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Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC National Compensation Survey October 1998 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner July 1999 Bulletin 3095-25 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area Cherokee Greenville Spartanburg Pickens Spartanburg Greenville Anderson Anderson Preface T For additional information regarding this survey, please contact the BLS Atlanta Regional Office at (404) 3313415. 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; Federal Relay Service: 1-800-877-8339. his bulletin provides results of an October 1998 survey of occupational pay in the Greenville-SpartanburgAnderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). 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 Dianne Farrior, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of the Atlanta 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, MSA....................................................................... 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 6 8 10 12 15 17 18 19 20 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 21 25 26 28 Introduction T 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The MSA includes Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens, and Spartanburg Counties. 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 Statistics' (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. NCS more extensive than OCS The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing broader 1 Wages in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area S Survey results show that private industry workers in Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC earned $13.98 per hour, while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $14.90. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for white-collar occupations as $18.29 in private industry and $18.47 in State and local government. Bluecollar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $12.26 in private industry and $10.38 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged $6.98 per hour while those found in State and local government averaged $9.41. traight-time wages in the Greenville-SpartanburgAnderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $14.16 per hour during October 1998. White-collar workers had an average wage of $18.34 per hour. Blue-collar workers averaged $12.19 per hour, while service workers had average earnings of $8.05 per hour. (All hourly rates in this summary cover both full- and part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.) Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational group, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and State and local government, Greenville-SpartanburgAnderson, SC, October 1998 Dollars per hour $ 20 Dollars per hour $ 20 15 10 15 10 5 5 0 Whitecollar Bluecollar Service workers 0 White-collar Within each of these occupational groups, average hourly wages for individual occupations were estimated. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at $18.04 per hour, secretaries at $11.48, and general office clerks at $10.31. Among occupations in the blue-collar category, truck drivers averaged $12.81 per hour while stock handlers and baggers averaged $9.73. Finally, service occupations included janitors and cleaners at $6.75 per hour and nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at $9.17 per hour. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 47 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. Private industry Blue-collar Service State and local government 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 $14.58 per hour, compared with an average of $7.86 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 2 sions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly wages averaged $14.93 in all goods-producing industries, and $15.04 in manufacturing. Hourly wages averaged $14.84 in transportation, and public utilities, and $14.68 in services. Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication criteria. Table C-4 reports that a total of 234,137 workers were represented by the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC survey. White-collar occupations included 98,445 workers, or 42 percent, blue-collar occupations included 99,002 workers, or 42 percent; and service occupations included 36,690 workers, or 16 percent. variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may 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 2 to level 7. As illustrated in chart 3, the average hourly rate was $9.14 for level 2, $10.95 for level 4, $13.36 for level 6, and $14.63 for level 7. Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by occupational group, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for administrative support occupations, including clerical, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Dollars per hour $15 Percent 50 40 30 10 20 5 10 0 0 2 4 6 7 Level 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. Surveyed nonunion workers had an average hourly rate of $14.15, as reported in table C-1. Time workers, whose wages were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged $14.10 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at least partially based on productivity payments, averaged $16.15 per hour. Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divi- 3 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ....................................................................... $14.16 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 14.38 $6.89 7.00 25 Median 50 $8.57 $11.81 9.00 12.17 75 90 $16.52 16.68 $25.08 25.05 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 18.34 19.74 7.65 9.72 10.36 11.80 14.84 16.59 24.29 25.59 32.13 33.10 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Cashiers ............................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Secretaries ........................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... General office clerks ............................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 22.43 24.28 30.60 26.98 36.50 – – 20.43 18.04 30.87 23.91 24.60 25.74 23.73 – – – – 11.86 13.41 19.04 16.92 20.83 – – 14.78 14.54 20.09 17.47 18.25 19.35 17.91 – – – – 15.73 17.75 22.66 23.14 24.28 – – 16.28 15.94 24.21 20.25 20.95 21.70 20.33 – – – – 20.45 22.70 28.40 27.48 40.99 – – 18.02 17.75 31.73 24.90 25.05 26.24 24.06 – – – – 27.48 28.51 37.77 30.19 48.00 – – 20.29 19.79 34.39 28.02 27.93 29.16 27.58 – – – – 34.23 36.75 48.00 37.35 48.00 – – 24.39 21.95 42.31 29.93 29.73 30.90 29.21 – – – – 15.11 16.83 13.23 11.86 28.20 31.09 36.95 19.94 25.65 11.13 13.90 6.84 11.87 11.48 13.00 10.49 11.20 13.63 10.31 13.63 11.80 10.51 9.77 8.35 14.84 15.82 19.26 12.99 17.09 6.50 7.67 6.40 8.50 8.40 9.70 8.74 6.94 10.39 8.00 9.38 11.80 11.96 10.82 8.91 17.50 21.10 25.75 15.61 20.37 6.75 8.75 6.50 9.80 9.84 11.59 10.04 11.54 11.01 8.85 9.46 12.58 15.61 12.14 11.78 25.04 29.46 33.64 17.50 21.41 7.50 8.75 6.75 11.13 11.05 13.23 10.72 11.93 13.36 9.86 13.70 14.86 19.80 14.26 14.04 33.76 35.50 45.98 21.41 37.16 10.19 22.53 7.00 13.68 12.65 14.46 11.13 13.10 15.37 10.87 17.08 25.92 29.10 19.80 15.73 45.98 48.08 57.69 37.16 37.16 25.67 29.62 7.47 15.06 15.06 14.75 12.38 13.10 17.61 13.81 17.83 12.19 15.11 14.56 15.27 17.99 11.49 14.30 10.74 9.81 9.19 7.50 10.00 11.44 9.73 12.83 7.50 11.70 8.99 7.00 7.87 9.00 11.81 11.75 11.55 14.42 9.14 13.15 9.95 7.00 8.36 11.51 15.01 14.38 17.44 18.39 10.85 14.50 10.50 9.57 9.34 14.92 17.85 16.06 17.85 20.19 13.79 16.28 12.40 11.56 9.53 17.48 20.47 20.53 18.67 23.98 16.28 16.28 12.40 13.06 10.42 9.94 13.19 12.81 7.63 9.64 7.50 7.63 12.40 11.51 10.45 13.79 13.39 10.90 14.59 14.78 11.91 16.09 14.94 14.14 12.59 14.28 8.32 11.19 12.73 8.00 10.50 6.50 7.19 12.77 10.14 11.27 6.50 9.22 13.99 12.20 15.50 7.18 10.76 15.29 15.32 17.00 9.95 12.33 17.40 16.52 17.55 11.41 17.68 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Molding and casting machine operators ............... Winding and twisting machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Extruding and forming machine operators ............ Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................................................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations ............. $12.55 Truck drivers ......................................................... 12.81 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 11.16 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 9.58 Production helpers ................................................ 9.04 Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 9.73 Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 9.17 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 10.29 Hand packers and packagers ............................... 9.13 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 8.33 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Food service occupations ......................................... Cooks ................................................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... 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 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 8.05 10.11 6.62 7.36 6.35 8.45 7.70 9.17 7.32 6.75 7.99 $7.00 8.25 7.00 7.00 7.23 7.83 7.53 6.00 6.55 5.83 5.50 7.62 5.26 6.00 5.26 6.00 5.33 6.30 5.50 5.50 6.72 25 Median 50 $8.50 $12.10 9.45 13.12 9.15 10.29 7.53 8.36 7.23 8.36 7.83 7.83 7.53 8.76 8.08 9.22 7.50 8.00 6.65 7.50 6.21 8.50 5.56 6.73 5.31 6.25 6.00 7.29 6.00 5.77 6.95 7.49 9.83 6.75 7.69 6.13 7.72 7.44 8.28 6.89 6.50 7.70 75 90 $14.78 15.01 12.28 11.50 10.72 11.21 9.35 13.16 10.75 9.40 $18.08 16.50 16.93 13.79 12.66 13.79 12.32 15.90 13.31 12.56 9.35 11.70 7.25 8.50 7.09 10.05 8.98 11.28 7.90 7.45 8.81 11.70 13.27 8.50 8.50 8.05 12.02 11.01 12.91 9.82 8.56 9.75 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 5 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $13.98 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 14.24 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, special education ............... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Social, recreation, and religious workers Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Technical occupations ................................ Licensed practical nurses ................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. Management related occupations .......... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Sales occupations .......................................... Supervisors, sales occupations .......... Cashiers ............................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... Secretaries ......................................... Order clerks ........................................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ Production coordinators ...................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks General office clerks ........................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Industrial machinery repairers ............ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Numerical control machine operators Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Molding and casting machine operators ...................................... State and local government 25 Median 50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 10 $16.09 16.40 $23.56 23.35 $14.90 14.90 $7.63 7.63 25 Median 50 75 90 $6.75 6.95 $8.50 $11.81 9.00 12.30 18.29 20.38 7.00 10.06 10.06 12.21 14.25 16.25 23.80 26.22 34.46 36.39 18.47 18.47 9.08 9.08 11.12 11.12 17.06 17.06 24.81 24.81 29.46 29.46 23.36 26.31 30.65 26.98 36.50 – – 24.55 17.79 – – – – – – – – – 11.80 12.50 19.04 16.92 20.83 – – 15.44 14.46 – – – – – – – – – 15.13 18.07 22.70 23.14 24.28 – – 17.75 16.50 – – – – – – – – – 20.37 24.60 28.40 27.48 40.99 – – 18.84 17.75 – – – – – – – – – 28.89 32.19 37.77 30.19 48.00 – – 21.43 18.84 – – – – – – – – – 37.56 42.89 48.00 37.35 48.00 – – 36.32 20.38 – – – – – – – – – 21.23 22.37 – – – – – 17.96 18.15 – 24.30 24.60 25.74 23.73 – – – – 12.22 14.60 – – – – – 14.70 14.58 – 17.84 18.25 19.35 17.91 – – – – 16.28 17.41 – – – – – 16.00 15.76 – 20.69 20.95 21.70 20.33 – – – – 20.49 21.66 – – – – – 17.18 17.63 – 25.05 25.05 26.24 24.06 – – – – 26.33 27.08 – – – – – 19.88 20.32 – 28.08 27.93 29.16 27.58 – – – – 29.61 29.99 – – – – – 22.26 22.44 – 29.99 29.73 30.90 29.21 – – – – 15.51 17.95 14.14 11.80 11.11 10.25 11.80 12.98 11.11 13.08 16.82 13.34 15.72 21.21 19.80 25.92 29.10 19.80 – 12.24 – – 8.44 – – 9.27 – – 11.76 – – 14.52 – – 16.94 – 29.46 14.84 17.50 25.75 36.51 48.08 23.64 15.15 16.50 24.77 29.46 33.93 32.32 37.95 21.45 14.84 19.26 15.61 20.75 25.75 16.68 30.77 33.70 18.77 39.52 48.08 23.56 49.76 57.69 37.16 26.74 – – 19.02 – – 21.29 – – 25.98 – – 30.77 – – 35.35 – – 25.65 11.13 13.90 6.84 17.09 6.50 7.67 6.40 20.37 6.75 8.75 6.50 21.41 7.50 8.75 6.75 37.16 10.19 22.53 7.00 37.16 25.67 29.62 7.47 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.38 11.53 13.00 8.76 8.41 9.70 10.06 9.84 11.59 11.89 10.61 13.23 14.25 12.65 14.46 16.59 16.59 14.75 10.46 11.44 – 8.20 8.15 – 8.98 9.94 – 10.20 11.23 – 11.70 12.52 – 12.92 15.06 – 10.25 11.20 13.63 10.98 9.63 6.94 10.39 7.68 10.04 11.54 11.01 9.09 10.61 11.93 13.36 10.06 10.72 13.10 15.37 13.51 11.13 13.10 17.61 14.78 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.48 9.38 11.30 17.08 17.83 17.83 – – – – – – 12.26 7.50 9.15 11.58 14.97 17.57 10.38 6.90 7.81 10.36 12.07 14.21 15.47 14.56 16.79 17.92 10.54 11.44 11.55 12.83 12.35 11.75 15.17 14.42 15.25 14.38 17.85 18.39 18.39 16.06 17.85 20.19 20.80 20.53 18.67 23.98 11.69 – – – 8.54 – – – 9.74 – – – 11.47 – – – 13.34 – – – 14.74 – – – 11.49 14.30 7.50 11.70 9.18 13.15 10.85 14.50 13.79 16.28 16.28 16.28 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.74 8.99 9.95 10.50 12.40 12.40 – – – – – – 9.81 7.00 7.00 9.57 11.56 13.06 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 6 $8.90 $11.78 $19.66 $27.42 8.90 11.78 19.66 27.42 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued) Winding and twisting machine operators ...................................... Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................ Extruding and forming machine operators ...................................... Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... Machine feeders and offbearers ......... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... Hand packers and packagers ............. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Food service occupations ....................... Health service occupations ..................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.19 $7.87 $8.36 $9.34 $9.53 $10.42 – – – – – – 9.94 7.63 7.63 10.45 10.90 11.91 – – – – – – 13.19 9.64 12.40 13.79 14.59 16.09 – – – – – – 12.81 7.50 11.51 13.39 14.78 14.94 – – – – – – 14.14 12.73 12.77 13.99 15.29 17.40 – – – – – – 12.59 14.28 8.32 8.00 10.50 6.50 10.14 11.27 6.50 12.20 15.50 7.18 15.32 17.00 9.95 16.52 17.55 11.41 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.19 7.19 9.22 10.76 12.33 17.68 – – – – – – 12.96 12.79 7.04 8.25 9.00 9.45 12.51 13.12 14.90 15.01 18.13 16.50 $8.54 – $6.56 – $6.61 – $7.81 – 11.16 7.00 9.15 10.29 12.28 16.93 – – – – – – 9.61 9.04 9.73 9.17 7.00 7.23 7.83 7.53 7.63 7.23 7.83 7.53 8.43 8.36 7.83 8.76 11.53 10.72 11.21 9.35 13.79 12.66 13.79 12.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.29 9.13 8.50 6.00 6.55 5.83 8.08 7.50 6.54 9.22 8.00 7.50 13.16 10.75 11.00 15.90 13.31 12.56 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.98 9.38 6.42 6.91 5.30 5.77 5.21 5.33 5.71 6.06 5.50 6.00 6.50 10.42 6.73 6.00 7.50 12.00 7.00 7.33 9.82 12.30 8.50 9.23 9.41 10.29 7.88 9.56 6.96 8.07 6.77 7.25 7.69 8.56 6.94 7.63 8.77 9.73 7.69 8.90 10.45 11.07 8.05 11.28 12.34 13.98 10.39 12.59 – – – – – – 9.81 7.20 7.72 9.29 11.38 13.31 7.34 6.52 – 5.50 5.50 – 5.75 5.55 – 6.50 6.00 – 8.00 7.00 – 9.82 8.56 – 7.29 7.13 – 5.92 5.90 – 6.34 6.29 – 7.17 7.14 – 7.68 7.57 – 9.01 8.29 – 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 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 $9.79 $11.31 – – 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 7 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $14.58 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 14.70 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, special education ............... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Social, recreation, and religious workers Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Technical occupations ................................ Licensed practical nurses ................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. Management related occupations .......... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Sales occupations .......................................... Supervisors, sales occupations .......... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... Secretaries ......................................... Order clerks ........................................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks General office clerks ........................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Industrial machinery repairers ............ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Numerical control machine operators Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Part-time $7.18 7.45 25 Median 50 $9.09 $12.34 9.38 12.50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $16.81 16.91 $25.90 25.75 10 25 Median 50 $7.86 8.19 $5.31 5.25 $5.62 5.50 $6.50 6.38 $8.00 $12.00 8.74 12.00 75 90 18.90 19.85 8.50 9.86 10.85 11.93 15.61 16.68 24.78 25.75 32.33 33.10 9.32 14.74 6.25 6.00 6.50 7.14 7.00 10.37 8.25 21.06 19.40 31.70 22.53 24.35 30.60 26.98 36.50 – – 20.12 17.85 – 24.25 24.60 25.74 23.73 – – – – 12.12 13.52 19.04 16.92 20.83 – – 14.74 14.47 – 17.80 18.25 19.35 17.91 – – – – 15.77 17.75 22.66 23.14 24.28 – – 16.28 15.78 – 20.57 20.95 21.70 20.33 – – – – 20.53 22.70 28.40 27.48 40.99 – – 17.75 17.75 – 25.05 25.05 26.24 24.06 – – – – 27.54 28.51 37.77 30.19 48.00 – – 19.79 19.50 – 28.06 27.93 29.16 27.58 – – – – 34.23 36.75 48.00 37.35 48.00 – – 22.96 21.51 – 29.99 29.73 30.90 29.21 – – – – 18.91 21.61 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.14 6.93 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.50 16.33 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.76 23.72 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.21 27.12 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 34.33 34.33 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.11 16.97 13.42 11.80 10.71 10.00 11.80 12.21 11.07 12.58 15.61 12.23 14.86 19.80 14.26 25.92 29.10 19.80 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.86 8.35 8.91 11.78 14.04 15.73 – – – – – – 28.20 14.84 17.50 25.04 33.76 45.98 – – – – – – 31.09 36.95 19.94 15.82 19.26 12.99 21.10 25.75 15.61 29.46 33.64 17.50 35.50 45.98 21.41 48.08 57.69 37.16 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25.65 12.52 13.90 17.09 6.75 7.67 20.37 7.00 8.75 21.41 8.00 8.75 37.16 11.77 22.53 37.16 28.69 29.62 – 6.97 – – 6.40 – – 6.50 – – 6.75 – – 7.90 – – 8.00 – 11.96 11.48 13.00 8.58 8.40 9.70 9.85 9.84 11.59 11.30 11.05 13.23 13.70 12.65 14.46 15.06 15.06 14.75 8.10 – – 6.00 – – 6.35 – – 7.48 – – 10.37 – – 10.37 – – 10.49 13.63 10.31 8.74 10.39 8.00 10.04 11.01 8.85 10.72 13.36 9.86 11.13 15.37 10.87 12.38 17.61 13.81 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.63 9.38 9.46 13.70 17.08 17.83 – – – – – – 12.30 7.53 9.22 11.70 14.96 17.55 7.73 5.33 5.83 7.57 8.80 15.11 14.56 15.27 17.99 10.00 11.44 9.73 12.83 11.81 11.75 11.55 14.42 15.01 14.38 17.44 18.39 17.85 16.06 17.85 20.19 20.47 20.53 18.67 23.98 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.50 14.30 7.50 11.70 9.18 13.15 10.85 14.50 13.79 16.28 16.28 16.28 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.74 8.99 9.95 10.50 12.40 12.40 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 8 10.69 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued) Molding and casting machine operators ...................................... Winding and twisting machine operators ...................................... Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................ Extruding and forming machine operators ...................................... Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... Machine feeders and offbearers ......... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... Hand packers and packagers ............. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Food service occupations ....................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.81 $7.00 $7.00 $9.57 $11.56 $13.06 – – – – – – 9.19 7.87 8.36 9.34 9.53 10.42 – – – – – – 9.94 7.63 7.63 10.45 10.90 11.91 – – – – – – 13.19 9.64 12.40 13.79 14.59 16.09 – – – – – – 12.81 7.50 11.51 13.39 14.78 14.94 – – – – – – 14.14 12.73 12.77 13.99 15.29 17.40 – – – – – – 12.59 14.28 8.32 8.00 10.50 6.50 10.14 11.27 6.50 12.20 15.50 7.18 15.32 17.00 9.95 16.52 17.55 11.41 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.19 7.19 9.22 10.76 12.33 17.68 – – – – – – 13.03 12.86 7.15 8.25 9.00 9.43 12.51 13.39 14.91 15.11 18.20 16.85 $7.79 – $5.33 – $5.33 – $7.57 – 11.16 7.00 9.15 10.29 12.28 16.93 – – – – – – 9.75 9.04 10.10 9.17 7.19 7.23 7.83 7.53 7.63 7.23 7.83 7.53 8.50 8.36 7.83 8.76 12.00 10.72 13.35 9.35 13.84 12.66 13.79 12.32 7.67 – – – 5.83 – – – 7.00 – – – 7.35 – – – 8.80 – – – 9.83 – – – 10.36 9.40 8.82 6.00 6.55 6.54 8.08 7.57 7.07 9.22 8.00 7.80 13.32 11.97 11.03 15.90 13.31 12.56 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.40 9.92 7.08 6.72 8.56 7.74 5.87 7.62 5.50 5.62 5.99 5.33 6.75 8.46 6.38 6.11 6.75 6.00 7.99 9.68 6.89 6.75 7.98 7.44 9.68 10.63 7.69 7.25 10.10 9.05 11.45 13.55 8.50 8.05 11.95 10.87 6.66 11.57 5.33 – – – 5.31 12.00 5.21 – – – 5.86 12.00 5.31 – – – 7.00 12.00 5.82 – – – 12.00 12.30 7.50 – – – 9.21 6.30 7.29 8.31 11.38 13.01 – – – – – – 8.05 7.31 8.03 5.92 5.77 6.74 6.51 6.34 6.97 7.60 7.23 7.70 8.75 7.85 8.81 9.96 9.19 9.75 6.00 6.00 – 5.45 5.45 – 5.50 5.50 – 6.00 6.00 – 6.50 6.50 – 6.75 6.75 – 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 5.15 8.15 2.13 – – – $9.70 $11.11 – – 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 9 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 40.3 40.3 $588 593 $496 501 2,054 2,052 $29,943 30,153 $25,792 26,021 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 40.2 40.2 759 797 621 664 2,011 1,999 37,998 39,680 30,971 32,708 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Secretaries ........................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... General office clerks ............................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 39.6 39.4 40.6 40.3 40.3 – – 39.3 39.1 – 37.3 37.1 37.3 37.9 – – – – 891 959 1,242 1,088 1,469 – – 791 698 – 905 912 959 899 – – – – 811 890 1,153 1,099 1,716 – – 710 701 – 937 939 981 910 – – – – 1,884 1,826 2,110 2,096 2,093 – – 2,016 2,001 – 1,434 1,408 1,416 1,465 – – – – 42,445 44,465 64,561 56,562 76,405 – – 40,572 35,716 – 34,775 34,652 36,441 34,774 – – – – 37,894 39,074 59,946 57,158 89,211 – – 36,670 36,088 – 35,691 35,691 37,259 35,153 – – – – 40.6 40.1 39.9 40.0 42.4 43.1 44.3 40.5 42.1 40.2 43.8 39.9 39.9 40.0 39.7 40.0 39.7 39.6 613 681 535 474 1,196 1,340 1,638 807 1,081 503 608 477 458 520 416 545 409 539 503 624 489 471 1,055 1,231 1,442 700 983 320 350 450 441 529 415 534 388 548 2,110 2,086 2,072 2,080 2,196 2,230 2,305 2,105 2,191 2,091 2,275 2,064 2,049 2,080 2,062 2,080 2,064 2,057 31,892 35,395 27,812 24,666 61,926 69,325 85,162 41,980 56,192 26,177 31,616 24,675 23,530 27,032 21,641 28,346 21,269 28,037 26,166 32,469 25,429 24,502 54,155 62,114 74,989 36,400 51,126 16,640 18,200 23,192 22,447 27,518 21,601 27,792 20,194 28,496 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Molding and casting machine operators ............... Winding and twisting machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Extruding and forming machine operators ............ Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................................................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 40.4 40.1 40.0 40.0 40.8 39.7 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 496 605 582 611 734 456 572 429 393 368 468 600 575 698 736 431 580 420 383 374 2,097 2,084 2,080 2,080 2,123 2,063 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,069 25,792 31,483 30,279 31,757 38,188 23,713 29,747 22,332 20,415 19,014 24,336 31,221 29,910 36,275 38,251 22,422 30,160 21,840 19,909 19,427 40.0 40.1 40.3 397 529 516 418 552 536 2,070 2,087 2,095 20,572 27,519 26,837 21,424 28,683 27,868 40.0 39.1 40.0 40.0 40.1 45.2 49.0 40.2 566 492 571 333 449 588 630 449 560 472 620 287 435 540 593 421 2,080 2,031 2,080 2,078 2,087 2,340 2,550 2,091 29,419 25,565 29,702 17,301 23,354 30,495 32,781 23,328 29,099 24,565 32,240 14,931 22,630 28,080 30,855 21,884 See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 39.9 40.2 40.0 40.0 39.6 39.8 40.0 $389 363 404 367 410 374 353 $340 334 313 350 369 320 312 2,076 2,089 2,080 2,072 2,060 2,067 2,080 $20,246 18,888 21,003 18,997 21,338 19,428 18,353 $17,520 17,389 16,286 17,520 19,178 16,640 16,224 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Food service occupations ......................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... 40.6 45.1 38.4 35.5 39.9 40.0 39.9 39.8 39.7 35.6 341 447 272 239 342 309 367 320 290 286 305 450 276 254 317 298 332 304 286 277 2,041 2,344 1,873 1,598 2,058 2,080 2,041 2,040 2,033 1,521 17,146 23,252 13,264 10,744 17,609 16,091 18,804 16,431 14,863 12,209 15,474 23,424 13,998 9,837 16,054 15,474 16,712 15,808 14,830 11,932 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 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 11 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 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 ............................................ $14.16 14.38 $13.98 14.24 $14.90 14.90 $14.58 14.70 $7.86 8.19 White-collar occupations ................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... 18.34 8.73 8.65 10.68 13.16 14.67 17.26 20.11 23.54 26.81 31.76 39.58 41.59 15.35 19.74 9.05 10.09 10.99 13.24 14.67 17.26 17.94 23.52 24.34 31.52 39.58 41.59 15.35 18.29 8.76 8.52 11.04 13.50 14.66 17.05 20.05 23.51 31.06 32.71 40.24 – – 20.38 9.21 10.27 11.72 13.64 14.66 17.05 17.38 23.47 – 32.44 40.24 – – 18.47 8.65 – 10.08 11.46 14.69 17.55 – 23.56 – 29.23 – – – 18.47 8.65 – 10.08 11.46 14.69 17.55 – 23.56 – 29.23 – – – 18.90 8.96 9.01 10.71 13.21 14.70 17.06 20.11 23.54 26.32 31.76 39.66 41.59 15.35 19.85 9.36 10.12 11.03 13.30 14.70 17.06 17.94 23.52 23.40 31.52 39.66 41.59 15.35 9.32 – 7.59 – – – – – – – – – – – 14.74 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Level 9 .............................................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Level 7 .............................................................. 22.43 24.28 13.91 17.94 18.33 24.16 29.17 37.84 30.60 25.78 29.25 – – 20.43 17.89 20.94 30.87 23.91 24.79 – – – – 23.36 26.31 14.33 – 18.49 23.77 29.25 – 30.65 – 29.22 – – 24.55 – 20.66 – – – – – – – 21.23 22.37 – – 18.25 24.27 – – – – – – – 17.96 17.87 – – 24.30 24.79 – – – – 22.53 24.35 13.91 18.17 18.03 24.16 29.17 37.98 30.60 25.78 29.25 – – 20.12 17.56 20.94 – 24.25 24.79 – – – – 18.91 21.61 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.11 16.83 11.36 12.50 15.20 18.47 16.45 28.20 16.01 15.51 17.95 12.14 – – 18.77 16.45 29.46 – – 12.24 – – – – – 23.64 – 15.11 16.97 11.56 12.63 15.20 18.37 16.45 28.20 16.01 – – – – – – – – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 12 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 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) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Management related occupations ............................ Level 9 .............................................................. Sales occupations ............................................................ Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. $17.91 20.65 34.35 40.57 31.09 21.91 34.47 41.19 19.94 18.09 11.13 7.59 9.13 27.07 11.87 9.14 9.89 10.95 13.12 13.36 14.63 $17.91 21.31 38.62 40.57 32.32 22.35 39.03 41.19 21.45 – 11.13 7.59 9.13 27.07 12.38 9.21 10.01 11.62 13.41 13.11 14.72 – $18.91 29.36 – 26.74 – 29.36 – – – – – – – 10.46 8.87 – 10.21 11.74 – – $17.91 20.65 34.35 40.57 31.09 21.91 34.47 41.19 19.94 18.09 12.52 7.74 9.13 27.07 11.96 9.39 9.92 10.95 13.16 13.36 14.69 – – – – – – – – – – $6.97 7.37 – – 8.10 – – – – – – Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... 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 .............................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 12.19 7.40 9.14 10.59 12.58 13.16 15.15 16.73 18.83 19.93 15.11 11.66 12.49 15.08 16.11 19.50 20.14 11.49 7.16 9.26 10.69 12.35 13.52 15.38 12.55 7.47 8.66 13.28 9.58 7.59 9.99 11.55 13.31 12.26 7.41 9.27 10.61 12.61 13.20 15.15 17.26 18.83 19.88 15.47 12.07 12.43 15.08 16.67 19.50 20.09 11.49 7.16 9.26 10.73 12.35 13.52 15.38 12.96 7.36 8.66 13.28 9.61 7.60 9.99 11.55 13.31 10.38 – 7.95 – – – – 12.56 – – 11.69 – – – 12.56 – – – – – – – – – 8.54 – – – – – – – – 12.30 7.42 9.36 10.63 12.59 13.16 15.15 16.73 18.83 19.93 15.11 11.66 12.49 15.08 16.11 19.50 20.14 11.50 7.16 9.26 10.74 12.35 13.52 15.38 13.03 7.94 8.66 13.35 9.75 7.65 10.33 11.70 13.31 7.73 – 7.16 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.79 – – – 7.67 – – – – Service occupations ........................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 8.05 6.38 6.93 8.00 10.06 6.98 5.92 6.66 7.07 10.01 9.41 7.36 7.86 – – 8.40 7.02 6.97 8.21 10.08 6.66 5.43 – – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 13 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level Service occupations (-Continued) Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Protective service occupations ............................... Food service occupations ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Health service occupations ..................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Personal service occupations ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. 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 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $9.99 11.15 10.11 6.62 5.78 6.86 7.12 8.45 6.87 7.32 6.85 7.99 7.75 – – $9.38 6.42 – 6.79 7.12 6.91 – 7.34 6.70 – – – – $10.29 7.88 – – – 9.56 7.66 7.29 7.13 – – $9.73 11.06 9.92 7.08 6.47 6.90 – 8.56 6.98 8.05 7.42 8.03 – – – $11.57 5.33 4.91 – – – – 6.00 6.00 – – 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 14 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Industrial engineers .............................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Registered nurses ................................................ Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Technical occupations: Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Cashiers ............................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Secretaries ........................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... General office clerks ............................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Level 7 .............................................................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Level 7 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Numerical control machine operators ................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Molding and casting machine operators ............... Winding and twisting machine operators .............. Level 1 .............................................................. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Extruding and forming machine operators ............ Level 5 .............................................................. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................................................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. See footnotes at end of table. 15 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $26.98 30.28 36.50 18.04 17.89 19.71 24.60 24.60 25.74 25.74 23.73 24.11 $26.98 30.28 36.50 17.79 – – – – – – – – – – – $18.15 17.87 – 24.60 24.60 25.74 25.74 23.73 24.11 $26.98 30.28 36.50 17.85 17.56 19.71 24.60 24.60 25.74 25.74 23.73 24.11 – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.23 11.86 14.14 – – – 13.42 11.86 – – 36.95 38.61 42.65 25.65 37.95 42.13 42.65 25.65 – – – – 36.95 38.61 42.65 25.65 – – – – 13.90 6.84 13.90 6.84 – – 13.90 – – – 11.48 10.52 13.00 10.49 11.20 13.63 10.31 9.80 13.63 11.53 – 13.00 10.25 11.20 13.63 10.98 – 14.48 11.48 10.52 13.00 10.49 – 13.63 10.31 9.80 13.63 – – – – – – – – – 14.56 15.37 15.27 17.99 17.35 14.56 15.37 16.79 17.92 17.35 – – – – – 14.56 15.37 15.27 17.99 17.35 – – – – – 14.30 10.74 9.81 9.19 8.26 14.30 10.74 9.81 9.19 8.26 – – – – – 14.30 10.74 9.81 9.19 8.26 – – – – – 9.94 13.19 13.58 12.81 9.94 13.19 13.58 12.81 – – – – 9.94 13.19 13.58 12.81 – – – – 14.14 12.59 9.14 11.24 14.33 14.93 14.28 8.32 11.19 14.14 12.59 9.14 11.24 14.33 14.93 14.28 8.32 11.19 – – – – – – – – – 14.14 12.59 9.14 11.24 14.33 14.93 14.28 8.32 11.19 – – – – – – – – – 11.44 – – – – – – – – 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Level 1 .............................................................. Hand packers and packagers ............................... Level 1 .............................................................. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations: Food service occupations: Cooks ................................................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Level 1 .............................................................. Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Level 2 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations: Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. 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 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $12.81 11.16 $12.79 11.16 – – $12.86 11.16 – – 9.04 9.73 9.17 10.29 7.87 9.13 7.94 8.33 9.04 9.73 9.17 10.29 7.87 9.13 7.94 8.50 – – – – – – – – 9.04 10.10 9.17 10.36 7.81 9.40 – 8.82 – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.72 6.70 – – – – $9.81 7.73 7.74 9.21 7.63 – – – 7.13 7.13 7.31 7.28 7.36 6.35 6.24 – – – 7.70 9.17 7.63 – – – 6.75 6.71 6.52 6.46 $6.00 6.00 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 16 Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Occupational group2 Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $14.58 14.70 $7.86 8.19 – – $14.15 14.37 $14.10 14.34 $16.15 16.84 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 18.90 19.85 9.32 14.74 – – 18.35 19.76 18.44 19.75 16.44 – Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 22.53 24.35 16.97 28.20 12.52 11.96 18.91 21.61 – – 6.97 8.10 – – – – – – 22.43 24.28 16.83 28.20 11.13 11.87 22.58 24.53 16.83 28.37 9.90 11.87 – – – – 15.48 – 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 ..... 12.30 15.11 11.50 13.03 9.75 7.73 – – 7.79 7.67 – – – – – 12.12 15.07 11.47 12.06 9.56 12.12 15.02 11.52 12.02 9.60 15.51 – – – – Service occupations ........................................................... 8.40 6.66 – 8.05 8.05 – 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 17 Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 Goods-producing industries4 Occupational group3 All private industries Service-producing industries5 Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Total TransWholeportsale ation and and retail public trade utilities Finance, insurance, and real estate Services All occupations ........................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ................................................ $13.98 14.24 $14.93 14.80 – – – – $15.04 14.94 – – $14.84 14.84 – – – – $14.68 14.68 White-collar occupations ....................................................... White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 18.29 20.38 21.13 21.12 – – – – 21.14 21.19 – – 16.69 16.69 – – – – 21.97 21.97 Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ Professional specialty occupations ................................... Technical occupations ...................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... Sales occupations ................................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 23.36 26.31 17.95 29.46 11.13 12.38 21.53 24.11 17.03 31.46 21.16 13.73 – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.54 24.11 17.04 32.03 20.52 13.82 – – – – – – – – – – – 11.40 – – – – – – – – – – – – 26.40 30.40 18.29 29.75 – 10.58 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 ......... 12.26 15.47 11.49 12.96 9.61 12.63 15.41 11.96 14.28 10.10 – – – – – – – – – – 12.64 16.31 11.95 14.32 10.29 – – – – – 13.97 16.74 – 12.81 – – – – – – – – – – – 7.24 – – – – Service occupations ............................................................... 6.98 – – – – – – – – 7.16 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. 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 18 Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers2, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 100 workers or more All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $13.98 14.24 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. Occupational group3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more $12.05 11.86 $14.41 14.77 $13.01 13.51 $16.89 16.76 18.29 20.38 14.84 15.08 19.18 21.75 16.50 20.22 23.48 23.44 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 23.36 26.31 17.95 29.46 11.13 12.38 15.15 – – 21.39 13.97 11.99 23.83 27.05 17.96 32.58 10.41 12.56 21.68 25.53 16.47 34.50 9.30 12.99 25.19 27.85 19.25 30.45 – 11.49 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 ..... 12.26 15.47 11.49 12.96 9.61 12.20 14.18 11.21 11.45 10.65 12.27 15.81 11.52 13.45 9.47 11.77 15.22 10.32 13.58 9.70 13.11 17.14 13.11 – 9.16 Service occupations ........................................................... 6.98 6.30 7.43 7.39 – 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 19 Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All workers Occupational group2 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 234,137 217,325 184,255 167,443 49,883 49,883 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 98,445 81,634 67,183 50,371 31,262 31,262 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 40,308 31,301 9,007 13,257 16,812 28,069 19,876 12,845 7,031 10,130 16,812 20,365 20,431 18,456 1,976 3,127 – 7,704 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 ..... 99,002 22,633 50,139 11,908 14,322 94,473 20,405 49,943 9,996 14,129 4,529 2,228 – 1,912 – Service occupations ........................................................... 36,690 22,598 14,091 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 20 Appendix A. Technical Note is June 1994. Due to the volatility of industries within the 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 1995. 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 2001, the current NCS sample will be replenished on a rotating basis. Survey scope This survey of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goods-producing 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, MSA includes Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens, and Spartanburg Counties. 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. 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The reference month for the public sector Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multi-step process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size establishment jobs. 21 selection of 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. 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the Census of Population system. 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: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 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. 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 22 worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were 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. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General 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. Collection period The survey was collected from August 1998 through February 1999. The average payroll reference month was October 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: Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. · · · · · 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.) Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. 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 Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: · · · The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: · 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 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 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, 25.4 percent (representing 65,938 employees) refused to supply information. If data were not 23 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. 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 (8.8 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. Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two 24 Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 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 1,219 1,150 466 2 87 378 683 76 337 50 220 69 125 106 58 1 4 53 48 7 18 1 22 19 50 - 99 workers 27 26 11 1 2 8 15 2 9 1 3 1 Total 100 - 499 workers 98 80 47 – 61 56 30 – 2 45 33 5 9 – 2 28 26 4 9 – 19 18 13 5 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 25 500 workers or more 37 24 17 – – 17 7 1 – – 6 13 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 (in percent) Occupation3 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 2.9 2.9 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 4.2 3.5 5.8 4.8 3.2 3.2 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Cashiers ............................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Secretaries ........................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... General office clerks ............................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 4.2 4.4 7.2 7.0 10.6 – – 6.5 1.9 7.6 1.2 0.9 1.4 1.5 – – – – 6.6 7.5 7.3 7.0 10.6 – – 13.6 2.7 – – – – – – – – – 2.9 2.9 – – – – – 2.4 2.5 – 0.7 0.9 1.4 1.5 – – – – 8.8 6.9 9.3 7.8 6.8 7.6 10.1 10.4 14.8 13.9 26.5 2.2 2.6 4.7 4.2 3.3 8.1 6.6 3.8 11.6 9.3 7.5 11.3 – 7.9 9.2 10.3 11.2 14.8 13.9 26.5 2.2 3.1 6.7 4.2 2.6 8.1 6.6 6.3 11.4 – 7.9 – – 8.4 5.3 – – – – – – 3.0 6.6 – – – – – – 2.6 3.2 6.0 7.6 6.1 3.3 4.7 4.7 8.2 2.3 2.6 3.4 6.0 5.8 6.2 3.3 4.7 4.7 8.2 2.3 5.7 5.3 – – – – – – – – 6.9 4.6 7.7 6.9 4.6 7.7 – – – 5.2 4.8 9.5 8.1 5.2 4.8 9.5 8.1 – – – – Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Molding and casting machine operators ............... Winding and twisting machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Extruding and forming machine operators ............ Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ........................................................ Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued (in percent) All industries Private industry State and local government Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued) Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 7.9 6.4 5.6 9.4 4.8 9.2 7.8 7.5 9.4 10.6 10.6 7.9 6.5 5.7 9.4 4.8 9.2 7.8 7.5 9.4 10.6 11.7 – 9.7 – – – – – – – – – Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Food service occupations ......................................... Cooks ................................................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... 3.1 7.8 4.8 6.3 5.4 6.0 9.5 6.6 2.2 3.8 2.9 4.2 16.6 5.2 – – 7.0 – – 2.8 5.1 – 3.9 9.1 4.3 – – 5.1 – 6.5 3.3 2.9 – Occupation3 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 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." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 27 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 All occupations ................................................................................. All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 5 5 5 5 3 3 White-collar occupations ............................................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 7 7 7 7 3 5 Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... Professional specialty occupations ......................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. Industrial engineers ........................................................ Engineers, N.E.C. ........................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Natural scientists ................................................................ Health related occupations ................................................. Registered nurses .......................................................... Teachers, college and university ........................................ Teachers, except college and university ............................ Elementary school teachers ........................................... Secondary school teachers ............................................ Teachers, special education ........................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... Social scientists and urban planners .................................. Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................ Lawyers and judges ............................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ........................................................................... Technical occupations ............................................................ Licensed practical nurses ............................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................ Management related occupations ...................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Sales occupations ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... Cashiers ......................................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... Secretaries ..................................................................... Order clerks .................................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ Production coordinators .................................................. Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. General office clerks ....................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... 8 9 11 9 11 – – 7 7 12 8 9 9 8 – – – – 8 9 11 9 11 – – 7 7 – 8 9 9 8 – – – – 5 5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 6 7 4 10 11 11 8 9 4 6 2 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 5 7 7 7 4 10 11 11 8 9 4 6 – 5 4 5 4 – 5 4 5 – – – – – – – – – 2 – – 3 – – – – – – – 4 6 6 6 7 4 5 4 4 3 4 6 6 6 7 4 5 4 4 3 2 – – – – – – – – – 3 4 4 6 3 5 2 4 4 4 3 2 3 4 4 6 3 5 2 4 4 4 3 2 – – – – – – – – 2 – – 2 Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... Supervisors, production occupations .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ Numerical control machine operators ............................. Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. .......................... Molding and casting machine operators ......................... Winding and twisting machine operators ........................ Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators .................................................................. Extruding and forming machine operators ...................... Mixing and blending machine operators ......................... Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators ... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... Welders and cutters ........................................................ Assemblers ..................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ See footnotes at end of table. 28 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, October 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers (-Continued) Production helpers .......................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Machine feeders and offbearers ..................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 – – – – – – Service occupations ..................................................................... Protective service occupations ........................................... Food service occupations ................................................... Cooks ............................................................................. Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... Health service occupations ................................................. Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service occupations ............................................. 3 6 2 3 1 3 2 4 2 1 2 3 6 2 – 1 3 3 4 2 1 2 2 5 2 – – – – – 1 1 – 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. include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may 29
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