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Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC National Compensation Survey December 2005 _________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Elaine L. Chao, Secretary U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Philip L. Rones, Acting Commissioner October 2006 Bulletin 3135–09 Preface D Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212–0001, call (202) 691–6199, or send an e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm, the BLS Internet site. Data are presented in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the core bulletin, and in an ASCII file containing the published table formats. Results of earlier surveys of this area are available from BLS regional offices, the Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, or at the BLS Internet site. 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) 691–5200; Federal Relay Service: 1–800–877–8339. ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 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. Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. 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 prepared the survey for publication. For additional information regarding this survey, please contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone number listed on the back cover of this bulletin. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Tables: 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics.................................................................................................. 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 5. Combined work levels for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers ................................................................................................................... 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles................................................................................... 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles ...................................................................... 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................... 9. Full-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................................... 10. Part-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................................... 11. Full-time civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 12. Full-time private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 13. Full-time State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings of private industry establishments for major occupational groups ...................................................................................................... 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 17. Union and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................. 18. Time and incentive workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................... 19. Industry sector: Mean hourly earnings for private industry workers by major occupational group ........................................................................................................ 3 4 8 12 13 17 19 21 22 24 25 28 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 Appendixes: A. Technical Note............................................................................................................................... Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey ................................................ Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response ........................................................................ B. Standard Occupational Classification System................................................................................ v A–1 A–5 A–6 B–1 Introduction T About the tables The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 800 detailed occupations, listed in Appendix B, are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households). Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates. Table 1 presents an overview of all tables in this bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative standard errors are given for all industries, private industry, and State and local government for selected worker and establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics include high-level occupational aggregation, full-time or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. Establishment characteristics include goods and service producing and size of establishment. Table 2 presents mean hourly earnings data by work level for major occupational groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for full-time and part-time workers. Table 3 provides work level data for private industry workers. Table 4 provides similar data for State and local government workers. Table 5 simplifies the work levels by combining them into broader groups within major and detailed occupations, and for full-time and parttime workers. Tables 6 through 10 present hourly wage percentiles that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for individual workers within each published occupation. Data are provided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time workers, and part-time workers. Table 11 presents mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings, and the associated hours, for major occupational groups and detailed occupations for full-time workers. Table 12 provides the same type of information for private industry workers. Table 13 provides similar data for State and local government workers. Table 14 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by high-level occupational aggregations in the private sector. Tables 15 and 16 provide he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for the Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC, metropolitan area. Data were collected between June 2005 and July 2006; the average reference month is December 2005. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at different work levels. Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and an appendix with detailed information on occupational classifications. Most of the earnings estimates in this bulletin are presented as mean hourly earnings. Mean weekly and annual earnings, and the corresponding hours, also are provided for full-time employees in specific occupations. Some occupations, such as teachers and fire fighters, typically have shorter or longer work schedules than do the majority of full-time workers. The weekly and annual estimates are useful for comparing the earnings of occupations having different work schedules. NCS products The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed plan provisions. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from the NCS. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation measures employers’ average hourly costs for wages and benefits. NCS also measures the incidence and provisions of benefit plans. This bulletin is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries. Changes to the publications The locality wage publications have undergone a number of significant changes. Beginning with the 3135 bulletin series, the releases employ: 1. The 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system and the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2. An expanded scope of establishments, lowering the minimum establishment size for private industry from 50 workers to 1 worker 3. Imputation for temporary non-response situations 4. Benchmarking of estimated employment 5. Redesigned tables, to reflect the new classification system and to emphasize work levels 1 high-level occupational aggregation. Table 19 presents mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions within the private sector. Appendix table 1 presents the number of workers represented by the survey, by high-level occupational aggregation and for all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Appendix table 2 provides the number of establishments in the sampling frame and the number of responding and nonresponding establishments. mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings data for full-time employees in private establishments with fewer than 100 workers, and in private establishments with 100 workers or more. Table 17 presents mean hourly earnings data for union and nonunion workers in all, private, and State and local government establishments by high-level occupational aggregation. Table 18 provides hourly earnings data for time and incentive workers in all and private establishments by 2 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Civilian workers Worker and establishment characteristics Private industry workers Hourly earnings Mean Relative error2 (percent) $13.73 1.9 Management, professional, and related ........... Management, business, and financial .......... Professional and related ............................... Service .............................................................. Sales and office ................................................ Sales and related .......................................... Office and administrative support ................. Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ................................................... Construction and extraction ......................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ............ Production, transportation, and material moving ............................................................ Production .................................................... Transportation and material moving ............. 23.78 29.75 21.46 9.41 11.81 10.31 12.66 State and local government workers Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) 36.7 $12.96 1.9 5.0 6.8 4.5 6.0 2.8 6.8 3.0 37.3 40.3 36.2 32.1 35.6 32.8 37.5 23.37 28.03 20.09 7.93 11.64 10.31 12.48 14.55 12.41 16.36 8.2 12.4 4.0 39.9 40.0 39.8 12.70 12.82 12.41 2.9 3.1 6.0 Full time ............................................................ Part time ........................................................... 14.31 7.82 Union ................................................................ Nonunion .......................................................... Time .................................................................. Incentive ........................................................... Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) 36.5 $18.23 3.3 37.4 5.7 7.2 5.9 6.0 2.9 6.8 3.1 37.3 40.3 35.4 30.2 35.4 32.8 37.3 24.28 37.43 22.58 12.89 14.32 – 14.32 8.9 15.2 7.4 7.3 3.0 – 3.0 37.3 40.6 36.9 37.8 40.0 – 40.0 14.48 12.23 16.45 8.9 12.7 4.4 39.9 40.0 39.8 – – – – – – – – – 38.7 39.3 37.5 12.73 12.84 12.46 2.9 3.2 6.2 38.9 39.3 38.2 – – – – – – – – – 2.0 5.8 39.8 20.3 13.57 7.39 2.0 5.6 39.8 20.8 18.41 13.99 3.5 9.7 39.7 15.6 – 13.68 – 1.9 – 36.7 – 12.89 – 1.8 – 36.6 – 18.23 – 3.3 – 37.4 13.51 15.99 2.2 2.6 36.3 41.0 12.62 15.99 2.3 2.6 36.1 41.0 18.23 – 3.3 – 37.4 – Goods producing .............................................. Service providing .............................................. (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 13.74 12.28 2.8 3.5 38.9 34.7 (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers ..................................................... 100-499 workers ............................................... 500 workers or more ......................................... 11.62 14.19 17.01 4.6 2.9 2.2 35.0 38.6 37.2 11.62 14.00 15.22 4.6 3.0 2.7 35.0 38.4 37.8 – – 18.78 – – 2.8 – – 36.6 All workers .......................................................... Worker characteristics4,5 Establishment characteristics 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 3 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $13.73 1.9 $14.31 2.0 $7.82 5.8 Management occupations ................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... 31.55 37.55 8.3 7.0 31.55 37.55 8.3 7.0 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. 26.31 8.1 26.31 8.1 – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 22.57 8.9 22.57 8.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. Level 7 ............................................................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Level 7 ............................................................. 20.99 23.34 6.4 1.7 21.15 23.47 6.1 1.7 – – – – 23.54 23.47 1.6 1.7 23.54 – 1.6 – – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Level 4 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 8 ............................................................. Registered nurses ............................................................ Level 7 ............................................................. Level 8 ............................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians .................. Level 4 ............................................................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 23.00 14.01 21.65 23.36 24.82 26.12 22.72 23.55 18.34 14.84 14.88 14.84 23.93 16.20 7.4 5.3 6.0 1.5 6.2 9.3 1.2 .7 4.5 6.9 6.8 6.9 9.2 6.2 23.33 14.05 – 23.31 23.29 26.20 22.64 23.54 18.68 – – – 23.84 16.21 8.0 5.5 – 1.5 .7 9.7 1.1 .8 8.1 – – – 9.6 6.3 19.44 – – – 37.25 24.38 – – – – – – – – 24.5 – – – 12.4 1.4 – – – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Level 3 ............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Level 3 ............................................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ Level 4 ............................................................. 10.44 10.20 8.61 10.92 9.25 8.47 9.41 8.27 10.88 10.96 3.5 5.2 6.2 2.6 7.1 9.3 13.4 8.8 7.0 2.6 10.43 10.20 8.61 10.92 9.25 8.47 9.41 8.27 10.88 10.96 3.5 5.2 6.2 2.6 7.1 9.3 13.4 8.8 7.0 2.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Protective service occupations ......................................... 12.80 10.7 13.04 9.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cooks ............................................................................... Food preparation workers ................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. 7.48 6.59 6.31 8.76 7.54 8.60 2.91 2.85 7.49 6.71 10.1 2.9 25.6 6.7 6.2 11.5 28.1 31.0 5.6 3.1 8.55 6.73 – – 7.62 10.05 – – 8.07 – 8.0 1.2 – – 8.3 12.1 – – 9.5 – 6.10 6.44 4.91 – – – 2.95 – 6.68 6.64 12.8 6.2 31.3 – – – 35.6 – 2.0 2.9 7.77 6.58 6.6 2.0 8.53 – 11.5 – 6.69 – .7 – 10.86 8.59 10.29 8.50 7.88 9.60 13.7 6.8 6.6 5.0 4.5 4.6 11.44 8.91 10.26 8.79 8.17 9.46 16.5 8.3 7.4 8.2 8.8 4.4 7.51 – – 7.51 – – 3.0 – – 3.0 – – 8.32 5.2 8.53 9.1 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners –Continued Level 1 ............................................................. $7.98 5.5 $8.26 10.5 – – Personal care and service occupations ........................... Child care workers ............................................................ 8.08 8.09 6.6 7.3 – – – – $8.18 – 12.4 – Sales and related occupations .......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Retail sales workers ......................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... Retail salespersons ...................................................... 10.31 7.64 7.93 10.06 17.38 9.17 7.64 7.93 9.87 7.88 7.64 7.77 7.88 7.64 7.77 8.87 11.62 6.8 14.9 9.5 3.5 4.5 9.1 14.9 9.5 3.4 13.2 15.4 4.5 13.2 15.4 4.5 15.1 11.4 11.55 – – – – 10.28 – – – 8.35 – – 8.35 – – – 13.09 6.1 – – – – 8.6 – – – 15.5 – – 15.5 – – – 18.3 6.92 – – – – 6.92 – – – 6.97 – – 6.97 – – – – 3.4 – – – – 3.4 – – – 2.7 – – 2.7 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Financial clerks ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Customer service representatives .................................... Level 4 ............................................................. Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Level 4 ............................................................. Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 12.66 9.86 11.28 13.14 13.50 17.33 11.79 13.04 11.82 12.94 12.57 12.65 12.56 10.62 12.91 12.93 11.01 13.48 12.49 12.90 12.13 3.0 3.2 2.7 2.6 2.6 5.4 7.2 3.8 5.9 4.0 3.8 3.2 2.7 3.3 11.0 6.4 6.4 4.6 7.0 4.1 5.6 12.91 – – – – – 12.21 – 11.82 12.94 12.57 13.01 12.56 10.62 12.91 12.93 – 13.48 12.49 12.90 12.76 2.8 – – – – – 5.0 – 5.9 4.0 3.8 1.7 2.7 3.3 11.0 6.4 – 4.6 7.0 4.1 3.3 9.03 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 12.41 12.4 12.41 12.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. 16.36 12.42 15.76 15.39 19.64 14.80 4.0 3.9 2.1 2.9 5.2 4.7 16.36 – – – – 14.80 4.0 – – – – 4.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.64 17.53 20.65 13.51 1.6 3.0 4.7 6.1 17.64 17.53 20.65 13.51 1.6 3.0 4.7 6.1 – – – – – – – – Production occupations .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. 12.82 9.03 10.20 12.71 15.19 3.1 4.8 1.6 1.0 2.7 12.82 – – – – 3.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 5 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Production occupations –Continued Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Sewing machine operators ............................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Upholsterers ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Level 4 ............................................................. Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Cutting workers ................................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Level 4 ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $16.29 18.59 20.63 3.7 5.3 3.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.53 7.7 $17.53 7.7 – – 11.06 12.03 9.82 11.88 12.50 12.26 9.30 13.62 14.88 11.29 12.28 12.68 17.17 10.45 18.42 19.51 20.11 19.70 19.01 19.84 20.11 13.22 12.70 13.42 12.14 13.1 1.4 1.9 6.9 1.5 5.7 10.8 7.7 6.2 6.6 4.0 1.1 4.1 4.1 2.1 2.7 8.9 1.0 1.7 4.0 8.9 2.9 1.2 .6 6.0 11.06 12.03 9.82 11.88 12.50 12.29 9.26 13.62 14.88 11.29 12.28 12.68 17.17 10.45 18.42 19.51 20.11 19.70 19.01 19.84 20.11 13.22 12.70 13.42 12.14 13.1 1.4 1.9 6.9 1.5 6.1 11.1 7.7 6.2 6.6 4.0 1.1 4.1 4.1 2.1 2.7 8.9 1.0 1.7 4.0 8.9 2.9 1.2 .6 6.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.66 13.38 2.7 1.0 13.66 13.38 2.7 1.0 – – – – 12.22 10.93 5.2 .2 12.22 10.93 5.2 .2 – – – – 13.55 14.37 13.79 15.25 14.17 10.97 11.41 15.73 13.71 12.45 10.7 4.6 9.7 .5 8.9 9.9 .0 1.2 1.6 5.7 13.55 14.37 13.79 15.25 14.17 10.97 11.41 15.73 13.71 12.45 10.7 4.6 9.7 .5 8.9 9.9 .0 1.2 1.6 5.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.80 11.89 8.44 11.59 13.01 17.52 10.95 1.5 6.9 11.1 4.0 1.9 6.4 6.3 12.80 11.89 8.44 11.59 13.01 17.52 10.95 1.5 6.9 11.1 4.0 1.9 6.4 6.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.41 9.43 10.96 16.06 17.35 15.77 18.09 6.0 6.2 4.3 14.1 5.2 8.3 2.7 12.87 – – – – 16.17 18.09 5.5 – – – – 7.7 2.7 $8.64 – – – – – – 13.2 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 6 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Level 4 ............................................................. Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $16.08 18.09 11.88 11.65 13.26 10.12 9.68 10.41 6.8 2.7 5.1 5.7 4.2 4.9 5.7 5.4 $16.08 18.09 11.75 11.48 13.26 10.51 10.20 10.24 6.8 2.7 5.8 7.3 4.2 3.5 4.9 5.6 – – – – – $8.19 7.78 – – – – – – 13.5 11.8 – 10.22 9.89 10.51 9.50 8.20 10.85 4.2 5.4 7.9 8.7 8.7 3.1 10.38 10.14 10.24 10.38 9.16 10.85 4.9 6.4 8.1 6.2 6.6 3.1 9.43 – – – – – 8.5 – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 7 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $12.96 1.9 $13.57 2.0 $7.39 5.6 Management occupations ................................................. 29.92 8.0 29.92 8.0 – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. 24.84 9.2 24.84 9.2 – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 22.57 8.9 22.57 8.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. 22.14 15.9 22.57 16.3 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Level 4 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 8 ............................................................. Registered nurses ............................................................ Level 8 ............................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians .................. Level 4 ............................................................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 20.21 – 21.65 23.98 23.98 27.49 23.55 17.97 14.84 14.88 14.84 23.93 16.20 8.1 – 6.0 3.5 1.3 11.6 .7 3.6 6.9 6.8 6.9 9.2 6.2 20.77 14.29 – 23.98 23.61 27.60 23.54 18.32 – – – 23.84 16.21 8.9 6.4 – 3.5 .5 11.9 .8 7.6 – – – 9.6 6.3 14.90 – – – 28.96 24.20 – – – – – – – 21.8 – – – 17.0 2.9 – – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Level 3 ............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Level 3 ............................................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 9.62 10.20 8.61 9.18 8.47 9.41 8.27 10.33 6.4 5.2 6.2 7.9 9.3 13.4 8.8 13.7 9.62 10.20 8.61 9.18 8.47 9.41 8.27 10.33 6.4 5.2 6.2 7.9 9.3 13.4 8.8 13.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cooks ............................................................................... Food preparation workers ................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 7.21 6.50 6.14 8.57 7.28 8.57 2.91 2.85 7.14 6.58 10.9 3.2 27.8 6.8 4.1 12.7 28.1 31.0 5.5 3.9 8.26 6.73 – – 7.30 10.05 – – 7.64 – 8.5 1.2 – – 6.0 12.1 – – 7.7 – 5.88 6.24 4.46 – – – 2.95 – 6.48 – 7.28 7.2 7.95 9.6 8.98 7.41 8.09 7.41 11.0 4.0 5.7 4.0 9.56 – 8.35 – 16.5 – 10.9 – 7.80 7.43 6.3 5.2 – – Personal care and service occupations ........................... Child care workers ............................................................ 7.73 7.69 1.6 .8 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Retail sales workers ......................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. 10.31 7.64 7.93 10.06 17.38 9.17 7.64 7.93 6.8 14.9 9.5 3.5 4.5 9.1 14.9 9.5 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Level 1 ............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 8 13.3 7.2 32.0 – – – 35.6 – 2.8 – – – 7.51 – 7.51 – 3.0 – 3.0 – – – – – – – – – – – 7.25 – 7.0 – 11.55 – 8.94 10.31 17.38 10.28 – 8.94 6.1 – 13.1 1.8 4.5 8.6 – 13.1 6.92 – 6.85 – – 6.92 – 6.85 3.4 – 5.2 – – 3.4 – 5.2 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Retail sales workers –Continued Level 3 ............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... Retail salespersons ...................................................... $9.87 7.88 7.64 7.77 7.88 7.64 7.77 8.87 11.62 3.4 13.2 15.4 4.5 13.2 15.4 4.5 15.1 11.4 – $8.35 – – 8.35 – – – 13.09 – 15.5 – – 15.5 – – – 18.3 – $6.97 – – 6.97 – – – – – 2.7 – – 2.7 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Financial clerks ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Customer service representatives .................................... Level 4 ............................................................. Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 12.48 9.86 11.28 13.01 13.51 17.54 11.69 12.93 11.82 13.05 12.57 12.65 12.56 10.62 12.91 12.93 11.01 13.08 10.63 3.1 3.2 2.7 2.8 4.0 6.8 7.5 3.8 5.9 4.5 3.8 3.2 2.7 3.3 11.0 6.4 6.4 4.1 13.8 12.74 10.39 11.33 12.98 13.51 17.54 12.13 12.83 11.82 13.05 12.57 13.01 12.56 10.62 12.91 12.93 – 13.08 – 3.0 1.2 2.8 2.9 4.0 6.8 5.4 3.6 5.9 4.5 3.8 1.7 2.7 3.3 11.0 6.4 – 4.1 – 9.03 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 12.23 12.7 12.23 12.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. 16.45 12.42 19.64 14.72 4.4 3.9 5.2 6.4 16.45 12.42 19.64 14.72 4.4 3.9 5.2 6.4 – – – – – – – – 17.64 17.53 20.65 13.51 1.6 3.0 4.7 6.1 17.64 17.53 20.65 13.51 1.6 3.0 4.7 6.1 – – – – – – – – Production occupations .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Sewing machine operators ............................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. 12.84 9.03 10.20 12.71 15.39 16.29 18.59 20.63 3.2 4.8 1.6 1.0 2.5 3.7 5.3 3.7 12.84 9.03 10.20 12.71 15.39 16.29 18.59 20.63 3.1 4.8 1.6 1.0 2.5 3.7 5.3 3.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.53 7.7 17.53 7.7 – – 11.06 12.03 9.82 11.88 12.50 12.26 9.30 13.62 14.88 11.29 12.28 12.68 13.1 1.4 1.9 6.9 1.5 5.7 10.8 7.7 6.2 6.6 4.0 1.1 11.06 12.03 9.82 11.88 12.50 12.29 9.26 13.62 14.88 11.29 12.28 12.68 13.1 1.4 1.9 6.9 1.5 6.1 11.1 7.7 6.2 6.6 4.0 1.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 9 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Upholsterers ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Level 4 ............................................................. Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Cutting workers ................................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ $17.17 10.45 18.42 19.51 20.11 19.70 19.01 19.84 20.11 13.22 12.70 13.42 12.14 4.1 4.1 2.1 2.7 8.9 1.0 1.7 4.0 8.9 2.9 1.2 .6 6.0 $17.17 10.45 18.42 19.51 20.11 19.70 19.01 19.84 20.11 13.22 12.70 13.42 12.14 4.1 4.1 2.1 2.7 8.9 1.0 1.7 4.0 8.9 2.9 1.2 .6 6.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.66 13.38 2.7 1.0 13.66 13.38 2.7 1.0 – – – – 12.22 10.93 5.2 .2 12.22 10.93 5.2 .2 – – – – 13.55 14.37 13.79 15.25 14.17 10.97 11.41 15.73 13.71 12.45 10.7 4.6 9.7 .5 8.9 9.9 .0 1.2 1.6 5.7 13.55 14.37 13.79 15.25 14.17 10.97 11.41 15.73 13.71 12.45 10.7 4.6 9.7 .5 8.9 9.9 .0 1.2 1.6 5.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.80 11.89 8.44 11.59 13.01 17.52 10.95 1.5 6.9 11.1 4.0 1.9 6.4 6.3 12.80 11.89 8.44 11.59 13.01 17.52 10.95 1.5 6.9 11.1 4.0 1.9 6.4 6.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Level 4 ............................................................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Level 4 ............................................................. Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. 12.46 9.43 10.92 16.06 17.35 16.30 18.09 16.95 18.09 11.88 11.65 13.26 6.2 6.2 4.8 14.1 5.2 8.5 2.7 5.3 2.7 5.1 5.7 4.2 12.93 9.94 10.79 16.06 17.35 16.77 18.09 16.95 18.09 11.75 11.48 13.26 5.7 5.7 5.6 14.1 5.2 7.5 2.7 5.3 2.7 5.8 7.3 4.2 $8.59 7.68 – – – – – – – – – – 13.4 9.4 – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $10.12 9.68 10.41 4.9 5.7 5.4 $10.51 10.20 10.24 3.5 4.9 5.6 $8.19 7.78 – 13.5 11.8 – 10.22 9.89 10.51 9.50 8.20 10.85 4.2 5.4 7.9 8.7 8.7 3.1 10.38 10.14 10.24 10.38 9.16 10.85 4.9 6.4 8.1 6.2 6.6 3.1 9.43 – – – – – 8.5 – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 11 Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $18.23 3.3 $18.41 3.5 $13.99 9.7 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Level 7 ............................................................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Level 7 ............................................................. 20.78 23.47 7.1 1.7 20.90 23.47 6.7 1.7 – – – – 23.54 23.47 1.6 1.7 23.54 23.47 1.6 1.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 10.90 7.7 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. 12.85 25.6 12.85 25.6 – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. 14.32 3.0 14.32 3.0 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 12 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $13.73 1.9 $14.31 2.0 $7.82 5.8 Management occupations ................................................. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ 31.55 18.66 44.51 8.3 9.5 13.3 31.55 – – 8.3 – – – – – – – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ 26.31 19.11 31.36 8.1 8.9 4.6 26.31 – – 8.1 – – – – – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 22.57 8.9 22.57 8.9 – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Group II ............................................................. 20.99 23.00 28.28 6.4 2.9 4.8 21.15 – – 6.1 – – – – – – – – 23.54 23.54 1.6 1.6 23.54 – 1.6 – – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Registered nurses ............................................................ Group II ............................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Group I .............................................................. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians .................. Group I .............................................................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Group II ............................................................. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 23.00 13.22 21.34 39.01 26.12 23.10 18.34 14.84 14.88 14.84 23.93 23.93 16.20 7.4 6.2 6.0 9.5 9.3 1.0 4.5 6.9 6.8 6.9 9.2 9.2 6.2 23.33 – – – 26.20 23.03 18.68 – – – 23.84 – 16.21 8.0 – – – 9.7 1.0 8.1 – – – 9.6 – 6.3 19.44 – – – 24.38 24.38 – – – – – – – 24.5 – – – 1.4 1.4 – – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Group I .............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Group I .............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ Group I .............................................................. 10.44 9.90 9.25 9.25 9.41 9.41 10.88 10.46 3.5 4.2 7.1 7.1 13.4 13.4 7.0 6.6 10.43 – 9.25 – 9.41 9.41 10.88 – 3.5 – 7.1 – 13.4 13.4 7.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Protective service occupations ......................................... 12.80 10.7 13.04 9.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Group I .............................................................. Cooks ............................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Food preparation workers ................................................. Group I .............................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Group I .............................................................. Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Group I .............................................................. Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Group I .............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... Group I .............................................................. 7.48 7.08 7.54 7.54 8.60 8.11 2.91 2.91 2.85 2.85 7.49 7.48 10.1 7.7 6.2 6.2 11.5 6.4 28.1 28.1 31.0 31.0 5.6 5.7 8.55 – 7.62 – 10.05 8.91 – – – – 8.07 – 8.0 – 8.3 – 12.1 .5 – – – – 9.5 – 6.10 – – – – – 2.95 – – – 6.68 – 12.8 – – – – – 35.6 – – – 2.0 – 7.77 7.76 6.6 6.7 8.53 8.52 11.5 11.7 6.69 – .7 – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Group I .............................................................. 10.86 9.02 8.50 8.45 13.7 5.2 5.0 4.7 11.44 – 8.79 – 16.5 – 8.2 – 7.51 – 7.51 – 3.0 – 3.0 – See footnotes at end of table. 13 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Group I .............................................................. $8.32 8.32 5.2 5.2 $8.53 8.53 9.1 9.1 – – – – Personal care and service occupations ........................... Group I .............................................................. Child care workers ............................................................ Group I .............................................................. 8.08 8.08 8.09 8.09 6.6 6.6 7.3 7.3 – – – – – – – – $8.18 – – – 12.4 – – – Sales and related occupations .......................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Retail sales workers ......................................................... Group I .............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Group I .............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... Retail salespersons ...................................................... Group I .............................................................. 10.31 8.41 17.72 9.17 8.21 7.88 7.86 7.88 7.86 8.87 11.62 9.25 6.8 11.5 4.6 9.1 11.5 13.2 13.9 13.2 13.9 15.1 11.4 11.0 11.55 – – 10.28 – 8.35 – 8.35 8.36 – 13.09 – 6.1 – – 8.6 – 15.5 – 15.5 17.6 – 18.3 – 6.92 – – 6.92 – 6.97 – 6.97 6.97 – – – 3.4 – – 3.4 – 2.7 – 2.7 2.7 – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Financial clerks ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Group I .............................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Group I .............................................................. Customer service representatives .................................... Group I .............................................................. Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Group I .............................................................. Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Group I .............................................................. Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Group I .............................................................. Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Group I .............................................................. Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Group I .............................................................. Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ Office clerks, general ........................................................ Group I .............................................................. 12.66 11.95 15.46 11.79 11.54 11.82 12.81 12.94 12.57 12.65 12.01 10.62 10.62 12.91 11.46 12.93 13.55 11.01 11.01 13.48 12.67 12.90 12.13 10.63 3.0 2.8 6.6 7.2 8.3 5.9 4.2 4.0 3.8 3.2 4.8 3.3 3.3 11.0 4.6 6.4 4.1 6.4 6.4 4.6 3.8 4.1 5.6 13.8 12.91 – – 12.21 – 11.82 12.81 12.94 12.57 13.01 12.56 10.62 10.62 12.91 11.46 12.93 13.55 – – 13.48 – 12.90 12.76 – 2.8 – – 5.0 – 5.9 4.2 4.0 3.8 1.7 2.7 3.3 3.3 11.0 4.6 6.4 4.1 – – 4.6 – 4.1 3.3 – 9.03 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Construction and extraction occupations ....................... Group II ............................................................. 12.41 16.00 12.4 7.0 12.41 – 12.4 – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Group II ............................................................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Group II ............................................................. Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Group II ............................................................. Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. Group I .............................................................. 16.36 11.95 17.60 14.80 15.19 4.0 3.2 3.6 4.7 1.8 16.36 – – 14.80 – 4.0 – – 4.7 – – – – – – – – – – – 17.64 13.27 18.80 17.53 17.53 20.65 20.65 13.51 13.27 1.6 5.1 1.5 3.0 3.0 4.7 4.7 6.1 5.1 17.64 – – 17.53 17.53 20.65 20.65 13.51 13.27 1.6 – – 3.0 3.0 4.7 4.7 6.1 5.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Production occupations .................................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Group II ............................................................. Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Group I .............................................................. Sewing machine operators ............................................... Group I .............................................................. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Upholsterers ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood Group I .............................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Group I .............................................................. Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Group I .............................................................. Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Cutting workers ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Group I .............................................................. Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Group II ............................................................. Painting workers ............................................................... Group I .............................................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Group I .............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ Group I .............................................................. $12.82 11.94 17.21 3.1 2.9 3.2 $12.82 – – 3.1 – – – – – – – – 17.53 19.15 7.7 .2 17.53 19.15 7.7 .2 – – – – 11.06 10.93 12.03 12.03 12.26 12.26 11.29 11.23 17.17 15.01 19.84 19.70 19.00 19.96 13.22 12.20 15.24 12.14 11.48 13.1 12.9 1.4 1.4 5.7 5.7 6.6 5.8 4.1 7.4 2.8 1.0 1.7 2.1 2.9 3.2 2.6 6.0 8.3 11.06 – 12.03 – 12.29 12.29 11.29 – 17.17 – – 19.70 19.00 19.96 13.22 – – 12.14 11.48 13.1 – 1.4 – 6.1 6.1 6.6 – 4.1 – – 1.0 1.7 2.1 2.9 – – 6.0 8.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.66 12.52 2.7 2.9 13.66 12.52 2.7 2.9 – – – – 12.22 12.22 10.93 10.93 5.2 5.2 .2 .2 12.22 – 10.93 10.93 5.2 – .2 .2 – – – – – – – – 13.55 13.55 14.37 14.22 15.25 15.07 10.97 13.71 12.45 12.45 10.7 10.7 4.6 3.5 .5 1.0 9.9 1.6 5.7 5.7 13.55 13.55 14.37 – 15.25 15.07 10.97 13.71 12.45 – 10.7 10.7 4.6 – .5 1.0 9.9 1.6 5.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.80 12.80 11.89 11.55 10.95 10.95 1.5 1.5 6.9 6.1 6.3 6.3 12.80 12.80 11.89 – 10.95 10.95 1.5 1.5 6.9 – 6.3 6.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Group I .............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Group I .............................................................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Group I .............................................................. Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Group I .............................................................. Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Group I .............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ 12.41 12.05 15.77 15.77 16.08 16.08 11.88 11.88 10.12 10.10 6.0 4.9 8.3 8.3 6.8 6.8 5.1 5.1 4.9 5.0 12.87 – 16.17 – 16.08 16.08 11.75 11.75 10.51 – 5.5 – 7.7 – 6.8 6.8 5.8 5.8 3.5 – $8.64 – – – – – – – 8.19 – 13.2 – – – – – – – 13.5 – 10.22 4.2 10.38 4.9 9.43 8.5 See footnotes at end of table. 15 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand –Continued Group I .............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Group I .............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $10.22 9.50 9.43 4.2 8.7 9.0 $10.38 10.38 10.32 4.9 6.2 6.9 $9.43 – – 8.5 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 16 Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $7.14 $9.40 $12.00 $15.72 $22.34 Management occupations ................................................. 15.65 19.56 29.09 40.41 49.28 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 14.50 19.13 24.04 32.20 37.64 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 12.73 12.73 24.65 28.22 28.22 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... 8.99 15.65 23.64 25.07 27.00 19.47 23.32 23.64 25.38 26.26 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians .................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 13.46 19.14 14.37 13.37 19.89 13.37 16.01 21.50 16.43 13.77 22.95 14.64 20.87 24.43 17.50 15.18 23.79 16.01 24.79 27.53 17.50 16.43 23.79 16.01 40.95 40.95 23.84 16.43 30.00 21.00 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 7.85 6.50 6.50 8.50 8.57 7.88 7.50 10.00 10.00 9.05 9.70 10.36 11.47 11.15 11.47 11.36 13.53 11.52 11.52 13.53 Protective service occupations ......................................... 8.00 12.43 13.10 14.94 15.81 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Cooks ............................................................................... Food preparation workers ................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 2.50 6.50 6.35 2.13 2.13 5.75 6.21 6.50 7.00 2.13 2.13 6.00 7.03 7.00 8.25 2.13 2.13 7.03 8.84 7.50 9.25 2.50 2.13 8.00 11.50 9.55 10.75 5.00 5.00 10.00 5.80 6.21 7.28 9.00 10.65 6.84 6.84 7.14 6.84 9.78 8.00 10.51 9.88 15.40 10.75 6.84 6.84 7.14 9.78 10.51 Personal care and service occupations ........................... Child care workers ............................................................ 6.50 6.50 7.00 6.50 7.75 7.75 8.50 8.54 10.50 10.50 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... Retail salespersons ...................................................... 6.35 6.25 6.50 6.50 6.00 6.50 7.00 7.00 6.75 6.75 6.25 7.50 8.50 7.75 7.00 7.00 8.50 10.00 11.54 10.00 8.36 8.36 9.50 11.25 17.13 12.50 11.25 11.25 11.54 20.32 Office and administrative support occupations .............. Financial clerks ................................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 9.55 8.00 9.24 11.82 10.37 9.55 10.60 8.50 8.00 11.73 11.73 9.75 11.09 10.14 9.95 12.17 11.50 10.00 11.30 10.00 9.74 12.56 12.21 10.78 12.17 12.17 12.25 12.17 12.64 10.00 12.01 13.91 11.73 12.98 12.98 13.00 14.32 12.95 12.32 14.03 14.34 11.35 14.61 15.75 11.93 14.27 12.98 14.01 15.87 14.68 15.95 14.50 14.50 12.50 15.53 15.75 12.60 15.87 14.27 15.24 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.50 11.00 11.00 14.58 16.74 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 11.00 12.50 13.33 13.33 16.13 13.33 18.86 17.83 20.74 18.54 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 17 Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $13.65 13.65 17.26 11.00 $14.60 14.60 18.45 11.00 $17.26 16.00 20.22 14.00 $20.22 21.13 23.98 14.81 $23.98 21.13 26.90 14.90 8.50 10.00 12.12 15.00 18.00 12.50 13.75 16.43 22.09 22.38 6.75 9.85 8.00 8.50 10.07 14.48 9.75 9.00 10.26 9.00 9.25 13.03 16.17 12.27 10.56 11.22 11.27 11.11 16.64 19.00 13.28 13.06 13.50 14.45 12.50 21.00 21.41 14.28 15.58 15.55 17.45 14.85 25.35 26.43 16.34 9.75 9.75 13.28 13.85 13.85 9.53 12.85 13.28 14.66 16.92 9.83 9.83 10.18 10.08 11.33 10.50 13.05 12.70 16.35 12.70 10.50 10.70 11.77 8.00 10.58 11.33 12.42 12.90 9.00 11.50 13.05 13.23 14.00 10.00 12.28 15.56 16.15 17.81 12.75 13.69 17.44 19.05 19.20 15.39 14.30 11.48 6.00 9.50 12.01 9.25 9.75 12.76 11.36 10.10 13.69 15.05 11.09 14.30 17.21 14.87 7.25 8.25 10.91 9.00 7.00 9.00 11.36 12.50 10.50 8.27 11.14 16.39 16.50 10.75 10.00 14.44 19.22 17.70 14.10 12.00 18.24 24.12 19.85 15.50 13.19 7.25 6.00 9.00 6.65 10.00 9.77 12.05 11.14 13.15 12.75 Occupation2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. Production occupations .................................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Sewing machine operators ............................................... Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Upholsterers ................................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood ....................................................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Cutting workers ................................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 18 Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $7.00 $9.00 $11.61 $15.00 $20.22 Management occupations ................................................. 15.24 19.56 26.32 40.41 41.73 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 13.08 16.93 23.89 32.20 33.07 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 12.73 12.73 24.65 28.22 28.22 Education, training, and library occupations .................. 10.24 14.28 23.85 31.52 36.34 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians .................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 13.37 19.71 13.77 13.37 19.89 13.37 16.01 21.75 16.43 13.77 22.95 14.64 17.50 25.28 17.50 15.18 23.79 16.01 23.79 28.95 17.50 16.43 23.79 16.01 27.92 40.95 23.84 16.43 30.00 21.00 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 7.50 6.50 6.50 8.00 8.00 7.85 7.50 8.50 9.53 9.00 9.70 10.00 11.37 11.47 11.47 11.36 11.52 11.52 11.52 13.26 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Cooks ............................................................................... Food preparation workers ................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 2.13 6.50 6.25 2.13 2.13 5.75 6.07 6.50 6.75 2.13 2.13 6.00 7.00 7.00 8.00 2.13 2.13 7.03 8.00 7.32 9.50 2.50 2.13 8.00 10.00 8.50 11.00 5.00 5.00 9.00 5.80 6.21 7.03 8.25 9.00 6.84 6.84 6.84 6.84 7.14 7.00 9.37 8.47 15.40 10.83 6.84 6.84 7.00 8.47 10.51 Personal care and service occupations ........................... Child care workers ............................................................ 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 7.55 7.70 8.50 8.50 9.25 9.25 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... Retail salespersons ...................................................... 6.35 6.25 6.50 6.50 6.00 6.50 7.00 7.00 6.75 6.75 6.25 7.50 8.50 7.75 7.00 7.00 8.50 10.00 11.54 10.00 8.36 8.36 9.50 11.25 17.13 12.50 11.25 11.25 11.54 20.32 Office and administrative support occupations .............. Financial clerks ................................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 9.30 8.00 9.24 12.17 10.37 9.55 10.60 8.50 8.00 10.75 5.77 10.76 9.95 9.95 12.17 11.50 10.00 11.30 10.00 9.74 12.56 10.20 12.17 12.17 12.25 12.17 12.64 10.00 12.01 13.91 11.73 12.98 10.97 13.66 12.95 12.32 14.03 14.34 11.35 14.61 15.75 11.93 12.98 13.00 15.75 14.50 15.95 14.50 14.50 12.50 15.53 15.75 12.60 15.48 13.00 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.50 11.00 11.00 12.23 16.10 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. 11.00 12.00 13.33 13.33 16.13 13.33 20.22 17.53 20.78 18.54 13.65 13.65 17.26 11.00 14.60 14.60 18.45 11.00 17.26 16.00 20.22 14.00 20.22 21.13 23.98 14.81 23.98 21.13 26.90 14.90 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 19 Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Production occupations .................................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Sewing machine operators ............................................... Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Upholsterers ................................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood ....................................................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Cutting workers ................................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ $8.50 $10.00 $12.20 $15.05 $18.00 12.50 13.75 16.43 22.09 22.38 6.75 9.85 8.00 8.50 10.07 14.48 9.75 9.00 10.26 9.00 9.25 13.03 16.17 12.27 10.56 11.22 11.27 11.11 16.64 19.00 13.28 13.06 13.50 14.45 12.50 21.00 21.41 14.28 15.58 15.55 17.45 14.85 25.35 26.43 16.34 9.75 9.75 13.28 13.85 13.85 9.53 12.85 13.28 14.66 16.92 9.83 9.83 10.18 10.08 11.33 10.50 13.05 12.70 16.35 12.70 10.50 10.70 11.77 8.00 10.58 11.33 12.42 12.90 9.00 11.50 13.05 13.23 14.00 10.00 12.28 15.56 16.15 17.81 12.75 13.69 17.44 19.05 19.20 15.39 14.30 11.48 6.00 9.50 12.01 9.25 9.75 12.76 11.36 10.10 13.69 15.05 11.09 14.30 17.21 14.87 Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 7.25 8.25 12.00 9.00 7.00 9.00 12.00 14.04 10.50 8.27 11.14 17.41 17.44 10.75 10.00 14.50 19.85 17.96 14.10 12.00 18.77 24.12 19.85 15.50 13.19 7.25 6.00 9.00 6.65 10.00 9.77 12.05 11.14 13.15 12.75 Occupation2 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 20 Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $9.78 $11.15 $15.23 $23.64 $27.00 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... 8.99 17.21 23.64 25.07 26.26 19.47 23.32 23.64 25.38 26.26 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 8.84 9.44 10.25 12.43 12.79 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. 9.17 9.78 9.81 11.05 35.70 Office and administrative support occupations .............. 11.73 12.83 14.49 15.24 15.87 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 21 Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Full-time workers Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $8.25 $10.00 $12.43 $16.13 $23.31 Management occupations ................................................. 15.65 19.56 29.09 40.41 49.28 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 14.50 19.13 24.04 32.20 37.64 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 12.73 12.73 24.65 28.22 28.22 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... 9.21 15.65 23.64 25.15 27.00 19.47 23.32 23.64 25.38 26.26 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ............. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 14.64 19.14 15.18 19.89 13.37 16.43 21.45 17.50 22.95 14.64 20.88 24.28 17.50 23.79 16.01 24.61 27.63 18.24 23.79 16.01 40.95 40.95 23.84 30.00 21.00 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 7.85 6.50 6.50 8.50 8.57 7.88 7.50 10.00 10.00 9.05 9.70 10.36 11.47 11.15 11.47 11.36 13.53 11.52 11.52 13.53 Protective service occupations ......................................... 8.35 12.43 13.46 14.94 15.81 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Cooks ............................................................................... Food preparation workers ................................................. Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 6.21 6.50 8.00 6.00 6.70 6.50 8.50 6.21 8.00 7.00 9.00 8.00 9.55 8.00 10.00 9.00 12.46 9.55 15.00 10.65 6.21 7.28 8.00 10.00 12.43 6.84 6.84 8.00 6.84 9.78 8.47 10.90 10.15 17.69 10.83 6.84 6.84 8.47 10.15 10.75 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Retail salespersons ...................................................... 7.00 7.00 6.75 6.75 7.40 7.60 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.50 10.10 8.50 7.00 7.00 11.00 12.50 11.25 9.75 9.75 12.75 18.27 13.50 11.50 11.50 20.32 Office and administrative support occupations .............. Financial clerks ................................................................. Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Production, planning, and expediting clerks ..................... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 10.00 9.25 9.24 11.82 11.37 9.55 10.60 8.50 11.73 11.73 10.20 11.34 11.09 9.95 12.17 11.58 10.00 11.30 10.00 12.56 12.21 11.25 12.32 12.17 12.25 12.17 12.64 10.00 12.01 13.91 12.98 12.98 13.00 14.49 14.03 12.32 14.03 14.34 11.35 14.61 15.75 14.27 12.98 14.10 15.95 14.50 15.95 14.50 14.50 12.50 15.53 15.75 15.87 14.27 15.24 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.50 11.00 11.00 14.58 16.74 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... Maintenance workers, machinery ................................. 11.00 12.50 13.33 13.33 16.13 13.33 18.86 17.83 20.74 18.54 13.65 13.65 17.26 11.00 14.60 14.60 18.45 11.00 17.26 16.00 20.22 14.00 20.22 21.13 23.98 14.81 23.98 21.13 26.90 14.90 Production occupations .................................................... 8.50 10.00 12.12 15.05 18.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 22 Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Full-time workers Occupation3 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Sewing machine operators ............................................... Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .............. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers .. Upholsterers ................................................................. Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ... Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood ....................................................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ........................................... Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ....................................................................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders .................................................................... Cutting workers ................................................................. Cutters and trimmers, hand .......................................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $12.50 $13.75 $16.43 $22.09 $22.38 6.75 9.85 8.00 8.50 10.07 14.48 9.75 9.00 10.26 9.00 9.25 13.03 16.17 12.27 10.56 11.22 11.27 11.11 16.64 19.00 13.28 13.06 13.50 14.45 12.50 21.00 21.41 14.28 15.58 15.55 17.45 14.85 25.35 26.43 16.34 9.75 9.75 13.28 13.85 13.85 9.53 12.85 13.28 14.66 16.92 9.83 9.83 10.18 10.08 11.33 10.50 13.05 12.70 16.35 12.70 10.50 10.70 11.77 8.00 10.58 11.33 12.42 12.90 9.00 11.50 13.05 13.23 14.00 10.00 12.28 15.56 16.15 17.81 12.75 13.69 17.44 19.05 19.20 15.39 14.30 11.48 6.00 9.50 12.01 9.25 9.75 12.76 11.36 10.10 13.69 15.05 11.09 14.30 17.21 14.87 8.00 9.60 10.91 9.00 7.25 9.75 11.96 12.50 10.29 9.00 11.63 16.85 16.50 10.50 10.30 15.00 19.85 17.70 13.75 12.05 19.85 24.12 19.85 15.50 13.97 7.25 7.80 9.00 9.00 10.29 10.21 12.05 11.95 13.15 13.97 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 23 Table 10. Part-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Part-time workers Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $5.50 $6.25 $7.14 $8.25 $11.49 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ 8.50 21.75 9.50 23.00 13.77 25.00 25.00 25.50 43.46 27.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Food service, tipped ......................................................... Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 2.13 2.13 5.71 5.00 2.13 5.75 6.50 2.13 6.15 7.75 2.13 7.03 8.84 5.00 8.00 5.70 5.85 6.15 7.03 8.25 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.14 7.14 10.51 10.51 Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.50 6.50 7.25 8.54 11.49 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.25 6.25 6.50 6.50 6.75 6.75 6.75 6.75 7.50 7.50 7.50 7.50 8.15 8.15 8.00 8.00 Office and administrative support occupations .............. 7.31 7.50 8.00 11.81 11.82 Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ 5.50 5.65 6.25 6.25 8.25 7.85 10.35 9.55 13.19 10.57 7.25 8.50 9.55 10.57 13.19 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 24 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $494 39.8 $29,314 $25,709 2,049 1,278 1,163 40.5 66,010 56,739 2,092 24.04 1,053 962 40.0 54,767 49,999 2,082 22.57 24.65 903 986 40.0 46,945 51,272 2,080 21.15 23.64 826 886 39.1 36,656 39,175 1,733 23.54 23.64 905 886 38.4 39,600 39,175 1,683 23.33 26.20 20.88 24.28 888 1,003 736 905 38.1 38.3 46,171 52,179 38,272 47,050 1,979 1,992 18.68 17.50 711 700 38.1 36,984 36,400 1,979 23.84 23.79 953 952 40.0 49,577 49,487 2,080 16.21 16.01 586 576 36.2 30,488 29,971 1,881 10.43 10.00 403 400 38.6 20,944 20,806 2,007 9.25 9.05 355 343 38.4 18,477 17,826 1,998 Mean Median Mean Median All workers ................................................ $14.31 $12.43 $569 Management occupations ................... 31.55 29.09 Business and financial operations occupations .................................... 26.31 Architecture and engineering occupations .................................... Education, training, and library occupations .................................... Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ............ Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations .................................... Registered nurses .............................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Diagnostic related technologists and technicians .................................... Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses .......................... Annual earnings5 Healthcare support occupations ......... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ............................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations .................................. 9.41 9.70 354 331 37.6 18,405 17,222 1,956 10.88 10.36 420 407 38.6 21,846 21,156 2,009 Protective service occupations ........... 13.04 13.46 521 536 40.0 27,101 27,857 2,078 8.55 7.62 10.05 8.07 8.00 7.00 9.00 8.00 346 303 402 323 310 280 360 320 40.5 39.8 40.0 40.0 17,923 15,599 20,909 16,790 16,640 14,560 18,720 16,640 2,097 2,047 2,080 2,080 8.53 8.00 341 320 40.0 17,737 16,640 2,080 11.44 8.79 9.78 8.47 460 352 391 339 40.2 40.0 23,907 18,291 20,342 17,622 2,091 2,080 8.53 8.47 341 339 40.0 17,743 17,622 2,080 11.55 10.28 8.35 8.35 13.09 10.10 8.50 7.00 7.00 11.00 456 398 314 314 531 400 340 260 260 440 39.5 38.7 37.6 37.6 40.6 23,709 20,684 16,323 16,323 27,598 20,800 17,680 13,520 13,520 22,880 2,053 2,011 1,955 1,955 2,109 12.91 12.21 12.32 12.17 520 488 494 487 40.3 40.0 27,035 25,388 25,688 25,318 2,094 2,080 11.82 12.25 473 490 40.0 24,580 25,480 2,080 12.94 13.01 12.17 12.64 518 512 487 506 40.0 39.4 26,925 26,630 25,318 26,287 2,080 2,048 Food preparation and serving related occupations .................................... Cooks ................................................. Food preparation workers ................... Fast food and counter workers ........... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ........................................... Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ............. Building cleaning workers ................... Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners .................................... Sales and related occupations ............ Retail sales workers ........................... Cashiers, all workers ...................... Cashiers ..................................... Retail salespersons ........................ Office and administrative support occupations .................................... Financial clerks ................................... Billing and posting clerks and machine operators .................... Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ........................... Customer service representatives ...... See footnotes at end of table. 25 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Receptionists and information clerks .. Production, planning, and expediting clerks ............................................ Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ...................................... Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........................... Office clerks, general .......................... Construction and extraction occupations .................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................... Automotive technicians and repairers ....................................... Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ......................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ..... Maintenance and repair workers, general ...................................... Maintenance workers, machinery ... Production occupations ...................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ......................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ..... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ..................................... Sewing machine operators ................. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ................................... Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ....................... Upholsterers ................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood .................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ...................................... Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Cutting workers ................................... Cutters and trimmers, hand ............ Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ................................ Painting workers ................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Miscellaneous production workers ..... Helpers--production workers .......... Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $400 40.0 $22,091 $20,800 2,080 517 480 40.0 26,860 24,981 2,080 13.91 513 506 39.7 26,695 26,333 2,065 13.48 12.98 539 519 40.0 28,040 27,000 2,080 12.90 12.76 12.98 13.00 516 508 519 520 40.0 39.8 26,835 26,431 27,000 27,036 2,080 2,071 12.41 11.00 496 440 40.0 25,786 22,880 2,078 16.36 16.13 651 645 39.8 33,866 33,546 2,070 14.80 13.33 580 521 39.2 30,163 27,082 2,037 17.64 17.53 17.26 16.00 706 701 690 640 40.0 40.0 36,698 36,469 35,905 33,280 2,080 2,080 20.65 13.51 20.22 14.00 826 541 809 560 40.0 40.0 42,942 28,110 42,058 29,120 2,080 2,080 12.82 12.12 504 479 39.3 26,214 24,898 2,044 17.53 16.43 701 657 40.0 36,466 34,164 2,080 11.06 10.56 404 422 36.6 21,030 21,965 1,901 12.03 12.29 11.22 11.27 467 492 438 451 38.8 40.0 24,286 25,571 22,755 23,448 2,019 2,080 11.29 11.11 452 444 40.0 23,492 23,109 2,080 17.17 19.70 16.64 19.00 683 784 666 760 39.8 39.8 35,516 40,773 34,632 39,520 2,068 2,070 13.22 13.28 527 531 39.9 27,423 27,620 2,074 12.14 13.28 483 531 39.8 25,118 27,620 2,069 13.66 13.28 545 530 39.9 28,344 27,571 2,076 12.22 11.33 479 461 39.2 24,927 23,962 2,040 10.93 10.50 437 420 40.0 22,737 21,840 2,080 13.55 14.37 15.25 13.05 13.23 14.00 521 575 610 476 529 560 38.5 40.0 40.0 27,104 29,885 31,725 24,752 27,518 29,120 2,001 2,080 2,080 10.97 12.45 10.00 12.28 435 498 400 491 39.7 40.0 22,640 25,886 20,800 25,542 2,063 2,080 12.80 11.89 10.95 12.76 11.36 10.10 512 462 409 510 443 404 40.0 38.9 37.3 26,620 24,042 21,255 26,541 23,059 21,008 2,080 2,022 1,942 Mean Median Mean Median $10.62 $10.00 $425 12.91 12.01 12.93 See footnotes at end of table. 26 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ........................................... Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............................. Industrial truck and tractor operators .. Laborers and material movers, hand .. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand .............. Packers and packagers, hand ........ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $482 41.2 $27,469 $24,700 2,135 681 708 42.1 35,336 36,816 2,185 16.50 10.50 10.30 690 503 418 708 525 412 42.9 42.8 39.8 35,775 26,144 21,732 36,816 27,300 21,403 2,225 2,225 2,069 10.29 10.21 412 414 404 408 39.7 39.8 21,425 21,515 21,008 21,239 2,065 2,072 Mean Median Mean Median $12.87 $11.63 $530 16.17 16.85 16.08 11.75 10.51 10.38 10.38 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately 27 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $482 39.8 $28,058 $25,064 2,068 1,219 1,053 40.7 63,395 54,748 2,119 23.89 981 955 39.5 50,988 49,685 2,053 22.57 24.65 903 986 40.0 46,945 51,272 2,080 22.57 23.85 947 1,192 41.9 43,831 49,176 1,942 20.77 27.60 17.50 25.28 782 1,060 700 988 37.6 38.4 40,656 55,123 36,400 51,400 1,958 1,997 18.32 17.50 694 700 37.9 36,091 36,400 1,970 23.84 23.79 953 952 40.0 49,577 49,487 2,080 16.21 16.01 586 576 36.2 30,488 29,971 1,881 9.62 9.53 364 360 37.8 18,928 18,720 1,968 9.18 9.00 352 336 38.3 18,293 17,472 1,993 9.41 9.70 354 331 37.6 18,405 17,222 1,956 10.33 10.00 383 360 37.0 19,900 18,720 1,926 8.26 7.30 10.05 7.64 7.28 7.00 9.00 8.00 335 290 402 305 291 280 360 320 40.6 39.8 40.0 40.0 17,420 15,098 20,909 15,885 15,142 14,560 18,720 16,640 2,109 2,067 2,080 2,080 7.95 8.00 318 320 40.0 16,529 16,640 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ............. Building cleaning workers ................... 9.56 8.35 7.25 6.84 387 334 290 273 40.5 40.0 20,128 17,368 15,080 14,217 2,105 2,080 Sales and related occupations ............ Retail sales workers ........................... Cashiers, all workers ...................... Cashiers ..................................... Retail salespersons ........................ 11.55 10.28 8.35 8.35 13.09 10.10 8.50 7.00 7.00 11.00 456 398 314 314 531 400 340 260 260 440 39.5 38.7 37.6 37.6 40.6 23,709 20,684 16,323 16,323 27,598 20,800 17,680 13,520 13,520 22,880 2,053 2,011 1,955 1,955 2,109 12.74 12.13 12.17 12.17 513 485 490 487 40.3 40.0 26,701 25,223 25,480 25,318 2,095 2,080 11.82 12.25 473 490 40.0 24,580 25,480 2,080 13.05 13.01 10.62 12.17 12.64 10.00 522 512 425 487 506 400 40.0 39.4 40.0 27,150 26,630 22,091 25,318 26,287 20,800 2,080 2,048 2,080 12.91 12.01 517 480 40.0 26,860 24,981 2,080 12.93 13.91 513 506 39.7 26,695 26,333 2,065 13.08 12.98 523 519 40.0 27,206 27,000 2,080 Mean Median Mean Median All workers ................................................ $13.57 $12.05 $540 Management occupations ................... 29.92 26.32 Business and financial operations occupations .................................... 24.84 Architecture and engineering occupations .................................... Education, training, and library occupations .................................... Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations .................................... Registered nurses .............................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Diagnostic related technologists and technicians .................................... Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses .......................... Healthcare support occupations ......... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ............................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations .................................. Food preparation and serving related occupations .................................... Cooks ................................................. Food preparation workers ................... Fast food and counter workers ........... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ........................................... Office and administrative support occupations .................................... Financial clerks ................................... Billing and posting clerks and machine operators .................... Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ........................... Customer service representatives ...... Receptionists and information clerks .. Production, planning, and expediting clerks ............................................ Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ...................................... See footnotes at end of table. 28 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Construction and extraction occupations .................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................... Automotive technicians and repairers ....................................... Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ......................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ..... Maintenance and repair workers, general ...................................... Maintenance workers, machinery ... Production occupations ...................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ......................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ..... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ..................................... Sewing machine operators ................. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ................................... Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ....................... Upholsterers ................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders ................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood .................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ...................................... Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ................... Grinding and polishing workers, hand .......................................... Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Cutting workers ................................... Cutters and trimmers, hand ............ Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ................................ Painting workers ................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Miscellaneous production workers ..... Helpers--production workers .......... Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $440 40.0 $25,404 $22,880 2,078 655 645 39.8 34,039 33,546 2,069 13.33 573 500 38.9 29,776 25,999 2,023 17.64 17.53 17.26 16.00 706 701 690 640 40.0 40.0 36,698 36,469 35,905 33,280 2,080 2,080 20.65 13.51 20.22 14.00 826 541 809 560 40.0 40.0 42,942 28,110 42,058 29,120 2,080 2,080 12.84 12.22 505 480 39.3 26,243 24,960 2,044 17.53 16.43 701 657 40.0 36,466 34,164 2,080 11.06 10.56 404 422 36.6 21,030 21,965 1,901 12.03 12.29 11.22 11.27 467 492 438 451 38.8 40.0 24,286 25,571 22,755 23,448 2,019 2,080 11.29 11.11 452 444 40.0 23,492 23,109 2,080 17.17 19.70 16.64 19.00 683 784 666 760 39.8 39.8 35,516 40,773 34,632 39,520 2,068 2,070 13.22 13.28 527 531 39.9 27,423 27,620 2,074 12.14 13.28 483 531 39.8 25,118 27,620 2,069 13.66 13.28 545 530 39.9 28,344 27,571 2,076 12.22 11.33 479 461 39.2 24,927 23,962 2,040 10.93 10.50 437 420 40.0 22,737 21,840 2,080 13.55 14.37 15.25 13.05 13.23 14.00 521 575 610 476 529 560 38.5 40.0 40.0 27,104 29,885 31,725 24,752 27,518 29,120 2,001 2,080 2,080 10.97 12.45 10.00 12.28 435 498 400 491 39.7 40.0 22,640 25,886 20,800 25,542 2,063 2,080 12.80 11.89 10.95 12.76 11.36 10.10 512 462 409 510 443 404 40.0 38.9 37.3 26,620 24,042 21,255 26,541 23,059 21,008 2,080 2,022 1,942 Mean Median Mean Median $12.23 $11.00 $489 16.45 16.13 14.72 See footnotes at end of table. 29 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ........................................... Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............................. Industrial truck and tractor operators .. Laborers and material movers, hand .. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand .............. Packers and packagers, hand ........ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $482 41.2 $27,672 $25,064 2,141 711 708 42.4 36,857 36,816 2,197 17.44 10.50 10.30 737 503 418 708 525 412 43.5 42.8 39.8 38,153 26,144 21,732 36,816 27,300 21,403 2,251 2,225 2,069 10.29 10.21 412 414 404 408 39.7 39.8 21,425 21,515 21,008 21,239 2,065 2,072 Mean Median Mean Median $12.93 $11.90 $533 16.77 17.44 16.95 11.75 10.51 10.38 10.38 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately 30 Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 All workers ................................................ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $626 39.7 $35,847 $32,611 1,947 Mean Median Mean Median $18.41 $15.26 $730 Education, training, and library occupations .................................... Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ............ 20.90 23.64 807 886 38.6 35,567 39,175 1,702 23.54 23.64 905 886 38.4 39,600 39,175 1,683 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ............. 12.85 9.81 514 392 40.0 26,738 20,405 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations .................................... 14.32 14.49 573 580 40.0 29,793 30,148 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately 31 Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Occupational group2 Total 1-99 workers 100-499 workers 500 workers or more All workers .................................................................... $12.96 $11.62 $14.00 $15.22 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 23.37 28.03 20.09 7.93 11.64 10.31 12.48 14.48 12.23 16.45 12.73 12.84 12.46 20.58 26.66 15.80 7.57 11.28 10.18 12.20 13.92 11.99 16.85 10.63 10.65 10.59 26.85 29.62 24.40 8.65 12.18 10.63 12.70 17.00 – 16.86 13.38 13.28 13.67 27.64 – 26.37 10.45 13.75 – 14.00 12.87 – 13.61 14.12 14.24 13.75 Relative error3 (percent) All workers .................................................................... 1.9 4.6 3.0 2.7 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 5.7 7.2 5.9 6.0 2.9 6.8 3.1 8.9 12.7 4.4 2.9 3.2 6.2 11.4 12.4 5.3 7.8 5.6 10.0 4.7 11.9 12.1 5.8 4.1 5.7 7.0 2.8 7.4 6.3 4.1 4.8 14.0 2.9 9.9 – 10.3 3.5 2.4 9.9 3.0 – 8.9 4.9 5.6 – 6.0 5.4 – 6.3 2.4 3.9 2.8 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 32 Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $440 40.1 $25,970 $22,880 2,086 1,076 799 40.3 55,947 41,523 2,097 16.01 610 576 36.4 31,699 29,971 1,894 9.11 8.50 342 320 37.6 17,809 16,640 1,954 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........................................................ 8.08 7.00 329 280 40.7 17,094 14,560 2,115 Sales and related occupations ................................ Retail sales workers ............................................... Cashiers, all workers .......................................... Cashiers ......................................................... Retail salespersons ............................................ 11.19 10.44 8.35 8.35 13.67 10.00 9.00 7.00 7.00 11.00 439 403 312 312 555 390 340 252 252 440 39.2 38.6 37.4 37.4 40.6 22,833 20,933 16,245 16,245 28,876 20,280 17,680 13,104 13,104 22,880 2,041 2,005 1,945 1,945 2,113 Office and administrative support occupations .... Secretaries and administrative assistants .............. 12.61 12.53 11.93 12.98 513 501 492 519 40.7 40.0 26,658 26,072 25,579 27,000 2,114 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations ............. 11.99 11.00 480 440 40.0 24,908 22,880 2,078 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ........................................................ 16.85 16.13 666 645 39.5 34,621 33,546 2,055 10.65 9.42 427 376 40.1 22,196 19,552 2,084 15.59 9.88 13.75 10.75 624 395 550 430 40.0 40.0 32,431 20,543 28,600 22,360 2,080 2,080 14.21 7.94 12.00 8.50 568 317 480 340 40.0 40.0 29,548 16,507 24,960 17,680 2,080 2,080 10.92 12.70 14.80 9.87 10.50 13.00 13.96 9.00 456 536 646 393 440 560 660 360 41.7 42.2 43.7 39.8 23,634 27,684 33,291 20,424 22,880 29,120 33,000 18,720 2,164 2,180 2,249 2,068 Mean Median Mean Median All workers .................................................................... $12.45 $11.00 $500 Management occupations ....................................... 26.68 22.18 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........................................................ 16.74 Healthcare support occupations ............................. Production occupations .......................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ............................................. Sewing machine operators ..................................... Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ............................................................. Miscellaneous production workers ......................... Transportation and material moving occupations ........................................................ Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ................... Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............... Laborers and material movers, hand ...................... 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately 33 Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $501 39.5 $29,924 $26,046 2,052 1,719 1,678 42.2 89,368 87,264 2,195 24.04 954 962 39.8 49,590 49,999 2,071 24.77 28.51 23.84 23.79 26.01 23.79 965 1,138 953 952 1,033 952 39.0 39.9 40.0 50,181 59,173 49,577 49,487 53,706 49,487 2,026 2,075 2,080 18.63 20.87 656 720 35.2 34,135 37,440 1,832 Healthcare support occupations ............................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .......... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ............ 11.02 10.90 11.05 11.47 11.47 11.47 425 417 423 430 430 430 38.6 38.2 38.3 22,106 21,684 21,975 22,365 22,365 22,365 2,006 1,989 1,990 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........................................................ Food preparation workers ....................................... 9.06 8.91 9.00 8.92 362 356 360 357 40.0 40.0 18,835 18,527 18,720 18,554 2,080 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ........................................................ Building cleaning workers ....................................... 8.76 8.47 6.84 6.84 351 339 273 273 40.0 40.0 18,228 17,613 14,217 14,217 2,080 2,080 Sales and related occupations ................................ 13.51 12.00 551 456 40.8 28,638 23,733 2,120 Office and administrative support occupations .... Financial clerks ....................................................... Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ...................................................... Customer service representatives .......................... Production, planning, and expediting clerks ........... Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ..................... Secretaries and administrative assistants .............. 12.93 12.62 12.25 12.17 515 505 487 487 39.8 40.0 26,760 26,246 25,318 25,318 2,069 2,080 12.81 13.08 12.57 12.68 15.45 12.25 12.71 11.88 12.66 15.48 512 506 503 502 618 490 508 475 506 619 40.0 38.7 40.0 39.6 40.0 26,647 26,321 26,144 26,123 32,145 25,480 26,390 24,710 26,312 32,200 2,080 2,012 2,080 2,061 2,080 16.02 14.60 642 584 40.1 33,408 30,368 2,085 17.74 17.78 20.65 13.51 17.26 17.00 20.22 14.00 710 711 826 541 690 680 809 560 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 36,898 36,983 42,942 28,110 35,905 35,360 42,058 29,120 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,080 13.57 12.80 530 499 39.1 27,550 25,931 2,031 19.12 18.34 765 734 40.0 39,779 38,153 2,080 10.93 12.07 12.84 12.63 10.56 11.23 12.16 12.02 398 468 514 505 422 435 486 481 36.4 38.8 40.0 40.0 20,699 24,333 26,702 26,274 21,965 22,630 25,293 25,002 1,894 2,016 2,080 2,080 12.65 12.67 506 507 40.0 26,322 26,354 2,080 17.49 19.82 17.38 19.00 695 789 705 760 39.7 39.8 36,140 41,011 36,650 39,520 2,067 2,069 13.13 13.28 523 531 39.8 27,187 27,624 2,070 13.39 13.82 531 553 39.7 27,620 28,741 2,063 13.03 13.24 519 530 39.9 26,999 27,539 2,073 Mean Median Mean Median All workers .................................................................... $14.58 $12.90 $577 Management occupations ....................................... 40.72 41.73 Business and financial operations occupations ... 23.95 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........................................................ Registered nurses .................................................. Diagnostic related technologists and technicians ... Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ............................................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ........................................................ Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ......................... Maintenance and repair workers, general .......... Maintenance workers, machinery ....................... Production occupations .......................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ............................................. Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ....................................................... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ............. Sewing machine operators ..................................... Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders .... Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders ................................. Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ............................................................. Upholsterers ....................................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders .............................................................. Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood ............................................... Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ................................. See footnotes at end of table. 34 Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers ............................................................. Grinding and polishing workers, hand ................ Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders ................................................... Cutting workers ....................................................... Cutters and trimmers, hand ................................ Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ........................................................... Painting workers ..................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ................................. Miscellaneous production workers ......................... Helpers--production workers .............................. Transportation and material moving occupations ........................................................ Industrial truck and tractor operators ...................... Laborers and material movers, hand ...................... Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ................................................ Packers and packagers, hand ............................ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $461 420 39.2 40.0 $24,927 22,737 $23,962 21,840 2,040 2,080 521 606 646 476 573 631 38.5 40.0 40.0 27,104 31,522 33,571 24,752 29,786 32,822 2,001 2,080 2,080 12.75 12.28 502 498 494 491 38.1 40.0 26,130 25,886 25,688 25,542 1,980 2,080 12.80 13.09 11.28 12.76 12.31 10.46 512 505 416 510 482 416 40.0 38.6 36.9 26,620 26,251 21,626 26,541 25,064 21,651 2,080 2,005 1,916 14.32 11.98 11.00 12.72 11.20 10.84 585 473 438 497 437 424 40.9 39.5 39.8 30,426 24,598 22,766 25,861 22,714 22,069 2,125 2,053 2,069 11.26 10.93 11.00 11.14 448 435 429 446 39.7 39.8 23,273 22,642 22,298 23,171 2,066 2,071 Mean Median Mean Median $12.22 10.93 $11.33 10.50 $479 437 13.55 15.15 16.14 13.05 14.32 15.78 13.20 12.45 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately 35 Table 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Union Nonunion Civilian workers Private industry workers State and local government workers Civilian workers Private industry workers State and local government workers All workers .................................................................... – – – $13.68 $12.89 $18.23 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 23.78 29.75 21.46 9.41 11.81 10.31 12.66 14.51 – 16.36 12.56 12.80 11.96 23.37 28.03 20.09 7.93 11.64 10.31 12.48 14.44 12.09 16.45 12.58 12.81 11.99 24.28 37.43 22.58 12.89 14.32 – 14.32 – – – – – – Occupational group3 Relative error4 (percent) All workers .................................................................... – – – 1.9 1.8 3.3 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.0 6.8 4.5 6.0 2.8 6.8 3.0 8.2 – 4.0 2.5 3.3 3.5 5.7 7.2 5.9 6.0 2.9 6.8 3.1 8.9 12.3 4.4 2.6 3.3 3.6 8.9 15.2 7.4 7.3 3.0 – 3.0 – – – – – – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 36 Table 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Time Occupational group3 Incentive Civilian workers Private industry workers Civilian workers Private industry workers All workers .................................................................... $13.51 $12.62 $15.99 $15.99 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 23.78 29.75 21.46 9.41 11.49 9.11 12.76 14.40 – 16.42 12.05 12.03 12.11 23.37 28.03 20.09 7.93 11.28 9.11 12.58 14.31 12.23 16.54 12.07 12.04 12.14 – – – – 15.78 19.74 – – – – 16.03 16.58 14.36 – – – – 15.78 19.74 – – – – 16.03 16.58 14.36 Relative error4 (percent) All workers .................................................................... 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.6 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 5.0 6.8 4.5 6.0 4.3 9.6 3.1 8.9 – 4.6 3.1 1.3 9.6 5.7 7.2 5.9 6.0 4.5 9.6 3.3 9.6 12.7 5.1 3.2 1.3 10.0 – – – – 7.8 11.6 – – – – 3.4 5.7 10.2 – – – – 7.8 11.6 – – – – 3.4 5.7 10.2 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 37 Table 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Goods producing Occupational group3 All workers ................................................ Management, professional, and related ............................................... Management, business, and financial ........................................ Professional and related ..................... Service .................................................... Sales and office ...................................... Sales and related ................................ Office and administrative support ....... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ..................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair .. Production, transportation, and material moving .............................................. Production .......................................... Transportation and material moving ... Service providing Construction Manufacturing Trade, transportation, and utilities Information Financial activities Professional and business services Education and health services Leisure and hospitality Other services $12.67 $13.84 $12.51 – – $10.32 $14.60 $8.36 $8.64 – 29.37 23.61 – – – 22.25 – – – – – – – – 32.31 23.06 – 14.04 – 13.76 – – 7.94 10.85 10.34 12.18 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.59 12.71 – 12.42 24.48 21.71 8.61 11.97 – 11.97 – – 7.22 – – – – – – – – – 12.08 – 17.35 17.71 16.64 16.64 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.00 13.29 11.42 14.04 13.83 14.07 – – – – – – 8.43 8.53 8.08 – – – – – – – – – Relative error4 (percent) All workers ................................................ Management, professional, and related ............................................... Management, business, and financial ........................................ Professional and related ..................... Service .................................................... Sales and office ...................................... Sales and related ................................ Office and administrative support ....... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ..................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair .. Production, transportation, and material moving .............................................. Production .......................................... Transportation and material moving ... 15.8 2.8 4.0 – – 1.4 7.2 18.7 13.9 – 1.9 15.6 – – – 3.3 – – – – – – – – 4.1 11.8 – 4.4 – 6.4 – – 11.4 5.4 7.4 5.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2.4 4.0 – 4.3 6.8 6.2 4.7 3.1 – 3.1 – – 18.1 – – – – – – – – – 12.8 – 3.4 2.3 4.2 4.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 3.5 4.1 1.8 11.6 6.1 13.0 – – – – – – 8.3 8.0 8.6 – – – – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 38 Appendix A: Technical Note T Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage 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 by industry and ownership. 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 it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. his 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. Although this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all of the steps required to produce the data. Planning for the survey The overall design of the National Compensation Survey (NCS) includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection. Survey scope This survey covered establishments employing one worker or more in private goods-producing industries (mining, construction, and manufacturing); private service-providing industries (trade, transportation, and utilities, information, financial activities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and other services); and State and local governments employing 50 or more workers. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment is an economic unit that 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 is usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity within the sampled area. The Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data, working out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Regional Offices and visiting each establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to clarify and update data. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multistep process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time or part-time, union or nonunion, and time or incentive 4. Determination of the level of work of each job Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports. 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. Approximately one-fifth of the sample is reselected each year. For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers whose jobs could be characterized by the criteria A-1 identified in the last three steps. If a specific work level could not be determined, wages were still collected. 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 for which data were collected in each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size. The number of jobs selected followed this schedule: Number of employees Number of selected jobs 1–49 50–249 250 or more Up to 4 6 8 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. NCS now uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. A selected job may fall into any one of about 800 occupational classifications, from accountant to zoologist. For cases in which a job’s duties overlapped two or more SOC 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 group. Occupations can fall into any of 22 major groups. Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the major group to which they belong. 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. Occupational leveling In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “point factor leveling” process. Point factor leveling matches certain aspects of a job to specific levels of work with assigned point values. Points for each factor are then totaled to determine the overall work level for the job. A-2 The NCS program is in the process of converting from a nine-factor to a four-factor occupational leveling system. The conversion is being phased in via annual NCS sample replenishment groups and will require several years for full implementation. The four occupational leveling factors are: • • • • Knowledge Job controls and complexity Contacts (nature and purpose) Physical environment Each factor consists of several levels, and each level has an associated description and assigned points. A knowledge guide for 24 families of closely related occupations contains short definitions of the point levels of knowledge expected for the occupations and presents relevant examples. The other three factors use identical descriptions for all occupational categories and contain a definition of each point level within each factor. The description within each factor best matching the job is chosen. The point levels within each factor are designed to describe the thresholds of distinct levels of work. When a job does not meet the full description of a point level, the next lowest point level is used. Points for the four factors are totaled to determine the overall work level. NCS publishes data for up to 15 work levels. Most supervisory occupations are evaluated based on their duties and responsibilities. A modified approach is used for professional and administrative supervisors when they direct professional work and are paid primarily to supervise. Such supervisory occupations are leveled based on the work level of the highest position reporting to them. For a complete description of point factor leveling, refer to the publication “National Compensation Survey: Guide for Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs and Pay,” available at the BLS National Compensation Survey Internet site at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbr0004.pdf. Combined work levels This bulletin includes a table which simplifies the presentation of work levels by combining them into four broad groups. The groups were determined by combinations of knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, physical environment, and supervisory duties, and are meant to be comparable across different occupations. The broad groups and the combined work levels are: Group designation Levels combined Group I Group II Group III Group IV Levels 1–4 Levels 5–8 Levels 9–12 Levels 13–15 Collection period Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60 metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample units. Part-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be part time. Earnings Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage. • • • • • 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 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 (such as Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free or subsidized room and board Payments made by third parties (for example, tips, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers who are exempt from overtime provisions often work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of hours actually worked was collected. Definition of terms Full-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be full time. A-3 Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are solely tied to an hourly rate or salary. 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. Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: • • • 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 Level. A ranking within an occupation based on the requirements of the position. Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the BLS National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and 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 data for the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member during the initial interview, 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 data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value of data for 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 that were additionally defined by major occupation group. If average hourly earnings data were not provided by a sample member during the update interview, then missing average hourly earnings were imputed by multiplying prior average hourly earning by the rate of change in the average hourly earnings of respondents. The regression model that takes into account available establishment characteristics is used to derive the rate of change in the average hourly earnings. Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey 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 each sampled occupation. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The sample weight reflects the inverse of each unit’s probability of selection at each sample selection stage and four weight adjustment factors. The first factor adjusts for establishment nonresponse and the second factor adjusts for occupational nonresponse. The third factor adjusts for any special situations that may have occurred during data collection. The fourth factor, postratification, also called benchmarking, is introduced to adjust estimated employment totals to the current counts of employment by industry. The latest available employment counts were used to derive average hourly earnings in this publication. Not all calculated series 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 the publication of a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. Estimates of the number of workers represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve to indicate only the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Percentiles The percentiles presented in tables 6 through 10 are computed using earnings reported for individual workers in sampled establishment jobs and their scheduled hours of work. Establishments in the survey may report only individual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the calculation of percentile estimates, the individual-worker A-4 hourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest. The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution within each published occupation. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. RSE data are provided alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers were $17.75, with a relative standard error of 1.0 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is from $16.46 to $18.04 ($17.75 minus and plus $0.29, where $0.29 is the product of 1.645 times 1.0 percent times $17.75). 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. Although they were not specifically measured, the nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the extensive training of the field economists who gathered the survey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data, and detailed data review. Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Civilian workers Occupational group2 Private industry workers State and local government workers All workers .................................................................... 155,400 131,600 23,800 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 24,100 5,800 18,300 31,200 30,300 12,000 18,300 11,000 4,800 6,100 58,800 40,800 18,100 12,500 4,700 7,700 23,200 28,600 12,000 16,600 10,100 4,400 5,500 57,300 40,300 16,900 11,600 1,100 10,600 8,000 1,700 – 1,700 – – – – – – 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. A-5 Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, December 2005 Establishments Total Private industry State and local government Total in sampling frame1 ................................................ 6,960 6,937 22 Total in sample ............................................................... Responding ............................................................ Refused or unable to provide data ......................... Out of business or not in survey scope .................. 269 195 36 38 260 188 34 38 9 7 2 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. A-6
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