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Industry Wage Survey: Communications October-Decem ber 1977 U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics 1979 Bulletin 2029 t t For sale b y the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D .C . 20402 Stock N um ber 029-001-02318-0 Industry Wage Survey: Communications October-Decem ber 1977 U.S. Department of Labor Ray Marshall, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner June 1979 Bulletin-2029 i For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 Bookstores, or BLS Regional Offices listed on inside back cover. Price $1.10 Make checks payable to Superintendent of Documents Stock number 0 2 9 -0 0 1 -0 2 3 1 1 -1 Preface This summary of data on employment and hourly rates of pay in the communications industry in 1977 is based on annual reports filed with the Federal Com munications Commission (FCC) by telephone carriers, the Western Union Telegraph Co., and international telegraph carriers, as required by the amended Com munications Act of 1934. Under a cooperative arrange ment with the FCC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tabulates and publishes the data annually. The study was conducted by the Bureau’s Office of Wages and Industrial Relations. Harry B. Williams of the Division of Occupational Wage Structures prepared the analysis in this bulletin. Other publications available from the Bureau’s pro gram of industry wage studies, as well as the addresses of the Bureau’s regional offices, are listed at the end of this bulletin. Material in this publication is in the public domain and may be reproduced without the permission of the Federal Government. Please credit the Bureau of La bor Statistics and cite Industry Wage Survey: Commun ications, October-December 1977, Bulletin 2029. Contents Page Introduction............................................................................................................................................................ Telephone carriers.................................................................................................................................................... Western Union Telegraph C o .................................................................................................................................... International telegraph carriers................................................................................................................................ 1 1 2 3 Text tables: 1. Number and average straight-time hourly earnings of telephone workers in major occupational categories, 1947 and 1977 .......................................................................................................................... 2. Number and average straight-time hourly earnings of Western Union Telegraph workers in major occupational categories, 1947 and 1977 ........................................................................................... 1 Reference tables: Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates, December 1977, for— 1. Telephone carriers .................................................................................................................................... 2. Bell System telephone carriers................................................................................................................... 3. Non-Bell telephone carriers ....................................................................................................................... 4 5 6 Average hourly rates of employees in selected occupations by region, December 1977, for— 4. All and Bell System telephone carriers ..................................................................................................... 7 Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates, October 1977, for— 5. Western Union Telegraph Company........................................................................................................... 6. International telegraph carriers ................................................................................................................. 9 10 Appendix: Scope and method of survey ................................................................................................................. 11 v 1 Communications, October-December 1977 Text table 2. Number and average straight-time hourly earnings of Western Union Telegraph workers in major occupational categories, 1947 and 1977 Introduction The year 1977 marked the 30th anniversary of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ occupational wage surveys of the communications industries. The 1977 survey cov ered about 830,000 workers of major telephone carri ers 1 and 15,000 telegraph workers, who combined, made up well over four-fifths of the Nation’s 1 million workers in telephone and wire-telegraph communica tion. Over the past three decades, the work force in these industries has changed dramatically in both oc cupational makeup and pay structure. In the telephone branch, where overall employment rose to half again its 1947 level, the proportion of higher paid profession al and semiprofessional employees more than doubled while the proportion of lower paid telephone operators declined by more than one half. (See text table 1.) Sim ilarly, in the Western Union Telegraph Company, the proportion of higher paid construction, installation, and maintenance personnel more than doubled since 1947 while the proportion of lower paid telegraph operators fell by one-third. Unlike the telephone industry, how ever, Western Union’s work force in 1977 was only one-fifth as large as it was 30 years earlier. (See text table 2.) Item A il em ployees, except o fficials and managerial a ssista n ts......................... Percent o f to ta l...................... Professional and semi-professional em ployees...................... Telegraph o ffice super intendents and managers........................ Sales em plo yees..................... C lerical em ployees.......... Telegraph o p e ra to rs .. . , C o n stru ctio n , installation, and m aintenance w orkers........................... Building service em ployees...................... Messengers, m o to r.......... Messengers, w alking and b ic y c le .................... $1.26 830,100 100 2.72 11 9 23 16 7.90 6.70 5.99 1.55 37 8.26 1.19 3 7.23 — 10.53 19 34 1.07 1.45 .99 .94 4 5 20 23 7.03 7.06 6.59 5.64 13 3 3 1.26 .90 .87 34 1 3 8.14 8 (2) 5.69 4.90 1 The study was limited to the 63 carriers that had annual operating revenues exceeding $ 1 million and were engaged in interstate or for eign communications services either through use o f their own facil ities or through connections with another carrier under direct or in direct common control. Officials and managerial assistants o f these carriers were not included in the study. NOTE: Employment estimates are rounded to the nearest hundred, and percents are rounded to the nearest whole number. Dashes indicate “ not applicable." 9 — Straight-time hourly earnings of the 830,000 workers employed by the Nation’s 63 principal carriers aver aged $7.94 in December 1977. Individual earnings of four-fifths of the workers fell within a range of $3.50 to $9.50 an hour. The middle 50 percent of the work force earned between $6.10 and $8.85 an hour. Some factors contributing to the wide dispersion of earnings were the broad range of skills required by the com munications industry, differences in pay by carrier and 12.32 1.45 1.19 1.00 2.26 2 — Telephone carriers $7.94 — '$7.33 '$1.05 Highlights of the 1977 survey and recent wage trends are presented below. A more detailed analysis of long term patterns is available from prior reports, the most recent of which is Industry Wage Survey: Communica tions, October-December 1976 BLS Bulletin 1991 (1978). October 1947 December 1977 Workers Earnings Workers Earnings Total, all employees, except officials and managerial assistants........................ 552,700 Percent of total...................... 100 Professional and semi- professional employees .................. 5 Business office and 5 sales employees......... 17 Clerical employees....... Telephone operators ... 46 Construction, installation, and maintenance 23 w orkers........................ Building, supplies and motor vehicle 4 employees.................... 11,604 100 53,100 100 3.40 1 .65 18 'Excludes messengers in addition to officials and managerial assistants. 2Less than 0.5 percent. 3NOTE: Employment estimates are rounded to the nearest hundred, and percents are rounded to the nearest whole number. Text table 1. Number and average straight-time hourly earn ings of telephone workers in major occupational categories, 1947 and 1977 Item October 1977 October 1947 Workers Earnings Workers Earnings 1 locality, and pay rates which vary within a given oc cupation by length of employee service. The occupations shown in tables 1 through 4 repre sent the full spectrum of activities performed by em ployees in the telephone industry. Among the major occupational categories, average hourly earnings in De cember 1977 ranged from $12.32 for professional and semiprofessional employees to $5.99 for telephone op erators. Construction, installation, and maintenance em ployees were the largest employment group with near ly 307,000 workers; hourly earnings for these workers averaged $8.26. Some other heavily populated groups (and their hourly averages) were: Business office and sales employees ($7.90); building, supplies, and motor vehicle employees ($7.23); and clerical employees ($6.70). Employees of the Bell System carriers, slightly over nine-tenths of all telephone workers, held a 23-percent average wage advantage over those of non-Bell carriers-$8.06 compared to $6.57 an hour. Similar pay rela tionships were also found among various occupational groups studied; occupational averages for non-Bell workers typically ranged from 7(3 percent to about 85 percent of those for Bell employees. Differences be tween the worker groups narrowed slightly when week ly earnings were compared, reflecting, for some occu pational groups, the longer average workweeks report ed for non-Bell workers. Workers in the Middle Atlantic States, the largest region in terms of employment, recorded the highest average-$8.83 an hour. Other regional averages fell be tween $7.25 and $8.25 an hour in December 1977. Of the 47,467 workers who could not be allocated to in dividual regions but were included in the nationwide total, seven-eighths were employees of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Long Lines and General Departments; these workers averaged $9.90 an hour. 2 Wage levels of the principal telephone carriers in De cember 1977 rose 8.0 percent from the previous year. Part of this change resulted from wage increases nego tiated under collective bargaining agreements. For ex ample, the Bell System contract, negotiated in 1977, provided for an immediate general wage increase that varied by tenure up to a maximum of 8 percent.3 . The 8.0-percent rise for .1976-77 was the smallest an nual gain for telephone workers in the 1970’s. Between 1970 and 1976, telephone wage increases averaged 11.2 percent per year; over the 30 years of BLS communi cations surveys, the annual average rise has been slight ly over 6 percent. Telephone carriers included in the Bureau survey employed 830,100 workers in December 1977-an in crease of 20,000 workers or 2 percent over the previ ous year. Bell System carriers increased their work force by 1 percent, to 764,800; employment in non-Bell car riers rose 24 percent, to 65,300. Most of the increase for non-Bell carriers, however, reflected the addition of a major independent carrier with nearly 10,000 work ers, reporting for the first time in the 1977 survey. Ex cluding this carrier, the increase for non-Bell employ ees was 5 percent between December 1976 and Decem ber 1977. Western Union Telegraph Co. Wage rates for the 11,100 nonmessenger employees in the Western Union Telegraph Co. 4 averaged $7.33 an hour in October 1977 (table 5). This was 7.6 percent above the $6.81 average reported one year earlier. The average for 500 messengers was $4.59 an hour-up 6.3 percent from October 1976. Motor messengers held a 44-percent average wage advantage over those who ei ther walk or use bicycles to perform their duties-$4.90 to $3.40 an hour. Wage rates for Western Union bargaining unit em ployees are determined by labor agreements with the United Telegraph Workers (UTW) in all areas except the New York metropolitan area where agreements are with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Unlike those in prior contracts, wage adjustments dif fered somewhat under terms of the two agreements, dated July 1976, as follows: Workers who were in the bargaining units of the UTW received an across-theboard increase of 6.829 percent, effective July 28, 1977, with no cost of living adjustment; those under the CWA contract were provided a 3-percent general wage in crease on the same date plus a 29-cent cost-of-living adjustment. 5Other wage adjustments related to specif ic job classifications or types of work assignments also specified in both agreements. 2Also excluded from the regional tabulations but included in the U.S. totals were carriers operating in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. These carriers, none of which were affiliated with the Bell System, employed 5,967 workers averaging $8.36 an hour. 3The 1977 agreement between the American Telephone and T ele graph Company and the Communications Workers o f America pro vide for wage increases o f 3 percent, with a guaranteed minimum increase o f $5 a week, on Aug. 6, 1978, and Aug. 5, 1979. In addi tion, cost-of-living adjustments, tied to the BLS Consumer Price In dex, were scheduled on the first and second anniversary dates o f the contract. 4The Western Union Telegraph Co., a subsidiary o f the Western Union Corp., is a communications common carrier engaged princi pally in the business o f providing tariffed telecommunication systems and services to business customers, the government, and the public. Such operations include teletypewriter networks, leased private com munication systems, telegram message services, money order serv ices, mailgram services, contract maintenance service and ResponsePhone (telephone order and inquiry service). ’ The wage escalator clause provides for adjustments o f 1 cent for each 0.4-percentage point change in the Bureau o f Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (1967= 100). For a more detailed account, see Wage Chronology: Western Union Telegraph Co. and the Telegraph Workers and the Communications Workers, 1976-79 Supplement to the BLS Bulletin 1927. (Bureau o f Labor Statistics, 1978). 2 Among the major occupational groups studied, the professional and semiprofessional staff recorded the highest average-$ 10.53 an hour. Construction, installa tion, and maintenance employees (the most heavily pop ulated group studied) averaged $8.14 an hour. Other key employee groups and their average hourly rates in cluded: Sales employees ($7.06); telegraph office super intendents and managers ($7.03); clerical employees ($6.59); building service employees ($5.69); and tele graph operators ($5.64). Wage rates for the highest paid workers exceeded those of the lowest paid by at least $4 an hour for most employee groups. In a few jobs, however, rates were within a narrow band. For example, individual earnings fell between $3.50 and $4.00 for virtually all operatorsin- training; between $4.50 and $5.50, for four-fifths of the motor messengers; and between $7.50 and $8.50, for nine-tenths of the subscribers’ equipment maintainers. Employment at Western Union totaled about 11,600 in October 1977. This was 31 percent below the level 5 years earlier. employee group studied, averaged $3.21 an hour. Hour ly averages for the other groups covered a broad range: Nonsupervisory clerical employees, operators, building service employees, sales employees, and construction, installation, maintenance, and other technical employ ees, between $6.50 and $9.50; supervisory employees, between $11 and $12; and office or station superintend ents and assistants, and professional and semiprofession al employees, over $12. Employment in surveyed international telegraph car riers was basically unchanged between October 1976 and October 1977-down 1 percent to 4,700 workers. Over the past 10 years, these carriers’ employment has fluctuated within a narrow range from 4,700 to 5,500 workers. Men accounted for nearly five-sixths of the work force in October 1977 and were predominant in all oc cupational groups except nonsupervisory clerical em ployees. Three out of four women were clerical work ers and of the remainder, about 1 out of 2 were oper ators, typically teletype-multiplex operators. International telegraph carriers Wage rates for the five international telegraph carri ers included in the October 1977 survey averaged $9.10 an hour-up 14 percent from October 1976.'’ The 4,600 nonmessenger employees, who made up 97 percent of the work force of the five companies, averaged $9.25 an hour in October 1977; messengers, the lowest paid 6The study included carriers engaged in nonvocal international tel egraph communication either by radio or ocean cable. Although many o f the occupational categories studied are common to both opera tions, some are exclusive to one carrier group. For example, radio telegraph operators and cable operators were employed only in ocean cable operations. 3 Table 1. Telephone carriers:1 Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates2, December 1977 Humbe O cc u p a tio n a l group of employees / Total / Men, A l l e m p loy ees, e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s and m a n a g e ria l a s s i s t a n t s . ............................................... 8 3 0 ,0 8 7 907 ,36 7 P a r t -t im e e m p lo y e e s, in c lu d in g 1 1,939 1,519 o f f i c i a l s and m an agerial a s s i s t a n t s ................ P r o f e s s i o n a l and s e m ip r o fe s s io n a l 9 2 ,0 6 7 65,709 e m p lo y e e s ............. ............................................. .. D r a f t e r s ................. ......................................................... .. 1,609 656 O t h e r s .................................................................................. 9 0 ,9 58 65,0 53 B u s in e ss o f f i c e and s a l e s e m p lo y e e s .. . . . . . . . 7 8 ,8 2 3 2 1,798 S u p e r v is o r s ...................................................................... 8 ,5 5 3 1,855 7 0 ,2 7 0 19,893 N o n su p e r v iso r y e m p loy ees........................................ C l e r i c a l e m p l o y e e s . . . . ................................................. 190,600 28,526 18,516 9 ,729 S u p e r v i s o r s . . . ............................................................... N o n s u p e r v is o r y ................................................................ 172,089 23,8 02 2 9 ,6 1 8 Com m ercial d ep artm en t.......................................... 2,211 T r a f f i c dep artm en t................................................. 9, 706 367 P la n t d e p a r t m e n t .. . . ............................................. 3 2 ,0 31 3,587 A c co u n tin g dep a rtm en t.......... ............................... 3 0 ,0 7 0 9 , 120 A l l o t h e r d e p a rtm e n ts.......................................... 13,517 7 0,6 59 T elep h on e o p e r a t o r s ...................................................... .. 135 ,08 6 8, 162 C h ie f o p e r a t o r s . ....................................................... .. 8 , 156 33 7 S e r v i c e a s s i s t a n t s and i n s t r u c t o r s . . . . . . . . 26 1 8 ,2 5 2 E x p e r ie n c e d sw itc h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s ................... 105,561 9 ,998 O p e r a t o r s in t r a i n i n g .............................................. 1 1,931 2, 992 79 O th er sw itc h b o a r d e m p loy ees........................ 1 ,686 C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m ain ten a n ce e m p loy ees............................................... .. 3 0 6 ,8 9 2 263,023 S u p e r v is o r s o f te le p h o n e c r a f t w o r k e r s . . .. 3 9 ,9 9 8 36,462 C e n t r a l o f f i c e c r a f t w ork ers................. .. 123 ,02 0 8 6 ,7 28 T e st board and r e p e a t e r w o rk ers................... 18,600 21,1 78 C e n tr a l o f f i c e r e p a i r e r s ................................. .. 5 2 ,0 8 5 48,3 95 O th e rs............................................................................. 9 9 ,7 5 7 19,733 I n s t a l l a t i o n and exchange r e p a ir c r a f t K o rk e r s ............................... ............................... 9 6,1 81 93,309 9 6 ,1 9 8 99,309 PBX and s t a t i o n i n s t a l l e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exchange r e p a i r e r s ................................................. 2 9 ,1 6 7 28,726 O t h e r s ........................ .................................................... 20,816 20,274 9 7,6 29 96,9 18 l i n e , c a b l e , and co n d u it c r a f t u o r k e r s . . . . 2 6 ,1 8 0 L in e w ork ers............................ ................................. 25,7 45 19,332 C a ble s p l i c e r s . ..... .... ......................... 19,977 C a b le s p l i c e r s ' h e lp e r s ..................................... 950 395 O th e rs ............................................................................. 996 1 ,017 L a b o r e r s . ................................................ . 119 106 B u i ld in g , s u p p l i e s , and m otor v e h ic le 19,529 e m p lo y e e s . ................................................. 2 5 ,3 9 0 3 ,0 9 9 2 ,7 0 9 S u p e r v i s o r s . .............................................. 9 ,0 9 7 3 ,7 9 3 M e c h a n ic s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O ther b u il d i n g s e r v i c e em p lo y e e s..................... 6 ,9 3 8 4 ,1 7 2 O ther s u p p l ie s and m otor v e h ic le e m p lo y e e s. .......................... ........................................... 8 ,8 5 5 11,361 1 ,229 A l l em p loy ees n o t els e w h e re c l a s s i f i e d . . . . . . 670 Women P ercen t o f emplo pees r e c e i v i n g A verage Average $ 3 .5 0 $ 4 .0 0 $ 4 . 5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $9.5 0 and sch ed u led h o u r ly Under and $3.50 under ra tes w eekly hours $ 9 .0 0 $ 4 .5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $9.5 0 ov er 9 2 2 ,7 2 0 3 8.9 $ 7 .9 9 10,920 2 9 .0 5. 16 2 6 ,3 5 8 953 2 5 ,9 0 5 5 7 ,0 7 5 6 ,6 9 8 5 0 ,3 7 7 1 62 ,07 9 13,7 92 198 ,28 2 2 7,9 07 9,3 3 9 2 8,9 99 2 5 ,9 5 0 5 7 ,1 4 2 126 ,92 9 7,8 1 9 7,991 101 ,06 3 8,9 3 9 1,612 3 8.1 90. 1 3 8 .1 3 8 .0 3 8 .3 3 8 .0 3 7.9 3 8 .2 3 7.9 3 7 .1 3 7 .9 3 8 .6 3 7 .6 38. 1 3 6 .3 3 8 .2 3 6 .7 36.1 3 6 .5 3 7 .7 1 2 .3 2 6 .6 2 1 2.9 3 7 .9 0 10.33 7 .6 0 6 .7 0 9. 99 6 .3 9 5. 92 6 . 16 5 .9 6 6 . 95 6 .6 8 5 .9 9 9 .5 9 6 .7 0 5 .8 3 9 .1 2 6 .8 9 9 3 ,8 6 9 3 ,9 8 6 3 6 ,2 9 2 2 ,5 7 8 3,6 9 0 3 0 ,0 29 3 9 .8 3 9 .9 3 9 .7 3 9 .9 3 9 .9 3 9 .3 8 .2 6 1 0 .5 3 7 .8 3 8 .9 2 8 .3 6 7 .0 0 2 ,8 7 2 1,889 991 542 1 ,206 435 695 71 13 9 0.0 9 0 .0 4 0 .0 9 0 .0 9 0 .0 9 0 .0 9 0 .0 3 9 .9 3 9 .9 3 3 .8 8 .0 7 8 .0 1 8 . 22 8 .0 1 7 .8 9 7 .7 8 8 .0 2 6 .3 5 8 .8 8 5 .8 2 5 ,8 6 1 335 259 2,7 6 6 39. 1 3 9 .7 3 9 .7 3 7 .9 7 .2 3 1 0 .0 8 8 .0 3 5 .5 1 1.0 ♦ .9 2 .5 2 ,5 0 6 559 3 9 .6 3 9 .3 7 . 19 7 .2 6 .9 9 .9 55 1 Covers 63 telephone carriers which have annual operating revenues exceeding $1,000,000. These carriers are engaged in interstate or foreign communications service using their own facilities or through connection with those o f another carrier under direct or indirect common control. 0 .7 2 .2 2 .5 2 .5 3. 1 11.6 10.9 8 .7 6 .0 7 .0 13.9 8 .0 3 .7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .5 1.9 ♦ 1.5 2 .9 1.7 1.9 1.0 1 .2 1.9 .1 ♦ 1.9 3 .2 - .1 2. 1 ♦ 2 .0 2 .2 3 .9 .1 3 .8 5 .5 1 .3 3 .8 3 .0 3 .7 6 .2 * . 1 2 .6 9 9 .9 .2 .2 9. 9 . 1 2. 9 ♦ 2 .7 3 .5 .1 3 .9 5 .9 2 .8 9 .3 2 .8 3 .9 6 .9 * .9 5 .3 3 2 .5 .2 . 2 3 .9 . 1 2.6 . 1 3 .0 3 .6 . 1 9 .0 9. 8 9 .3 4 .5 3 .9 3 .6 6 .0 * 1.0 6. 7 8 .5 .7 .3 5 .8 .2 2 .7 .2 3 .1 5 .3 .2 5 .8 6 .9 3 .1 8 .9 9 .7 5 .2 5 .9 .9 2 .5 7 .1 2 .5 1.9 .6 1 9.9 .3 9 .7 .2 5 .3 2 0 .9 .3 2 2 .6 2 5 .0 2 9 .1 3 3 .9 1 7.2 18.1 2 9 .6 1 .2 1 2.2 3 6 .9 2 .9 1 2 .5 1 .0 17. 3 .7 1 0.6 .5 1 1 .8 2 1 .9 1. 3 29. 1 2 3 .6 3 1 .9 2 1 .6 2 5 .9 2 3 .8 20. 2 1 .9 3 7 .9 2 2 .0 .9 9 3 .8 1 .5 1 9.3 1 .3 20. 7 .8 2 3 .2 19.6 3 .2 1 5.8 1 5 .5 19.9 10.9 22. 1 1 5.8 7 .0 2 .3 2 0 .1 6 .9 .2 15.9 1.6 8 .9 1 .5 15.9 1.5 17.1 5 .8 5 .9 5 .8 6 .6 5 .5 3 .7 9 .3 9 .9 5 .3 5 .9 7 .2 5 .7 . 1 7 .6 2 .2 5 .6 2. 1 1 .9 3 .1 1 .7 3. 1 6. 7 2 .7 2. 1 1 .3 1 .5 3 .2 3 .6 9. 9 7 .9 7. 1 9 .5 ♦ 9 .9 2 .9 5 .8 2 .3 7 .9 9 .9 7 .7 2 .9 6 .8 2 .5 1.2 1.3 2 .8 1 .7 3 .5 1.3 10.7 9 .3 .9 * 2 .2 3 .1 3 .2 3. 1 2 .7 10.1 1 .8 2. 1 9. 1 1 .3 .3 .6 1 .6 . 8 2 .0 1. 1 11.9 1.9 .3 .5 2 .6 3 .5 4 .5 3 .5 3 .0 9 .7 2 .2 1.9 9 .9 1. 1 .2 .5 .6 .8 1.9 .9 11.9 1. 5 .2 * 1 .7 8 3.9 9 .9 8 9.7 23. 9 6 8.9 17.9 10.1 5 6 .8 5. 1 . 5 1.7 1.3 9 .5 9. 9 3 .7 9 7 .7 9. 1 .6 . 1 6 .5 .1 * .3 * ♦ .8 .5 .7 ♦ * 1.7 .7 * .7 . 1 . 1 1.6 .8 .7 .2 .2 1 .4 1.2 * 2 .0 .9 .3 4 .5 3 .3 . 1 6 .9 1 .1 .8 1 5 .9 3 .2 .2 5. 9 .7 .8 12.2 9. 5 .9 6 .5 1 .6 2 .3 1 3.0 5 .1 .6 5 .7 2 .1 2 .7 10.3 13. 2 1 .3 1 1. 1 9. 1 1 2 .5 1 0.5 3 1 .7 2 .9 3 1 .0 4 3.5 3 9.7 16.9 17.6 5 .7 17.9 2 3.9 2 3.7 8 .0 6. 2 10.9 8 .9 19. 2 1 3.8 1.6 11.8 7 8 .5 2 .6 3. 3 2. 7 2 .2 ♦ * * * * .2 .3 .1 .2 .7 .9 .2 6 .0 .2 3 0 .3 .7 1.0 .9 .7 1.5 1.9 .8 6 .0 .9 5 .9 . 9 1 .2 .6 .8 1. 2 1.9 .9 3 .8 2 .3 3 .4 .7 .9 .3 .6 i.i 1 .3 .8 3 .6 1.0 6 .7 1 .0 1 .3 .9 1 .0 1 .5 1 .7 1 .2 6 .0 .8 2 1 .0 1 .9 2 .8 . 7 1. 7 2 .5 2 .3 2 .2 2 9 .6 1. 1 3 .6 3 .9 3 .0 3. 7 9 .7 3 .8 - 1 8.5 1 7.0 1 9 .9 2 7 .0 1 8.2 1 9 .5 17. 1 7 .8 8 .3 9 1 .2 91. 1 93.3 3 8 .7 3 8.7 38.8 90.9 5. 1 18.0 2 2 .7 2 9 .0 2 9 .0 1 0 .8 18.0 1 7.8 1 8.6 3 .3 18.9 1.9 .8 2 .9 1.5 9 .9 3 .8 6 .3 .9 8 .9 1. 1 .8 .8 2 .0 1.5 .9 .6 2 9 .2 3 .6 .8 6. 1 5 .0 9 .2 1 1.3 5 .9 5 .7 5 .2 9 .0 1.9 3 1.9 3 5.9 1 .8 .1 9 .1 2 .8 .1 .7 6 .9 9 .7 .1 1. 2 13.2 7 .4 .1 2 .8 19.6 11.1 .9 2. 1 2 8 .2 9 .6 1 .7 9. 2 1 3.9 1 2 .7 1 .2 7 .7 9 .0 8 .9 2 .0 8 .0 1 .0 8 .3 3 .2 9 .7 .3 9 .8 5 .6 28.7 .9 7 .9 7 .5 2 9 .0 .2 3 .3 9 .5 9 .7 .2 11.1 6 8 .2 9 .9 .9 1 .3 5 .1 1 .8 5 .9 2. 1 2 .9 3 .5 10.0 6 .5 7 .1 10. 9 8. 9 1 9.8 19.9 7 .2 19. 1 2 3 .8 9 .9 2 .8 7 .1 2 .1 3 .2 2 .9 9 .6 12.8 * .9 ♦ .5 * * - .2 .9 - .5 5 .5 5 .5 - - - - 19. 1 - 2 See appendix for definition o f hours and rates used in this bulletin, NOTE: Asterisk (*) indicates less than 0.05 percent. Dashes ( - ) indicate that no data were reported. Because of rounding, sums o f individual items may not equal 100. Table 2. Bell System telephone carriers:1 Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates2, December 1977 Numbei o f emp Loy ees O cc u p a tio n a l group Men A l l e m p loy ees, e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s and m an agerial a s s i s t a n t s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 4 ,7 9 3 3 7 1 ,4 2 5 P a r t-tim e e m p lo y e e s, in c lu d in g o f f i c i a l s and m a n ag erial a s s i s t a n t s ................. 9 ,2 2 8 1 ,134 P r o fe s s io n a l and s e m ip r o fe s s io n a l em p loy ees. ................. ......................................................... 8 4 ,8 0 0 6 0 ,2 0 9 D r a ft e r s ................. .................................... .................... 1,104 39 2 O th ers. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••. 83,696 5 9 ,8 1 7 B u sin ess o f f i c e and s a le s e m p l o y e e s .............. 21,0 27 7 9,1 50 S u p e r v is o r s . ........................ ....................................... 7 ,8 8 5 1 ,579 N on su pervisory e m p loy ees........................................ 6 6 ,2 65 19,453 C l e r i c a l e m p lo y e e s ......................................................... 177,858 2 7,0 13 S u p e r v is o r s ....................................................................... 17,910 4 ,4 0 3 N on su p erv isory ................................................................ 159,948 2 2,6 10 Commercial d ep artm en t........................................... 27,2 86 2,1 3 1 T r a f f i c d ep artm en t.................................................. 8 ,6 1 8 302 P la n t d e p a r tm e n t................. ••••••••••••••• 2 8 ,1 09 2 ,9 6 7 A ccou n tin g dep artm ent................. ......................... 2 8 ,4 5 4 9 ,0 2 2 A l l o t h e r d ep a rtm en ts.......... .................. 67,4 81 13,188 T elep hone o p e r a t o r s ......................................................... 124,576 7 ,7 3 5 C h ie f o p e r a t o r s ............................................................. 7 ,4 8 7 313 S e r v ic e a s s i s t a n t s and i n s t r u c t o r s . . . . . . . . 7 ,8 4 2 244 E x perien ced s w itc h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s . . . . . . . . . 9 6 ,2 9 3 9 , 132 O p era tors in t r a i n i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,318 2 ,9 8 0 O ther sw itc h b o a r d em ploy ees.................................. 1 ,636 66 C o n s t r u c t io n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m aintenance e m p lo y e e s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 0 ,7 3 5 2 3 8 ,2 1 3 S u p e r v is o r s o f te le p h o n e c r a f t w o r k e r s . . .. 3 6 ,6 3 7 3 3 ,2 9 1 C e n tr a l o f f i c e c r a f t w o r k e r s .............................. 1 14,961 7 9 ,4 68 T est board and r e p e a t e r w o r k e r s . . . . .......... 20, 3 38 17,913 C e n tr a l o f f i c e r e p a i r e r s ................................... 4 8 ,1 9 2 4 4 ,7 6 6 O th e rs.............................................................. .. 46,431 16,7 89 I n s t a l l a t i o n and exchange r e p a i r c r a f t w ork ers................... ...................................... 8 5 ,7 9 2 83,2 71 PBX and s t a t i o n i n s t a l l e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,653 3 8,8 04 £xchange r e p a i r e r s ................ ................................ 27,621 2 7,261 O t h e r s . . . . . . . ...................................................... .. 1 7,5 18 17,206 L in e , c a b le , and c o n d u it c r a f t w o r k e r s .. . . 4 3 ,3 4 5 9 2 ,1 8 3 L ine w ork ers................................................................ 2 4,326 2 3 ,8 99 Cable s p l i c e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,641 17,003 Cable s p l i c e r s ' h e lp e r s ...................................... 431 378 O t h e r s . . . ........................ 947 903 L a b o re r s............................................................................ B u ild in g , s u p p l ie s , and motor v e h i c l e e m p l o y e e s ... . . .................................................................. 22,3 57 17,113 S u p e r v is o r s ....................................................................... 2 ,6 5 7 2,3 6 6 M echan ics........................................................................... 3,4 2 4 3 ,2 8 4 O ther b u il d i n g s e r v i c e em p loy ees...................... 6 ,0 7 3 3,5 6 2 O ther s u p p l ie s and motor v e h ic le em ploy ees................. .. 10,2 03 7,9 0 1 A l l em ployees n ot els e w h e re c l a s s i f i e d . . . . . . 317 115 Women P e rce n t o f em plo Fees r e c e iv in g A verage A verage $ 3 .5 0 $4.00 $4. 50 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $8.00 $ 8 .5 0 sc h e d u le d h o u r ly w eekly ra tes $3.5 0 under hours $ 4 .0 0 $4.5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $8.50 $ 9 .0 0 $9.5 0 3 93 ,36 8 3 8 .4 $ 8 .0 6 8 ,094 2 4 .8 5 .4 8 29,591 712 23,8 79 5 3 ,1 2 3 6,311 4 6,8 12 1 50,845 1 3,507 1 37,338 2 5 ,1 5 5 8 ,3 1 6 2 5 ,1 4 2 2 4 ,4 3 2 54,2 93 116,891 7, 174 7 ,5 9 8 92,1 61 8 ,3 3 8 1 ,570 3 7 .9 3 7 .7 3 7 .9 3 7 .9 38. 1 3 7 .9 3 7 .9 38. 1 3 7 .9 3 7 .4 3 7 .8 3 8 .5 3 7 .5 3 8 .0 3 6 .1 3 8 .0 3 6.6 3 5.9 3 6 .5 3 7 .6 12.6 3 7. 32 12.70 8 .0 3 10.99 7 .7 3 6 .8 2 10.06 6 .4 5 6 .0 0 6 .3 1 6 .0 9 6 .5 5 6 .7 6 6 .0 9 9 .7 3 6 .7 3 5 .9 6 4 .0 9 6 .8 3 9 2 ,5 2 2 3 ,3 4 6 3 5 ,4 9 3 2 ,4 2 5 3 ,4 2 6 2 9 ,6 4 2 3 9 .8 3 9 .9 3 9 .7 3 9 .9 3 9 .9 3 9 .2 8 .3 4 10.65 7 .8 6 8 .4 7 8 .4 6 6 .9 6 2 ,521 1,849 360 312 1,162 427 638 53 44 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 4 0.0 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 3 9 .9 8. 16 8 . 14 8 .2 8 8 .0 2 8 .0 0 7. 90 8 . 13 6 .4 0 9 . 10 5,244 291 140 2 ,511 3 9. 1 3 9 .7 3 9 .9 3 7 .7 7 .4 0 10.37 8 . 17 5 .6 9 2,3 0 2 202 3 9 .6 3 7 .3 7 .3 3 9 .2 6 0 .3 2 .0 _ _ * * .3 .7 * * . .2 1.6 • * .2 1 .8 .8 3. 1 _ * 3 .4 .8 1.1 5 .3 .2 .7 3 .3 1.1 .5 2 .6 .8 3 .4 .4 5 .7 * * * . 1 .1 1.4 3 .2 4 9 .9 .1 .1 _ _ .3 * * .8 .7 * ♦ 1.7 * ♦ * * * * .2 .3 .1 .3 .6 .7 .2 5 .3 * - .2 .2 - .4 .6 _ . 1 2. 1 1 .8 2 .5 12. 1 . 1 3 .5 ♦ 2 .0 * 2 .2 3 .9 ♦ 4 .3 5 .2 1.9 5 .7 3 .2 4 .2 5 .1 .1 1 .3 6 .2 2 .5 .9 .3 15.1 . 1 3 .8 ♦ 1 1.4 8 .7 and ov er 5 .8 _ * 1.5 * 2. 1 * 2 .4 2 .7 * 3 .0 4 .6 .8 2 .8 2 .4 3. 0 6 .2 * .3 4 .2 32.9 .2 .6 ♦ .7 . 1 2 .4 * 1 .7 _ 1 .9 2 .4 2 .7 3 .8 1 .0 2 .5 2 .2 2 .7 4. 1 * .5 4 .3 8 .2 .7 12.6 7 .6 2 1 .8 16.3 2 1 .3 2 3 .3 15.4 6 .0 2 3 .6 2 5 .9 3 1 .6 3 7 .3 17.8 18.4 3 1 .8 .2 1 1.8 3 9 .6 25. 7 25. 6 35. 7 24. 3 2 6 .7 24. 7 2 1. 7 . 5 11. 1 2 3 .3 16.4 7 .4 3 .3 7 .2 7 .5 18*7 5. 1 5 .7 1 2.5 3 .3 .6 1 .0 a 2 .0 7 .2 5. 4 5 .8 . 1 1 .6 .1 1 .3 .1 4 .6 .6 16.7 .4 1 2 .8 .5 1 3.5 1 .0 9 .9 .5 .7 •2 .7 1. 1 1.2 .8 5. 1 •2 .7 1 .0 .4 .5 . 9 .9 .9 3 .7 . 1 .4 .6 . 1 .4 .8 .8 .8 2 .8 1 .0 .6 .8 .3 .5 1 .0 1 .0 .9 5 .8 .6 .9 1. 1 .5 . 8 1 .8 1 .5 1 .6 3 0 .6 1 .7 2. 2 1. 1 1 .6 6 .5 1.1 2 .5 2 5 .3 . 8 3 .9 1 .5 1. 3 _ 4. 4 .6 13.6 7 .2 * .6 2 2 .0 11.4 * 1 .6 3 1 .9 1 .3 1 .3 2 .4 2 .8 5 .5 8 .5 .4 1.1 .2 3 .1 .3 2 .8 .7 2 .2 .9 2 .2 .6 1 7.8 1 1 .0 _ 1 0 .5 14.0 8 .6 1.7 2 .3 8 .2 19.2 19.7 9 .0 3 8 .5 4 .7 3 .2 1 .3 2 .2 3 1 .5 1 5.4 9. 2 13. 2 8 .7 3 .5 5 .8 6 .0 9 .5 10. 1 12.9 14.2 1 Covers 25 Bell System telephone carriers which have annual operating revenues exceeding $1,000,000. These carriers are 2 See appendix for definition o f hours and rates used in this bulletin engaged in interstate or foreign communications service using their own facilities or through connection with those o f another NOTE: Asterisk (*) indicate less than 0.05 percent. Dashes ( - ) indicate that no data were reported Because of roundino carrier under direct or indirect common control. sums o f individual items may not equal 100. Table 3. Non-Bell telephone carriers:1 Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates^, December 1977 Number o f em p loy ees O c c u p a tio n a l group A l l e m p lo y e e s, e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s and m a n a g e ria l a s s i s t a n t s ................................................. P a r t -t im e e m p lo y e e s, in c lu d in g o f f i c i a l s and m a n ag erial a s s i s t a n t s ................ P r o f e s s i o n a l and s e m ip r o fe s s io n a l e m p lo y e e s. ............................................................... .. D r a f t e r s .............................................................................. O th e rs ................................................................................... B u s in e s s o f f i c e and s a le s e m p lo y e e s .. . . . . . . . S u p e r v is o r s ....................................................................... N o n su p e r v iso r y em ploy ees........................................ C l e r i c a l e m p lo y e e s .. . . . . . . . . . . . ....................... .. S u p e r v i s o r s . . ................................................................. N o n s u p e r v is o r y ............................................................... C om m ercial dep artm en t.......................................... T r a f f i c dep artm en t................................................. P la n t d e p a r tm e n t..................................................... A c co u n tin g dep artm en t........................................... A l l o t h e r dep a rtm en ts.......................................... T elep h on e o p e r a t o r s . . ..... .............................................. C h ie f o p e r a t o r s ............................................................. S e r v ic e a s s i s t a n t s and i n s t r u c t o r s ................ E x p e r ie n c e d sw itc h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s .................. O p e r a to r s in t r a i n i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............ O th er sw itc h b o a r d em p loy ees........................ C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m ain ten a n ce em p lo y e e s................................................. S u p e r v is o r s o f te le p h o n e c r a f t w o r k e r s . . .. C e n tr a l o f f i c e c r a f t w ork ers............................... T est b oard and r e p e a t e r w o rk ers................... C e n t r a l o f f i c e r e p a i r e r s ................................... O th e rs .............................................................................. I n s t a l l a t i o n and exchange r e p a i r c r a f t w ork ers................................................................ PBX and s t a t i o n i n s t a l l e r s .......................... .. Exchange r e p a i r e r s .................................................. O th e rs ............................................................................. L in e , c a b l e , and c o n d u it c r a f t w o r k e r s . . .. L in e w o rk e r s .................................................... .. C a ble s p l i c e r s ........................................................... C a ble s p l i c e r s ' h e l p e r s ...................................... O t h e r s .............................................................................. L a b o r e r s ............................................................................ B u ild in g , s u p p l i e s , and motor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s ................................................................................................ S u p e r v is o r s ...................................................................... ............... M ech a n ics ......................................................................... .. ................ O ther b u il d i n g s e r v i c e e m p l o y e e s . . . . . ............ O ther s u p p l ie s and m otor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s . ................................................. .. A l l em p loy ees n ot e ls e w h e re c l a s s i f i e d . . . . . . A verage A verage s c h e d u le d h o u r ly weekly ra te s hours P ercen t o f employ e e s r e c e i v i n g $ 3 .5 0 $9.00 $9.50 $5.0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $8.0 0 T I7 5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $9.501 and Under and $ 3.5 0 under $ 4 .0 0 $ 9.5 0 $5.0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $ 9 .5 0 ov er T ota l Men Women 6 5 ,2 94 3 5 ,9 4 2 2 9 ,3 5 2 3 9 .4 $ 6 .5 7 4 .9 5 .2 7 .6 11.4 1 0.3 6 .1 5. 9 9 .0 8 .4 9 .9 8 .4 2 .6 2 .7 2 ,7 1 1 385 2 ,3 2 6 21.6 3 .8 8 - - - - - - - - - - - - _ _ 7 ,2 6 7 505 6 ,7 6 2 4 ,6 7 3 668 6 ,0 0 5 12,7 42 606 12,136 2 ,3 3 2 1, 088 3 ,9 2 2 1,6 1 6 3 ,1 7 8 10,510 669 mo 9 ,2 6 8 113 50 5 ,5 0 0 264 5 ,2 3 6 721 281 440 1,5 1 3 321 1 ,192 80 65 62 0 98 329 427 24 17 366 12 8 1,767 241 1,526 3,9 5 2 387 3 ,5 6 5 11,229 285 10,944 2 ,2 5 2 1,023 3 ,3 0 2 1,518 2 ,8 4 9 10,083 645 393 8,902 101 42 4 0 .3 4 5 .2 4 0.0 3 9 .4 4 0 .0 3 9 .3 3 8 .3 4 0 .0 3 8 .2 3 3.4 3 8 .3 3 9 .5 3 9 .6 3 9 .6 3 8 .4 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 3 8 .2 3 8 .6 4 0 .0 8 .8 8 5. 35 9. 18 5. 92 8 .5 6 5 .4 7 5 .0 9 7 .9 3 4 .9 4 4 .8 9 4 .9 5 5 .0 6 4 .8 4 4 .8 9 4 .8 3 7 .5 1 6 . 16 9 .5 3 6 .7 2 7 .2 2 .3 2 .4 .1 4 .9 .3 5 .7 10.2 .2 10.7 16.9 13.1 7 .9 9.8 9 .4 13.0 .4 .5 14.6 7.1 - .6 5.1 .3 7 .5 8 .8 8 .6 1.7 9 .0 9 .0 5 .6 7 .8 1 0 .4 10.8 12.6 .3 .2 14.2 2 .0 1.4 10.5 .7 6 .3 7 .4 1 5.0 2. 1 15.7 21.7 18.8 15.6 10.2 13. 1 15.3 . 1 2 .9 17.2 - 2. 1 7 .3 1.7 17. 1 1. 3 19. 8 20. 2 4. 1 2 1.0 16.4 3 0.6 19.2 24.6 2 1.4 28.6 .3 10.5 3 1.5 38.1 - 2 .9 10.7 2 .3 1 4 .8 2 .5 16.9 24. 1 6 .6 2 4 .9 1 9 .8 12.7 2 8 .0 3 1 .9 2 5 .5 15.5 3 .7 2 5 .9 16.0 16.0 3 .2 12.9 2 .5 2 0 .3 2 .5 2 3 .3 8 .7 6. 1 8 .8 1 4.6 9 .4 5 .4 6 .7 9 .7 3 .8 12.0 1 8 .8 2 .6 14.0 5 .6 16. 0 4 .8 4 .0 4. 8 3 .8 2 .7 9. 1 2. 4 .4 2. 1 2. 3 1.9 4 .4 2 .5 1 7 .5 9. 8 1. 1 18. 0 7 .0 18.0 6 .2 4 .3 5. 7 4. 1 2 .6 5 .8 2 .9 .7 .5 5 .6 .2 1 .6 1 .4 1 3.9 8 .3 . 1 16.0 5 .7 10. 1 5 .4 2 .2 9 .3 1 .0 2 .8 6. 1 2 .7 * 1.1 6 .7 1 .3 .9 1 .0 10.8 6 .8 ♦ 8 .0 7. 1 2. 2 7 .5 2 .9 1 3 .3 1. 1 .9 7 .3 .6 . 1 . 4 .7 1 .2 .7 1.0 1 1.7 4 .4 .9 1 0 .0 7 .3 2 .0 7 .7 3 .6 15.7 1.6 1.2 9 .9 .8 . 1 2 .0 .7 .4 1. 1 .7 9 .3 2 .0 .9 6 .0 8 .4 .2 9 .0 2 .7 11.2 1 .3 .9 1 0 .7 .5 . 2 1.7 . 1 .9 .5 2 .7 3 .6 1 .7 2. 1 53. 1 - 8 .3 8 .9 3 .0 1 1.8 1.6 .5 7 .6 .2 * 1.0 .2 .2 1.2 5. 1 6 .6 .7 - 4 0 .0 2 .6 4 2 .8 6 .1 21.4 3 .6 1.4 2 2.8 .4 _ 1.0 •2 . 1 .8 .8 11.4 1.7 * 10.0 2 6 ,1 5 7 3 ,3 1 1 8 ,0 5 9 840 3 ,8 9 3 3 ,3 2 6 2 4 ,8 10 3 , 171 7, 260 687 3 ,6 2 9 2 ,9 4 4 1,347 140 799 153 264 3 82 4 0 .0 3 9 .9 3 9 .9 4 0 .0 40. 1 3 9 .7 7 .4 5 9 .2 4 7 .2 8 7 . 13 7 . 16 7 .4 6 . 1 ♦ .2 .5 .7 .7 . 1 .3 1.3 2 .0 .9 .2 .6 1.3 2 .6 2. 2 2 .5 1 .7 2 .8 2 .7 . 1 3 .0 2 .5 2 .9 3 .3 3 .8 .3 3 .3 3 .5 3 .0 3 .7 7 .2 .7 4 .7 5. 1 6 .3 2 .8 1 6.8 2 .0 17. 1 2 6 .1 2 4 .8 6 .0 16.4 3 .0 2 1 .3 2 5.8 2 4 .7 16.1 1 9.8 7 .8 1 5 .6 2 4 .8 18. 1 1 0 .2 16.9 14.8 2 9.7 9 .2 16.0 51.0 1.8 14.3 . 1 .2 * . 1 2 .9 19. 6 .8 1.5 .2 6 .2 3 7 .5 .4 _ . 1 .8 10,389 5 ,5 4 5 1,546 3 ,2 9 8 4,2 7 9 1,8 5 4 2 ,3 3 6 19 70 119 1 0 ,0 3 8 5 ,5 0 5 1,9 6 5 3 ,0 6 8 9 ,2 3 5 1 ,846 2 ,3 2 9 17 43 106 351 40 81 230 44 8 7 2 27 13 4 0 .0 40. 1 4 0 .0 4 0.0 40. 1 4 0 .0 40. 1 3 8 .9 4 0.0 3 3 .8 7 .3 3 7 .0 2 7 . 13 7 .9 4 6 .7 4 6 . 19 7 .2 1 5 . 03 5 .8 7 5 .8 2 * .1 .1 2 .2 2 .8 2 .7 .8 5 .2 10.7 .8 2 6.3 2 .9 5 .9 3 .0 2 .9 4 .5 2 .3 4. 5 7. 8 1 .0 5 .3 31.4 3. 4 2 .8 3 .3 3 .6 1.7 3 .9 7 .2 1 .2 21. 1 1.4 6 .7 3 .9 4 .7 2 .4 3 .4 6 .4 1 0.3 3. 3 1 0 .5 2 .9 2 1 .0 1 0 .3 1 4 .8 3 .0 6 .3 9 .5 1 3.3 6 .7 5 .3 1. 4 18.7 15.9 3 7 .5 1 4.6 2 3 .3 1 7.3 2 7 .8 16.8 9 .2 1 .6 3 6 .9 16.1 1 3 .8 18.4 5 .3 2 4 .9 3 4 .7 4. 7 1 7 .9 2 5 .3 1 2 .7 3 6 .0 13.2 10.7 3 9 .8 5 .0 3 .7 3 .3 4 .2 5 .3 1.4 - .2 .3 .1 .1 1.7 3 .5 * 2 1.1 2 .9 3 0 .3 3,0 3 3 387 623 865 2 ,4 1 6 343 509 610 617 44 1 14 255 3 9 .2 4 0 .0 3 8.4 3 8.7 6 .0 1 8 .0 7 7 . 24 4. 32 6 .6 .3 6.1 17. 1 10.6 .5 2 .7 2 5 .3 14.2 .5 3 .2 3 3 .8 7. 4 .5 4 .3 10. 3 8 .8 .5 14.6 2 .8 8 .3 6. 5 4 .7 2 .5 1, 158 912 954 555 204 357 3 9.6 4 0 .0 5 .9 1 6 .6 1 1.0 5 .6 10.0 6 .5 9 .2 2 .7 13.0 1 2 .5 15. 1 6 .6 1 Covers 38 non-Bell telephone carriers which have annual operating revenues exceeding $1,000,000. These carriers are engaged in interstate or foreign communication service using their own facilities or through connection with those o f another carrier under direct or indirect common control. - . 1 .1 - 5.7 7 .3 6. 1 - - - . 1 . 1 _ - .3 .5 _ .2 .3 3 .4 * _ 10.6 ♦ .1 _ .5 - - _ - _ - 3 .4 17.6 1.0 .9 1 .8 13.2 1 .5 1 1. 1 - - 1.9 2 .7 .3 2 .6 - 4 1 .4 . 8 3 1 .9 - - 1 2.3 1 1.4 7. 7 1. 8 9 .3 3. 9 1 8.0 2. 2 6 .2 6 .2 18.9 1 .2 4 .3 1 3 .2 8 .0 1 .3 23. 0 7 .8 11.8 3 .0 3 .2 4 .8 1 .6 3 0 .5 8 .6 ♦ - 8. 1 . - 1 .2 - 2 .5 _ 5 .3 14.7 10.8 .5 2 .8 6 .3 2 See appendix for definitions o f hours and rates used in this bulletin, NOTE: Asterisk (*) indicates less than 0.05 percent. Dashes (—) indicate that no data were reported. Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal 100. Table 4. All and Bell System telephone carriers^ Average hourly rates* of employees in selected occupations by region, December 1977 O c c u p a t io n a l g roup A l l e m p lo y e e s , e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s and m a n a g e ria l a s s i s t a n t s . ......................................... P a r t -t im e e m p lo y e e s , in c lu d in g o f f i c i a l s and m a n a g e ria l a s s i s t a n t s • • ... P r o f e s s i o n a l and s e m i p r o f e s s i o n a l e m p l o y e e s . .. ........................................................ D r a ft e r s O t h e r s . . •••• ............................................................. B u s in e s s o f f i c e and s a l e s e m p lo y e e s .......... . S u p e r v i s o r s . ••••••••••••••••••••••••••. H o n s u p e r v iso ry e m p l o y e e s ................................ C l e r i c a l e m p l o y e e s .•••••••••••••••••••••. S u p e r v is o r s ......................... .....................••........... . Hons u p er v i s o r y ..................••••••••••. Com m ercial d e p a r tm e n t. . . T r a f f i c d e p a r t m e n t .• • • • • • • • • • • ....... P la n t d e p a r tm e n t.......... ••••••••••............. A c c o u n t in g d e p a r t m e n t .• • • • • • • • . .. . . .. A l l o t h e r d e p a r t m e n t s .• • • • • • • • • • ..... T e le p h o n e o p e r a t o r s . ••••••••••••••••••••. C h ie f o p e r a t o r s . ............. ••••••••••••••. S e r v i c e a s s i s t a n t s and i n s t r u c t o r s . . .• . E x p e r ie n c e d s w itc h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s . . . . . . O p e r a t o r s i n t r a i n i n g ...................................... . O ther s w itc h b o a r d e m p lo y e e s ......................... . C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m a in ten a n ce e m p l o y e e s .• • • • • • • • • • • ....... S u p e r v is o r s o f t e le p h o n e c r a f t w ork ers. C e n t r a l o f f i c e c r a f t w o rk ers............... .. T e s t b oa rd and r e p e a t e r w o r k e r s .. . . . . C e n t r a l o f f i c e r e p a i r e r s . . • • • • • • ..... O t h e r s ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I n s t a l l a t i o n and e x ch a n g e r e p a i r c r a f t w orkers. PBX and s t a t i o n i n s t a l l e r s . . • • . . . . . . . Exchange r e p a i r e r s . •••••••••••••••••. O t h e r s ....................................................................... L in e , c a b l e , and c o n d u it c r a f t w orkers. L in e w o r k e r s ......................................... .. ........... . C a b le s p l i c e r s .......... ........... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . C a b le s p l i c e r s ' h e l p e r s . • • • . • • • . . . . . . O t h e r s . . . . . . . . . . .............................................. . L a b o r e r s . . . . ...........................••••••••••••••. B u i ld in g , s u p p l i e s , and m otor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s . •• ....................................... S u p e r v is o r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................. . M ech a n ics . • • • • ................... O ther b u il d i n g s e r v i c e e m p l o y e e s * .•••• O ther s u p p l i e s and m otor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s ................................................... ............. A l l e m p loy ees n ot e ls e w h e r e c l a s s i f i e d . . See footnotes at end o f table. U n ited S t a t e s 3 Mew Er g la n d R id d le Average A verage Number of h o u r ly of h o u r ly of w orkers r a t e s w orkers r a t e s w ork ers tla n t ic G reat Average Humber h o u r ly of ra tes w orkers Lakes Chesai>eake S o u th e a st N orth C e n t r a l South C e n t r a l Mountain A verage Number A verage Number Average Number A verage Dumber A verage Number Average Number of h o u r ly h o u r ly of h o u r ly of h o u r ly of h o u r ly of h ou rly of w ork ers r a t e s ra te s w ork ers r a t e s w ork ers r a t e s w ork ers All c a r r i e r s Average h o u r ly 8 30 ,08 7 * 7 .9 4 5 2 ,0 6 9 $8. 24 137 ,44 5 * 8 .8 3 134 ,87 8 * 7 .7 5 4 6 ,6 2 8 * 7 .6 9 1 32,598 * 7 .3 5 2 7 ,6 3 2 * 7 .4 0 8 8,8 88 * 7 .2 7 43,6 91 * 7 .3 3 118,791 * 7 .9 5 1 1 ,9 3 9 5 .16 1 ,609 5 .2 2 2 ,3 3 2 5 .6 4 2 ,2 0 4 4 .8 6 446 4 .6 0 599 5 .1 3 520 5 .6 1 826 4 .4 3 1 ,0 9 5 4 .7 0 2 ,0 6 8 5 .3 9 9 2 ,0 6 7 1 ,6 0 9 9 0 ,4 5 8 78 , 823 8 ,5 5 3 7 0 ,2 7 0 190,600 1 8 ,5 1 6 172 ,08 4 2 9 ,6 1 8 9 ,7 0 6 3 2,0 31 3 0 ,0 7 0 7 0 ,6 5 9 135 ,08 6 8 ,1 5 6 8 , 252 105,561 1 1,431 1 ,6 8 6 12.32 6 .62 12.43 7 .9 0 1 0.3 3 7 .6 0 6 .7 0 9 .9 9 6 .3 4 5 .9 2 6 .1 6 5 .9 6 6 .4 5 6 .6 8 5 .9 9 9 .5 4 6 .7 0 5.83 4 .12 6.84 6 , 172 59 6 ,1 1 3 4 ,3 9 4 4 30 3 ,9 6 4 12,4 13 1 ,0 7 3 11,3 40 1 ,8 9 6 534 1,8 6 4 2 ,3 2 4 4 ,7 2 2 6 ,6 8 9 598 614 7 ,0 0 6 317 154 1 2 .5 2 7 . 16 12.57 8 .3 8 1 0 .7 7 8 . 12 7 .0 2 10.48 6 .6 9 6 .1 9 6 .4 3 6 .3 6 6 .5 7 7 .1 1 6 .2 0 10. 25 6 .7 5 5 .8 5 3 .8 4 6 .9 3 15,201 140 15,061 1 3 ,6 6 2 1,4 8 5 1 2,1 77 2 9 ,9 0 2 3 ,4 89 2 6 ,4 1 3 4 ,6 6 3 1 ,4 1 8 4 ,7 9 6 6 .0 9 2 9 ,4 4 4 2 0 ,7 4 5 1,0 4 6 1 ,8 0 0 16,6 56 881 362 14.11 8 .3 4 1 4 .1 7 9 . 09 11.81 8 .7 6 7 .5 3 11.08 7 .0 5 6 .6 7 6 .9 6 6 .6 7 7 .0 2 7 .4 7 6 .7 4 11.1 6 7 .1 9 6 .5 1 4 .2 0 7 .2 1 15,7 87 271 15,516 12,918 1 ,307 11,611 2 9,1 08 2,901 2 6 ,2 0 7 3 ,8 4 0 1,514 5 ,2 4 2 4,6 7 8 1 0,933 2 1,629 1,226 1,670 16,511 2 ,064 158 11.39 6 .6 0 11.47 7 .5 0 9 .8 8 7 .2 3 6 .4 8 9 .7 3 6 .1 1 5 .7 3 5 .8 2 6 .0 6 6 .01 6 .3 6 5 .8 3 9. 18 6 .5 8 5 .6 9 4 .1 5 6 .9 7 4 ,7 4 0 106 4 ,6 3 4 4 ,3 3 5 555 3 ,7 8 0 10,884 796 1 0,0 88 1 ,9 1 6 515 1,7 0 3 1,524 4 ,4 3 0 7, 06 8 419 297 5 ,7 7 6 460 116 1 1 .7 3 6 . 17 11.86 7 .8 7 10. 16 7 .5 3 6 .6 3 9 .9 5 6 .3 7 5 .5 5 5 .9 6 5 .8 8 6 . 22 7 .0 3 5 .7 4 9 .4 6 6 .5 3 5 .5 4 4 .0 2 6 .9 3 1 2 .1 1 8 204 1 1 ,9 1 4 1 2 ,5 0 6 1 ,3 9 5 2 ,8 3 0 26 2 ,8 0 4 2 ,8 6 4 329 2 ,5 3 5 6 ,7 0 2 765 5 ,9 3 7 1.1 6 1 415 910 938 2 ,5 1 3 5 ,3 0 6 321 398 3 , 876 633 78 11. 13 5 .7 0 11.18 7 .4 6 10.34 7 .0 8 6 .2 5 9 .2 9 5 .8 5 5 .4 7 5 .9 1 5 .5 5 5 .8 9 6 .1 1 5 .7 6 9 .8 3 6 .3 2 5 .6 1 3 .9 5 6 .6 1 7 .6 1 3 219 7 ,3 9 4 10,1 72 1 ,0 5 3 9 ,0 7 9 1 9,396 1 ,7 9 3 17,6 03 3 ,7 8 4 1,331 3 ,7 9 3 2 ,5 1 6 6 ,1 7 9 15,5 63 1 ,0 7 2 813 12,0 52 1,4 9 0 136 11. 11 6 . 13 1 1.2 6 6 .8 8 9 . 32 6 .5 9 5 .9 6 9 .2 2 5 .6 3 5 .4 6 5 .8 1 5 .2 8 5 .8 3 5 .8 3 5 .9 9 8 .8 5 6 .5 6 5 .9 0 3 .9 8 6 .2 9 4 , 147 11.37 2 7 ,0 0 3 2 ,5 7 4 2 4 ,4 2 9 4 ,4 7 5 1 .5 8 7 5 ,8 3 0 3 ,4 8 3 9 ,0 5 4 2 5 .1 6 1 1 ,7 6 5 935 2 0 ,2 8 6 1 ,8 5 0 325 11.30 4 .6 3 11.45 7 .3 8 9 .6 7 7 .0 9 6 .1 3 8 .8 9 5 .84 5 .6 9 5 .9 7 5 .5 6 6 .0 0 6 .0 2 5 .7 3 8 .7 9 6 .5 3 5 .5 8 3 .7 6 6 .71 3 0 6 ,8 9 2 3 9 ,9 4 8 123,020 2 1 , 178 5 2 ,0 8 5 4 9 ,7 5 7 8.26 10.53 7 .8 3 8 .4 2 8 .36 7 .0 0 1 6 ,3 7 9 2 ,4 4 8 8 ,2 4 0 1 ,2 4 5 3 ,0 0 5 3 ,9 9 0 8 .5 5 11.0 7 8. 19 8 .7 5 8 .7 0 7 .6 2 5 2 ,7 8 6 6 ,8 5 1 2 0 ,1 3 0 2 ,8 6 2 8 ,8 2 8 8 ,4 4 0 8 .8 9 11.48 8 .2 6 8 .9 1 8 .8 5 7 .3 8 49,149 6,3 1 4 18,283 2 ,617 8,046 7 ,6 20 8 .2 8 10.50 7 .81 8 .4 2 8 .3 2 7 .0 7 1 8 ,0 7 0 2, 318 6 ,7 0 6 804 3 ,2 9 5 2 ,6 0 7 8 .0 5 10.16 7 .5 3 8 .4 2 8 . 19 6 .4 0 5 2 ,9 3 3 6 ,8 9 0 1 9 ,1 9 1 2 ,8 9 2 7 ,2 5 5 9 ,0 4 4 7 .8 1 9 .8 3 7 .3 0 7 .9 7 8 .0 5 6 .4 8 9 ,0 5 4 1 ,2 3 6 3 .1 6 4 417 1 ,4 5 0 1 ,2 9 7 7 .9 7 10.25 7 .4 1 8 . 13 8 .0 9 6 .4 1 3 4 ,6 0 5 4 ,1 4 7 12,795 1 ,8 6 5 6 ,0 1 8 4 ,9 1 2 9 6,1 81 4 6 ,1 9 8 2 9 ,1 6 7 2 0 ,8 1 6 4 7 ,6 2 4 2 6 ,1 8 0 1 9,9 77 450 1 ,017 119 8 .0 7 8.01 8 .2 2 8 .01 7 .89 7 .7 8 8 .0 2 6 .3 5 8.88 5 .8 2 5 ,3 2 4 2, 182 1 ,5 8 4 1 ,558 2, 367 1,3 3 0 939 3 95 " 8 .4 1 8 .3 9 8 .4 2 8 .4 4 7 .4 9 6 .5 8 8. 56 6 .6 3 9 .6 3 “ 17,8 93 8 ,2 7 1 5 ,9 5 3 3 ,6 6 9 7 ,9 1 2 4 ,4 4 9 3 ,1 6 7 148 148 8 .6 9 8 .7 2 8 .7 8 8 .4 7 8 .6 6 8 .6 4 8 .74 6 .6 7 9 .5 6 * 16,419 7 ,8 7 3 5 ,5 3 5 3,011 8,014 4 ,356 3,348 54 256 119 8 .0 8 8 .1 4 8 .1 5 7 .7 9 8 .0 5 7 .9 8 8 .1 7 6 .16 8 .05 5 .82 6 ,2 4 5 3 , 108 1 ,5 7 0 1,5 6 7 2 ,8 0 1 1,471 1 ,299 10 21 “ 7 .9 0 7 .7 1 8 .3 1 7 .8 6 7 .8 8 7 .7 8 7 .9 9 7 .4 7 8 .7 5 “ 1 7 ,3 0 8 8 ,6 2 5 5 .3 8 7 3 ,2 9 6 9 , 544 5 ,6 4 1 3 ,6 0 1 165 137 - 7 .6 6 7 .6 2 7 .75 7 .5 8 7 .64 7 .56 7 .8 0 6 .1 5 8 .6 8 3 ,0 4 8 984 464 1 .6 0 0 1,6 0 6 836 760 7 .8 1 7 .9 5 8 .0 1 7 .6 6 7 .6 5 7 .6 1 7 .6 7 10 2 5 ,3 9 0 3 ,0 4 4 4 ,0 4 7 6 ,9 3 8 7 .2 3 10.08 8 .0 3 5.51 2 ,0 1 7 240 209 706 7 .4 3 10. 56 7 .7 7 6 .0 4 5 ,1 3 1 614 8 09 1 ,7 93 7161 11. 19 8 .6 8 5 .8 2 6 ,2 2 3 784 907 2,061 7 .0 3 9 .7 7 7 .84 5 .2 7 1 ,526 240 182 377 6 .7 9 9 .2 4 7 .6 8 4 .7 2 2 ,8 6 9 326 349 465 6 .8 0 9 .1 9 6 .6 2 4 .7 4 11,361 1 ,2 2 9 7 .19 7 .2 6 862 5 7 .5 6 5 .9 9 1 ,9 1 5 18 7 .6 4 8 .2 9 2 ,471 64 7 .2 5 5 .8 2 727 5 6 .8 0 7 . 13 1 ,7 2 9 8 6 .9 2 6 .1 8 1 1,111 3 ,9 7 4 10,9 75 1 0.2 8 9^840 1,606 5 .9 3 7^854 499 389 5 ,8 3 4 1 ,042 90 5 .6 7 5 .6 1 3 .91 6 .4 5 7 .8 1 10.01 7 .5 5 8 .1 7 8 .0 8 6 .6 6 14,281 2 ,0 18 5 ,466 7.91 10.02 7 .4 9 2 ,3 4 1 2 ,4 6 9 6 .7 9 7 .6 6 7 .4 9 8 .0 5 7 .5 3 7 . 19 7 . 10 7 .3 1 4 ,4 6 3 1,870 1,043 1,550 2 ,3 3 4 1,3 4 5 925 7 .71 7 .5 7 7 .8 9 7 .74 7 .4 7 7 .43 7 .4 9 9 .4 0 - 11,541 6 .1 2 7 3 ,3 1 0 2 ,1 0 4 6 ,1 2 2 3 ,1 9 0 2 ,8 5 2 65 15 - 7 . 18 - 64 8 .1 2 876 75 124 380 7 .0 5 9 .9 2 7. 84 5 .7 6 1,5 3 9 138 267 2 27 6 .5 4 9 .2 8 7 .9 3 4 .9 0 1,232 162 162 216 6 .9 9 9 .2 7 7 .12 5 .5 9 404 5 .9 6 297 7 .5 5 907 6 .0 7 692 719 6 .8 2 6 .7 7 183 6 .3 1 - _ * 231 6 .6 3 7^931 7 .0 6 2 ,99 7 Table 4. All and Bell System telephone carriers:1 Average hourly rates2 of employees in selected occupations by region, December 1977— Continued States1 3 * Hev England d id d le A t la n t ic G reat Humber Average Number Average Number Average Number h ou rly of of of h ou rly h ou rly of w orkers r a t e s w orkers r a t e s w orkers w orkers r a t e s United O c c u p a t io n a l group Lakes Chesapeake S o u th e a s t N orth C e n t r a l South C e n tr a l Mountain P a c ific hvera ge Number A verage Number A verage Number Average Number Average Number A verage Number A verage of of h ou rly of h o u r ly of h o u r ly h o u r ly of of h o u r ly h o u r ly h ou rly ra tes w orkers r a t e s w ork ers r a t e s vork ers ra te s w ork ers r a t e s vork ers ra tes vorkers ra te s Bel 1 System carriers A l l e m p lo y e e s , e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s and 7 6 4 ,7 9 3 P a r t -t im e e m p lo y e e s , in c lu d in g 9 ,2 2 8 o f f i c i a l s and m a n a g e ria l a s s i s t a n t s . . .. • • • • P r o f e s s i o n a l and s e m i p r o f e s s i o n a l e m p lo y e e s ................................................................................ 8 4 ,8 0 0 D r a f t e r s ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ,1 0 4 O t h e r s ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 ,6 9 6 B u s in e ss o f f i c e and s a l e s e m p l o y e e s .. . ............. 7 4 ,1 5 0 S u p e r v is o r s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ,8 8 5 6 6 ,2 6 5 H o n s u p e r v iso ry e m p l o y e e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C l e r i c a l e m p l o y e e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 ,85 8 S u p e r v is o r s ................................................ ....................... 1 7 ,9 1 0 H o n s u p e r v i s o r y ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,948 C om m ercial d e p a r t m e n t .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7 ,2 8 6 8 ,6 1 8 T r a f f i c d e p a r t m e n t .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P la n t d ep a rtm en t........................................................ 2 8 ,1 0 9 2 8 ,4 5 4 A c co u n tin g d e p a r tm e n t. ....................................... . A l l o t h e r d e p a r t m e n t s .......................................... 6 7 ,4 8 1 T elep h on e o p e r a t o r s . ........................... 124 ,57 6 C h ie f o p e r a t o r s ............................................................... 7 ,4 8 7 S e r v i c e a s s i s t a n t s and i n s t r u c t o r s . . . . . . . . 7 ,8 4 2 E x p e r ie n c e d s w itc h b o a r d o p e r a t o r s . . . . . . . . . 9 6 ,2 9 3 O p e r a t o r s in t r a i n i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1,3 18 O ther s w itc h b o a r d e m p lo y e e s ................................... 1 ,6 3 6 C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m a in ten a n ce e m p lo y e e s . . . . . • ........................... . . 2 8 0 ,7 3 5 S u p e r v is o r s o f t e le p h o n e c r a f t v o r k e r s . . . . 3 6 ,6 3 7 C e n tr a l o f f i c e c r a f t v o r k e r s . ............................ 144,96 1 T e s t b oa rd and r e p e a t e r v o r k e r s . . . . . . . . . 2 0 ,3 3 8 C en tra l o f f i c e r e p a i r e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 ,1 9 2 O t h e r s ............................................................ .. 4 6 ,4 3 1 I n s t a l l a t i o n and ex ch a n g e r e p a i r c r a ft v o r k e r s .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 ,7 9 2 PBZ and s t a t i o n i n s t a l l e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 0 ,6 5 3 Exchange r e p a i r e r s . ........................................... 2 7 ,6 2 1 O th ers • ................................................................. 1 7 ,5 1 8 L in e , c a b l e , and c o n d u it c r a f t v o r k e r s . . . . 4 3 ,3 4 5 L in e v o r k e r s . . . . . . . . . . .................................... .. 2 4 ,3 2 6 C a b le s p l i c e r s . .......... .. 1 7 ,6 41 C a b le s p l i c e r s ' h e l p e r s . . . . . . . . . . .......... .. 431 O t h e r s . ...................................................................... 94 7 L a b o r e r s ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B u i ld in g , s u p p l i e s , and m otor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 ,3 5 7 2 ,6 5 7 S u p e r v is o r s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M e c h a n ic s ............................................................................ 3 ,4 2 4 6 ,0 7 3 O th er b u il d i n g s e r v i c e e m p lo y e e s -................... O th er s u p p l i e s and m otor v e h i c l e e m p lo y e e s......................... ................................................. 1 0 ,2 0 3 A l l em p lo y e e s n o t e ls e w h e r e c l a s s i f i e d . 317 $8.0 6 5 2 ,0 2 4 $8. 24 1 36 ,49 5 $ 8 .8 5 1 14 ,53 9 $ 8 .0 3 4 0 ,6 7 4 $ 7 .9 7 119 ,94 9 $7.41 2 7 ,4 4 8 $7.41 8 0 ,1 2 1 $ 7 .4 0 4 2 ,2 1 2 $7.3 5 109,831 5 .48 1 ,6 0 7 5 .2 2 2 ,2 8 9 5 .6 6 1,358 5 .6 2 272 5 .8 5 529 5 .3 9 506 5 .6 6 335 5 .3 9 1,089 4 .7 0 1 ,0 9 5 6 .0 6 12.63 7 .3 2 12.70 8 .0 3 10.49 7 .7 3 6 .8 2 10.06 6 .4 5 6 .0 0 6.31 6 .0 9 6 .5 5 6 .7 6 6 .0 9 9 .73 6 .7 3 £ .96 4 .0 9 6 .83 6 , 169 59 6 , 110 4 ,3 8 2 4 29 3 ,9 5 3 1 2 ,4 1 0 1 ,0 7 3 11,3 37 1 ,8 9 6 534 1,8 6 1 2 ,3 2 4 4 ,7 2 2 8 ,6 8 9 598 614 7 ,0 0 6 317 154 12.52 7 .1 6 12.57 8 .3 9 10.78 8 . 13 7 .0 2 10.48 6 .6 9 6 . 19 6 .4 3 6 .3 6 6 .5 7 7 .11 6 .2 0 10.25 6 .7 5 5 .8 5 3 .8 4 6 .9 3 1 5,112 135 14,9 77 1 3 ,6 09 1 ,4 7 9 1 2 ,1 30 29,7 11 3 ,4 8 6 2 6,2 25 4 ,6 3 2 1,404 4 ,7 3 7 6 ,0 4 9 9 ,4 0 3 2 0 ,5 8 2 1 ,0 30 1 ,7 9 2 1 6 ,5 17 881 362 1 4.1 5 8 .4 7 14.20 9 . 10 1 1 .8 3 8 .7 7 7 .5 5 1 1.0 8 7 .0 7 6 .6 8 6 .9 9 6 .7 0 7 .0 4 7 .4 9 6 .7 6 1 1 .2 3 7 .2 0 6 .5 3 4 .2 0 7 .2 1 13,379 153 1 3 ,2 26 11,297 1,151 1 0 ,1 4 6 2 4,9 20 2 ,5 8 4 2 2 ,3 3 6 3 ,4 7 9 1,185 3 ,8 9 2 4,1 2 8 9 ,6 5 2 1 8 ,3 75 1 ,003 1,521 13,636 2 ,0 5 8 157 11.90 7 .8 9 11.94 7.81 10.06 7 .56 6 .7 3 9 .96 6 .3 6 5 .8 9 6 .2 3 6 .32 6 .2 3 6 .61 6 .0 8 9 .7 0 6 .61 6 .0 2 4 .1 6 7 .0 0 4 ,0 6 3 84 3 ,9 7 9 4 ,0 7 4 477 3 ,5 9 7 9 ,7 4 6 784 8 ,9 6 2 1,4 6 2 353 1,4 8 2 1 ,4 1 7 4 ,2 4 8 5 , 900 382 195 4 ,7 4 7 460 116 12.5 2 6 .3 7 12.65 7 .9 4 10.51 7 .6 0 6 .8 8 9 .9 8 6 .61 5 .9 7 6 .3 3 6 .0 5 6 . 37 7 .1 4 6 .0 4 9 .6 9 6 .8 8 5 .8 8 4 .0 2 6 .9 3 1 0 ,8 9 7 127 1 0 ,7 7 0 1 1 ,4 0 9 1 ,2 2 6 1 0 ,1 8 3 2 5 ,0 2 9 2 ,5 3 6 2 2 ,4 9 3 4 ,2 1 0 1 ,4 8 3 4 ,9 6 4 3 ,2 7 6 8 ,5 6 0 2 3 ,0 7 6 1 ,5 6 8 897 1 8 ,4 8 0 1,8 4 8 283 1 1 .6 0 6 .2 1 11-66 7 .4 8 9 .8 1 7 .2 0 6 .21 8 .9 1 5 .9 0 5 .6 6 6 .0 6 5 .6 6 6 .0 7 6 .0 7 5 .8 1 8 .9 6 6 .5 9 5 .6 8 3 .7 6 6 .7 3 2 ,8 1 7 21 2 ,7 9 6 2 ,8 5 6 324 2 ,5 3 2 6 ,6 5 7 765 5 ,8 9 2 1 ,1 4 0 410 901 9 37 2 , 504 5 ,2 6 7 319 396 3 , 841 633 78 11.1 5 6 .0 1 11.19 7 .4 5 10.37 7 .0 8 6 .2 6 9 .2 9 5 .8 6 5 .4 9 5 .9 3 5 .5 7 5 .8 9 6 .1 1 5 .7 7 9 .8 5 6 .3 3 5 .6 3 3 .9 5 6 .6 1 6 ,5 8 6 37 6 ,5 4 9 9 ,3 3 0 993 8 ,3 3 7 17,6 19 1,6 5 8 15,961 3 ,6 8 2 1,1 0 0 3 ,1 6 5 2 ,2 6 1 5 ,7 5 3 14,440 1,0 1 8 778 11,0 18 1,4 9 0 136 11.5 0 5 .6 6 1 1 .5 3 7 .0 4 9 .4 7 6 .7 5 6 .0 9 9 .3 7 5 .7 5 5 .4 8 6 .0 7 5 .4 8 5 .9 6 5 .9 2 6 .0 9 8 .9 3 6 .6 3 6 .0 4 3 .9 8 6 .2 9 4 ,1 3 5 68 4 ,067 4 ,3 5 3 430 3 ,9 2 3 10,8 33 1,1 3 0 9 ,7 0 3 1,577 670 1 ,4 3 5 1,399 4 ,6 2 2 7 ,7 1 9 491 381 5 ,7 1 5 1,042 90 11.34 6 .6 0 11.42 7 .1 7 9 .7 0 6 .8 8 6 .2 9 9 .2 4 5 .9 4 5 .4 9 5 .9 2 5 .3 9 6 .0 7 6 .2 3 5 .6 9 8 .9 0 6 .6 6 5 .6 3 3 .91 6 .4 5 1 1 ,5 0 5 133 1 1 .3 7 2 1 1 ,2 2 8 1 ,3 0 8 9 .9 2 0 2 7, 292 2 ,6 2 6 2 4 ,6 6 6 4 ,3 6 4 1,261 4 ,3 8 5 4 ,1 0 9 1 0 ,5 47 1 8 ,1 35 936 1, 136 1 3 ,3 46 2 , 488 229 12.48 7 .4 9 12.54 8 .3 2 11.0 0 7 .9 6 6 .8 6 10.3 0 6 .5 0 6 .2 4 6 .3 8 6 . 13 6 .5 9 6 .7 4 5 .9 8 10.32 6 .5 4 5 .9 1 4 .4 2 6 .6 4 8.34 10.65 7 .8 6 8 .4 7 8 .4 6 6 .9 6 1 8 ,3 5 5 2 ,4 4 5 8 ,2 3 2 1 ,2 4 4 2 ,9 9 9 3 ,9 8 9 8 .5 5 11.0 8 8. 19 8 .7 5 8 .7 0 7 .6 2 5 2,3 89 6 ,7 9 7 2 0 ,0 06 2» 855 8 ,7 1 7 8 ,4 3 4 8 .9 0 1 1.5 0 8 .2 7 8 .9 1 8 .8 7 7 .3 8 4 1 ,4 3 0 5 ,3 4 5 15,741 2 .3 1 8 6 ,4 98 6 ,9 25 8 .5 0 10.76 7 .9 3 8 .6 2 8 .5 8 7 .0 9 15,6 17 1 ,9 3 3 5 ,9 2 2 751 2 ,5 9 4 2 ,5 7 7 8 .2 5 1 0 .5 4 7 .6 3 8 .5 4 8 .5 8 6 .4 0 4 7 ,2 8 2 6 ,1 1 3 1 7 ,3 6 4 2 ,6 7 5 6 ,9 2 7 7 ,7 6 2 7 .81 9 .8 6 7 .2 8 8 .0 5 8 .1 3 6 .2 5 8 ,9 8 5 1 ,2 2 2 3 ,1 4 7 403 1 ,4 5 0 1 ,2 9 4 7 .9 9 1 0 .2 8 7 .4 1 8. 18 8 .0 9 6 .4 1 3 0 ,9 08 3 ,7 2 2 11,799 1 ,7 7 7 5 ,6 4 1 4 ,3 8 1 7 .9 5 1 0. 17 7 .6 2 8 .2 2 8 .1 6 6 .6 7 13,9 17 1,976 5 ,3 0 6 643 2 ,2 0 2 2 ,4 6 1 7 .9 3 1 0 .0 5 7 .4 9 8 .10 8 .1 0 6 .7 9 3 9 . 102 5 ,4 8 4 1 6 ,8 5 0 2 ,8 6 5 6 ,4 5 9 7 ,5 2 6 8 .4 0 10.67 7 .8 8 8 .5 1 8 .5 6 7 .0 4 8 .16 8.14 8 .2 8 8 .0 2 8 .0 0 7 .9 0 8 . 13 6.40 9 .1 0 - 5 ,3 1 8 2 ,1 8 2 1 ,5 8 4 1 ,5 5 2 2 ,3 6 0 1 ,326 936 3 95 - 8 .4 1 8 .3 9 8 .4 2 8 .4 5 7 .4 9 6 .5 8 8 .5 6 6 .6 3 9 .6 3 - 1 7 ,7 55 8 , 151 5 ,9 5 3 3 ,6 5 1 7 ,831 4 ,4 0 7 3 ,1 2 8 148 148 - 8 .7 0 8 .7 4 8 .7 8 8 .4 8 8 .6 8 8 .66 8 .7 6 6 .6 7 9 .5 6 - 1 3,6 43 7,0 9 1 4,7 0 2 1,850 6 ,7 0 1 3,7 3 9 2,7 1 7 46 199 8 .3 5 8 .3 2 8 .4 5 8 .2 5 8 .3 5 8 .2 8 8 .4 5 6 .4 3 8 .7 2 8 .1 4 8 .1 0 8 .3 1 8 .0 1 8. 14 8 .0 5 8 .2 5 7 .4 7 8 .7 5 - 14,9 91 6 ,6 1 3 5 ,3 8 7 2 ,9 9 1 8 ,8 1 4 5 ,4 1 9 3 ,0 9 4 164 137 - 7 .6 8 7 .6 4 7 .7 5 7 .6 2 7 .6 8 7 .6 0 7 .8 6 6 .1 6 8 .6 8 3 ,0 2 3 964 464 1 ,5 9 5 1 ,5 9 3 829 754 7 .8 2 7 .9 8 8 .0 1 7 .6 7 7 .6 7 7 .6 3 7 .6 8 9 .4 0 - 1 0,068 5 ,0 2 9 3 ,3 0 5 1,7 3 4 5 ,3 1 9 2 ,8 3 4 2 ,4 1 6 58 11 7 .8 4 7 .7 6 8 .0 5 7 .6 7 7 .3 6 7 .3 4 7 .3 9 6 .2 3 8 . 14 4 ,3 4 7 1,763 1,039 1 .5 4 5 2 ,2 8 8 1,321 907 7 .7 4 7 .6 5 7 .8 9 7 .7 5 7 .5 0 7 .4 6 7.51 - 5 ,3 7 1 2 ,4 6 3 1 ,5 7 0 1 ,3 3 8 2 ,3 9 1 1 ,275 1 ,0 8 5 10 -21 - 8 .1 6 8 .0 8 8 .3 1 8 .0 8 8. 21 8 . 12 8 .1 7 5 .1 5 9 .4 3 - 7 .4 0 10.37 8 .1 7 5 .6 9 2 ,0 1 4 240 209 703 7 .4 4 10.56 7 .7 7 6 .0 5 5 ,0 7 4 608 802 1 ,7 6 9 7 .6 3 1 1 .2 2 8 .6 9 5 .8 3 5 .1 2 9 597 787 1,719 7 .3 3 10.30 8 .1 5 5 .4 6 1 ,2 6 9 180 174 244 7 . 18 1 0 .0 7 7 .7 3 5 .2 6 2 ,2 4 8 276 103 341 7 .0 7 9 .3 2 7 .6 5 5 .1 8 866 75 124 376 7 .0 6 9 .9 2 7 .8 4 5 .7 8 1 ,2 3 8 99 257 171 7.33 9 .2 6 862 7 .5 6 5 .9 9 1 ,8 9 5 7 .6 6 8 .2 9 2 ,0 2 6 7 .6 2 7 .5 8 671 6 .9 3 7 .1 3 1 ,5 2 8 8 7 .0 4 6 .1 8 291 7 .5 4 711 5 18 - 9 1 Cover telephone carriers which have operating revenues exceeding $1,000,000. These carriers are engaged in interstate or foreign communication service using their own facilities or through connection with those o f another carrier under direct or indirect common control. |S ee appendix fo r definition o f hours and rates used in this bulletin. 3 Includes data fo r employees in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and employees o f the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which are excluded from the regional tabulations. (For scope o f survey, see appendix.) NOTE: For purposes o f this study, the regions fo r which separate data are presented include: New England—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Middle A tlantic—Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania; Great Lakes—Illinois, Indiana, 5 - - 10 - - * $ 8 .0 4 60 8 .21 - 1 1 ,2 5 7 6 ,3 9 7 3 ,6 1 7 1 ,2 4 3 5 ,5 1 1 2 ,6 9 5 2 ,5 4 8 2 266 - 6 .7 3 9 .6 6 8 .0 0 5 .1 4 1,200 157 160 203 7 .0 2 9 .3 1 7 .1 3 5 .6 6 2 ,5 3 3 347 458 348 7 .9 0 10.51 8 .3 0 6 .0 9 6 .2 1 * 680 6 .8 3 6 .5 4 1 ,3 8 0 36 7 .5 6 6 .3 8 - - - - 55 Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; Chesapeake-District o f Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; Southeast-Alabama. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee; North Central—Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; South Central— Arkansas. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas (except El Paso County); Mountain— Arizona. Colorado, Idaho (south o f the Salmon River), Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas (El Paso County), Utah, and Wyoming; and Pacific— California. Idaho (north o f the Salmon River), Oregon, and Washington. Dashes (—) indicate that no data were reported. Table 5. Western Union Telegraph Company: Percent distribution of employees^ in occupational groups by average hourly rates2, October 1977 P ercen t o f em p loy ees r e c e iv in g A verage A verage $ 3 .5 0 $ 4 .0 0 $ 4 .5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8.0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 sc h e d u le d h o u r ly Under and $ 9 .5 0 w eekly r a t e s 2 $ 3 .5 0 under and hours $ 4 .0 0 $ 4 .5 0 $5. 00 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $9.5 0 ov er O c c u p a t io n a l group T ota l A l l em ployees e x c e p t o f f i c i a l s , m a n ag erial a s s i s t a n t s , and m e s s e n g e r s ,...................................... P r o f e s s io n a l and s e m ip r o fe s s io n a l e m p lo y e e s . . ...................................... .................... .. E n g in eers and e n g in e e r in g a s s i s t a n t s . ............ O th e rs ............ .......................................................... T eleg ra p h o f f i c e s u p e rin te n d e n ts and m a n a g ers .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S a le s e m p l o y e e s ... . . . . . . ............................................... C l e r i c a l e m p lo y e e s............................................................. S u p e r v is o r s .. .................................................................. N on su p ervisory e m p l o y e e s ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Com m ercial d e p a r tm e n t......................................... T r a f f i c d e p a r tm e n t.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A l l o t h e r d e p a r t m e n t s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Route a i d e s . ............................................... T eleg ra p h o p e r a t o r s ........................................................... T r a f f i c m anagers, c h i e f o p e r a t o r s . s u p e r v is o r s , and i n s t r u c t o r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . E x p erien ced t e le g r a p h o p e r a t o r s (e x c e p t Horse o p e r a t o r s ) ...................................... Com m ercial d ep artm en t............................ T r a f f i c d e p a r t m e n t ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O p e r a t o r s - in - t r a in in g ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m a intenance em p lo y e e s........................................ T r a f f i c t e s t i n g and r e g u la t in g e m p l o y e e s ... C o n s t r u c t io n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , and m aintenance e m p lo y e e s ...................... .................... .. S u p e r v is o r s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S u b s c r ib e r s ' equipm ent m a i n t a i n e r s . . .......... L ine and c a b le w o rk e r s........................................... O t h e r s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L a b o r e r s ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B u ild in g s e r v i c e em p lo y e e s.............. ........................... H e c h a n ic s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O t h e r s .................................. .. M e s s e n g e r s ............. .... ....................................... .. W alking and b i c y c l e m essen gers. H otor m essen gers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Men Women 11,089 6 ,7 0 8 3 8 .6 $ 7 .3 3 1 ,063 267 796 89 6 259 637 4,381 167 8 159 37. 1 3 6 .9 3 7 .2 1 0 .5 3 10.59 10.51 439 525 2 ,3 3 6 496 1,840 814 35 990 i 2 ,6 1 6 274 42 5 663 271 39 2 144 8 239 1 517 165 100 1,6 7 3 225 1,448 670 27 751 2,0 9 9 3 9 .8 3 6 .6 3 6 .8 3 7 .2 3 6 .7 3 6 .7 4 0 .0 3 6 .5 4 0 .0 3 9 .3 7 .0 3 7 .0 6 6 .5 9 7 .8 6 6 .2 5 6 .2 2 5 .3 1 6 .3 0 4 .6 3 5 .6 4 0 .1 , .2 .3 .5 * 442 229 213 3 9 .7 7 . 18 - 2 ,0 5 0 516 1 ,5 3 4 124 280 122 158 8 1 ,770 394 1,376 116 3 9 .2 4 0 .0 3 8.9 4 0 .0 5 .4 1 5 .4 7 5 .3 9 3 .8 8 * .2 - 1.3 1 .0 7 .8 7 .3 9. 0 8 .4 5 .8 1 9 .6 10.9 2 .9 2. 6 10.5 .1 .4 - .3 1.1 - .2 .3 .3 .4 1. 1 .4 1 .4 6 .8 1 .9 8. 4 3 .8 2. 2 4 .3 5 .8 6 .0 5 .8 3 .7 6 .4 2 .8 3 .4 3 .4 3 .4 4 .3 3 .4 4 .6 5 .3 7 .9 4 .4 6 5 .0 6 7.0 6 4 .3 .2 1.1 .4 .5 .9 4 .7 5 .7 1 .7 1 .0 1 .8 .2 8 .6 2 .9 1.1 2 .3 9 .0 8 .9 .4 11.2 9 .0 6 0 .0 1 1.3 1 9.0 9 .8 1 1 .8 1 6 .0 1 .6 19. 8 2 3 .0 2 5 .7 17. 1 3 1 .8 20. 7 10. 7 19.6 9. 3 2 2 .3 2 8 .3 18. 3 1 0 .7 23. 9 13. 1 16.7 19.0 16.1 18.9 14.4 2 .9 2 0.7 6 .5 1 5 .6 1 5.3 15.7 6 .4 2 3 .9 1 .1 9 .6 9 .9 7. 1 1 7 .9 4 .2 6. 1 2 .7 1 .3 1 .4 4 .6 2 .3 8 .3 .7 . 1 1 .2 1.0 1 .8 3 .2 2. 1 6 .7 .9 .2 1.4 .2 2 .3 3 .6 2 .0 7 .7 .5 .5 .5 .2 6 .4 12.6 2 .9 12.5 .3 .4 .3 1 .6 7 .0 6 .1 1.1 1. 1 9 .5 - - - - .9 8. 2 4 .5 .4 5. 6 6 .9 5 .7 4 .4 100 2 4 .3 - - . 2 2 .0 7 .0 4 7. 1 13.6 5 .2 9 9 .2 1 .5 4 .5 .5 - 3 0 .9 8 .5 3 8 .5 .8 2 3 .8 3 7 .0 19.4 - 3 9 .1 4 0 .3 3 8 .7 - 3 .5 6 .6 2 .5 - .7 2 .3 . 2 - .3 .4 .3 - .2 .4 - 1 .0 2 .0 1 .3 1 .0 .6 5. 9 2. 8 1 .4 .8 4 6 .0 4 4 .2 2 6.7 4 4.8 4 .8 5 .4 3. 8 - 6 .8 . 2 .1 . 1 1 .1 3. 1 5 .8 2 5 .0 3 .2 6 .4 1 .3 - 1. 1 .6 7. 1 4 7 .0 1 .3 7 3 .4 28. 1 4 3 .6 1 1.1 2 9 .8 - 2 0 .4 2 6 .4 17.3 3 3 .6 18.1 _ 1 .6 4 .3 - 4 .7 14.2 1 .3 9 .4 .9 _ - 9 .3 3 6.9 1 .6 2 .8 2 .4 4 .3 1. 3 . 2 1 .6 •6 2 .5 .8 1 .0 _ 4 .0 1 0.6 - 5. 1 18.7 3 .4 4 .7 2 1 .6 15.1 4 0 .4 - 1 1.7 .6 _ .8 2. 1 - 3 .9 1 .0 _ .8 2 .1 _ - - - _ _ 3 ,9 8 4 1 ,0 4 4 3 ,8 3 6 1 ,021 148 23 3 9 .8 4 0 .0 8 . 14 8 .0 5 - - - 2,9 1 6 702 1,396 128 690 24 126 47 79 515 2 ,7 9 2 688 1 ,394 128 582 23 97 45 52 499 124 14 2 3 9 .7 3 9 .0 4 0 .0 4 0 .0 3 9 .9 4 0 .0 3 9 .9 3 9 .9 3 9.9 3 8 .6 8 .2 0 9 .4 7 7 .9 6 8 .0 8 7 . 44 4 .9 8 5 .6 9 7 .1 8 4 .8 0 4 .5 9 _ 1.6 2 .5 2 1 .4 _ 3 .9 * _ .1 2 5 .0 3 .2 5 .1 11.1 .3 .1 . 1 .7 3 7 .5 50.0 7 9 .7 5 3 .8 3. 1 3 .8 1 2 .5 6 .3 10. 1 9 .7 111 404 103 396 3 7 .1 3 9 .0 3 .4 0 4 .9 0 9 6 .4 .7 2 .7 4 .2 14. 1 .9 6 8 .3 12.4 - 108 i 29 2 27 16 16 8 8 1 2.7 .2 1 .2 .3 .2 .2 ' ’ Includes employees working in the conterminous 48 States and the District o f Columbia; the company does not operate in Alaska and Hawaii. sums o f individual items may not equal 100. Excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts. .6 .9 _ - . 1 .2 . 1 • _ * NOTE: Asterisk (*) indicates less than 0.05 percent. Dashes (— indicate that no data were reported. Because of rounding, ) Table 6. International telegraph carriers:1 Percent distribution of employees in occupational groups by average hourly rates2, October 1977 P e rce n t o f e m p loy ees r e c e iv in g Number o f em ployees A verage O c c u p a tio n a l group T ota l A l l em p lo y e e s e x c e p t o f f i c e r s and a s s i s t a n t s . •. t i l e m p loy ees e x c e p t o f f i c e r s and a s s i s t a n t s and m essen gers...................... ................. P r o f e s s i o n a l and s e m ip r o fe s s io n a l e m p l o y e e s .... E n g in e e rs and e n g in e e r in g a s s i s t a n t s . . . ......... O th e rs ................. ..................................................... .. O f f i c e o r s t a t i o n su p e r in t e n d e n t s and a s s i s t a n t s . ......................................................................... S a le s e m p lo y e e s .. ............................................... .. C l e r i c a l e m p lo y e e s . ....................... .. S u p e r v i s o r s . • . . . ............................................. .. N o n su p e r v iso r y em p lo y e e s............................................ O p e r a tin g dep a rtm en t..... ........................................... Com m ercial d e p a r tm e n t.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A cco u n tin g d ep a rtm en t•............ ...................... .. E n g in e e r in g dep a rtm en t............................................ A l l o t h e r d e p a r tm e n ts....................... .. O p e r a t o r s .. .................................. ............. .................... .. T r a f f i c c h i e f s , d i s p a t c h e r s , s u p e r v is o r s . i n s t r u c t o r s , and a s s i s t a n t s ............................... N o n su p e r v iso r y o p e r a t o r s . ........................ .. ... R a d io o p e r a t o r s ............................................................... Marine c o a s t a l s t a t i o n o p e r a t o r s ....................... C a b le o p e r a t o r s . ................... .................. .. T e le t y p e - m a l t i p le x o p e r a t o r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T elep h on e o p e r a t o r s . . .......................... .. A l l o t h e r o p e r a t o r s ...................................... ............... M es sen g ers............... ............. .................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f o o t and b i c y c l e . ••••••................. H o t o r ....................................... .. C o n s t r u c t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n , m a in ten a n ce. and o t h e r t e c h n i c a l em p loy ees............... .. S u p e r v i s o r s . . ................ .. M echan ics and m aintenance t e c h n i c i a n s .......... ............. ............................................ R a d io o p e r a t in g t e c h n i c i a n s ............. B a d io t e le g r a p h r i g g e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O t h e r s ...................................................................................................... B u ild in g s e r v i c e e m p lo y e e s . ..................................... A l l e m p lo y e e s , n o t e ls e w h e re c l a s s i f i e d . . . . . . . . Men Women w eekly hours A verage $ 3 .5 0 $4.0 0 $ 0 .5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $ 9 .5 0 h o u r ly Under and and r a t e s 2 $ 3 .5 0 under $ 4 .0 0 $0.5 0 $ 5 .0 0 $ 5 .5 0 $ 6 .0 0 $ 6 .5 0 $ 7 .0 0 $ 7 .5 0 $ 8 .0 0 $ 8 .5 0 $ 9 .0 0 $ 9.5 0 ov er 4 ,7 0 7 3 ,8 7 5 832 3 6 .9 $ 9 .1 0 4 ,5 7 4 746 300 446 3 ,7 5 0 7 00 294 406 824 46 6 40 3 7 .0 3 7 .2 36. 9 3 7 .4 9 .2 5 12.2 8 12.66 12.0 3 . 1 - 28 407 1, 124 148 976 245 114 309 33 275 1,040 24 349 582 132 450 135 59 133 16 107 886 4 58 54 2 16 526 110 55 176 17 168 150 3 5 .6 3 6 .4 3 6 .8 36. 4 3 6 .8 37. 1 3 7 .5 3 7 .2 37. 2 3 5 .9 3 6 .9 12.08 9 .2 1 7 .4 4 11. 17 6 .8 9 7 .2 1 6 .7 3 6 .9 5 7 .0 4 6 .5 6 8 .8 8 - 187 853 11 102 92 531 62 55 133 130 3 180 706 11 102 80 4 26 42 05 125 122 3 7 147 37. 3 3 6 .9 34. 1 3 7 .5 3 7 .5 3 6 .6 3 7 .5 3 7 .5 33. 1 3 3 .0 37. 3 11.5 3 8 .2 9 7 .7 8 8 .7 0 8 . 17 8 . 16 8 .2 7 9 .0 8 3 .2 1 3 .1 8 4 .6 9 1,131 151 1 ,1 1 3 151 18 3 7 .5 3 7 .3 9 .5 0 1 1.8 6 _ 570 95 7 304 89 9 560 93 7 302 87 9 14 2 3 7 .5 3 7 .5 3 7 .4 3 7 .5 3 7 .5 3 7 .4 9 .0 4 9 .0 7 9 .6 0 9 .3 4 7 . 19 8 .1 9 12 105 20 10 8 8 - 2 2 1Covers employees o f international telegraph carriers which have annual operating revenues exceeding $50,000; excludes employees working for international telegraph carriers outside the conterminous 48 States and the District o f Columbia. 0. 8 1 .0 2 .5 3 .4 4 .2 3 .6 5 .4 5 .8 5 .8 7 .5 1 2 .0 5 .9 4 0 .0 . 1 - 1 .0 - 2 .6 - 3 .5 .1 .3 - 4 .3 .3 .3 .2 3 .7 .4 .7 5 .5 .8 .7 .9 6 .0 1 .5 1.0 1 .8 6 .0 3 .8 1 .0 5 .6 7. 7 2 .7 1 .0 3 .8 1 2 .3 4. 6 3 .0 5 .6 6 .1 4 .3 4 .7 4 .0 4 1.2 8 1 .6 8 8.0 7 7.4 - .2 .3 .3 1.1 . 1 .7 3 .3 3 .8 3 .3 2 .6 2 .6 6 .5 . 1 1 .5 7 .7 8. 8 9 .4 6 .1 4 .2 6 .1 1 4 .9 2. 1 2 .2 9 .3 10.8 1 0.2 15.8 9 .1 12.1 10.9 1.4 7. 1 2 .0 9 .6 11.1 6 .5 1 3.2 1 3.6 1 5.2 10.9 4 .2 7 .1 4 .2 8 .6 2 .0 9 .6 6 .1 7 .9 1 2 .3 1 8.2 9 .5 1 .6 6 .2 9 .6 2 .0 1 0.8 9 .0 12. 3 10.7 12. 1 1 1.6 5 .8 9. 6 8 .2 1 .4 9 .2 6. 1 2 3.7 6 .5 3 .0 9. 8 5. 4 7. 1 6 .6 3 .4 7. 1 9 .0 1 .8 9 .4 6. 1 5. 1 4 .4 6 .9 10. 3 5 .4 ii. i 9 .8 5 .3 20. 1 6. 1 5. 1 11. 1 6 .6 8 .8 4. 1 9. 5 2 3 .3 2 .6 5. 8 6. 1 4 .7 3 3 .2 7 .1 1 1.8 3 .3 8. 1 2 .6 5 .3 2 .6 .6 6. 1 1 .8 6 .3 7 8.6 4 3.0 14.4 7 3.6 5 .4 2 .0 6. 1 5 .2 9. 1 8 .0 2 4 .2 - . 1 .2 . 1 1.6 3 .0 3. 1 2. 6 4 .1 1.8 9. 1 2 .2 2 .3 1.5 .8 3 3 .3 5 .2 1 2.0 5 .6 4 .8 ~ 2 .0 9 .1 2 .2 2 .4 7 .0 9. 1 2 2 .5 5 .8 8 .1 .8 .8 • 6 .6 1 8.2 7 .8 2. 2 6 .6 1 1 .3 3 .6 - .5 5 .3 18.2 7 .8 2 .2 4 .9 3 .2 9. 1 “ 1 .6 13. 1 9. 1 2 .9 14. 1 17. 1 6 .5 * 5 .9 3 9 .2 9. 1 4. 9 38. 0 4 5. 2 6 1. 3 27. 3 - 11.2 5 .3 9 .1 5 .9 2 7 .2 .6 3 .2 14.5 * 8 0.7 11.8 9. 1 4 8 .0 5 .1 - .2 1 .7 - 3 .0 - 2 .2 - 3 .8 - 4 .7 - 8 .1 - 6 .2 - 4 .9 1 .3 8 .0 6 .0 5 7.0 9 2 .7 . 3 2 .3 3 .7 - 2 .8 3 .7 1.1 8 .4 3 0 .5 7 .7 5 .3 2. 8 7 .1 11.1 4 .9 6 .0 6 .8 3 .6 11. 1 6 .8 6 .3 1 4 .3 2 .5 2 .4 2 2 .2 7 .1 1 0 .5 4 .0 1 .2 6. 6 2. 1 1 4.3 4 .0 2 5 .0 2 2 .2 50.0 4 4 .2 71.4 5 6 .2 16.7 11. 1 2 .0 - - - 67. 7 6 9 .2 2 6 .3 2 6 .2 3 3 .3 _ . _ - - - - - “ ~ .3 .7 - - 3 .6 - .8 3 3 .3 - 3 .6 “ - 2 .2 11.9 - ~ - 1 .8 - - - 6 .8 1 9 .0 11. 1 - - - 9 .9 - 11. 1 - 4 3.6 - 2 See appendix for definitions o f hours and rates used in this bulletin. NOTE: Dashes (—) indicate that no data were reported. Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal 100. Appendix: Scope and Method of Survey Data presented in this study are based on annual re ports filed with the Federal Communications Commis sion (FCC) by communication carriers, as required by the amended Communications Act of 1934. All carri ers engaged in interstate or foreign communications service by means of their own facilities or through con nection with the facilities of another carrier under di rect or indirect common control are subject to the full jurisdiction of the Commission. Telephone carriers en gaged in interstate or foreign service only by connec tion with the facilities of another unaffiliated carrier are not subject to the full jurisdiction of the Commission and are not required to file annual reports of hours and earnings of employees. Tabulations for telephone carriers relate to those having annual operating revenues over $1 million, and which are subject to the full jurisdiction of the FCC. Included are 25 Bell System companies and 38 compa nies not affiliated with the Bell System. Tabulations for wire-telegraph and international tel egraph carriers are confined to companies with annual revenues exceeding $50,000 which are engaged in in terstate or foreign commerce. Western Union Telegraph Company is the only wire-telegraph company includ ed. Five companies engaged in nonvocal radio or ca ble communications are included in the international telegraph tabulations. Hours and rates Average hourly rates presented in this bulletin were computed by dividing total “scheduled weekly com pensation” by total “scheduled weekly hours.” Aver age scheduled weekly hours were obtained by dividing the total scheduled weekly hours by the number of em ployees. The terms “scheduled weekly hours” and “scheduled weekly compensation” for the three carri er groups covered by the study are defined, according to the FCC’s Rules and Regulations, as follows: Telephone carriers 51.12 (b). “Scheduled weekly hours” means the num ber of regular hours, excluding overtime hours, in the duty tours which the employee is scheduled to work during the week in which December 31 occurs, wheth er or not excused because of a holiday, vacation, leave of absence, or other reason. 51.13 (b). “Scheduled weekly compensation” means compensation to the employee at the rate of pay in ef fect on December 31 for the “scheduled weekly hours.” It includes the basic weekly pay rate plus any regular ly scheduled supplementary compensation, such as dif ferentials for evening and night tours, equivalent value of board and lodging for unlocated employees, equiv alent value of meals furnished dining service employ ees, and equivalent value of living quarters and main tenance furnished for managers of agency offices. It ex cludes pay for overtime work and pay in excess of weekday rates for Sunday and holiday work. Employees and occupational groups studied Officials and managerial assistants are not included in the tabulations. Also excluded are employees work ing outside the 50 States and the District of Columbia, except telephone carrier employees in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. All other employees, both full-time and part-time, are included. Part-time employees are defined as those regularly assigned shorter hours than a full-time schedule. Occupational groups for which separate data are pre sented are defined in the FCC’s Rules and Regulations, volume X, part 51, applying to telephone carriers, and part 52, applying to telegraph companies. Copies of this volume are on sale by the Superintendent of Docu ments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Western Union Telegraph Company 5121 (b). “Scheduled weekly hours” are defined as an employee’s regular daily tour of duty multiplied by the number of days, or fraction of days, scheduled to be worked during a week. 5122 (b). “Scheduled weekly compensation” is de fined as wages scheduled to be paid for scheduled week ly hours as defined in 52.21 (b). This should include employee contribution for old-age benefits, unemploy ment insurance, and similar deductions, paid vacation and holiday hours, the regularly scheduled weekly com pensation for employees temporarily on leave due to disability or sickness, and the scheduled weekly com pensation of both full-and part-time employees. 11 The company reports that “scheduled weekly com pensation” excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts. Company, except that scheduled weekly compensation should include regularly scheduled maintenance, trav el, or other allowances. Distribution of workers by earnings classes In the tables, workers are distributed according to the percentage having stipulated hourly rates of pay. Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal 100. International telegraph carriers International telegraph carriers are instructed to re port scheduled weekly hours and compensation for their employees as defined for the Western Union Telegraph 12 Industry Wage Studies The most recent bulletins providing occupational wage data for industries included in the Bureau’s program of industry wage surveys are listed below. Copies are for sale from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or from any of its regional sales offices, and from regional offices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shown on the inside back cover. Copies that are out of stock are available for reference purposes at leading public, college, or univer sity libraries, or at the Bureau’s Washington or regional offices. Manufacturing Structural Clay Products, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1942 Synthetic Fibers, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1975 Textile Dyeing and Finishing, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1967 Textiles, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1945 Wages and Demographic Characteristics in Work Clothing Manufacturing, 1972. BLS Bulletin 1858 Women’s and Misses’ Coats and Suits, 1970. BLS Bulletin 1728 Women’s and Misses’ Dresses, 1976. BLS Bulletin 2007 Wood Household Furniture, Except Upholstered, 1974. BLS Bulletin 1930 Basic Iron and Steel, 1972. BLS Bulletin 18391 Candy and Other Confectionery Products, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1939 Cigar Manufacturing, 1972. BLS Bulletin 1976 Cigarette Manufacturing, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1944 Corrugated and Solid Fiber Boxes, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1921 Fabricated Structural Steel, 1974. BLS Bulletin 1935 Fertilizer Manufacturing, 1971. BLS Bulletin 1763 Fluid Milk Industry, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1871 Footwear, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1946 Grain Mill Products, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2026 Hosiery, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1987 Industrial Chemicals, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1978 Iron and Steel Foundries, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1894 Leather Tanning and Finishing, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1835 Machinery Manufacturing, 1978. BLS Bulletin 2022 Meat Products, 1974, BLS Bulletin 1896 Men’s and Boys’ Separate Trousers, 1974. BLS Bulletin 1906 Men’s and Boy’s Shirts (Except Work Shirts) and Nightwear, 1974. BLS Bulletin 1901 Men’s and Boy’s Suits and Coats, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1962 Miscellaneous Plastics Products, 1974. BLS Bulletin 1914 Motor Vehicles and Parts, 1973-74. BLS Bulletin 1912 Nonferrous Foundries, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1952 Paints and Varnishes, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1973 Petroleum Refining, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1948 Pressed or Blown Glass and Glassware, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1923 Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2008 Semiconductors and Related Devices, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2021 Nonmanufacturing i._ - * '* . Appliance Repair Shops, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1936 Auto Dealer Repair Shops, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1876 Banking and Life Insurance, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1988 Bituminous Coal Mining, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1999 Communications, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1991 Computer and Data Processing Services, 1978. BLS Bulletin 2028 Contract Cleaning Services, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2009 Contract Construction, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1911 Department Stores, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2006 Educational Institutions: Nonteaching Employees, 1968-69. BLS Bulletin 1671 Electric and Gas Utilities, 1972. BLS Bulletin 1834 Hospitals, 1975-76. BLS Bulletin 1949 Hotels and Motels, 1973. BLS Bulletin 1883 Metal Mining, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2017 Nursing Homes and Related Facilities, 1976. BLS Bulletin 1974 Oil and Gas Extraction, 1977. BLS Bulletin 2014 Scheduled Airlines, 1975. BLS Bulletin 1951 Wages and Tips in Restaurants and Hotels, 1970. 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