NC SM 03/00/2010 Table: Northwest Texas, Summary, November 2009 Table 1. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Northwest Texas, November 2009 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........................................................... $17.03 10.7 $17.14 11.9 $14.47 28.9 Management occupations.............................................. 35.90 4.5 35.90 4.5 – – Education administrators.......................................... 35.12 2.1 35.12 2.1 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 35.12 2.1 35.12 2.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.72 10.8 19.72 10.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.69 1.3 25.03 1.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.81 1.3 27.81 1.3 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.92 .9 28.92 .9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.92 .9 28.92 .9 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.32 6.6 28.32 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.32 6.6 28.32 6.6 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.48 1.1 29.48 1.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.48 1.1 29.48 1.1 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 29.20 .4 29.20 .4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.20 .4 29.20 .4 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 12.10 2.1 12.10 2.1 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.02 25.8 25.03 29.4 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 15.06 3.9 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.10 8.8 8.13 9.5 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.72 7.6 12.93 7.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.97 6.6 10.18 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.44 14.6 12.44 16.0 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.38 9.3 14.54 9.5 – – 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 2. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Northwest Texas, November 2009 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.25 $9.07 $13.68 $21.65 $31.32 Management occupations.............................................. 30.29 30.80 35.26 37.69 38.17 Education administrators.......................................... 30.80 33.19 35.26 37.58 38.17 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 30.80 33.19 35.26 37.58 38.17 Community and social services occupations........................... 13.47 15.67 19.57 21.65 28.74 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.43 16.57 26.05 31.57 34.89 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.88 23.96 29.35 32.07 36.11 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.73 23.39 28.95 32.60 35.18 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.31 23.20 28.95 32.08 34.20 Secondary school teachers....................................... 22.01 25.57 29.76 32.28 36.11 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 22.01 25.57 29.42 31.89 36.11 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.54 10.80 11.43 13.57 15.41 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.57 16.97 18.65 25.00 29.71 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.00 13.19 15.38 18.10 19.87 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.25 7.25 7.25 8.88 9.79 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.49 9.05 11.94 15.45 18.71 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 10.65 11.94 13.39 15.83 21.82 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 3. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Northwest Texas, November 2009 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........................................................... $17.14 $13.99 $651 $539 38.0 $31,067 $28,013 1,813 Management occupations.............................................. 35.90 35.26 1,300 1,392 36.2 61,352 63,003 1,709 Education administrators.......................................... 35.12 35.26 1,405 1,410 40.0 63,157 63,748 1,798 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 35.12 35.26 1,405 1,410 40.0 63,157 63,748 1,798 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.72 19.57 785 783 39.8 40,028 40,710 2,030 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.03 26.43 980 1,014 39.1 37,372 40,340 1,493 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.92 29.35 1,109 1,144 38.3 41,751 42,928 1,444 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.32 28.95 1,091 1,141 38.5 40,814 42,660 1,441 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.08 28.95 1,071 1,141 38.2 40,063 42,660 1,427 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.48 29.76 1,130 1,169 38.3 42,753 43,767 1,450 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 29.20 29.42 1,120 1,154 38.3 42,219 43,720 1,446 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.10 11.43 460 434 38.0 17,169 16,226 1,418 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.03 17.40 – – – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.13 7.25 293 254 36.0 14,231 13,195 1,751 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.93 11.94 516 478 39.9 25,946 24,839 2,007 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.54 13.39 576 535 39.6 27,936 26,832 1,921 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