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Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO National Compensation Survey May 1998 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner November 1998 Bulletin 3095-10 Preface T For additional information regarding this survey, please contact the BLS Kansas City Regional Office at (816) 4262481. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212-0001, or call (202) 606-6220, or send e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at the BLS Internet site (http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm). Data are in three formats: an ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 606-7828; TDD phone: (202) 606-5897; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-326-2577. his bulletin provides results of a May 1998 survey of occupational pay in the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new program known as the National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. Survey data were collected and reviewed by Bureau of Labor Statistics field economists under the direction of Stanley W. Suchman, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of the Kansas City Regional Office. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and analyzed the survey results. iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ Wages in the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO CMSA ............................................................................. 1 2 Tables: A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ........................................... A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and State and local government........................................................................................................... A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers, all industries ................................................................................................................................. A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................ B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries ................................................................................................................................. C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ............................................................... 4 8 12 16 19 23 28 29 30 31 Appendix A. Technical Note ..................................................................................................................................... Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................ Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors...................................................................................... Appendix table 3. Average work levels ........................................................................................... v 32 36 37 41 Introduction T NCS more extensive than OCS The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing broader coverage of occupations and establishments within the survey area. Occupations surveyed for this bulletin were selected using probability techniques from a list of all those present in each establishment. Previous OCS bulletins were limited to a preselected list of occupations, which represented a small subset of all occupations in the economy. Information in the new bulletin is published for a variety of occupation-based data. This new approach includes data on broad occupational classifications such as white-collar workers, major occupational groups such as sales workers, and individual occupations such as cashiers. In tables containing work levels within occupational series, the work levels are derived from generic standards that apply to all occupational groups. The job levels in the OCS bulletins were based on narrowly-defined descriptions that were not comparable across specific occupations. Occupational data in this bulletin are also tabulated for other classifications such as industry group, full-time versus part-time workers, union versus nonunion status, time versus incentive status, and establishment employment size. Not all of these series were generated by the OCS program. The establishments surveyed for this bulletin were limited to those with 50 or more employees. Eventually, NCS will be expanded to cover those now-excluded establishments. Then, virtually all workers in the civilian economy will be surveyed, excluding only agriculture, private households, and employees of the Federal Government. his survey of occupational pay was conducted in the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The CMSA includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, and Weld Counties, CO. This area was last surveyed in December 1996. Data from the 1996 sample units were updated to reflect May 1998 wage data. Please see Appendix A: Technical Note for details on updating estimates. This bulletin consists primarily of tables whose data are analyzed in the initial textual section. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in this bulletin is information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology. NCS design and products The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) new National Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on the levels and rates of change of occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These data are similar to those released under the Occupational Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued. 1 Wages in the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area S Survey results show that private industry workers in Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, earned $16.15 per hour, while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $20.58. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for white-collar occupations as $18.76 in private industry and $22.68 in State and local government. Blue-collar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $12.99 in private industry and $15.16 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged $8.03 per hour while those found in State and local government averaged $15.33. traight-time wages in the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $16.99 per hour during May 1998. White-collar workers had an average wage of $19.58 per hour. Bluecollar workers averaged $13.19 per hour, while service workers had average earnings of $10.10 per hour. (All comparisons in this analysis cover hourly rates for both full- and part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.) Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational group, Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, May 1998 Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and State and local government, Denver—Boulder— Greeley, CO, May 1998 Dollars per hour $ 20 Dollars per hour $ 25 15 Private industry State and local government 20 10 15 5 10 0 5 Whitecollar Bluecollar Service workers 0 White-collar Within each of these occupational groups, average hourly wages for individual occupations varied. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at $19.27 per hour, secretaries at $13.69, and general office clerks at $11.47. Among occupations in the blue-collar category, truck drivers averaged $15.09 per hour while stock handlers and baggers averaged $8.94. Finally, service occupations included nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at $8.96 per hour and janitors and cleaners at $8.79 per hour. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 131 detailed occupations; data for other detailed occupations surveyed could not be reported separately due to concerns about the confidentiality of survey respondents and the reliability of the data. Blue-collar Service Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were $17.59 per hour, compared with an average of $10.45 per hour for part-time workers. Data for specific work levels within major occupational groups are reported in table B-1. Occasionally, wage estimates for lower levels of work within major occupational groups are greater than estimates for higher levels. This can occur due to the mix of specific occupations (and industries) represented by the broad group as well as by the variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may 2 $25.86 in mining, $19.65 in construction, and $18.54 in manufacturing. Hourly wages averaged $15.17 in all service-producing industries, $11.66 in wholesale and retail trade, $15.95 in finance, insurance and real estate, and $15.57 in service. Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication criteria. Table C-4 reports that a total of 583,798 workers were represented by the Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO survey. White-collar occupations included 380,901 workers, or 65 percent, blue-collar occupations included 128,035 workers, or 22 percent; and service occupations included 74,862 workers, or 13 percent. not be published because no workers were identified at that level or because there were not enough data to guarantee confidentiality and reliability. Work levels for all major groups span several levels, with professional specialty occupations and executive, administrative, and managerial occupations typically starting and ending at higher work levels than the other groups. Published data for administrative support occupations, including clerical, ranged from level 1 to level 9. As illustrated in Chart 3, the average hourly rate was $8.23 for level 1, $9.87 for level 3, $14.79 for level 6, and $21.38 for level 9. Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by occupational group, Denver—Boulder— Greeley, CO, May 1998 Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for administrative support occupations, including clerical, Denver—Boulder—Greeley, CO, May 1998 Percent 65 Dollars per hour $25 55 20 45 15 35 10 25 5 15 0 1 3 6 9 5 Level Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of $18.15, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion workers averaged $16.80. Time workers, whose wages were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged $16.95 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at least partially based on productivity payments, averaged $18.27 per hour. Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divisions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly wages averaged $18.94 in all goods-producing industries, Whitecollar Bluecollar Service workers Data are also presented in appendix table 1 on the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The relative standard errors of published mean hourly earnings for all industries, private industry, and State and local government are available in appendix table 2. The average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations are presented in appendix table 3. 3 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ....................................................................... $16.99 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 17.12 $7.31 7.50 25 Median 50 $9.75 $13.96 10.00 14.14 75 90 $20.96 21.29 $30.38 30.35 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 19.58 20.19 8.50 9.37 11.25 11.79 15.94 16.73 24.57 25.42 34.63 34.65 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Biological and life scientists .................................. Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Economists ........................................................... Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Biological technicians ........................................... Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. 24.70 26.27 29.63 30.91 29.14 21.91 30.00 30.98 27.27 29.13 12.13 13.91 19.23 18.00 21.13 16.25 24.09 25.06 17.93 19.72 16.61 18.17 23.45 22.23 22.98 16.59 28.70 27.40 21.87 24.72 22.49 24.52 28.85 30.94 28.67 23.45 30.36 28.85 27.13 28.07 30.08 31.73 35.58 37.52 34.00 23.56 31.68 35.40 32.00 33.38 37.72 39.27 40.64 42.44 40.70 28.85 33.69 38.56 37.29 39.66 18.05 34.93 36.23 37.66 20.96 19.27 27.02 17.43 34.23 23.51 25.95 25.89 22.34 9.94 17.60 – 17.53 18.43 14.16 15.47 16.25 13.36 43.89 9.80 23.57 34.63 24.52 14.62 14.22 24.00 15.20 20.63 10.19 16.21 16.53 13.00 9.38 8.30 – 10.85 10.85 10.63 9.00 9.14 7.90 18.08 12.10 33.56 34.63 28.64 16.62 16.27 27.26 16.01 22.40 16.81 20.32 19.52 16.48 9.71 9.21 – 12.38 13.38 11.96 9.62 9.62 9.00 22.31 18.07 34.63 34.63 31.73 19.79 19.15 28.40 16.48 30.09 23.43 26.10 24.52 19.45 9.91 14.21 – 15.25 15.49 13.46 15.13 15.43 13.52 40.15 24.02 36.05 35.42 46.17 23.07 22.06 29.49 18.99 44.62 30.24 31.14 32.35 28.25 10.19 23.63 – 19.09 19.09 15.28 19.85 20.48 16.67 68.35 27.13 43.24 43.24 56.77 27.91 23.78 29.54 20.50 48.38 35.67 35.79 36.85 36.45 10.25 29.56 – 32.73 32.73 18.50 24.94 26.70 23.30 73.25 25.80 27.53 19.47 26.16 19.21 18.46 16.47 13.22 10.87 18.29 20.50 21.58 15.02 15.93 26.86 17.92 26.57 30.44 28.56 24.69 27.93 13.46 12.28 11.40 17.21 10.73 11.17 13.27 11.29 8.37 10.10 15.64 11.07 9.37 12.10 21.74 9.35 13.33 13.85 12.10 15.38 18.00 17.18 17.71 13.19 19.67 13.00 14.40 15.76 12.19 8.54 13.51 18.05 17.31 11.13 14.17 24.08 19.23 16.97 20.38 24.04 19.23 25.36 21.81 24.35 15.62 24.57 16.86 19.03 17.25 13.10 10.48 18.08 20.26 21.17 15.65 15.65 27.08 20.07 23.56 28.82 32.82 21.63 25.36 28.52 32.02 21.81 33.22 21.55 21.55 18.63 14.00 11.23 22.25 25.47 24.70 17.57 16.75 30.80 20.07 32.82 38.75 34.26 29.26 28.85 38.65 46.86 33.71 38.46 26.39 21.85 18.63 15.06 13.81 27.33 25.47 33.72 19.71 20.63 30.80 21.82 42.90 47.14 38.86 34.61 34.05 27.98 33.35 25.34 12.75 12.00 10.41 21.90 22.28 15.28 31.13 37.07 30.03 33.75 46.38 38.46 42.00 49.72 38.46 See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. $34.24 $17.11 $20.86 $30.41 Management related occupations ............................ 20.64 12.55 14.90 19.36 Accountants and auditors ..................................... 19.45 11.65 12.84 16.44 Underwriters ......................................................... 23.05 14.29 17.26 21.66 Other financial officers .......................................... 23.35 15.10 15.62 22.96 Management analysts .......................................... 27.83 20.20 24.04 28.29 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... 19.26 10.00 17.55 20.64 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ 23.94 13.92 17.88 22.75 Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... 15.61 13.43 13.43 14.34 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 20.37 13.70 16.08 17.79 Sales occupations ............................................................ 15.68 6.25 7.45 11.67 Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 24.35 10.84 14.58 18.52 Real estate sales occupations .............................. 19.73 10.00 10.00 13.60 Sales occupations, other business services ......... 16.24 8.00 11.06 16.79 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. 20.87 10.26 12.30 17.30 Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........ 6.87 5.42 5.42 5.67 Cashiers ............................................................... 8.89 6.00 6.50 7.59 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... 10.67 6.61 8.00 9.62 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.05 8.00 9.50 11.57 Supervisors, general office ................................... 15.73 12.26 13.50 14.80 Supervisors, financial records processing ............ 17.24 11.86 15.55 17.95 Computer operators .............................................. 15.75 13.52 14.88 15.66 Secretaries ........................................................... 13.69 10.00 11.48 12.97 Typists .................................................................. 11.93 9.40 10.61 11.74 Interviewers .......................................................... 11.08 8.74 9.54 10.29 Receptionists ........................................................ 9.28 6.00 7.94 9.60 Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... 10.39 7.50 8.13 9.36 Correspondence clerks ......................................... 11.48 7.78 9.10 9.64 Order clerks .......................................................... 11.38 8.25 8.80 10.10 Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... 11.52 9.42 10.03 11.55 Library clerks ........................................................ 10.61 6.61 7.88 11.07 File clerks ............................................................. 9.48 7.50 8.00 8.91 Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 11.98 9.72 11.01 11.58 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 12.09 9.91 10.70 11.96 Cost and rate clerks .............................................. 12.52 9.85 9.85 11.68 Production coordinators ........................................ 14.08 9.96 12.10 13.32 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 10.13 7.04 8.30 9.00 Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 12.75 9.05 11.43 13.65 Expeditors ............................................................. 11.12 7.54 9.36 10.99 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 10.16 5.92 8.59 9.65 Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. 14.23 11.48 11.48 12.80 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 12.73 8.62 10.56 12.64 General office clerks ............................................. 11.47 8.00 9.50 11.38 Data entry keyers ................................................. 8.92 7.00 7.50 8.50 Teachers’ aides .................................................... 8.18 6.21 7.12 7.72 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 10.76 8.24 9.00 10.07 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance occupations ................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Electricians ........................................................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... See footnotes at end of table. 5 13.19 15.99 20.25 16.03 17.85 14.66 14.81 19.23 14.77 7.10 9.18 11.19 13.21 14.84 11.40 11.29 9.36 9.96 9.18 12.21 16.92 15.00 16.36 12.70 11.64 16.95 10.21 12.28 16.12 23.54 16.31 18.25 14.00 13.59 22.30 13.77 75 90 $42.89 24.54 24.76 29.49 22.96 28.29 $61.25 29.53 30.58 31.97 30.32 35.90 20.74 29.68 25.91 41.01 17.13 21.98 17.19 30.08 21.51 18.46 18.67 27.66 32.73 44.71 46.15 24.76 25.90 7.50 12.01 12.67 14.04 17.10 17.95 17.26 16.00 13.13 11.84 10.96 12.48 13.98 12.06 14.04 13.44 10.92 13.05 12.79 14.87 16.27 12.90 14.04 12.77 38.37 8.60 13.86 14.89 16.45 19.18 23.06 19.23 18.18 14.13 17.49 11.88 15.31 16.21 17.17 14.04 13.44 13.42 15.08 14.76 16.89 18.69 14.46 15.56 15.13 12.88 15.55 14.92 13.43 9.87 9.88 12.00 13.44 19.19 15.98 15.49 11.76 10.96 15.09 16.45 19.88 24.09 17.09 19.41 16.74 17.22 22.30 18.85 20.65 22.30 27.70 18.11 20.18 16.90 22.00 22.30 19.16 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Machinists ............................................................. $16.99 $12.00 $13.75 $17.28 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. 9.91 6.70 7.50 8.45 Butchers and meat cutters .................................... 11.24 6.13 8.35 9.59 Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... 16.73 10.47 14.49 18.39 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 10.93 6.25 7.72 10.13 Printing press operators ....................................... 16.59 10.50 14.00 16.50 Mixing and blending machine operators ............... 14.04 12.46 14.00 14.00 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 10.31 6.70 7.50 9.45 Welders and cutters .............................................. 12.72 9.55 10.35 12.65 Assemblers ........................................................... 8.83 5.75 6.25 9.10 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 11.73 6.57 8.41 13.02 Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 13.99 8.00 10.25 12.81 Truck drivers ......................................................... 15.09 9.50 10.78 13.44 Bus drivers ............................................................ 11.90 8.00 9.41 11.80 Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. ............. 6.35 5.50 5.50 6.75 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 11.88 9.00 10.73 11.60 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 14.79 13.75 13.75 13.75 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 10.38 6.50 7.73 9.63 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... 12.45 8.90 8.90 12.33 Construction laborers ........................................... 10.91 7.50 8.28 10.00 Production helpers ................................................ 9.37 7.19 8.34 8.68 Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 8.94 6.10 6.46 8.50 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 12.59 7.81 9.50 11.56 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 9.39 7.00 7.00 7.50 Hand packers and packagers ............................... 9.21 5.92 7.00 8.45 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 9.58 6.30 7.64 8.70 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. See footnotes at end of table. 6 75 90 $20.53 10.68 15.85 20.00 13.50 20.27 14.86 13.45 14.78 10.45 13.67 16.08 18.46 14.42 7.50 12.60 $20.65 17.64 15.85 20.00 16.45 21.80 15.10 14.63 15.99 11.59 16.63 22.61 25.22 14.42 7.50 14.45 16.47 12.06 15.23 12.88 10.20 10.20 17.31 11.44 11.50 11.92 18.67 15.40 15.58 14.38 12.21 12.06 18.45 15.05 12.36 13.86 10.10 19.81 22.33 12.82 7.03 5.18 12.51 17.75 8.53 2.13 6.47 16.05 21.63 10.18 4.18 8.44 20.96 23.06 12.80 6.59 11.69 24.06 25.32 16.89 8.60 19.82 25.56 25.57 16.89 11.91 15.26 5.07 3.59 8.30 8.94 3.76 6.40 8.40 3.80 2.13 6.41 6.59 2.13 5.18 10.66 3.80 2.13 6.90 7.32 2.13 5.18 14.15 4.25 2.15 7.96 8.75 4.00 6.27 20.80 6.18 3.98 8.79 10.91 5.15 7.00 21.93 8.00 7.72 9.83 11.92 5.65 8.23 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................ 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. $9.19 9.34 8.96 8.80 11.99 6.78 8.79 9.29 6.68 7.09 8.57 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $7.00 5.78 7.42 6.00 7.99 5.75 6.00 5.44 5.61 5.70 5.12 $8.00 6.26 8.00 7.00 10.00 6.00 7.37 5.86 6.01 5.86 5.44 $8.94 10.00 8.72 8.25 12.32 6.46 8.50 6.65 6.36 6.25 5.88 $10.15 11.53 9.67 10.09 14.08 7.22 10.00 10.75 6.97 8.78 7.50 $11.68 12.72 11.05 12.32 14.08 8.15 12.00 17.98 7.86 9.68 17.98 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 7 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $16.15 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 16.20 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Mechanical engineers ......................... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ................................. Natural scientists .................................... Biological and life scientists ................ Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Respiratory therapists ......................... Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, N.E.C. ................................ Substitute teachers ............................. Vocational and educational counselors .................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Economists ......................................... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Recreation workers ............................. Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Editors and reporters .......................... Public relations specialists .................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ....... Technical occupations ................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Licensed practical nurses ................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ........................................... Electrical and electronic technicians ... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ......... Drafters ............................................... Computer programmers ..................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... Financial managers ............................ State and local government $7.00 7.28 25 Median 50 $9.23 $13.29 9.50 13.40 Percentiles Mean 75 90 10 $19.37 19.59 $28.85 28.56 $20.58 20.63 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.81 $12.62 $18.12 $25.94 $34.63 9.81 12.62 18.15 25.99 34.63 18.76 19.38 8.09 9.00 10.70 11.48 15.00 15.77 22.98 23.63 33.17 33.17 22.68 22.75 10.40 10.60 13.44 13.44 20.88 20.94 29.50 29.55 37.63 37.72 24.03 25.78 29.69 31.22 29.14 21.91 30.00 30.98 27.48 11.79 13.46 19.23 18.00 21.13 16.25 24.09 25.06 16.94 15.94 17.75 23.45 22.23 22.98 16.59 28.70 27.40 21.83 21.60 23.57 28.92 30.94 28.67 23.45 30.36 28.85 27.43 29.24 30.87 35.74 37.60 34.00 23.56 31.68 35.40 32.44 37.29 39.57 40.70 42.44 40.70 28.85 33.69 38.56 37.92 26.25 27.23 – – – – – – – 14.58 15.17 – – – – – – – 19.03 20.24 – – – – – – – 24.57 26.10 – – – – – – – 32.64 34.37 – – – – – – – 38.52 38.76 – – – – – – – 29.55 19.92 24.90 29.25 34.01 40.24 – – – – – – 18.05 35.19 37.66 20.62 19.43 27.02 17.43 22.30 15.74 22.41 – – – 9.80 20.65 24.52 14.91 14.67 24.00 15.20 15.22 8.30 16.19 – – – 12.10 27.44 28.64 16.62 16.48 27.26 16.01 16.27 9.34 18.79 – – – 18.07 35.42 31.73 19.23 19.37 28.40 16.48 21.73 16.48 23.65 – – – 24.02 43.24 46.17 22.71 22.18 29.49 18.99 26.04 21.15 24.74 – – – 27.13 53.01 56.77 27.07 23.79 29.54 20.50 35.45 24.27 26.25 – – – – – – 22.98 18.02 – – – 24.76 26.01 26.28 25.14 9.94 – – – 12.54 11.19 – – – 11.76 16.21 16.56 15.12 9.38 – – – 16.28 13.72 – – – 18.50 20.33 19.72 19.15 9.71 – – – 22.00 17.13 – – – 25.03 26.33 25.64 24.23 9.91 – – – 28.92 21.10 – – – 31.39 31.15 32.92 32.41 10.19 – – – 34.59 23.51 – – – 36.11 35.81 36.85 38.32 10.25 14.58 – 16.31 18.43 12.48 12.46 12.52 – 8.30 – 10.85 10.85 7.90 7.76 7.90 – 9.08 – 12.37 13.38 9.17 9.18 9.00 – 10.44 – 14.86 15.49 10.49 10.20 10.49 – 21.15 – 17.45 19.09 15.26 15.43 15.13 – 23.63 – 22.16 32.73 19.10 19.10 23.30 – – – – – 21.05 21.69 – – – – – – 15.70 15.65 – – – – – – 16.67 17.19 – – – – – – 20.43 20.52 – – – – – – 26.03 26.70 – – – – – – 28.56 28.56 – – 26.27 27.53 19.47 26.86 19.21 13.46 12.28 11.40 13.46 10.44 17.18 17.71 13.19 18.26 13.00 21.18 24.35 15.62 26.11 16.16 30.54 32.02 21.81 36.59 20.92 39.05 46.86 33.71 39.47 27.08 – – – – 19.21 – – – – 11.23 – – – – 15.65 – – – – 19.03 – – – – 21.55 – – – – 25.47 14.69 13.19 10.58 11.00 11.85 12.08 14.42 13.00 17.08 14.00 19.88 15.81 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.70 18.23 19.30 21.58 26.94 8.37 9.66 14.42 11.07 21.52 8.54 13.02 16.31 17.31 24.08 10.44 18.08 20.15 21.17 27.08 11.09 22.25 20.86 24.70 30.80 12.58 27.33 25.00 33.72 30.80 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.92 9.35 19.23 20.07 20.07 21.82 – – – – – – 26.20 13.29 16.75 22.13 31.20 42.90 27.78 13.43 20.64 27.72 34.26 41.48 29.88 13.87 19.23 25.87 37.19 47.14 32.18 12.10 24.30 33.83 38.86 48.61 – 24.16 – 15.38 – 19.23 – 21.63 – 29.26 – 34.61 28.56 – 12.10 – 24.04 – 32.82 – 34.26 – 38.86 – See footnotes at end of table. 8 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued Private industry State and local government Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations ....................... $27.98 $12.75 $21.90 $31.13 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 18.45 11.16 11.54 12.24 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... 25.34 10.41 15.28 30.03 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 34.30 17.07 20.86 30.41 Management related occupations .......... 20.70 12.12 14.49 18.98 Accountants and auditors ................... 19.51 11.65 12.70 16.44 Underwriters ....................................... 23.05 14.29 17.26 21.66 Management analysts ........................ 27.53 20.20 24.04 24.04 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 18.73 10.00 16.55 19.71 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 23.94 13.92 17.88 22.75 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 20.91 13.46 16.10 18.84 Sales occupations .......................................... 15.72 6.25 7.46 11.67 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 24.35 10.84 14.58 18.52 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 16.24 8.00 11.06 16.79 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.87 10.26 12.30 17.30 Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings .................................... 6.87 5.42 5.42 5.67 Cashiers ............................................. 8.94 6.00 6.50 7.60 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 10.67 6.61 8.00 9.62 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 11.98 8.00 9.49 11.48 Supervisors, general office ................. 15.61 12.21 13.50 14.05 Computer operators ............................ 15.75 13.50 14.88 15.66 Secretaries ......................................... 14.11 9.54 11.44 14.00 Typists ................................................ 12.42 9.81 10.55 13.11 Interviewers ........................................ 11.08 8.74 9.54 10.29 Receptionists ...................................... 9.34 7.00 8.17 9.60 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 10.39 7.50 8.13 9.36 Correspondence clerks ....................... 11.48 7.78 9.10 9.64 Order clerks ........................................ 11.38 8.25 8.80 10.10 Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .................................. 11.52 9.42 10.03 11.55 Library clerks ...................................... – – – – File clerks ........................................... 8.08 7.00 7.72 8.00 Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 11.99 9.72 11.13 11.66 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 11.91 9.57 10.39 11.67 Cost and rate clerks ............................ 12.52 9.85 9.85 11.68 Production coordinators ...................... 14.08 9.96 12.10 13.32 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 10.13 7.04 8.30 9.00 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 12.18 9.05 10.56 12.81 Expeditors ........................................... 11.12 7.54 9.36 10.99 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 10.16 5.92 8.59 9.65 Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ................................. 14.23 11.48 11.48 12.80 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 12.59 8.62 10.56 12.50 General office clerks ........................... 11.37 8.00 9.32 10.50 Data entry keyers ............................... 8.92 7.00 7.50 8.50 Teachers’ aides .................................. – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 9 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – 75 90 $33.75 $42.00 21.15 46.38 38.46 42.89 24.65 25.23 29.49 34.15 38.46 61.25 30.61 30.58 31.97 39.31 – – 20.44 – – – – – 13.43 – – – – – 15.67 – – – – – 20.64 – – – – – 22.96 – – – – – 28.29 – – – 21.12 26.44 – – – – – – 29.68 41.01 – – – – – – 22.49 17.16 30.08 34.72 32.73 44.71 – 12.59 – – 6.28 – – 6.41 – – 7.86 – – 21.41 – – 21.51 – 18.46 24.76 – – – – – – 25.90 38.37 – – – – – – 7.50 12.27 12.67 8.60 13.86 14.89 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.04 17.10 18.08 16.87 14.13 11.84 10.96 12.48 13.98 12.06 16.39 19.79 19.32 18.85 15.10 17.49 11.88 15.31 16.21 17.17 12.37 – – 12.09 – – – – – – 7.88 – – 10.47 – – – – – – 10.10 – – 11.48 – – – – – – 12.01 – – 11.55 – – – – – – 14.02 – – 12.94 – – – – – – 16.74 – – 13.72 – – – – – – 14.04 – 8.75 12.72 14.04 – 9.00 15.61 – 10.61 – – – 6.61 – – – 7.88 – – – 11.07 – – – 13.44 – – – 13.44 – – 12.75 14.87 16.27 12.90 13.86 12.77 14.76 16.89 18.69 14.46 14.26 15.13 12.82 – – – – – 11.61 – – – – – 12.62 – – – – – 12.62 – – – – – 13.52 – – – – – 14.02 – – – – – 12.88 13.44 – – – – – – 15.55 19.19 – – – – – – 14.92 13.43 9.87 – 15.62 15.49 11.76 – – 11.85 – 8.18 – 10.60 – 7.12 – 11.68 – 7.72 – 13.27 – 9.88 – 14.97 – 10.96 – $37.58 $22.28 $36.42 $39.24 $48.61 $49.72 – 8.42 – 6.21 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... $10.50 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Industrial machinery repairers ............ Machinery maintenance occupations Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Electricians ......................................... Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... Butchers and meat cutters .................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Printing press operators ..................... Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Bus drivers .......................................... Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... Construction laborers ......................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ Hand packers and packagers ............. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Police and detectives, public service .. Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Bartenders .......................................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... State and local government $8.02 25 Median 50 $9.00 $10.00 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $11.75 $14.38 – 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – 12.99 7.00 8.88 11.86 16.40 20.65 15.90 20.35 17.85 14.66 14.60 19.23 14.77 16.99 8.94 10.91 14.84 11.40 11.29 9.36 9.96 12.00 11.90 16.92 16.36 12.70 11.64 16.95 10.21 13.75 16.00 24.09 18.25 14.00 11.95 22.30 13.77 17.28 19.94 24.09 19.41 16.74 15.33 22.30 18.85 20.53 22.30 27.70 20.18 16.90 22.01 22.30 19.16 20.65 16.75 – – – – – – – 12.21 – – – – – – – 13.66 – – – – – – – 17.22 – – – – – – – 19.24 – – – – – – – 20.52 – – – – – – – 9.91 11.24 16.73 6.70 6.13 10.47 7.50 8.35 14.49 8.45 9.59 18.39 10.68 15.85 20.00 17.64 15.85 20.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.91 16.59 6.25 10.50 7.72 14.00 10.13 16.50 13.50 20.27 16.50 21.80 – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.04 12.46 14.00 14.00 14.86 15.10 – – – – – – 10.31 12.72 8.83 6.70 9.55 5.75 7.50 10.35 6.25 9.45 12.65 9.10 13.45 14.78 10.45 14.63 15.99 11.59 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.73 6.57 8.41 13.02 13.67 16.63 – – – – – – 13.92 15.09 – 7.50 9.50 – 9.81 10.78 – 12.27 13.44 – 17.31 18.46 – 25.22 25.22 – 14.29 – 13.08 11.31 – 10.28 13.64 – 11.37 14.42 – 14.42 15.11 – 14.42 16.52 – 14.42 6.35 5.50 5.50 6.75 7.50 7.50 – – – – – – 11.88 9.00 10.73 11.60 12.60 14.45 – – – – – – 10.22 6.46 7.73 9.61 11.92 15.40 13.08 8.03 11.02 12.92 15.23 16.02 – 10.84 9.37 8.98 – 7.50 7.19 6.10 – 8.28 8.34 6.46 – 10.00 8.68 8.50 – 12.50 10.20 10.27 – 14.38 12.21 12.40 14.32 – – – 7.47 – – – 12.92 – – – 15.15 – – – 15.58 – – – 15.61 – – – 12.66 7.81 9.45 11.56 17.32 18.45 – – – – – – 9.14 9.21 9.58 7.00 5.92 6.30 7.00 7.00 7.64 7.25 8.45 8.70 11.44 11.50 11.92 15.05 12.36 13.86 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.03 15.81 – 4.00 9.25 – 6.00 12.79 – 7.58 13.33 – 9.25 16.89 – 11.92 35.58 – 15.33 20.31 22.33 7.12 13.34 17.75 9.30 17.36 21.63 13.94 21.76 23.06 21.76 24.29 25.32 24.59 25.56 25.57 13.36 6.44 9.25 2.13 12.79 3.80 13.33 6.48 16.89 8.35 16.89 10.66 – 13.15 – 5.67 – 6.29 – 9.30 – 21.83 – 21.93 11.98 5.07 3.59 8.31 9.09 8.40 3.80 2.13 6.41 6.59 8.40 3.80 2.13 6.90 7.55 14.00 4.25 2.15 7.83 8.75 14.15 6.18 3.98 8.79 10.91 15.75 8.00 7.72 9.83 11.92 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 10 $15.16 $11.37 $13.25 $14.44 $17.22 $19.55 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Food service occupations (-Continued) Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers ............................. Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. Service occupations, N.E.C.. .............. State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $3.76 6.34 8.85 8.84 $2.13 5.18 6.81 5.68 $2.13 5.18 7.75 6.18 $4.00 6.25 8.63 9.81 $5.15 7.00 9.80 11.53 $5.65 8.19 11.53 11.53 8.85 7.41 7.96 8.61 9.56 8.05 6.00 6.50 7.65 10.69 6.78 8.17 9.66 – 8.57 7.61 5.75 6.00 5.27 – 5.12 8.19 6.00 6.50 5.86 – 5.44 9.30 6.46 8.00 6.70 – 5.88 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.66 – – – – – – 9.00 10.47 $10.51 $7.41 11.69 7.22 9.00 13.61 – 7.50 15.53 8.15 10.47 18.04 – 17.98 – – 10.04 7.28 7.52 – – – 7.38 5.70 6.12 – $8.90 $10.19 $12.32 $13.80 – – 8.30 6.12 6.40 – – – 9.50 6.50 6.85 – – – 11.26 7.43 7.58 – – – 13.49 10.42 9.92 – 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 11 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $17.59 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 17.60 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Mechanical engineers ......................... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ................................. Natural scientists .................................... Geologists and geodesists ................. Biological and life scientists ................ Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, N.E.C. ................................ Vocational and educational counselors .................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Economists ......................................... Psychologists ...................................... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Recreation workers ............................. Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Editors and reporters .......................... Public relations specialists .................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ....... Technical occupations ................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Licensed practical nurses ................... Electrical and electronic technicians ... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ......... Drafters ............................................... Biological technicians ......................... Chemical technicians .......................... Computer programmers ..................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... Financial managers ............................ Part-time 25 Median 50 $7.88 $10.19 $14.42 8.00 10.35 14.63 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $21.63 21.76 $30.91 30.70 10 25 $10.45 11.01 $5.50 5.50 $6.33 6.42 Median 50 75 90 $8.00 $12.00 $19.95 8.40 13.00 21.40 20.17 20.53 9.00 9.60 11.68 12.02 16.53 17.10 25.36 25.82 35.35 35.15 12.58 14.83 6.10 7.00 7.00 8.50 9.80 11.90 14.92 19.61 22.77 26.25 24.99 26.68 29.63 30.91 29.14 21.91 30.00 30.98 27.65 12.54 14.60 19.23 18.00 21.13 16.25 24.09 25.06 18.07 16.80 18.43 23.45 22.23 22.98 16.59 28.70 27.40 22.61 22.72 24.81 28.85 30.94 28.67 23.45 30.36 28.85 27.13 30.28 32.00 35.58 37.52 34.00 23.56 31.68 35.40 32.00 38.12 39.58 40.64 42.44 40.70 28.85 33.69 38.56 37.31 20.43 21.14 – – – – – – – 9.50 9.38 – – – – – – – 14.00 14.66 – – – – – – – 20.00 20.70 – – – – – – – 24.00 25.17 – – – – – – – 34.37 34.37 – – – – – – – 29.13 19.72 24.72 28.07 33.38 39.66 – – – – – – 19.23 34.99 36.23 37.66 19.85 18.94 34.55 23.90 26.11 26.06 24.34 11.88 22.81 34.63 24.52 14.30 14.22 20.63 10.25 16.43 16.68 16.48 13.03 29.72 34.63 28.64 16.38 16.03 22.40 17.65 20.73 19.72 16.65 18.07 34.63 34.63 31.73 18.72 18.50 30.09 23.82 26.31 24.59 21.92 25.06 38.90 35.42 46.17 22.62 22.00 44.62 30.64 31.40 32.75 30.24 27.13 44.96 43.24 56.77 26.25 23.63 48.38 35.91 36.02 36.85 37.96 – – – – 24.75 20.61 20.71 17.10 22.82 – 11.17 – – – – 16.38 15.67 15.00 9.38 14.54 – 5.82 – – – – 19.88 18.27 15.22 9.38 17.07 – 6.60 – – – – 22.07 21.05 19.48 15.11 22.74 – 9.62 – – – – 25.99 22.12 26.63 22.79 28.98 – 15.00 – – – – 34.52 23.79 26.63 28.98 31.71 – 18.65 17.59 – 17.70 18.43 14.17 15.41 16.21 13.51 – 8.30 – 10.85 10.85 10.60 9.00 9.14 9.00 – 9.21 – 12.38 13.38 11.54 9.62 9.62 10.49 – 14.21 – 15.49 15.49 13.46 15.13 15.43 13.52 – 23.63 – 19.09 19.09 15.80 19.10 20.48 16.67 – 29.56 – 32.73 32.73 20.51 24.20 26.70 23.30 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 27.20 29.26 19.47 26.16 19.36 14.73 17.18 11.40 17.21 10.73 17.97 21.18 13.19 19.67 13.06 23.80 26.54 15.62 24.57 17.04 30.68 32.80 21.81 33.22 21.55 39.05 50.37 33.71 38.46 26.39 14.99 – – – 13.08 8.75 – – – 11.12 15.71 – – – 14.00 19.88 – – – 14.00 22.38 – – – 16.08 18.87 13.16 18.29 20.50 21.58 14.90 15.93 26.86 11.85 11.28 10.10 15.64 11.07 9.37 12.10 21.74 14.99 12.06 13.51 18.05 17.31 11.13 14.17 24.08 19.03 13.00 18.08 20.26 21.17 15.65 15.65 27.08 21.55 14.09 22.25 25.47 24.70 17.53 16.75 30.80 23.08 15.08 27.33 25.47 33.72 19.93 20.63 30.80 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.92 9.35 19.23 20.07 20.07 21.82 – – – – – – 26.69 13.43 17.02 23.56 32.85 42.90 – – – – – – 30.51 13.87 20.38 28.85 38.75 47.14 – – – – – – 28.56 24.69 12.10 15.38 24.04 19.23 32.82 21.63 34.26 29.26 38.86 34.61 – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 12 8.25 – – – 9.90 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... $27.93 $18.00 $25.36 $25.36 Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations ....................... 27.98 12.75 21.90 31.13 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 33.35 12.00 22.28 37.07 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... 25.34 10.41 15.28 30.03 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 34.44 17.47 20.86 30.41 Management related occupations .......... 20.77 12.92 14.90 19.62 Accountants and auditors ................... 19.45 11.65 12.84 16.44 Underwriters ....................................... 23.05 14.29 17.26 21.66 Other financial officers ........................ 23.35 15.10 15.62 22.96 Management analysts ........................ 27.83 20.20 24.04 28.29 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 20.21 15.67 19.00 20.64 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 23.94 13.92 17.88 22.75 Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction ....................... 15.61 13.43 13.43 14.34 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 20.37 13.70 16.08 17.79 Sales occupations .......................................... 17.50 6.78 8.24 13.86 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 24.35 10.84 14.58 18.52 Real estate sales occupations ............ 19.73 10.00 10.00 13.60 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 16.73 10.79 11.06 16.79 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.87 10.26 12.30 17.30 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 12.63 6.00 7.41 9.71 Cashiers ............................................. 9.18 6.25 7.00 7.77 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 10.93 8.00 9.62 9.62 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 12.25 8.25 9.80 11.68 Supervisors, general office ................. 15.73 12.26 13.50 14.80 Supervisors, financial records processing .................................... 17.24 11.86 15.55 17.95 Computer operators ............................ 15.75 13.52 14.88 15.66 Secretaries ......................................... 13.83 10.00 11.48 12.97 Typists ................................................ 11.66 9.40 10.61 11.23 Interviewers ........................................ 11.12 8.81 9.55 10.32 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ........................................... 14.01 7.00 11.10 15.00 Receptionists ...................................... 9.60 7.00 8.58 9.60 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 10.35 7.50 8.00 9.36 Correspondence clerks ....................... 10.68 7.78 9.10 9.50 Order clerks ........................................ 11.60 8.51 9.00 10.30 Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .................................. 11.52 9.42 10.03 11.55 Library clerks ...................................... – – – – Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 11.98 9.72 11.01 11.58 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 12.09 9.91 10.63 11.96 Cost and rate clerks ............................ 12.52 9.85 9.85 11.68 Production coordinators ...................... 14.08 9.96 12.10 13.32 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 10.16 7.10 8.42 9.00 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 12.73 9.05 11.43 13.25 Expeditors ........................................... 11.30 7.66 9.36 10.99 See footnotes at end of table. 13 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – 42.00 – – – – – – 46.38 49.72 – – – – – – 38.46 42.89 24.55 24.76 29.49 22.96 28.29 38.46 61.25 29.54 30.58 31.97 30.32 35.90 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.12 25.91 – – – – – – 29.68 41.01 – – – – – – 17.13 18.67 – – – – – – 21.98 20.10 30.08 21.51 27.66 38.29 44.71 46.15 – $8.31 – – – $5.69 – – – $6.28 – – – $6.94 – – 18.46 26.86 – – – – 25.90 13.86 13.56 12.79 38.37 17.38 13.86 15.19 – – 8.21 – – – 5.50 – – – 6.00 – 14.19 17.10 16.74 19.18 9.65 – 6.50 – 17.95 17.26 16.00 13.13 11.88 23.06 19.23 18.39 13.31 17.49 – – 10.97 – – 18.08 10.96 12.30 13.66 12.35 19.61 11.88 15.36 14.23 18.08 14.04 – 13.05 12.84 14.87 16.27 12.90 14.26 13.22 75 90 $28.85 $34.05 33.75 – – $8.86 $13.86 – – – – – – – – 6.50 – – – 10.10 – – – 13.86 – 7.36 – 9.00 – 11.77 – 13.86 – – – 10.00 – – – – 10.00 – – – – 11.00 – – – – 11.48 – – – – 12.71 – – – – – – 8.78 – – – – 7.69 – – – – 8.00 – – – – 8.57 – – – – 9.00 – – – – 10.34 14.04 – 15.08 – 10.99 – – 9.10 – – 9.37 – – 11.07 – – 12.16 – – 13.06 – 14.76 16.89 18.69 14.46 15.65 15.21 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ................................. $14.23 $11.48 $11.48 $12.80 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 12.78 8.62 10.65 12.64 General office clerks ........................... 11.83 8.35 9.83 11.55 Data entry keyers ............................... 8.95 7.00 7.50 8.62 Teachers’ aides .................................. – – – – Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 10.81 8.44 9.00 10.07 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Machinery maintenance occupations Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Electricians ......................................... Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... Butchers and meat cutters .................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Printing press operators ..................... Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Bus drivers .......................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... Construction laborers ......................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ Hand packers and packagers ............. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Police and detectives, public service .. Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – 15.98 15.65 12.00 – – $8.77 – 7.05 – $7.00 – 5.99 – $7.00 – 6.21 12.00 15.32 10.05 6.00 7.00 10.00 12.50 12.78 10.20 13.86 75 90 $15.55 $19.19 14.92 13.58 10.00 – – – – $8.00 $10.29 $12.00 – – – 7.12 7.62 7.98 13.43 7.50 9.45 12.61 16.75 20.65 8.66 5.60 6.35 7.25 16.01 20.25 9.19 11.19 12.21 16.92 16.12 23.54 19.88 24.09 22.30 27.70 – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.03 17.85 14.66 14.81 19.23 14.77 16.99 13.21 14.84 11.40 11.29 9.36 9.96 12.00 15.00 16.36 12.70 11.64 16.95 10.21 13.75 16.31 18.25 14.00 13.59 22.30 13.77 17.28 17.09 19.41 16.74 17.22 22.30 18.85 20.53 18.11 20.18 16.90 22.00 22.30 19.16 20.65 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.91 11.24 16.73 6.70 6.13 10.47 7.50 8.35 14.49 8.45 9.59 18.39 10.68 15.85 20.00 17.64 15.85 20.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.95 16.26 6.25 10.50 7.75 14.00 10.32 16.50 13.50 19.82 16.22 22.30 10.32 – 6.33 – 6.35 – 6.70 – 18.34 – 21.37 – 14.04 12.46 14.00 14.00 14.86 15.10 – – – – – – 10.46 12.72 8.84 7.10 9.55 5.75 7.75 10.35 6.25 9.75 12.65 9.14 13.48 14.78 10.45 14.63 15.99 11.59 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.51 8.41 9.43 13.40 14.00 17.40 – – – – – – 14.22 15.25 12.42 8.08 9.53 8.25 10.45 10.85 10.38 13.12 13.64 14.42 16.52 18.46 14.42 23.76 25.22 14.42 10.10 – 9.37 5.50 – 6.34 6.34 – 6.68 9.79 – 9.79 12.78 – 11.37 14.45 – 11.66 11.72 9.00 10.73 11.55 12.51 13.66 – – – – – – 10.79 7.00 8.24 10.00 12.80 16.02 7.76 5.60 6.37 7.00 8.56 10.30 12.99 10.91 9.51 10.22 8.90 7.50 7.34 7.04 10.15 8.28 8.34 8.00 12.92 10.00 8.35 10.00 15.23 12.88 10.12 11.57 15.58 14.38 13.42 13.46 – – – 6.69 – – – 5.60 – – – 6.00 – – – 6.42 – – – 6.50 – – – 8.00 12.84 7.81 9.62 11.80 17.33 18.46 – – – – – – 9.55 9.25 9.87 7.00 5.92 6.30 7.00 7.00 8.17 8.10 8.75 8.97 11.93 11.50 11.92 15.05 12.36 15.08 – – 8.77 – – 6.25 – – 7.00 – – 8.00 – – 10.10 – – 13.67 10.95 20.05 22.33 5.65 12.79 17.75 7.02 16.26 21.63 9.00 21.41 23.06 13.23 24.15 25.32 21.76 25.56 25.57 6.51 – – 2.15 – – 5.15 – – 6.25 – – 8.00 – – 9.50 – – See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 Service occupations (-Continued) Protective service occupations (-Continued) Guards and police except public service .......................................... $12.91 Food service occupations ....................... 7.88 Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... 16.87 Waiters and waitresses ...................... 3.83 Cooks ................................................. 8.54 Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... 9.67 Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... – Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. 6.46 Health service occupations ..................... 9.23 Health aides, except nursing .............. 9.44 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... 8.98 Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... 9.02 Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers ............................. 11.99 Maids and housemen ......................... 6.88 Janitors and cleaners ......................... 9.02 Personal service occupations ................. 10.39 Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. – Service occupations, N.E.C.. .............. – 25 Median 50 $8.53 $10.89 $12.80 2.13 5.18 7.00 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $16.89 9.31 $16.89 14.01 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – $5.37 – $2.13 – $2.20 – $5.42 – $7.25 – $8.56 10.66 2.13 6.70 7.82 – 5.18 7.14 5.80 14.00 2.13 7.00 8.75 – 5.18 7.99 6.38 15.75 2.25 8.08 9.85 – 6.48 8.89 10.00 21.83 6.25 9.01 10.91 – 7.00 10.36 11.53 21.93 7.72 10.04 11.92 – 8.19 11.83 14.28 – 3.29 – 8.00 3.59 6.26 8.73 – – 2.12 – 5.99 2.13 4.62 6.15 – – 2.13 – 6.59 2.13 5.07 8.25 – – 2.15 – 7.32 4.00 5.93 9.07 – – 2.42 – 8.02 4.00 7.11 9.75 – – 6.45 – 11.92 5.15 8.94 10.15 – 7.42 8.00 8.67 9.67 11.24 8.84 6.66 8.33 9.01 9.70 10.37 6.16 7.25 8.50 10.46 12.48 6.90 5.50 5.85 6.50 8.16 8.23 7.99 5.75 6.50 4.85 – – 10.00 6.16 7.50 5.70 – – 12.32 6.64 8.56 7.50 – – 14.08 7.32 10.24 14.83 – – 14.08 8.20 12.23 19.49 – – – – 7.04 7.82 6.52 14.82 – – 5.15 5.61 5.61 5.12 – – 5.85 5.90 5.90 6.14 – – 7.00 6.37 6.34 9.75 – – 8.16 7.06 6.85 17.98 – – 8.75 9.92 7.62 37.00 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 15 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 39.9 39.8 $702 701 $577 582 2,025 2,018 $35,636 35,522 $29,698 29,994 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 39.9 39.8 804 816 654 674 2,003 1,989 40,397 40,815 33,238 34,157 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Biological and life scientists .................................. Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Economists ........................................................... Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Biological technicians ........................................... Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Underwriters ......................................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... 39.0 39.0 40.4 40.2 41.5 39.8 40.0 40.0 40.6 40.6 974 1,041 1,197 1,243 1,210 873 1,200 1,239 1,124 1,184 891 974 1,174 1,238 1,174 938 1,214 1,154 1,096 1,129 1,889 1,852 2,102 2,091 2,160 2,072 2,080 2,080 2,114 2,113 47,200 49,406 62,263 64,654 62,929 45,384 62,394 64,447 58,438 61,543 41,751 44,304 61,048 64,355 61,048 48,776 63,149 60,008 56,989 58,718 40.7 40.3 40.1 42.0 39.1 38.9 31.1 38.8 38.8 39.2 38.0 38.3 – 41.6 43.2 39.9 39.9 39.0 42.1 – 783 1,411 1,454 1,581 776 736 1,074 927 1,012 1,022 924 674 – 736 796 565 614 632 569 – 723 1,385 1,385 1,146 726 721 892 918 1,014 967 828 720 – 620 630 538 605 617 541 – 2,118 2,097 2,087 2,183 2,031 2,018 1,376 1,501 1,454 1,455 1,490 1,864 – 2,138 2,246 2,017 2,073 2,028 2,189 – 40,734 73,365 75,597 82,209 40,324 38,231 47,540 35,887 37,966 37,907 36,276 32,798 – 37,837 41,385 28,575 31,954 32,878 29,587 – 37,586 72,030 72,030 59,571 37,591 37,440 39,566 36,129 38,167 35,679 34,278 36,580 – 32,219 32,760 27,997 31,470 32,094 28,122 – 39.9 40.0 38.4 40.0 38.9 40.0 39.7 39.9 40.1 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.9 40.0 41.5 41.6 40.0 40.3 40.9 1,084 1,170 748 1,046 754 755 522 730 821 863 596 637 1,071 717 1,108 1,269 1,144 994 1,142 952 1,062 625 983 682 761 517 723 810 847 626 626 1,083 803 992 1,164 1,313 865 1,014 2,033 2,080 1,998 2,080 2,024 2,080 2,063 2,077 2,083 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,075 2,080 2,127 2,109 2,082 2,093 2,126 55,295 60,861 38,901 54,402 39,189 39,257 27,143 37,983 42,708 44,884 30,992 33,124 55,716 37,273 56,762 64,350 59,477 51,670 59,372 48,410 55,203 32,490 51,106 35,464 39,582 26,870 37,606 42,141 44,035 32,552 32,554 56,326 41,746 51,854 60,450 68,266 44,990 52,749 41.9 40.0 41.9 42.4 41.4 45.6 40.6 40.5 39.8 1,173 1,335 1,063 1,461 860 887 935 945 1,109 1,248 1,483 1,201 1,216 803 815 958 918 1,132 2,180 1,700 2,181 2,206 2,154 2,372 2,109 2,104 2,071 61,005 56,698 55,270 75,962 44,743 46,141 48,601 49,132 57,645 64,896 62,525 62,462 63,253 41,769 42,370 49,814 47,757 58,843 See footnotes at end of table. 16 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings 41.1 40.0 $830 957 $826 910 2,135 2,080 $43,140 49,790 $42,931 47,326 Mean Median White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Real estate sales occupations .............................. Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Correspondence clerks ......................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Cost and rate clerks .............................................. Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Expeditors ............................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 40.0 39.3 40.7 41.6 39.0 41.0 624 800 713 1,012 770 685 574 687 554 731 541 672 2,080 2,041 2,118 2,162 2,028 2,130 32,474 41,576 37,065 52,639 40,021 35,625 29,827 35,714 28,829 38,005 28,132 34,923 42.9 39.7 39.9 38.4 39.9 41.0 42.2 40.0 39.7 39.8 39.7 40.0 39.9 39.5 39.6 39.8 39.8 39.8 40.0 39.1 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.3 40.0 39.7 40.0 40.1 894 502 366 419 489 645 727 630 549 464 441 560 383 409 422 461 459 477 483 489 563 407 509 452 559 511 469 358 434 760 374 310 361 467 613 718 626 519 449 414 600 384 367 380 411 455 463 478 444 533 360 530 440 508 506 462 345 403 2,229 2,065 2,073 1,995 2,057 2,131 2,193 2,080 2,008 2,069 2,062 2,080 2,065 2,055 2,057 2,067 2,070 2,072 2,078 2,032 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,044 2,080 2,047 2,080 2,086 46,505 26,079 19,035 21,805 25,191 33,532 37,801 32,764 27,771 24,120 22,924 29,140 19,822 21,263 21,969 23,977 23,858 24,817 25,120 25,440 29,284 21,139 26,483 23,498 29,091 26,590 24,206 18,626 22,553 39,523 19,440 16,120 18,759 24,128 31,866 37,336 32,573 26,790 23,358 21,532 31,200 19,968 19,069 19,760 21,390 23,646 24,086 24,874 23,108 27,705 18,720 27,567 22,859 26,402 26,291 24,024 17,930 20,946 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance occupations ................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Electricians ........................................................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Butchers and meat cutters .................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Printing press operators ....................................... Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 40.4 40.1 43.5 40.0 39.7 40.0 39.9 40.0 41.1 39.8 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.9 40.0 39.9 39.8 41.6 542 643 881 641 709 586 591 769 607 676 396 450 669 437 651 561 418 509 353 498 591 510 648 964 652 726 560 544 892 551 686 338 384 736 413 660 560 390 506 366 529 546 2,094 2,081 2,263 2,080 2,066 2,080 2,077 2,080 2,137 2,069 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,078 2,080 2,080 2,075 2,080 2,077 2,070 2,150 28,113 33,313 45,827 33,339 36,869 30,487 30,757 39,992 31,574 35,162 20,613 23,384 34,801 22,742 33,829 29,195 21,712 26,447 18,367 25,893 30,574 26,416 33,530 50,107 33,925 37,752 29,120 28,267 46,384 28,642 35,690 17,574 19,947 38,251 21,466 34,320 29,120 20,280 26,307 19,044 27,506 28,362 See footnotes at end of table. 17 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued) Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 43.9 39.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.8 40.0 40.0 39.9 39.9 $670 485 469 431 519 436 381 407 514 382 369 394 $560 532 462 400 517 400 334 396 472 324 350 350 2,284 1,907 2,080 2,079 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,070 2,080 2,080 2,075 2,075 $34,827 23,696 24,374 22,425 27,013 22,686 19,787 21,152 26,704 19,863 19,183 20,472 $29,120 23,525 24,024 20,800 26,874 20,800 17,368 20,592 24,552 16,848 18,200 18,221 38.9 40.3 40.0 40.0 38.0 426 807 893 516 300 352 865 922 512 266 2,014 2,070 2,079 2,080 1,975 22,055 41,498 46,427 26,851 15,558 18,281 44,990 47,965 26,624 13,832 40.8 35.9 38.5 38.0 39.3 39.5 40.0 39.3 39.9 40.0 39.8 39.9 34.1 689 137 329 367 254 364 378 353 360 480 274 360 354 756 75 305 360 249 346 400 342 340 493 265 343 332 2,123 1,865 2,001 1,949 2,042 2,052 2,080 2,044 2,069 2,080 2,072 2,067 1,755 35,805 7,144 17,092 18,856 13,183 18,946 19,632 18,346 18,654 24,940 14,249 18,636 18,239 39,312 3,877 15,859 18,720 12,935 18,014 20,800 17,763 17,680 25,618 13,800 17,811 17,163 1 Earnings 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, 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. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 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 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 18 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.99 17.12 $16.15 16.20 $20.58 20.63 $17.59 17.60 $10.45 11.01 White-collar occupations ................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... 19.58 7.56 8.74 9.52 11.23 13.30 14.71 19.11 21.08 23.13 25.29 29.19 35.04 43.54 50.01 32.82 20.19 8.23 9.25 9.89 11.18 13.30 14.75 18.90 20.11 23.29 24.80 29.12 34.10 43.54 50.01 31.74 18.76 7.61 8.79 9.49 11.13 13.26 14.72 17.48 19.70 22.73 25.30 29.41 34.66 46.27 50.49 34.60 19.38 8.33 9.41 9.90 11.00 13.26 14.77 16.89 17.92 22.91 24.45 29.34 33.47 46.27 50.49 33.53 22.68 – 7.89 9.82 11.75 13.45 14.58 21.92 24.72 24.60 25.28 28.42 36.73 – – 13.12 22.75 – 7.90 9.82 11.86 13.45 14.62 21.92 24.73 24.60 25.39 28.42 36.73 – – 13.12 20.17 8.22 8.82 9.48 11.30 13.31 14.84 19.09 21.14 22.94 25.39 29.25 35.04 43.22 52.42 36.11 20.53 8.56 9.42 9.92 11.20 13.30 14.90 18.87 20.13 23.10 24.90 29.18 34.10 43.22 52.42 34.82 12.58 6.70 8.58 9.72 10.38 13.18 10.90 19.97 19.66 26.67 – – – – – 15.64 14.83 7.29 8.73 9.74 10.89 13.35 10.90 19.97 19.66 26.67 – – – – – 15.86 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Natural scientists ...................................................... Level 13 ............................................................ Health related occupations ....................................... Level 7 .............................................................. 24.70 26.27 13.75 14.71 20.68 22.47 24.13 25.17 28.23 31.63 40.09 47.88 33.48 29.63 24.76 25.49 33.57 39.10 42.37 27.27 26.07 24.46 29.14 29.96 36.32 34.93 36.12 20.96 18.15 24.03 25.78 13.34 14.72 16.88 18.95 23.33 26.20 28.90 32.27 39.33 47.77 35.53 29.69 24.77 25.95 33.57 39.10 42.37 27.48 26.15 24.46 29.67 29.96 36.32 35.19 – 20.62 18.79 26.25 27.23 – 14.66 23.03 26.58 26.32 – 25.83 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 22.98 – 24.99 26.68 13.64 15.06 20.71 22.69 23.85 25.49 28.32 31.63 39.60 50.56 40.75 29.63 24.76 25.49 33.57 39.10 42.37 27.65 26.07 24.46 29.14 29.96 36.32 34.99 36.12 19.85 18.18 20.43 21.14 14.03 10.56 19.97 20.03 26.88 – – – – – 16.27 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.75 17.89 Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 19 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level White-collar occupations (-Continued) Health related occupations (-Continued) Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Level 7 .............................................................. Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Management related occupations ............................ Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 20 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $18.65 23.39 24.65 34.23 24.30 25.71 23.51 13.30 11.51 23.32 26.67 25.90 – 17.53 13.09 15.47 17.56 21.43 43.89 $18.67 22.83 24.65 22.30 – – 15.74 13.64 – – 16.71 – – 16.31 13.09 12.48 – – – – – – – – – $24.76 – – 23.51 27.29 28.32 – – – 21.05 – – – $18.34 22.76 – 34.55 – 25.71 23.90 – 11.68 23.38 26.79 25.90 – 17.70 13.09 15.41 17.56 – – $20.17 24.33 – 20.71 – – 17.10 – 10.95 21.94 – – – – – – – – – 25.80 15.46 19.85 38.19 29.63 19.21 10.87 10.84 12.76 13.57 18.00 17.82 22.03 23.05 35.91 26.57 14.49 15.67 16.67 17.70 22.41 25.34 29.44 36.83 42.15 59.81 45.32 30.44 16.07 18.54 17.07 23.13 29.93 30.37 37.69 44.62 61.00 57.82 20.64 14.03 14.96 15.01 26.27 – 19.85 38.19 30.50 19.21 10.87 10.55 12.64 13.47 16.87 16.99 22.03 – 35.91 26.20 14.70 16.86 16.67 17.69 22.98 24.36 28.40 35.08 43.35 59.81 45.32 29.88 18.01 18.54 16.83 23.85 – 29.13 36.04 48.27 61.00 57.82 20.70 14.18 – 14.83 – – – – – 19.21 – – – – – – – – – 27.78 – – – – 20.81 26.99 31.62 41.14 – – – 32.18 – – – 20.20 – 32.73 41.14 – – – 20.44 – – – 27.20 15.46 19.85 38.19 38.26 19.36 – 10.86 12.67 13.56 18.00 17.86 22.03 23.05 35.91 26.69 14.80 15.93 16.67 17.70 22.42 25.34 29.44 36.83 42.15 59.81 45.32 30.51 16.50 18.54 17.07 23.13 29.93 30.37 37.69 44.62 61.00 57.82 20.77 14.36 14.96 15.01 14.99 – – – 16.27 13.08 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers White-collar occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Sales occupations ............................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... $18.53 21.60 22.06 27.19 36.61 21.25 15.68 6.75 – 8.28 11.47 13.27 14.26 21.50 26.50 20.71 28.19 29.99 49.87 12.05 8.23 9.25 9.87 11.22 13.11 14.79 16.72 21.38 11.09 $19.15 21.80 21.19 26.80 36.61 21.25 15.72 6.76 – 8.28 11.57 13.27 14.30 21.50 26.55 20.71 28.64 29.99 49.87 11.98 8.33 9.42 9.87 11.06 13.09 14.65 17.02 21.07 11.18 – $21.21 – – – – 12.59 – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.37 – 7.90 9.84 11.79 13.21 – – – – $18.53 21.62 22.06 27.19 36.61 21.25 17.50 – 7.71 7.82 11.79 13.43 14.26 21.50 26.50 20.71 28.19 29.99 49.87 12.25 8.56 9.43 9.90 11.23 13.11 14.86 16.72 21.38 11.28 – – – – – – $8.31 6.42 – 9.68 9.59 11.08 – – – – – – – 9.65 7.29 8.73 9.67 11.09 – – – – – Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 13.19 7.77 9.04 10.35 11.67 12.66 14.65 17.93 19.91 21.23 14.17 15.99 8.15 8.08 9.73 12.23 15.20 17.55 20.16 19.61 10.93 7.04 8.01 9.36 10.54 12.89 14.01 16.91 13.99 9.98 10.04 13.47 12.99 7.77 9.00 10.30 11.43 12.63 14.39 18.15 20.04 21.00 14.17 15.90 8.15 8.08 9.73 12.09 14.81 17.48 20.35 19.39 10.91 7.04 8.01 9.36 10.54 12.89 14.01 16.95 13.92 9.90 9.81 13.22 15.16 – – 11.38 13.80 12.81 16.94 16.71 – – – 16.75 – – – 12.80 16.87 18.21 – – – – – – – – – – 14.29 – – – 13.43 7.94 9.10 10.46 11.64 12.69 14.60 17.92 19.89 21.23 – 16.01 8.15 8.08 9.73 12.27 15.20 17.55 20.16 19.61 10.95 7.02 8.02 9.58 10.54 12.89 13.87 16.85 14.22 10.08 10.25 13.45 8.66 7.08 8.11 8.80 – 11.30 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.32 – – – – – – – 10.10 – 9.01 – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 21 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued) Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. $12.85 14.59 19.75 10.38 8.27 9.20 11.72 11.47 13.42 14.28 $12.90 14.34 22.15 10.22 8.28 9.21 11.78 11.37 13.50 – – – – $13.08 – – – – – – $12.93 14.52 19.75 10.79 8.70 9.35 11.79 11.53 13.39 14.28 – – – $7.76 7.19 8.23 – – – – Service occupations ........................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Protective service occupations ............................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Food service occupations ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Health service occupations ..................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Personal service occupations ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. 10.10 6.51 7.11 8.27 9.90 11.96 14.64 17.50 23.22 19.81 13.67 19.18 7.03 5.23 5.57 6.00 9.01 9.19 8.64 9.36 10.03 8.80 7.79 7.93 10.04 10.92 9.29 5.48 8.29 11.66 15.95 8.03 6.14 7.07 7.87 10.03 11.86 14.56 – – 15.81 – – 6.44 5.20 5.37 5.92 9.02 8.85 8.64 8.99 9.53 8.05 7.19 7.59 9.17 – 9.66 – 8.57 – 16.26 15.33 9.65 7.54 9.92 9.29 12.24 14.68 18.18 23.34 20.31 – 19.22 13.15 – – – – – – – – 10.51 – – 11.09 – 7.28 – – 7.12 – 10.95 7.03 7.43 8.75 10.05 11.96 14.46 17.53 23.22 20.05 13.67 19.22 7.88 5.66 5.78 6.28 8.74 9.23 8.70 9.38 10.06 9.02 8.04 7.99 10.04 10.92 10.39 – – – – 6.51 5.36 6.16 6.97 8.74 – 18.13 – – – – – 5.37 4.67 5.28 5.26 9.81 8.73 – – – 6.90 6.73 7.69 – – 7.82 – 7.46 – – Occupational group3 and level 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 22 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Civil engineers ...................................................... Level 12 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 12 ............................................................ Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Biological and life scientists .................................. Registered nurses ................................................ Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Elementary school teachers ................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Economists ........................................................... Psychologists ........................................................ Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Level 8 .............................................................. Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Biological technicians ........................................... Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration Level 11 ............................................................ Financial managers .............................................. Level 12 ............................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers .............. See footnotes at end of table. 23 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $30.91 32.09 41.03 29.14 24.71 34.88 21.91 30.00 30.98 29.13 26.11 26.51 29.61 30.30 36.32 $31.22 32.09 41.03 29.14 24.71 34.88 21.91 30.00 30.98 29.55 26.20 26.51 30.26 30.30 36.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $30.91 32.09 41.03 29.14 24.71 34.88 21.91 30.00 30.98 29.13 26.11 26.51 29.61 30.30 36.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.05 36.23 37.66 19.27 18.01 19.01 23.02 27.02 17.43 25.95 25.32 26.79 27.59 25.89 26.12 26.32 22.34 9.94 17.60 18.43 14.16 16.25 13.36 27.53 19.47 18.05 – 37.66 19.43 18.77 19.09 22.46 27.02 17.43 22.41 – – – – – – – – 14.58 18.43 – 12.46 12.52 27.53 19.47 – – – $18.02 – – – – – 26.01 25.32 26.79 – 26.28 26.19 26.85 25.14 9.94 – – – 21.69 – – – 19.23 36.23 37.66 18.94 18.03 18.71 23.03 – – 26.11 25.51 26.92 27.61 26.06 26.33 26.48 24.34 – 17.59 18.43 14.17 16.21 13.51 29.26 19.47 – – – $20.61 17.93 20.17 – – – 22.82 – – – – – – 11.17 – – – – – – – – 18.46 20.18 16.47 13.22 13.55 10.87 18.29 20.50 21.58 15.02 15.93 26.86 17.92 14.69 – – 13.19 13.58 10.70 18.23 19.30 21.58 – – 26.94 17.92 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.87 – – 13.16 13.47 – 18.29 20.50 21.58 14.90 15.93 26.86 17.92 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 28.56 31.89 24.69 37.92 27.93 – – 24.16 – – 28.56 31.89 24.69 37.92 27.93 – – – – – 28.56 31.89 – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: (-Continued) Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Level 11 ............................................................ Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Accountants and auditors ..................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Underwriters ......................................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Level 8 .............................................................. Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Real estate sales occupations .............................. Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........ Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, general office ................................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Level 2 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 24 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $27.98 33.35 24.28 25.34 34.24 19.36 26.49 30.44 37.80 46.20 61.55 61.78 19.45 12.77 19.62 23.05 23.35 27.83 $27.98 18.45 – 25.34 34.30 19.36 26.49 30.44 37.80 46.20 61.55 61.78 19.51 12.08 19.62 23.05 – 27.53 – $37.58 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $27.98 33.35 24.28 25.34 34.44 19.36 26.49 30.44 37.80 46.20 61.55 61.78 19.45 12.77 19.62 23.05 23.35 27.83 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.26 23.94 18.73 23.94 – – 20.21 23.94 – – 15.61 20.37 16.71 – 20.91 – – – – 15.61 20.37 16.71 – – – 24.35 26.81 18.67 26.83 19.73 16.24 24.35 26.81 18.67 26.83 – 16.24 – – – – – – 24.35 26.81 18.67 26.83 19.73 16.73 – – – – – – 20.87 6.87 – 7.42 8.97 8.89 6.77 8.45 12.79 10.67 20.87 6.87 – 7.42 8.97 8.94 6.78 8.45 13.18 10.67 – – – – – – – – – – 20.87 – 12.63 – 9.81 9.18 – – 12.73 10.93 – – – – $6.54 8.21 6.43 – 13.05 – 15.73 14.49 16.78 17.24 15.75 13.69 9.87 12.02 12.29 15.57 16.69 11.93 11.08 – 9.28 9.12 10.30 15.61 14.27 – – 15.75 14.11 – 11.91 12.58 15.57 16.74 12.42 11.08 – 9.34 8.66 10.31 15.73 14.49 16.78 17.24 15.75 13.83 – 12.07 12.39 15.76 16.69 11.66 11.12 14.01 9.60 – 10.30 – – – – – 10.97 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.09 – – 11.86 – – – – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical: (-Continued) Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Correspondence clerks ......................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... Library clerks ........................................................ Level 4 .............................................................. File clerks ............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Cost and rate clerks .............................................. Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Expeditors ............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. Level 6 .............................................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. General office clerks ............................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance occupations ................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Electricians ........................................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. See footnotes at end of table. 25 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $10.39 11.48 11.38 9.43 10.45 11.68 13.27 11.52 10.61 10.61 9.48 11.98 11.46 12.09 9.90 11.60 12.55 12.52 14.08 10.13 8.26 9.95 12.75 13.51 – 11.12 $10.39 11.48 11.38 9.43 10.45 11.68 13.27 11.52 – – 8.08 11.99 – 11.91 9.90 11.47 12.19 12.52 14.08 10.13 8.26 9.95 12.18 – – 11.12 – – – – – – – – $10.61 10.61 – – – 12.82 – – – – – – – – – – – – $10.35 10.68 11.60 9.73 10.42 11.68 13.27 11.52 – – – 11.98 11.46 12.09 9.90 11.60 12.55 12.52 14.08 10.16 – 9.95 12.73 13.51 13.35 11.30 – – $8.78 – – – – – 10.99 10.99 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.16 14.23 15.64 12.73 10.83 13.03 13.72 11.47 7.80 9.94 11.69 13.36 8.92 8.32 9.40 8.18 10.76 10.23 10.05 14.69 26.16 10.16 14.23 15.64 12.59 10.83 – 13.72 11.37 7.67 10.00 11.57 13.75 8.92 8.32 9.40 – 10.50 – 10.01 14.69 26.86 – – – – – – – 11.85 – – – – – – – 8.18 – – – – – – 14.23 15.64 12.78 – 13.03 13.72 11.83 – 9.87 11.71 13.36 8.95 8.36 9.51 – 10.81 – 10.00 14.69 26.16 – – – – – – – 8.77 – 10.16 – – – – – 7.05 10.05 – – – – 20.25 16.03 17.85 14.66 14.81 19.23 19.23 14.77 16.99 17.79 9.91 20.35 – 17.85 14.66 14.60 19.23 19.23 14.77 16.99 17.79 9.91 – – – – – – – – – – – 20.25 16.03 17.85 14.66 14.81 19.23 19.23 14.77 16.99 17.79 9.91 – – – – – – – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: (-Continued) Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers (-Continued) Level 2 .............................................................. Butchers and meat cutters .................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Printing press operators ....................................... Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers ......................................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Level 3 .............................................................. Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Level 4 .............................................................. Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Level 3 .............................................................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations: Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Cooks ................................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Level 4 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 26 All industries State and local government All industries Private industry $8.06 11.24 16.73 $8.06 11.24 16.73 – – – $8.06 11.24 16.73 – – – 16.59 14.04 10.31 8.08 9.23 12.81 12.72 8.83 8.56 10.84 11.73 16.59 14.04 10.31 8.08 9.23 12.81 12.72 8.83 8.56 10.84 11.73 – – – – – – – – – – – 16.26 14.04 10.46 8.08 9.23 12.81 12.72 8.84 8.56 10.84 12.51 – – – – – – – – – – – 15.09 12.75 15.33 11.90 9.89 6.35 11.88 15.09 12.75 15.33 – – 6.35 11.88 – – – $13.08 – – – 15.25 12.75 15.33 12.42 – – 11.72 14.79 – – Full-time workers – Part-time workers – – – $9.37 – – – – 12.45 10.91 9.37 9.60 8.94 7.94 13.66 12.59 13.00 9.39 9.21 6.84 9.92 9.58 8.20 8.25 – 10.84 9.37 9.60 8.98 7.94 – 12.66 13.15 9.14 9.21 6.84 9.92 9.58 8.20 8.25 14.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.99 10.91 9.51 9.60 10.22 – – 12.84 13.16 9.55 9.25 6.80 9.94 9.87 8.48 – – – – – 6.69 6.69 – – – – – – – 8.77 – – 22.33 12.82 – 13.36 22.33 – 22.33 12.91 – – 15.26 5.07 3.59 3.08 3.79 3.93 8.30 8.18 8.94 10.67 11.98 5.07 3.59 3.08 3.79 3.93 8.31 8.18 9.09 10.67 16.87 – 3.83 – 4.49 – 8.54 – 9.67 – – – 3.29 – – – – – 8.00 – – – – – – – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Service occupations: (-Continued) Food service occupations: (-Continued) Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Level 1 .............................................................. Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations: Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers Maids and housemen ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Personal service occupations: Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Level 4 .............................................................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................ 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. All industries Private industry $3.76 3.76 6.40 5.89 7.07 $3.76 3.76 6.34 5.84 – 9.34 8.96 8.69 9.28 9.02 All industries State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers – – – – – – – $6.46 5.95 – $3.59 3.59 6.26 – – 8.84 8.85 8.69 8.99 9.02 – – – – – 9.44 8.98 8.71 9.28 9.02 – 8.84 – – – 11.99 6.78 6.50 8.79 8.08 7.87 10.89 10.69 6.78 6.50 8.17 7.40 7.39 10.60 – – – $10.04 – – 11.09 11.99 6.88 6.61 9.02 8.38 7.93 10.89 – – – 7.04 – 7.69 – 6.68 7.47 7.09 8.57 – – – 8.57 7.52 7.47 – – – – – – 6.52 – – 14.82 Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 27 Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 Occupational group2 Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $17.59 17.60 $10.45 11.01 $18.15 18.51 $16.80 16.88 $16.95 17.14 $18.27 15.62 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 20.17 20.53 12.58 14.83 21.49 23.29 19.40 19.91 19.60 20.21 19.18 17.27 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 24.99 26.68 19.36 26.69 17.50 12.25 20.43 21.14 13.08 – 8.31 9.65 29.16 26.36 – – – 13.91 24.14 26.26 17.45 26.58 15.98 11.88 24.71 26.27 19.19 26.64 14.33 12.05 – – – – 19.46 – Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 13.43 16.01 10.95 14.22 10.79 8.66 – 10.32 10.10 7.76 16.69 18.58 13.79 17.61 12.85 11.57 14.39 10.23 11.40 9.63 13.13 15.98 10.95 13.87 10.38 15.06 – – – – Service occupations ........................................................... 10.95 6.51 11.93 9.86 10.10 – 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 28 Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 Goods-producing industries4 Occupational group3 All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries5 Total $18.94 $25.86 $19.65 $18.54 $15.17 18.51 25.71 18.84 18.17 15.29 TransWholeportsale ation and and retail public trade utilities Services All occupations ........................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ................................................ $16.15 16.20 White-collar occupations ....................................................... White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 18.76 19.38 24.76 24.27 29.39 29.33 24.88 22.99 24.45 24.10 17.24 17.94 – – 13.14 13.55 16.62 16.43 17.97 17.86 Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ Professional specialty occupations ................................... Technical occupations ...................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... Sales occupations ................................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 24.03 25.78 19.21 26.20 15.72 11.98 26.34 29.42 17.96 30.48 31.44 13.13 37.10 41.06 – 31.12 – 15.41 – – – 24.19 – – 26.22 29.32 18.10 33.78 29.34 12.98 23.12 24.34 19.71 24.08 14.35 11.81 – – – – – – 19.44 20.60 – 20.46 12.90 11.21 20.28 20.28 – 25.82 18.47 12.77 21.54 23.55 15.71 22.89 23.84 10.91 Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. Transportation and material moving occupations ................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 12.99 15.90 10.91 13.92 10.22 13.31 16.26 11.44 13.66 10.54 – – – – – 16.78 20.46 – – 11.13 12.48 14.45 11.45 14.39 10.20 12.69 15.42 9.11 13.97 10.05 – – – – – 11.65 15.83 10.52 11.30 9.51 – – – – – 10.28 12.83 8.33 7.87 8.73 Service occupations ............................................................... 8.03 13.32 – – 13.32 7.85 – 6.17 – 8.22 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. – – Finance, insurance, and real estate $11.66 $15.95 $15.57 10.99 15.73 15.45 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 29 Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 100 workers or more All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.15 16.20 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. Occupational group3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more $14.79 14.01 $16.58 16.87 $14.44 14.69 $19.41 19.43 18.76 19.38 17.80 17.28 19.04 19.94 16.63 17.81 21.57 21.72 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 24.03 25.78 19.21 26.20 15.72 11.98 20.35 25.91 16.02 23.39 19.47 12.19 24.88 25.76 21.29 27.07 13.94 11.92 21.85 23.31 16.56 24.74 12.92 11.52 26.74 27.21 24.66 29.89 18.89 12.31 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 12.99 15.90 10.91 13.92 10.22 12.38 16.34 11.31 11.73 10.16 13.19 15.81 10.79 15.52 10.24 12.59 15.51 9.95 14.26 9.51 14.49 16.41 11.78 20.81 12.58 Service occupations ........................................................... 8.03 5.99 8.98 7.82 11.10 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 30 Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All workers Occupational group2 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 583,798 529,697 457,111 403,712 126,687 125,985 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 380,901 326,801 286,028 232,630 94,873 94,171 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 158,326 126,885 31,441 47,575 54,100 120,900 98,972 72,625 26,347 35,566 53,399 98,091 59,354 54,260 5,094 12,009 702 22,809 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 128,035 42,550 26,618 26,861 32,006 115,908 37,848 26,549 21,432 30,079 12,127 4,702 – 5,429 1,927 Service occupations ........................................................... 74,862 55,174 19,687 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 31 Appendix A. Technical Note private sector, sampling frames were developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The reference month for the private sector is December 1994. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business and out-ofscope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and other information were updated. This section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. While this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all the steps required to produce the data. Planning for the survey Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a two stage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame where the strata are determined by industry and whether the establishment is Private, State government or Local government. The number of sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to its employment. Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated so that the sample units within each stratum represent all the units within the stratum, both sampled and nonsampled. See appendix table 1 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. The overall design of the survey is based on the type of data to be produced. Establishments that participate in the NCS are studied for several collection cycles. This allows changes in wages within these establishments to be observed over time. Individual wage data are collected for selected jobs during each establishment’s initial cycle and updated during subsequent cycles. When data are not available during a collection cycle, efforts are made to collect the data during subsequent cycles and include it in later tabulations. Beginning in the year 2000, the current NCS sample will be replenished on a rotating basis. Survey scope This survey of the Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, ConsolidatedMetropolitan Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goodsproducing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey an establishment was an economic unit which produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment was defined as all locations of a government entity. The Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, CMSA includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver Douglas, Jefferson, and Weld Counties, CO. Data collection Detailed procedures are followed when collecting data from survey respondents. For the initial data collection, field economists, working out of the Regional Office, visited each establishment surveyed. The field economists through mail, phone, or personal visit - completed update collection, which involved obtaining current pay data. The following procedures are used for schedules initiated for the first time or reinitiated during an update. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multi-step process: Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from the State unemployment insurance reports for the DenverBoulder-Greeley, CO, ConsolidatedMetropolitan Statistical Area. The reference month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to the volatility of industries within the 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs. 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the Census of Population system. 32 A complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong, is contained in appendix B. In step three, certain other job characteristics of the chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of Terms” section on the following page for more detail. 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time, union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive. 4. Determination of the level of work of each job. For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for which a correct classification or level could not be determined. In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling, with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment. As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs collected in each establishment was based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in the following schedule: Number of employees 50-99 100-249 250-999 1000-2,499 2,500+ Generic leveling through point factor analysis In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. This is a major departure from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions unique to each occupation. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: Number of selected jobs 8 10 12 16 20 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOG’s: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on which written description best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3 presents average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar Gen- Professional specialty and technical Executive, administrative, and managerial Sales Administrative support including clerical Precision production, craft, and repair Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors Transportation and material moving Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Service occupations 33 recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of hours actually worked was collected. eral Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firm. Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed research continues in the area. The results of this research will be published by BLS in the future. Definition of terms Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time. Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical note and the example for more details on the leveling process.) Collection period The survey was collected from January 1998 through June 1998. The average payroll reference month was MAy 1998. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of collection. Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below). Earnings Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straighttime hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: x x x x x Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time. Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. Incentive pay, including commissions, production bonuses, and piece rates Cost-of-living allowances Hazard pay Payments of income deferred due to participation in a salary reduction plan Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight or passengers Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: x x The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: x x x x x x x x Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for working a schedule that varies from the norm, such as night or weekend work Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends Bonuses not directly tied to production (e.g., Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free room and board Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation. Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations. Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed mutually binding collective bargaining agreement. Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment/occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate the individual establishment/occupations into the various data series. Of the establishments surveyed, 21.8 percent (representing 147,018 In order to calculate earnings for various time periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were 34 Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2 contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all survey areas will be used in the development of a formal quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling error. Although they also were not specifically measured, efforts were made to minimize nonsampling errors by the extensive training of field economists who gathered survey data, computer editing of the data, and detailed data review. employees) refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells which were additionally defined by major occupation group and job level. Establishments which were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey ( 7.8 percent of the total sample) had their weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a refusal. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated. The respondent has the option of giving mean data instead of individual wages in the years following the initiation. In 1998, the publication criteria were changed to allow more data to publish. Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. As a result of the use of sampling weights, the number of workers estimates represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study not the actual number of workers surveyed. 35 Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 Number of establishments studied Industry All industries ......................................................... Private industry ................................................. Goods-producing industries .......................... Mining ....................................................... Construction ............................................. Manufacturing ........................................... Service-producing industries ........................ Tranportation and public utilities ............... Wholesale and retail trade ........................ Finance, insurance and real estate .......... Services .................................................... State and local government .............................. Number of establishments represented 100 workers or more Total studied 3,281 3,195 612 29 196 387 2,583 108 1,140 266 1,070 86 358 322 87 8 9 70 235 19 76 24 116 36 50 - 99 workers 96 94 20 2 5 13 74 2 36 5 31 2 Total 262 228 67 6 4 57 161 17 40 19 85 34 100 - 499 workers 160 152 42 6 4 32 110 10 37 10 53 8 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 36 500 workers or more 102 76 25 – – 25 51 7 3 9 32 26 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 (in percent) Occupation3 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 2.0 2.0 2.4 2.4 3.7 3.7 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 2.4 2.4 2.9 2.8 4.3 4.3 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Biological and life scientists .................................. Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Economists ........................................................... Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Biological technicians ........................................... Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... 2.7 2.8 3.2 6.1 5.6 7.3 3.9 4.3 4.3 3.0 3.6 3.8 3.2 6.2 5.6 7.3 3.9 4.3 4.5 3.1 4.0 3.9 – – – – – – – – 12.9 3.7 4.3 10.2 3.6 2.8 4.7 2.1 10.4 4.1 1.9 1.8 8.7 0.6 24.1 – 12.0 16.2 7.7 10.1 13.0 12.4 8.3 12.9 6.1 – 10.2 3.2 2.5 4.7 2.1 9.5 17.0 5.3 – – – 25.5 – 12.2 16.2 – 9.2 11.8 14.8 – – – – – 13.8 14.8 – – – 2.5 1.9 1.4 8.2 0.6 – – – – – 6.5 6.6 – – 15.1 17.7 15.4 12.7 5.2 8.0 5.1 2.3 5.9 6.3 6.6 15.2 7.2 6.7 4.5 12.4 4.4 5.1 11.3 6.5 8.0 16.4 17.7 15.4 16.7 6.0 5.7 – 2.9 5.5 6.7 6.0 15.2 – – 4.7 12.4 4.7 5.7 – 6.3 – – – – – 8.5 – – – – – – – – – – – 9.9 10.3 11.3 – – 9.6 18.0 9.6 24.6 – 13.8 See footnotes at end of table. 37 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Underwriters ......................................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Real estate sales occupations .............................. Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........ Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Correspondence clerks ......................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... Library clerks ........................................................ File clerks ............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Cost and rate clerks .............................................. Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Expeditors ............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance occupations ................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... See footnotes at end of table. 38 All industries Private industry State and local government 21.8 7.6 3.7 7.9 13.1 10.2 5.5 21.8 7.6 4.2 8.1 13.1 – 10.0 – – 8.2 – – – – 6.3 11.6 9.1 11.6 – – 7.4 7.0 9.5 11.1 26.2 9.9 – 7.7 9.6 11.1 – 9.9 – – 24.3 – – – 11.1 15.1 6.9 8.9 1.7 4.6 7.0 3.3 3.5 4.0 6.4 4.7 11.7 10.7 5.9 5.6 13.3 10.7 2.8 2.5 8.9 7.7 6.7 4.4 12.0 11.1 15.1 7.1 8.9 1.9 5.9 – 4.1 3.9 5.5 6.4 4.6 11.7 10.7 5.9 5.6 – 1.7 3.4 2.9 8.9 7.7 6.7 3.7 12.0 – – – – 3.4 – – – 1.9 – – – – – – – 13.3 – – 1.5 – – – – – 13.5 7.9 4.5 2.8 5.6 5.4 4.1 13.5 7.9 4.6 3.4 5.6 – 3.5 – – – 4.3 – 5.4 – 2.6 3.0 11.6 2.4 3.3 6.3 6.2 2.9 3.3 12.4 – 3.3 6.3 8.0 3.4 5.3 – – – – – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Electricians ........................................................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Butchers and meat cutters .................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Printing press operators ....................................... Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. See footnotes at end of table. 39 All industries Private industry State and local government 10.8 8.6 6.3 12.0 9.5 7.5 4.2 6.9 3.0 5.3 6.8 7.6 8.6 6.5 12.1 5.7 6.8 5.5 10.8 8.6 6.3 12.0 9.5 7.5 4.2 6.9 3.0 5.3 6.8 7.6 8.6 8.0 12.1 – 6.8 5.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2.4 – 2.9 – – 6.6 3.0 10.0 9.2 6.5 5.4 5.1 13.7 8.9 6.5 – 3.1 – 9.7 6.5 5.4 5.4 14.9 8.9 6.5 – 6.7 10.4 – – – – – – – 4.7 4.4 3.3 9.8 9.4 3.3 14.8 – 9.3 5.5 6.2 4.3 3.3 – 31.5 15.9 11.0 16.5 6.5 5.3 15.3 5.0 9.6 11.0 16.5 6.7 5.6 15.3 5.6 – – – – – – – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................ 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 All industries Private industry State and local government 2.6 8.4 2.1 3.6 6.8 3.6 3.6 7.7 3.8 7.3 23.1 2.1 9.2 1.8 2.9 10.2 3.6 3.6 9.2 – – 23.1 – – – 5.4 – – 4.7 8.1 7.3 – – the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 40 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 All occupations ................................................................................. All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 6 6 6 6 4 4 White-collar occupations ............................................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 7 7 7 8 5 6 Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... Professional specialty occupations ......................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. Civil engineers ................................................................ Electrical and electronic engineers ................................. Industrial engineers ........................................................ Mechanical engineers ..................................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ........................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ..................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ........ Natural scientists ................................................................ Geologists and geodesists ............................................. Biological and life scientists ............................................ Health related occupations ................................................. Registered nurses .......................................................... Pharmacists .................................................................... Respiratory therapists ..................................................... Teachers, college and university ........................................ Teachers, except college and university ............................ Elementary school teachers ........................................... Secondary school teachers ............................................ Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................ Substitute teachers ......................................................... Vocational and educational counselors .......................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... Social scientists and urban planners .................................. Economists ..................................................................... Psychologists .................................................................. Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................ Social workers ................................................................ Recreation workers ......................................................... Lawyers and judges ............................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ........................................................................... Editors and reporters ...................................................... Public relations specialists .............................................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ................................... Technical occupations ............................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........... Radiological technicians ................................................. Licensed practical nurses ............................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ................. Electrical and electronic technicians ............................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ..................................... Drafters ........................................................................... Biological technicians ..................................................... Chemical technicians ...................................................... Computer programmers ................................................. Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... Administrators and officials, public administration .......... Financial managers ........................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers ........................ Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations Administrators, education and related fields ................... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ....................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................ Management related occupations ...................................... Accountants and auditors ............................................... Underwriters ................................................................... Other financial officers .................................................... 9 9 11 11 11 9 11 11 10 11 8 12 13 12 9 8 10 7 11 7 7 7 6 6 8 – 8 8 8 7 7 6 12 9 10 11 11 11 9 11 11 10 11 8 12 13 12 8 8 – – 11 7 7 7 8 – 8 – 8 8 7 7 7 7 – 8 8 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10 8 – – 9 6 7 – 4 – – – – – – – – – – 9 9 8 10 7 7 6 5 5 7 8 8 6 7 10 8 10 10 11 9 11 11 11 10 11 8 9 9 10 9 10 8 10 7 7 – 5 – 7 8 8 6 7 10 8 10 10 11 9 11 11 11 10 11 9 9 9 10 5 – – – 5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 41 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Management analysts .................................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. .......................... Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Sales occupations ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... Real estate sales occupations ........................................ Sales occupations, other business services ................... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .................................................................. Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings .................. Sales workers, other commodities .................................. Cashiers ......................................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... Supervisors, general office ............................................. Supervisors, financial records processing ...................... Computer operators ........................................................ Secretaries ..................................................................... Typists ............................................................................ Interviewers .................................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ................. Receptionists .................................................................. Information clerks, N.E.C. ............................................... Correspondence clerks ................................................... Order clerks .................................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .............. Library clerks .................................................................. File clerks ....................................................................... Records clerks, N.E.C. ................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ Cost and rate clerks ........................................................ Production coordinators .................................................. Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. Expeditors ....................................................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ............ Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................ General office clerks ....................................................... Data entry keyers ........................................................... Teachers’ aides .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ........................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ................. Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Machinery maintenance occupations ............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... Electricians ..................................................................... Supervisors, production occupations .............................. Machinists ....................................................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............ Butchers and meat cutters .............................................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ..................................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ Printing press operators ................................................. Mixing and blending machine operators ......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... Welders and cutters ........................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 42 10 8 8 6 8 5 8 7 6 10 8 8 6 8 6 8 7 7 – – – – – 2 – – – 8 2 – 3 4 4 6 8 6 5 4 4 – 3 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 5 6 4 4 4 8 – 4 3 5 5 6 8 6 5 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 5 – – 4 5 5 6 4 4 4 – – – 2 – 3 – – – 4 – – – – – – 2 – 4 – – – – – – – – 4 5 4 4 3 3 4 – 5 5 4 3 – 4 – – – 2 – 2 3 5 6 8 7 8 7 6 7 6 7 4 4 7 4 5 5 3 5 5 6 8 7 8 7 6 7 6 7 4 4 7 4 5 5 3 5 2 – – – – – – – – – – – – 4 – – – – Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO, May 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued) Assemblers ..................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Bus drivers ...................................................................... Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................. Construction laborers ..................................................... Production helpers .......................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. 3 4 5 5 3 1 3 4 5 5 5 3 – 3 – – 3 – 4 – – 5 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 – 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 – 2 – – – 1 – – – 2 Service occupations ..................................................................... Protective service occupations ........................................... Police and detectives, public service .............................. Guards and police except public service ........................ Food service occupations ................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations Bartenders ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses .................................................. Cooks ............................................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ...................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... Health service occupations ................................................. Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers .......... Maids and housemen ..................................................... Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service occupations ............................................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ............................................. Service occupations, N.E.C.. .......................................... 4 7 8 5 3 6 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 3 3 3 6 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 7 8 5 3 7 – 2 4 3 – 2 3 3 3 3 6 2 3 4 – – – 2 – – – 2 – – 2 – 2 1 2 3 – 3 1 – – 1 3 3 – 4 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 43