Table 3-21b: Average Wagea and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

(Current $)

	(R) 1998	(R) 1999	(R) 2000	(R) 2001	(R) 2002	(R) 2003	(R) 2004	(R) 2005	(R) 2006	(R) 2007	2008
All industries	35,504	37,108	39,243	40,201	40,957	42,450	44,152	45,729	47,780	49,844	51,187
Transportation and warehousing	36,021	37,447	39,057	39,913	40,641	41,490	43,210	43,865	45,454	47,260	47,736
Air	49,115	50,812	53,107	56,052	58,035	57,469	58,887	56,707	59,282	63,398	62,364
Rail	59,786	61,306	63,353	63,708	64,491	67,273	71,119	72,235	74,578	77,580	77,891
Water	51,190	53,493	54,727	56,149	56,714	57,897	61,470	62,852	66,463	72,714	75,280
Truck	33,687	34,865	36,029	36,500	37,312	38,284	40,090	41,476	43,058	44,156	44,884
Transit and ground passenger transportation	21,838	22,801	23,824	24,344	24,771	25,373	26,212	26,820	28,599	29,411	30,152
Pipeline	64,143	71,872	96,520	100,398	81,969	83,849	89,175	88,856	97,780	105,893	104,557
Other transportation and support activities^b	32,607	34,460	35,765	36,133	37,629	39,109	41,433	42,509	44,134	45,798	46,529
Warehousing and storage	31,290	32,301	33,613	34,171	35,178	36,614	37,947	38,863	39,398	41,032	41,599

KEY: R = revised.

^a Wages do not include supplements to wages and salaries such as pension, profit-sharing, and other retirement plans, and health, life, and unemployment insurance compensation.

^b Comprises business establishments involved in scenic and sightseeing transportation, support activities for transportation, postal service, and couriers and messengers.

NOTES

Data in this table are based on the 2002 NAICS codes. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) provides these data on a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) basis ending in 2000 and on a NAICS basis beginning in 1998 (see table 3-21a for data based on SIC). This table is not comparable to previous editions due to the Comprehensive Benchmark revision by the BEA in 2007.

Use care in comparing the data in this table with those in table 3-22. This table includes weighted part-time employees' salaries. Table 3-22 covers only full-time employees.

Wage and salary accruals consist of the monetary remuneration of employees, including compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips and bonuses; voluntary employee contributions to certain deferred compensation plans, such as 401(k) plans; and receipts in kind that represent income. In other words, accruals are wage and salary earned, not wage and salary paid. For example, wage and salary earned in 1999 but not paid until 2000 are included in accruals for 1999. However, the difference between wage and salary earned and wage and salary paid is usually very small.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables, table 6.6d, available at http://www.bea.gov/ as of Apr. 20, 2010.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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