 1.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 2.7 – – 8.15 1.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 2.5 9.13 5.4 9.25 1.2
Level 3 .................................................. 11.56 5.7 13.62 5.1 9.46 6.4
Level 4 .................................................. 12.97 3.1 13.02 3.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.66 14.5 20.66 14.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.51 10.6 23.51 10.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.87 6.5 27.87 6.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 28.84 6.6 28.84 6.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.54 21.9 20.49 19.8 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.72 19.2 24.72 19.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.11 22.8 22.11 22.8 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.62 2.6 13.86 3.9 9.04 1.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 2.7 – – 8.15 1.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.20 2.6 9.13 5.4 9.23 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 11.56 5.7 13.62 5.1 9.46 6.4
Level 4 .................................................. 12.97 3.1 13.02 3.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.00 22.1 21.00 22.1 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.56 3.3 10.63 8.3 8.87 1.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.30 3.1 – – 8.32 3.0
Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 .7 8.76 .9 9.04 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.64 10.4 13.12 11.8 – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.56 3.3 10.63 8.3 8.87 1.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.30 3.1 – – 8.32 3.0
Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 .7 8.76 .9 9.04 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 12.64 10.4 13.12 11.8 – –
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.66 9.8 16.80 5.9 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 12.93 6.7 15.13 11.5 8.95 2.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 2.9 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 9.76 1.9 – – 9.76 .9
Level 3 .................................................. 11.07 7.7 – – 8.60 2.6
Level 4 .................................................. 12.60 2.4 12.66 3.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.42 28.2 20.42 28.2 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.49 26.2 25.49 26.2 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.70 3.7 28.70 3.7 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 31.09 10.5 31.09 10.5 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 21.69 5.8 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.32 2.9 17.82 2.6 12.62 6.9
Level 1 .................................................. 9.65 6.4 – – 9.00 3.7
Level 2 .................................................. 12.10 1.8 12.44 2.0 11.12 6.7
Level 3 .................................................. 14.14 5.9 14.35 6.6 12.96 4.8
Level 4 .................................................. 17.73 6.6 17.91 6.6 13.82 13.3
Level 5 .................................................. 18.12 1.5 18.19 1.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.61 2.6 22.65 2.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.31 4.9 26.39 5.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.56 6.5 17.75 6.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 24.37 4.9 24.37 4.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 25.27 6.9 25.27 6.9 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.60 8.0 18.90 8.0 13.86 4.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.20 3.1 11.79 3.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.27 15.7 19.28 15.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.73 4.1 17.92 4.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.71 3.0 22.79 2.9 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.64 3.8 16.64 3.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.72 9.2 15.72 9.2 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.69 6.5 17.72 6.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.28 3.0 16.28 3.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.35 5.8 16.35 5.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.26 3.7 23.42 3.4 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.80 11.6 18.81 12.2 – –
Tellers......................................................... 12.79 3.6 12.71 4.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.89 2.0 – – – –
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.90 11.0 15.90 11.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.47 4.9 16.09 5.3 12.44 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 11.96 7.0 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.19 6.4 14.55 6.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.78 4.7 17.78 4.7 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 15.68 1.9 15.86 2.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 2.5 15.69 2.4 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 15.92 8.3 16.03 8.3 – –
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 15.3 20.70 15.3 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.08 10.8 16.53 11.9 13.58 12.6
Level 2 .................................................. 10.49 13.1 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.82 14.5 17.23 16.0 14.56 13.1
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.61 8.3 16.61 8.3 – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.07 9.5 13.18 9.6 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.36 6.9 13.41 6.4 8.72 1.0
Level 1 .................................................. 9.06 .9 – – 8.70 1.5
Level 2 .................................................. 12.22 3.2 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.28 1.8 14.28 1.8 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.44 3.7 20.64 3.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.45 6.6 17.95 5.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.42 4.1 19.59 4.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.23 3.6 24.23 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.58 7.1 28.16 7.9 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.35 7.2 21.35 7.2 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.27 1.9 23.57 2.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.81 4.7 21.33 3.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.47 4.7 24.47 4.7 – –
Legal secretaries............................................... 23.32 7.6 23.32 7.6 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.48 4.5 17.61 1.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 1.2 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.80 5.6 17.80 5.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.83 10.2 19.83 10.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.91 7.1 17.91 7.1 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.74 3.6 17.15 4.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.79 5.0 – – – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.20 6.8 16.82 8.9 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.87 3.7 17.87 3.7 – –
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.64 5.2 13.58 7.0 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.00 9.4 16.24 9.9 13.05 17.4
Level 2 .................................................. 12.64 6.5 13.11 6.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.49 6.4 12.61 6.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.08 12.2 19.24 13.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.46 7.5 18.46 7.5 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.23 14.9 22.38 15.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.10 2.9 16.10 2.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 4.5 17.42 6.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 23.14 17.4 23.49 17.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.32 21.8 27.69 21.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 31.95 7.2 – – – –
Carpenters........................................................ 18.67 7.9 – – – –
Construction laborers............................................. 23.88 5.6 23.88 5.6 – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.62 21.7 27.62 21.7 – –
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.75 5.8 13.75 5.8 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.99 5.3 24.07 5.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.57 5.7 17.57 5.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.33 4.7 21.33 4.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.74 3.6 24.74 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 32.03 4.4 32.03 4.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.16 5.3 35.16 5.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 35.13 7.3 35.13 7.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 33.97 4.5 33.97 4.5 – –
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 27.04 11.7 27.04 11.7 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.93 5.6 18.93 5.6 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.66 5.5 18.66 5.5 – –
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 23.55 7.9 23.55 7.9 – –
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 24.86 13.0 24.86 13.0 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.51 4.3 21.51 4.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.01 7.8 17.01 7.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.70 3.5 20.70 3.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.34 1.3 23.34 1.3 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.72 6.2 20.72 6.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.82 3.7 20.82 3.7 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 35.86 4.4 35.86 4.4 – –
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 37.36 2.4 37.36 2.4 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 16.90 3.4 17.05 3.5 11.86 14.4
Level 1 .................................................. 10.04 6.0 10.05 6.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.45 3.4 11.58 2.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.70 14.3 15.08 15.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.78 2.2 17.78 2.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.74 5.6 18.74 5.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.36 5.4 22.40 5.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.11 10.1 27.11 10.1 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 24.43 14.3 24.43 14.3 – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.59 10.6 18.59 10.6 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.92 7.2 16.92 7.2 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.78 4.6 15.78 4.6 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.08 6.7 17.08 6.7 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.67 17.5 19.67 17.5 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.46 2.9 14.47 3.0 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.55 3.0 18.33 3.1 11.68 10.6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.0 8.38 4.3 8.93 3.9
Level 2 .................................................. 12.54 5.1 12.65 5.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.59 6.0 16.76 6.3 14.75 11.8
Level 4 .................................................. 20.75 2.0 21.15 3.3 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.00 3.5 22.13 3.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.53 4.5 24.54 4.6 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand..................................................... 23.48 9.1 – – – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 19.00 7.2 20.38 5.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 18.12 1.4 – – – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.58 6.1 18.87 3.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 18.12 1.4 – – – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.81 6.1 19.95 6.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.50 9.8 17.50 9.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 21.42 4.1 21.58 4.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.06 6.8 22.06 6.8 – –
Driver/sales workers............................................ 16.17 16.4 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.98 4.6 21.05 5.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 20.55 5.8 20.67 6.6 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.21 8.3 16.21 8.3 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.99 6.0 12.83 5.8 9.72 6.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 3.3 8.20 4.8 9.00 3.9
Level 2 .................................................. 13.11 7.4 13.31 8.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.19 4.1 14.46 3.7 – –
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 11.33 10.8 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.63 7.4 14.23 8.0 9.69 7.1
Level 1 .................................................. 8.96 3.5 – – 9.00 4.1
Level 2 .................................................. 13.60 6.8 14.01 6.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.14 5.5 14.99 5.3 – –
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.77 9.0 10.88 8.6 – –
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),
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $22.82 3.5 $24.72 3.7 $12.32 4.3
Management occupations.............................................. 51.23 8.2 51.28 8.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 32.27 3.6 32.27 3.6 – –
Level 10.................................................. 40.32 6.0 40.35 6.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 48.55 5.1 48.52 5.3 – –
Level 12.................................................. 65.03 11.9 65.03 11.9 – –
Level 13.................................................. 84.64 10.7 84.64 10.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.35 7.5 56.35 7.5 – –
General and operations managers................................... 61.54 15.0 61.54 15.0 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 74.77 17.5 74.77 17.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 59.41 4.6 59.41 4.6 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.84 5.2 55.84 5.2 – –
Financial managers................................................ 57.91 10.7 57.91 10.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 75.01 13.2 75.01 13.2 – –
Human resources managers.......................................... 50.69 8.3 50.78 8.9 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 28.70 6.3 28.70 6.3 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 30.83 1.7 30.83 1.7 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.62 4.2 32.63 4.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 24.03 1.3 24.05 1.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 24.76 5.5 24.76 5.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.08 3.4 31.08 3.4 – –
Level 10.................................................. 37.02 4.3 37.02 4.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.45 11.1 45.45 11.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.58 2.7 32.61 2.9 – –
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 38.53 9.2 38.53 9.2 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.49 7.6 32.49 7.6 – –
Management analysts............................................... 39.36 17.6 39.36 17.6 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.79 5.9 28.12 5.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.65 8.7 27.65 8.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.16 9.5 – – – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.13 5.9 31.13 5.9 – –
Financial analysts.............................................. 36.85 12.6 36.85 12.6 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.28 3.5 36.73 3.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.23 9.4 22.23 9.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 24.49 14.3 26.97 10.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 36.53 2.3 36.53 2.3 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.00 4.4 43.00 4.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.59 8.1 40.59 8.1 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.23 7.6 47.23 7.6 – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.16 7.6 42.16 7.6 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 12.9 45.13 12.9 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.79 7.4 49.79 7.4 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 26.05 8.4 26.05 8.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.19 11.5 22.19 11.5 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.79 5.0 37.79 5.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 35.96 3.0 35.96 3.0 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 42.91 14.7 42.91 14.7 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 13.0 32.95 13.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.46 9.0 23.46 9.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.07 3.6 28.07 3.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 29.24 4.7 29.24 4.7 – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.75 10.7 37.75 10.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.72 3.1 30.72 3.1 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.64 23.4 36.64 23.4 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.88 24.8 35.88 24.8 – –
Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.93 10.6 36.93 10.6 – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.85 13.3 22.85 13.3 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.82 9.8 33.84 9.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.67 9.4 19.60 9.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 32.20 8.0 32.20 8.0 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.80 4.5 41.80 4.5 – –
Life scientists................................................... 48.97 13.9 49.11 14.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.80 4.5 41.80 4.5 – –
Biological scientists........................................... 42.58 8.1 42.58 8.1 – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.31 25.9 55.76 26.5 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.85 13.2 18.06 7.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 18.78 2.8 18.78 2.8 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 23.36 11.1 – – – –
Counselors........................................................ 16.25 6.3 16.28 7.2 – –
Social workers.................................................... 21.33 6.9 21.09 7.8 – –
Legal occupations
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.71 16.5 22.71 16.5 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.82 12.3 27.33 12.2 18.51 21.8
Level 7 .................................................. 19.35 23.5 19.27 23.8 – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.32 .5 45.14 1.2 – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.47 5.0 47.60 5.5 42.30 18.4
Level 11.................................................. 45.56 1.0 45.37 1.7 – –
Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 44.92 9.7 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 19.05 5.4 19.05 5.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.27 23.8 19.27 23.8 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.84 13.3 24.84 13.3 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.84 13.3 24.84 13.3 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 11.76 22.3 12.07 21.8 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 31.61 19.0 34.46 19.3 12.67 29.3
Level 7 .................................................. 22.41 11.3 – – – –
Designers......................................................... 21.65 3.8 22.56 5.7 – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 35.23 4.9 36.24 6.8 31.10 7.6
Level 4 .................................................. 16.08 5.4 16.08 5.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.94 6.6 16.49 14.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.25 7.0 20.71 8.8 19.24 13.3
Level 7 .................................................. 28.45 5.0 28.39 5.8 28.79 3.8
Level 8 .................................................. 35.70 1.7 35.33 3.2 36.98 5.1
Level 9 .................................................. 33.77 3.4 34.06 4.3 32.73 2.8
Level 10.................................................. 34.77 9.8 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 45.14 7.3 41.35 7.9 57.82 10.4
Level 13.................................................. 94.24 3.0 94.24 3.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.45 19.0 36.67 18.2 – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 49.44 15.5 – – – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.51 7.2 75.51 7.2 – –
Level 13.................................................. 94.24 3.0 94.24 3.0 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 34.84 2.5 34.35 2.9 36.52 4.2
Level 8 .................................................. 36.46 2.2 36.25 4.5 37.03 5.3
Level 9 .................................................. 32.84 2.0 33.08 2.4 32.14 4.4
Level 11.................................................. 40.22 8.5 37.21 6.0 – –
Therapists........................................................ 30.31 7.3 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.74 4.7 22.63 4.7 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 29.33 8.4 28.82 10.3 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.91 1.6 23.62 2.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.44 2.1 – – – –
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 5.5 12.95 5.5 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.86 3.5 14.41 4.5 12.07 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 9.95 4.3 – – 9.74 4.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.89 5.1 12.98 4.8 12.63 7.5
Level 4 .................................................. 15.13 2.8 15.33 3.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.23 3.2 17.23 3.2 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.78 1.6 12.98 1.9 12.04 1.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.53 3.9 12.51 3.2 12.62 8.6
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.14 2.5 13.10 2.5 13.33 5.5
Level 3 .................................................. 12.99 3.4 12.76 3.2 14.29 4.5
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.94 5.0 15.89 5.6 11.99 7.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.78 6.5 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.07 7.4 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.39 4.4 15.75 5.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.23 3.2 17.23 3.2 – –
Dental assistants............................................... 16.69 1.2 – – – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 15.95 10.9 16.56 9.8 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 12.23 7.4 12.90 5.7 9.42 4.7
Level 3 .................................................. 10.93 7.9 11.43 7.3 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.70 7.6 12.27 6.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 10.92 8.0 11.43 7.3 – –
Security guards................................................. 11.70 7.6 12.27 6.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 10.92 8.0 11.43 7.3 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.30 3.9 10.38 5.2 6.59 3.8
Level 1 .................................................. 6.55 5.4 8.17 14.1 6.30 7.0
Level 2 .................................................. 7.03 11.8 7.48 11.0 6.46 11.9
Level 3 .................................................. 8.38 22.9 10.29 14.8 6.46 23.9
Level 4 .................................................. 12.79 4.2 13.43 2.8 10.60 4.1
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 17.57 7.6 17.63 7.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 17.57 7.6 17.63 7.7 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.08 2.5 12.01 1.9 9.57 6.2
Level 2 .................................................. 10.25 8.7 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 10.70 9.1 11.21 7.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.41 4.6 12.83 2.6 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.15 5.9 12.66 5.1 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.92 6.9 12.24 5.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 11.62 7.4 – – – –
Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.55 1.7 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.87 8.5 11.63 13.9 9.56 7.4
Level 2 .................................................. 9.98 6.1 – – 9.02 8.8
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.25 3.7 4.72 5.9 4.06 3.7
Level 1 .................................................. 4.74 5.2 6.16 21.4 4.56 6.2
Level 2 .................................................. 4.04 11.6 4.36 11.0 3.70 15.0
Level 3 .................................................. 3.48 13.0 – – 3.29 20.1
Bartenders...................................................... 4.26 10.5 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.62 3.5 4.21 3.8 3.37 5.2
Level 1 .................................................. 3.68 11.2 – – 3.72 11.8
Level 2 .................................................. 3.69 6.4 3.86 .4 3.47 15.7
Level 3 .................................................. 3.25 1.9 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.13 22.4 – – 6.23 24.3
Level 1 .................................................. 6.67 25.1 – – 6.09 25.9
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.92 4.6 10.07 12.3 8.27 3.7
Level 1 .................................................. 7.75 1.5 – – 7.77 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 7.83 2.6 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.87 2.7 11.75 3.0 – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.70 6.2 9.74 15.7 8.28 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 7.76 1.6 – – 7.78 1.4
Level 3 .................................................. 12.32 4.6 – – – –
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.63 7.7 – – – –
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 10.04 4.5 – – 9.78 10.9
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.26 3.4 – – 7.92 .6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.22 2.3 – – 7.92 .6
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 10.78 9.1 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.75 5.4 13.90 3.0 9.57 4.5
Level 1 .................................................. 11.46 4.5 11.71 5.8 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.19 5.1 11.42 5.2 9.03 3.9
Level 3 .................................................. 14.77 5.9 14.81 5.8 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.19 4.3 13.46 3.3 9.65 4.8
Level 1 .................................................. 11.46 4.5 11.71 5.8 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.28 5.4 11.51 5.3 9.10 4.3
Level 3 .................................................. 16.12 6.1 16.25 5.7 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.30 5.3 13.82 4.0 9.24 4.7
Level 1 .................................................. 11.63 5.4 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 9.76 5.9 11.11 7.4 8.79 3.4
Level 3 .................................................. 16.29 5.9 16.43 5.4 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.71 2.8 11.92 3.5 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.23 7.5 12.34 8.0 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.53 8.0 13.92 4.9 – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.63 7.0 13.00 3.7 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.96 5.9 15.72 8.7 9.88 11.3
Level 2 .................................................. 9.83 5.4 9.23 8.6 10.04 6.1
Level 3 .................................................. – – 10.15 8.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.52 12.5 19.71 13.9 – –
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.14 2.7 7.51 .7 – –
Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.99 .0 7.51 .7 – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.26 6.4 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.72 7.9 21.46 8.3 9.04 1.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 2.7 – – 8.15 1.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 2.5 9.13 5.4 9.25 1.2
Level 3 .................................................. 11.12 3.5 12.89 .4 9.46 6.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.97 3.1 13.02 3.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.70 14.6 20.70 14.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.51 10.6 23.51 10.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.87 6.5 27.87 6.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 28.84 6.6 28.84 6.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.54 21.9 20.49 19.8 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.72 19.2 24.72 19.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.11 22.8 22.11 22.8 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.53 2.6 13.74 4.0 9.04 1.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 2.7 – – 8.15 1.9
Level 2 .................................................. 9.20 2.6 9.13 5.4 9.23 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 11.12 3.5 12.89 .4 9.46 6.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.97 3.1 13.02 3.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.08 22.3 21.08 22.3 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.30 1.4 10.01 4.4 8.87 1.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.30 3.1 – – 8.32 3.0
Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 .7 8.76 .9 9.04 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 11.04 2.2 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.30 1.4 10.01 4.4 8.87 1.4
Level 1 .................................................. 8.30 3.1 – – 8.32 3.0
Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 .7 8.76 .9 9.04 1.3
Level 3 .................................................. 11.04 2.2 – – – –
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.66 9.8 16.80 5.9 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 12.93 6.7 15.13 11.5 8.95 2.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.09 2.9 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 9.76 1.9 – – 9.76 .9
Level 3 .................................................. 11.07 7.7 – – 8.60 2.6
Level 4 .................................................. 12.60 2.4 12.66 3.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.42 28.2 20.42 28.2 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.49 26.2 25.49 26.2 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.70 3.7 28.70 3.7 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 31.09 10.5 31.09 10.5 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 21.69 5.8 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.00 3.2 17.50 2.9 12.63 7.1
Level 1 .................................................. 9.55 6.0 – – 9.00 3.7
Level 2 .................................................. 11.93 1.4 12.23 1.6 11.12 6.7
Level 3 .................................................. 14.08 6.4 14.26 7.2 13.08 4.9
Level 4 .................................................. 17.59 7.7 17.79 7.8 13.82 13.3
Level 5 .................................................. 17.89 1.5 17.92 1.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.12 2.9 22.14 2.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.05 5.6 26.12 6.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.05 7.2 17.23 7.0 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 22.38 5.0 22.38 5.0 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.56 8.3 18.81 8.2 13.87 5.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.20 3.1 11.79 3.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.27 16.0 19.27 16.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.56 3.1 17.56 3.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.67 3.1 22.76 3.0 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.64 3.8 16.64 3.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.72 9.2 15.72 9.2 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.71 6.7 17.74 6.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.21 3.0 16.21 3.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.51 6.1 16.51 6.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.26 3.7 23.42 3.4 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.36 12.6 18.34 13.3 – –
Tellers......................................................... 12.79 3.6 12.71 4.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.89 2.0 – – – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.47 4.9 16.09 5.3 12.44 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 11.96 7.0 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.19 6.4 14.55 6.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.78 4.7 17.78 4.7 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 15.68 1.9 15.86 2.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 2.5 15.69 2.4 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 15.92 8.3 16.03 8.3 – –
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 15.3 20.70 15.3 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.04 11.1 16.49 12.2 13.58 12.6
Level 2 .................................................. 10.49 13.1 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.78 15.0 17.20 16.7 14.56 13.1
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.07 9.5 13.18 9.6 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.36 6.9 13.41 6.4 8.72 1.0
Level 1 .................................................. 9.06 .9 – – 8.70 1.5
Level 2 .................................................. 12.22 3.2 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.28 1.8 14.28 1.8 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.28 4.2 20.52 3.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.35 3.1 16.99 2.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.32 5.0 19.52 4.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.14 4.0 24.14 4.0 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.21 2.1 23.58 2.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.01 5.3 21.68 3.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.33 5.2 24.33 5.2 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.48 4.5 17.61 1.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 1.2 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.22 6.7 16.22 6.7 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.20 6.8 16.82 8.9 – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.20 6.8 16.82 8.9 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.46 2.4 17.46 2.4 – –
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.64 5.2 13.58 7.0 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 15.93 10.4 16.16 10.9 13.23 18.2
Level 2 .................................................. 11.99 5.1 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.29 6.2 12.38 6.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.10 12.4 19.26 13.3 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.53 16.2 22.66 16.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.98 3.1 15.98 3.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.22 4.5 16.86 6.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 23.27 18.3 23.65 18.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.69 21.8 27.69 21.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 31.95 7.2 – – – –
Carpenters........................................................ 18.67 7.9 – – – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.62 21.7 27.62 21.7 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.69 5.9 23.78 5.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.34 6.0 17.34 6.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.16 5.2 21.16 5.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.69 3.9 24.69 3.9 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 32.29 4.4 32.29 4.4 – –
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 27.04 11.7 27.04 11.7 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.38 5.3 18.38 5.3 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.00 4.4 18.00 4.4 – –
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 24.86 13.0 24.86 13.0 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.30 4.9 21.30 4.9 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.11 8.1 20.11 8.1 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 35.86 4.4 35.86 4.4 – –
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 37.36 2.4 37.36 2.4 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 16.81 3.5 16.96 3.6 11.86 14.4
Level 1 .................................................. 10.04 6.0 10.05 6.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.45 3.4 11.58 2.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.68 14.7 15.06 15.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 1.5 17.65 1.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.76 5.7 18.76 5.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.48 5.5 22.53 5.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 27.11 10.1 27.11 10.1 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 24.43 14.3 24.43 14.3 – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.59 10.6 18.59 10.6 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.92 7.2 16.92 7.2 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.78 4.6 15.78 4.6 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.19 18.5 19.19 18.5 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.43 3.1 14.44 3.2 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.32 3.1 18.15 3.2 11.17 11.9
Level 1 .................................................. 8.69 3.0 8.38 4.3 8.93 3.9
Level 2 .................................................. 12.53 5.1 12.64 5.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 16.37 6.9 16.58 7.0 13.00 10.7
Level 4 .................................................. 20.76 2.0 21.17 3.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.02 5.3 22.22 5.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 24.53 4.5 24.54 4.6 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand..................................................... 23.48 9.1 – – – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.78 6.2 19.92 6.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.41 10.2 17.41 10.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 21.42 4.1 21.58 4.9 – –
Driver/sales workers............................................ 16.17 16.4 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.97 4.8 21.06 5.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 20.55 5.8 20.67 6.6 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.21 8.3 16.21 8.3 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.93 6.1 12.75 5.9 9.72 6.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.66 3.3 8.20 4.8 9.00 3.9
Level 2 .................................................. 13.11 7.4 13.31 8.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.95 3.9 14.18 3.2 – –
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 11.33 10.8 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.53 7.6 14.10 8.2 9.69 7.1
Level 1 .................................................. 8.96 3.5 – – 9.00 4.1
Level 2 .................................................. 13.60 6.8 14.01 6.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.78 4.2 – – – –
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.77 9.0 10.88 8.6 – –
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),
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $29.08 2.5 $29.61 2.3 $15.78 8.3
Management occupations.............................................. 44.04 6.0 44.04 6.0 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 45.65 8.5 45.65 8.5 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.53 12.0 32.39 8.9 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 29.28 11.3 29.27 11.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 20.20 4.0 20.20 4.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 32.79 3.7 32.79 3.7 – –
Counselors........................................................ 38.56 14.9 38.56 14.9 – –
Social workers.................................................... 20.52 3.6 19.94 3.4 – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 24.75 25.1 24.75 25.1 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 37.87 10.4 37.87 10.4 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.80 1.1 41.58 1.1 21.70 12.2
Level 3 .................................................. 14.75 .1 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.82 7.8 17.52 5.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 43.00 2.3 43.17 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 47.95 7.5 47.95 7.5 – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.73 10.4 40.16 10.4 – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 37.44 12.2 36.59 12.1 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 45.75 3.2 45.96 3.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 44.33 1.1 44.52 .9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 48.08 7.3 48.08 7.3 – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 42.66 4.6 42.66 4.6 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.27 2.5 45.58 2.4 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 43.94 2.6 44.14 1.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 47.35 5.8 47.35 5.8 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 45.25 1.8 45.65 1.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 44.06 2.4 44.38 1.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 46.96 4.6 46.96 4.6 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 45.32 4.3 45.42 4.0 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 43.71 3.4 43.71 3.4 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 48.65 9.0 48.65 9.0 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 47.23 6.5 47.39 7.1 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 44.20 2.0 44.49 3.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 49.47 6.9 49.47 6.9 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 47.39 7.0 47.59 7.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 44.20 2.0 44.49 3.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 50.42 6.3 50.42 6.3 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 46.26 3.0 46.26 3.0 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 45.81 3.4 45.81 3.4 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.59 4.6 45.59 4.6 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 15.49 5.8 15.80 9.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.75 .1 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.82 7.8 17.52 5.5 – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.21 10.5 28.21 10.5 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.57 6.0 16.57 6.0 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 16.77 5.6 16.77 5.6 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 29.16 2.3 29.61 2.2 12.50 1.3
Level 5 .................................................. 22.05 9.8 22.38 9.3 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.92 4.5 27.92 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.26 3.5 29.26 3.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.02 7.6 35.02 7.6 – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.11 4.9 27.11 4.9 – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 27.11 4.9 27.11 4.9 – –
Police officers................................................... 29.88 1.7 30.12 1.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.56 2.5 29.56 2.5 – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.88 1.7 30.12 1.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 29.56 2.5 29.56 2.5 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 18.96 14.6 20.23 7.2 – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.45 8.2 16.61 9.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.02 8.4 17.02 8.4 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.76 4.6 15.79 4.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.02 8.4 17.02 8.4 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.76 4.6 15.79 4.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 17.02 8.4 17.02 8.4 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.21 9.6 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 20.06 4.1 20.30 3.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.99 7.8 15.42 6.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.68 5.5 18.68 5.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.66 4.2 20.17 4.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 26.71 1.7 26.71 1.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 28.13 6.4 28.13 6.4 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 19.79 14.0 – – – –
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.90 11.0 15.90 11.0 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.04 5.9 21.04 5.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.78 11.8 19.78 11.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.87 4.5 19.87 4.5 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.54 4.5 23.54 4.5 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.05 7.6 19.05 7.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.91 12.5 19.91 12.5 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.71 7.0 17.08 7.3 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.31 1.9 19.67 1.1 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 27.03 3.3 27.03 3.3 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 19.93 13.8 19.93 13.8 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.37 3.3 20.65 3.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 18.76 .6 19.06 2.5 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 21.97 3.2 21.97 3.2 – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 19.98 4.7 20.38 5.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 18.17 1.3 – – – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 18.67 3.0 18.87 3.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 18.17 1.3 – – – –
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),
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $23.53 3.0 $25.34 3.1 $12.43 4.2
Management occupations.............................................. 50.76 7.8 50.79 7.9 – –
Group III................................................. 42.03 4.1 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 90.25 2.3 – – – –
General and operations managers................................... 61.54 15.0 61.54 15.0 – –
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 74.77 17.5 74.77 17.5 – –
Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.59 4.8 55.59 4.8 – –
Financial managers................................................ 57.57 10.5 57.57 10.5 – –
Group III................................................. 46.43 9.9 46.43 9.9 – –
Human resources managers.......................................... 50.69 8.3 50.78 8.9 – –
Group III................................................. 46.25 11.4 – – – –
Education administrators.......................................... 35.94 6.9 35.94 6.9 – –
Group III................................................. 38.75 5.3 – – – –
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 42.46 15.2 42.46 15.2 – –
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 31.74 6.9 31.74 6.9 – –
Group III................................................. 32.03 8.0 32.03 8.0 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.56 4.0 32.62 4.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.80 3.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 35.89 4.7 – – – –
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.02 4.6 – – – –
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 12.0 25.86 12.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.02 4.6 23.02 4.6 – –
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and
safety, and transportation....................................... 33.89 17.4 33.89 17.4 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 38.53 9.2 38.53 9.2 – –
Management analysts............................................... 39.36 17.6 39.36 17.6 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.73 5.5 28.10 5.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.36 3.3 24.36 3.3 – –
Group III................................................. 29.94 8.0 29.94 8.0 – –
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.13 5.9 31.13 5.9 – –
Financial analysts.............................................. 36.85 12.6 36.85 12.6 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.53 3.5 36.97 3.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.25 5.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 41.31 4.2 – – – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.23 7.6 47.23 7.6 – –
Group III................................................. 44.12 7.3 – – – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 12.9 45.13 12.9 – –
Group III................................................. 41.68 11.6 41.68 11.6 – –
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.79 7.4 49.79 7.4 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 25.93 8.3 25.93 8.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.95 8.0 23.95 8.0 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.64 6.0 39.64 6.0 – –
Group III................................................. 42.26 4.6 42.26 4.6 – –
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 40.92 14.4 40.92 14.4 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 13.0 32.95 13.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.64 5.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 34.24 5.1 – – – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.75 10.7 37.75 10.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.61 3.6 – – – –
Group III................................................. 35.94 3.3 – – – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.64 23.4 36.64 23.4 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.88 24.8 35.88 24.8 – –
Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.93 10.6 36.93 10.6 – –
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.85 13.3 22.85 13.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.91 12.9 – – – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.50 9.7 33.52 9.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.95 5.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 36.71 3.2 – – – –
Life scientists................................................... 48.97 13.9 49.11 14.1 – –
Group III................................................. 42.65 3.7 – – – –
Biological scientists........................................... 42.58 8.1 42.58 8.1 – –
Group III................................................. 43.79 5.9 – – – –
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.31 25.9 55.76 26.5 – –
Physical scientists............................................... 35.57 19.6 35.57 19.6 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 19.68 11.3 21.28 8.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.25 11.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 27.88 9.7 – – – –
Counselors........................................................ 21.02 15.4 21.51 16.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.78 14.6 – – – –
Social workers.................................................... 21.09 5.2 20.75 6.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.75 3.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 24.27 3.9 – – – –
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ – – 22.41 18.5 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 41.79 24.1 41.54 25.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.82 10.2 – – – –
Lawyers........................................................... 54.97 25.7 54.90 26.5 – –
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.36 15.1 22.36 15.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.45 20.0 21.45 20.0 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.34 5.9 36.07 5.9 20.16 12.8
Group I................................................... 12.56 12.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 32.88 6.1 – – – –
Group III................................................. 45.57 5.2 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 45.68 4.9 45.65 5.3 46.57 13.6
Group II.................................................. 32.91 8.1 – – – –
Group III................................................. 44.94 1.4 – – – –
Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 44.92 9.7 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 43.90 9.6 – – – –
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.38 10.3 35.64 10.1 – –
Group III................................................. 40.66 7.5 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.22 5.6 39.31 5.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 34.41 5.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 46.80 7.3 – – – –
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.02 18.5 22.02 18.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.08 11.6 – – – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 40.88 8.0 41.06 8.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 37.22 12.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 47.07 5.5 – – – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.48 9.3 39.68 9.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 35.18 13.6 35.40 14.2 – –
Group III................................................. 46.64 4.1 46.64 4.1 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 45.32 4.3 45.42 4.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 43.71 3.4 43.71 3.4 – –
Group III................................................. 48.65 9.0 48.65 9.0 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 43.58 7.5 43.67 7.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 37.09 12.6 – – – –
Group III................................................. 49.47 6.9 – – – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 43.30 8.7 43.40 9.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 37.09 12.6 37.07 13.1 – –
Group III................................................. 50.42 6.3 50.42 6.3 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 43.08 6.8 43.08 6.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 45.81 3.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 39.89 18.0 – – – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.59 4.6 45.59 4.6 – –
Librarians........................................................ 34.40 16.0 34.40 16.0 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.45 13.4 13.65 13.8 12.11 14.1
Group I................................................... 12.56 12.5 12.64 12.8 12.11 14.1
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 31.62 19.0 34.46 19.3 12.89 29.5
Group II.................................................. 18.93 3.2 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.03 12.7 – – – –
Designers......................................................... 21.65 3.8 22.56 5.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.31 8.1 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 35.06 4.8 36.00 6.7 31.10 7.6
Group I................................................... 15.55 6.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 25.17 1.6 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.28 3.8 – – – –
Group IV.................................................. 94.23 2.2 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 49.44 15.5 – – – –
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.51 7.2 75.51 7.2 – –
Group IV.................................................. 94.23 2.2 – – – –
Registered nurses................................................. 34.82 2.5 34.32 2.8 36.52 4.2
Group II.................................................. 35.20 2.1 35.07 3.4 35.62 6.0
Group III................................................. 34.70 3.3 34.04 3.2 36.91 4.8
Therapists........................................................ 30.99 6.7 32.80 4.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.30 8.7 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.74 4.7 22.63 4.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.09 6.6 – – – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 29.33 8.4 28.82 10.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 30.96 4.2 – – – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.88 1.5 23.60 1.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.08 1.5 23.82 2.1 – –
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 5.5 12.95 5.5 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.15 3.5 14.70 4.1 12.07 3.8
Group I................................................... 13.38 1.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.43 3.5 – – – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.51 3.6 13.81 4.0 12.04 1.8
Group I................................................... 13.02 1.9 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.24 2.5 13.23 2.6 13.33 5.5
Group I................................................... 13.21 2.5 13.19 2.5 13.33 5.5
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.94 5.0 15.89 5.6 11.99 7.9
Group I................................................... 13.87 3.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.11 4.6 – – – –
Dental assistants............................................... 16.69 1.2 – – – –
Medical assistants.............................................. 15.95 10.9 16.56 9.8 – –
Group I................................................... 14.40 7.1 – – – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 23.93 4.6 25.09 2.9 10.14 6.4
Group I................................................... 11.78 6.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 28.21 2.3 – – – –
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.26 5.4 – – – –
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.26 5.4 24.26 5.4 – –
Police officers................................................... 29.00 1.7 29.21 1.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 29.00 1.7 – – – –
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.00 1.7 29.21 1.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 29.00 1.7 29.21 1.5 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.52 9.2 13.19 8.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.77 7.1 – – – –
Security guards................................................. 12.52 9.2 13.19 8.1 – –
Group I................................................... 11.77 7.1 12.32 5.6 – –
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 11.90 2.7 – – 11.90 2.7
Group I................................................... 11.90 2.7 – – – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.75 4.3 11.13 6.0 6.64 3.7
Group I................................................... 8.18 5.0 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.31 7.0 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 19.02 7.5 19.07 7.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.37 7.5 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 19.02 7.5 19.07 7.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.37 7.5 18.37 7.5 – –
Cooks............................................................. 11.27 2.8 12.28 2.6 9.57 6.2
Group I................................................... 11.17 3.0 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.86 6.3 13.41 5.7 – –
Group I................................................... 12.66 6.4 13.20 5.9 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.92 6.9 12.24 5.6 – –
Group I................................................... 11.83 6.3 12.12 5.0 – –
Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.55 1.7 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.55 1.7 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.91 8.4 11.63 13.9 9.73 7.1
Group I................................................... 10.91 8.4 11.63 13.9 9.73 7.1
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.48 5.2 5.28 9.1 4.14 4.2
Group I................................................... 4.41 4.6 – – – –
Bartenders...................................................... 4.26 10.5 – – – –
Group I................................................... 4.26 10.5 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.62 3.5 4.21 3.8 3.37 5.2
Group I................................................... 3.59 2.7 4.13 5.9 3.37 5.2
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.12 19.5 13.85 11.8 6.52 22.9
Group I................................................... 7.96 20.1 13.85 11.8 6.23 24.3
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.15 4.8 10.57 12.2 8.30 3.6
Group I................................................... 9.16 4.8 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.72 6.1 9.74 15.7 8.31 4.3
Group I................................................... 8.68 6.5 9.74 15.7 8.23 4.8
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 10.42 9.2 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.72 9.4 – – – –
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 10.04 4.5 – – 9.78 10.9
Group I................................................... 10.04 4.5 – – 9.78 10.9
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.26 3.4 – – 7.92 .6
Group I................................................... 8.08 1.9 – – 7.92 .6
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 10.78 9.1 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.78 9.1 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.33 4.1 14.43 2.6 9.63 4.5
Group I................................................... 12.79 3.5 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance workers.............................................. 23.37 18.5 23.37 18.5 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.87 3.5 14.06 2.4 9.67 4.7
Group I................................................... 12.80 3.7 – – – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.08 4.1 14.42 2.8 9.27 4.7
Group I................................................... 13.01 4.3 14.30 2.9 9.28 4.8
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.71 2.8 11.92 3.5 – –
Group I................................................... 11.71 2.8 11.92 3.5 – –
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.49 8.0 13.92 4.9 – –
Group I................................................... 12.61 6.9 – – – –
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.64 6.8 13.00 3.7 – –
Group I................................................... 12.64 6.8 13.00 3.7 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 13.03 5.6 15.80 8.2 9.88 10.8
Group I................................................... 12.61 6.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 16.56 10.9 – – – –
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.14 2.7 7.51 .7 – –
Group I................................................... 7.27 1.5 – – – –
Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.99 .0 7.51 .7 – –
Group I................................................... 7.11 1.3 7.51 .7 – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.41 6.1 10.45 8.4 – –
Group I................................................... 10.32 8.8 – – – –
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 13.80 12.1 – – – –
Group I................................................... 11.80 11.9 – – – –
Recreation workers.............................................. 12.48 11.9 – – – –
Group I................................................... 11.08 10.9 – – 9.48 10.9
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.73 7.9 21.45 8.3 9.05 1.8
Group I................................................... 10.33 2.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.90 8.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 39.88 8.0 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.72 19.2 24.72 19.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.80 14.9 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.11 22.8 22.11 22.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.18 20.0 22.18 20.0 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.62 2.6 13.86 3.9 9.04 1.8
Group I................................................... 10.33 2.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.09 15.2 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.56 3.3 10.63 8.3 8.87 1.4
Group I................................................... 9.48 3.3 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.56 3.3 10.63 8.3 8.87 1.4
Group I................................................... 9.48 3.3 10.54 8.8 8.83 1.7
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.66 9.8 16.80 5.9 – –
Group I................................................... 12.68 1.0 – – – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 12.93 6.7 15.13 11.5 8.95 2.8
Group I................................................... 10.83 1.1 12.40 5.7 8.86 3.0
Group II.................................................. 23.15 18.1 23.15 18.1 – –
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.49 26.2 25.49 26.2 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.70 3.7 28.70 3.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 26.97 8.1 – – – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 31.09 10.5 31.09 10.5 – –
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 21.69 5.8 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.32 2.9 17.82 2.6 12.62 6.9
Group I................................................... 15.40 5.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.43 1.9 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 24.37 4.9 24.37 4.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.70 5.1 24.70 5.1 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.60 8.0 18.90 8.0 13.86 4.8
Group I................................................... 17.74 15.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.68 3.7 – – – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.64 3.8 16.64 3.8 – –
Group I................................................... 14.80 8.4 14.80 8.4 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.69 6.5 17.72 6.6 – –
Group I................................................... 15.56 5.3 15.56 5.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.06 7.8 20.09 7.9 – –
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.80 11.6 18.81 12.2 – –
Tellers......................................................... 12.79 3.6 12.71 4.8 – –
Group I................................................... 12.65 2.2 – – – –
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.90 11.0 15.90 11.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.47 4.9 16.09 5.3 12.44 5.1
Group I................................................... 13.30 5.0 13.78 6.2 11.58 4.5
Group II.................................................. 20.28 1.8 20.50 2.3 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 15.68 1.9 15.86 2.7 – –
Group I................................................... 15.27 1.2 15.46 1.2 – –
Order clerks...................................................... 15.92 8.3 16.03 8.3 – –
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 15.3 20.70 15.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.70 15.3 20.70 15.3 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.08 10.8 16.53 11.9 13.58 12.6
Group I................................................... 15.84 12.7 16.31 14.1 13.58 12.6
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.61 8.3 16.61 8.3 – –
Group I................................................... 15.79 9.0 – – – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.07 9.5 13.18 9.6 – –
Group I................................................... 13.45 14.1 13.45 14.1 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.36 6.9 13.41 6.4 8.72 1.0
Group I................................................... 11.10 6.5 13.12 6.4 8.72 1.0
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.44 3.7 20.64 3.0 – –
Group I................................................... 16.77 4.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.86 3.5 – – – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.27 1.9 23.57 2.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.26 2.5 23.59 3.0 – –
Legal secretaries............................................... 23.32 7.6 23.32 7.6 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.48 4.5 17.61 1.6 – –
Group I................................................... 15.79 1.2 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.80 5.6 17.80 5.6 – –
Group I................................................... 17.60 10.0 17.60 10.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.33 6.5 18.33 6.5 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.74 3.6 17.15 4.7 – –
Group I................................................... 16.55 3.8 – – – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.20 6.8 16.82 8.9 – –
Group I................................................... 16.20 6.8 16.82 8.9 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.87 3.7 17.87 3.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.98 5.8 17.98 5.8 – –
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.64 5.2 13.58 7.0 – –
Group I................................................... 13.56 6.8 – – – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.00 9.4 16.24 9.9 13.05 17.4
Group I................................................... 15.19 11.1 15.39 12.0 13.04 17.6
Group II.................................................. 20.37 7.4 20.37 7.4 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.23 14.9 22.38 15.1 – –
Group I................................................... 17.10 3.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 25.53 17.6 – – – –
Carpenters........................................................ 18.67 7.9 – – – –
Construction laborers............................................. 23.88 5.6 23.88 5.6 – –
Electricians...................................................... 27.62 21.7 27.62 21.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.32 24.5 28.32 24.5 – –
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.75 5.8 13.75 5.8 – –
Group I................................................... 13.75 5.8 – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.99 5.3 24.07 5.2 – –
Group I................................................... 16.81 6.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 26.77 4.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 35.13 7.3 35.13 7.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 36.17 7.2 36.17 7.2 – –
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 27.04 11.7 27.04 11.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 28.10 11.1 – – – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.93 5.6 18.93 5.6 – –
Group I................................................... 15.55 8.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.11 3.8 – – – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.66 5.5 18.66 5.5 – –
Group I................................................... 13.73 7.1 13.73 7.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.11 3.8 23.11 3.8 – –
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 23.55 7.9 23.55 7.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.55 7.9 23.55 7.9 – –
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 24.86 13.0 24.86 13.0 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.51 4.3 21.51 4.3 – –
Group I................................................... 17.01 7.8 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.07 3.4 – – – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.72 6.2 20.72 6.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.45 4.3 22.45 4.3 – –
Line installers and repairers..................................... 35.86 4.4 35.86 4.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 35.86 4.4 – – – –
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 37.36 2.4 37.36 2.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 37.36 2.4 37.36 2.4 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 16.90 3.4 17.05 3.5 11.86 14.4
Group I................................................... 13.90 8.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.23 3.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 24.43 14.3 24.43 14.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.15 11.9 23.15 11.9 – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.59 10.6 18.59 10.6 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.92 7.2 16.92 7.2 – –
Group I................................................... 16.92 7.2 – – – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.78 4.6 15.78 4.6 – –
Group I................................................... 13.61 .1 – – – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.08 6.7 17.08 6.7 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.67 17.5 19.67 17.5 – –
Group I................................................... 13.95 3.0 13.95 3.0 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.46 2.9 14.47 3.0 – –
Group I................................................... 14.12 6.1 – – – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.55 3.0 18.33 3.1 11.68 10.6
Group I................................................... 16.07 3.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.63 4.3 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand..................................................... 23.48 9.1 – – – –
Bus drivers....................................................... 19.00 7.2 20.38 5.2 – –
Group I................................................... 17.54 6.7 – – – –
Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.58 6.1 18.87 3.9 – –
Group I................................................... 16.77 5.5 – – – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.81 6.1 19.95 6.3 – –
Group I................................................... 19.21 6.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 22.59 4.6 – – – –
Driver/sales workers............................................ 16.17 16.4 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.98 4.6 21.05 5.0 – –
Group I................................................... 20.50 5.0 20.58 5.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.59 5.5 22.59 5.5 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.21 8.3 16.21 8.3 – –
Group I................................................... 16.21 8.3 16.21 8.3 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.99 6.0 12.83 5.8 9.72 6.8
Group I................................................... 12.09 6.3 – – – –
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 11.33 10.8 – – – –
Group I................................................... 11.33 10.8 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.63 7.4 14.23 8.0 9.69 7.1
Group I................................................... 12.71 7.6 14.47 8.1 9.69 7.1
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.77 9.0 10.88 8.6 – –
Group I................................................... 10.91 9.7 11.03 9.2 – –
1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I
combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by
totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment.
Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as
part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $9.10 $13.00 $18.98 $29.14 $42.72
Management occupations.............................................. 26.33 32.01 44.10 61.97 93.05
General and operations managers................................... 42.46 44.23 56.66 63.51 103.85
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 40.99 54.98 93.05 94.63 94.63
Computer and information systems managers......................... 39.27 49.28 57.29 59.68 69.14
Financial managers................................................ 31.25 32.34 50.78 76.39 100.96
Human resources managers.......................................... 31.69 40.07 50.37 64.47 70.02
Education administrators.......................................... 19.00 26.33 33.32 47.54 54.95
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 19.00 19.00 52.23 54.95 55.01
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 25.44 26.33 30.77 34.37 46.65
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.66 24.62 30.64 36.66 48.06
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and
safety, and transportation....................................... 22.01 22.85 29.06 35.32 51.59
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.88 25.50 39.48 49.56 60.10
Management analysts............................................... 25.68 29.45 33.38 40.30 70.36
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 21.15 24.00 26.92 34.70 37.59
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.50 23.79 32.40 32.40 53.37
Financial analysts.............................................. 31.09 32.40 32.40 40.86 53.37
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.68 26.78 36.42 43.27 54.76
Computer software engineers....................................... 36.46 37.32 44.64 55.48 60.08
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 36.46 36.46 40.66 52.45 64.41
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.03 43.27 50.12 55.48 60.08
Computer support specialists...................................... 16.44 21.68 24.74 26.78 40.70
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.52 32.96 41.06 45.32 55.89
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.13 26.20 37.70 47.20 59.94
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.17 25.73 30.29 34.76 50.79
Engineers......................................................... 25.52 27.55 30.84 40.98 62.60
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 25.20 26.00 30.53 40.30 62.69
Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.20 26.00 30.53 37.38 67.02
Mechanical engineers............................................ 29.32 30.53 31.14 45.30 50.64
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.54 16.42 22.00 28.37 32.63
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.00 23.08 32.20 38.21 53.66
Life scientists................................................... 25.05 39.72 42.32 53.66 101.33
Biological scientists........................................... 26.09 42.32 42.32 45.76 53.66
Medical scientists.............................................. 24.10 27.62 40.92 63.93 108.21
Physical scientists............................................... 20.99 23.08 31.24 38.34 64.93
Community and social services occupations........................... 12.02 14.45 16.54 22.74 30.77
Counselors........................................................ 12.92 14.52 16.00 24.38 32.51
Social workers.................................................... 16.25 18.48 19.62 22.78 28.35
Legal occupations................................................... 18.34 23.32 30.61 52.91 80.51
Lawyers........................................................... 23.80 33.70 46.70 74.36 91.80
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 14.42 15.87 21.13 27.03 31.04
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.50 19.05 37.23 48.29 57.59
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 26.71 36.94 43.37 52.90 63.21
Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 36.33 39.39 39.39 51.28 63.21
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 33.26 37.14 41.70 52.90 57.47
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 23.06 25.68 39.02 45.52 48.51
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 14.57 29.90 40.88 50.69 58.86
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 11.00 11.50 13.00 30.06 54.86
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.46 31.40 41.26 50.58 59.60
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 21.88 29.81 40.59 49.70 58.40
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 32.67 37.91 42.30 52.57 62.53
Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.60 36.42 44.34 53.42 61.10
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 19.05 35.07 43.68 54.29 61.10
Special education teachers...................................... 20.58 35.95 48.10 49.59 55.38
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 32.23 39.03 49.59 49.59 55.38
Librarians........................................................ 21.26 22.20 34.93 37.97 47.25
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.00 9.00 12.73 18.03 20.00
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 12.00 16.00 24.27 36.65 52.77
Designers......................................................... 12.81 16.00 19.28 24.27 32.36
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.31 23.72 30.24 39.95 55.50
Pharmacists....................................................... 12.53 52.50 55.00 55.50 55.50
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 23.99 35.16 81.99 108.52 118.10
Registered nurses................................................. 27.42 29.70 33.64 39.00 42.31
Therapists........................................................ 14.79 28.42 31.61 34.68 40.18
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.60 17.89 22.23 26.98 30.67
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.18 22.60 30.30 34.60 35.37
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.50 22.01 24.25 25.64 26.19
Medical records and health information technicians................ 9.75 10.19 13.63 14.65 19.02
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.09 11.54 13.42 16.40 19.44
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.32 11.40 13.24 14.86 17.60
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.75 11.86 13.11 14.00 15.95
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.36 12.36 15.00 17.00 20.52
Dental assistants............................................... 15.00 16.00 17.00 17.50 18.00
Medical assistants.............................................. 11.14 13.14 16.57 17.00 22.49
Protective service occupations...................................... 9.15 14.33 23.46 31.15 37.28
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Police officers................................................... 19.34 24.06 27.98 33.66 38.50
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.34 24.06 27.98 33.66 38.50
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.67 9.00 10.82 14.41 17.00
Security guards................................................. 8.67 9.00 10.82 14.41 17.00
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 10.35 10.50 11.51 13.03 15.12
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 4.15 8.20 11.15 15.50
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 12.50 15.69 17.88 23.84 23.97
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 12.50 15.69 17.88 23.84 23.97
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.17 11.00 13.00 15.84
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.50 9.25 12.90 15.84 17.25
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.00 10.25 11.00 13.50 16.38
Cooks, short order.............................................. 8.00 8.00 9.38 10.50 12.00
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.50 8.90 11.00 11.80 14.91
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.15 2.83 3.00 5.24 9.00
Bartenders...................................................... 2.83 2.83 2.88 5.50 5.50
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.15 2.83 2.85 4.00 5.85
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 4.00 4.00 8.40 10.05 12.83
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.45 8.00 9.50 12.60
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.45 7.92 9.00 12.60
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.45 7.45 8.50 12.38 14.02
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.88 8.00 9.43 10.75 12.77
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.50 7.55 8.00 8.50 9.30
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.29 7.50 9.68 14.25 15.50
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 10.00 12.75 15.58 19.38
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance workers.............................................. 12.00 12.00 26.88 31.27 38.85
Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.99 9.45 12.70 15.62 19.06
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.57 9.35 12.70 15.97 19.25
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.00 9.83 11.00 12.83 15.36
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.50 12.25 13.08 14.00 21.30
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 9.50 12.00 13.08 14.00 15.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.75 8.33 10.50 13.50 20.00
Gaming services workers........................................... 4.65 4.95 7.32 9.00 9.25
Gaming dealers.................................................. 4.65 4.95 7.20 9.00 9.25
Child care workers................................................ 7.56 9.10 10.00 11.70 13.34
Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.50 11.64 13.00 15.01 19.28
Recreation workers.............................................. 8.19 9.00 12.00 13.50 15.99
Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 9.28 12.29 23.40 35.57
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.87 18.80 21.69 31.70 41.43
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 18.52 19.52 27.80 33.01
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.75 8.20 9.65 12.10 16.46
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.55 8.00 9.00 10.34 12.25
Cashiers...................................................... 7.55 8.00 9.00 10.34 12.25
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 11.00 11.00 12.67 16.08 22.72
Retail salespersons............................................. 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.26 23.82
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.77 15.77 25.65 31.06 45.97
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 18.67 20.78 27.31 36.51 44.71
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 20.78 26.35 30.61 36.51 40.87
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.50 21.25 21.63 22.00 25.00
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.59 13.20 16.74 20.55 24.88
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 18.10 18.90 25.79 28.36 30.59
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.81 14.05 17.00 21.74 25.72
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.00 15.33 16.74 18.01 21.74
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.71 14.28 16.65 20.63 25.50
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 9.50 16.75 19.64 23.07 23.07
Tellers......................................................... 12.05 12.13 12.44 12.82 14.04
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 11.64 12.37 16.29 16.29 20.67
Customer service representatives.................................. 10.58 11.73 15.02 18.74 20.89
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.96 14.03 15.49 16.62 18.64
Order clerks...................................................... 10.71 14.17 17.12 19.00 19.19
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 14.85 15.55 18.02 25.42 32.03
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.00 12.00 16.55 20.00 22.74
Dispatchers....................................................... 12.00 12.00 15.75 18.70 22.88
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.20 10.53 11.19 15.72 19.88
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.10 8.50 10.17 13.82 16.05
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.35 18.00 19.72 23.36 27.47
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.92 20.84 22.76 26.30 28.71
Legal secretaries............................................... 18.74 21.03 23.86 25.63 26.91
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.15 16.49 18.00 18.78 21.00
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.26 14.35 17.50 20.26 24.74
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.00 14.36 16.57 17.89 22.12
Data entry keyers............................................... 12.08 13.50 14.89 18.55 22.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.87 16.25 16.71 18.72 24.26
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 9.85 12.17 13.95 15.63 15.63
Office clerks, general............................................ 10.22 12.00 14.84 18.80 24.16
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.03 16.07 19.69 27.50 32.75
Carpenters........................................................ 14.50 16.00 19.92 20.00 22.76
Construction laborers............................................. 15.00 25.00 25.15 25.15 29.45
Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.83 24.50 34.06 48.60
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.03 13.03 13.03 15.91 16.28
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.00 18.00 23.49 29.02 35.83
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 29.87 29.99 34.49 38.35 45.80
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 18.51 23.89 25.31 36.79 37.76
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.50 15.60 17.75 22.00 27.43
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 12.15 15.50 15.60 20.18 30.01
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.00 20.00 23.89 26.47 30.03
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 15.00 18.43 24.92 30.36 33.36
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.65 18.75 21.50 23.80 27.43
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.52 16.41 21.50 23.65 26.82
Line installers and repairers..................................... 30.93 32.66 34.49 39.62 40.53
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.93 34.49 37.76 40.53 42.20
Production occupations.............................................. 9.45 11.82 16.00 20.30 24.75
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 18.91 19.20 22.57 25.78 37.82
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.86 15.59 18.33 21.64 24.15
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.15 10.75 12.75 26.68 28.71
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 10.25 10.25 15.87 18.61 28.55
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 11.82 13.97 17.00 20.50 20.50
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.00 14.11 16.54 24.75 32.76
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.47 12.13 13.99 16.80 19.25
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.75 12.55 16.00 21.92 24.38
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand..................................................... 14.92 18.14 23.63 25.00 31.99
Bus drivers....................................................... 13.85 16.21 19.29 20.74 24.24
Bus drivers, school............................................. 13.55 14.87 17.64 20.29 20.50
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.00 16.00 19.31 22.47 24.97
Driver/sales workers............................................ 10.00 11.40 13.50 22.25 24.16
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.35 18.26 21.92 22.85 24.51
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.30 12.55 14.68 23.18 23.23
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 8.50 11.50 14.40 17.34
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.50 9.19 10.12 10.73 16.45
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.57 12.00 15.00 18.75
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.25 7.50 11.50 12.89 14.40
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), Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $8.93 $12.45 $18.14 $28.00 $41.06
Management occupations.............................................. 26.25 32.01 43.74 63.51 93.05
General and operations managers................................... 42.46 44.23 56.66 63.51 103.85
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 40.99 54.98 93.05 94.63 94.63
Computer and information systems managers......................... 39.27 48.56 57.29 59.68 69.14
Financial managers................................................ 31.25 32.34 50.78 79.51 100.96
Human resources managers.......................................... 31.69 40.07 50.37 64.47 70.02
Education administrators.......................................... 19.00 23.30 28.79 33.32 37.82
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 24.06 26.04 31.29 33.32 39.05
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.59 24.34 30.48 36.40 48.23
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.88 25.50 39.48 49.56 60.10
Management analysts............................................... 25.68 29.45 33.38 40.30 70.36
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 21.15 24.08 26.92 34.70 37.59
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.50 23.79 32.40 32.40 53.37
Financial analysts.............................................. 31.09 32.40 32.40 40.86 53.37
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.61 26.78 36.42 42.99 51.64
Computer software engineers....................................... 36.46 37.32 44.64 55.48 60.08
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 36.46 36.46 40.66 52.45 64.41
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.03 43.27 50.12 55.48 60.08
Computer support specialists...................................... 16.44 22.98 24.74 26.78 40.70
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.52 32.40 40.75 43.08 46.69
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.13 37.70 44.03 59.94 59.94
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.17 25.73 30.29 34.76 50.79
Engineers......................................................... 25.52 27.55 30.84 40.98 62.60
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 25.20 26.00 30.53 40.30 62.69
Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.20 26.00 30.53 37.38 67.02
Mechanical engineers............................................ 29.32 30.53 31.14 45.30 50.64
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.54 16.42 22.00 28.37 32.63
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.00 23.08 32.69 39.72 53.66
Life scientists................................................... 25.05 39.72 42.32 53.66 101.33
Biological scientists........................................... 26.09 42.32 42.32 45.76 53.66
Medical scientists.............................................. 24.10 27.62 40.92 63.93 108.21
Community and social services occupations........................... 8.80 13.99 15.30 19.23 25.13
Counselors........................................................ 12.62 14.50 14.52 17.57 20.21
Social workers.................................................... 16.10 18.83 19.24 23.96 28.35
Legal occupations
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 14.42 15.87 22.92 27.03 31.33
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.00 11.50 20.07 39.39 51.78
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 34.74 39.39 44.10 53.99 63.21
Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 36.33 39.39 39.39 51.28 63.21
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 11.00 11.50 17.10 24.53 28.39
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 12.00 20.32 24.53 28.18 42.72
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 12.00 20.32 24.53 28.18 42.72
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.00 9.00 9.50 18.13 18.92
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 12.00 16.00 24.12 36.65 52.77
Designers......................................................... 12.81 16.00 19.28 24.27 32.36
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.31 23.87 30.30 39.95 55.50
Pharmacists....................................................... 12.53 52.50 55.00 55.50 55.50
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 23.99 35.16 81.99 108.52 118.10
Registered nurses................................................. 27.72 29.70 33.64 39.08 42.25
Therapists........................................................ 14.79 28.58 31.61 34.51 37.24
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.60 17.89 22.23 26.98 30.67
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.18 22.60 30.30 34.60 35.37
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.50 22.01 24.25 25.64 26.52
Medical records and health information technicians................ 9.75 10.19 13.63 14.65 19.02
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.09 11.14 13.30 16.00 18.04
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.09 11.03 12.45 13.67 15.45
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.75 11.83 12.97 13.57 15.82
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.36 12.36 15.00 17.00 20.52
Dental assistants............................................... 15.00 16.00 17.00 17.50 18.00
Medical assistants.............................................. 11.14 13.14 16.57 17.00 22.49
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.67 9.00 10.75 14.41 18.07
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.67 9.00 10.50 14.30 16.97
Security guards................................................. 8.67 9.00 10.50 14.30 16.97
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 4.02 8.00 11.00 14.00
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 11.32 14.80 16.15 20.13 24.12
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 11.32 14.80 16.15 20.13 24.12
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.17 11.00 12.80 14.43
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.50 9.01 11.90 14.43 15.84
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.00 10.25 11.00 13.50 16.38
Cooks, short order.............................................. 8.00 8.00 9.38 10.50 12.00
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.50 8.90 11.00 11.53 14.91
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.15 2.83 3.00 5.00 8.74
Bartenders...................................................... 2.83 2.83 2.88 5.50 5.50
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.15 2.83 2.85 4.00 5.85
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 4.00 4.00 8.18 9.00 10.85
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.45 7.92 9.50 12.60
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.45 7.92 8.90 12.60
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.40 7.45 8.25 12.38 13.25
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.88 8.00 9.43 10.75 12.77
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.50 7.55 8.00 8.50 9.30
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.29 7.50 9.68 14.25 15.50
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 9.50 12.50 14.99 19.06
Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.52 8.85 11.48 14.21 19.06
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.50 8.37 11.61 15.00 19.06
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.00 9.83 11.00 12.83 15.36
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.50 12.25 13.08 14.00 21.30
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 9.50 12.00 13.08 14.00 15.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.75 8.33 10.26 13.50 19.71
Gaming services workers........................................... 4.65 4.95 7.32 9.00 9.25
Gaming dealers.................................................. 4.65 4.95 7.20 9.00 9.25
Child care workers................................................ 7.51 8.93 10.00 11.61 12.50
Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 9.25 12.29 23.00 35.62
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.87 18.80 21.69 31.70 41.43
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 18.52 19.52 27.80 33.01
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.75 8.19 9.60 12.00 16.08
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.55 8.00 8.93 10.20 12.16
Cashiers...................................................... 7.55 8.00 8.93 10.20 12.16
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 11.00 11.00 12.67 16.08 22.72
Retail salespersons............................................. 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.26 23.82
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.77 15.77 25.65 31.06 45.97
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 18.67 20.78 27.31 36.51 44.71
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 20.78 26.35 30.61 36.51 40.87
Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.50 21.25 21.63 22.00 25.00
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.57 12.86 16.45 19.83 24.04
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.58 18.10 21.50 27.30 28.51
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.81 14.13 17.00 21.63 25.50
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.00 15.33 16.74 18.01 21.74
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.71 14.28 17.00 20.63 25.50
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 9.50 16.75 19.60 23.07 23.07
Tellers......................................................... 12.05 12.13 12.44 12.82 14.04
Customer service representatives.................................. 10.58 11.73 15.02 18.74 20.89
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.96 14.03 15.49 16.62 18.64
Order clerks...................................................... 10.71 14.17 17.12 19.00 19.19
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 14.85 15.55 18.02 25.42 32.03
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.00 12.00 16.50 20.00 22.74
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.20 10.53 11.19 15.72 19.88
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.10 8.50 10.17 13.82 16.05
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.35 18.00 19.23 23.00 27.16
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.92 20.84 22.76 25.97 28.00
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.15 16.49 18.00 18.78 21.00
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 10.59 14.35 15.29 19.66 20.70
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.08 13.50 14.89 18.55 22.12
Data entry keyers............................................... 12.08 13.50 14.89 18.55 22.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.87 16.25 16.71 18.36 20.69
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 9.85 12.17 13.95 15.63 15.63
Office clerks, general............................................ 10.22 11.45 14.61 19.00 24.16
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.03 16.07 19.92 28.00 34.06
Carpenters........................................................ 14.50 16.00 19.92 20.00 22.76
Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.83 24.50 34.06 48.60
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.50 17.75 22.71 29.02 35.36
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 18.51 23.89 25.31 36.79 37.76
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.50 15.50 17.00 21.50 27.43
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 12.15 14.77 15.60 18.00 27.43
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 15.00 18.43 24.92 30.36 33.36
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.40 18.75 21.50 23.80 26.82
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.52 15.65 21.50 21.50 26.82
Line installers and repairers..................................... 30.93 32.66 34.49 39.62 40.53
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.93 34.49 37.76 40.53 42.20
Production occupations.............................................. 9.45 11.64 16.00 20.26 24.75
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 18.91 19.20 22.57 25.78 37.82
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.86 15.59 18.33 21.64 24.15
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.15 10.75 12.75 26.68 28.71
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 10.25 10.25 15.87 18.61 28.55
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.00 14.11 16.54 24.00 35.40
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.47 12.13 13.99 16.87 19.25
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.57 12.35 16.00 21.92 24.51
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material
movers, hand..................................................... 14.92 18.14 23.63 25.00 31.99
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.15 16.00 19.31 22.47 24.97
Driver/sales workers............................................ 10.00 11.40 13.50 22.25 24.16
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.35 18.26 21.92 22.85 24.51
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.30 12.55 14.68 23.18 23.23
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 8.50 11.50 14.40 17.16
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.50 9.19 10.12 10.73 16.45
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.57 12.00 15.00 18.13
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.25 7.50 11.50 12.89 14.40
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), Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA,
January 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $14.47 $18.02 $25.48 $37.58 $50.29
Management occupations.............................................. 26.33 40.15 46.63 52.37 55.01
Education administrators.......................................... 26.33 37.58 50.29 54.95 55.01
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.40 26.36 35.04 37.37 37.78
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.07 18.36 24.53 34.23 51.75
Counselors........................................................ 25.32 31.02 31.26 50.79 55.38
Social workers.................................................... 17.35 17.74 19.63 22.78 24.18
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.07 16.07 20.98 32.62 39.92
Legal occupations................................................... 18.64 22.39 37.58 46.67 52.91
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.06 32.20 41.39 50.79 59.60
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 25.45 27.36 39.02 47.06 58.52
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 25.38 26.71 39.02 47.06 48.72
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 32.47 38.35 44.97 53.42 59.81
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 14.57 35.36 42.56 56.54 59.60
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.47 37.88 43.44 53.14 59.94
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 32.20 37.88 43.44 53.26 59.94
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 32.67 37.91 42.30 52.57 62.53
Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.04 38.58 49.43 54.62 61.10
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 33.23 38.57 49.43 56.35 61.10
Special education teachers...................................... 33.79 40.82 48.10 49.59 55.38
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 32.23 39.03 49.59 49.59 55.38
Teacher assistants................................................ 11.76 12.73 14.58 17.83 20.07
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.00 21.83 26.22 29.39 40.18
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.70 14.25 15.62 18.92 20.90
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.36 14.25 16.28 20.24 20.90
Protective service occupations...................................... 17.45 22.82 27.98 35.17 41.96
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Police officers................................................... 22.46 25.45 28.18 35.15 38.57
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.46 25.45 28.18 35.15 38.57
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.85 16.13 18.96 23.97 23.97
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.75 14.45 14.59 17.37 21.36
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.82 14.45 14.59 17.22 21.22
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.82 14.45 14.59 17.22 21.22
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.20 9.52 13.34 18.18 22.92
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.41 16.05 18.72 24.09 27.67
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 25.79 26.37 27.33 30.59 32.26
Financial clerks.................................................. 13.33 13.80 16.12 24.88 32.28
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 11.64 12.37 16.29 16.29 20.67
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.31 16.53 20.77 24.53 27.67
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.00 19.73 23.36 27.19 30.06
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.37 15.47 19.45 21.26 25.10
Office clerks, general............................................ 12.57 13.87 16.81 18.59 19.51
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.70 16.28 18.15 23.08 25.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.88 23.66 26.47 29.87 36.15
Production occupations.............................................. 14.83 15.92 19.56 26.33 28.49
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.94 17.90 20.29 24.12 24.24
Bus drivers....................................................... 15.51 17.44 20.29 24.12 24.24
Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.44 17.13 18.68 20.29 20.74
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), Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January
2010
Full-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $11.10 $14.80 $20.93 $30.93 $44.26
Management occupations.............................................. 26.33 32.01 43.28 62.83 93.05
General and operations managers................................... 42.46 44.23 56.66 63.51 103.85
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 40.99 54.98 93.05 94.63 94.63
Computer and information systems managers......................... 39.27 49.28 57.29 59.68 69.14
Financial managers................................................ 31.25 32.34 50.78 76.39 100.96
Human resources managers.......................................... 26.44 40.07 50.37 64.47 70.02
Education administrators.......................................... 19.00 26.33 33.32 47.54 54.95
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 19.00 19.00 52.23 54.95 55.01
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 25.44 26.33 30.77 34.37 46.65
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.88 24.62 30.53 36.40 48.06
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 19.31 19.31 20.91 29.69 44.32
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and
safety, and transportation....................................... 22.01 22.85 29.06 35.32 51.59
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.88 25.50 39.48 49.56 60.10
Management analysts............................................... 25.68 29.45 33.38 40.30 70.36
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 21.15 23.37 26.92 33.64 36.04
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.50 23.79 32.40 32.40 53.37
Financial analysts.............................................. 31.09 32.40 32.40 40.86 53.37
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 22.52 27.00 36.42 43.27 55.48
Computer software engineers....................................... 36.46 37.32 44.64 55.48 60.08
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 36.46 36.46 40.66 52.45 64.41
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 43.03 43.27 50.12 55.48 60.08
Computer support specialists...................................... 16.44 21.68 24.74 26.78 40.70
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.52 32.96 41.06 45.32 55.89
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.13 26.20 37.70 47.20 59.94
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.17 25.73 30.29 34.76 50.79
Engineers......................................................... 25.52 27.55 30.84 40.98 62.60
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 25.20 26.00 30.53 40.30 62.69
Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.20 26.00 30.53 37.38 67.02
Mechanical engineers............................................ 29.32 30.53 31.14 45.30 50.64
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.54 16.42 22.00 28.37 32.63
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.00 23.08 32.20 38.40 53.66
Life scientists................................................... 25.05 39.72 42.32 53.66 101.33
Biological scientists........................................... 26.09 42.32 42.32 45.76 53.66
Medical scientists.............................................. 24.10 27.62 40.92 63.93 109.23
Physical scientists............................................... 20.99 23.08 31.24 38.34 64.93
Community and social services occupations........................... 13.04 14.52 18.48 24.38 31.06
Counselors........................................................ 12.74 14.52 16.12 25.32 34.67
Social workers.................................................... 16.10 18.38 19.24 22.74 28.35
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 12.58 16.07 20.45 30.77 38.18
Legal occupations................................................... 18.29 23.32 29.81 52.20 81.28
Lawyers........................................................... 23.80 33.33 46.70 74.36 91.80
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 14.42 15.87 21.13 27.03 31.04
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.50 20.07 38.35 49.11 58.32
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 26.71 37.14 43.37 51.78 63.21
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 23.06 25.60 39.02 44.10 47.06
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 14.57 29.90 40.89 50.79 58.86
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 11.00 11.50 13.00 30.06 54.86
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.46 31.40 41.39 50.79 59.60
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 22.66 29.90 41.13 49.70 58.78
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 33.31 38.17 42.53 52.86 62.53
Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.17 36.30 44.97 53.42 61.10
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 18.89 34.81 44.15 54.62 61.10
Special education teachers...................................... 20.58 35.95 48.10 49.59 55.38
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 32.23 39.03 49.59 49.59 55.38
Librarians........................................................ 21.26 22.20 34.93 37.97 47.25
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.00 9.50 12.05 18.13 20.07
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.05 19.28 25.82 43.80 52.77
Designers......................................................... 15.05 16.00 19.28 25.82 32.36
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.50 24.15 30.24 40.18 56.00
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 23.99 35.16 81.99 108.52 118.10
Registered nurses................................................. 27.84 29.26 33.00 39.10 42.04
Therapists........................................................ 27.17 29.05 33.44 34.91 40.18
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.60 17.89 22.23 26.98 30.61
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.18 21.86 29.33 35.10 40.70
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.00 22.01 24.25 25.05 25.71
Medical records and health information technicians................ 9.75 10.19 13.63 14.65 19.02
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.75 12.36 13.78 17.00 20.24
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.71 11.93 13.39 15.08 18.26
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.00 11.86 13.11 13.42 15.96
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.10 12.50 16.40 18.00 20.73
Medical assistants.............................................. 12.34 13.97 16.57 17.00 22.49
Protective service occupations...................................... 10.47 16.10 25.25 31.49 38.50
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 16.59 18.42 21.66 29.59 37.15
Police officers................................................... 19.34 24.22 27.98 33.66 38.50
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.34 24.22 27.98 33.66 38.50
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.67 9.60 12.25 15.30 17.19
Security guards................................................. 8.67 9.60 12.25 15.30 17.19
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 8.23 11.00 14.05 17.88
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 12.50 16.08 17.88 23.97 23.97
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 12.50 16.08 17.88 23.97 23.97
Cooks............................................................. 9.38 10.00 11.56 14.00 16.38
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.01 11.50 14.02 15.84 17.67
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.00 11.00 11.00 14.00 16.38
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.90 10.15 11.00 11.83 17.99
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.15 2.83 2.83 5.85 12.83
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.15 2.83 5.65 8.74
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 9.80 10.85 12.83 17.55 18.83
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.35 8.00 9.25 12.60 14.05
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.50 8.35 12.60 14.05
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.00 12.00 13.34 17.01 19.57
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance workers.............................................. 12.00 12.00 26.88 31.27 38.85
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.75 11.48 13.72 17.22 19.45
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.75 12.00 14.45 17.85 19.57
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.50 9.17 11.18 13.49 17.02
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 11.00 12.75 13.08 15.00 21.30
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 11.00 12.25 13.08 14.00 15.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.20 10.00 12.33 16.57 39.05
Gaming services workers........................................... 4.95 5.60 8.00 9.00 9.25
Gaming dealers.................................................. 4.95 5.60 8.00 9.00 9.25
Child care workers................................................ 7.45 8.15 10.00 11.78 13.94
Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.36 11.54 18.67 28.54 42.73
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.87 18.80 21.69 31.70 41.43
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 18.52 19.52 27.80 33.01
Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.15 9.36 11.40 15.58 23.82
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.75 8.00 9.90 12.22 13.00
Cashiers...................................................... 7.75 8.00 9.90 12.22 13.00
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 12.59 12.67 16.08 21.25 24.35
Retail salespersons............................................. 9.10 9.40 11.50 16.04 26.89
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.77 15.77 25.65 31.06 45.97
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 18.67 20.78 27.31 36.51 44.71
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 20.78 26.35 30.61 36.51 40.87
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.25 13.84 17.12 21.03 25.48
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 18.10 18.90 25.79 28.36 30.59
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.71 14.36 17.56 22.66 25.98
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.00 15.33 16.74 18.01 21.74
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.71 14.25 17.00 20.63 25.50
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 9.50 16.75 19.64 23.07 23.07
Tellers......................................................... 12.13 12.13 12.13 12.44 13.83
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 11.64 12.37 16.29 16.29 20.67
Customer service representatives.................................. 10.58 12.45 15.50 19.23 21.33
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 13.25 14.42 15.58 16.62 18.64
Order clerks...................................................... 10.71 15.00 17.12 19.00 19.19
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 14.85 15.55 18.02 25.42 32.03
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.00 13.33 16.66 22.74 22.74
Dispatchers....................................................... 12.00 12.00 15.75 18.70 22.88
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.20 10.53 11.20 16.00 19.88
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.93 11.30 13.51 15.50 17.30
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.96 18.00 20.26 23.36 27.67
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.56 21.00 22.76 26.51 28.88
Legal secretaries............................................... 18.74 21.03 23.86 25.63 26.91
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.50 16.64 18.00 18.13 21.00
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.26 14.35 17.50 20.26 24.74
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.52 15.97 17.37 18.55 22.12
Data entry keyers............................................... 13.00 13.81 16.23 19.58 22.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.87 16.25 16.71 18.72 24.26
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 9.85 10.86 14.09 15.63 15.63
Office clerks, general............................................ 10.57 12.00 14.84 19.00 24.16
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.03 16.07 19.69 27.97 32.75
Construction laborers............................................. 15.00 25.00 25.15 25.15 29.45
Electricians...................................................... 15.25 18.83 24.50 34.06 48.60
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.03 13.03 13.03 15.91 16.28
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.00 18.00 23.50 29.02 35.83
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 29.87 29.99 34.49 38.35 45.80
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 18.51 23.89 25.31 36.79 37.76
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.50 15.60 17.75 22.00 27.43
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 12.15 15.50 15.60 20.18 30.01
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.00 20.00 23.89 26.47 30.03
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 15.00 18.43 24.92 30.36 33.36
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.65 18.75 21.50 23.80 27.43
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.52 16.41 21.50 23.65 26.82
Line installers and repairers..................................... 30.93 32.66 34.49 39.62 40.53
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 30.93 34.49 37.76 40.53 42.20
Production occupations.............................................. 9.45 12.00 16.40 20.30 24.75
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 18.91 19.20 22.57 25.78 37.82
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.86 15.59 18.33 21.64 24.15
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.15 10.75 12.75 26.68 28.71
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 10.25 10.25 15.87 18.61 28.55
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 11.82 13.97 17.00 20.50 20.50
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.00 14.11 16.54 24.75 32.76
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.47 12.13 13.99 16.87 19.25
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.00 13.45 17.35 22.25 24.97
Bus drivers....................................................... 15.44 17.77 20.29 24.12 24.24
Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.25 17.44 20.29 20.29 20.74
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.00 16.00 19.31 22.85 24.97
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.35 18.26 21.92 22.85 24.60
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.30 12.55 14.68 23.18 23.23
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.54 9.25 12.37 15.00 17.69
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.57 11.32 14.03 16.75 19.77
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.25 7.54 11.65 13.33 14.40
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), Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January
2010
Part-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $7.25 $8.00 $9.50 $13.20 $21.80
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 8.00 12.73 16.42 21.00 37.58
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 27.24 31.27 51.28 58.52 58.52
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.00 8.00 12.73 14.01 16.42
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 7.50 7.50 10.65 12.00 35.55
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.00 19.21 30.33 36.87 46.03
Registered nurses................................................. 26.78 29.87 33.76 38.57 45.50
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.70 10.09 10.96 14.66 15.45
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.09 10.09 10.40 14.18 15.45
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.35 10.75 14.18 15.31 15.75
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.10 9.25 11.45 15.00 16.00
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.68 8.68 9.00 11.25 13.03
Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 10.35 10.50 11.51 13.03 15.12
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 3.00 7.45 8.50 10.50
Cooks............................................................. 7.25 8.00 9.17 11.00 12.25
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.50 7.50 9.50 11.55 12.75
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 3.00 4.15 8.40
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.15 2.83 2.85 3.00 4.50
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.50 4.00 6.25 9.00 9.63
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.45 7.92 8.25 9.50
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.45 7.92 8.50 9.50
Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.50 7.96 8.00 9.25 17.17
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.50 7.50 8.00 8.00 8.50
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.25 7.50 9.45 11.00 13.04
Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.25 7.50 9.86 11.00 13.11
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.25 7.40 8.00 10.00 12.59
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.48 8.33 8.50 11.70 13.50
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.00 11.00
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 8.00 8.75 10.00 11.00
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.80 8.52 9.55 10.61
Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.80 8.52 9.55 10.61
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.50 8.00 8.40 9.65 11.01
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.37 9.00 12.00 14.04 18.00
Financial clerks.................................................. 12.62 12.66 13.80 14.04 15.74
Customer service representatives.................................. 8.55 11.04 11.73 13.20 17.15
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.44 10.00 13.13 18.00 18.00
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 8.20 8.50 8.90 9.53
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.15 9.15 11.72 18.00 18.00
Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 10.00 10.00 14.98 19.36
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.40 7.55 10.45 14.75 18.93
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.37 7.50 8.50 10.73 13.85
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.37 7.50 8.25 10.45 13.85
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,
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $25.34 $20.93 $995 $825 39.3 $50,512 $42,266 1,994
Management occupations.............................................. 50.79 43.28 2,030 1,783 40.0 105,274 92,279 2,073
General and operations managers................................... 61.54 56.66 2,562 2,513 41.6 133,225 130,686 2,165
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 74.77 93.05 3,020 3,722 40.4 157,015 193,552 2,100
Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.59 57.29 2,160 2,148 38.9 112,309 111,717 2,020
Financial managers................................................ 57.57 50.78 2,277 1,957 39.6 118,422 101,771 2,057
Human resources managers.......................................... 50.78 50.37 1,960 1,889 38.6 101,937 98,220 2,007
Education administrators.......................................... 35.94 33.32 1,376 1,250 38.3 69,557 64,978 1,935
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 42.46 52.23 1,643 1,925 38.7 79,616 100,120 1,875
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 31.74 30.77 1,206 1,154 38.0 62,723 60,000 1,976
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.62 30.53 1,291 1,162 39.6 67,110 60,399 2,057
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and
safety, and transportation....................................... 33.89 29.06 1,270 1,177 37.5 66,073 61,218 1,950
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 38.53 39.48 1,630 1,579 42.3 84,740 82,118 2,199
Management analysts............................................... 39.36 33.38 1,569 1,335 39.9 81,603 69,437 2,073
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.10 26.92 1,114 1,058 39.6 57,917 55,000 2,061
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.13 32.40 1,213 1,243 39.0 63,098 64,661 2,027
Financial analysts.............................................. 36.85 32.40 1,469 1,296 39.9 76,387 67,398 2,073
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.97 36.42 1,453 1,414 39.3 75,404 73,515 2,040
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.23 44.64 1,881 1,794 39.8 97,807 93,288 2,071
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 40.66 1,791 1,627 39.7 93,111 84,581 2,063
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.79 50.12 1,992 2,005 40.0 103,566 104,250 2,080
Computer support specialists...................................... 25.93 24.74 1,026 963 39.6 52,828 50,084 2,038
Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.64 41.06 1,528 1,642 38.5 79,463 85,394 2,005
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 40.92 37.70 1,632 1,414 39.9 84,856 73,515 2,074
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 30.29 1,321 1,212 40.1 68,669 62,999 2,084
Engineers......................................................... 37.75 30.84 1,516 1,234 40.2 78,835 64,147 2,088
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.64 30.53 1,466 1,221 40.0 76,212 63,492 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.88 30.53 1,435 1,221 40.0 74,627 63,492 2,080
Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.93 31.14 1,477 1,245 40.0 76,817 64,763 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.85 22.00 910 880 39.8 47,327 45,760 2,071
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.52 32.20 1,275 1,262 38.0 65,925 65,636 1,967
Life scientists................................................... 49.11 42.32 1,710 1,432 34.8 88,938 74,482 1,811
Biological scientists........................................... 42.58 42.32 1,416 1,270 33.3 73,636 66,019 1,729
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.76 40.92 1,994 1,432 35.8 103,709 74,482 1,860
Physical scientists............................................... 35.57 31.24 1,406 1,245 39.5 73,101 64,736 2,055
Community and social services occupations........................... 21.28 18.48 819 739 38.5 41,842 38,480 1,967
Counselors........................................................ 21.51 16.12 833 645 38.7 41,818 34,008 1,944
Social workers.................................................... 20.75 19.24 796 769 38.4 41,406 40,000 1,995
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 22.41 20.45 847 787 37.8 44,032 40,917 1,965
Legal occupations................................................... 41.54 29.81 1,612 1,135 38.8 83,803 59,030 2,017
Lawyers........................................................... 54.90 46.70 2,130 1,750 38.8 110,745 91,008 2,017
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.36 21.13 855 844 38.3 44,479 43,875 1,989
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.07 38.35 1,319 1,366 36.6 54,530 54,300 1,512
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 45.65 43.37 1,781 1,768 39.0 79,189 74,064 1,735
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 35.64 39.02 1,363 1,366 38.2 61,458 57,113 1,724
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.31 40.89 1,422 1,477 36.2 57,098 57,924 1,452
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.02 13.00 852 546 38.7 37,573 27,040 1,706
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.06 41.39 1,464 1,453 35.6 57,559 56,256 1,402
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.68 41.13 1,424 1,453 35.9 55,788 55,889 1,406
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 45.42 42.53 1,585 1,479 34.9 63,052 58,397 1,388
Secondary school teachers....................................... 43.67 44.97 1,581 1,607 36.2 63,990 63,525 1,465
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 43.40 44.15 1,564 1,594 36.0 63,767 62,386 1,469
Special education teachers...................................... 43.08 48.10 1,550 1,708 36.0 61,312 66,031 1,423
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.59 49.59 1,625 1,668 35.6 64,530 70,030 1,415
Librarians........................................................ 34.40 34.93 1,324 1,299 38.5 65,378 67,522 1,900
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.65 12.05 488 441 35.8 20,358 19,473 1,492
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 34.46 25.82 1,365 1,033 39.6 68,016 50,484 1,974
Designers......................................................... 22.56 19.28 902 771 40.0 46,926 40,100 2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 36.00 30.24 1,415 1,162 39.3 73,525 60,419 2,043
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.51 81.99 3,045 3,280 40.3 158,320 170,541 2,097
Registered nurses................................................. 34.32 33.00 1,351 1,313 39.4 70,120 68,288 2,043
Therapists........................................................ 32.80 33.44 1,309 1,338 39.9 68,084 69,555 2,076
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.63 22.23 888 889 39.2 46,161 46,238 2,040
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.82 29.33 1,130 1,100 39.2 58,776 57,194 2,040
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.60 24.25 910 931 38.6 47,327 48,419 2,005
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 13.63 514 545 39.7 26,748 28,350 2,066
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.70 13.78 566 537 38.5 29,441 27,903 2,003
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.81 13.39 535 519 38.7 27,801 26,978 2,013
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.23 13.11 507 497 38.4 26,388 25,818 1,995
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.89 16.40 607 595 38.2 31,575 30,940 1,987
Medical assistants.............................................. 16.56 16.57 662 663 40.0 34,437 34,468 2,080
Protective service occupations...................................... 25.09 25.25 996 994 39.7 51,066 48,793 2,035
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 24.26 21.66 970 866 40.0 50,478 45,053 2,081
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 24.26 21.66 970 866 40.0 50,478 45,053 2,081
Police officers................................................... 29.21 27.98 1,163 1,119 39.8 60,495 58,205 2,071
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.21 27.98 1,163 1,119 39.8 60,495 58,205 2,071
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 13.19 12.25 514 490 39.0 25,956 24,960 1,968
Security guards................................................. 13.19 12.25 514 490 39.0 25,956 24,960 1,968
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.13 11.00 429 418 38.5 21,822 21,112 1,961
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 19.07 17.88 790 808 41.4 38,636 38,825 2,026
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 19.07 17.88 790 808 41.4 38,636 38,825 2,026
Cooks............................................................. 12.28 11.56 473 440 38.5 24,353 22,880 1,984
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.41 14.02 519 512 38.7 26,186 25,293 1,952
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.24 11.00 467 440 38.2 24,307 22,880 1,985
Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.63 11.00 457 418 39.3 23,311 21,736 2,005
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.28 2.83 199 113 37.7 10,183 5,886 1,928
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.21 2.83 156 113 37.2 8,130 5,886 1,933
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 13.85 12.83 516 481 37.2 23,812 20,768 1,719
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.57 9.25 385 324 36.4 19,319 16,380 1,827
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 9.74 8.35 351 289 36.1 18,277 15,015 1,876
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.43 13.34 561 526 38.9 28,251 27,198 1,957
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance workers.............................................. 23.37 26.88 924 1,075 39.6 48,072 55,900 2,057
Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.06 13.72 542 534 38.5 28,133 27,770 2,001
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.42 14.45 556 549 38.6 28,886 28,538 2,003
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.92 11.18 454 438 38.1 23,633 22,750 1,982
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.92 13.08 557 523 40.0 25,128 25,920 1,805
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 13.00 13.08 520 523 40.0 23,070 24,960 1,775
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.80 12.33 568 483 35.9 29,305 25,090 1,855
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Gaming dealers.................................................. 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Child care workers................................................ 10.45 10.00 396 400 37.9 19,875 20,800 1,901
Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.45 18.67 852 747 39.7 43,970 38,268 2,050
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.72 21.69 1,023 937 41.4 53,213 48,729 2,153
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.11 19.52 927 937 41.9 48,212 48,729 2,180
Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.86 11.40 545 422 39.3 27,877 21,944 2,011
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.63 9.90 417 396 39.2 21,518 20,592 2,025
Cashiers...................................................... 10.63 9.90 417 396 39.2 21,518 20,592 2,025
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.80 16.08 672 643 40.0 34,940 33,446 2,080
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.13 11.50 593 422 39.2 30,124 21,944 1,991
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.49 25.65 1,002 1,000 39.3 52,120 51,975 2,044
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.70 27.31 1,153 1,093 40.2 59,946 56,813 2,089
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 31.09 30.61 1,253 1,224 40.3 65,150 63,673 2,096
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.82 17.12 697 670 39.1 36,075 34,823 2,025
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 24.37 25.79 936 967 38.4 48,669 50,298 1,997
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.90 17.56 742 680 39.2 38,578 35,360 2,041
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.64 16.74 657 670 39.5 34,172 34,823 2,054
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.72 17.00 688 652 38.8 35,774 33,904 2,019
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.81 19.64 747 786 39.7 38,840 40,851 2,064
Tellers......................................................... 12.71 12.13 501 485 39.4 26,075 25,237 2,051
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.90 16.29 564 570 35.5 29,335 29,641 1,845
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.09 15.50 638 620 39.7 32,602 32,240 2,026
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 15.86 15.58 624 622 39.4 32,472 32,323 2,047
Order clerks...................................................... 16.03 17.12 641 685 40.0 31,835 35,601 1,986
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 18.02 795 722 38.4 41,344 37,544 1,998
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.53 16.66 637 621 38.5 32,504 32,266 1,966
Dispatchers....................................................... 16.61 15.75 665 630 40.0 34,556 32,760 2,080
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.18 11.20 527 448 40.0 27,411 23,296 2,080
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.41 13.51 534 541 39.8 27,779 28,109 2,072
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.64 20.26 807 789 39.1 41,909 41,011 2,031
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.57 22.76 925 893 39.2 48,102 46,445 2,041
Legal secretaries............................................... 23.32 23.86 877 866 37.6 45,619 45,032 1,957
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.61 18.00 700 720 39.8 36,393 37,440 2,067
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.80 17.50 684 656 38.5 35,406 34,125 1,990
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 17.15 17.37 661 655 38.5 34,355 34,066 2,003
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.82 16.23 668 649 39.7 34,748 33,738 2,066
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.87 16.71 700 668 39.2 36,411 34,755 2,038
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.58 14.09 538 564 39.6 27,954 29,309 2,059
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.24 14.84 632 592 38.9 32,420 30,000 1,996
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.38 19.69 887 784 39.6 44,747 37,440 1,999
Construction laborers............................................. 23.88 25.15 932 1,006 39.0 39,195 35,210 1,641
Electricians...................................................... 27.62 24.50 1,077 980 39.0 56,002 50,960 2,027
Helpers, construction trades...................................... 13.75 13.03 550 521 40.0 28,605 27,107 2,080
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.07 23.50 961 942 39.9 49,976 48,987 2,076
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and
repairers........................................................ 35.13 34.49 1,405 1,380 40.0 73,062 71,743 2,080
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 27.04 25.31 1,082 1,012 40.0 56,238 52,647 2,080
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.93 17.75 757 710 40.0 39,372 36,920 2,080
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.66 15.60 746 624 40.0 38,803 32,452 2,080
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 23.55 23.89 942 956 40.0 48,990 49,691 2,080
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 24.86 24.92 994 997 40.0 51,708 51,834 2,080
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.51 21.50 853 860 39.6 44,344 44,720 2,062
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.72 21.50 813 860 39.2 42,265 44,720 2,039
Line installers and repairers..................................... 35.86 34.49 1,435 1,380 40.0 74,598 71,739 2,080
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 37.36 37.76 1,494 1,510 40.0 77,713 78,530 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 17.05 16.40 684 652 40.1 35,568 33,883 2,087
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 24.43 22.57 987 903 40.4 51,302 46,946 2,100
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.59 18.33 744 733 40.0 38,671 38,126 2,080
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.92 12.75 670 502 39.6 34,705 26,125 2,051
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.78 15.87 631 635 40.0 32,820 33,010 2,080
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.08 17.00 683 680 40.0 35,522 35,360 2,080
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.67 16.54 806 662 41.0 41,937 34,403 2,132
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.47 13.99 586 588 40.5 30,466 30,554 2,106
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.33 17.35 743 652 40.5 37,507 31,824 2,046
Bus drivers....................................................... 20.38 20.29 728 663 35.7 31,366 25,693 1,539
Bus drivers, school............................................. 18.87 20.29 626 609 33.2 24,482 21,913 1,297
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.95 19.31 832 772 41.7 42,793 40,165 2,145
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 21.05 21.92 917 877 43.5 46,842 45,594 2,225
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.21 14.68 634 567 39.1 32,960 29,494 2,034
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.83 12.37 514 496 40.1 26,170 24,544 2,039
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.23 14.03 569 561 40.0 28,516 25,376 2,004
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.88 11.65 437 466 40.1 22,709 24,232 2,088
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,
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $24.72 $19.89 $977 $790 39.5 $50,182 $40,383 2,030
Management occupations.............................................. 51.28 43.27 2,053 1,769 40.0 106,436 91,627 2,076
General and operations managers................................... 61.54 56.66 2,562 2,513 41.6 133,225 130,686 2,165
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 74.77 93.05 3,020 3,722 40.4 157,015 193,552 2,100
Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.84 57.29 2,187 2,194 39.2 113,699 114,088 2,036
Financial managers................................................ 57.91 50.78 2,290 1,957 39.5 119,078 101,771 2,056
Human resources managers.......................................... 50.78 50.37 1,960 1,889 38.6 101,937 98,220 2,007
Education administrators.......................................... 28.70 28.79 1,104 1,081 38.5 54,875 55,698 1,912
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 30.83 31.29 1,176 1,177 38.2 61,169 61,185 1,984
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.63 30.33 1,296 1,159 39.7 67,406 60,276 2,066
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 38.53 39.48 1,630 1,579 42.3 84,740 82,118 2,199
Management analysts............................................... 39.36 33.38 1,569 1,335 39.9 81,603 69,437 2,073
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.12 26.92 1,119 1,058 39.8 58,169 55,000 2,069
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 31.13 32.40 1,213 1,243 39.0 63,098 64,661 2,027
Financial analysts.............................................. 36.85 32.40 1,469 1,296 39.9 76,387 67,398 2,073
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.73 36.42 1,451 1,414 39.5 75,272 73,515 2,049
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.23 44.64 1,881 1,794 39.8 97,807 93,288 2,071
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 40.66 1,791 1,627 39.7 93,111 84,581 2,063
Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.79 50.12 1,992 2,005 40.0 103,566 104,250 2,080
Computer support specialists...................................... 26.05 24.74 1,031 963 39.6 53,109 50,084 2,039
Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.79 40.75 1,474 1,624 39.0 76,642 84,438 2,028
Network and computer systems administrators....................... 42.91 44.03 1,711 1,761 39.9 88,947 91,584 2,073
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 30.29 1,321 1,212 40.1 68,669 62,999 2,084
Engineers......................................................... 37.75 30.84 1,516 1,234 40.2 78,835 64,147 2,088
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.64 30.53 1,466 1,221 40.0 76,212 63,492 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.88 30.53 1,435 1,221 40.0 74,627 63,492 2,080
Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.93 31.14 1,477 1,245 40.0 76,817 64,763 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.85 22.00 910 880 39.8 47,327 45,760 2,071
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.84 32.69 1,287 1,270 38.0 66,546 66,019 1,966
Life scientists................................................... 49.11 42.32 1,710 1,432 34.8 88,938 74,482 1,811
Biological scientists........................................... 42.58 42.32 1,416 1,270 33.3 73,636 66,019 1,729
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.76 40.92 1,994 1,432 35.8 103,709 74,482 1,860
Community and social services occupations........................... 18.06 16.62 712 683 39.4 37,041 35,499 2,050
Counselors........................................................ 16.28 14.52 649 581 39.9 33,750 30,195 2,073
Social workers.................................................... 21.09 19.23 817 769 38.7 42,495 40,000 2,015
Legal occupations
Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.71 22.92 874 865 38.5 45,474 45,000 2,002
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 27.33 20.32 1,057 772 38.7 46,301 34,343 1,694
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.60 44.10 1,879 1,894 39.5 83,926 81,931 1,763
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 19.05 17.10 743 669 39.0 31,407 30,950 1,649
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.84 24.53 951 920 38.3 35,930 34,950 1,447
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.84 24.53 951 920 38.3 35,930 34,950 1,447
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.07 9.50 449 380 37.2 19,942 19,760 1,653
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 34.46 25.82 1,365 1,033 39.6 68,016 50,484 1,974
Designers......................................................... 22.56 19.28 902 771 40.0 46,926 40,100 2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 36.24 30.30 1,425 1,164 39.3 74,125 60,528 2,045
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.51 81.99 3,045 3,280 40.3 158,320 170,541 2,097
Registered nurses................................................. 34.35 33.18 1,354 1,313 39.4 70,418 68,288 2,050
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.63 22.23 888 889 39.2 46,161 46,238 2,040
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.82 29.33 1,130 1,100 39.2 58,776 57,194 2,040
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.62 24.25 908 931 38.4 47,195 48,419 1,998
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 13.63 514 545 39.7 26,748 28,350 2,066
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.41 13.39 552 533 38.3 28,712 27,710 1,992
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.98 12.78 499 494 38.4 25,924 25,709 1,997
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.10 12.91 502 494 38.3 26,093 25,709 1,992
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.89 16.40 607 595 38.2 31,575 30,940 1,987
Medical assistants.............................................. 16.56 16.57 662 663 40.0 34,437 34,468 2,080
Protective service occupations...................................... 12.90 12.50 504 490 39.0 26,196 25,480 2,030
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.27 11.81 478 456 38.9 24,856 23,733 2,025
Security guards................................................. 12.27 11.81 478 456 38.9 24,856 23,733 2,025
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.38 10.71 402 400 38.8 20,835 20,800 2,007
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 17.63 16.15 755 805 42.8 38,843 40,560 2,203
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 17.63 16.15 755 805 42.8 38,843 40,560 2,203
Cooks............................................................. 12.01 11.30 465 440 38.7 24,173 22,880 2,012
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.66 12.45 500 476 39.5 25,994 24,752 2,054
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.24 11.00 467 440 38.2 24,307 22,880 1,985
Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.63 11.00 457 418 39.3 23,311 21,736 2,005
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.72 2.83 179 113 37.9 9,248 5,886 1,960
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.21 2.83 156 113 37.2 8,130 5,886 1,933
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.07 9.00 372 313 36.9 19,330 16,297 1,920
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 9.74 8.35 351 289 36.1 18,277 15,015 1,876
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.90 13.08 539 523 38.8 26,952 25,019 1,940
Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.46 12.70 515 464 38.3 26,787 24,145 1,991
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.82 12.70 529 486 38.3 27,532 25,274 1,992
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.92 11.18 454 438 38.1 23,633 22,750 1,982
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.92 13.08 557 523 40.0 25,128 25,920 1,805
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 13.00 13.08 520 523 40.0 23,070 24,960 1,775
Personal care and service occupations............................... 15.72 11.78 565 483 36.0 29,392 25,090 1,870
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Gaming dealers.................................................. 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.46 18.67 853 741 39.7 43,993 37,538 2,050
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.72 21.69 1,023 937 41.4 53,213 48,729 2,153
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.11 19.52 927 937 41.9 48,212 48,729 2,180
Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.74 11.25 540 422 39.3 27,610 21,944 2,010
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.01 9.90 392 396 39.1 20,239 20,176 2,021
Cashiers...................................................... 10.01 9.90 392 396 39.1 20,239 20,176 2,021
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.80 16.08 672 643 40.0 34,940 33,446 2,080
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.13 11.50 593 422 39.2 30,124 21,944 1,991
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.49 25.65 1,002 1,000 39.3 52,120 51,975 2,044
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.70 27.31 1,153 1,093 40.2 59,946 56,813 2,089
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products.............................. 31.09 30.61 1,253 1,224 40.3 65,150 63,673 2,096
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.50 16.75 689 670 39.4 35,656 34,823 2,038
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 22.38 21.50 870 790 38.9 45,222 41,098 2,021
Financial clerks.................................................. 18.81 17.47 740 680 39.3 38,455 35,360 2,044
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.64 16.74 657 670 39.5 34,172 34,823 2,054
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.74 17.00 690 680 38.9 35,870 35,334 2,022
Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.34 19.60 732 760 39.9 38,041 39,520 2,074
Tellers......................................................... 12.71 12.13 501 485 39.4 26,075 25,237 2,051
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.09 15.50 638 620 39.7 32,602 32,240 2,026
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 15.86 15.58 624 622 39.4 32,472 32,323 2,047
Order clerks...................................................... 16.03 17.12 641 685 40.0 31,835 35,601 1,986
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 18.02 795 722 38.4 41,344 37,544 1,998
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.49 16.66 637 621 38.6 32,489 32,240 1,970
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.18 11.20 527 448 40.0 27,411 23,296 2,080
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.41 13.51 534 541 39.8 27,779 28,109 2,072
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.52 19.49 810 780 39.5 42,100 40,543 2,052
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.58 22.76 934 871 39.6 48,573 45,302 2,060
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.61 18.00 700 720 39.8 36,393 37,440 2,067
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.22 15.29 633 612 39.0 32,909 31,803 2,029
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 16.82 16.23 668 649 39.7 34,748 33,738 2,066
Data entry keyers............................................... 16.82 16.23 668 649 39.7 34,748 33,738 2,066
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.46 16.71 688 668 39.4 35,768 34,755 2,048
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.58 14.09 538 564 39.6 27,954 29,309 2,059
Office clerks, general............................................ 16.16 14.84 633 592 39.2 32,720 30,000 2,025
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.66 20.00 897 784 39.6 45,114 37,342 1,991
Electricians...................................................... 27.62 24.50 1,077 980 39.0 56,002 50,960 2,027
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.78 22.75 950 914 40.0 49,416 47,553 2,078
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 27.04 25.31 1,082 1,012 40.0 56,238 52,647 2,080
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.38 17.00 735 680 40.0 38,234 35,360 2,080
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.00 15.60 720 624 40.0 37,432 32,452 2,080
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and
installers....................................................... 24.86 24.92 994 997 40.0 51,708 51,834 2,080
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.30 21.50 848 860 39.8 44,094 44,720 2,070
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.11 21.50 793 860 39.4 41,242 44,720 2,051
Line installers and repairers..................................... 35.86 34.49 1,435 1,380 40.0 74,598 71,739 2,080
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 37.36 37.76 1,494 1,510 40.0 77,713 78,530 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 16.96 16.17 681 644 40.2 35,394 33,405 2,087
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers.......................................................... 24.43 22.57 987 903 40.4 51,302 46,946 2,100
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.59 18.33 744 733 40.0 38,671 38,126 2,080
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.92 12.75 670 502 39.6 34,705 26,125 2,051
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.78 15.87 631 635 40.0 32,820 33,010 2,080
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.19 16.54 788 662 41.1 40,966 34,403 2,135
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 14.44 13.99 585 588 40.5 30,419 30,554 2,107
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.15 16.44 741 632 40.8 37,696 31,200 2,077
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.92 19.31 832 772 41.7 42,765 40,165 2,147
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 21.06 21.92 920 877 43.7 46,992 45,594 2,232
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.21 14.68 634 567 39.1 32,960 29,494 2,034
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.75 12.33 511 493 40.1 25,995 24,336 2,039
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.10 14.03 564 561 40.0 28,247 25,376 2,003
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.88 11.65 437 466 40.1 22,709 24,232 2,088
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,
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $29.61 $25.79 $1,112 $996 37.5 $52,497 $50,419 1,773
Management occupations.............................................. 44.04 46.63 1,724 1,807 39.1 89,406 93,960 2,030
Education administrators.......................................... 45.65 50.29 1,735 1,925 38.0 89,833 100,120 1,968
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.39 35.32 1,186 1,236 36.6 61,732 64,279 1,906
Community and social services occupations........................... 29.27 24.41 1,066 945 36.4 52,250 47,632 1,785
Counselors........................................................ 38.56 31.26 1,367 1,169 35.4 62,359 60,764 1,617
Social workers.................................................... 19.94 19.62 748 736 37.5 38,874 38,255 1,950
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 24.75 20.98 912 775 36.8 47,429 40,291 1,916
Legal occupations................................................... 37.87 37.58 1,428 1,409 37.7 74,280 73,279 1,962
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.58 41.80 1,469 1,489 35.3 58,859 59,971 1,416
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.16 39.02 1,516 1,366 37.8 66,603 57,113 1,658
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.59 39.02 1,383 1,366 37.8 62,134 57,113 1,698
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 45.96 44.97 1,624 1,593 35.3 64,243 62,903 1,398
Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 42.66 42.56 1,543 1,551 36.2 59,423 58,476 1,393
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.58 43.44 1,594 1,521 35.0 63,343 60,822 1,390
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 45.65 43.44 1,598 1,521 35.0 63,473 61,391 1,390
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 45.42 42.53 1,585 1,479 34.9 63,052 58,397 1,388
Secondary school teachers....................................... 47.39 49.84 1,693 1,666 35.7 66,749 64,793 1,408
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 47.59 49.84 1,689 1,657 35.5 66,869 64,793 1,405
Special education teachers...................................... 46.26 48.10 1,656 1,785 35.8 65,385 66,031 1,413
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.59 49.59 1,625 1,668 35.6 64,530 70,030 1,415
Teacher assistants................................................ 15.80 15.25 537 502 34.0 20,810 18,950 1,317
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.21 26.22 1,093 1,004 38.8 55,252 51,722 1,959
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.57 15.62 660 614 39.8 34,339 31,905 2,072
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 16.77 16.28 668 649 39.8 34,742 33,737 2,071
Protective service occupations...................................... 29.61 27.98 1,183 1,125 40.0 60,311 58,410 2,037
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 24.26 21.66 970 866 40.0 50,478 45,053 2,081
Correctional officers and jailers............................... 24.26 21.66 970 866 40.0 50,478 45,053 2,081
Police officers................................................... 30.12 28.18 1,199 1,127 39.8 62,359 58,610 2,071
Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 30.12 28.18 1,199 1,127 39.8 62,359 58,610 2,071
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 20.23 19.58 729 756 36.0 31,045 36,533 1,534
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.61 14.79 651 584 39.2 33,748 30,349 2,032
Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.79 14.59 619 584 39.2 32,069 30,349 2,031
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.79 14.59 619 584 39.2 32,069 30,349 2,031
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 20.30 18.82 760 712 37.4 39,150 36,446 1,929
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 28.13 27.33 1,057 1,027 37.6 54,964 53,385 1,954
Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 15.90 16.29 564 570 35.5 29,335 29,641 1,845
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.04 20.77 798 807 37.9 41,276 41,665 1,962
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 23.54 23.36 892 934 37.9 46,359 48,589 1,969
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.05 19.45 725 760 38.0 37,327 38,900 1,959
Office clerks, general............................................ 17.08 16.89 620 609 36.3 29,876 29,277 1,749
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.67 19.69 787 788 40.0 40,923 40,955 2,080
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 27.03 26.47 1,069 1,059 39.5 55,580 55,058 2,056
Production occupations.............................................. 19.93 19.56 797 782 40.0 41,450 40,674 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.65 20.29 771 750 37.3 35,551 35,533 1,722
Bus drivers....................................................... 20.38 20.29 728 663 35.7 31,366 25,693 1,539
Bus drivers, school............................................. 18.87 20.29 626 609 33.2 24,482 21,913 1,297
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
CSA, January 2010
1-99 100-499 500
Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers
or more
All workers.................................. $22.82 $19.44 $22.28 $31.63
Management, professional, and related...... 35.54 29.72 35.61 42.09
Management, business, and financial...... 41.73 42.34 38.54 44.37
Professional and related................. 32.86 25.38 33.70 41.17
Service.................................... 11.16 9.62 11.72 15.22
Sales and office........................... 17.26 16.57 17.25 19.66
Sales and related........................ 17.72 17.03 17.15 29.67
Office and administrative support........ 17.00 16.11 17.29 18.26
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance............................... 23.11 22.39 26.01 23.48
Construction and extraction............. 22.53 22.54 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 23.69 22.18 26.37 23.99
Production, transportation, and material
moving.................................... 17.11 16.57 16.38 22.30
Production............................... 16.81 15.85 17.06 18.81
Transportation and material moving....... 17.32 16.86 15.41 25.01
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........................................................... 3.5 6.3 4.4 2.8
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.6 8.6 4.9 2.6
Management, business, and financial............................... 6.1 16.1 5.2 3.9
Professional and related.......................................... 4.3 5.7 7.3 3.9
Service............................................................. 2.3 4.8 3.9 3.5
Sales and office.................................................... 3.0 6.2 7.1 4.2
Sales and related................................................. 7.9 11.6 11.6 8.6
Office and administrative support................................. 3.2 2.7 7.6 3.3
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 9.8 13.6 10.2 4.0
Construction and extraction...................................... 16.2 18.0 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 5.9 8.0 10.6 3.6
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 1.8 5.0 7.5 5.7
Production........................................................ 3.5 14.0 7.7 6.5
Transportation and material moving................................ 3.1 3.8 9.7 6.8
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $21.59 $18.00 $857 $703 39.7 $43,863 $35,360 2,032
Management occupations.............................................. 51.27 41.46 2,059 1,731 40.2 106,301 90,000 2,073
Financial managers................................................ 42.74 31.59 1,695 1,264 39.7 88,155 65,707 2,063
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.16 26.96 1,169 1,043 40.1 60,771 54,219 2,084
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.98 25.20 919 1,008 40.0 47,806 52,416 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.59 32.69 1,168 1,270 38.2 60,726 66,019 1,985
Community and social services occupations........................... 17.45 16.12 691 646 39.6 35,925 33,592 2,059
Legal occupations
Lawyers........................................................... 73.43 64.10 2,917 2,500 39.7 151,661 130,000 2,065
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 15.55 13.00 602 577 38.7 26,367 24,372 1,696
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 17.62 15.00 693 600 39.3 29,655 30,000 1,683
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.83 19.28 903 771 39.6 46,963 40,100 2,057
Designers......................................................... 20.46 19.28 818 771 40.0 42,560 40,100 2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.26 24.63 1,127 971 39.9 58,613 50,500 2,074
Registered nurses................................................. 33.17 32.83 1,360 1,255 41.0 70,731 65,250 2,132
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.88 15.08 557 566 37.5 28,980 29,406 1,948
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.38 16.40 576 594 37.5 29,965 30,888 1,948
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.78 9.38 337 356 38.4 17,547 18,512 1,998
Cooks............................................................. 11.40 11.00 436 440 38.2 22,665 22,880 1,989
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.45 11.00 433 440 37.8 22,497 22,880 1,964
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.98 2.83 113 113 37.9 5,863 5,886 1,969
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.91 12.70 493 480 38.2 23,847 19,812 1,847
Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.94 11.40 396 381 36.3 20,615 19,812 1,885
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.33 12.15 404 381 35.6 20,989 19,812 1,852
Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 14.12 13.08 565 523 40.0 25,332 26,520 1,794
Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.64 11.50 506 460 40.0 26,301 23,920 2,080
Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.70 16.08 822 640 39.7 42,329 33,280 2,045
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 27.16 22.10 1,148 972 42.3 59,686 50,565 2,198
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 23.89 19.52 1,020 952 42.7 53,053 49,489 2,221
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.70 10.51 496 400 39.0 25,294 20,800 1,991
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.67 9.00 378 340 39.1 19,637 17,680 2,031
Cashiers...................................................... 9.67 9.00 378 340 39.1 19,637 17,680 2,031
Retail salespersons............................................. 13.63 10.55 528 410 38.8 26,584 20,034 1,951
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 27.55 26.00 1,102 1,040 40.0 57,307 54,080 2,080
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.44 16.00 652 640 39.6 33,826 33,280 2,058
Financial clerks.................................................. 17.35 16.74 686 670 39.6 35,685 34,823 2,057
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.28 16.74 646 670 39.7 33,596 34,823 2,064
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 19.60 18.45 773 738 39.4 40,185 38,376 2,051
Customer service representatives.................................. 12.65 12.45 505 498 40.0 26,282 25,902 2,078
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.27 16.50 638 627 39.2 33,195 32,614 2,041
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.82 18.38 792 720 40.0 41,184 37,440 2,078
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.87 22.76 925 853 40.4 48,082 44,376 2,102
Office clerks, general............................................ 12.56 12.00 498 480 39.7 25,573 24,729 2,036
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.68 20.00 897 760 39.6 44,992 37,342 1,983
Electricians...................................................... 27.47 23.00 1,069 920 38.9 55,586 47,840 2,023
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.33 21.50 893 860 40.0 46,453 44,720 2,080
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 17.64 17.00 706 680 40.0 36,689 35,360 2,080
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 16.82 15.60 673 624 40.0 34,994 32,452 2,080
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.77 18.75 751 750 40.0 39,032 39,000 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 15.95 14.75 636 590 39.9 33,030 30,160 2,070
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.36 12.62 535 505 40.0 27,796 26,250 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.40 16.50 718 617 41.2 36,171 31,200 2,079
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.73 18.26 780 726 41.7 40,023 36,400 2,137
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.50 21.92 891 877 43.5 45,366 45,594 2,213
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.93 15.00 657 600 38.8 34,165 31,200 2,018
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.68 11.55 467 462 40.0 23,272 24,000 1,992
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.80 12.60 512 504 40.0 24,534 24,000 1,916
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $27.62 $22.79 $1,086 $896 39.3 $56,038 $46,469 2,029
Management occupations.............................................. 51.28 45.78 2,049 1,827 40.0 106,530 95,000 2,077
General and operations managers................................... 69.01 62.83 2,829 2,513 41.0 147,106 130,686 2,132
Marketing and sales managers...................................... 52.09 50.68 2,170 2,072 41.7 112,829 107,749 2,166
Computer and information systems managers......................... 57.88 57.29 2,274 2,148 39.3 118,236 111,717 2,043
Financial managers................................................ 65.99 61.00 2,605 2,440 39.5 135,477 126,886 2,053
Human resources managers.......................................... 51.82 60.10 2,014 2,404 38.9 104,731 125,000 2,021
Education administrators.......................................... 30.83 31.29 1,176 1,177 38.2 61,169 61,185 1,984
Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 30.83 31.29 1,176 1,177 38.2 61,169 61,185 1,984
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.84 31.96 1,340 1,239 39.6 69,690 64,403 2,059
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 25.86 20.91 1,000 813 38.7 51,975 42,299 2,010
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 39.82 39.48 1,598 1,579 40.1 83,091 82,118 2,087
Management analysts............................................... 39.82 33.38 1,588 1,335 39.9 82,552 69,437 2,073
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.98 26.92 1,112 1,058 39.7 57,828 55,000 2,066
Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.52 30.00 1,116 1,130 39.1 58,047 58,750 2,035
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.41 37.70 1,471 1,469 39.3 76,274 75,941 2,039
Computer software engineers....................................... 47.20 43.75 1,879 1,750 39.8 97,725 91,000 2,070
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.13 40.66 1,791 1,627 39.7 93,111 84,581 2,063
Computer support specialists...................................... 26.55 25.76 1,049 989 39.5 53,959 51,453 2,032
Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.79 40.75 1,474 1,624 39.0 76,642 84,438 2,028
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 37.81 31.73 1,516 1,277 40.1 78,854 66,383 2,086
Engineers......................................................... 40.81 34.12 1,641 1,428 40.2 85,331 74,241 2,091
Mechanical engineers............................................ 39.25 34.37 1,570 1,375 40.0 81,647 71,490 2,080
Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 28.76 28.37 1,140 1,118 39.6 59,282 58,149 2,061
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 36.87 28.65 1,397 1,146 37.9 71,877 58,993 1,949
Life scientists................................................... 53.06 45.76 1,932 1,716 36.4 100,478 89,238 1,894
Medical scientists.............................................. 55.76 40.92 1,994 1,432 35.8 103,709 74,482 1,860
Community and social services occupations........................... 19.29 19.23 755 769 39.1 39,235 40,000 2,033
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.48 42.72 1,602 1,576 38.6 70,220 69,633 1,693
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.60 44.10 1,879 1,894 39.5 83,926 81,931 1,763
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 41.41 32.52 1,641 1,266 39.6 79,781 64,000 1,927
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 41.22 34.34 1,608 1,316 39.0 83,594 68,414 2,028
Physicians and surgeons........................................... 75.62 81.99 2,954 3,280 39.1 153,633 170,541 2,032
Registered nurses................................................. 34.90 34.57 1,352 1,340 38.7 70,279 69,695 2,014
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.63 22.23 888 889 39.2 46,161 46,238 2,040
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.82 29.33 1,130 1,100 39.2 58,776 57,194 2,040
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.22 22.71 909 900 39.1 47,258 46,821 2,035
Medical records and health information technicians................ 12.95 13.63 514 545 39.7 26,748 28,350 2,066
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.13 13.39 549 520 38.9 28,542 27,019 2,021
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.96 12.68 500 494 38.6 26,017 25,709 2,008
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.27 13.08 510 497 38.4 26,497 25,818 1,997
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.65 16.57 656 663 39.4 34,121 34,468 2,049
Protective service occupations...................................... 13.04 13.45 509 529 39.0 26,478 27,518 2,030
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.40 12.00 483 480 38.9 25,107 24,960 2,025
Security guards................................................. 12.40 12.00 483 480 38.9 25,107 24,960 2,025
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.27 12.10 480 473 39.1 24,753 23,462 2,017
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 20.11 20.13 804 805 40.0 41,038 41,870 2,041
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 20.11 20.13 804 805 40.0 41,038 41,870 2,041
Cooks............................................................. 13.23 12.80 524 512 39.6 27,250 26,624 2,060
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.71 11.56 460 448 39.3 23,915 23,297 2,042
Food preparation workers.......................................... 13.23 12.00 529 480 40.0 26,361 22,779 1,992
Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.59 6.49 287 227 37.8 14,776 11,812 1,946
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.03 5.69 226 199 37.4 11,729 10,356 1,946
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 11.94 12.38 468 495 39.2 24,347 25,750 2,039
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.97 14.28 590 567 39.4 30,686 29,474 2,050
Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.78 14.17 583 567 39.4 30,312 29,474 2,051
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.22 15.88 609 635 40.0 31,649 33,030 2,080
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 13.20 12.50 493 445 37.4 25,657 23,159 1,944
Personal care and service occupations............................... 18.48 12.00 609 483 33.0 31,677 25,090 1,714
Gaming services workers........................................... 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Gaming dealers.................................................. 7.51 8.00 301 320 40.0 15,628 16,640 2,080
Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.36 22.15 930 869 39.8 48,183 45,074 2,062
Retail sales workers.............................................. 16.61 13.37 664 534 40.0 34,259 27,706 2,063
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.25 11.50 443 444 39.4 22,340 23,109 1,987
Cashiers...................................................... 11.25 11.50 443 444 39.4 22,340 23,109 1,987
Retail salespersons............................................. 18.64 14.51 750 575 40.2 38,987 29,890 2,091
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.27 17.71 715 686 39.2 36,956 35,601 2,023
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 24.83 27.43 969 1,065 39.0 50,363 55,361 2,029
Financial clerks.................................................. 20.05 18.37 784 733 39.1 40,775 38,123 2,034
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.61 17.82 687 680 39.0 35,702 35,338 2,027
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.25 16.22 625 608 38.5 32,492 31,621 2,000
Customer service representatives.................................. 18.11 18.45 715 716 39.5 36,166 36,962 1,997
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 16.26 16.00 640 640 39.4 33,271 33,280 2,047
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 20.70 18.02 795 722 38.4 41,344 37,544 1,998
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.59 16.66 636 616 38.4 32,182 32,021 1,940
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.77 10.60 511 424 40.0 26,568 22,048 2,080
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.14 13.23 523 529 39.8 27,209 27,518 2,071
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.36 21.00 830 828 38.9 43,158 43,058 2,021
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.10 23.48 941 920 39.0 48,927 47,840 2,030
Medical secretaries............................................. 18.01 16.64 700 666 38.9 36,392 34,609 2,020
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.87 18.00 653 675 38.7 33,979 35,100 2,014
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 17.04 16.53 681 661 40.0 35,417 34,382 2,078
Data entry keyers............................................... 17.04 16.53 681 661 40.0 35,417 34,382 2,078
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 17.91 17.71 698 708 39.0 36,316 36,828 2,028
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 12.38 12.53 487 490 39.4 25,341 25,467 2,047
Office clerks, general............................................ 19.41 18.52 752 737 38.8 39,119 38,334 2,015
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.41 22.21 896 888 40.0 46,243 46,197 2,064
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.58 23.89 1,021 956 39.9 53,081 49,691 2,075
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics,
installers, and repairers........................................ 28.82 25.89 1,153 1,036 40.0 59,946 53,851 2,080
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 20.07 18.00 803 720 40.0 41,753 37,440 2,080
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.07 18.00 803 720 40.0 41,753 37,440 2,080
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 23.77 23.68 942 947 39.6 48,986 49,254 2,061
Line installers and repairers..................................... 38.39 37.76 1,535 1,510 40.0 79,845 78,530 2,080
Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 38.39 37.76 1,535 1,510 40.0 79,845 78,530 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 17.55 16.54 708 662 40.3 36,803 34,403 2,096
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 16.20 15.87 648 635 40.0 33,695 33,010 2,080
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.63 16.54 864 662 41.9 44,920 34,403 2,178
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.26 13.99 625 588 40.9 32,490 30,554 2,128
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.64 16.25 786 674 40.0 40,743 35,048 2,074
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 24.59 24.16 1,035 999 42.1 53,810 51,938 2,188
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 24.58 24.41 1,116 1,006 45.4 58,048 52,299 2,362
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 26.32 27.01 1,053 1,080 40.0 54,744 56,185 2,080
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.18 13.38 567 535 40.0 29,493 27,830 2,080
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.76 12.71 552 519 40.1 28,696 27,010 2,086
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 15.17 14.29 607 572 40.0 31,550 29,727 2,080
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.02 11.80 444 472 40.3 23,089 24,544 2,095
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland,
PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
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........................................................... $26.20 $23.54 $29.66 $22.92 $22.73 $27.62
Management, professional, and related............................... 38.83 37.40 39.33 35.49 35.47 36.04
Management, business, and financial............................... 36.34 – 36.34 41.64 41.73 39.60
Professional and related.......................................... 38.92 37.40 39.48 32.69 32.58 34.72
Service............................................................. 21.30 16.41 24.73 10.93 10.40 21.92
Sales and office.................................................... 17.46 15.39 19.49 17.46 17.34 20.56
Sales and related................................................. 10.68 9.24 – 18.09 18.09 –
Office and administrative support................................. 19.46 19.37 19.51 17.12 16.90 20.59
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 28.92 29.96 22.82 18.96 18.72 22.99
Construction and extraction...................................... 28.57 30.17 18.64 18.02 17.87 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 29.41 29.76 27.28 19.92 19.57 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 19.89 19.78 20.47 16.01 16.01 –
Production........................................................ 18.02 17.85 19.93 16.29 16.29 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 21.32 21.52 20.61 15.84 15.84 –
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........................................................... 4.2 7.8 3.5 3.6 3.8 4.7
Management, professional, and related............................... 5.0 19.3 1.6 3.4 3.5 6.4
Management, business, and financial............................... 9.6 – 9.6 5.9 6.1 2.4
Professional and related.......................................... 5.1 19.3 1.4 4.0 4.2 8.9
Service............................................................. 5.0 6.7 6.3 2.5 2.6 5.5
Sales and office.................................................... 10.3 19.1 5.0 3.3 3.4 4.4
Sales and related................................................. 19.7 7.6 – 8.3 8.3 –
Office and administrative support................................. 4.6 8.6 5.3 3.1 3.3 4.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.0 6.8 2.0 1.8 1.8 10.4
Construction and extraction...................................... 10.5 8.7 5.3 3.5 3.7 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.0 6.7 4.8 3.0 3.2 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.0 4.7 4.9 1.8 1.8 –
Production........................................................ 6.0 6.3 13.8 5.3 5.3 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 4.4 5.7 3.5 2.1 2.1 –
1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by
totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups,
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
Time Incentive
Occupational group(3)
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $23.14 $22.32 $29.24 $29.24
Management, professional, and related............................... 35.13 34.59 65.24 65.24
Management, business, and financial............................... 38.95 38.97 69.48 69.48
Professional and related.......................................... 33.79 32.85 – –
Service............................................................. 13.55 11.16 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 16.29 15.93 23.50 23.50
Sales and related................................................. 13.93 13.88 24.78 24.78
Office and administrative support................................. 17.14 16.76 19.92 19.92
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 22.96 22.97 – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – 22.53 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.77 23.44 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.94 16.73 23.10 23.10
Production........................................................ 16.72 16.63 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 17.09 16.80 22.26 22.26
Time Incentive
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 2.0 2.3 16.7 16.7
Management, professional, and related............................... 2.3 2.7 22.0 22.0
Management, business, and financial............................... 2.7 2.9 21.0 21.0
Professional and related.......................................... 3.5 4.3 – –
Service............................................................. 2.0 2.2 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 1.9 2.1 9.7 9.7
Sales and related................................................. 4.6 4.7 11.6 11.6
Office and administrative support................................. 2.3 2.5 18.6 18.6
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 9.1 10.1 – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – 16.2 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 5.6 6.3 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.4
Production........................................................ 3.6 3.7 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 4.2 4.5 7.4 7.4
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA,
January 2010
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........................................................... – – $17.67 – – $29.39 $23.43 $9.14 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – – 36.44 – – 39.66 29.87 34.57 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – – 47.27 – – 47.49 31.98 37.31 –
Professional and related.......................................... – – 30.84 – – 35.16 29.68 – –
Service............................................................. – – 13.98 – – 11.07 13.75 8.12 –
Sales and office.................................................... – – 13.37 – – 23.51 16.95 10.76 –
Sales and related................................................. – – 13.85 – – 36.72 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. – – 12.46 – – 20.54 17.03 12.27 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – 23.22 – – 20.66 21.14 19.09 –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – 23.27 – – 24.83 20.43 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – 18.31 – – 12.89 – 9.30 –
Production........................................................ – – 19.20 – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – – 18.21 – – 13.85 – 8.07 –
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........................................................... – – 4.1 – – 11.1 3.2 3.3 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – – 11.1 – – 6.6 6.0 8.0 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – – 11.1 – – 14.0 11.8 14.9 –
Professional and related.......................................... – – 13.3 – – 5.7 7.4 – –
Service............................................................. – – 2.6 – – 12.9 2.6 3.1 –
Sales and office.................................................... – – 3.2 – – 10.4 4.0 20.3 –
Sales and related................................................. – – 2.2 – – 14.9 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. – – 4.8 – – 6.9 2.7 14.7 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – 11.9 – – 4.2 8.9 20.5 –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – 12.0 – – 11.0 11.7 – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – 4.0 – – 11.5 – .8 –
Production........................................................ – – 11.4 – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – – 4.7 – – 12.8 – 2.3 –
1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2007 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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland,
PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January 2010
Private State and
Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local
workers workers government
workers
All workers........................................................... 2,550,400 2,241,000 309,400
Management, professional, and related............................... 863,000 716,200 146,800
Management, business, and financial............................... 206,600 193,000 13,700
Professional and related.......................................... 656,400 523,200 133,200
Service............................................................. 523,900 444,600 79,300
Sales and office.................................................... 667,800 621,500 46,300
Sales and related................................................. 251,200 249,600 –
Office and administrative support................................. 416,600 371,800 44,800
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 179,800 162,400 17,400
Construction and extraction...................................... 91,700 82,600 9,100
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 87,000 79,200 7,800
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 315,900 296,400 19,500
Production........................................................ 119,200 115,900 3,300
Transportation and material moving................................ 196,700 180,500 16,300
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, Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA, January
2010
Private State and
Establishments Total industry local
government
Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 120,371 117,617 2,754
Total in sample....................................................... 809 733 76
Responding........................................................ 499 437 62
Refused or unable to provide data................................. 205 191 14
Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 105 105 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 2007 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: October 8, 2010