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Highlights of Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland National Compensation Survey – January 2010 (PDF)Workers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland metropolitan area earned an average of $23.53 per hour in January 2010, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $35.06 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $17.73 for sales and related occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support occupations, had a mean hourly wage of $17.32. The NCS data available for the Philadelphia area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.) Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical group, earned $34.82 per hour, and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses averaged $23.88. Retail salespersons, an occupation within the sales and related group, earned $12.93 per hour and cashiers, $9.56 per hour. Executive secretaries and administrative assistants, part of the office and administrative support group, earned $23.27 per hour and tellers, $12.79. Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $25.34 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $12.43. Union workers earned $26.20 and non-union workers, $22.92. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $19.44 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $23.04, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $30.84. The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/. The NCS data reported here covered 809 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 2,550,400 workers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; and Cecil County in Maryland. Survey AvailabilityComplete survey results are contained in the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD National Compensation Survey January 2010 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm. For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey data, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Mid-Atlantic Information Office by calling (215) 597-3282 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. |
Occupation(3) | Total | Full-time workers | Part-time workers | |||
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Mean | Relative error(4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error(4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error(4) (percent) | |
All workers |
$23.53 | 3.0 | $25.34 | 3.1 | $12.43 | 4.2 |
Management occupations |
50.76 | 7.8 | 50.79 | 7.9 | – | – |
General and operations managers |
61.54 | 15.0 | 61.54 | 15.0 | – | – |
Marketing and sales managers |
74.77 | 17.5 | 74.77 | 17.5 | – | – |
Computer and information systems managers |
55.59 | 4.8 | 55.59 | 4.8 | – | – |
Financial managers |
57.57 | 10.5 | 57.57 | 10.5 | – | – |
Human resources managers |
50.69 | 8.3 | 50.78 | 8.9 | – | – |
Education administrators |
35.94 | 6.9 | 35.94 | 6.9 | – | – |
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school |
42.46 | 15.2 | 42.46 | 15.2 | – | – |
Education administrators, postsecondary |
31.74 | 6.9 | 31.74 | 6.9 | – | – |
Business and financial operations occupations |
32.56 | 4.0 | 32.62 | 4.1 | – | – |
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators |
25.86 | 12.0 | 25.86 | 12.0 | – | – |
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators |
25.86 | 12.0 | 25.86 | 12.0 | – | – |
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation |
33.89 | 17.4 | 33.89 | 17.4 | – | – |
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists |
38.53 | 9.2 | 38.53 | 9.2 | – | – |
Management analysts |
39.36 | 17.6 | 39.36 | 17.6 | – | – |
Accountants and auditors |
28.73 | 5.5 | 28.10 | 5.4 | – | – |
Financial analysts and advisors |
31.13 | 5.9 | 31.13 | 5.9 | – | – |
Financial analysts |
36.85 | 12.6 | 36.85 | 12.6 | – | – |
Computer and mathematical science occupations |
36.53 | 3.5 | 36.97 | 3.1 | – | – |
Computer software engineers |
47.23 | 7.6 | 47.23 | 7.6 | – | – |
Computer software engineers, applications |
45.13 | 12.9 | 45.13 | 12.9 | – | – |
Computer software engineers, systems software |
49.79 | 7.4 | 49.79 | 7.4 | – | – |
Computer support specialists |
25.93 | 8.3 | 25.93 | 8.3 | – | – |
Computer systems analysts |
39.64 | 6.0 | 39.64 | 6.0 | – | – |
Network and computer systems administrators |
40.92 | 14.4 | 40.92 | 14.4 | – | – |
Architecture and engineering occupations |
32.95 | 13.0 | 32.95 | 13.0 | – | – |
Engineers |
37.75 | 10.7 | 37.75 | 10.7 | – | – |
Electrical and electronics engineers |
36.64 | 23.4 | 36.64 | 23.4 | – | – |
Electrical engineers |
35.88 | 24.8 | 35.88 | 24.8 | – | – |
Mechanical engineers |
36.93 | 10.6 | 36.93 | 10.6 | – | – |
Engineering technicians, except drafters |
22.85 | 13.3 | 22.85 | 13.3 | – | – |
Life, physical, and social science occupations |
33.50 | 9.7 | 33.52 | 9.7 | – | – |
Life scientists |
48.97 | 13.9 | 49.11 | 14.1 | – | – |
Biological scientists |
42.58 | 8.1 | 42.58 | 8.1 | – | – |
Medical scientists |
55.31 | 25.9 | 55.76 | 26.5 | – | – |
Physical scientists |
35.57 | 19.6 | 35.57 | 19.6 | – | – |
Community and social services occupations |
19.68 | 11.3 | 21.28 | 8.8 | – | – |
Counselors |
21.02 | 15.4 | 21.51 | 16.6 | – | – |
Social workers |
21.09 | 5.2 | 20.75 | 6.0 | – | – |
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists |
– | – | 22.41 | 18.5 | – | – |
Legal occupations |
41.79 | 24.1 | 41.54 | 25.1 | – | – |
Lawyers |
54.97 | 25.7 | 54.90 | 26.5 | – | – |
Paralegals and legal assistants |
22.36 | 15.1 | 22.36 | 15.1 | – | – |
Education, training, and library occupations |
35.34 | 5.9 | 36.07 | 5.9 | 20.16 | 12.8 |
Postsecondary teachers |
45.68 | 4.9 | 45.65 | 5.3 | 46.57 | 13.6 |
Health teachers, postsecondary |
44.92 | 9.7 | – | – | – | – |
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary |
43.90 | 9.6 | – | – | – | – |
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers |
36.38 | 10.3 | 35.64 | 10.1 | – | – |
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers |
39.22 | 5.6 | 39.31 | 5.6 | – | – |
Preschool and kindergarten teachers |
22.02 | 18.5 | 22.02 | 18.5 | – | – |
Elementary and middle school teachers |
40.88 | 8.0 | 41.06 | 8.2 | – | – |
Elementary school teachers, except special education |
39.48 | 9.3 | 39.68 | 9.5 | – | – |
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education |
45.32 | 4.3 | 45.42 | 4.0 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers |
43.58 | 7.5 | 43.67 | 7.8 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education |
43.30 | 8.7 | 43.40 | 9.1 | – | – |
Special education teachers |
43.08 | 6.8 | 43.08 | 6.8 | – | – |
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school |
45.59 | 4.6 | 45.59 | 4.6 | – | – |
Librarians |
34.40 | 16.0 | 34.40 | 16.0 | – | – |
Teacher assistants |
13.45 | 13.4 | 13.65 | 13.8 | 12.11 | 14.1 |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations |
31.62 | 19.0 | 34.46 | 19.3 | 12.89 | 29.5 |
Designers |
21.65 | 3.8 | 22.56 | 5.7 | – | – |
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations |
35.06 | 4.8 | 36.00 | 6.7 | 31.1 | 7.6 |
Pharmacists |
49.44 | 15.5 | – | – | – | – |
Physicians and surgeons |
75.51 | 7.2 | 75.51 | 7.2 | – | – |
Registered nurses |
34.82 | 2.5 | 34.32 | 2.8 | 36.52 | 4.2 |
Therapists |
30.99 | 6.7 | 32.80 | 4.3 | – | – |
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians |
22.74 | 4.7 | 22.63 | 4.7 | – | – |
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians |
29.33 | 8.4 | 28.82 | 10.3 | – | – |
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses |
23.88 | 1.5 | 23.60 | 1.9 | – | – |
Medical records and health information technicians |
12.95 | 5.5 | 12.95 | 5.5 | – | – |
Healthcare support occupations |
14.15 | 3.5 | 14.70 | 4.1 | 12.07 | 3.8 |
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides |
13.51 | 3.6 | 13.81 | 4.0 | 12.04 | 1.8 |
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants |
13.24 | 2.5 | 13.23 | 2.6 | 13.33 | 5.5 |
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations |
14.94 | 5.0 | 15.89 | 5.6 | 11.99 | 7.9 |
Dental assistants |
16.69 | 1.2 | – | – | – | – |
Medical assistants |
15.95 | 10.9 | 16.56 | 9.8 | – | – |
Protective service occupations |
23.93 | 4.6 | 25.09 | 2.9 | 10.14 | 6.4 |
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers |
24.26 | 5.4 | 24.26 | 5.4 | – | – |
Correctional officers and jailers |
24.26 | 5.4 | 24.26 | 5.4 | – | – |
Police officers |
29.00 | 1.7 | 29.21 | 1.5 | – | – |
Police and sheriff's patrol officers |
29.00 | 1.7 | 29.21 | 1.5 | – | – |
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers |
12.52 | 9.2 | 13.19 | 8.1 | – | – |
Security guards |
12.52 | 9.2 | 13.19 | 8.1 | – | – |
Miscellaneous protective service workers |
11.90 | 2.7 | – | – | 11.9 | 2.7 |
Food preparation and serving related occupations |
8.75 | 4.3 | 11.13 | 6.0 | 6.64 | 3.7 |
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers |
19.02 | 7.5 | 19.07 | 7.5 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers |
19.02 | 7.5 | 19.07 | 7.5 | – | – |
Cooks |
11.27 | 2.8 | 12.28 | 2.6 | 9.57 | 6.2 |
Cooks, institution and cafeteria |
12.86 | 6.3 | 13.41 | 5.7 | – | – |
Cooks, restaurant |
11.92 | 6.9 | 12.24 | 5.6 | – | – |
Cooks, short order |
9.55 | 1.7 | – | – | – | – |
Food preparation workers |
10.91 | 8.4 | 11.63 | 13.9 | 9.73 | 7.1 |
Food service, tipped |
4.48 | 5.2 | 5.28 | 9.1 | 4.14 | 4.2 |
Bartenders |
4.26 | 10.5 | – | – | – | – |
Waiters and waitresses |
3.62 | 3.5 | 4.21 | 3.8 | 3.37 | 5.2 |
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers |
8.12 | 19.5 | 13.85 | 11.8 | 6.52 | 22.9 |
Fast food and counter workers |
9.15 | 4.8 | 10.57 | 12.2 | 8.30 | 3.6 |
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food |
8.72 | 6.1 | 9.74 | 15.7 | 8.31 | 4.3 |
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop |
10.42 | 9.2 | – | – | – | – |
Food servers, nonrestaurant |
10.04 | 4.5 | – | – | 9.78 | 10.9 |
Dishwashers |
8.26 | 3.4 | – | – | 7.92 | 0.6 |
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop |
10.78 | 9.1 | – | – | – | – |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations |
13.33 | 4.1 | 14.43 | 2.6 | 9.63 | 4.5 |
First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers |
23.37 | 18.5 | 23.37 | 18.5 | – | – |
Building cleaning workers |
12.87 | 3.5 | 14.06 | 2.4 | 9.67 | 4.7 |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
13.08 | 4.1 | 14.42 | 2.8 | 9.27 | 4.7 |
Maids and housekeeping cleaners |
11.71 | 2.8 | 11.92 | 3.5 | – | – |
Grounds maintenance workers |
13.49 | 8.0 | 13.92 | 4.9 | – | – |
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers |
12.64 | 6.8 | 13.00 | 3.7 | – | – |
Personal care and service occupations |
13.03 | 5.6 | 15.80 | 8.2 | 9.88 | 10.8 |
Gaming services workers |
7.14 | 2.7 | 7.51 | 0.7 | – | – |
Gaming dealers |
6.99 | 0.0 | 7.51 | 0.7 | – | – |
Child care workers |
10.41 | 6.1 | 10.45 | 8.4 | – | – |
Recreation and fitness workers |
13.80 | 12.1 | – | – | – | – |
Recreation workers |
12.48 | 11.9 | – | – | – | – |
Sales and related occupations |
17.73 | 7.9 | 21.45 | 8.3 | 9.05 | 1.8 |
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers |
24.72 | 19.2 | 24.72 | 19.2 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers |
22.11 | 22.8 | 22.11 | 22.8 | – | – |
Retail sales workers |
11.62 | 2.6 | 13.86 | 3.9 | 9.04 | 1.8 |
Cashiers, all workers |
9.56 | 3.3 | 10.63 | 8.3 | 8.87 | 1.4 |
Cashiers |
9.56 | 3.3 | 10.63 | 8.3 | 8.87 | 1.4 |
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons |
14.66 | 9.8 | 16.80 | 5.9 | – | – |
Retail salespersons |
12.93 | 6.7 | 15.13 | 11.5 | 8.95 | 2.8 |
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents |
25.49 | 26.2 | 25.49 | 26.2 | – | – |
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing |
28.70 | 3.7 | 28.70 | 3.7 | – | – |
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific |
31.09 | 10.5 | 31.09 | 10.5 | – | – |
Miscellaneous sales and related workers |
21.69 | 5.8 | – | – | – | – |
Office and administrative support occupations |
17.32 | 2.9 | 17.82 | 2.6 | 12.62 | 6.9 |
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers |
24.37 | 4.9 | 24.37 | 4.9 | – | – |
Financial clerks |
18.60 | 8.0 | 18.90 | 8.0 | 13.86 | 4.8 |
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators |
16.64 | 3.8 | 16.64 | 3.8 | – | – |
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks |
17.69 | 6.5 | 17.72 | 6.6 | – | – |
Payroll and timekeeping clerks |
18.80 | 11.6 | 18.81 | 12.2 | – | – |
Tellers |
12.79 | 3.6 | 12.71 | 4.8 | – | – |
Court, municipal, and license clerks |
15.90 | 11.0 | 15.90 | 11.0 | – | – |
Customer service representatives |
15.47 | 4.9 | 16.09 | 5.3 | 12.44 | 5.1 |
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan |
15.68 | 1.9 | 15.86 | 2.7 | – | – |
Order clerks |
15.92 | 8.3 | 16.03 | 8.3 | – | – |
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping |
20.70 | 15.3 | 20.70 | 15.3 | – | – |
Receptionists and information clerks |
16.08 | 10.8 | 16.53 | 11.9 | 13.58 | 12.6 |
Dispatchers |
16.61 | 8.3 | 16.61 | 8.3 | – | – |
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks |
13.07 | 9.5 | 13.18 | 9.6 | – | – |
Stock clerks and order fillers |
11.36 | 6.9 | 13.41 | 6.4 | 8.72 | 1.0 |
Secretaries and administrative assistants |
20.44 | 3.7 | 20.64 | 3.0 | – | – |
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants |
23.27 | 1.9 | 23.57 | 2.2 | – | – |
Legal secretaries |
23.32 | 7.6 | 23.32 | 7.6 | – | – |
Medical secretaries |
17.48 | 4.5 | 17.61 | 1.6 | – | – |
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive |
17.80 | 5.6 | 17.80 | 5.6 | – | – |
Data entry and information processing workers |
16.74 | 3.6 | 17.15 | 4.7 | – | – |
Data entry keyers |
16.20 | 6.8 | 16.82 | 8.9 | – | – |
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks |
17.87 | 3.7 | 17.87 | 3.7 | – | – |
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service |
13.64 | 5.2 | 13.58 | 7.0 | – | – |
Office clerks, general |
16.00 | 9.4 | 16.24 | 9.9 | 13.05 | 17.4 |
Construction and extraction occupations |
22.23 | 14.9 | 22.38 | 15.1 | – | – |
Carpenters |
18.67 | 7.9 | – | – | – | – |
Construction laborers |
23.88 | 5.6 | 23.88 | 5.6 | – | – |
Electricians |
27.62 | 21.7 | 27.62 | 21.7 | – | – |
Helpers, construction trades |
13.75 | 5.8 | 13.75 | 5.8 | – | – |
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations |
23.99 | 5.3 | 24.07 | 5.2 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers |
35.13 | 7.3 | 35.13 | 7.3 | – | – |
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers |
27.04 | 11.7 | 27.04 | 11.7 | – | – |
Automotive technicians and repairers |
18.93 | 5.6 | 18.93 | 5.6 | – | – |
Automotive service technicians and mechanics |
18.66 | 5.5 | 18.66 | 5.5 | – | – |
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists |
23.55 | 7.9 | 23.55 | 7.9 | – | – |
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers |
24.86 | 13.0 | 24.86 | 13.0 | – | – |
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers |
21.51 | 4.3 | 21.51 | 4.3 | – | – |
Maintenance and repair workers, general |
20.72 | 6.2 | 20.72 | 6.2 | – | – |
Line installers and repairers |
35.86 | 4.4 | 35.86 | 4.4 | – | – |
Electrical power-line installers and repairers |
37.36 | 2.4 | 37.36 | 2.4 | – | – |
Production occupations |
16.90 | 3.4 | 17.05 | 3.5 | 11.86 | 14.4 |
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers |
24.43 | 14.3 | 24.43 | 14.3 | – | – |
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers |
18.59 | 10.6 | 18.59 | 10.6 | – | – |
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators |
16.92 | 7.2 | 16.92 | 7.2 | – | – |
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
15.78 | 4.6 | 15.78 | 4.6 | – | – |
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers |
17.08 | 6.7 | 17.08 | 6.7 | – | – |
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers |
19.67 | 17.5 | 19.67 | 17.5 | – | – |
Miscellaneous production workers |
14.46 | 2.9 | 14.47 | 3.0 | – | – |
Transportation and material moving occupations |
17.55 | 3.0 | 18.33 | 3.1 | 11.68 | 10.6 |
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand |
23.48 | 9.1 | – | – | – | – |
Bus drivers |
19.00 | 7.2 | 20.38 | 5.2 | – | – |
Bus drivers, school |
17.58 | 6.1 | 18.87 | 3.9 | – | – |
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers |
19.81 | 6.1 | 19.95 | 6.3 | – | – |
Driver/sales workers |
16.17 | 16.4 | – | – | – | – |
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer |
20.98 | 4.6 | 21.05 | 5.0 | – | – |
Industrial truck and tractor operators |
16.21 | 8.3 | 16.21 | 8.3 | – | – |
Laborers and material movers, hand |
11.99 | 6.0 | 12.83 | 5.8 | 9.72 | 6.8 |
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment |
11.33 | 10.8 | – | – | – | – |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
12.63 | 7.4 | 14.23 | 8.0 | 9.69 | 7.1 |
Packers and packagers, hand |
10.77 | 9.0 | 10.88 | 8.6 | – | – |
Footnotes: |
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SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. |
Last Modified Date: October 12, 2010