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Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC National Compensation Survey January 2003 _________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Elaine L. Chao, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Kathleen P. Utgoff, Commissioner September 2003 Bulletin 3120–13 Preface D 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212–0001, or call (202) 691–6199, or send 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 in three formats: An ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Results of earlier surveys of this area are also 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: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Tables: 1–1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected worker and establishment characteristics, private industry, and State and local government ................................................ 2–1. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, all workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 2–2. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 2–3. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, part-time workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 3–1. Mean weekly earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 3–2. Mean annual earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 4–1. Selected occupations and levels, all workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 4–2. Selected occupations and levels, full-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 4–3. Selected occupations and levels, part-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 5–1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group............................ 5–2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry............. 5–3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry............................................................................................................................. 6–1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 6–2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, private industry.......................................................................................... 6–3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, State and local government ....................................................................... 6–4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, full-time workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 6–5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, part-time workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 2 3 5 7 8 11 14 18 22 23 24 25 26 28 30 31 33 Appendixes: A. Technical Note................................................................................................................................. Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey, by occupational group............ B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................ C. Occupational Leveling Criteria ........................................................................................................ D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ........................................................................................................... v A–1 A–5 B–1 C–1 D–1 Introduction T Establishment characteristics include goods and service producing and size of establishment. Table 2–1 presents estimates of mean hourly earnings, and the relative standard errors associated with them, for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Table 2–2 presents the same type of information for full-time workers only. Table 2–3 provides similar data for workers designated as parttime. Table 3–1 provides mean weekly earnings data, with relative standard errors, and weekly hours for full-time employees in specific occupations across all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Table 3–2 provides annual earnings, relative standard errors, and annual hours for full-time employees in specific occupations. Table 4–1 provides mean hourly earnings data by work level for occupational groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for private industry and government workers. Table 4–2 provides work level data for full-time workers. Table 4–3 provides similar data for workers designated as part-time. Table 5–1 presents mean hourly earnings data for selected worker characteristics by major occupational groups. The worker characteristics include full-time or part-time designation, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. Table 5–2 presents mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions by occupational groups; these estimates are limited to the private sector. Table 5–3 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by major occupational groups within the private sector. Tables 6–1 through 6–5 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. These iterations correspond to those presented in tables 2–1, 2–2, and 2–3. Appendix table 1 provides the number of workers represented by the survey by major occupational group. The employment estimates relate to all employers in the area, rather than just to those surveyed. he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for the Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC, metropolitan area. Data were collected between June 2002 and July 2003; the average reference month is January 2003. 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 several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the occupational leveling methodology. NCS products The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides data on occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions, and the Nation as a whole. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from the NCS. Another product, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, measures employers’ average hourly costs for total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Still another NCS product measures the incidence of benefit plans and their provisions. This bulletin is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries. 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 480 detailed occupations 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 1–1 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 major occupational group, full-time or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. 1 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Private industry Hourly earnings State and local government Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) $14.22 2.8 38.0 $13.78 3.0 38.0 $16.32 5.8 38.1 White-collar occupations5 ....................................... Professional specialty and technical ................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ......... Sales ................................................................... Administrative support ........................................ Blue-collar occupations5 ......................................... Precision production, craft, and repair ................ Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ......................................................... Transportation and material moving ................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...................................................... Service occupations5 .............................................. 19.51 21.70 33.00 17.03 11.49 12.71 17.15 6.1 6.2 7.1 29.3 5.2 2.1 4.0 37.1 35.9 42.3 31.0 39.4 39.3 40.0 19.46 22.89 32.62 17.03 11.92 12.83 17.50 7.3 8.0 8.0 29.3 3.9 1.9 4.1 37.2 35.8 42.8 31.0 39.7 39.3 40.0 19.58 20.96 34.29 – – – – 11.9 8.2 16.1 – – – – 37.0 36.0 40.9 – – – – 11.87 14.17 .6 10.1 39.3 40.8 11.87 15.56 .6 6.9 39.3 41.1 – – – – – – 9.84 11.02 4.0 11.2 38.0 33.3 9.97 8.36 4.0 7.2 37.8 29.8 – 14.29 – 13.2 – 38.9 Full time .................................................................. Part time ................................................................. 14.48 8.75 2.9 6.8 39.7 20.1 14.06 8.34 3.0 6.7 39.8 20.4 16.45 – 6.3 – 39.4 – Union ...................................................................... Nonunion ................................................................ – 14.18 – 2.8 – 38.1 – 13.72 – 3.0 – 38.1 – 16.32 – 5.8 – 38.1 Time ........................................................................ Incentive ................................................................. 13.69 18.03 3.7 7.9 37.7 40.6 13.04 18.03 4.1 7.9 37.6 40.6 16.32 – 5.8 – 38.1 – Goods producing .................................................... Service producing ................................................... (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 13.59 14.23 3.3 5.7 39.7 34.4 (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers7 ....................................................... 100-499 workers ..................................................... 500 workers or more ............................................... 11.67 14.61 15.80 8.9 2.7 3.4 35.5 39.5 37.6 11.67 14.70 14.15 8.9 2.9 2.0 35.5 39.4 37.8 – – 17.23 – – 4.1 – – 37.4 Total ........................................................................... Worker characteristics:4 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, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. 2 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $14.22 14.13 2.8 3.4 $13.78 13.65 3.0 3.8 $16.32 16.32 5.8 5.8 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 19.51 19.87 6.1 8.3 19.46 20.07 7.3 11.4 19.58 19.58 11.9 11.9 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 21.70 22.68 – – – 26.10 22.61 – – – – 6.2 9.1 – – – 14.2 4.7 – – – – 22.89 25.92 – – – 23.07 23.44 – – – – 8.0 8.8 – – – 4.6 5.5 – – – – 20.96 21.23 – – – – – – – – – 8.2 10.9 – – – – – – – – – – 17.91 13.66 – 5.6 13.7 – 17.50 – – 8.0 – – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. 33.00 32.44 31.73 35.93 7.1 7.0 5.8 19.3 32.62 31.93 31.99 35.82 8.0 7.2 5.9 22.8 34.29 – – – 16.1 – – – Sales ................................................................................ 17.03 29.3 17.03 29.3 – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. 11.49 11.83 11.59 10.76 12.44 12.32 5.2 5.8 8.3 2.8 6.1 2.9 11.92 11.83 11.35 10.76 12.44 – 3.9 5.8 10.1 2.8 6.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 12.71 2.1 12.83 1.9 – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Upholsterers ......................................................... 17.15 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 20.00 4.0 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 1.6 17.50 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 20.00 4.1 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 1.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 11.87 .6 11.87 .6 – – 10.03 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 10.0 1.2 7.6 10.03 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 10.0 1.2 7.6 – – – – – – – – 11.38 11.86 12.43 10.38 13.40 11.08 12.67 12.55 10.70 13.69 12.28 10.79 8.2 14.2 2.6 3.7 10.6 5.2 1.2 2.1 3.7 8.7 13.1 1.0 11.38 11.86 12.43 10.38 13.40 11.08 12.67 12.55 10.70 13.69 12.28 10.79 8.2 14.2 2.6 3.7 10.6 5.2 1.2 2.1 3.7 8.7 13.1 1.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ 14.17 10.1 15.56 6.9 – – See footnotes at end of table. 3 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Transportation and material moving –Continued Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. $15.00 11.02 12.7 7.0 $17.29 11.02 5.5 7.0 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 9.84 9.30 8.94 10.07 10.10 9.40 9.23 4.0 2.7 8.8 1.5 4.4 4.1 7.4 9.97 9.30 8.94 10.07 10.10 9.40 9.51 4.0 2.7 8.8 1.5 4.4 4.1 8.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 11.02 – 7.59 – 8.64 9.06 10.12 10.10 15.69 9.18 – 11.2 – 10.4 – 4.4 5.1 1.9 2.0 30.4 10.4 – 8.36 – 7.10 – 8.28 8.73 9.81 9.81 10.45 9.24 – 7.2 – 12.1 – 5.6 5.7 4.1 4.1 17.1 11.6 – $14.29 – – – – – – – – – – 13.2 – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 4 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $14.48 14.31 2.9 3.5 $14.06 13.83 3.0 3.8 $16.45 16.45 6.3 6.3 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 20.17 19.94 6.3 8.4 20.51 20.16 7.0 11.8 19.64 19.64 11.5 11.5 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 21.98 22.83 – – 26.12 22.46 – – – – 6.2 9.0 – – 16.4 5.3 – – – – 23.53 26.25 – – 22.87 23.33 – – – – 8.4 10.2 – – 6.0 6.2 – – – – 21.09 21.39 – – – – – – – – 7.7 10.6 – – – – – – – – – 18.63 – 4.6 – 18.56 – 6.5 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. 33.00 32.44 31.73 35.93 7.1 7.0 5.8 19.3 32.62 31.93 31.99 35.82 8.0 7.2 5.9 22.8 34.29 – – – 16.1 – – – Sales ................................................................................ 22.63 29.5 22.63 29.5 – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. 11.49 11.83 11.59 10.76 12.44 12.32 5.2 5.8 8.3 2.8 6.1 2.9 11.92 11.83 11.35 10.76 12.44 – 3.9 5.8 10.1 2.8 6.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 12.80 2.1 12.93 1.9 – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Upholsterers ......................................................... 17.15 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 20.00 4.0 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 1.6 17.50 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 20.00 4.1 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 1.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 11.88 .5 11.88 .5 – – 10.03 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 10.0 1.2 7.6 10.03 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 10.0 1.2 7.6 – – – – – – – – 11.38 11.86 12.43 10.38 13.40 11.08 12.67 12.62 10.70 13.69 12.28 10.79 8.2 14.2 2.6 3.7 10.6 5.2 1.2 2.2 3.7 8.7 13.1 1.0 11.38 11.86 12.43 10.38 13.40 11.08 12.67 12.62 10.70 13.69 12.28 10.79 8.2 14.2 2.6 3.7 10.6 5.2 1.2 2.2 3.7 8.7 13.1 1.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 14.17 15.00 10.96 10.1 12.7 7.7 15.57 17.29 10.96 6.9 5.5 7.7 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 5 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... $10.01 9.30 9.79 10.07 10.28 9.40 9.23 3.8 2.7 8.6 1.5 3.9 4.1 7.4 $10.18 9.30 9.79 10.07 10.28 9.40 9.51 3.7 2.7 8.6 1.5 3.9 4.1 8.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 11.65 – 7.75 9.50 9.80 10.07 10.05 17.42 10.20 – 12.8 – 14.5 3.9 4.5 1.7 1.7 29.5 7.2 – 8.70 – 7.31 9.17 – 9.66 9.66 11.75 10.48 – 9.3 – 15.8 4.2 – 3.9 3.9 19.4 7.5 – $14.69 – – – – – – – – – 15.7 – – – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 6 Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.75 9.31 6.8 7.0 $8.34 8.83 6.7 7.1 – – – – White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 10.56 17.31 12.3 19.2 9.66 17.33 11.7 19.7 – – – – Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 17.31 20.15 – 26.01 23.73 – 19.2 18.8 – 8.8 2.5 – 17.33 22.75 – 24.34 24.16 – 19.7 6.1 – 1.3 2.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 7.09 6.5 7.09 6.5 – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 7.98 10.8 7.98 10.8 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 7.99 6.79 11.8 5.1 7.99 6.79 11.8 5.1 – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Health service ........................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... Personal service ....................................................... 7.37 – – – – – 4.6 – – – – – 7.09 – – – – – 4.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 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. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 7 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 All ............................................................... All excluding sales .............................. $575 567 2.7 3.4 39.7 39.7 $559 549 3.0 3.9 39.8 39.7 $648 648 5.5 5.5 39.4 39.4 White collar ........................................... White collar excluding sales ........... 805 792 7.4 9.5 39.9 39.7 835 817 7.8 12.8 40.7 40.5 760 760 13.1 13.1 38.7 38.7 858 886 7.4 10.3 39.0 38.8 944 1,056 8.9 10.8 40.1 40.2 810 818 8.7 11.3 38.4 38.2 – – – – – – – – – – 1,019 873 – – 16.4 5.6 – – 39.0 38.8 – – 904 922 – – 5.9 6.2 – – 39.5 39.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 744 – 4.7 – 40.0 – 741 – 6.6 – 39.9 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ...................................... Professional specialty ..................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors .............................. Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Health related ............................. Registered nurses .................. Teachers, college and university Teachers, except college and university .............................. Social scientists and urban planners ................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers ................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ..................................... Technical ........................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial ................................... Executives, administrators, and managers .............................. Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ................................. Management related ................... 1,397 6.9 42.3 1,396 7.6 42.8 1,404 17.1 40.9 1,386 6.8 42.7 1,388 6.8 43.5 – – – 1,364 1,454 5.0 19.0 43.0 40.5 1,381 1,425 5.0 22.9 43.2 39.8 – – – – – – Sales .................................................. 943 33.2 41.7 943 33.2 41.7 – – – Administrative support, including clerical ......................................... Order clerks ............................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................................ Stock and inventory clerks ...... General office clerks ............... 453 473 6.2 5.8 39.4 40.0 473 473 4.8 5.8 39.7 40.0 – – – – – – 464 8.3 40.0 454 10.1 40.0 – – – 404 498 492 3.9 6.1 3.1 37.6 40.0 39.9 404 498 – 3.9 6.1 – 37.6 40.0 – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ............................................. 509 2.0 39.8 514 1.8 39.8 – – – 687 588 484 4.0 2.9 4.5 40.0 40.0 40.0 701 588 484 4.1 2.9 4.5 40.0 40.0 40.0 – – – – – – – – – 809 651 800 4.3 2.2 1.6 40.0 40.3 40.0 809 651 800 4.3 2.2 1.6 40.0 40.3 40.0 – – – – – – – – – 469 .5 39.4 469 .5 39.4 – – – 401 4.6 40.0 401 4.6 40.0 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ............................................ Industrial machinery repairers Machinery maintenance ......... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ................................. Supervisors, production .......... Upholsterers ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................... See footnotes at end of table. 8 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 Blue collar –Continued Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Numerical control machine operators .......................... Sawing machine operators ..... Shaping and jointing machine operators .......................... Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators .......................... Textile cutting machine operators .......................... Textile sewing machine operators .......................... Packaging and filling machine operators .......................... Mixing and blending machine operators .......................... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ............ Slicing and cutting machine operators .......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ................ Assemblers ............................. Hand cutting and trimming ...... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ................................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ... Transportation and material moving ......................................... Truck drivers ........................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ......... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................. Production helpers .................. Stock handlers and baggers ... Machine feeders and offbearers ......................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ................. Hand packers and packagers Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ................................. Service ................................................... Protective service ....................... Food service ............................... Other food service .................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... Health service ............................. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... $539 507 10.7 1.3 39.6 39.9 $539 507 10.7 1.3 39.6 39.9 – – – – – – 459 8.0 39.8 459 8.0 39.8 – – – 455 8.2 40.0 455 8.2 40.0 – – – 475 14.2 40.0 475 14.2 40.0 – – – 497 2.6 40.0 497 2.6 40.0 – – – 415 3.7 40.0 415 3.7 40.0 – – – 512 8.3 38.2 512 8.3 38.2 – – – 440 5.5 39.7 440 5.5 39.7 – – – 507 1.2 40.0 507 1.2 40.0 – – – 475 424 548 2.9 4.3 8.7 37.7 39.7 40.0 475 424 548 2.9 4.3 8.7 37.7 39.7 40.0 – – – – – – – – – 490 13.2 39.9 490 13.2 39.9 – – – 426 .6 39.5 426 .6 39.5 – – – 580 621 9.6 12.9 40.9 41.4 642 726 5.0 4.0 41.2 42.0 – – – – – – 398 8.5 36.3 398 8.5 36.3 – – – 400 372 391 4.1 2.7 8.6 40.0 40.0 40.0 407 372 391 4.0 2.7 8.6 40.0 40.0 40.0 – – – – – – – – – 402 1.5 40.0 402 1.5 40.0 – – – 414 364 4.1 3.4 40.3 38.7 414 364 4.1 3.4 40.3 38.7 – – – – – – 369 7.4 40.0 380 8.8 40.0 – – – 451 – 275 349 351 397 14.6 – 22.9 6.6 9.0 2.1 38.7 – 35.4 36.7 35.8 39.4 324 – 254 330 – 373 14.1 – 24.9 7.2 – 3.9 37.2 – 34.8 35.9 – 38.6 15.6 – – – – – 40.5 – – – – – 396 2.1 39.4 373 3.9 38.6 – – See footnotes at end of table. 9 $595 – – – – – – Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Service –Continued Cleaning and building service ..... Janitors and cleaners ............. Personal service ......................... $697 408 – Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 29.5 7.2 – 40.0 40.0 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to Mean $470 419 – Relative error4 (percent) 19.4 7.5 – Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) 40.0 40.0 – – – – – – – Mean weekly hours5 – – – cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 10 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 All ............................................................... All excluding sales .............................. $29,627 29,231 2.7 3.4 2,046 2,043 $29,045 28,542 3.0 3.9 2,066 2,064 $32,172 32,172 5.5 5.5 1,956 1,956 White collar ........................................... White collar excluding sales ........... 40,328 39,568 7.4 9.5 1,999 1,985 43,238 42,309 7.8 12.8 2,108 2,099 36,276 36,276 13.1 13.1 1,848 1,848 41,773 42,469 7.4 10.3 1,900 1,860 48,345 53,618 8.9 10.8 2,054 2,042 38,418 38,356 8.7 11.3 1,822 1,793 – – – – – – – – – 16.4 5.6 – – 2,028 2,020 – – 47,021 47,920 – – 5.9 6.2 – – 2,056 2,054 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 38,700 – 4.7 – 2,078 – 38,543 – 6.6 – 2,076 – – – – – – 72,666 6.9 2,202 72,567 7.6 2,224 72,986 17.1 2,129 Professional specialty and technical ...................................... Professional specialty ..................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors .............................. Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Health related ............................. Registered nurses .................. Teachers, college and university Teachers, except college and university .............................. Social scientists and urban planners ................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers ................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ..................................... Technical ........................................ – – 52,976 45,375 – Executive, administrative, and managerial ................................... Executives, administrators, and managers .............................. Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ................................. Management related ................... 72,069 6.8 2,221 72,201 6.8 2,261 – – – 70,912 75,625 5.0 19.0 2,235 2,105 71,810 74,117 5.0 22.9 2,244 2,069 – – – – – – Sales .................................................. 49,044 33.2 2,167 49,044 33.2 2,167 – – – 22,857 24,610 6.2 5.8 1,988 2,080 24,600 24,610 4.8 5.8 2,064 2,080 – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ......................................... Order clerks ............................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................................ Stock and inventory clerks ...... General office clerks ............... 24,111 8.3 2,080 23,608 10.1 2,080 – – – 21,028 25,872 25,573 3.9 6.1 3.1 1,955 2,080 2,075 21,028 25,872 – 3.9 6.1 – 1,955 2,080 – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ............................................. 26,471 2.0 2,068 26,733 1.8 2,067 – – – 35,687 30,479 25,156 4.0 2.9 4.5 2,081 2,074 2,080 36,426 30,479 25,156 4.1 2.9 4.5 2,081 2,074 2,080 – – – – – – – – – 42,059 33,838 41,595 4.3 2.2 1.6 2,080 2,094 2,080 42,059 33,838 41,595 4.3 2.2 1.6 2,080 2,094 2,080 – – – – – – – – – 24,357 .5 2,050 24,357 .5 2,050 – – – 20,866 4.6 2,080 20,866 4.6 2,080 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ............................................ Industrial machinery repairers Machinery maintenance ......... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ................................. Supervisors, production .......... Upholsterers ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................... See footnotes at end of table. 11 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 Blue collar –Continued Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Numerical control machine operators .......................... Sawing machine operators ..... Shaping and jointing machine operators .......................... Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators .......................... Textile cutting machine operators .......................... Textile sewing machine operators .......................... Packaging and filling machine operators .......................... Mixing and blending machine operators .......................... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ............ Slicing and cutting machine operators .......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ................ Assemblers ............................. Hand cutting and trimming ...... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ................................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ... Transportation and material moving ......................................... Truck drivers ........................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ......... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................. Production helpers .................. Stock handlers and baggers ... Machine feeders and offbearers ......................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ................. Hand packers and packagers Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ................................. Service ................................................... Protective service ....................... Food service ............................... Other food service .................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... Health service ............................. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... $28,048 26,380 10.7 1.3 2,059 2,076 $28,048 26,380 10.7 1.3 2,059 2,076 – – – – – – 23,889 8.0 2,070 23,889 8.0 2,070 – – – 23,663 8.2 2,080 23,663 8.2 2,080 – – – 24,675 14.2 2,080 24,675 14.2 2,080 – – – 25,852 2.6 2,080 25,852 2.6 2,080 – – – 21,494 3.7 2,070 21,494 3.7 2,070 – – – 26,540 8.3 1,980 26,540 8.3 1,980 – – – 22,905 5.5 2,067 22,905 5.5 2,067 – – – 26,343 1.2 2,080 26,343 1.2 2,080 – – – 24,707 22,054 28,473 2.9 4.3 8.7 1,958 2,062 2,080 24,707 22,054 28,473 2.9 4.3 8.7 1,958 2,062 2,080 – – – – – – – – – 25,484 13.2 2,074 25,484 13.2 2,074 – – – 22,171 .6 2,054 22,171 .6 2,054 – – – 30,123 32,229 9.6 12.9 2,125 2,148 33,317 37,680 5.0 4.0 2,140 2,179 – – – – – – 20,701 8.5 1,889 20,701 8.5 1,889 – – – 20,820 19,341 20,358 4.1 2.7 8.6 2,079 2,080 2,080 21,164 19,341 20,358 4.0 2.7 8.6 2,079 2,080 2,080 – – – – – – – – – 20,922 1.5 2,079 20,922 1.5 2,079 – – – 21,551 18,927 4.1 3.4 2,097 2,013 21,551 18,927 4.1 3.4 2,097 2,013 – – – – – – 19,202 7.4 2,080 19,772 8.8 2,080 – – – 23,458 – 14,274 18,150 18,241 20,637 14.6 – 22.9 6.6 9.0 2.1 2,014 – 1,841 1,911 1,862 2,050 16,828 – 13,233 17,141 – 19,400 14.1 – 24.9 7.2 – 3.9 1,934 – 1,810 1,868 – 2,007 15.6 – – – – – 2,104 – – – – – 20,593 2.1 2,048 19,400 3.9 2,007 – – See footnotes at end of table. 12 $30,914 – – – – – – Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Service –Continued Cleaning and building service ..... Janitors and cleaners ............. Personal service ......................... $36,230 21,214 – Relative error4 (percent) 29.5 7.2 – State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean 2,080 2,080 – $24,441 21,807 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to Relative error4 (percent) 19.4 7.5 – Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) 2,080 2,080 – – – – – – – Mean annual hours5 – – – cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 13 Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $14.22 14.13 2.8 3.4 $13.78 13.65 3.0 3.8 $16.32 16.32 5.8 5.8 White collar ......................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... 19.51 9.38 10.85 12.47 15.62 18.35 19.69 24.35 32.30 26.97 41.11 41.55 34.87 19.87 9.53 10.48 12.25 14.19 18.35 19.69 24.47 27.49 26.97 41.11 41.55 34.87 6.1 6.4 7.6 2.5 9.8 2.4 2.2 9.9 14.1 15.4 4.9 6.1 34.3 8.3 8.0 2.7 2.6 5.6 2.4 2.2 10.4 5.2 15.4 4.9 6.1 34.3 19.46 10.46 10.85 12.49 17.02 17.96 21.50 26.76 32.56 29.75 – 42.57 34.87 20.07 11.05 10.48 12.23 14.76 17.96 21.50 27.28 27.52 29.75 – 42.57 34.87 7.3 3.9 7.6 2.8 12.5 2.7 5.3 14.1 14.6 16.1 – 6.1 34.3 11.4 2.9 2.7 3.0 5.0 2.7 5.3 14.9 5.5 16.1 – 6.1 34.3 19.58 – – – – – 19.44 – – – – – – 19.58 – – – – – 19.44 – – – – – – 11.9 – – – – – 1.8 – – – – – – 11.9 – – – – – 1.8 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ 6 ...................................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 21.70 22.68 21.18 19.52 21.92 28.25 – – – 26.10 21.18 22.86 22.61 21.75 – – – – 6.2 9.1 1.2 1.9 3.4 14.9 – – – 14.2 1.2 6.7 4.7 .6 – – – – 22.89 25.92 – – 22.19 28.25 – – – 23.07 – – 23.44 – – – – – 8.0 8.8 – – 4.6 14.9 – – – 4.6 – – 5.5 – – – – – 20.96 21.23 – 19.41 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.2 10.9 – 1.9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.91 15.72 22.79 13.66 – 5.6 2.1 4.0 13.7 – 17.50 15.72 – – – 8.0 2.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 9 ...................................................................... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 9 ...................................................................... Management related ................................................. 33.00 33.59 26.91 41.89 32.44 26.33 31.73 26.97 35.93 7.1 23.5 4.6 7.6 7.0 3.6 5.8 5.7 19.3 32.62 33.59 26.92 – 31.93 26.27 31.99 – 35.82 8.0 23.5 5.0 – 7.2 4.0 5.9 – 22.8 34.29 – – – – – – – – 16.1 – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 17.03 29.3 17.03 29.3 – – See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Administrative support, including clerical ................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 3 ...................................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. $11.49 9.51 10.38 12.34 13.88 11.83 11.59 10.76 10.71 12.44 12.32 5.2 8.2 2.6 2.8 3.1 5.8 8.3 2.8 1.9 6.1 2.9 $11.92 11.12 10.38 12.39 – 11.83 11.35 10.76 10.71 12.44 – 3.9 3.4 2.6 3.1 – 5.8 10.1 2.8 1.9 6.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 12.71 8.96 10.07 12.28 14.68 16.28 16.90 19.57 2.1 2.2 1.3 3.7 1.5 4.2 5.1 4.5 12.83 9.04 10.09 12.28 14.76 16.38 17.08 19.57 1.9 2.3 1.4 3.8 1.5 4.4 5.7 4.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ 5 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Upholsterers ......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 17.15 12.63 14.23 17.54 17.69 19.41 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 14.09 19.02 20.00 18.23 21.06 20.27 4.0 3.5 2.2 6.1 6.5 4.6 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 .5 1.7 1.6 6.3 1.8 9.2 17.50 – 14.54 17.88 18.07 19.41 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 14.09 19.02 20.00 18.23 21.06 20.27 4.1 – 1.3 6.2 7.5 4.6 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 .5 1.7 1.6 6.3 1.8 9.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... 2 ...................................................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... 2 ...................................................................... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. 11.87 9.43 10.02 11.85 14.59 14.07 13.89 .6 2.4 1.9 .8 1.5 2.3 4.0 11.87 9.43 10.02 11.85 14.59 14.07 13.89 .6 2.4 1.9 .8 1.5 2.3 4.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.03 8.81 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 7.8 10.0 1.2 7.6 10.03 8.81 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 7.8 10.0 1.2 7.6 – – – – – – – – – – 11.38 11.86 12.43 13.18 15.68 10.38 13.40 11.08 10.06 12.67 12.55 8.2 14.2 2.6 6.7 9.9 3.7 10.6 5.2 2.0 1.2 2.1 11.38 11.86 12.43 13.18 15.68 10.38 13.40 11.08 10.06 12.67 12.55 8.2 14.2 2.6 6.7 9.9 3.7 10.6 5.2 2.0 1.2 2.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – White collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 15 Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. –Continued 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Assemblers ........................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... 4 ...................................................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... $9.77 10.30 11.70 14.95 14.23 10.70 9.28 10.62 11.84 13.69 15.59 12.28 9.77 10.43 16.00 10.79 9.83 11.15 7.6 6.9 1.5 4.3 4.7 3.7 .5 2.7 2.0 8.7 .0 13.1 .4 1.5 8.1 1.0 4.4 2.5 $9.77 10.30 11.70 14.95 14.23 10.70 9.28 10.62 11.84 13.69 15.59 12.28 9.77 10.43 16.00 10.79 9.83 11.15 7.6 6.9 1.5 4.3 4.7 3.7 .5 2.7 2.0 8.7 .0 13.1 .4 1.5 8.1 1.0 4.4 2.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Truck drivers ......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 14.17 10.26 15.71 16.47 15.00 17.56 11.02 10.1 4.0 22.4 5.6 12.7 3.5 7.0 15.56 11.31 15.71 16.47 17.29 17.56 11.02 6.9 2.7 22.4 5.6 5.5 3.5 7.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 1 ...................................................................... Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 2 ...................................................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Hand packers and packagers ............................... 1 ...................................................................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 9.84 8.77 10.10 11.65 9.30 8.94 7.18 10.07 10.50 10.10 9.68 10.52 9.40 8.62 9.23 8.39 11.72 4.0 2.8 3.8 2.2 2.7 8.8 8.9 1.5 .9 4.4 5.0 8.1 4.1 4.3 7.4 6.0 4.0 9.97 8.86 10.10 11.65 9.30 8.94 7.18 10.07 10.50 10.10 9.68 10.52 9.40 8.62 9.51 8.45 11.72 4.0 3.0 3.8 2.2 2.7 8.8 8.9 1.5 .9 4.4 5.0 8.1 4.1 4.3 8.8 8.4 4.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. 1 ...................................................................... Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 11.02 7.56 7.69 9.11 10.08 – 7.59 7.47 8.64 9.06 10.12 9.61 10.10 11.2 4.2 12.1 8.2 4.9 – 10.4 6.3 4.4 5.1 1.9 3.6 2.0 8.36 7.51 7.52 9.03 – – 7.10 – 8.28 8.73 9.81 9.61 9.81 7.2 4.3 15.0 9.5 – – 12.1 – 5.6 5.7 4.1 3.6 4.1 $14.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 16 Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Health service –Continued Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants –Continued 2 ...................................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $9.61 15.69 9.18 – 3.6 30.4 10.4 – $9.61 10.45 9.24 – 3.6 17.1 11.6 – – – – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 17 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $14.48 14.31 2.9 3.5 $14.06 13.83 3.0 3.8 $16.45 16.45 6.3 6.3 White collar ......................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 20.17 9.53 11.04 12.47 16.00 18.09 19.69 24.13 32.48 26.97 41.11 41.55 19.94 9.53 10.48 12.25 14.60 18.09 19.69 24.24 27.55 26.97 41.11 41.55 6.3 8.0 7.3 2.5 9.4 2.7 2.2 10.2 14.4 15.4 4.9 6.1 8.4 8.0 2.7 2.6 5.0 2.7 2.2 10.8 5.4 15.4 4.9 6.1 20.51 11.05 11.04 12.49 17.03 17.68 21.50 26.78 32.75 29.75 – 42.57 20.16 11.05 10.48 12.23 14.72 17.68 21.50 27.32 27.59 29.75 – 42.57 7.0 2.9 7.3 2.8 12.7 3.4 5.3 14.6 14.9 16.1 – 6.1 11.8 2.9 2.7 3.0 5.3 3.4 5.3 15.5 5.7 16.1 – 6.1 19.64 – – – – – 19.44 – – – – – 19.64 – – – – – 19.44 – – – – – 11.5 – – – – – 1.8 – – – – – 11.5 – – – – – 1.8 – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 21.98 22.83 21.02 19.52 21.39 – – 26.12 21.02 22.46 – – – – 6.2 9.0 .3 1.9 2.0 – – 16.4 .3 5.3 – – – – 23.53 26.25 – – – – – 22.87 – 23.33 – – – – 8.4 10.2 – – – – – 6.0 – 6.2 – – – – 21.09 21.39 – 19.41 – – – – – – – – – – 7.7 10.6 – 1.9 – – – – – – – – – – – 18.63 22.79 – 4.6 4.0 – 18.56 – – 6.5 – – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 9 ...................................................................... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 9 ...................................................................... Management related ................................................. 33.00 33.59 26.91 41.89 32.44 26.33 31.73 26.97 35.93 7.1 23.5 4.6 7.6 7.0 3.6 5.8 5.7 19.3 32.62 33.59 26.92 – 31.93 26.27 31.99 – 35.82 8.0 23.5 5.0 – 7.2 4.0 5.9 – 22.8 34.29 – – – – – – – – 16.1 – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 22.63 29.5 22.63 29.5 – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... 11.49 9.51 10.38 12.34 13.88 11.83 5.2 8.2 2.6 2.8 3.1 5.8 11.92 11.12 10.38 12.39 – 11.83 3.9 3.4 2.6 3.1 – 5.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 18 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Administrative support, including clerical –Continued Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 3 ...................................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. $11.59 10.76 10.71 12.44 12.32 8.3 2.8 1.9 6.1 2.9 $11.35 10.76 10.71 12.44 – 10.1 2.8 1.9 6.1 – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 12.80 9.13 10.04 12.28 14.68 16.28 16.90 19.57 2.1 2.0 1.3 3.7 1.5 4.2 5.1 4.5 12.93 9.24 10.07 12.28 14.76 16.38 17.08 19.57 1.9 1.8 1.4 3.8 1.5 4.4 5.7 4.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ 5 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Upholsterers ......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 17.15 12.63 14.23 17.54 17.69 19.41 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 14.09 19.02 20.00 18.23 21.06 20.27 4.0 3.5 2.2 6.1 6.5 4.6 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 .5 1.7 1.6 6.3 1.8 9.2 17.50 – 14.54 17.88 18.07 19.41 14.69 12.09 20.22 16.16 14.09 19.02 20.00 18.23 21.06 20.27 4.1 – 1.3 6.2 7.5 4.6 2.9 4.5 4.3 2.3 .5 1.7 1.6 6.3 1.8 9.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... 2 ...................................................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... 2 ...................................................................... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 11.88 9.50 10.02 11.85 14.59 14.07 13.89 .5 1.8 1.9 .8 1.5 2.3 4.0 11.88 9.50 10.02 11.85 14.59 14.07 13.89 .5 1.8 1.9 .8 1.5 2.3 4.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.03 8.81 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 7.8 10.0 1.2 7.6 10.03 8.81 13.62 12.71 11.54 4.6 7.8 10.0 1.2 7.6 – – – – – – – – – – 11.38 11.86 12.43 13.18 15.68 10.38 13.40 11.08 10.06 12.67 12.62 10.30 11.70 14.95 14.23 8.2 14.2 2.6 6.7 9.9 3.7 10.6 5.2 2.0 1.2 2.2 6.9 1.5 4.3 4.7 11.38 11.86 12.43 13.18 15.68 10.38 13.40 11.08 10.06 12.67 12.62 10.30 11.70 14.95 14.23 8.2 14.2 2.6 6.7 9.9 3.7 10.6 5.2 2.0 1.2 2.2 6.9 1.5 4.3 4.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – White collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 19 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Assemblers ........................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... 4 ...................................................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... $10.70 9.28 10.62 11.84 13.69 15.59 12.28 9.77 10.43 16.00 10.79 9.83 11.15 3.7 .5 2.7 2.0 8.7 .0 13.1 .4 1.5 8.1 1.0 4.4 2.5 $10.70 9.28 10.62 11.84 13.69 15.59 12.28 9.77 10.43 16.00 10.79 9.83 11.15 3.7 .5 2.7 2.0 8.7 .0 13.1 .4 1.5 8.1 1.0 4.4 2.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Truck drivers ......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 14.17 10.24 15.71 16.47 15.00 17.56 10.96 10.1 3.8 22.4 5.6 12.7 3.5 7.7 15.57 11.27 15.71 16.47 17.29 17.56 10.96 6.9 2.7 22.4 5.6 5.5 3.5 7.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... 2 ...................................................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Hand packers and packagers ............................... 1 ...................................................................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 10.01 8.97 10.01 11.65 9.30 9.79 10.07 10.50 10.28 10.15 9.94 9.40 8.62 9.23 8.39 11.72 3.8 2.7 3.6 2.2 2.7 8.6 1.5 .9 3.9 5.2 4.1 4.1 4.3 7.4 6.0 4.0 10.18 9.10 10.01 11.65 9.30 9.79 10.07 10.50 10.28 10.15 9.94 9.40 8.62 9.51 8.45 11.72 3.7 2.7 3.6 2.2 2.7 8.6 1.5 .9 3.9 5.2 4.1 4.1 4.3 8.8 8.4 4.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 2 ...................................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... 1 ...................................................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... 11.65 8.28 7.64 9.11 – 7.75 9.50 9.80 10.07 9.61 10.05 9.61 17.42 8.36 10.20 8.36 12.8 2.7 14.6 8.2 – 14.5 3.9 4.5 1.7 3.6 1.7 3.6 29.5 5.6 7.2 5.6 8.70 8.28 7.51 9.03 – 7.31 9.17 – 9.66 9.61 9.66 9.61 11.75 8.36 10.48 8.36 9.3 2.7 16.8 9.5 – 15.8 4.2 – 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.6 19.4 5.6 7.5 5.6 $14.69 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 20 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Personal service ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 21 Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.75 9.31 6.8 7.0 $8.34 8.83 6.7 7.1 – – – – White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 10.56 17.31 12.3 19.2 9.66 17.33 11.7 19.7 – – – – Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 17.31 20.15 – 26.01 23.73 – 19.2 18.8 – 8.8 2.5 – 17.33 22.75 – 24.34 24.16 – 19.7 6.1 – 1.3 2.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 7.09 6.5 7.09 6.5 – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 7.98 7.47 10.8 7.8 7.98 7.47 10.8 7.8 – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 1 ...................................................................... 7.99 7.52 6.79 6.79 11.8 8.5 5.1 5.1 7.99 7.52 6.79 6.79 11.8 8.5 5.1 5.1 – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Health service ........................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... Personal service ....................................................... 7.37 – – – – – 4.6 – – – – – 7.09 – – – – – 4.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 22 Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 Mean All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ $14.48 14.31 $8.75 9.31 – – $14.18 14.08 $13.69 13.78 $18.03 16.81 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 20.17 19.94 10.56 17.31 – – 19.51 19.87 18.71 19.54 33.93 – Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 21.98 22.83 18.63 33.00 22.63 11.49 17.31 20.15 – – 7.09 – – – – – – – 21.70 22.68 17.91 33.00 17.03 11.49 21.70 22.68 17.91 31.80 9.87 11.49 – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 12.80 17.15 11.88 14.17 10.01 7.98 – – – 7.99 – – – – – 12.61 17.15 11.85 13.32 9.79 12.01 15.71 11.44 13.39 9.79 16.12 22.25 13.68 17.11 10.98 Service ................................................................................. 11.65 7.37 – 11.02 11.02 – Relative error6 (percent) All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 2.9 3.5 6.8 7.0 – – 2.8 3.4 3.7 3.7 7.9 7.4 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 6.3 8.4 12.3 19.2 – – 6.1 8.3 7.7 8.1 25.3 – Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 6.2 9.0 4.6 7.1 29.5 5.2 19.2 18.8 – – 6.5 – – – – – – – 6.2 9.1 5.6 7.1 29.3 5.2 6.2 9.1 5.6 7.2 13.6 5.2 – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 2.1 4.0 .5 10.1 3.8 10.8 – – – 11.8 – – – – – 1.9 4.0 .6 7.9 3.8 2.2 3.0 .4 14.2 4.4 3.9 6.5 1.3 7.3 4.7 Service ................................................................................. 12.8 4.6 – 11.2 11.2 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 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. 23 Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing industries3 Occupational group All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries4 Total TransportFinance, Wholesale ation and insurance, and retail public utiland real trade ities estate Services Mean All occupations ............................................................. All excluding sales .............................................. $13.78 13.65 $13.59 13.35 – – – – $13.60 $14.23 13.36 14.46 $20.19 20.19 $12.11 12.00 – – $13.26 13.26 White collar ............................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................... 19.46 20.07 21.07 19.65 – – – – 21.07 19.65 18.06 20.56 23.96 23.96 14.76 23.58 – – 19.29 19.29 Professional specialty and technical ....................... Professional specialty ......................................... Technical ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. Sales ....................................................................... Administrative support, including clerical ................ 22.89 25.92 17.50 32.62 17.03 11.92 27.89 30.94 – 29.79 – 11.69 – – – – – – – – – – – – 27.89 30.94 – 29.79 – 11.69 21.29 24.05 16.83 39.93 12.37 12.30 – – – – – 15.11 – – – – 12.37 12.04 – – – – – – 21.14 23.34 16.91 – – 11.12 Blue collar ................................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... Transportation and material moving ....................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ............................................................. 12.83 17.50 11.87 15.56 12.53 16.37 11.91 11.96 – – – – – – – – 12.53 16.40 11.91 11.82 14.33 23.63 10.83 17.80 19.25 – – 19.20 12.64 – – – – – – – 9.99 – – – 9.97 10.23 – – 10.23 9.57 15.30 8.53 – 8.12 Service ....................................................................... 8.36 12.29 – – 12.29 7.83 – 6.80 – 8.45 Relative error5 (percent) All occupations ............................................................. All excluding sales .............................................. 3.0 3.8 3.3 4.7 – – – – 3.3 4.7 5.7 4.9 4.4 4.4 18.4 16.4 – – 2.5 2.5 White collar ............................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................... 7.3 11.4 11.1 20.6 – – – – 11.1 20.6 9.7 8.0 5.4 5.4 31.5 46.7 – – 6.3 6.3 Professional specialty and technical ....................... Professional specialty ......................................... Technical ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. Sales ....................................................................... Administrative support, including clerical ................ 8.0 8.8 8.0 8.0 29.3 3.9 18.9 21.7 – 11.0 – 5.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.9 21.7 – 11.0 – 5.5 6.1 4.9 9.8 12.7 25.3 4.3 – – – – – 11.6 – – – – 25.3 6.9 – – – – – – 4.6 4.6 4.9 – – 5.4 Blue collar ................................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... Transportation and material moving ....................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ............................................................. 1.9 4.1 .6 6.9 .9 2.4 .6 5.5 – – – – – – – – .9 2.4 .6 6.0 8.2 9.3 2.3 5.5 5.0 – – 2.9 19.7 – – – – – – – 8.5 – – – 4.0 1.5 – – 1.5 10.5 20.0 9.1 – 7.3 Service ....................................................................... 7.2 24.4 – – 24.4 7.4 – 14.2 – 5.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 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. 24 Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more Mean All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ $13.78 13.65 $11.67 11.49 $14.59 14.42 $14.70 14.48 $14.15 14.15 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 19.46 20.07 16.40 19.72 20.56 20.14 20.99 20.46 19.27 19.27 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 22.89 25.92 17.50 32.62 17.03 11.92 – – – 39.80 13.42 12.00 23.58 25.92 18.58 31.03 – 11.90 25.06 27.53 18.83 31.01 – 11.91 21.65 23.57 18.33 – – 11.85 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 12.83 17.50 11.87 15.56 9.97 11.37 17.64 10.09 15.26 8.89 13.34 17.47 12.39 15.73 10.63 13.51 17.62 12.47 16.59 10.67 12.56 16.66 11.93 13.16 10.51 Service ................................................................................. 8.36 6.76 10.04 10.17 9.40 Relative error4 (percent) All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 3.0 3.8 8.9 7.4 2.6 3.9 2.9 4.5 2.0 2.0 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 7.3 11.4 20.2 22.1 7.8 13.0 9.3 16.6 6.7 6.7 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 8.0 8.8 8.0 8.0 29.3 3.9 – – – 20.7 25.4 9.9 7.7 8.8 6.8 10.4 – 4.4 12.0 13.5 14.2 13.1 – 5.9 6.3 7.4 2.9 – – 3.0 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 1.9 4.1 .6 6.9 4.0 6.7 15.9 3.8 11.0 7.3 1.0 3.4 .5 6.1 3.3 1.1 3.7 .8 8.9 4.5 5.2 4.7 2.7 6.0 3.2 Service ................................................................................. 7.2 9.7 8.0 9.5 10.7 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 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. 25 Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.00 8.00 $9.58 9.67 $11.85 11.87 $16.10 16.10 $23.13 22.74 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 8.68 9.44 11.10 11.70 16.23 17.28 23.27 23.41 35.10 35.10 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 13.17 14.18 – – – 17.77 17.85 – – – – 17.24 17.85 – – – 19.29 19.29 – – – – 20.88 21.34 – – – 22.23 21.67 – – – – 23.65 24.05 – – – 25.40 24.48 – – – – 29.31 32.46 – – – 40.70 26.36 – – – – – 9.83 8.40 – 13.19 8.50 – 17.84 13.19 – 21.73 17.09 – 26.51 18.88 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. 16.50 16.79 16.50 15.37 23.58 20.98 24.52 23.58 31.00 30.18 29.32 35.10 43.19 43.19 38.90 45.84 50.00 50.00 52.17 68.27 Sales ................................................................................ 6.15 7.12 9.38 21.17 38.01 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. 8.00 9.82 6.95 9.62 8.84 10.20 9.72 10.91 9.00 9.75 11.19 11.10 11.19 11.20 12.60 10.00 12.18 12.21 13.11 12.40 12.73 11.95 13.91 13.65 14.83 15.00 14.30 13.11 15.85 14.83 Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.25 9.62 11.55 14.50 18.54 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Upholsterers ......................................................... 11.09 12.25 10.08 12.10 12.02 13.31 12.95 13.23 10.08 14.41 13.50 15.84 15.55 14.60 11.60 21.84 15.00 19.01 20.50 15.71 13.63 24.50 18.67 23.91 24.82 18.40 14.95 24.50 21.17 27.47 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 8.50 9.79 11.38 13.24 16.18 7.00 10.36 11.61 8.75 9.25 11.13 12.30 8.75 9.95 13.40 12.85 12.50 11.55 16.10 13.09 13.15 12.25 16.10 13.71 14.19 7.50 8.48 7.50 8.50 9.45 9.20 10.25 9.01 8.50 9.85 9.00 8.12 8.75 9.20 9.00 10.36 11.55 9.98 11.03 10.25 9.36 10.75 9.62 9.25 11.52 9.82 11.53 10.68 12.47 10.69 12.21 12.00 10.25 12.68 10.63 10.90 13.86 15.22 14.53 10.89 15.70 12.21 13.81 14.26 11.85 16.68 13.25 12.24 15.75 17.25 18.95 11.48 17.47 13.58 16.39 16.99 13.00 19.23 18.31 14.05 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 8.85 8.85 7.35 10.25 10.42 10.55 12.27 15.18 11.60 17.41 18.40 11.99 23.55 23.55 14.40 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 7.25 8.15 9.38 10.68 11.95 See footnotes at end of table. 26 Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers –Continued Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... $8.25 6.15 9.24 8.00 7.50 6.00 $8.50 7.35 9.50 8.75 7.50 7.98 $8.76 8.60 9.89 10.00 9.01 9.15 $10.00 10.95 10.55 11.00 10.75 10.10 $11.06 11.69 11.05 12.52 11.98 11.70 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 6.50 – 2.13 – 6.00 6.25 8.76 8.76 7.00 6.50 – 7.42 – 6.00 – 7.00 7.50 9.52 9.52 7.40 7.00 – 9.53 – 8.17 – 8.50 8.66 9.89 9.89 9.12 8.50 – 12.40 – 9.37 – 10.15 10.25 10.72 10.72 27.00 9.69 – 16.46 – 10.50 – 11.54 11.75 11.72 11.72 32.83 13.25 – Occupation3 Blue collar –Continued 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 27 Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Private industry Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $7.85 8.00 $9.51 9.62 $11.61 11.67 $15.40 15.39 $22.50 21.83 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 8.50 9.82 10.50 11.20 14.30 15.19 25.28 25.50 37.99 37.99 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 12.34 17.45 – – – 17.69 17.85 – – – 17.45 19.23 – – – 18.94 19.84 – – – 21.03 23.59 – – – 22.24 22.48 – – – 26.51 32.46 – – – 25.28 25.28 – – – 34.26 39.49 – – – 28.60 28.60 – – – – 8.50 – 12.34 – 16.70 – 22.87 – 26.58 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. 15.75 15.75 16.50 15.37 24.52 24.52 24.52 23.58 30.18 30.18 29.32 35.10 38.90 38.90 38.90 45.84 52.17 50.00 52.17 68.27 Sales ................................................................................ 6.15 7.12 9.38 21.17 38.01 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 9.44 9.82 6.95 9.62 8.84 10.20 10.91 9.00 9.75 11.19 11.35 11.20 12.60 10.00 12.18 13.26 12.40 12.73 11.95 13.91 15.19 15.00 14.30 13.11 15.85 Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.30 9.74 11.61 14.62 18.75 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Upholsterers ......................................................... 11.60 12.25 10.08 12.10 12.02 13.31 13.22 13.23 10.08 14.41 13.50 15.84 15.85 14.60 11.60 21.84 15.00 19.01 21.25 15.71 13.63 24.50 18.67 23.91 25.38 18.40 14.95 24.50 21.17 27.47 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 8.50 9.79 11.38 13.24 16.18 7.00 10.36 11.61 8.75 9.25 11.13 12.30 8.75 9.95 13.40 12.85 12.50 11.55 16.10 13.09 13.15 12.25 16.10 13.71 14.19 7.50 8.48 7.50 8.50 9.45 9.20 10.25 9.01 8.50 9.85 9.00 8.12 8.75 9.20 9.00 10.36 11.55 9.98 11.03 10.25 9.36 10.75 9.62 9.25 11.52 9.82 11.53 10.68 12.47 10.69 12.21 12.00 10.25 12.68 10.63 10.90 13.86 15.22 14.53 10.89 15.70 12.21 13.81 14.26 11.85 16.68 13.25 12.24 15.75 17.25 18.95 11.48 17.47 13.58 16.39 16.99 13.00 19.23 18.31 14.05 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 10.00 11.25 7.35 11.25 14.70 10.55 15.40 16.60 11.60 18.40 19.99 11.99 23.55 23.55 14.40 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Production helpers ................................................ 7.10 8.25 8.32 8.50 9.50 8.76 10.85 10.00 12.12 11.06 See footnotes at end of table. 28 Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued Private industry Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers –Continued Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... $6.15 9.24 8.00 7.50 6.00 $7.35 9.50 8.75 7.50 8.00 $8.60 9.89 10.00 9.01 9.50 $10.95 10.55 11.00 10.75 10.62 $11.69 11.05 12.52 11.98 13.36 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 5.85 – 2.13 – 6.00 6.00 8.00 8.00 6.50 6.50 – 7.00 – 6.00 – 6.50 7.00 8.94 8.94 7.00 7.00 – 7.96 – 7.42 – 8.17 8.15 9.73 9.73 8.28 8.23 – 9.65 – 8.78 – 9.50 10.25 10.43 10.43 12.47 9.69 – 12.00 – 10.25 – 10.25 12.35 11.72 11.72 20.28 13.25 – Blue collar –Continued 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 29 Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 State and local government Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.30 8.30 $9.88 9.88 $13.42 13.42 $20.26 20.26 $25.20 25.20 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 8.87 8.87 13.17 13.17 18.84 18.84 21.96 21.96 26.83 26.83 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Health related ........................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Technical ...................................................................... 13.39 13.39 – – – – – – 17.09 17.03 – – – – – – 20.60 20.73 – – – – – – 22.18 22.74 – – – – – – 25.20 26.01 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Management related ................................................. 20.18 – – 20.98 – – 36.56 – – 43.19 – – 49.22 – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... – – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers – – – – – 8.80 – – – – – 9.89 – – – – – 12.06 – – – – – 15.00 – – – – – 32.83 – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Other food service .................................................. Health service ........................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 30 Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.30 8.30 $9.83 9.83 $12.06 12.00 $16.25 16.18 $23.43 22.85 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 9.38 9.62 11.66 11.75 17.13 17.28 23.92 23.39 36.92 35.10 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 13.52 14.89 – – 17.69 17.85 – – – – 17.45 17.85 – – 18.81 18.88 – – – – 20.88 21.31 – – 21.54 21.28 – – – – 23.65 24.05 – – 25.28 24.31 – – – – 29.14 32.46 – – 45.97 26.01 – – – – – 12.34 – 14.48 – 18.16 – 21.88 – 26.51 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. 16.50 16.79 16.50 15.37 23.58 20.98 24.52 23.58 31.00 30.18 29.32 35.10 43.19 43.19 38.90 45.84 50.00 50.00 52.17 68.27 Sales ................................................................................ 9.00 9.38 15.37 26.68 58.59 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Order clerks .......................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... General office clerks ............................................. 8.00 9.82 6.95 9.62 8.84 10.20 9.72 10.91 9.00 9.75 11.19 11.10 11.19 11.20 12.60 10.00 12.18 12.21 13.11 12.40 12.73 11.95 13.91 13.65 14.83 15.00 14.30 13.11 15.85 14.83 Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.38 9.71 11.60 14.60 18.66 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Machinery maintenance ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Upholsterers ......................................................... 11.09 12.25 10.08 12.10 12.02 13.31 12.95 13.23 10.08 14.41 13.50 15.84 15.55 14.60 11.60 21.84 15.00 19.01 20.50 15.71 13.63 24.50 18.67 23.91 24.82 18.40 14.95 24.50 21.17 27.47 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Numerical control machine operators ................... Sawing machine operators ................................... Shaping and jointing machine operators .............. Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators ........................................................ Textile cutting machine operators ......................... Textile sewing machine operators ........................ Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... Slicing and cutting machine operators .................. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Hand cutting and trimming .................................... Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 8.50 9.83 11.40 13.25 16.18 7.00 10.36 11.61 8.75 9.25 11.13 12.30 8.75 9.95 13.40 12.85 12.50 11.55 16.10 13.09 13.15 12.25 16.10 13.71 14.19 7.50 8.48 7.50 8.50 9.45 9.20 10.25 9.14 8.50 9.85 9.00 8.12 8.75 9.20 9.00 10.36 11.55 9.98 11.03 10.46 9.36 10.75 9.62 9.25 11.52 9.82 11.53 10.68 12.47 10.69 12.21 12.01 10.25 12.68 10.63 10.90 13.86 15.22 14.53 10.89 15.70 12.21 13.81 14.26 11.85 16.68 13.25 12.24 15.75 17.25 18.95 11.48 17.47 13.58 16.39 16.99 13.00 19.23 18.31 14.05 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 8.85 8.85 7.00 10.25 10.42 10.55 12.27 15.18 11.43 17.42 18.40 11.77 23.55 23.55 14.40 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 7.61 8.25 7.85 8.25 8.50 8.00 9.50 8.76 9.10 10.77 10.00 11.43 12.00 11.06 11.87 See footnotes at end of table. 31 Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers –Continued Machine feeders and offbearers ........................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... $9.24 8.00 7.50 6.00 $9.50 8.75 7.50 7.98 $9.89 10.36 9.01 9.15 $10.55 11.04 10.75 10.10 $11.05 12.52 11.98 11.70 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Other food service .................................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 7.00 – 2.13 – 7.50 7.42 8.76 8.76 7.40 7.40 – 8.21 – 6.50 – 8.21 8.15 9.36 9.36 8.33 8.33 – 10.07 – 8.50 – 9.00 10.25 9.89 9.88 9.69 8.80 – 12.77 – 10.00 – 10.25 11.09 10.59 10.44 32.83 13.25 – 17.15 – 11.54 – 12.21 12.35 11.59 11.59 32.83 13.25 – Occupation3 Blue collar –Continued 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 32 Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $6.00 6.00 $6.50 6.50 $7.18 7.25 $9.00 9.00 $11.50 14.37 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 5.65 7.60 6.75 8.50 7.54 14.37 9.27 23.69 23.00 33.75 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 7.60 7.60 – 20.60 21.00 – 8.50 10.00 – 22.48 22.48 – 14.37 21.83 – 24.09 23.00 – 23.69 25.56 – 28.60 25.56 – 33.75 33.76 – 35.32 28.60 – – – – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 5.65 6.25 6.95 7.61 9.27 Blue collar ........................................................................... 5.50 6.50 7.25 9.00 10.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 5.50 5.45 6.50 5.85 7.25 6.70 9.00 7.25 9.55 8.25 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Food service ............................................................. Other food service .................................................. Health service ........................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... Personal service ....................................................... 6.00 – – – – – – 6.25 – – – – – – 7.00 – – – – – – 8.28 – – – – – – 9.98 – – – – – – 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 33 Appendix A: Technical Note T 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 the steps required to produce the data. Planning for the survey The overall design of the survey includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection. Survey scope This survey covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goods-producing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment 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. The Hickory–Morganton–Lenoir, NC, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. 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. Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data, working out of the Regional Office and visiting each establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to follow-up 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 Census of Population system 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time, union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive 4. Determination of the level of work of each job 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. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and other information were updated. Approximately one-fifth of the sample is reselected each year. For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for which a correct classification or level could not be determined. A-1 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. Prior to 2002, the number of jobs selected ranged from 8 to 20. Beginning in 2002, the number of jobs selected followed this schedule: Number of employees Number of selected jobs 50–249 250 and over 6 8 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. For cases in which a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOGs: • • • • • • • • • Professional specialty and technical Executive, administrative, and managerial Sales Administrative support, including clerical Precision production, craft, and repair Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors Transportation and material moving Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Service occupations Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG 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 A-2 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 an “occupational leveling” process. Occupational leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: • • • • • • • • • • Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels, and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on the written description that best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for nine factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a job with its associated leveling factors, and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firms Wage data collected in prior surveys using the occupational leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 occupational leveling factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the occupational leveling factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. 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. 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: • • • • • 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 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, 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 that the employer considers to be full time. A-3 Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical note on occupational leveling through point factor analysis for more details on the leveling process.) Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage. (See below.) Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part time. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. 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 Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment 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, 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 and job level. 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. Survey response Establishments Total in sampling frame 607 Total in sample Responding Out of business or not in survey scope Unable or refused to provide data 233 162 26 45 In this survey, the nonresponse rates for all industries, private industry, and State and local government were within regular survey standards. 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. 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 6–1 through 6–5 are computed using earnings reported for individual workers in sampled establishment jobs. Establishments in the survey may report only individual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the calculation of percentile estimates, the individual-worker hourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest. A-4 The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution within each published occupation. For example, at the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, onefourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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 $12.79, with a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for the estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 (1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79 = $0.76, plus or minus $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. 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, by occupational group,2 National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group State and local government Total Private industry All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 90,500 87,000 74,000 70,500 16,500 16,500 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 23,700 20,200 14,500 11,000 – – Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 9,700 7,900 1,800 3,100 3,500 7,300 3,600 2,300 1,300 2,400 3,500 5,100 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 55,800 10,900 28,400 4,700 11,800 52,700 9,900 28,400 3,600 10,900 Service ................................................................................. 11,000 6,700 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. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. – – – 700 – – – – – – – 4,300 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. A-5
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