Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA National Compensation Survey (NCS) Bulletin
NC BL 09/00/2010 Table: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA, Bulletin, March 2010
Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $20.23 3.9 33.9 $19.35 4.4 33.9 $28.57 7.1 34.4
Worker characteristics(4)(5)
Management, professional, and related............................... 31.80 2.9 34.5 30.65 3.3 34.4 38.10 7.1 34.8
Management, business, and financial............................... 32.75 4.0 40.2 32.49 4.2 40.4 38.25 8.9 37.0
Professional and related.......................................... 31.35 3.5 32.3 29.60 4.2 31.8 38.08 7.5 34.6
Service............................................................. 10.63 7.2 30.7 9.97 7.4 30.5 20.03 9.8 33.2
Sales and office.................................................... 14.74 4.4 33.0 14.51 4.4 33.1 17.77 15.0 32.4
Sales and related................................................. 13.98 5.9 30.7 13.98 5.9 30.7 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. 15.30 4.7 34.9 14.95 4.5 35.3 17.77 15.0 32.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.18 5.1 39.1 18.17 5.6 39.2 18.28 10.9 38.7
Construction and extraction...................................... 16.65 3.7 38.6 16.69 3.4 38.7 16.42 14.3 38.1
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.17 8.3 39.5 19.02 8.7 39.4 21.82 6.6 40.0
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 18.07 6.0 36.5 18.12 6.3 36.6 17.19 11.2 34.7
Production........................................................ 17.48 3.4 38.0 17.39 3.5 38.0 – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 18.56 10.0 35.3 18.76 10.8 35.4 16.20 8.6 33.8
Full time........................................................... 22.23 3.7 39.2 21.27 4.3 39.3 30.38 6.5 37.7
Part time........................................................... 10.60 6.4 20.7 10.52 6.7 20.7 11.93 10.7 19.2
Union............................................................... 22.33 4.7 35.9 19.17 6.3 35.4 28.67 4.2 37.1
Nonunion............................................................ 19.67 5.4 33.5 19.38 5.5 33.6 28.28 26.4 28.9
Time................................................................ 20.18 4.1 33.7 19.24 4.7 33.6 28.57 7.1 34.4
Incentive........................................................... 21.51 3.0 40.6 21.51 3.0 40.6 – – –
Establishment characteristics
Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 17.91 6.4 38.8 (6) (6) (6)
Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 19.61 5.0 33.1 (6) (6) (6)
1-99 workers........................................................ 16.43 5.6 31.9 16.30 5.8 31.9 19.34 22.2 31.7
100-499 workers..................................................... 19.03 10.0 34.7 17.60 10.4 35.0 34.16 16.6 32.6
500 workers or more................................................. 26.86 3.1 36.6 26.36 3.7 36.6 29.10 3.6 36.3
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 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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
CSA, March 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........................................................... $20.23 3.9 $22.23 3.7 $10.60 6.4
Management occupations.............................................. 37.79 5.6 37.73 5.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.94 6.4 27.94 6.4 – –
Level 11.................................................. 37.46 10.1 37.24 10.5 – –
Level 12.................................................. 52.63 11.1 52.63 11.1 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.22 7.7 44.22 7.7 – –
General and operations managers................................... 28.80 5.4 28.80 5.4 – –
Financial managers................................................ 34.80 9.0 34.80 9.0 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 35.18 13.0 35.18 13.0 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.26 3.2 26.23 3.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.07 4.6 22.79 4.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 21.07 5.3 21.07 5.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.61 3.4 27.61 3.4 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.82 3.3 26.82 3.3 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.40 9.7 23.40 9.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.43 14.3 22.43 14.3 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.41 5.6 23.22 6.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 24.46 6.6 24.46 6.6 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 23.93 5.0 23.93 5.0 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.45 5.9 33.45 6.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 17.13 12.2 – – – –
Level 8 .................................................. 23.11 10.1 23.11 10.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.14 7.5 31.27 7.8 – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.19 2.5 42.19 2.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.00 9.2 34.00 9.2 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 34.89 19.0 34.89 19.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 18.8 24.80 18.8 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.13 3.8 32.13 3.8 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 4.9 34.24 4.9 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 36.86 3.5 36.86 3.5 – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.20 1.8 37.20 1.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 36.86 3.5 36.86 3.5 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.01 9.9 23.01 9.9 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.78 6.9 16.78 6.9 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 14.69 4.9 14.69 4.9 – –
Social workers.................................................... 16.81 11.1 16.81 11.1 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 55.96 9.4 55.96 9.4 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 38.04 6.0 40.56 6.6 12.94 7.4
Level 6 .................................................. 12.35 4.2 – – 11.75 3.2
Level 7 .................................................. 14.24 7.9 16.72 8.9 12.15 9.1
Level 9 .................................................. 42.91 .7 42.99 .7 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.49 2.1 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ – – 61.18 12.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 43.49 2.1 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 55.41 4.6 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.04 2.5 40.98 3.8 11.12 8.1
Level 9 .................................................. 42.81 1.4 42.81 1.4 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.28 .7 43.42 1.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.42 1.1 43.42 1.1 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 41.17 1.0 44.11 1.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 44.11 1.0 44.11 1.0 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.71 3.1 39.71 3.1 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.71 3.1 39.71 3.1 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.40 9.2 12.68 9.5 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.37 12.0 26.00 4.3 13.26 23.0
Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.36 19.0 26.30 4.7 14.53 28.2
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.53 2.9 26.87 4.3 25.06 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 12.08 6.5 11.84 9.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.82 4.9 17.71 5.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.01 7.7 17.44 8.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.32 4.0 24.18 2.6 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 27.62 2.4 27.56 2.8 27.71 10.2
Level 9 .................................................. 29.81 4.8 29.70 3.9 30.50 15.5
Level 10.................................................. 34.19 11.3 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.84 4.4 – – – –
Registered nurses................................................. 28.84 3.0 29.45 2.8 26.70 3.6
Level 7 .................................................. 24.20 7.9 24.54 6.7 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 26.67 1.9 28.09 2.0 24.79 4.2
Level 9 .................................................. 28.75 5.0 28.91 4.9 27.89 8.5
Level 10.................................................. 33.60 11.1 – – – –
Therapists........................................................ 26.87 11.5 27.41 4.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.67 6.7 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 9.7 19.60 9.7 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 7.0 24.15 7.0 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.82 3.0 17.66 3.4 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.96 2.2 12.27 1.7 10.29 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.03 3.1 11.39 2.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.63 2.7 11.90 1.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.23 .7 13.31 1.0 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.60 2.6 11.85 2.1 10.15 3.1
Level 2 .................................................. 11.06 4.5 11.59 4.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.84 1.4 11.90 1.1 – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.18 1.6 12.23 1.2 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.47 2.9 12.46 3.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.00 2.0 12.08 1.4 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 9.2 13.45 10.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.43 2.0 13.60 2.7 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 17.60 21.5 18.22 21.7 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.83 10.6 8.80 6.6 6.70 19.2
Level 1 .................................................. 5.79 20.1 6.23 19.7 5.35 19.0
Level 2 .................................................. 6.76 3.8 6.07 8.3 7.40 3.3
Level 3 .................................................. 7.08 22.9 9.24 7.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.19 7.6 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.33 5.8 10.47 6.5 10.07 12.9
Level 3 .................................................. 9.57 2.6 9.81 4.0 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.79 6.8 11.36 8.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 9.83 4.6 – – – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.07 10.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.11 7.4 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 9.68 9.5 – – – –
Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.91 16.5 4.39 14.1 3.51 11.9
Level 1 .................................................. – – – – 3.79 15.2
Level 2 .................................................. 3.36 5.3 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.11 2.0 3.23 .3 3.03 1.7
Level 1 .................................................. 3.11 .0 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.32 3.7 – – – –
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 4.1 – – – –
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.25 4.0 8.95 10.2 7.68 1.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.78 .9 – – 7.62 1.6
Level 2 .................................................. 7.99 4.1 – – 7.71 2.8
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.25 4.1 8.95 10.2 7.65 1.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.70 1.1 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 8.02 4.3 – – 7.74 3.0
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.97 4.8 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.49 11.8 14.29 13.3 10.15 4.2
Level 1 .................................................. 8.50 5.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.22 4.8 11.64 5.1 9.63 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 15.00 9.8 15.62 12.1 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.45 4.0 11.87 4.5 9.92 4.0
Level 1 .................................................. 8.50 5.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.28 4.8 11.73 5.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.00 9.8 15.62 12.1 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.60 8.9 13.01 11.0 10.19 13.4
Level 2 .................................................. 11.91 10.9 12.36 13.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.71 10.9 16.86 13.2 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.49 5.5 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.31 8.1 10.76 11.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 11.60 3.1 – – – –
Child care workers................................................ 9.56 11.8 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.98 5.9 16.84 4.9 8.61 3.4
Level 1 .................................................. 7.68 .5 – – 7.68 .5
Level 2 .................................................. 8.77 5.9 10.04 2.5 8.21 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 9.58 8.8 11.43 4.3 8.48 7.6
Level 4 .................................................. 16.88 4.0 17.05 5.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.64 9.2 19.64 9.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.52 18.7 20.52 18.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.54 24.3 16.54 24.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 17.4 13.37 17.4 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.26 6.6 14.85 11.4 8.42 .7
Level 1 .................................................. 7.68 .5 – – 7.68 .5
Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 5.6 10.16 1.7 8.35 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 9.34 11.4 – – 8.51 7.9
Level 4 .................................................. 17.96 7.2 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.67 6.7 – – 8.21 5.9
Level 3 .................................................. 10.04 4.5 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.67 6.7 – – 8.21 5.9
Level 3 .................................................. 10.04 4.5 – – – –
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.26 18.0 16.53 15.0 – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 12.0 17.81 12.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 11.84 12.6 15.88 19.4 8.32 1.2
Level 2 .................................................. 9.60 .7 – – 9.08 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.20 8.7 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.30 4.7 16.06 5.1 10.87 5.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.78 3.6 – – 8.72 3.7
Level 2 .................................................. 10.98 5.0 11.20 7.3 10.73 8.1
Level 3 .................................................. 12.39 3.9 12.61 4.3 11.16 6.3
Level 4 .................................................. 16.12 5.7 16.14 6.0 15.77 3.0
Level 5 .................................................. 15.80 4.1 15.81 4.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.04 8.2 20.04 8.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.17 6.0 23.17 6.0 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.36 11.0 14.72 10.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 18.02 6.4 18.02 6.4 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.31 10.6 16.38 10.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.23 15.0 19.30 15.1 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.45 5.4 13.37 5.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.27 2.8 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.75 15.3 17.75 15.3 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 14.25 8.5 14.55 8.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.87 6.2 – – – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.30 1.2 – – – –
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 9.24 16.1 – – – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.48 9.5 16.48 9.5 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.00 4.3 14.08 3.5 11.26 7.0
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.47 17.2 12.70 17.1 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.60 10.1 – – 9.60 6.1
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.15 4.6 17.33 4.9 15.19 6.3
Level 3 .................................................. 13.07 .7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.57 8.1 14.56 8.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 14.77 3.3 14.71 3.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.63 5.6 18.63 5.6 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.77 8.3 19.97 8.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 17.95 5.4 17.95 5.4 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 16.62 9.0 17.29 8.2 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.86 6.6 14.63 7.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.40 10.1 14.40 10.1 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.36 1.5 14.37 1.4 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 8.1 14.63 8.1 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.48 7.5 15.12 6.3 10.21 3.5
Level 2 .................................................. 10.22 3.8 – – 10.22 3.8
Level 3 .................................................. 12.88 8.9 12.88 8.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.66 8.3 15.66 8.3 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.65 3.7 16.85 3.6 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 13.26 1.9 13.26 1.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.18 14.6 18.18 14.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.81 5.6 19.81 5.6 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 13.26 15.5 – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.17 8.3 19.27 8.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 11.6 15.08 10.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.93 4.5 20.93 4.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.60 5.3 21.60 5.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.39 6.4 26.39 6.4 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.75 8.1 19.55 8.5 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.47 5.2 20.15 4.9 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.96 5.9 19.98 5.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.19 2.5 18.19 2.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 23.63 4.4 23.63 4.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.48 1.7 22.48 1.7 – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 19.33 4.3 19.33 4.3 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.47 9.5 18.51 9.5 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 10.68 6.2 – – – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.48 3.4 18.26 2.7 9.96 16.2
Level 1 .................................................. 8.76 8.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.28 7.1 10.46 8.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.36 8.7 13.13 9.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 20.67 3.9 20.67 3.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.36 6.5 17.36 6.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.17 5.0 22.17 5.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.31 2.7 28.31 2.7 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.23 17.5 14.96 20.2 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.49 9.1 17.49 9.1 – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.60 .9 15.60 .9 – –
Machinists........................................................ 23.07 11.2 23.07 11.2 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.56 10.0 21.04 9.3 10.88 11.6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.86 4.2 8.96 5.9 8.79 5.1
Level 2 .................................................. 14.10 9.8 14.61 10.0 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.15 4.6 15.86 4.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.80 5.7 19.51 5.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.21 8.2 19.21 8.2 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.59 7.9 18.08 8.0 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.15 8.2 16.53 8.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.93 11.2 16.93 11.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.66 7.7 18.66 7.7 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.21 7.7 18.33 7.8 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.04 5.3 18.04 5.3 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.51 13.6 17.55 13.5 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.79 8.5 – – – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.09 7.9 14.25 15.2 10.84 12.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.87 5.1 8.62 6.4 9.06 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 15.35 12.2 15.35 12.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.20 4.0 15.20 4.0 – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.38 7.9 13.39 18.3 11.04 13.3
Level 1 .................................................. 8.90 6.1 – – 9.14 4.0
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), Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $19.35 4.4 $21.27 4.3 $10.52 6.7
Management occupations.............................................. 37.52 5.9 37.46 5.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 28.01 6.6 28.01 6.6 – –
Level 11.................................................. 36.60 10.2 36.34 10.6 – –
Level 12.................................................. 55.83 11.8 55.83 11.8 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.22 7.7 44.22 7.7 – –
General and operations managers................................... 28.96 5.7 28.96 5.7 – –
Financial managers................................................ 33.67 7.9 33.67 7.9 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.32 3.2 26.28 3.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.07 4.6 22.79 4.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 21.07 5.3 21.07 5.3 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.98 3.5 27.98 3.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.82 3.3 26.82 3.3 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.40 9.7 23.40 9.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.43 14.3 22.43 14.3 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.39 5.9 23.20 6.6 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 23.98 5.6 23.98 5.6 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.81 6.0 33.81 6.1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.52 9.1 – – – –
Level 11.................................................. 42.19 2.5 42.19 2.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.00 9.2 34.00 9.2 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 34.89 19.0 34.89 19.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 18.8 24.80 18.8 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.63 4.2 32.63 4.2 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 4.9 34.24 4.9 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 36.86 3.5 36.86 3.5 – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.20 1.8 37.20 1.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 36.86 3.5 36.86 3.5 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.31 7.6 21.31 7.6 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.22 8.3 15.22 8.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 14.39 4.8 14.39 4.8 – –
Social workers.................................................... 14.91 8.2 14.91 8.2 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 42.43 16.4 49.78 19.7 14.39 10.8
Level 7 .................................................. 14.23 10.3 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 18.82 17.9 – – – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.36 12.0 26.00 4.3 13.17 23.1
Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.32 19.1 26.30 4.7 14.43 28.4
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.13 8.9 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.13 8.9 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 24.13 8.9 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.13 8.9 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.33 3.0 26.62 4.4 25.06 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 12.08 6.5 11.84 9.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.82 4.9 17.71 5.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.84 8.2 17.09 9.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.32 4.0 24.18 2.6 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 27.62 2.4 27.56 2.8 27.71 10.2
Level 9 .................................................. 29.15 4.5 28.93 3.1 30.50 15.5
Level 10.................................................. 34.19 11.3 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.84 4.4 – – – –
Registered nurses................................................. 28.42 2.8 28.93 2.5 26.70 3.6
Level 7 .................................................. 24.20 7.9 24.54 6.7 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 26.67 1.9 28.09 2.0 24.79 4.2
Level 9 .................................................. 27.80 4.2 27.78 3.6 27.89 8.5
Level 10.................................................. 33.60 11.1 – – – –
Therapists........................................................ 26.87 11.5 27.41 4.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.67 6.7 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 9.7 19.60 9.7 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 7.0 24.15 7.0 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.40 3.4 17.21 4.2 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.85 2.2 12.16 1.7 10.29 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.03 3.1 11.39 2.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.33 3.8 11.58 2.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.23 .7 13.31 1.0 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.42 2.9 11.66 2.5 10.15 3.1
Level 2 .................................................. 11.06 4.5 11.59 4.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.54 2.7 11.58 2.3 – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.98 2.3 12.02 1.9 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 12.47 2.9 12.46 3.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.70 3.4 11.76 3.0 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 9.2 13.45 10.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.43 2.0 13.60 2.7 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 10.94 5.7 11.30 6.7 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.80 10.7 8.77 6.7 6.65 19.4
Level 1 .................................................. 5.79 20.1 6.23 19.7 5.35 19.0
Level 2 .................................................. 6.60 4.1 5.85 8.5 7.28 3.8
Level 3 .................................................. 7.08 22.9 9.24 7.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.19 7.6 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.33 5.8 10.47 6.5 10.07 12.9
Level 3 .................................................. 9.57 2.6 9.81 4.0 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.79 6.8 11.36 8.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 9.83 4.6 – – – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.07 10.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.11 7.4 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 9.68 9.5 – – – –
Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.87 16.1 4.39 14.1 3.42 9.4
Level 1 .................................................. – – – – 3.79 15.2
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.11 2.0 3.23 .3 3.03 1.7
Level 1 .................................................. 3.11 .0 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.23 4.1 – – – –
Level 1 .................................................. 8.23 4.1 – – – –
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.13 3.9 8.79 10.1 7.61 1.7
Level 1 .................................................. 7.78 .9 – – 7.62 1.6
Level 2 .................................................. 7.70 1.8 – – 7.57 2.9
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.13 4.0 8.79 10.1 7.57 1.5
Level 1 .................................................. 7.70 1.1 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 7.72 1.7 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.97 4.8 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.13 13.5 13.88 15.5 10.22 4.3
Level 1 .................................................. 8.50 5.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.86 5.7 11.17 6.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.50 1.7 – – – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.78 5.0 11.02 6.0 9.99 4.1
Level 1 .................................................. 8.50 5.2 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.91 5.8 11.25 6.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 12.50 1.7 – – – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.23 8.6 11.38 10.4 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.06 10.9 – – – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.49 5.5 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.83 6.0 9.88 1.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 11.60 3.1 – – – –
Child care workers................................................ 8.66 4.4 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.98 5.9 16.84 4.9 8.61 3.4
Level 1 .................................................. 7.68 .5 – – 7.68 .5
Level 2 .................................................. 8.77 5.9 10.04 2.5 8.21 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 9.58 8.8 11.43 4.3 8.48 7.6
Level 4 .................................................. 16.88 4.0 17.05 5.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.64 9.2 19.64 9.2 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.52 18.7 20.52 18.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.54 24.3 16.54 24.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 17.4 13.37 17.4 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.26 6.6 14.85 11.4 8.42 .7
Level 1 .................................................. 7.68 .5 – – 7.68 .5
Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 5.6 10.16 1.7 8.35 5.1
Level 3 .................................................. 9.34 11.4 – – 8.51 7.9
Level 4 .................................................. 17.96 7.2 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.67 6.7 – – 8.21 5.9
Level 3 .................................................. 10.04 4.5 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.67 6.7 – – 8.21 5.9
Level 3 .................................................. 10.04 4.5 – – – –
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.26 18.0 16.53 15.0 – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 12.0 17.81 12.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 11.84 12.6 15.88 19.4 8.32 1.2
Level 2 .................................................. 9.60 .7 – – 9.08 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.20 8.7 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.95 4.5 15.61 4.9 10.71 5.7
Level 1 .................................................. 8.79 3.6 – – 8.73 3.7
Level 2 .................................................. 10.54 5.9 10.87 7.7 10.05 7.9
Level 3 .................................................. 12.39 4.2 12.47 4.8 11.88 3.7
Level 4 .................................................. 16.28 6.1 16.31 6.5 15.77 3.0
Level 5 .................................................. 15.79 4.3 15.79 4.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.32 4.0 18.32 4.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.10 7.9 23.10 7.9 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.35 11.4 14.72 10.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.56 5.9 17.56 5.9 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.31 10.7 16.38 10.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 19.23 15.0 19.30 15.1 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.45 5.4 13.37 5.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.27 2.8 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.79 15.6 17.79 15.6 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 14.25 8.5 14.55 8.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.87 6.2 – – – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.30 1.2 – – – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.48 9.5 16.48 9.5 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.00 4.3 14.08 3.5 11.26 7.0
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.47 17.2 12.70 17.1 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.53 11.8 – – 8.88 4.7
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.18 5.0 17.40 5.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.07 .7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.70 9.2 14.69 9.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 14.65 3.3 – – – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.87 5.5 18.87 5.5 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.77 8.3 19.97 8.4 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 17.95 5.4 17.95 5.4 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 16.62 9.0 17.29 8.2 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.68 9.3 14.68 9.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.54 12.1 14.54 12.1 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 8.1 14.63 8.1 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.43 8.1 15.13 6.9 10.15 3.7
Level 3 .................................................. 12.88 8.9 12.88 8.9 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.69 3.4 16.88 2.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.18 14.6 18.18 14.6 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.02 8.7 19.12 8.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 11.6 15.08 10.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 20.88 5.0 20.88 5.0 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.49 5.7 21.49 5.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 26.50 6.5 26.50 6.5 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.63 8.3 19.42 8.7 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.29 5.6 – – – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.95 7.1 19.98 7.2 – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 19.33 4.3 19.33 4.3 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.62 14.1 17.67 14.2 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 10.68 6.2 – – – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.39 3.5 18.18 2.8 9.96 16.2
Level 2 .................................................. 10.28 7.1 10.46 8.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.36 8.7 13.13 9.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 20.67 3.9 20.67 3.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 16.85 5.7 16.85 5.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 22.17 5.0 22.17 5.0 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 28.31 2.7 28.31 2.7 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.23 17.5 14.96 20.2 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.49 9.1 17.49 9.1 – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.60 .9 15.60 .9 – –
Machinists........................................................ 23.07 11.2 23.07 11.2 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.76 10.8 21.35 9.9 10.73 13.0
Level 1 .................................................. 8.78 4.6 8.86 5.8 8.73 5.5
Level 2 .................................................. 13.95 10.7 14.51 11.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.00 5.1 15.79 5.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.62 5.6 18.93 4.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.21 8.2 19.21 8.2 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.58 9.1 18.36 9.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.87 10.3 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.93 11.2 16.93 11.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.66 7.7 18.66 7.7 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.52 9.1 18.69 9.2 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.04 5.3 18.04 5.3 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.48 15.0 17.73 15.2 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.79 8.5 – – – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.09 7.9 14.25 15.2 10.84 12.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.87 5.1 8.62 6.4 9.06 3.8
Level 2 .................................................. 15.35 12.2 15.35 12.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.20 4.0 15.20 4.0 – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.38 7.9 13.39 18.3 11.04 13.3
Level 1 .................................................. 8.90 6.1 – – 9.14 4.0
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),
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $28.57 7.1 $30.38 6.5 $11.93 10.7
Management occupations.............................................. 41.77 7.0 41.77 7.0 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.50 5.2 37.87 5.4 10.85 1.7
Level 7 .................................................. 14.27 11.7 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.40 .6 43.40 .6 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 41.48 2.3 42.82 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.17 1.4 43.17 1.4 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.55 .3 43.66 .9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.66 .9 43.66 .9 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 41.53 .5 44.46 .6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 44.46 .6 44.46 .6 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.71 3.1 39.71 3.1 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 39.71 3.1 39.71 3.1 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.16 8.7 13.37 8.8 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 25.14 5.5 25.76 7.0 – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 17.03 5.7 17.78 7.3 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.03 5.7 17.78 7.3 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.03 5.7 17.78 7.3 – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.77 15.0 19.72 14.1 11.53 16.7
Level 2 .................................................. 12.88 8.6 – – 12.22 14.4
Level 4 .................................................. 14.63 8.5 14.63 8.5 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.94 10.2 16.84 13.0 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.25 6.4 14.49 5.4 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.42 14.3 16.69 17.7 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.82 6.6 21.82 6.6 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.20 8.6 17.37 9.6 – –
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 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $20.23 3.9 $22.23 3.7 $10.60 6.4
Management occupations.............................................. 37.79 5.6 37.73 5.6 – –
Group III................................................. 35.67 8.3 – – – –
General and operations managers................................... 28.80 5.4 28.80 5.4 – –
Group III................................................. 26.92 2.2 26.92 2.2 – –
Financial managers................................................ 34.80 9.0 34.80 9.0 – –
Group III................................................. 36.69 12.0 36.69 12.0 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 35.18 13.0 35.18 13.0 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.26 3.2 26.23 3.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.38 3.0 – – – –
Group III................................................. 29.84 5.4 – – – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.40 9.7 23.40 9.7 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.41 5.6 23.22 6.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 22.19 7.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 25.43 5.7 25.43 5.7 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 23.93 5.0 23.93 5.0 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.45 5.9 33.45 6.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.66 9.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.57 4.8 – – – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 34.89 19.0 34.89 19.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.23 3.6 37.43 3.7 – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 18.8 24.80 18.8 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.13 3.8 32.13 3.8 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 4.9 34.24 4.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 31.87 4.5 – – – –
Engineers......................................................... 37.20 1.8 37.20 1.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 35.93 6.3 – – – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.38 1.1 38.38 1.1 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.01 9.9 23.01 9.9 – –
Group III................................................. 33.14 17.6 – – – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.78 6.9 16.78 6.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 14.75 4.2 – – – –
Group III................................................. 19.76 17.5 – – – –
Social workers.................................................... 16.81 11.1 16.81 11.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 14.40 5.6 – – – –
Legal occupations................................................... 55.96 9.4 55.96 9.4 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 38.04 6.0 40.56 6.6 12.94 7.4
Group I................................................... 11.37 3.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 13.83 6.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 46.56 3.4 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ – – 61.18 12.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 25.40 .1 – – – –
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 55.41 4.6 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.04 2.5 40.98 3.8 11.12 8.1
Group II.................................................. 13.55 11.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 42.81 1.4 – – – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.28 .7 43.42 1.1 – –
Group III................................................. 43.42 1.1 – – – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 41.17 1.0 44.11 1.0 – –
Group III................................................. 44.11 1.0 44.11 1.0 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Group III................................................. 41.61 2.7 41.61 2.7 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Group III................................................. 39.71 3.1 – – – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 38.35 4.7 38.76 5.7 – –
Group III................................................. 39.71 3.1 39.71 3.1 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.40 9.2 12.68 9.5 – –
Group I................................................... 11.37 3.9 11.53 4.1 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.37 12.0 26.00 4.3 13.26 23.0
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 24.21 8.5 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.53 2.9 26.87 4.3 25.06 3.2
Group I................................................... 12.23 5.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 23.27 2.3 – – – –
Group III................................................. 34.68 11.7 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.84 4.4 – – – –
Registered nurses................................................. 28.84 3.0 29.45 2.8 26.70 3.6
Group II.................................................. 26.02 2.5 26.78 1.2 24.52 4.6
Group III................................................. 30.26 4.1 30.38 4.5 29.66 7.0
Therapists........................................................ 26.87 11.5 27.41 4.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.50 5.2 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 4.9 24.97 4.9 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 9.7 19.60 9.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.43 4.1 – – – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 7.0 24.15 7.0 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.82 3.0 17.66 3.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.81 3.1 17.67 3.5 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.96 2.2 12.27 1.7 10.29 3.8
Group I................................................... 11.79 1.9 – – – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.60 2.6 11.85 2.1 10.15 3.1
Group I................................................... 11.60 2.6 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.18 1.6 12.23 1.2 – –
Group I................................................... 12.18 1.6 12.23 1.2 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.85 9.2 13.45 10.9 – –
Group I................................................... 12.23 5.2 – – – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 17.60 21.5 18.22 21.7 – –
Group I................................................... 11.18 10.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 22.86 8.3 – – – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.83 10.6 8.80 6.6 6.70 19.2
Group I................................................... 6.91 14.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 17.18 10.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.18 10.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 15.59 8.2 14.74 6.0 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.18 10.7 16.27 4.7 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.33 5.8 10.47 6.5 10.07 12.9
Group I................................................... 10.33 5.8 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.79 6.8 11.36 8.3 – –
Group I................................................... 10.79 6.8 11.36 8.3 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.07 10.2 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.07 10.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.11 7.4 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.11 7.4 – – – –
Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.91 16.5 4.39 14.1 3.51 11.9
Group I................................................... 3.91 16.5 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.11 2.0 3.23 .3 3.03 1.7
Group I................................................... 3.11 2.0 3.23 .3 3.03 1.7
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.32 3.7 – – – –
Group I................................................... 8.32 3.7 – – – –
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.25 4.0 8.95 10.2 7.68 1.6
Group I................................................... 8.25 4.0 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.25 4.1 8.95 10.2 7.65 1.6
Group I................................................... 8.25 4.1 8.95 10.2 7.65 1.6
Dishwashers....................................................... 8.97 4.8 – – – –
Group I................................................... 8.97 4.8 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.49 11.8 14.29 13.3 10.15 4.2
Group I................................................... 11.52 4.0 – – – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.45 4.0 11.87 4.5 9.92 4.0
Group I................................................... 11.52 4.1 – – – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.60 8.9 13.01 11.0 10.19 13.4
Group I................................................... 12.88 10.0 13.32 12.4 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.49 5.5 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.49 5.5 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.31 8.1 10.76 11.4 – –
Group I................................................... 8.37 5.1 – – – –
Child care workers................................................ 9.56 11.8 – – – –
Group I................................................... 8.70 4.5 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.98 5.9 16.84 4.9 8.61 3.4
Group I................................................... 11.37 6.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.72 7.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.54 24.3 16.54 24.3 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 17.4 13.37 17.4 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.26 6.6 14.85 11.4 8.42 .7
Group I................................................... 10.13 4.2 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Group I................................................... 8.98 1.0 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 9.27 .4 11.19 4.4 8.53 .3
Group I................................................... 8.98 1.0 – – 8.44 .5
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.26 18.0 16.53 15.0 – –
Group I................................................... 14.16 17.1 – – – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 12.0 17.81 12.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 11.84 12.6 15.88 19.4 8.32 1.2
Group I................................................... 9.93 6.5 14.21 4.0 8.29 1.3
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.30 4.7 16.06 5.1 10.87 5.8
Group I................................................... 13.23 4.3 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.83 4.8 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 18.02 6.4 18.02 6.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.02 6.4 18.02 6.4 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.31 10.6 16.38 10.5 – –
Group I................................................... 16.17 16.0 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 17.57 5.7 – – – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.45 5.4 13.37 5.7 – –
Group I................................................... 13.45 5.4 13.37 5.7 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.75 15.3 17.75 15.3 – –
Group I................................................... 18.17 21.0 18.17 21.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 14.25 8.5 14.55 8.2 – –
Group I................................................... 12.59 9.5 12.95 10.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.99 9.9 17.99 9.9 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.30 1.2 – – – –
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 9.24 16.1 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.24 16.1 – – – –
Order clerks...................................................... 16.48 9.5 16.48 9.5 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.00 4.3 14.08 3.5 11.26 7.0
Group I................................................... 13.05 4.5 – – 11.26 7.0
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.47 17.2 12.70 17.1 – –
Group I................................................... 13.70 25.5 13.70 25.5 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.60 10.1 – – 9.60 6.1
Group I................................................... 11.60 10.1 – – 9.60 6.1
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.15 4.6 17.33 4.9 15.19 6.3
Group I................................................... 14.64 6.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.51 3.9 – – – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.77 8.3 19.97 8.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.55 8.7 19.74 8.9 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 16.62 9.0 17.29 8.2 – –
Group I................................................... 13.74 3.1 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.86 6.6 14.63 7.1 – –
Group I................................................... 14.71 8.8 14.37 9.8 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.36 1.5 14.37 1.4 – –
Group I................................................... 13.21 6.2 – – – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 8.1 14.63 8.1 – –
Group I................................................... 12.84 5.7 12.84 5.7 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.48 7.5 15.12 6.3 10.21 3.5
Group I................................................... 12.37 5.8 14.02 6.0 10.19 3.8
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.65 3.7 16.85 3.6 – –
Group I................................................... 14.03 4.5 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.96 3.1 – – – –
Construction laborers............................................. 13.26 15.5 – – – –
Group I................................................... 13.26 15.5 – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.17 8.3 19.27 8.4 – –
Group I................................................... 12.16 12.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 22.43 4.0 – – – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.75 8.1 19.55 8.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.47 10.5 – – – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.47 5.2 20.15 4.9 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.96 5.9 19.98 5.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.38 5.2 – – – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 19.33 4.3 19.33 4.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 19.33 4.3 19.33 4.3 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.47 9.5 18.51 9.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.29 8.2 21.29 8.2 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 10.68 6.2 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.68 6.2 – – – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.48 3.4 18.26 2.7 9.96 16.2
Group I................................................... 12.74 4.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.55 5.3 – – – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.23 17.5 14.96 20.2 – –
Group I................................................... 9.36 7.7 – – – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.49 9.1 17.49 9.1 – –
Group I................................................... 13.92 .1 – – – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.60 .9 15.60 .9 – –
Group I................................................... 13.45 3.1 13.45 3.1 – –
Machinists........................................................ 23.07 11.2 23.07 11.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.07 11.2 23.07 11.2 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 24.33 12.1 24.33 12.1 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.56 10.0 21.04 9.3 10.88 11.6
Group I................................................... 13.83 4.0 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.83 6.7 – – – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.59 7.9 18.08 8.0 – –
Group I................................................... 15.07 6.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.66 7.7 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.21 7.7 18.33 7.8 – –
Group I................................................... 16.36 5.3 16.52 5.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.04 5.3 18.04 5.3 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.51 13.6 17.55 13.5 – –
Group I................................................... 14.93 13.9 16.96 13.6 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.79 8.5 – – – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.09 7.9 14.25 15.2 10.84 12.8
Group I................................................... 13.09 7.9 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.38 7.9 13.39 18.3 11.04 13.3
Group I................................................... 12.38 7.9 13.39 18.3 11.04 13.3
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $8.00 $10.66 $16.18 $25.47 $36.67
Management occupations.............................................. 24.94 26.23 34.00 44.12 56.64
General and operations managers................................... 25.00 25.53 26.43 28.85 36.00
Financial managers................................................ 26.23 28.10 33.66 36.06 45.74
Education administrators.......................................... 25.28 25.33 27.83 48.38 51.85
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.14 20.18 23.19 30.92 36.09
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.77 17.08 22.94 27.27 31.20
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.37 18.96 22.96 26.96 30.92
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 18.94 19.73 23.73 23.73 33.89
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.69 26.04 34.20 40.14 47.37
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 18.69 30.25 51.00 57.25
Computer software engineers....................................... 30.72 34.08 38.02 41.27 44.26
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 30.72 34.08 38.02 41.27 44.26
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.45 13.41 27.45 31.30 38.82
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.96 25.09 30.58 38.66 43.54
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.35 28.56 32.90 39.33 45.16
Engineers......................................................... 28.53 30.49 37.16 44.91 46.71
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 16.15 16.16 18.26 23.40 41.77
Community and social services occupations........................... 12.00 13.64 14.61 19.77 22.63
Social workers.................................................... 12.49 13.52 14.61 17.54 26.50
Legal occupations................................................... 27.50 44.33 44.33 88.66 89.43
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.67 20.00 37.89 49.99 64.96
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 24.19 43.89 51.72 70.10 88.20
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 15.72 31.68 38.23 48.62 61.68
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.67 34.59 39.11 49.79 63.58
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 21.75 34.05 39.11 50.29 63.90
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.25 35.47 41.03 48.33 55.41
Secondary school teachers....................................... 25.67 32.42 36.19 42.67 56.26
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 25.67 32.42 36.19 42.67 56.26
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.92 9.25 11.95 13.25 20.38
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 10.23 21.64 26.45 31.37
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 12.00 24.08 25.72 28.51 28.51
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 12.00 24.08 25.72 28.51 28.51
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.36 19.02 25.50 30.00 35.88
Pharmacists....................................................... 45.53 45.53 50.31 50.32 50.32
Registered nurses................................................. 21.50 24.16 28.40 31.50 35.29
Therapists........................................................ 13.00 23.35 25.60 34.00 35.70
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 10.93 13.94 21.42 24.87 28.70
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.42 21.66 22.28 26.38 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.45 15.45 18.00 19.80 20.65
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 10.36 11.74 13.28 15.29
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.00 10.20 11.41 12.85 14.10
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.25 11.01 11.90 13.14 14.55
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.58 10.75 12.00 16.18 16.75
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.05 9.50 15.45 24.73 30.38
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 3.30 7.50 9.55 12.83
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.00 14.97 20.54 25.74
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.00 14.97 20.54 25.74
Cooks............................................................. 7.90 8.50 9.55 11.12 16.58
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.36 8.75 9.55 12.13 16.58
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 7.50 8.50 9.61 11.00 16.66
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.25 8.00 9.00 9.50 12.67
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 4.10 8.00
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.30 3.59
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.60 8.00 8.00 8.50 9.61
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.43 7.75 8.00 11.25
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.43 7.75 8.00 11.25
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.25 7.25 9.00 9.50 10.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 9.45 10.70 14.99 20.92
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.25 10.00 14.00 15.49
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.50 9.50 11.24 14.99 18.29
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.50 9.23 10.00 11.00 14.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.25 7.25 8.00 9.50 13.98
Child care workers................................................ 7.25 8.00 8.50 10.20 10.90
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 8.45 11.45 17.09 20.88
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.54 24.58
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.00 19.45
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 7.75 9.34 11.56 18.94
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.75 8.60 10.50 11.80
Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.60 10.50 11.80
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.36 9.23 14.42 20.37 22.62
Parts salespersons............................................ 13.30 14.42 16.59 20.37 22.62
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.72 7.75 9.30 11.39 18.94
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.30 11.66 14.42 17.54 22.31
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 17.03 18.88 22.31
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.51 13.00 15.49 18.05 25.46
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.15 12.23 14.25 14.30 16.58
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.08 13.07 16.95 20.29 25.46
Customer service representatives.................................. 8.50 10.93 14.00 15.00 20.80
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.26 13.00 14.11 15.44 16.55
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 7.75 7.75 7.90 8.00 13.82
Order clerks...................................................... 12.50 12.50 16.78 19.22 19.22
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.50 12.30 12.53 14.00 15.13
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.50 10.70 12.81 21.98
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.45 8.50 10.84 15.24 16.00
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.64 14.45 16.20 19.80 25.89
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.98 16.20 17.50 25.89 25.89
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.47 14.13 14.61 21.45 21.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 8.65 13.38 14.92 17.34 17.90
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.31 12.29 13.29 16.20 18.48
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.25 10.82 14.25 18.41 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.38 13.99 16.93 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 13.43 16.00 20.50 22.76
Construction laborers............................................. 8.27 11.00 13.94 13.94 17.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.00 20.11 23.51 27.26
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.00 16.00 19.00 23.93 25.67
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 16.23 18.60 20.25 23.93 25.01
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.95 18.09 20.02 22.91 25.59
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.09 18.09 18.09 19.90 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.65 12.95 18.86 22.16 23.51
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.80 13.00
Production occupations.............................................. 8.51 12.25 15.82 22.16 28.53
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.69 8.51 10.75 15.56 19.79
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.68 13.23 14.13 19.91 29.86
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.44 13.23 13.57 18.75 20.45
Machinists........................................................ 18.20 18.20 22.56 25.45 29.86
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.42 10.21 14.65 19.77 24.74
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.20 12.80 14.90 18.16 26.40
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 14.90 16.45 21.90 26.40
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 7.25 12.00 13.50 18.45 26.83
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.44 13.50 13.90 14.00 20.50
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.82 9.00 11.10 17.92 19.77
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.70 9.00 9.50 14.65 19.77
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $7.90 $10.21 $15.59 $24.50 $34.07
Management occupations.............................................. 24.94 25.53 33.66 44.00 56.64
General and operations managers................................... 25.00 25.53 26.43 29.72 36.06
Financial managers................................................ 26.23 28.10 33.66 35.94 44.12
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.14 20.18 23.19 30.92 36.48
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.77 17.08 22.94 27.27 31.20
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.37 18.87 22.84 27.08 31.36
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 18.94 19.73 23.73 23.73 33.89
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.53 26.04 35.38 40.50 48.00
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 18.69 30.25 51.00 57.25
Computer software engineers....................................... 30.72 34.08 38.02 41.27 44.26
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 30.72 34.08 38.02 41.27 44.26
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.45 13.41 27.45 31.30 38.82
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.96 22.96 33.32 39.67 44.03
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.35 28.56 32.90 39.33 45.16
Engineers......................................................... 28.53 30.49 37.16 44.91 46.71
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 15.39 16.16 18.14 23.40 40.19
Community and social services occupations........................... 9.77 13.27 13.95 15.02 21.34
Social workers.................................................... 12.48 13.27 14.30 14.61 20.68
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.00 14.57 38.89 62.31 85.13
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.00 14.51 14.57 21.37 36.02
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 10.23 21.64 26.45 31.37
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 12.00 24.08 28.51 28.51 28.51
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 12.00 24.08 28.51 28.51 28.51
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.31 18.75 25.24 30.00 35.70
Pharmacists....................................................... 45.53 45.53 50.31 50.32 50.32
Registered nurses................................................. 21.50 24.00 28.15 31.23 35.00
Therapists........................................................ 13.00 23.35 25.60 34.00 35.70
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 10.93 13.94 21.42 24.87 28.70
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.42 21.66 22.28 26.38 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.45 15.45 17.42 18.75 19.80
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 10.25 11.56 13.14 14.57
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.00 10.16 11.32 12.64 13.74
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.25 11.00 11.74 12.85 13.80
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.58 10.75 12.00 16.18 16.75
Protective service occupations...................................... 7.75 8.68 9.50 13.50 15.13
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 3.30 7.50 9.50 12.77
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.00 14.97 20.54 25.74
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.00 14.97 20.54 25.74
Cooks............................................................. 7.90 8.50 9.55 11.12 16.58
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.36 8.75 9.55 12.13 16.58
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 7.50 8.50 9.61 11.00 16.66
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.25 8.00 9.00 9.50 12.67
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 4.10 8.00
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.30 3.59
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.60 8.00 8.00 8.35 9.61
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.43 7.75 8.00 10.38
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.43 7.75 8.00 10.03
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.25 7.25 9.00 9.50 10.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 9.25 10.00 14.03 17.39
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.23 10.00 12.32 14.99
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.50 9.50 10.00 14.03 14.99
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.50 9.23 10.00 11.00 14.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.25 7.25 8.00 9.29 11.23
Child care workers................................................ 7.25 8.00 8.50 9.29 10.50
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 8.45 11.45 17.09 20.88
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.54 24.58
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.00 19.45
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 7.75 9.34 11.56 18.94
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.75 8.60 10.50 11.80
Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.60 10.50 11.80
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.36 9.23 14.42 20.37 22.62
Parts salespersons............................................ 13.30 14.42 16.59 20.37 22.62
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.72 7.75 9.30 11.39 18.94
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.30 11.40 14.42 17.11 21.45
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 15.75 18.88 19.23
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.51 13.00 15.49 18.08 25.46
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.15 12.23 14.25 14.30 16.58
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.08 13.07 16.95 25.46 25.46
Customer service representatives.................................. 8.50 10.93 14.00 15.00 20.80
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.26 13.00 14.11 15.44 16.55
Order clerks...................................................... 12.50 12.50 16.78 19.22 19.22
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.50 12.30 12.53 14.00 15.13
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.50 10.70 12.81 21.98
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 7.58 9.79 12.24 16.00
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.64 14.61 16.20 19.81 25.89
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.98 16.20 17.50 25.89 25.89
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.47 14.13 14.61 21.45 21.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 8.65 14.08 15.29 16.61 18.94
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.25 10.82 14.25 18.41 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.38 14.42 16.93 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 11.50 16.40 21.04 22.75
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 12.65 20.11 22.91 27.65
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.00 16.00 18.60 23.45 25.67
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 15.58 18.60 20.25 23.27 25.01
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.65 18.09 20.02 22.91 25.59
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.09 18.09 18.09 19.90 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.03 12.65 16.40 20.39 31.04
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.80 13.00
Production occupations.............................................. 8.36 12.25 15.63 22.10 29.50
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.69 8.51 10.75 15.56 19.79
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.68 13.23 14.13 19.91 29.86
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.44 13.23 13.57 18.75 20.45
Machinists........................................................ 18.20 18.20 22.56 25.45 29.86
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.25 9.79 14.65 20.22 26.40
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.80 14.79 21.46 26.40
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 14.90 17.09 21.90 26.40
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 7.25 10.50 13.50 21.46 26.83
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.44 13.50 13.90 14.00 20.50
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.82 9.00 11.10 17.92 19.77
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.70 9.00 9.50 14.65 19.77
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $11.95 $15.29 $24.74 $38.21 $52.52
Management occupations.............................................. 25.63 34.00 38.33 49.42 54.94
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.81 24.34 37.89 48.00 62.30
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.69 33.41 39.11 50.39 62.30
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.25 34.85 39.17 49.79 63.58
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 22.82 34.59 39.11 50.29 63.90
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.25 35.47 41.03 48.33 55.41
Secondary school teachers....................................... 25.67 32.42 36.19 42.67 56.26
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 25.67 32.42 36.19 42.67 56.26
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.25 11.81 11.95 13.67 20.38
Protective service occupations...................................... 15.75 18.29 24.73 29.87 32.15
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.95 15.18 18.10 19.44 21.37
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.95 15.18 18.10 19.44 21.37
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.95 15.18 18.10 19.44 21.37
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.22 13.29 15.56 26.57 28.25
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.07 13.38 17.34 17.73 23.66
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.07 13.07 14.73 17.73 17.73
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.43 13.75 13.75 18.95 28.70
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.35 19.05 23.51 25.29 25.29
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.85 14.00 16.45 17.57 24.74
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Full-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $9.50 $12.91 $18.72 $27.04 $38.83
Management occupations.............................................. 24.94 26.23 33.66 44.00 56.64
General and operations managers................................... 25.00 25.53 26.43 28.85 36.00
Financial managers................................................ 26.23 28.10 33.66 36.06 45.74
Education administrators.......................................... 25.28 25.33 27.83 48.38 51.85
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.14 20.18 23.19 30.92 36.09
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.77 17.08 22.94 27.27 31.20
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.37 18.87 22.84 26.92 30.92
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 18.94 19.73 23.73 23.73 33.89
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.53 26.04 34.20 40.14 47.40
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 18.69 30.25 51.00 57.25
Computer software engineers....................................... 31.30 34.36 38.02 41.61 44.43
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 31.30 34.36 38.02 41.61 44.43
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.45 13.41 27.45 31.30 38.82
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.96 25.09 30.58 38.66 43.54
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.35 28.56 32.90 39.33 45.16
Engineers......................................................... 28.53 30.49 37.16 44.91 46.71
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.49 32.90 37.64 44.91 45.16
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 16.15 16.16 18.26 23.40 41.77
Community and social services occupations........................... 12.00 13.64 14.61 19.77 22.63
Social workers.................................................... 12.49 13.52 14.61 17.54 26.50
Legal occupations................................................... 27.50 44.33 44.33 88.66 89.43
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.25 27.18 38.74 51.74 66.50
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.79 40.99 51.86 76.47 88.20
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.35 33.41 38.75 49.79 62.30
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.90 36.22 39.63 50.41 63.58
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.36 36.31 39.60 51.81 64.33
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.25 35.47 41.03 48.33 55.41
Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.25 32.68 36.68 43.43 56.26
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 27.25 32.68 36.68 43.43 56.26
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.92 9.25 11.95 13.55 20.38
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 19.20 21.64 26.45 31.25 31.37
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.90 19.80 25.60 30.16 35.88
Registered nurses................................................. 21.86 24.64 29.00 31.73 35.66
Therapists........................................................ 21.72 23.83 25.60 34.00 35.70
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.98 22.98 29.02 30.20
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 10.93 13.94 21.42 24.87 28.70
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.42 21.66 22.28 26.38 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.45 15.45 17.95 19.02 20.00
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.50 10.92 12.00 13.69 15.29
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.50 10.77 11.72 13.00 14.25
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.40 11.01 12.00 13.18 14.60
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.81 11.32 12.00 16.18 16.75
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.68 9.65 16.31 24.73 30.55
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.29 4.25 8.00 11.11 15.00
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.00 14.05 16.44 25.74
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.00 14.05 16.44 25.74
Cooks............................................................. 8.40 9.15 9.61 11.34 13.46
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.40 9.49 11.34 12.51 16.58
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 3.29 3.30 4.25 8.00
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 3.29 3.30 4.10
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.65 7.75 8.00 8.70 12.65
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.65 7.75 8.00 8.70 12.65
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 9.69 11.00 15.00 21.50
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.50 10.85 14.00 16.22
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.00 10.00 11.95 15.53 18.83
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 8.00 9.24 10.75 16.89
Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.27 11.40 14.00 19.33 23.80
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.54 24.58
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 10.00 13.25 14.00 19.45
Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.00 10.20 11.85 16.22 22.62
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.00 9.73 10.90 12.90 14.00
Cashiers...................................................... 9.00 9.73 10.90 12.90 14.00
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 9.23 13.48 16.22 20.37 22.62
Parts salespersons............................................ 13.30 14.42 16.59 20.37 22.62
Retail salespersons............................................. 9.40 10.08 11.43 18.94 35.96
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.25 13.00 15.02 18.41 24.56
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 17.03 18.88 22.31
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.51 13.00 15.49 18.08 25.46
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.15 12.14 13.87 14.30 16.77
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.08 13.07 16.95 20.29 25.46
Customer service representatives.................................. 8.50 10.93 14.02 15.15 23.48
Order clerks...................................................... 12.50 12.50 16.78 19.22 19.22
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.50 12.50 14.00 14.00 18.01
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.50 10.95 13.30 21.98
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.00 14.61 16.20 21.13 25.89
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.15 16.20 17.50 25.89 25.89
Medical secretaries............................................. 14.13 14.61 14.61 21.45 21.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 8.65 13.07 14.81 16.61 18.94
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.31 12.36 13.29 16.20 18.48
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.25 10.82 14.25 18.41 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 10.50 13.99 15.04 16.93 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 13.75 16.00 20.50 23.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.79 20.11 23.51 27.65
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.00 16.00 18.60 23.45 25.67
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 15.58 18.60 20.25 23.27 25.01
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.95 18.09 20.02 22.91 25.59
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.09 18.09 18.09 19.90 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.65 12.95 18.86 22.16 23.51
Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 13.23 17.34 22.30 29.86
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.78 11.74 15.34 19.79 19.79
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.68 13.23 14.13 19.91 29.86
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.44 13.23 13.57 18.75 20.45
Machinists........................................................ 18.20 18.20 22.56 25.45 29.86
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.00 22.00 22.30 32.09 32.09
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.00 12.25 17.09 21.37 26.83
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.50 14.00 16.45 21.90 26.40
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 14.90 17.09 21.90 26.40
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 12.00 12.50 14.00 24.14 26.83
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.70 9.00 15.16 19.77 21.37
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.70 8.25 11.35 19.77 19.77
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Part-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $6.80 $7.50 $8.75 $11.31 $16.17
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.33 10.00 10.67 12.50 22.50
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.00 10.00 10.67 12.00 12.00
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 8.50 10.00 10.00 12.50 20.52
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.31 17.00 25.00 28.98 35.53
Registered nurses................................................. 17.89 21.96 28.15 30.00 35.29
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.58 9.00 10.00 11.32 12.64
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 11.92
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 2.83 7.25 8.13 9.95
Cooks............................................................. 7.50 7.90 8.75 10.25 16.66
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 5.25
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.59
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.25 7.25 7.43 7.60 9.03
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.25 7.25 7.43 7.60 8.77
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.75 10.00 10.00 13.64
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.60 9.55 10.00 13.16
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.00 8.60 13.16 14.12
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 7.54 7.80 9.00 10.50
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 7.65 7.84 9.00 10.30
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.55 8.26 9.50 10.50
Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.55 8.26 9.50 10.50
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.50 7.72 7.75 8.70 9.90
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.56 8.25 10.38 12.30 16.17
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.50 9.50 12.30 12.30 12.53
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 7.55 9.99 10.90 11.95
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.40 12.35 15.00 17.73 17.73
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.25 10.00 10.38 11.00 11.66
Production occupations.............................................. 7.69 7.69 8.36 15.05 15.05
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.31 9.00 9.79 12.80 14.65
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.82 9.38 9.50 14.65 14.65
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.24 9.38 9.50 14.65 14.65
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, Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $22.23 $18.72 $870 $731 39.2 $43,743 $37,440 1,968
Management occupations.............................................. 37.73 33.66 1,540 1,404 40.8 80,087 73,033 2,122
General and operations managers................................... 28.80 26.43 1,274 1,238 44.3 66,282 64,366 2,301
Financial managers................................................ 34.80 33.66 1,459 1,347 41.9 75,887 70,019 2,181
Education administrators.......................................... 35.18 27.83 1,425 1,252 40.5 74,150 65,118 2,108
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.23 23.19 1,044 918 39.8 54,290 47,715 2,070
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.40 22.94 936 918 40.0 48,671 47,715 2,080
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.22 22.84 965 915 41.6 50,205 47,600 2,162
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 23.93 23.73 936 890 39.1 48,687 46,279 2,034
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.45 34.20 1,305 1,331 39.0 67,878 69,235 2,029
Computer programmers.............................................. 34.89 30.25 1,371 1,210 39.3 71,309 62,916 2,044
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.43 38.02 1,451 1,508 38.8 75,435 78,400 2,015
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.43 38.02 1,451 1,508 38.8 75,435 78,400 2,015
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 27.45 992 1,098 40.0 51,577 57,096 2,080
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.13 30.58 1,262 1,171 39.3 65,605 60,882 2,042
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 32.90 1,368 1,316 39.9 71,133 68,432 2,077
Engineers......................................................... 37.20 37.16 1,488 1,486 40.0 77,380 77,284 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 37.64 1,535 1,505 40.0 79,840 78,281 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.38 37.64 1,535 1,505 40.0 79,840 78,281 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.01 18.26 891 726 38.7 45,290 37,731 1,969
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.78 14.61 664 572 39.6 33,545 28,683 2,000
Social workers.................................................... 16.81 14.61 652 548 38.8 32,225 28,491 1,917
Legal occupations................................................... 55.96 44.33 2,044 1,552 36.5 106,289 80,679 1,899
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.56 38.74 1,496 1,448 36.9 57,876 54,481 1,427
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 61.18 51.86 2,320 1,994 37.9 86,977 77,190 1,422
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 40.98 38.75 1,507 1,458 36.8 57,675 54,737 1,407
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 43.42 39.63 1,601 1,486 36.9 60,545 56,333 1,394
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.11 39.60 1,617 1,474 36.6 61,288 55,729 1,389
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.61 41.03 1,560 1,539 37.5 58,577 56,775 1,408
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.76 36.68 1,411 1,345 36.4 53,335 51,237 1,376
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 38.76 36.68 1,411 1,345 36.4 53,335 51,237 1,376
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.68 11.95 456 443 36.0 17,107 16,121 1,349
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.00 26.45 1,035 1,058 39.8 53,814 55,016 2,069
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.87 25.60 1,055 986 39.3 54,395 51,043 2,025
Registered nurses................................................. 29.45 29.00 1,144 1,136 38.9 58,390 57,949 1,983
Therapists........................................................ 27.41 25.60 1,056 1,024 38.5 54,923 53,248 2,004
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 21.42 784 857 40.0 40,771 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 22.28 966 891 40.0 50,233 46,342 2,080
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.66 17.95 706 718 40.0 36,727 37,336 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.27 12.00 483 462 39.3 25,107 24,045 2,045
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.85 11.72 471 461 39.8 24,505 23,962 2,067
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.23 12.00 486 470 39.7 25,254 24,423 2,065
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.45 12.00 515 460 38.3 26,800 23,899 1,993
Protective service occupations...................................... 18.22 16.31 723 642 39.7 37,609 33,405 2,064
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.80 8.00 326 310 37.1 16,799 16,120 1,909
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.74 14.05 592 589 40.2 30,765 30,607 2,088
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.74 14.05 592 589 40.2 30,765 30,607 2,088
Cooks............................................................. 10.47 9.61 399 382 38.1 20,169 18,304 1,927
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.36 11.34 455 454 40.0 22,357 19,739 1,967
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.39 3.30 149 113 33.8 7,725 5,886 1,758
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.23 3.29 109 91 33.8 5,685 4,719 1,759
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.95 8.00 348 318 38.9 17,624 16,224 1,970
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.95 8.00 348 318 38.9 17,624 16,224 1,970
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.29 11.00 565 440 39.5 29,283 22,880 2,050
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.87 10.85 468 428 39.5 24,265 21,938 2,044
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.01 11.95 519 453 39.9 26,803 23,546 2,061
Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.76 9.24 413 356 38.4 21,203 17,556 1,971
Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.84 14.00 674 560 40.0 35,058 29,120 2,082
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.54 13.25 659 530 39.8 34,257 27,560 2,071
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 13.25 535 530 40.0 27,808 27,560 2,080
Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.85 11.85 599 472 40.3 31,139 24,544 2,097
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.19 10.90 446 432 39.8 23,166 22,464 2,070
Cashiers...................................................... 11.19 10.90 446 432 39.8 23,166 22,464 2,070
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.53 16.22 672 689 40.6 34,924 35,840 2,113
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 16.59 726 815 40.8 37,742 42,370 2,119
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.88 11.43 643 455 40.5 33,414 23,650 2,104
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.06 15.02 628 584 39.1 32,510 30,389 2,024
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 18.02 17.03 711 755 39.5 36,998 39,270 2,053
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.38 15.49 644 581 39.3 33,469 30,213 2,043
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.37 13.87 535 555 40.0 27,551 28,829 2,060
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.75 16.95 691 665 38.9 35,945 34,595 2,025
Customer service representatives.................................. 14.55 14.02 575 558 39.5 29,914 29,036 2,057
Order clerks...................................................... 16.48 16.78 645 671 39.1 33,535 34,902 2,035
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.08 14.00 519 490 36.9 26,287 25,480 1,867
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.70 10.95 508 438 40.0 26,296 22,776 2,071
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.33 16.20 679 646 39.2 35,222 33,446 2,032
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.97 17.50 787 700 39.4 40,931 36,400 2,050
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.29 14.61 692 584 40.0 35,972 30,389 2,080
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.63 14.81 568 580 38.8 29,283 29,490 2,002
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.37 13.29 570 531 39.7 29,662 27,633 2,064
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 14.25 569 569 38.9 29,569 29,607 2,021
Office clerks, general............................................ 15.12 15.04 593 577 39.2 30,345 30,000 2,007
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.85 16.00 655 640 38.9 27,485 24,960 1,631
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.27 20.11 773 810 40.1 39,929 41,829 2,072
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.55 18.60 794 744 40.6 41,300 38,684 2,112
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.15 20.25 828 810 41.1 43,080 42,120 2,138
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.98 20.02 786 801 39.3 40,049 39,624 2,005
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 19.33 18.09 773 724 40.0 40,201 37,627 2,080
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.51 18.86 729 754 39.4 37,891 39,229 2,047
Production occupations.............................................. 18.26 17.34 714 660 39.1 36,684 32,594 2,009
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.96 15.34 599 614 40.0 30,985 31,470 2,071
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.49 14.13 682 565 39.0 35,446 29,390 2,026
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.60 13.57 604 543 38.7 31,422 28,226 2,014
Machinists........................................................ 23.07 22.56 891 891 38.6 46,334 46,326 2,008
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 24.33 22.30 967 892 39.7 50,259 46,384 2,065
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 24.33 22.30 967 892 39.7 50,259 46,384 2,065
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 21.04 17.09 807 658 38.4 40,741 33,134 1,936
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.08 16.45 695 658 38.4 34,520 33,134 1,909
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.33 17.09 716 658 39.1 34,801 34,216 1,898
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.55 14.00 652 560 37.2 33,914 29,120 1,932
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.25 15.16 561 555 39.4 28,853 28,249 2,025
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.39 11.35 532 454 39.7 27,661 23,608 2,065
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,
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $21.27 $18.01 $837 $700 39.3 $42,678 $35,524 2,006
Management occupations.............................................. 37.46 33.66 1,539 1,404 41.1 80,040 73,033 2,137
General and operations managers................................... 28.96 26.43 1,293 1,337 44.6 67,228 69,545 2,322
Financial managers................................................ 33.67 33.66 1,426 1,347 42.3 74,138 70,019 2,202
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.28 23.17 1,048 918 39.9 54,505 47,715 2,074
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.40 22.94 936 918 40.0 48,671 47,715 2,080
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.20 22.84 973 934 41.9 50,575 48,550 2,180
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 23.98 23.73 943 890 39.3 49,024 46,279 2,044
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.81 35.38 1,328 1,390 39.3 69,070 72,287 2,043
Computer programmers.............................................. 34.89 30.25 1,371 1,210 39.3 71,309 62,916 2,044
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.43 38.02 1,451 1,508 38.8 75,435 78,400 2,015
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.43 38.02 1,451 1,508 38.8 75,435 78,400 2,015
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 27.45 992 1,098 40.0 51,577 57,096 2,080
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.63 33.32 1,305 1,333 40.0 67,871 69,306 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 32.90 1,368 1,316 39.9 71,133 68,432 2,077
Engineers......................................................... 37.20 37.16 1,488 1,486 40.0 77,380 77,284 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 37.64 1,535 1,505 40.0 79,840 78,281 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.38 37.64 1,535 1,505 40.0 79,840 78,281 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.31 18.14 831 685 39.0 43,206 35,605 2,027
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.22 13.95 606 548 39.8 31,364 28,491 2,061
Social workers.................................................... 14.91 14.30 585 548 39.3 30,442 28,491 2,042
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 49.78 41.80 1,886 1,716 37.9 73,184 64,000 1,470
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.00 26.45 1,035 1,058 39.8 53,814 55,016 2,069
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.62 25.54 1,046 986 39.3 54,271 51,043 2,039
Registered nurses................................................. 28.93 29.00 1,125 1,129 38.9 58,192 58,178 2,012
Therapists........................................................ 27.41 25.60 1,056 1,024 38.5 54,923 53,248 2,004
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 21.42 784 857 40.0 40,771 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 22.28 966 891 40.0 50,233 46,342 2,080
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.21 17.42 688 697 40.0 35,786 36,234 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.16 12.00 478 460 39.3 24,851 23,920 2,044
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.66 11.53 463 458 39.7 24,100 23,795 2,067
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.02 11.74 477 469 39.7 24,812 24,378 2,064
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.45 12.00 515 460 38.3 26,800 23,899 1,993
Protective service occupations...................................... 11.30 10.00 445 396 39.4 23,149 20,613 2,049
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.77 8.00 326 310 37.2 16,856 16,120 1,922
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.74 14.05 592 589 40.2 30,765 30,607 2,088
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.74 14.05 592 589 40.2 30,765 30,607 2,088
Cooks............................................................. 10.47 9.61 399 382 38.1 20,169 18,304 1,927
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.36 11.34 455 454 40.0 22,357 19,739 1,967
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.39 3.30 149 113 33.8 7,725 5,886 1,758
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.23 3.29 109 91 33.8 5,685 4,719 1,759
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.79 7.80 347 316 39.5 18,052 16,432 2,054
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.79 7.80 347 316 39.5 18,052 16,432 2,054
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.88 10.92 548 428 39.5 28,515 22,256 2,055
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.02 10.00 434 400 39.4 22,577 20,800 2,049
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.38 10.00 455 400 40.0 23,676 20,800 2,080
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.88 9.24 378 356 38.3 19,369 17,556 1,960
Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.84 14.00 674 560 40.0 35,058 29,120 2,082
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.54 13.25 659 530 39.8 34,257 27,560 2,071
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.37 13.25 535 530 40.0 27,808 27,560 2,080
Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.85 11.85 599 472 40.3 31,139 24,544 2,097
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.19 10.90 446 432 39.8 23,166 22,464 2,070
Cashiers...................................................... 11.19 10.90 446 432 39.8 23,166 22,464 2,070
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.53 16.22 672 689 40.6 34,924 35,840 2,113
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 16.59 726 815 40.8 37,742 42,370 2,119
Retail salespersons............................................. 15.88 11.43 643 455 40.5 33,414 23,650 2,104
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.61 14.92 611 584 39.1 31,656 30,264 2,028
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.56 15.75 697 630 39.7 36,237 32,760 2,064
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.38 15.49 645 581 39.4 33,496 30,213 2,045
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.37 13.87 535 555 40.0 27,551 28,829 2,060
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.79 16.95 693 665 39.0 36,052 34,595 2,027
Customer service representatives.................................. 14.55 14.02 575 558 39.5 29,914 29,036 2,057
Order clerks...................................................... 16.48 16.78 645 671 39.1 33,535 34,902 2,035
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.08 14.00 519 490 36.9 26,287 25,480 1,867
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.70 10.95 508 438 40.0 26,296 22,776 2,071
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.40 16.24 688 648 39.5 35,777 33,696 2,056
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.97 17.50 787 700 39.4 40,931 36,400 2,050
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.29 14.61 692 584 40.0 35,972 30,389 2,080
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.68 15.29 576 585 39.3 29,978 30,403 2,043
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 14.25 569 569 38.9 29,569 29,607 2,021
Office clerks, general............................................ 15.13 16.30 596 577 39.4 30,451 30,000 2,012
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.88 16.50 653 640 38.7 26,944 22,464 1,597
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.12 20.11 767 804 40.1 39,617 41,829 2,072
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.42 18.60 789 744 40.6 41,037 38,684 2,113
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.98 20.02 783 801 39.2 39,729 39,229 1,989
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 19.33 18.09 773 724 40.0 40,201 37,627 2,080
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.67 16.40 689 574 39.0 35,848 29,839 2,029
Production occupations.............................................. 18.18 17.34 711 655 39.1 36,493 32,427 2,008
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.96 15.34 599 614 40.0 30,985 31,470 2,071
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.49 14.13 682 565 39.0 35,446 29,390 2,026
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.60 13.57 604 543 38.7 31,422 28,226 2,014
Machinists........................................................ 23.07 22.56 891 891 38.6 46,334 46,326 2,008
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 24.33 22.30 967 892 39.7 50,259 46,384 2,065
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 24.33 22.30 967 892 39.7 50,259 46,384 2,065
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 21.35 17.09 820 673 38.4 41,815 32,795 1,959
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.36 15.19 700 608 38.1 34,501 30,988 1,879
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.69 17.09 726 684 38.9 34,760 30,988 1,860
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.73 14.00 654 560 36.9 33,994 29,120 1,917
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.25 15.16 561 555 39.4 28,853 28,249 2,025
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.39 11.35 532 454 39.7 27,661 23,608 2,065
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,
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $30.38 $27.29 $1,145 $1,012 37.7 $51,411 $49,639 1,692
Management occupations.............................................. 41.77 38.33 1,551 1,437 37.1 80,712 74,977 1,932
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.87 38.23 1,385 1,433 36.6 53,559 54,444 1,414
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 42.82 39.11 1,570 1,468 36.7 59,324 55,729 1,386
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 43.66 39.76 1,611 1,486 36.9 60,919 56,461 1,395
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.46 39.62 1,630 1,486 36.7 61,817 55,999 1,391
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 41.61 41.03 1,560 1,539 37.5 58,577 56,775 1,408
Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.76 36.68 1,411 1,345 36.4 53,335 51,237 1,376
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 38.76 36.68 1,411 1,345 36.4 53,335 51,237 1,376
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.37 11.95 477 443 35.7 17,620 16,121 1,318
Protective service occupations...................................... 25.76 24.73 1,030 989 40.0 53,576 51,434 2,080
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 17.78 18.29 707 732 39.7 35,669 38,043 2,006
Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.78 18.29 707 732 39.7 35,669 38,043 2,006
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.78 18.29 707 732 39.7 35,669 38,043 2,006
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.72 17.34 760 634 38.6 39,273 32,643 1,992
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.84 14.73 622 589 36.9 31,560 28,174 1,874
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.49 14.45 545 542 37.6 27,430 27,190 1,893
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.69 13.75 668 550 40.0 31,134 28,600 1,865
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.82 23.51 873 940 40.0 45,392 48,901 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.37 16.45 663 658 38.2 29,571 34,216 1,702
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
1-99 100-499 500
Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers
or more
All workers.................................. $19.35 $16.30 $17.60 $26.36
Management, professional, and related...... 30.65 28.57 30.22 32.27
Management, business, and financial...... 32.49 29.82 37.54 31.64
Professional and related................. 29.60 27.62 26.40 32.59
Service.................................... 9.97 9.12 9.24 16.50
Sales and office........................... 14.51 14.43 13.01 16.39
Sales and related........................ 13.98 14.70 12.17 –
Office and administrative support........ 14.95 14.09 14.07 16.37
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance............................... 18.17 16.84 19.18 22.95
Construction and extraction............. 16.69 15.52 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 19.02 17.80 19.18 23.69
Production, transportation, and material
moving.................................... 18.12 14.76 14.76 28.51
Production............................... 17.39 14.45 16.12 24.56
Transportation and material moving....... 18.76 15.02 13.37 –
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........................................................... 4.4 5.8 10.4 3.7
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.3 7.2 7.8 4.0
Management, business, and financial............................... 4.2 7.0 9.2 7.9
Professional and related.......................................... 4.2 12.5 7.4 4.9
Service............................................................. 7.4 4.4 18.0 18.1
Sales and office.................................................... 4.4 6.8 5.1 5.7
Sales and related................................................. 5.9 10.3 11.0 –
Office and administrative support................................. 4.5 5.0 7.9 6.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.6 8.2 8.7 4.2
Construction and extraction...................................... 3.4 5.0 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.7 12.8 9.5 4.6
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.3 8.2 8.5 17.8
Production........................................................ 3.5 7.0 12.3 5.4
Transportation and material moving................................ 10.8 11.8 6.6 –
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 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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $18.16 $15.58 $715 $608 39.4 $36,083 $30,389 1,987
Management occupations.............................................. 31.53 26.43 1,337 1,252 42.4 69,507 65,118 2,205
General and operations managers................................... 29.07 26.43 1,316 1,375 45.3 68,435 71,475 2,354
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.94 23.73 1,040 938 41.7 54,096 48,750 2,169
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.13 24.66 1,245 986 40.0 64,753 51,293 2,080
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.30 8.00 335 310 36.0 17,356 15,960 1,866
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.65 13.66 588 582 40.2 30,590 30,256 2,088
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.65 13.66 588 582 40.2 30,590 30,256 2,088
Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.11 4.10 159 91 31.2 8,287 4,719 1,622
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.07 11.00 473 440 39.2 24,604 22,880 2,039
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.73 16.22 715 649 40.3 37,175 33,743 2,096
Retail sales workers.............................................. 16.95 14.67 693 649 40.9 36,024 33,743 2,125
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.53 16.22 672 689 40.6 34,924 35,840 2,113
Parts salespersons............................................ 17.81 16.59 726 815 40.8 37,742 42,370 2,119
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.82 14.61 576 577 38.9 29,768 29,334 2,009
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.53 16.20 661 648 40.0 34,378 33,696 2,080
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.48 14.42 526 564 39.0 26,460 27,067 1,963
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.52 16.00 600 600 38.7 23,514 20,273 1,515
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.91 20.11 723 804 40.4 37,461 41,829 2,092
Production occupations.............................................. 14.64 13.85 578 529 39.5 30,019 27,518 2,050
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 15.82 14.13 633 565 40.0 32,902 29,390 2,080
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.82 14.13 633 565 40.0 32,902 29,390 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.21 14.90 634 580 39.1 32,000 29,120 1,974
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.16 14.90 613 596 38.0 29,622 28,080 1,834
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.52 14.90 675 596 38.5 31,580 29,120 1,803
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.42 9.46 415 378 39.8 21,590 19,679 2,071
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.32 8.25 411 330 39.8 21,350 17,160 2,070
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... $23.63 $20.18 $928 $792 39.3 $47,750 $41,163 2,021
Management occupations.............................................. 42.67 36.06 1,707 1,580 40.0 88,775 82,134 2,081
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.61 22.94 1,050 918 39.5 54,601 47,715 2,052
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.00 22.94 920 918 40.0 47,843 47,715 2,080
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 22.21 22.84 896 913 40.3 46,571 47,497 2,097
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.03 33.65 1,252 1,321 39.1 65,092 68,682 2,032
Computer software engineers....................................... 37.37 37.79 1,443 1,481 38.6 75,025 77,010 2,008
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 37.37 37.79 1,443 1,481 38.6 75,025 77,010 2,008
Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.63 33.32 1,305 1,333 40.0 67,871 69,306 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.72 33.67 1,426 1,347 39.9 74,146 70,036 2,076
Engineers......................................................... 37.62 37.64 1,505 1,505 40.0 78,258 78,281 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.58 37.64 1,543 1,505 40.0 80,252 78,281 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.58 37.64 1,543 1,505 40.0 80,252 78,281 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.20 17.13 825 646 38.9 42,875 33,613 2,022
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.70 13.78 633 552 40.3 32,671 28,683 2,080
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 56.64 49.99 2,134 1,939 37.7 79,732 69,905 1,408
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.04 26.45 1,039 1,058 39.9 54,032 55,016 2,075
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.57 25.60 1,000 986 39.1 51,884 50,960 2,029
Registered nurses................................................. 29.25 29.00 1,134 1,114 38.8 58,633 57,782 2,004
Therapists........................................................ 27.44 25.60 1,039 1,024 37.9 54,021 53,248 1,969
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.97 22.98 999 919 40.0 51,948 47,794 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.60 21.42 784 857 40.0 40,771 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.15 22.28 966 891 40.0 50,233 46,342 2,080
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.81 16.00 672 640 40.0 34,960 33,280 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.16 11.90 483 470 39.7 25,091 24,423 2,063
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.76 11.56 467 459 39.7 24,307 23,888 2,066
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.02 11.74 477 469 39.7 24,812 24,378 2,064
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.28 14.94 571 598 40.0 29,712 31,075 2,080
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.71 8.50 306 340 39.7 15,763 17,680 2,044
Cooks............................................................. 11.14 9.61 445 384 40.0 22,449 19,991 2,016
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.64 10.70 623 428 39.8 32,401 22,256 2,071
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.34 10.00 451 400 39.8 23,467 20,800 2,069
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.43 10.00 457 400 40.0 23,772 20,800 2,080
Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.40 12.14 610 486 39.6 31,705 25,251 2,059
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.11 15.12 633 592 39.3 32,869 30,576 2,041
Financial clerks.................................................. 16.93 16.26 664 615 39.2 34,519 31,957 2,039
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.72 16.39 688 650 38.8 35,777 33,815 2,019
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.78 14.42 622 561 39.4 32,330 29,170 2,048
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.69 11.40 548 456 40.0 28,471 23,712 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.12 16.24 710 650 39.2 36,917 33,777 2,037
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.79 20.99 814 785 39.1 42,315 40,819 2,036
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.45 15.30 602 592 39.0 31,302 30,805 2,026
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.63 14.25 569 569 38.9 29,569 29,607 2,021
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.23 21.78 865 871 38.9 44,963 45,302 2,023
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.09 22.03 836 881 39.6 43,024 41,642 2,040
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.56 22.03 802 881 39.0 40,502 37,627 1,970
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.62 16.40 721 648 38.7 37,487 33,696 2,014
Production occupations.............................................. 21.01 20.60 815 792 38.8 41,492 41,163 1,975
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 19.50 18.41 737 557 37.8 38,328 28,954 1,965
Machinists........................................................ 24.54 25.45 947 891 38.6 49,228 46,326 2,006
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 26.96 19.77 1,015 791 37.6 52,354 41,122 1,942
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 24.03 24.38 928 939 38.6 48,260 48,822 2,008
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 25.69 26.83 953 939 37.1 49,572 48,822 1,930
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 16.49 17.92 645 717 39.1 32,960 37,274 1,999
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 16.50 19.77 654 791 39.6 34,017 41,122 2,061
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March
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........................................................... $22.33 $19.17 $28.67 $19.67 $19.38 $28.28
Management, professional, and related............................... 33.40 22.82 37.94 31.51 31.10 38.46
Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 32.79 32.49 39.90
Professional and related.......................................... 33.49 22.82 38.14 30.73 30.23 37.92
Service............................................................. 13.56 10.94 20.74 9.79 9.76 13.45
Sales and office.................................................... 15.74 14.03 18.02 14.59 14.55 16.89
Sales and related................................................. – – – 14.21 14.21 –
Office and administrative support................................. 17.09 16.00 18.02 14.91 14.84 16.89
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 22.22 22.25 22.08 16.29 16.47 –
Construction and extraction...................................... 21.32 21.07 – 14.75 14.97 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.72 22.89 21.82 17.36 17.36 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 23.16 23.56 19.24 14.71 14.78 –
Production........................................................ 20.96 20.90 – 15.84 15.84 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 24.40 25.15 – 13.52 13.61 –
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........................................................... 4.7 6.3 4.2 5.4 5.5 26.4
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.1 4.8 3.0 3.5 3.3 20.8
Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 4.1 4.2 8.5
Professional and related.......................................... 3.3 4.8 3.1 4.7 4.2 29.1
Service............................................................. 9.3 6.4 10.6 8.5 8.6 16.0
Sales and office.................................................... 12.5 12.7 18.5 5.2 5.3 10.9
Sales and related................................................. – – – 7.9 7.9 –
Office and administrative support................................. 11.4 6.8 18.5 4.4 4.6 10.9
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.4 5.2 6.4 7.5 7.8 –
Construction and extraction...................................... 4.1 3.9 – 6.7 7.2 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.8 8.0 6.6 11.1 11.1 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 11.9 12.9 12.1 5.0 5.2 –
Production........................................................ 9.7 10.3 – 7.3 7.3 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 17.7 19.6 – 6.6 6.9 –
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, Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Time Incentive
Occupational group(3)
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $20.18 $19.24 $21.51 $21.51
Management, professional, and related............................... 31.93 30.78 – –
Management, business, and financial............................... 33.25 33.00 – –
Professional and related.......................................... 31.35 29.60 – –
Service............................................................. 10.63 9.97 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 14.08 13.76 20.70 20.70
Sales and related................................................. 11.89 11.89 20.90 20.90
Office and administrative support................................. 15.31 14.97 – –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.93 17.88 20.29 20.29
Construction and extraction...................................... – 16.69 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.93 18.74 20.29 20.29
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 18.00 18.04 – –
Production........................................................ 17.38 17.29 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 18.51 18.70 – –
Time Incentive
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 4.1 4.7 3.0 3.0
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.0 3.3 – –
Management, business, and financial............................... 4.0 4.2 – –
Professional and related.......................................... 3.5 4.2 – –
Service............................................................. 7.2 7.4 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 4.3 4.3 6.2 6.2
Sales and related................................................. 5.4 5.4 6.1 6.1
Office and administrative support................................. 4.8 4.6 – –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.7 6.2 7.6 7.6
Construction and extraction...................................... – 3.4 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 9.6 10.3 7.6 7.6
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.1 6.5 – –
Production........................................................ 3.4 3.4 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 10.1 11.0 – –
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 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........................................................... – $19.20 $16.80 – $24.90 – $19.72 $9.82 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – 29.10 28.31 – 33.62 – 26.95 35.94 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – 31.16 27.04 – 30.77 – 26.83 37.40 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 27.14 29.40 – 39.41 – 26.96 – –
Service............................................................. – – 9.05 – – – 11.73 6.99 –
Sales and office.................................................... – – 11.94 – 17.22 – 14.61 11.98 –
Sales and related................................................. – – 11.95 – 19.13 – – 12.38 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 16.01 11.91 – 15.92 – 14.61 11.81 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 20.88 19.05 – – – – – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 21.73 18.94 – – – – – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 16.55 19.74 – – – 11.43 – –
Production........................................................ – 16.64 15.57 – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – 16.24 20.21 – – – 11.74 – –
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........................................................... – 8.6 7.1 – 3.5 – 5.1 6.0 –
Management, professional, and related............................... – 4.3 6.0 – 3.1 – 3.6 15.8 –
Management, business, and financial............................... – 4.8 5.5 – 11.0 – 4.7 15.4 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 12.5 12.4 – 3.1 – 4.2 – –
Service............................................................. – – 4.2 – – – 3.6 3.9 –
Sales and office.................................................... – – 4.9 – 5.9 – 4.8 16.8 –
Sales and related................................................. – – 5.3 – 14.0 – – 25.4 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 25.3 4.2 – 5.0 – 4.8 15.4 –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 1.9 10.9 – – – – – –
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 6.9 11.2 – – – – – –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – .8 13.8 – – – 4.6 – –
Production........................................................ – 1.6 12.9 – – – – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – 9.4 14.8 – – – 12.7 – –
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March
2010
Private State and
Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local
workers workers government
workers
All workers........................................................... 1,062,800 949,800 113,100
Management, professional, and related............................... 344,100 281,600 62,500
Management, business, and financial............................... 89,700 85,400 4,300
Professional and related.......................................... 254,400 196,200 58,200
Service............................................................. 223,500 209,100 14,300
Sales and office.................................................... 266,000 246,200 19,800
Sales and related................................................. 119,400 119,400 –
Office and administrative support................................. 146,600 126,800 19,800
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 92,000 83,500 8,500
Construction and extraction...................................... 41,200 35,400 5,800
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 50,700 48,100 2,600
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 137,400 129,400 8,000
Production........................................................ 59,000 58,000 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 78,300 71,400 6,900
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, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2010
Private State and
Establishments Total industry local
government
Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 54,317 52,366 1,951
Total in sample....................................................... 415 386 29
Responding........................................................ 296 267 29
Refused or unable to provide data................................. 77 77 0
Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 42 42 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