Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $19.13 2.3 33.6 $17.55 2.6 33.7 $26.94 4.8 33.2 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 29.50 3.0 35.5 27.09 3.7 36.1 35.71 5.0 34.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 32.19 7.3 38.1 30.97 7.4 39.7 40.11 18.7 29.9 Professional and related.......................................... 28.62 3.8 34.7 25.45 4.2 34.8 35.12 6.0 34.6 Service............................................................. 11.96 4.1 28.2 10.02 1.4 27.3 18.61 8.1 31.7 Sales and office.................................................... 15.38 3.1 33.5 14.70 3.0 33.6 21.13 9.5 32.9 Sales and related................................................. 15.35 6.1 29.3 15.06 6.3 29.3 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 15.40 3.5 35.4 14.55 3.5 35.8 20.65 9.6 33.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 20.07 7.0 39.5 19.94 7.8 39.5 21.28 2.6 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 21.96 9.8 39.4 21.87 11.6 39.3 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.83 8.0 39.6 18.80 8.6 39.6 – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.49 2.7 38.1 17.42 2.8 38.5 – – – Production........................................................ 18.22 3.6 39.4 18.21 3.6 39.4 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.24 4.2 36.2 15.91 4.5 36.9 – – – Full time........................................................... 20.87 2.4 39.1 19.16 2.8 39.4 28.57 4.5 37.8 Part time........................................................... 10.89 6.0 20.2 10.62 6.3 20.8 13.30 11.8 16.4 Union............................................................... 25.27 3.4 36.2 21.50 4.7 35.9 28.14 4.3 36.5 Nonunion............................................................ 17.10 2.7 32.9 16.96 2.8 33.4 20.67 14.6 22.6 Time................................................................ 18.89 2.4 33.5 17.17 2.7 33.5 26.94 4.8 33.2 Incentive........................................................... 24.50 16.7 37.4 24.50 16.7 37.4 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 21.89 5.5 40.0 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 16.51 3.2 32.5 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 16.46 3.5 31.9 16.47 3.6 32.5 16.08 18.2 21.6 100-499 workers..................................................... 17.94 5.6 34.6 15.87 5.6 34.5 28.97 7.6 35.0 500 workers or more................................................. 25.17 4.9 35.9 23.38 7.2 36.5 27.65 5.9 35.2 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $19.13 2.3 $20.87 2.4 $10.89 6.0 Management occupations.............................................. 37.23 11.1 37.29 11.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.58 17.9 27.58 17.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.45 6.1 46.45 6.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.48 11.4 48.89 11.4 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.00 7.4 24.55 8.6 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 27.92 6.8 28.08 7.0 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.93 10.0 28.93 10.0 – – Engineers......................................................... 33.29 3.9 33.29 3.9 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.02 9.0 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.19 4.3 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.97 7.4 15.85 3.7 – – Social workers.................................................... 21.50 3.9 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.60 5.1 34.86 5.1 13.41 16.7 Level 2 .................................................. 10.07 12.4 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 33.96 16.0 33.96 16.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.20 4.2 36.20 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.56 20.7 39.44 20.1 16.13 10.8 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 51.46 26.4 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.81 3.4 34.96 3.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.20 4.2 36.20 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.24 13.2 40.55 7.4 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.64 5.7 38.69 5.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.43 9.0 37.43 9.0 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.68 6.5 38.75 6.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 35.17 2.5 35.17 2.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.18 2.7 35.18 2.7 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.05 2.7 35.05 2.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.97 2.8 34.97 2.8 – – Special education teachers...................................... 30.77 12.3 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 10.03 7.1 10.96 7.1 8.80 8.7 Level 2 .................................................. 10.07 12.4 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.04 18.5 29.36 18.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.10 3.8 25.19 4.5 32.67 8.4 Level 5 .................................................. 17.71 4.4 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.72 4.8 28.62 7.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.33 1.2 27.21 1.6 – – Registered nurses................................................. 28.25 3.1 27.45 3.2 33.31 4.9 Level 8 .................................................. 30.92 4.7 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.41 1.0 27.41 1.0 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.40 3.4 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.37 6.7 13.98 5.9 10.75 7.9 Level 2 .................................................. 11.27 7.4 11.67 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.86 8.7 14.97 9.0 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.28 9.0 13.71 8.8 11.18 11.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.27 7.4 11.67 6.9 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.19 4.4 13.09 4.6 – – Psychiatric aides............................................... 14.25 19.7 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.36 9.6 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.05 5.8 26.80 5.1 12.10 26.6 Level 3 .................................................. 16.76 5.3 – – – – Police officers................................................... 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.75 2.0 10.98 9.9 7.34 1.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 2.8 – – 7.07 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 7.52 2.4 – – 7.33 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 9.52 6.0 10.21 5.7 8.06 19.0 Level 4 .................................................. 9.95 15.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.83 18.9 15.83 18.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 10.37 15.8 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.66 6.5 – – 5.81 7.0 Level 2 .................................................. 5.58 7.1 – – 5.79 9.6 Bartenders...................................................... 6.44 7.7 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.66 .6 – – 4.67 .7 Level 2 .................................................. 4.68 .5 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.95 2.5 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.12 2.8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.81 3.8 12.60 4.6 9.00 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 11.03 8.8 11.95 8.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.79 3.5 10.40 4.4 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.54 2.7 12.22 4.0 9.13 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 11.36 8.5 12.50 8.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.89 4.0 10.40 4.4 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.77 2.9 12.54 3.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 12.78 10.3 14.29 8.3 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.43 14.7 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.67 11.5 12.78 7.8 8.60 6.9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.07 5.0 9.49 9.7 8.85 5.4 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.98 7.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.13 2.1 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 9.98 7.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.13 2.1 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.35 6.1 18.36 5.6 9.07 1.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.53 1.2 – – 8.28 1.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.89 12.8 – – 10.30 11.2 Level 4 .................................................. 13.43 5.1 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.48 6.9 22.48 6.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 20.78 10.2 21.34 9.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 21.63 10.5 22.35 8.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.03 5.4 13.22 9.8 8.98 2.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.52 1.2 – – 8.26 1.4 Level 3 .................................................. 10.48 10.9 – – 10.30 11.2 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.39 1.8 – – 8.66 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.79 2.3 – – 8.62 1.1 Cashiers...................................................... 9.39 1.8 – – 8.66 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.79 2.3 – – 8.62 1.1 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.50 4.9 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.42 10.2 14.46 16.7 9.30 2.4 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.40 3.5 16.00 4.0 11.46 2.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.85 .8 – – 7.91 1.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.64 5.5 10.73 8.2 10.31 7.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.03 2.9 12.17 3.6 11.41 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.21 2.5 15.31 2.8 14.43 5.1 Level 5 .................................................. 16.26 7.9 16.33 8.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.69 6.3 20.96 5.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.80 6.5 17.44 5.5 11.50 9.5 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.78 6.8 23.41 5.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.12 4.0 15.36 4.6 13.26 5.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.50 6.7 11.23 10.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.21 2.5 15.20 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.15 11.2 16.29 12.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.37 8.2 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.68 5.2 15.88 5.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.71 6.2 14.71 6.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.08 5.1 18.94 3.8 – – Tellers......................................................... 13.39 .8 14.33 5.6 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.37 13.0 14.35 13.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.19 3.9 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.15 5.1 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... – – 13.74 7.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.53 9.1 12.36 9.3 7.83 1.0 Level 1 .................................................. 7.72 .6 – – 7.78 .4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.66 11.4 20.18 11.0 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.21 15.4 22.21 15.4 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.92 16.3 – – – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.01 7.6 – – – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.44 3.3 13.90 4.7 11.76 8.7 Level 4 .................................................. 13.85 6.3 13.71 6.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.96 9.8 21.96 9.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.05 8.1 17.05 8.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.57 14.9 22.57 14.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.96 9.6 30.96 9.6 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.76 13.9 22.76 13.9 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 22.76 13.9 22.76 13.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.83 8.0 18.81 8.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.36 5.2 18.36 5.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.70 7.8 24.70 7.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.31 14.4 21.29 14.6 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.17 12.6 – – – – Production occupations.............................................. 18.22 3.6 18.64 3.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 19.52 5.3 20.02 5.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.40 8.7 17.40 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.44 7.0 18.44 7.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.15 8.0 21.15 8.0 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.73 15.9 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 19.21 10.7 19.21 10.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.26 15.2 21.26 15.2 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.89 1.9 15.89 1.9 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.87 8.9 13.31 10.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.24 4.2 16.87 5.3 12.36 11.7 Level 1 .................................................. 9.10 6.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.33 9.0 13.57 9.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.71 6.9 16.59 6.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 8.0 18.11 7.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.24 9.0 18.23 9.4 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.10 9.0 18.07 9.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.69 9.7 13.13 9.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.98 7.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 14.36 8.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.41 6.4 15.41 6.4 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.24 12.0 12.82 11.8 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $17.55 2.6 $19.16 2.8 $10.62 6.3 Management occupations.............................................. 35.34 11.0 35.34 11.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.99 19.2 26.99 19.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.89 11.4 48.89 11.4 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.65 8.8 24.47 9.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.02 8.3 26.18 8.4 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.53 12.3 28.53 12.3 – – Engineers......................................................... 33.98 4.1 33.98 4.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 19.94 4.2 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.07 7.7 15.75 4.3 – – Social workers.................................................... 21.50 3.9 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.04 18.0 24.91 19.3 12.13 24.2 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.91 12.5 22.63 14.2 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 8.93 9.4 – – 8.06 1.3 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.36 18.6 29.36 18.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.14 3.6 26.12 4.4 32.67 8.4 Level 8 .................................................. 29.72 4.8 28.62 7.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.47 1.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 28.77 4.2 27.83 4.0 33.31 4.9 Level 8 .................................................. 30.92 4.7 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.75 6.2 13.31 5.5 10.48 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.10 7.6 11.67 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.81 9.2 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.78 5.8 12.06 5.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.10 7.6 11.67 6.9 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.86 2.3 12.71 1.6 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.36 9.6 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.42 2.0 10.44 10.6 7.24 1.1 Level 1 .................................................. 7.23 2.6 – – 6.97 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 7.52 2.4 – – 7.33 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 8.71 2.9 9.43 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 9.95 15.1 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 9.91 15.9 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.66 6.5 – – 5.81 7.0 Level 2 .................................................. 5.58 7.1 – – 5.79 9.6 Bartenders...................................................... 6.44 7.7 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.66 .6 – – 4.67 .7 Level 2 .................................................. 4.68 .5 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.83 2.8 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.96 .8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.83 3.6 11.45 5.0 9.13 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 10.24 11.3 11.01 13.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.89 4.0 10.40 4.4 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.59 2.1 11.16 3.9 9.13 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 10.47 11.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.89 4.0 10.40 4.4 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.97 2.7 11.69 5.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 12.04 14.9 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.53 8.9 – – 8.09 3.7 Level 2 .................................................. 8.72 7.4 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.06 6.3 17.97 5.9 9.01 1.3 Level 2 .................................................. 8.53 1.2 – – 8.28 1.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.81 13.4 – – 10.14 11.4 Level 4 .................................................. 13.43 5.1 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.48 6.9 22.48 6.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 20.78 10.2 21.34 9.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 21.63 10.5 22.35 8.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.01 5.4 13.22 9.8 8.92 2.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.52 1.2 – – 8.26 1.4 Level 3 .................................................. 10.36 11.3 – – 10.14 11.4 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.30 1.7 – – 8.49 3.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.79 2.3 – – 8.62 1.1 Cashiers...................................................... 9.30 1.7 – – 8.49 3.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.79 2.3 – – 8.62 1.1 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.50 4.9 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.42 10.2 14.46 16.7 9.30 2.4 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.55 3.5 15.05 3.9 11.36 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.86 .9 – – 7.94 1.8 Level 2 .................................................. 10.09 4.3 10.12 6.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.07 3.0 12.17 3.6 11.52 3.7 Level 4 .................................................. 14.78 2.3 14.89 2.7 14.00 4.4 Level 5 .................................................. 15.63 7.7 15.68 8.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.55 4.0 18.92 2.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.00 6.5 17.72 5.4 11.50 9.5 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.78 6.8 23.41 5.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.55 3.3 14.73 3.8 13.24 5.7 Level 3 .................................................. 11.50 6.7 11.23 10.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.07 2.8 15.05 2.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.79 9.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.37 8.2 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.29 5.9 15.45 6.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.17 4.8 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 13.39 .8 14.33 5.6 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.37 13.0 14.35 13.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.19 3.9 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.23 5.3 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.53 9.1 12.36 9.3 7.83 1.0 Level 1 .................................................. 7.72 .6 – – 7.78 .4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.80 12.8 17.30 13.0 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.95 6.4 – – – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.14 2.8 13.52 3.7 11.80 9.1 Level 4 .................................................. 13.24 4.5 13.02 4.4 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.87 11.6 21.87 11.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.85 8.3 15.85 8.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.89 15.9 21.89 15.9 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.41 15.4 22.41 15.4 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 22.41 15.4 22.41 15.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.80 8.6 18.78 8.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.36 5.2 18.36 5.2 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.87 16.8 21.87 17.1 – – Production occupations.............................................. 18.21 3.6 18.63 3.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 19.52 5.3 20.02 5.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.40 8.7 17.40 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.39 7.2 18.39 7.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.15 8.0 21.15 8.0 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.73 15.9 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 19.21 10.7 19.21 10.7 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.89 1.9 15.89 1.9 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.87 8.9 13.31 10.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.91 4.5 16.48 5.9 12.03 14.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.98 7.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.33 9.0 13.57 9.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.78 7.2 16.59 6.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.11 4.9 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.97 9.6 17.94 10.1 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.10 9.0 18.07 9.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.69 9.7 13.13 9.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.98 7.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 14.36 8.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.41 6.4 15.41 6.4 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.24 12.0 12.82 11.8 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $26.94 4.8 $28.57 4.5 $13.30 11.8 Legal occupations................................................... 53.04 13.5 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.24 4.4 38.45 4.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.21 .4 38.21 .4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.91 8.8 33.17 2.3 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.95 1.2 38.95 1.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.21 .4 38.21 .4 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.67 4.4 41.67 4.4 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 42.62 2.7 42.62 2.7 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.40 1.0 36.40 1.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.95 .0 35.95 .0 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 36.46 1.1 36.46 1.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.81 .0 35.81 .0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.22 6.9 22.22 6.9 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.55 5.6 26.80 5.1 – – Police officers................................................... 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.92 6.1 15.42 4.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.03 3.7 15.03 3.7 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.52 2.3 14.52 2.3 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.97 11.7 – – 10.18 8.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.53 2.9 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 10.49 7.1 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 10.49 7.1 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 20.65 9.6 21.71 9.1 12.19 10.8 Level 4 .................................................. 18.45 5.4 18.57 6.1 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 19.51 4.1 19.86 5.0 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.75 9.0 – – – – 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 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $19.13 2.3 $20.87 2.4 $10.89 6.0 Management occupations.............................................. 37.23 11.1 37.29 11.1 – – Group II.................................................. 23.54 10.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.50 12.5 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.00 7.4 24.55 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 22.44 7.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 27.48 5.6 – – – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 27.92 6.8 28.08 7.0 – – Group II.................................................. 28.77 6.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.43 5.2 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.93 10.0 28.93 10.0 – – Group II.................................................. 24.34 5.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.99 8.4 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 33.29 3.9 33.29 3.9 – – Group III................................................. 33.10 10.6 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.02 9.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.19 4.3 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.97 7.4 15.85 3.7 – – Group II.................................................. 15.62 4.0 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 21.50 3.9 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.60 5.1 34.86 5.1 13.41 16.7 Group I................................................... 10.06 6.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.34 19.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.54 6.0 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 51.46 26.4 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.81 3.4 34.96 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 29.81 20.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.58 3.6 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.64 5.7 38.69 5.8 – – Group III................................................. 37.79 8.1 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.68 6.5 38.75 6.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 35.17 2.5 35.17 2.5 – – Group III................................................. 35.55 2.3 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.05 2.7 35.05 2.7 – – Group III................................................. 35.40 2.5 35.40 2.5 – – Special education teachers...................................... 30.77 12.3 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 10.03 7.1 10.96 7.1 8.80 8.7 Group I................................................... 10.06 6.1 – – 10.06 9.8 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.04 18.5 29.36 18.6 – – Group II.................................................. 24.54 12.2 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.10 3.8 25.19 4.5 32.67 8.4 Group II.................................................. 23.63 4.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 30.05 7.0 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 28.25 3.1 27.45 3.2 33.31 4.9 Group II.................................................. 27.90 6.8 26.73 8.1 – – Group III................................................. 27.91 2.2 27.41 1.0 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.40 3.4 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.37 6.7 13.98 5.9 10.75 7.9 Group I................................................... 13.30 7.3 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.28 9.0 13.71 8.8 11.18 11.1 Group I................................................... 13.25 9.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.19 4.4 13.09 4.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.09 4.6 13.09 4.6 – – Psychiatric aides............................................... 14.25 19.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.25 19.7 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.36 9.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.36 10.3 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.05 5.8 26.80 5.1 12.10 26.6 Group I................................................... 20.93 11.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 27.58 6.0 – – – – Police officers................................................... 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 26.93 8.9 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.38 8.6 27.38 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 26.93 8.9 26.93 8.9 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.75 2.0 10.98 9.9 7.34 1.6 Group I................................................... 8.07 2.5 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.83 18.9 15.83 18.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 10.37 15.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.37 15.8 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.66 6.5 – – 5.81 7.0 Group I................................................... 5.66 6.5 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 6.44 7.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 6.44 7.7 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.66 .6 – – 4.67 .7 Group I................................................... 4.66 .6 – – 4.67 .7 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.95 2.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.95 2.5 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.12 2.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.12 2.8 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.81 3.8 12.60 4.6 9.00 2.9 Group I................................................... 11.37 3.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.54 2.7 12.22 4.0 9.13 3.0 Group I................................................... 11.45 3.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.77 2.9 12.54 3.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.71 3.4 12.66 5.0 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.43 14.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.43 14.7 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.67 11.5 12.78 7.8 8.60 6.9 Group I................................................... 9.09 8.3 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.98 7.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.98 7.1 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 9.98 7.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.98 7.1 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.35 6.1 18.36 5.6 9.07 1.6 Group I................................................... 10.00 2.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.98 6.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 20.78 10.2 21.34 9.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.35 10.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 21.63 10.5 22.35 8.8 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.03 5.4 13.22 9.8 8.98 2.2 Group I................................................... 9.50 1.5 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.39 1.8 – – 8.66 3.5 Group I................................................... 8.83 3.7 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.39 1.8 – – 8.66 3.5 Group I................................................... 8.83 3.7 – – 8.66 3.5 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.50 4.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.50 4.9 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.42 10.2 14.46 16.7 9.30 2.4 Group I................................................... 9.49 5.8 – – 9.07 1.1 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.40 3.5 16.00 4.0 11.46 2.8 Group I................................................... 13.22 2.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.95 7.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.78 6.8 23.41 5.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.12 4.0 15.36 4.6 13.26 5.4 Group I................................................... 13.95 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.84 8.9 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.68 5.2 15.88 5.7 – – Group I................................................... 13.68 5.6 13.75 6.0 – – Group II.................................................. 18.22 3.1 18.72 2.4 – – Tellers......................................................... 13.39 .8 14.33 5.6 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.37 13.0 14.35 13.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.34 13.5 12.27 13.7 – – Group II.................................................. 19.14 2.4 19.14 2.4 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.15 5.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.30 5.5 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... – – 13.74 7.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.53 9.1 12.36 9.3 7.83 1.0 Group I................................................... 9.66 8.2 11.25 8.2 7.83 1.0 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.66 11.4 20.18 11.0 – – Group I................................................... 13.81 5.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.56 6.0 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.21 15.4 22.21 15.4 – – Group II.................................................. 21.32 9.1 21.32 9.1 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.92 16.3 – – – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.01 7.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 15.46 7.6 – – – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.44 3.3 13.90 4.7 11.76 8.7 Group I................................................... 13.10 3.9 13.32 5.6 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.96 9.8 21.96 9.8 – – Group I................................................... 16.49 8.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.62 10.6 – – – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.76 13.9 22.76 13.9 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 22.76 13.9 22.76 13.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.83 8.0 18.81 8.0 – – Group II.................................................. 22.05 6.1 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.31 14.4 21.29 14.6 – – Group II.................................................. 27.25 6.6 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.17 12.6 – – – – Production occupations.............................................. 18.22 3.6 18.64 3.2 – – Group I................................................... 17.19 3.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.34 7.2 – – – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.73 15.9 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 19.21 10.7 19.21 10.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.26 15.2 21.26 15.2 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.89 1.9 15.89 1.9 – – Group I................................................... 15.90 2.8 15.90 2.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.87 8.9 13.31 10.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.91 5.6 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.24 4.2 16.87 5.3 12.36 11.7 Group I................................................... 15.04 5.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.70 1.1 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.24 9.0 18.23 9.4 – – Group I................................................... 15.74 9.2 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.10 9.0 18.07 9.7 – – Group I................................................... 15.79 6.6 – – – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.69 9.7 13.13 9.6 – – Group I................................................... 12.86 9.0 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.24 12.0 12.82 11.8 – – Group I................................................... 12.46 12.0 13.12 11.5 – – 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.50 $15.72 $24.04 $32.84 Management occupations.............................................. 19.45 22.60 36.18 46.92 63.91 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 15.75 17.26 24.00 29.02 38.60 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 15.40 23.65 29.10 32.63 35.36 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 12.00 24.47 29.04 35.65 40.64 Engineers......................................................... 26.42 29.04 29.54 39.31 40.64 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 13.50 14.25 18.10 24.49 32.73 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.40 14.49 16.56 21.22 27.81 Social workers.................................................... 15.59 16.32 20.17 27.81 28.64 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.15 22.30 31.52 39.70 54.30 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 13.63 33.42 49.75 58.46 81.19 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.00 28.12 34.19 39.82 52.41 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.38 30.33 37.29 46.93 59.44 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.92 30.61 37.56 46.43 59.44 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.27 29.17 34.80 38.54 47.25 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.02 29.17 33.29 38.57 48.57 Special education teachers...................................... 20.00 22.98 30.41 33.00 43.99 Teacher assistants................................................ 7.30 8.00 9.20 10.44 14.36 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.44 20.78 25.21 31.26 31.83 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.60 18.78 25.22 32.11 36.89 Registered nurses................................................. 23.95 25.22 26.80 32.13 34.94 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.36 14.87 16.14 19.86 21.13 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.53 10.73 13.00 16.30 17.24 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.73 10.77 12.73 14.63 19.30 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.04 11.41 13.45 14.46 15.61 Psychiatric aides............................................... 9.73 9.84 14.08 19.30 20.48 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.53 10.73 13.00 16.30 16.30 Protective service occupations...................................... 17.53 21.72 27.56 30.82 32.39 Police officers................................................... 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 4.65 7.25 7.75 10.00 13.75 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 11.11 11.11 13.75 19.69 20.00 Cooks............................................................. 7.50 7.90 9.50 12.75 14.46 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.65 4.65 4.75 7.25 7.25 Bartenders...................................................... 4.65 5.00 7.25 7.25 8.15 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.60 4.65 4.65 4.65 4.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.40 8.00 8.50 9.25 11.00 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.40 7.60 8.75 10.00 11.64 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.16 9.00 10.55 14.00 17.39 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.50 10.55 13.50 15.22 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.50 9.92 11.45 13.94 14.91 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.25 7.44 8.20 12.07 18.62 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.55 8.00 8.80 10.00 14.63 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.00 9.25 9.27 10.00 15.00 Recreation workers.............................................. 9.00 9.25 9.27 10.00 15.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.65 9.50 12.90 19.23 27.69 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.00 17.30 19.23 26.86 27.69 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.50 17.93 19.23 26.86 27.69 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 8.25 10.00 12.67 14.71 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.75 8.75 10.51 12.76 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.75 10.51 12.76 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.25 8.45 9.98 13.25 13.25 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.35 9.10 11.20 12.87 18.13 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.83 11.88 14.44 17.95 22.87 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.50 21.64 24.87 24.87 24.87 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.84 12.73 14.98 17.44 19.68 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.43 13.53 15.60 18.88 19.59 Tellers......................................................... 10.84 11.10 12.45 15.64 17.71 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.00 9.00 14.71 17.95 18.58 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.72 9.72 9.83 12.06 13.29 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 7.50 10.00 12.77 15.00 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.00 14.25 16.72 24.85 29.00 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.93 16.72 20.76 29.00 35.64 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.50 14.25 19.68 26.66 26.66 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.09 13.40 13.58 18.52 19.28 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.50 11.15 13.00 15.00 17.10 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 16.00 19.39 27.97 32.95 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 11.80 16.43 26.93 29.88 29.88 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 11.80 16.43 26.93 29.88 29.88 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.68 14.12 16.00 20.41 32.58 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 11.68 11.68 19.51 32.58 32.59 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.68 11.68 11.68 17.87 18.68 Production occupations.............................................. 11.50 13.15 16.89 19.76 28.49 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.25 8.50 15.20 18.21 18.21 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.14 13.14 18.00 22.75 30.81 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.35 14.10 19.73 28.49 28.49 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 13.85 14.25 16.35 16.47 18.55 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 10.00 11.50 11.72 13.81 16.44 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.50 11.98 15.75 19.13 23.40 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.98 15.00 18.00 20.46 23.99 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.98 15.75 18.62 20.32 23.84 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 9.09 12.00 15.57 17.27 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.65 10.93 17.07 17.27 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.20 $11.00 $14.89 $20.40 $30.27 Management occupations.............................................. 19.45 20.37 33.60 45.67 62.50 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 15.49 17.26 24.00 27.72 38.37 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 14.48 22.28 25.00 32.63 32.63 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 12.00 23.08 29.04 36.83 40.64 Engineers......................................................... 25.85 29.04 32.70 39.31 43.57 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 13.50 14.25 18.10 23.76 32.73 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.40 14.08 16.32 21.22 27.81 Social workers.................................................... 15.59 16.32 20.17 27.81 28.64 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 8.00 9.15 17.20 30.33 37.47 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 9.15 16.11 22.98 30.41 35.19 Teacher assistants................................................ 7.25 7.30 8.50 9.70 11.26 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.78 20.78 25.21 31.83 31.83 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.00 21.13 25.84 33.39 36.89 Registered nurses................................................. 24.27 25.22 26.80 32.74 36.11 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.53 10.53 12.73 14.85 16.30 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.73 9.88 12.00 13.22 14.46 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.04 11.20 12.98 14.23 14.62 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.53 10.73 13.00 16.30 16.30 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 4.65 7.25 7.65 9.50 11.65 Cooks............................................................. 7.40 7.80 9.00 11.65 14.46 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.65 4.65 4.75 7.25 7.25 Bartenders...................................................... 4.65 5.00 7.25 7.25 8.15 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.60 4.65 4.65 4.65 4.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.40 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.25 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.40 7.60 8.75 9.25 11.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.08 8.67 10.00 12.08 13.94 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.20 8.71 10.00 12.08 13.50 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.50 9.50 10.00 12.08 13.94 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.45 7.55 8.00 8.90 10.56 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.65 9.40 12.79 19.23 26.86 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.00 17.30 19.23 26.86 27.69 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.50 17.93 19.23 26.86 27.69 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 8.25 10.00 12.60 14.71 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.75 8.50 10.40 12.40 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.75 8.50 10.40 12.40 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.25 8.45 9.98 13.25 13.25 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.35 9.10 11.20 12.87 18.13 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.72 11.56 13.92 16.68 19.65 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.50 21.64 24.87 24.87 24.87 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.43 12.46 14.89 15.72 18.88 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.03 13.53 14.44 18.00 19.47 Tellers......................................................... 10.84 11.10 12.45 15.64 17.71 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.00 9.00 14.71 17.95 18.58 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.72 9.72 9.83 12.06 15.53 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 7.50 10.00 12.77 15.00 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.25 13.09 15.00 17.46 24.62 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.80 13.70 14.25 15.00 19.68 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.50 11.15 13.00 14.39 16.83 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 15.36 18.50 29.88 35.29 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 11.80 16.43 17.95 29.88 29.88 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 11.80 16.43 17.95 29.88 29.88 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.68 14.00 16.00 20.41 32.58 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 11.68 11.68 20.68 32.58 32.84 Production occupations.............................................. 11.50 13.14 16.89 19.76 28.49 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.25 8.50 15.20 18.21 18.21 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.14 13.14 18.00 22.75 30.81 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 13.85 14.25 16.35 16.47 18.55 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 10.00 11.50 11.72 13.81 16.44 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.35 11.45 15.57 18.62 23.40 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.98 14.25 17.73 20.01 23.99 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.98 15.75 18.62 20.32 23.84 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.50 9.09 12.00 15.57 17.27 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.65 10.93 17.07 17.27 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $12.51 $16.64 $23.99 $33.00 $44.07 Legal occupations................................................... 29.89 44.65 59.92 63.19 63.35 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.80 28.63 35.95 43.88 55.09 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.00 31.06 36.70 43.44 54.43 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.80 33.25 39.21 51.14 59.44 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.69 35.30 39.21 51.14 59.44 Secondary school teachers....................................... 28.00 30.35 34.80 39.32 48.63 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 28.00 29.17 34.80 42.62 48.63 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.87 17.33 21.08 27.32 29.65 Protective service occupations...................................... 18.26 23.15 27.56 30.82 32.83 Police officers................................................... 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.76 13.91 14.72 17.39 19.49 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.41 14.13 14.43 17.39 19.43 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.54 14.13 14.13 14.91 19.43 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.00 9.25 10.00 14.87 16.15 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.00 9.25 9.25 10.50 15.00 Recreation workers.............................................. 9.00 9.25 9.25 10.50 15.00 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.67 14.87 19.89 25.10 29.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.13 17.62 20.58 21.64 22.46 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.86 13.19 14.81 18.55 19.30 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.60 $13.20 $17.33 $25.74 $34.56 Management occupations.............................................. 19.45 22.60 36.18 46.92 63.91 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 15.49 17.26 22.88 29.02 37.61 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 15.40 23.65 29.95 32.63 35.36 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 12.00 24.47 29.04 35.65 40.64 Engineers......................................................... 26.42 29.04 29.54 39.31 40.64 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.40 13.08 15.59 18.65 18.78 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.44 25.66 33.25 42.62 55.09 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 19.49 28.32 34.28 39.98 52.65 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.38 30.33 37.56 47.29 59.44 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.35 30.33 37.56 46.93 59.44 Secondary school teachers....................................... 27.27 29.17 34.80 38.54 47.25 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 27.02 29.17 33.29 38.57 48.57 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.51 8.94 10.15 10.67 14.98 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.78 20.78 25.21 31.83 31.83 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.13 18.68 25.22 30.80 36.63 Registered nurses................................................. 23.41 25.00 26.65 31.20 34.00 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.53 11.20 13.68 16.30 18.25 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.84 11.04 12.73 15.88 19.30 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.04 11.20 13.22 14.46 15.97 Protective service occupations...................................... 18.54 23.45 27.92 30.82 32.83 Police officers................................................... 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.33 21.72 27.92 31.67 34.07 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 4.65 8.10 11.00 13.75 18.75 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 11.11 11.11 13.75 19.69 20.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.20 9.92 12.08 14.33 17.80 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.92 12.08 14.13 17.39 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.50 10.20 12.08 14.13 15.73 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.74 9.00 10.56 15.33 18.55 Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.30 12.50 15.14 24.23 29.52 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.50 17.93 19.23 26.86 27.69 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 15.19 19.09 22.14 26.86 27.69 Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.40 10.40 12.12 13.25 18.13 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.80 11.00 12.30 15.10 18.80 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.43 12.29 14.71 18.50 24.23 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.50 21.64 24.87 24.87 24.87 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.43 13.40 15.13 17.71 19.68 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.03 13.62 16.01 18.88 20.58 Tellers......................................................... 10.59 11.96 15.64 15.64 17.71 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.00 9.00 14.71 17.95 18.61 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.85 11.05 13.92 14.57 19.37 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.50 10.45 12.00 14.81 16.69 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.09 14.85 18.81 25.76 29.00 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.93 16.72 20.76 29.00 35.64 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.15 11.88 13.00 15.00 17.18 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 16.00 19.39 27.97 32.95 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 11.80 16.43 26.93 29.88 29.88 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 11.80 16.43 26.93 29.88 29.88 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.68 14.12 16.00 20.41 32.58 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 11.68 11.68 19.51 32.58 32.59 Production occupations.............................................. 11.72 13.85 17.50 20.28 28.49 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 13.14 13.14 18.00 22.75 30.81 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.35 14.10 19.73 28.49 28.49 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 13.85 14.25 16.35 16.47 18.55 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.32 11.50 11.72 13.81 18.60 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.50 12.55 16.50 20.25 23.99 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.98 14.25 17.73 20.95 23.99 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.98 15.75 18.23 20.46 23.99 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.49 9.50 12.00 15.57 17.27 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 9.09 12.00 17.07 17.27 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), Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.25 $7.55 $8.80 $11.20 $16.35 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 7.30 8.00 10.00 14.36 24.81 Teacher assistants................................................ 7.30 7.30 8.00 8.70 10.34 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.13 26.11 32.13 36.89 47.54 Registered nurses................................................. 26.11 30.45 32.13 36.11 43.44 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.50 9.29 9.53 13.52 14.08 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 7.75 8.50 9.78 14.08 14.62 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.65 7.65 8.50 16.35 20.83 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 4.65 7.25 7.44 8.15 8.95 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.65 4.65 4.75 7.25 7.25 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.60 4.65 4.65 4.65 4.75 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.25 8.50 8.71 10.00 10.00 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.25 8.50 8.71 10.00 10.00 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.55 8.00 8.00 9.25 9.27 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 7.30 8.60 9.84 12.12 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 7.25 8.38 9.89 11.90 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 7.25 8.25 9.50 10.51 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 7.25 8.25 9.50 10.51 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.25 7.35 8.60 10.40 12.40 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.50 9.50 11.00 13.40 15.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.10 11.43 13.61 14.78 15.27 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 7.25 7.25 8.25 8.84 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.65 10.08 11.00 15.00 15.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.75 10.30 11.45 14.61 18.62 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $20.87 $17.33 $816 $672 39.1 $41,583 $35,006 1,992 Management occupations.............................................. 37.29 36.18 1,515 1,360 40.6 78,780 70,721 2,113 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.55 22.88 975 915 39.7 50,682 47,580 2,064 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 28.08 29.95 1,112 1,159 39.6 57,846 60,255 2,060 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.93 29.04 1,180 1,162 40.8 61,384 60,403 2,122 Engineers......................................................... 33.29 29.54 1,376 1,426 41.3 71,554 74,142 2,150 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.85 15.59 610 636 38.5 31,734 33,072 2,002 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 34.86 33.25 1,263 1,258 36.2 52,994 51,845 1,520 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.96 34.28 1,266 1,280 36.2 53,192 52,076 1,521 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 38.69 37.56 1,388 1,368 35.9 57,382 56,200 1,483 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 38.75 37.56 1,398 1,372 36.1 57,438 56,345 1,482 Secondary school teachers....................................... 35.17 34.80 1,269 1,284 36.1 51,790 51,500 1,473 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.05 33.29 1,274 1,261 36.4 51,975 51,521 1,483 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.96 10.15 382 347 34.9 17,638 15,798 1,609 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.36 25.21 1,123 945 38.2 58,405 49,160 1,989 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.19 25.22 956 883 37.9 49,159 45,900 1,952 Registered nurses................................................. 27.45 26.65 1,026 971 37.4 52,347 50,482 1,907 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.98 13.68 541 490 38.7 28,133 25,462 2,012 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.71 12.73 527 477 38.4 27,417 24,824 1,999 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.09 13.22 490 471 37.5 25,504 24,479 1,948 Protective service occupations...................................... 26.80 27.92 1,061 1,117 39.6 54,425 57,907 2,031 Police officers................................................... 27.38 27.92 1,077 1,117 39.4 56,023 58,076 2,046 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.38 27.92 1,077 1,117 39.4 56,023 58,076 2,046 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.98 11.00 409 400 37.3 21,061 20,800 1,918 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.83 13.75 643 570 40.6 33,426 29,640 2,112 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.60 12.08 491 483 39.0 24,299 24,112 1,929 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.22 12.08 476 483 39.0 23,805 24,112 1,948 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.54 12.08 491 483 39.1 24,265 24,980 1,936 Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.78 10.56 502 422 39.3 26,091 21,956 2,041 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.36 15.14 731 606 39.8 37,997 31,497 2,070 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.34 19.23 847 769 39.7 44,035 39,998 2,063 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.35 22.14 889 886 39.8 46,243 46,051 2,069 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.22 12.12 525 485 39.7 27,292 25,210 2,065 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.46 12.30 579 492 40.0 30,086 25,584 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.00 14.71 628 588 39.3 32,660 30,553 2,042 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.41 24.87 916 995 39.1 47,622 51,738 2,034 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.36 15.13 605 599 39.4 31,448 31,158 2,048 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.88 16.01 627 657 39.5 32,611 34,179 2,053 Tellers......................................................... 14.33 15.64 543 587 37.9 28,261 30,498 1,973 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.35 14.71 572 566 39.9 29,752 29,447 2,073 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.74 13.92 546 546 39.7 28,386 28,410 2,065 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.36 12.00 490 472 39.6 25,483 24,569 2,062 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.18 18.81 779 727 38.6 40,509 37,787 2,007 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.21 20.76 839 838 37.8 43,637 43,562 1,965 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.90 13.00 550 520 39.6 28,617 27,040 2,059 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.96 19.39 865 776 39.4 44,999 40,337 2,049 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.76 26.93 867 628 38.1 45,071 32,669 1,981 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 22.76 26.93 867 628 38.1 45,071 32,669 1,981 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.81 16.00 747 640 39.7 38,846 33,280 2,065 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.29 19.51 840 780 39.4 43,662 40,581 2,051 Production occupations.............................................. 18.64 17.50 740 681 39.7 38,488 35,422 2,065 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 19.21 18.00 769 720 40.0 39,965 37,440 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.26 19.73 836 788 39.3 43,474 41,001 2,045 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.89 16.35 635 654 40.0 33,046 34,016 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.31 11.72 528 469 39.7 27,451 24,378 2,063 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.87 16.50 673 646 39.9 34,971 33,612 2,073 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.23 17.73 761 745 41.8 39,593 38,730 2,172 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.07 18.23 750 745 41.5 38,992 38,730 2,158 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.13 12.00 525 480 40.0 27,307 24,960 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.82 12.00 513 480 40.0 26,676 24,960 2,080 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $19.16 $16.11 $755 $638 39.4 $39,016 $32,760 2,037 Management occupations.............................................. 35.34 33.60 1,440 1,357 40.7 74,872 70,551 2,119 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.47 22.88 975 915 39.8 50,692 47,580 2,072 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.18 25.00 1,033 1,000 39.5 53,729 52,000 2,052 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.53 29.04 1,169 1,162 41.0 60,803 60,403 2,131 Engineers......................................................... 33.98 32.70 1,410 1,468 41.5 73,338 76,310 2,158 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.75 15.59 604 624 38.3 31,396 32,427 1,993 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.91 20.92 937 716 37.6 41,803 42,069 1,678 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.63 23.70 866 837 38.3 39,850 43,524 1,761 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 29.36 25.21 1,123 945 38.2 58,405 49,160 1,989 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.12 25.22 984 883 37.7 50,778 45,900 1,944 Registered nurses................................................. 27.83 25.99 1,036 910 37.2 53,162 47,304 1,910 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.31 12.88 513 477 38.5 26,655 24,824 2,003 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.06 12.10 457 458 37.9 23,780 23,816 1,972 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.71 12.53 472 461 37.2 24,552 23,985 1,932 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.44 10.25 389 400 37.3 20,140 20,800 1,929 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.45 11.25 443 445 38.7 21,903 20,800 1,914 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.16 11.25 432 445 38.7 21,272 20,800 1,907 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.69 12.00 455 466 38.9 22,030 21,944 1,885 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.97 15.14 717 606 39.9 37,305 31,497 2,076 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.34 19.23 847 769 39.7 44,035 39,998 2,063 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 22.35 22.14 889 886 39.8 46,243 46,051 2,069 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.22 12.12 525 485 39.7 27,292 25,210 2,065 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.46 12.30 579 492 40.0 30,086 25,584 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.05 14.41 594 564 39.4 30,865 29,343 2,050 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.41 24.87 916 995 39.1 47,622 51,738 2,034 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.73 14.98 581 599 39.5 30,209 31,158 2,052 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.45 15.60 611 624 39.5 31,759 32,448 2,056 Tellers......................................................... 14.33 15.64 543 587 37.9 28,261 30,498 1,973 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.35 14.71 572 566 39.9 29,752 29,447 2,073 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.36 12.00 490 472 39.6 25,483 24,569 2,062 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.30 15.33 671 613 38.8 34,908 31,886 2,018 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.52 13.00 535 520 39.6 27,809 27,040 2,057 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.87 18.50 860 740 39.3 44,694 38,480 2,044 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.41 17.95 851 628 38.0 44,238 32,669 1,974 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 22.41 17.95 851 628 38.0 44,238 32,669 1,974 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.78 16.00 745 640 39.7 38,764 33,280 2,064 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.87 20.68 860 815 39.4 44,744 42,372 2,046 Production occupations.............................................. 18.63 17.50 741 676 39.7 38,509 35,131 2,067 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 19.21 18.00 769 720 40.0 39,965 37,440 2,080 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.89 16.35 635 654 40.0 33,046 34,016 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.31 11.72 528 469 39.7 27,451 24,378 2,063 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.48 16.00 670 623 40.7 34,828 32,386 2,114 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.94 17.00 751 722 41.9 39,051 37,523 2,177 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.07 18.23 750 745 41.5 38,992 38,730 2,158 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.13 12.00 525 480 40.0 27,307 24,960 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.82 12.00 513 480 40.0 26,676 24,960 2,080 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $28.57 $26.30 $1,081 $995 37.8 $51,841 $48,731 1,815 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 38.45 36.37 1,375 1,305 35.8 56,528 52,199 1,470 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.95 36.70 1,387 1,305 35.6 56,762 52,199 1,457 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.67 39.21 1,487 1,407 35.7 60,929 56,345 1,462 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 42.62 39.21 1,530 1,409 35.9 62,013 58,093 1,455 Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.40 34.80 1,284 1,284 35.3 51,560 51,373 1,417 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 36.46 34.80 1,294 1,302 35.5 51,750 52,054 1,419 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.22 21.08 865 838 38.9 43,938 42,827 1,977 Protective service occupations...................................... 26.80 27.92 1,061 1,117 39.6 54,425 57,907 2,031 Police officers................................................... 27.38 27.92 1,077 1,117 39.4 56,023 58,076 2,046 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.38 27.92 1,077 1,117 39.4 56,023 58,076 2,046 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.42 14.72 614 589 39.8 30,350 30,620 1,968 Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.03 14.43 598 577 39.8 31,081 30,004 2,068 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.52 14.13 577 565 39.7 30,005 29,397 2,066 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 21.71 20.75 834 814 38.4 43,218 42,335 1,991 Financial clerks.................................................. 19.86 20.58 773 787 38.9 40,177 40,934 2,023 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $17.55 $16.47 $15.87 $23.38 Management, professional, and related...... 27.09 24.74 28.18 30.78 Management, business, and financial...... 30.97 27.40 32.94 32.79 Professional and related................. 25.45 24.08 25.47 29.23 Service.................................... 10.02 9.44 10.87 12.15 Sales and office........................... 14.70 15.39 13.06 16.64 Sales and related........................ 15.06 16.41 – – Office and administrative support........ 14.55 14.73 13.26 16.49 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 19.94 18.38 18.11 29.14 Construction and extraction............. 21.87 20.30 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 18.80 17.31 16.77 28.98 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 17.42 16.00 14.67 23.90 Production............................... 18.21 15.73 15.02 24.20 Transportation and material moving....... 15.91 16.54 14.32 21.82 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........................................................... 2.6 3.6 5.6 7.2 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.7 3.2 10.0 7.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 7.4 13.4 12.9 7.0 Professional and related.......................................... 4.2 4.7 12.9 9.8 Service............................................................. 1.4 1.9 2.1 5.6 Sales and office.................................................... 3.0 5.5 4.3 7.3 Sales and related................................................. 6.3 9.6 – – Office and administrative support................................. 3.5 4.9 5.4 7.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.8 8.6 17.5 3.2 Construction and extraction...................................... 11.6 13.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.6 8.8 18.6 5.9 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 2.8 4.4 7.1 2.3 Production........................................................ 3.6 3.1 13.9 3.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 4.5 9.7 9.7 8.9 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $18.55 $16.25 $732 $640 39.5 $37,905 $33,280 2,043 Management occupations.............................................. 28.03 22.60 1,171 972 41.8 60,905 50,565 2,173 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 28.24 31.25 1,130 1,250 40.0 58,738 65,000 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 26.81 29.45 1,106 1,472 41.2 57,509 76,560 2,145 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.28 25.22 973 883 37.0 50,573 45,900 1,925 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.25 14.85 555 557 39.0 28,868 28,958 2,026 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.87 9.50 330 350 37.2 17,057 17,290 1,923 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.47 10.00 475 400 38.1 21,350 18,200 1,712 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.24 10.00 429 397 38.2 19,030 18,023 1,693 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.46 18.13 781 725 40.1 40,620 37,700 2,087 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.67 22.48 863 843 39.8 44,864 43,834 2,070 Retail sales workers.............................................. 15.02 13.25 601 530 40.0 31,232 27,560 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.39 14.60 608 557 39.5 31,611 28,960 2,053 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.79 17.01 661 680 39.4 34,395 35,385 2,049 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.90 18.00 676 720 40.0 35,148 37,440 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.30 18.29 803 732 39.6 41,761 38,043 2,057 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.31 16.00 691 640 39.9 35,931 33,280 2,076 Production occupations.............................................. 15.74 15.50 623 620 39.6 32,377 32,240 2,057 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.57 16.50 668 646 40.3 34,715 33,612 2,096 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.54 18.24 761 745 41.1 39,592 38,730 2,136 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.63 18.62 767 745 41.2 39,864 38,730 2,140 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.19 10.93 488 437 40.0 25,352 22,734 2,080 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $19.78 $16.01 $778 $629 39.3 $40,147 $32,698 2,030 Management occupations.............................................. 44.31 41.01 1,752 1,640 39.5 91,088 85,274 2,056 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.88 22.88 986 915 39.6 51,276 47,580 2,061 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 30.10 29.04 1,226 1,162 40.7 63,766 60,403 2,119 Engineers......................................................... 32.24 29.04 1,321 1,162 41.0 68,697 60,403 2,131 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 34.44 28.62 1,286 1,131 37.3 51,312 50,274 1,490 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 30.99 25.21 1,168 945 37.7 60,733 49,160 1,960 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.90 25.90 1,001 1,033 38.6 51,085 52,826 1,973 Registered nurses................................................. 29.04 30.21 1,120 1,154 38.6 56,241 59,378 1,936 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.06 12.10 457 458 37.9 23,780 23,816 1,972 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.06 12.10 457 458 37.9 23,780 23,816 1,972 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.71 12.53 472 461 37.2 24,552 23,985 1,932 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 15.12 14.46 567 552 37.5 29,469 28,685 1,949 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.95 11.92 427 452 39.0 22,218 23,494 2,029 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.12 12.07 433 458 39.0 22,523 23,816 2,026 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.62 12.08 459 483 39.5 23,868 25,120 2,054 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.84 14.40 585 566 39.4 30,403 29,447 2,049 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.10 14.44 556 577 39.5 28,931 30,027 2,052 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.52 14.44 570 577 39.2 29,628 30,027 2,040 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.03 14.71 559 566 39.8 29,060 29,447 2,072 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.06 17.23 768 651 38.3 39,932 33,833 1,991 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.95 13.42 552 530 39.6 28,704 27,539 2,058 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.80 25.15 998 943 38.7 51,904 49,043 2,011 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.43 22.34 913 880 39.0 47,472 45,760 2,026 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 26.46 32.58 1,033 1,303 39.0 53,727 67,766 2,030 Production occupations.............................................. 21.02 19.09 839 764 39.9 43,627 39,707 2,075 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.76 14.86 630 594 40.0 32,783 30,909 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.40 15.57 672 623 41.0 34,928 32,386 2,130 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.84 13.00 – – – – – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.70 14.94 548 598 40.0 28,501 31,084 2,080 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $25.27 $21.50 $28.14 $17.10 $16.96 $20.67 Management, professional, and related............................... 35.73 30.33 37.14 26.79 26.78 26.92 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 30.88 30.97 29.50 Professional and related.......................................... 34.90 30.33 36.20 24.79 24.76 25.40 Service............................................................. 16.93 11.92 20.36 9.72 9.65 10.83 Sales and office.................................................... 20.68 22.36 20.43 14.84 14.60 23.43 Sales and related................................................. – – – 15.36 15.06 – Office and administrative support................................. 20.80 22.36 20.57 14.62 14.40 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 25.76 27.48 21.28 16.97 16.97 – Construction and extraction...................................... 27.60 30.37 – 17.44 17.44 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.92 25.11 – 16.73 16.73 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 21.11 21.34 – 15.58 15.59 – Production........................................................ 23.84 23.94 – 15.69 15.69 – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.53 16.89 – 15.35 15.40 – 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........................................................... 3.4 4.7 4.3 2.7 2.8 14.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 4.7 13.1 5.0 3.3 3.4 10.7 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 7.0 7.4 12.4 Professional and related.......................................... 5.7 13.1 6.4 3.9 4.0 19.5 Service............................................................. 6.1 2.1 6.5 1.7 1.7 10.6 Sales and office.................................................... 8.7 8.5 10.2 3.1 3.1 18.0 Sales and related................................................. – – – 6.2 6.3 – Office and administrative support................................. 8.8 8.5 10.4 3.8 3.6 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.2 7.8 2.6 6.6 6.6 – Construction and extraction...................................... 6.0 7.3 – 8.7 8.7 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.4 11.3 – 9.1 9.1 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 2.0 2.3 – 2.2 2.2 – Production........................................................ 4.7 5.0 – 2.8 2.8 – Transportation and material moving................................ 3.8 4.3 – 7.4 7.5 – 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $18.89 $17.17 $24.50 $24.50 Management, professional, and related............................... 29.08 26.36 39.10 39.10 Management, business, and financial............................... 32.58 31.34 – – Professional and related.......................................... 27.97 24.31 – – Service............................................................. 11.96 10.02 – – Sales and office.................................................... 15.09 14.30 18.48 18.48 Sales and related................................................. 13.98 13.58 20.79 20.79 Office and administrative support................................. 15.44 14.55 14.55 14.55 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 20.07 19.94 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 21.87 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.83 18.80 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.25 17.16 – – Production........................................................ 18.22 18.21 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.39 14.91 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.4 2.7 16.7 16.7 Management, professional, and related............................... 4.0 5.2 18.3 18.3 Management, business, and financial............................... 7.3 7.3 – – Professional and related.......................................... 5.0 6.2 – – Service............................................................. 4.1 1.4 – – Sales and office.................................................... 3.3 3.2 13.0 13.0 Sales and related................................................. 6.7 6.4 12.9 12.9 Office and administrative support................................. 3.7 3.6 4.8 4.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.0 7.8 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 11.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.0 8.6 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.4 3.5 – – Production........................................................ 3.6 3.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 4.6 4.6 – – 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 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........................................................... $18.45 $22.70 $14.69 – – – $17.66 $9.82 $11.58 Management, professional, and related............................... 28.20 36.80 26.16 – – – 24.89 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 41.21 – – – – 30.15 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 34.66 – – – – 24.26 – – Service............................................................. – – 10.43 – – – 11.30 8.34 – Sales and office.................................................... – 18.95 12.99 – – – 16.37 11.65 – Sales and related................................................. – – 12.79 – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 18.39 13.29 – – – 16.37 11.80 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 21.15 29.15 17.17 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 26.93 – – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 18.82 16.46 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 19.12 – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 17.48 16.13 – – – – – – 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........................................................... 23.2 1.0 3.3 – – – 6.5 13.1 15.1 Management, professional, and related............................... 18.3 11.9 8.1 – – – 6.7 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 2.9 – – – – 28.5 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 20.2 – – – – 7.0 – – Service............................................................. – – 5.5 – – – 4.1 2.5 – Sales and office.................................................... – 8.6 3.4 – – – 11.0 18.5 – Sales and related................................................. – – 6.2 – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 4.8 1.7 – – – 11.0 26.2 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 16.0 2.1 12.7 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 1.1 – – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 3.3 7.5 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 3.6 – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – .6 7.8 – – – – – – 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 524,000 429,100 94,900 Management, professional, and related............................... 139,700 95,100 44,600 Management, business, and financial............................... 30,400 25,100 5,200 Professional and related.......................................... 109,300 69,900 39,400 Service............................................................. 129,300 102,600 26,700 Sales and office.................................................... 160,300 143,100 17,200 Sales and related................................................. 50,700 49,700 – Office and administrative support................................. 109,600 93,400 16,200 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 29,100 26,200 2,800 Construction and extraction...................................... 11,600 9,800 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 17,500 16,500 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 65,700 62,000 – Production........................................................ 39,800 39,500 – Transportation and material moving................................ 25,900 22,600 – 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, Buffalo-Niagara-Cattaraugus, NY CSA, June 2010 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 22,946 22,312 634 Total in sample....................................................... 273 243 30 Responding........................................................ 182 156 26 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 67 63 4 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 24 24 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.