August 29, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Part-timers earn more in some health care jobs
Although in most
occupations, part-time workers earn less per hour than their full-time
counterparts, in some health care occupations part-timers actually have
higher average hourly earnings.
[Chart data—TXT]
In all of the occupations shown in the
chart, the average hourly earnings of part-time workers exceeds that of
full-timers. In these occupations, the ratio of hourly earnings of
part-time workers to full-time workers ranges from 1.51 for physicians to
1.02 for registered nurses. For the other occupations in the chart, the
ratios generally are closer to the nurses’ ratio than to the physicians’—for
example, speech therapists and occupational therapists both have ratios
around 1.2.
These data on earning of part-time workers
are the products of the National
Compensation Survey. Read more in "Part-time Workers’ Earnings:
Some Comparisons" (PDF
120K), by Jerome E.
King, Compensation and Working Conditions, Summer 2000.
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