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Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX National Compensation Survey October 1997 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner Revised March 1999 Bulletin 3090-40 Preface T For additional information regarding this survey, please contact the BLS Dallas Regional Office at (214) 767-6970. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212-0001, or call (202) 606-6220, or send e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at the BLS Internet site (http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm). Data are in three formats: an ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 606-7828; TDD phone: (202) 606-5897; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-326-2577. his bulletin provides results of an October 1997 survey of occupational pay in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new program known as the National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. Survey data were collected and reviewed by Bureau of Labor Statistics field economists under the direction of Hal R. Corley, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of the Dallas Regional Office. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and analyzed the survey results. iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ Wages in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, CMSA............................................................................ 1 2 Tables: A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ........................................... A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and State and local government........................................................................................................... A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers, all industries ................................................................................................................................. A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................ B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries ................................................................................................................................. C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ............................................................... 4 8 12 17 21 25 31 32 33 34 Appendix A: Technical Note ..................................................................................................................................... Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................ Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors...................................................................................... Appendix table 3. Average work levels ........................................................................................... v 35 39 40 44 Introduction T broader coverage of occupations and establishments within the survey area. Occupations surveyed for this bulletin were selected using probability techniques from a list of all those present in each establishment. Previous OCS bulletins were limited to a preselected list of occupations, which represented a small subset of all occupations in the economy. Information in the new bulletin is published for a variety of occupation-based data. This new approach includes data on broad occupational classifications such as white-collar workers, major occupational groups such as sales workers, and individual occupations such as cashiers. In tables containing work levels within occupational series, the work levels are derived from generic standards that apply to all occupational groups. The job levels in the OCS bulletins were based on narrowly-defined descriptions that were not comparable across specific occupations. Occupational data in this bulletin are also tabulated for other classifications such as industry group, full-time versus part-time workers, union versus nonunion status, time versus incentive status, and establishment employment size. Not all of these series were generated by the OCS program. The establishments surveyed for this bulletin were limited to those with 50 or more employees. Eventually, NCS will be expanded to cover those now-excluded establishments. Then, virtually all workers in the civilian economy will be surveyed, excluding only agriculture, private households, and employees of the Federal Government. his survey of occupational pay was conducted in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The CMSA includes Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller Counties, TX.. This bulletin consists primarily of tables whose data are analyzed in the initial textual section. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in this bulletin is information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology. NCS design and products The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new National Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on the levels and rates of change of occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These data are similar to those released under the Occupational Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued. NCS more extensive than OCS The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing 1 Wages in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area S Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX earned $16.04 per hour, while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $17.18. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for white-collar occupations as $20.03 in private industry and $19.65 in State and local government. Blue-collar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $12.43 in private industry and $12.18 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged $6.61 per hour while those found in State and local government averaged $11.70. traight-time wages in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $16.26 per hour during October 1997. White-collar workers had an average wage of $19.94 per hour. Bluecollar workers averaged $12.41 per hour, while service workers had average earnings of $8.25 per hour. (All comparisons in this analysis cover hourly rates for both fulland part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.) Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational group, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and State and local government, Houston-GalvestonBrazoria, TX, October 1997 Dollars per hour $ 20 Dollars per hour $ 25 15 20 10 15 10 5 5 0 Whitecollar Bluecollar Service workers 0 White-collar Private industry Within each of these occupational groups, average hourly wages for individual occupations varied. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at $20.86 per hour, secretaries at $13.48, and general office clerks at $10.40. Among occupations in the blue-collar category, truck drivers averaged $11.56 per hour while stock handlers and baggers averaged $6.60. Finally, service occupations included police and detectives, public service at $16.77 per hour and janitors and cleaners at $6.70 per hour. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 150 detailed occupations; data for other detailed occupations surveyed could not be reported separately due to concerns about the confidentiality of survey respondents and the reliability of the data. Survey results show that private industry workers in Blue-collar Service State and local government Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were $16.94 per hour, compared with an average of $7.39 per hour for part-time workers. Data for specific work levels within major occupational groups are reported in table B-1. Occasionally, wage estimates for lower levels of work within major occupational groups are greater than estimates for higher levels. This can occur due to the mix of specific occupations (and industries) represented by the broad group as well as by the variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may not be published because no workers were identified at that 2 Hourly wages averaged $14.52 in all service-producing industries, $18.82 in transportation, and public utilities, $17.48 in finance, insurance and real estate, and $14.51 in services. Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication criteria. Table C-4 reports that a total of 1,145,775 workers were represented by the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX survey. White-collar occupations included 664,830 workers, or 58 percent; blue-collar occupations included 305,850 workers, or 27 percent; and service occupations included 175,095 workers, or 15 percent. level or because there were not enough data to guarantee confidentiality and reliability. Work levels for all major groups span several levels, with professional specialty occupations and executive, administrative, and managerial occupations typically starting and ending at higher work levels than the other groups. Published data for administrative support occupations, including clerical, ranged from level 1 to level 8. As illustrated in Chart 3, the average hourly rate was $8.64 for level 2, $11.78 for level 4, $15.25 for level 6, and $17.74 for level 8. Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by occupational group, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for administrative support occupations, including clerical, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Percent 60 Dollars per hour $20 50 15 40 30 10 20 5 10 0 0 2 4 6 Whitecollar 8 Level Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of $19.30, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion workers averaged $16.10. Time workers, whose wages were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged $16.25 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at least partially based on productivity payments, averaged $16.60 per hour. Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divisions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly wages averaged $18.97 in all goods-producing industries, $15.98 in construction, and $18.13 in manufacturing. Bluecollar Service workers Data are also presented in appendix table 1 on the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The relative standard errors of published mean hourly earnings for all industries, private industry, and State and local government are available in appendix table 2. The average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations are presented in appendix table 3. 3 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ....................................................................... $16.26 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 16.47 $6.00 6.00 25 Median 50 $8.47 $13.27 8.66 13.50 75 90 $20.69 21.03 $29.81 30.00 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 19.94 20.90 8.00 8.98 10.90 11.77 16.76 17.81 25.28 26.39 35.10 36.15 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Petroleum engineers ............................................ Chemical engineers .............................................. Civil engineers ...................................................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Designers ............................................................. Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Legal assistants .................................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Purchasing managers ........................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... 24.15 26.45 31.46 39.23 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 27.65 27.57 22.82 30.84 22.17 20.86 26.11 17.77 42.51 31.16 23.37 23.31 23.53 23.98 22.86 19.51 19.51 22.33 14.08 14.05 34.62 34.33 12.49 16.02 19.70 22.12 23.18 19.70 18.55 16.16 21.45 18.65 18.65 12.67 18.27 16.20 15.90 21.83 14.49 20.42 8.00 17.76 17.92 17.92 14.50 13.34 11.72 11.72 15.12 9.55 10.34 21.81 21.81 16.60 19.53 24.76 30.00 26.00 24.96 21.29 20.31 25.29 21.39 21.39 14.40 22.84 18.40 18.00 23.61 16.00 26.44 21.52 19.66 19.73 19.66 19.15 15.22 13.20 13.20 16.25 11.31 11.50 25.33 25.38 21.91 24.41 30.15 40.06 29.81 31.25 25.67 25.68 30.42 26.14 25.96 19.23 30.39 20.73 20.23 26.78 17.30 34.65 30.10 23.05 22.87 23.05 24.25 23.97 18.05 18.05 20.57 13.06 13.03 27.23 27.23 28.55 30.32 36.67 47.02 36.06 40.00 28.46 37.14 36.36 31.06 31.24 29.99 37.82 24.00 23.29 27.50 19.71 57.87 37.26 27.02 26.53 26.97 28.55 29.70 25.59 25.59 22.69 16.68 16.55 37.74 36.06 36.66 38.91 43.75 55.77 39.18 44.23 29.22 37.14 45.27 39.42 39.23 37.82 47.31 28.15 26.04 29.93 21.36 73.95 51.23 30.03 29.56 29.58 32.33 31.11 31.28 31.28 35.09 19.72 18.28 59.62 60.58 22.77 20.60 23.06 28.53 18.02 14.88 17.09 15.14 13.70 21.64 21.48 19.63 19.21 16.96 14.52 29.95 33.28 25.33 36.07 36.97 34.72 13.00 6.50 15.99 14.76 10.00 7.75 10.90 10.86 8.25 14.30 11.00 13.75 14.42 12.00 10.24 15.68 16.30 13.77 17.79 23.56 23.35 15.99 7.25 18.27 16.30 12.13 11.12 11.57 12.00 9.85 14.75 15.75 19.87 14.48 12.00 10.67 19.35 22.00 20.12 18.88 23.56 24.51 20.46 22.31 20.43 26.92 15.00 15.25 16.00 13.31 14.30 19.58 20.74 21.11 18.13 18.75 13.70 26.44 30.32 24.97 31.97 32.53 30.00 27.18 30.95 20.46 39.22 20.30 17.95 20.00 15.00 16.50 28.85 30.00 21.62 21.56 20.21 16.82 36.42 40.63 31.20 46.69 43.36 46.87 32.31 37.21 55.53 42.79 27.02 21.59 25.12 27.02 18.00 33.00 33.00 21.80 29.95 22.07 19.71 48.08 53.29 37.09 59.90 64.90 48.72 34.02 33.10 23.49 16.34 19.40 16.89 22.22 26.55 16.89 29.87 31.53 26.17 43.76 42.09 27.89 54.61 42.61 28.85 28.68 32.10 11.34 19.23 13.50 21.19 16.04 34.47 39.90 40.63 72.12 47.02 See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. $35.64 $17.95 $24.00 $32.40 Management related occupations ............................ 24.88 15.04 17.57 21.45 Accountants and auditors ..................................... 24.83 16.35 18.23 22.19 Other financial officers .......................................... 29.21 16.88 19.81 24.13 Management analysts .......................................... 25.82 19.60 21.08 26.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... 22.46 13.94 17.48 20.24 Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .......................................................... 27.71 14.90 16.35 20.19 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ 22.93 15.18 15.18 20.31 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 23.33 14.55 15.04 18.27 Sales occupations ............................................................ 13.96 5.35 6.68 10.56 Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 20.95 10.00 13.13 18.75 Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................................... 13.24 8.80 10.92 13.02 Advertising and related sales occupations ........... 20.82 12.50 14.66 17.15 Sales occupations, other business services ......... 15.78 5.50 8.30 15.86 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. 17.73 6.34 8.00 17.31 Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. 15.29 5.17 7.91 10.96 Sales workers, parts ............................................. 17.95 11.43 16.84 18.57 Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 10.86 5.35 6.11 8.81 Sales counter clerks ............................................. 8.43 5.00 6.50 8.50 Cashiers ............................................................... 6.76 5.00 5.25 6.00 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... 11.63 5.31 9.61 11.04 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 11.47 7.40 8.80 10.80 Supervisors, general office ................................... 13.05 9.75 11.20 12.63 Supervisors, financial records processing ............ 17.27 14.27 14.65 15.62 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... 16.15 12.89 12.94 14.42 Computer operators .............................................. 13.50 8.50 11.26 13.45 Secretaries ........................................................... 13.48 9.59 11.25 13.00 Interviewers .......................................................... 10.92 7.61 8.44 9.18 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... 12.28 6.40 7.45 10.23 Receptionists ........................................................ 8.61 5.75 7.00 8.44 Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... 11.23 8.50 10.00 10.00 Order clerks .......................................................... 12.19 9.00 9.00 11.15 Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping 11.85 7.28 7.90 12.20 Library clerks ........................................................ 8.04 5.88 7.07 8.41 File clerks ............................................................. 8.82 7.38 7.94 8.08 Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 11.16 8.02 9.92 10.99 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.35 8.13 9.75 11.21 Billing clerks .......................................................... 13.18 9.49 10.00 10.85 Telephone operators ............................................ 11.10 5.50 8.45 9.00 Production coordinators ........................................ 13.69 10.07 11.50 13.13 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 9.21 6.75 7.50 8.25 Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 10.13 6.93 7.69 9.33 Expeditors ............................................................. 14.74 6.25 11.66 16.06 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 13.33 7.00 10.83 13.20 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 12.85 8.49 9.81 11.01 General office clerks ............................................. 10.40 6.99 8.00 10.00 Bank tellers ........................................................... 9.13 8.13 8.25 8.75 Data entry keyers ................................................. 9.08 7.50 8.31 9.00 Teachers’ aides .................................................... 9.06 7.38 7.60 8.67 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 12.10 8.41 9.64 11.39 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. See footnotes at end of table. 5 12.41 15.93 23.00 5.80 8.55 16.73 7.50 11.45 18.98 11.00 15.63 21.63 75 90 $41.99 29.33 28.85 31.25 30.24 $60.30 37.97 37.87 49.33 34.13 25.72 36.06 25.10 28.61 30.00 17.31 21.82 57.69 35.52 41.54 25.64 38.12 15.31 24.21 20.60 17.40 33.88 33.90 26.30 20.59 20.67 13.34 10.82 7.50 14.42 13.38 14.66 17.00 28.79 29.60 21.19 19.91 11.00 9.00 17.63 16.26 16.71 27.48 17.22 16.88 15.31 13.36 18.68 10.50 13.46 13.73 14.78 8.79 10.02 13.05 12.50 16.48 15.72 15.29 11.00 12.45 16.83 25.29 16.88 18.00 16.07 19.77 11.17 15.93 17.31 15.20 10.37 11.10 13.94 13.95 19.23 15.72 16.35 12.00 13.38 17.77 15.51 14.25 12.15 10.00 10.00 10.25 13.59 17.31 19.47 14.63 10.50 10.85 11.89 15.63 16.15 21.03 28.38 21.03 22.35 31.28 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Automobile mechanics ......................................... $18.47 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... 16.17 Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 15.18 Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment ....................................... 15.39 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 14.82 Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. 17.20 Carpenters ............................................................ 14.40 Electricians ........................................................... 17.38 Painters, construction and maintenance .............. 11.33 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. 16.55 Insulation workers ................................................. 11.74 Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. 9.81 Supervisors, production occupations .................... 21.36 Machinists ............................................................. 17.63 Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... 15.75 Stationary engineers ............................................. 15.58 Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ............................................................. 21.52 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 10.73 Punching and stamping press operators .............. 10.07 Numerical control machine operators ................... 15.13 Printing press operators ....................................... 12.51 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators 6.81 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 11.95 Welders and cutters .............................................. 12.68 Assemblers ........................................................... 8.64 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 14.21 Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 12.73 Truck drivers ......................................................... 11.56 Bus drivers ............................................................ 12.77 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 7.91 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 15.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 8.12 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... 8.17 Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 12.55 Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................ 9.61 Helpers, construction trades ................................. 9.28 Construction laborers ........................................... 8.06 Production helpers ................................................ 8.74 Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 6.60 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 7.90 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 8.27 Hand packers and packagers ............................... 6.54 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 8.20 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 6 25 Median 50 $9.91 $13.03 $17.44 13.74 15.75 15.75 10.50 12.00 14.80 75 90 $24.11 16.57 18.38 $28.72 21.37 21.84 7.00 10.00 14.75 11.00 13.66 9.00 11.75 9.00 6.50 11.69 13.52 9.10 11.26 8.25 11.64 15.00 12.95 15.23 10.00 15.00 9.60 7.00 15.25 15.63 12.89 11.26 17.50 14.64 17.50 15.00 16.90 11.00 16.00 11.50 8.50 19.95 16.74 16.19 13.80 22.33 16.32 18.13 16.35 19.15 12.75 18.20 13.25 10.75 28.89 21.03 18.55 18.91 23.45 21.84 19.33 17.00 21.37 13.00 21.03 15.50 15.00 31.54 21.09 19.87 21.20 20.03 6.00 6.55 11.32 8.00 5.85 6.75 11.00 5.00 6.00 6.75 8.00 7.80 6.50 21.03 6.80 7.60 14.90 9.53 6.00 10.04 11.00 6.00 8.00 8.00 8.50 10.85 6.75 21.35 10.50 10.00 15.28 13.50 6.65 10.61 11.75 7.00 9.44 11.55 9.75 14.09 7.32 22.38 13.35 11.06 16.50 15.75 7.40 13.73 13.88 10.00 16.74 17.35 13.85 14.80 8.21 22.64 15.76 15.00 18.80 16.00 8.25 20.30 15.50 14.55 35.63 20.19 18.48 15.99 9.80 9.67 5.00 6.00 11.38 5.60 6.75 14.85 7.50 7.98 20.30 9.50 9.04 20.30 12.40 11.74 7.85 6.03 7.00 5.75 6.25 4.75 5.35 5.22 5.15 4.75 10.15 7.75 8.00 6.50 7.50 5.15 5.75 6.30 5.15 5.15 12.98 9.25 9.00 7.87 8.00 5.50 6.50 7.55 6.00 7.50 16.15 11.00 10.55 9.00 9.50 7.40 8.60 9.22 7.00 9.54 16.15 13.36 11.59 11.21 11.54 8.80 14.56 13.50 8.50 14.40 8.25 12.52 14.11 16.77 4.75 6.00 11.86 13.69 5.25 8.07 13.13 15.16 6.85 12.49 14.20 17.11 9.82 15.91 15.91 18.37 15.16 18.37 15.91 20.72 16.04 10.97 8.42 5.99 13.72 9.30 5.50 2.13 14.27 10.47 6.00 4.85 15.57 11.19 6.50 5.75 17.84 11.69 9.00 7.36 18.32 11.69 15.00 9.50 10.18 5.34 3.01 7.40 7.50 2.13 2.13 5.50 9.50 2.13 2.13 6.13 10.00 6.25 2.13 7.00 11.54 7.35 2.38 8.00 12.98 8.20 5.90 9.00 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Food service occupations (-Continued) Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Welfare service aides ........................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. $6.12 6.16 6.76 6.55 7.81 8.60 7.31 6.70 5.67 6.70 9.40 5.87 8.25 6.89 8.64 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $3.85 5.00 3.80 5.15 5.15 6.65 5.00 5.00 5.15 4.75 5.15 5.15 6.50 5.25 5.15 $5.15 5.22 4.50 5.25 6.18 7.94 5.90 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.41 5.25 7.03 5.50 5.70 $5.50 6.00 5.25 5.80 7.87 8.37 7.19 5.70 5.56 5.65 6.73 5.50 7.66 6.25 7.98 $6.55 6.66 6.75 7.36 8.86 9.00 8.67 7.50 6.00 7.97 10.59 6.45 9.61 7.83 11.78 $8.25 7.75 13.50 9.39 10.15 11.31 9.50 9.60 6.55 9.83 18.00 7.00 10.95 9.11 11.78 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 7 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $16.04 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 16.27 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Petroleum engineers .......................... Chemical engineers ............................ Civil engineers .................................... Industrial engineers ............................ Mechanical engineers ......................... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Natural scientists .................................... Geologists and geodesists ................. Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Respiratory therapists ......................... Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, N.E.C. ................................ Vocational and educational counselors .................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Librarians ............................................ Social scientists and urban planners ...... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Lawyers and judges ................................ Lawyers .............................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Designers ........................................... Public relations specialists .................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ....... Technical occupations ................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Radiological technicians ..................... Licensed practical nurses ................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ........................................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ......... Drafters ............................................... Chemical technicians .......................... Computer programmers ..................... Legal assistants .................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... Financial managers ............................ Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... Purchasing managers ......................... State and local government $5.56 5.75 25 Median 50 $8.00 $12.92 8.10 13.14 Percentiles Mean 75 90 10 $20.43 20.83 $30.07 30.55 $17.18 17.21 25 Median 50 75 90 $7.98 $10.09 $14.66 $21.53 $28.90 8.02 10.10 14.69 21.60 28.90 20.03 21.33 7.89 9.00 10.78 11.96 16.33 17.75 25.29 26.96 36.53 38.00 19.65 19.70 8.60 8.67 11.31 11.40 17.92 17.95 25.28 25.28 30.75 30.81 24.47 27.83 31.46 39.23 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 27.83 12.39 16.81 19.70 22.12 23.18 19.70 18.55 16.16 21.45 18.88 16.00 20.43 24.76 30.00 26.00 24.96 21.29 20.31 25.29 21.50 21.87 25.96 30.15 40.06 29.81 31.25 25.67 25.68 30.42 26.19 30.00 33.04 36.67 47.02 36.06 40.00 28.46 37.14 36.36 31.20 38.46 40.39 43.75 55.77 39.18 44.23 29.22 37.14 45.27 39.47 23.51 24.48 – – – – – – – – 12.95 15.12 – – – – – – – – 17.76 18.46 – – – – – – – – 21.94 22.72 – – – – – – – – 27.02 27.33 – – – – – – – – 31.11 31.52 – – – – – – – – 27.75 26.02 30.84 22.19 20.50 25.90 17.77 36.68 20.70 23.34 – 18.44 18.88 13.25 18.27 16.00 15.75 22.04 14.49 15.14 12.13 12.77 – 8.20 21.44 16.13 22.84 18.11 17.81 23.61 16.00 16.41 12.98 16.80 – 12.74 26.00 24.23 30.39 20.55 20.13 25.95 17.30 21.63 20.77 22.57 – 14.50 31.43 33.15 37.82 23.71 22.55 26.90 19.71 60.90 25.98 29.56 – 22.60 39.42 40.64 47.31 27.81 24.90 29.52 21.36 66.99 31.72 33.11 – 25.98 – – – 22.11 21.51 – – 42.75 23.51 23.31 23.43 25.45 – – – 16.73 16.23 – – 21.11 17.81 17.92 17.92 18.48 – – – 18.60 18.38 – – 26.44 19.67 19.73 19.66 20.70 – – – 21.05 20.49 – – 34.82 23.23 22.87 22.88 25.48 – – – 25.59 24.24 – – 56.96 27.14 26.53 26.88 30.30 – – – 28.64 27.39 – – 73.95 29.99 29.40 29.58 32.87 – – – – 12.52 – 37.46 37.46 – – – – 7.57 – 21.81 21.81 – – – – 9.12 – 22.50 22.50 – – – – 10.34 – 32.93 32.93 – – – – 16.00 – 45.90 45.90 – – – – 19.72 – 64.90 64.90 23.34 19.43 19.43 – 14.54 14.54 – – 13.34 11.27 11.27 – 10.93 10.93 – – 15.22 13.20 13.20 – 12.09 12.09 – – 24.16 16.51 16.51 – 13.78 13.78 – – 29.70 25.72 25.72 – 16.68 16.68 – – 31.11 31.28 31.28 – 18.45 18.45 – – 23.04 20.60 23.06 30.14 18.45 13.00 6.50 15.99 14.81 10.03 15.86 7.25 18.27 18.00 12.47 20.55 22.31 20.43 27.41 15.44 27.40 30.95 20.46 39.22 20.46 32.31 37.21 55.53 43.51 25.34 – – – – 15.05 – – – – 9.59 – – – – 10.55 – – – – 12.97 – – – – 16.79 – – – – 27.02 14.88 15.36 13.07 8.17 10.20 11.00 11.12 11.00 11.71 15.25 16.00 12.96 17.95 19.06 14.23 22.36 20.00 15.47 – – 19.32 – – 10.60 – – 12.69 – – 14.40 – – 27.02 – – 27.02 13.93 23.37 21.48 19.63 20.11 16.96 8.53 14.40 11.00 13.75 14.42 12.00 10.62 14.75 15.75 19.87 14.90 12.00 14.30 22.12 20.74 21.11 18.13 18.75 16.54 28.85 30.00 21.62 23.46 20.21 18.07 38.00 33.00 21.80 30.00 22.07 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 30.66 16.01 19.53 26.92 37.80 49.33 26.29 15.06 17.95 23.84 31.42 40.17 35.02 16.83 23.34 32.04 43.46 60.10 27.66 14.54 20.12 27.79 32.44 42.61 – 36.40 – 17.79 – 18.78 – 32.50 – 46.69 – 62.50 25.27 – 13.77 – 20.12 – 24.90 – 31.20 – 35.48 – 36.97 34.72 23.56 23.35 23.56 24.51 32.53 30.00 43.36 46.87 64.90 48.72 – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 8 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued Private industry State and local government Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. $34.02 $16.34 $22.22 $29.87 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 32.36 16.66 27.84 37.80 Managers, medicine and health ......... 23.97 16.89 19.59 26.17 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments .............................. 30.65 11.54 15.07 16.56 Managers, properties and real estate 32.10 19.23 21.19 34.47 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 37.11 19.14 24.90 34.48 Management related occupations .......... 25.32 15.04 17.91 21.65 Accountants and auditors ................... 24.83 16.35 18.23 22.19 Other financial officers ........................ 29.21 16.88 19.81 24.13 Management analysts ........................ 25.82 19.60 21.08 26.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 23.61 13.94 17.95 21.22 Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .................... 27.71 14.90 16.35 20.19 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 25.95 17.88 20.31 26.73 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 23.58 14.35 15.04 18.16 Sales occupations .......................................... 14.01 5.34 6.58 10.58 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 20.95 10.00 13.13 18.75 Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................. 13.24 8.80 10.92 13.02 Advertising and related sales occupations .................................. 20.82 12.50 14.66 17.15 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 15.78 5.50 8.30 15.86 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 17.73 6.34 8.00 17.31 Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............................................. 15.29 5.17 7.91 10.96 Sales workers, parts ........................... 17.95 11.43 16.84 18.57 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 10.86 5.35 6.11 8.81 Sales counter clerks ........................... 8.43 5.00 6.50 8.50 Cashiers ............................................. 6.71 5.00 5.25 6.00 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 11.63 5.31 9.61 11.04 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 11.79 7.50 9.00 11.07 Supervisors, general office ................. 12.50 9.75 10.89 12.00 Supervisors, financial records processing .................................... 17.27 14.27 14.65 15.62 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ...................... 16.15 12.89 12.94 14.42 Computer operators ............................ 13.50 8.50 11.26 13.45 Secretaries ......................................... 13.97 10.00 11.88 13.52 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ........................................... 12.28 6.40 7.45 10.23 Receptionists ...................................... 8.48 5.75 7.00 8.32 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 11.28 8.50 9.10 10.00 Order clerks ........................................ 12.19 9.00 9.00 11.15 Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping .................................. 13.47 8.50 12.20 14.42 Library clerks ...................................... – – – – File clerks ........................................... 8.88 7.13 7.68 8.08 Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 10.79 7.40 8.44 10.00 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 11.37 8.13 9.90 11.21 Billing clerks ........................................ 13.82 9.74 10.00 11.54 See footnotes at end of table. 9 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – 75 90 $43.76 $54.61 37.80 28.85 38.97 28.85 39.90 40.63 43.96 29.92 28.85 31.25 30.24 72.12 47.02 61.30 38.46 37.87 49.33 34.13 – – – 16.84 – – – – – – 15.18 – – – – – – 15.18 – – – – – – 17.45 – – – – – – 17.58 – – – – – – 20.08 – – – 27.90 36.06 – – – – – – 25.10 57.69 – – – – – – 30.00 37.34 – – – – – – 31.88 17.40 21.82 42.12 25.75 38.12 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.31 17.40 – – – – – – 24.21 33.88 – – – – – – 20.60 33.90 – – – – – – 26.30 28.79 – – – – – – 20.59 20.67 13.34 10.82 7.35 14.42 29.60 21.19 19.91 11.00 9.00 17.63 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.75 12.77 16.92 15.71 10.43 – 7.38 – 8.33 – 10.03 – 12.15 – 14.07 – 17.00 27.48 – – – – – – 17.22 16.88 15.90 25.29 16.88 18.55 – – 11.28 – – 8.91 – – 9.61 – – 11.29 – – 12.67 – – 13.91 18.68 10.42 13.46 13.73 19.77 11.17 15.93 17.31 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.78 – 10.06 12.69 15.90 – 11.40 15.60 – 7.99 – 11.44 – 7.07 – 10.30 – 8.29 – 11.35 – 8.66 – 13.15 – 10.65 – 13.79 12.50 18.07 14.19 22.50 – – – – – – – – – – – $33.14 $19.40 $26.30 $31.42 $42.61 $42.61 – – – – – – – 5.88 – 9.92 – – Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Production coordinators ...................... $13.99 $10.97 $11.50 $14.90 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 8.98 6.75 7.50 8.25 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 10.56 7.00 7.94 11.53 Expeditors ........................................... 14.74 6.25 11.66 16.06 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 12.87 7.00 10.83 12.92 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 12.95 8.49 9.86 11.01 General office clerks ........................... 10.75 6.15 8.00 10.00 Bank tellers ......................................... 9.13 8.13 8.25 8.75 Data entry keyers ............................... 9.08 7.50 8.31 9.00 Teachers’ aides .................................. – – – – Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 12.39 8.56 10.11 11.44 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Automobile mechanics ....................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment .............. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. ........................................... Carpenters .......................................... Electricians ......................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters Insulation workers ............................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ................ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ......... Stationary engineers ........................... Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. .......................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Punching and stamping press operators ...................................... Numerical control machine operators Printing press operators ..................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Bus drivers .......................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ........ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.90 – – – – – – 14.33 12.50 10.00 10.00 – 19.47 16.32 10.50 10.85 – – $9.95 – – 9.06 – $7.28 – – 7.38 – $8.24 – – 7.60 13.50 15.46 11.73 8.40 9.23 11.23 14.10 15.63 75 90 $15.29 11.00 12.45 16.83 $16.35 12.00 13.38 17.77 13.75 – – – $9.74 $11.17 $13.50 – – – – – – 8.67 10.25 11.89 12.43 5.75 7.49 11.00 16.34 21.09 12.18 7.98 9.90 11.19 14.80 18.20 16.09 23.69 18.74 15.27 8.45 16.73 9.91 10.50 11.50 20.67 13.26 12.00 15.75 21.70 17.44 14.80 21.03 28.85 24.11 18.38 22.38 31.28 28.72 21.84 14.09 – – – 9.92 – – – 10.62 – – – 13.00 – – – 17.94 – – – 18.98 – – – 15.39 15.13 7.00 10.00 8.25 11.75 17.50 14.85 22.33 18.00 23.45 21.84 – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.18 14.40 17.58 16.20 11.74 9.62 23.19 17.63 15.75 15.58 14.75 11.00 14.20 10.50 9.00 6.50 14.40 13.52 9.10 11.26 15.00 12.95 15.25 15.00 9.60 7.00 16.83 15.63 12.89 11.26 17.50 15.00 16.90 15.50 11.50 8.10 21.90 16.74 16.19 13.80 18.13 16.35 19.40 20.71 13.25 9.90 29.47 21.03 18.55 18.91 19.33 17.00 21.42 21.80 15.50 15.00 31.88 21.09 19.87 21.20 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.52 20.03 21.03 21.35 22.38 22.64 – – – – – – 10.73 6.00 6.80 10.50 13.35 15.81 – – – – – – 10.07 15.13 12.51 6.55 11.32 8.00 7.60 14.90 9.53 10.00 15.28 13.50 11.06 16.50 15.75 15.00 18.80 16.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.81 5.85 6.00 6.65 7.40 8.25 – – – – – – 11.95 12.68 8.64 6.75 11.00 5.00 10.04 11.00 6.00 10.61 11.75 7.00 13.73 13.88 10.00 20.30 15.50 14.55 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.28 6.00 8.00 9.29 16.74 35.63 – – – – – – 12.85 11.66 – 6.75 8.00 – 8.00 8.50 – 11.54 10.00 – 18.46 14.10 – 20.30 18.48 – 11.74 – 12.34 9.05 – 10.85 12.31 – 13.17 14.80 – 14.80 14.80 – 14.80 7.91 6.50 6.75 7.32 8.21 9.80 – – – – – – 15.75 9.67 11.38 14.97 20.30 20.30 – – – – – – 8.02 5.00 5.50 7.25 9.15 12.76 9.44 7.50 8.12 9.68 10.55 11.59 See footnotes at end of table. 10 7.02 – 7.54 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers (-Continued) Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. ..... Helpers, mechanics and repairers ...... Helpers, construction trades ............... Construction laborers ......................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ Hand packers and packagers ............. Laborers except construction, N.E.C. Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Firefighting occupations ...................... Police and detectives, public service .. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ..................... Correctional institution officers ........... Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Bartenders .......................................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations .................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ........................ Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $6.70 $5.15 $6.00 $6.75 $7.65 $8.40 12.55 9.81 8.99 8.00 8.74 6.60 7.85 6.00 7.00 5.75 6.25 4.75 10.15 7.75 7.50 6.50 7.50 5.15 12.98 9.50 8.70 7.50 8.00 5.50 16.15 12.88 9.25 9.00 9.50 7.40 7.90 5.35 5.75 6.50 8.09 6.54 8.10 5.22 5.15 4.75 6.10 5.15 5.00 6.61 7.30 – – 4.10 5.15 – – – – Median 50 10 25 $9.29 $6.81 $7.51 16.15 13.36 12.00 11.20 11.54 8.80 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.60 14.56 – – – – – – 7.20 6.00 7.25 8.50 7.00 9.50 13.50 8.50 15.10 – – 9.59 – – 6.91 – – 8.17 – – 9.88 – – 10.60 – – 11.24 5.15 5.75 – – 5.75 6.30 – – 7.15 7.00 – – 9.70 12.43 – – 11.70 14.72 14.11 16.77 7.03 10.59 11.86 13.69 8.36 11.69 13.13 15.16 10.95 15.16 14.20 17.11 15.16 17.11 15.91 18.37 17.84 18.69 15.91 20.72 – – – – – – – – – – 16.04 10.97 13.72 9.30 14.27 10.47 15.57 11.19 17.84 11.69 18.32 11.69 7.77 5.76 5.50 2.13 6.00 4.25 6.30 5.50 8.05 7.00 14.42 9.50 – 7.96 – 6.10 – 6.75 – 7.47 – 9.05 – 10.24 10.07 5.34 3.01 7.46 7.50 2.13 2.13 5.50 9.50 2.13 2.13 6.25 10.00 6.25 2.13 7.00 11.46 7.35 2.38 8.00 12.98 8.20 5.90 9.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.12 6.14 6.76 5.73 7.32 8.14 3.85 5.00 3.80 5.15 5.00 6.00 5.15 5.15 4.50 5.15 5.53 7.00 5.50 6.00 5.25 5.40 7.08 8.14 6.55 6.57 6.75 5.80 8.78 9.00 8.25 7.78 13.50 7.00 9.50 11.42 – – – 8.14 8.59 8.91 – – – 6.42 6.84 7.71 – – – 6.92 7.71 8.28 – – – 7.69 8.37 8.37 – – – 9.39 9.11 9.02 – – – 10.24 10.59 11.08 6.93 4.75 5.20 6.55 8.23 9.17 8.25 6.36 7.06 8.01 9.23 10.38 6.14 5.66 5.95 9.66 4.75 5.15 4.75 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.25 5.30 5.56 5.15 6.00 6.25 5.97 6.25 9.80 8.25 6.55 8.25 23.50 8.89 – 8.92 8.75 6.49 – 6.51 5.97 7.66 – 7.67 7.33 8.57 – 8.62 8.45 9.73 – 9.78 10.90 11.46 – 11.59 11.78 5.87 – 6.99 5.15 – 5.15 5.25 – 5.15 5.25 – 6.65 6.50 – 7.98 7.00 – 13.07 – 7.74 – – 5.97 – – 6.75 – – 7.38 – – 8.75 – – 9.46 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as 75 90 $9.04 $11.74 $12.11 – – – – working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 11 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $16.94 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 17.08 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Petroleum engineers .......................... Chemical engineers ............................ Civil engineers .................................... Industrial engineers ............................ Mechanical engineers ......................... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Natural scientists .................................... Geologists and geodesists ................. Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, except college and university Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, N.E.C. ................................ Vocational and educational counselors .................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Librarians ............................................ Social scientists and urban planners ...... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Lawyers and judges ................................ Lawyers .............................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Designers ........................................... Public relations specialists .................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ....... Technical occupations ................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Radiological technicians ..................... Licensed practical nurses ................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ........................................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ......... Drafters ............................................... Chemical technicians .......................... Computer programmers ..................... Legal assistants .................................. Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... Financial managers ............................ Part-time $6.60 6.75 25 Median 50 $9.14 $14.00 9.25 14.14 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $21.16 21.29 $30.32 30.53 10 25 Median 50 $7.39 7.59 $4.75 4.75 $5.15 5.15 $5.50 5.50 $8.00 $12.88 8.09 14.11 75 90 20.45 21.19 8.50 9.04 11.29 12.00 17.31 18.02 25.90 26.68 35.82 36.52 9.93 12.41 5.00 6.00 5.60 7.50 7.70 10.00 12.00 16.00 19.00 22.25 24.35 26.73 31.46 39.23 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 27.61 12.66 16.38 19.70 22.12 23.18 19.70 18.55 16.16 21.45 18.65 16.83 19.68 24.74 30.00 26.00 24.96 21.29 20.31 25.29 21.39 22.07 24.73 30.09 40.06 29.81 31.25 25.67 25.68 30.42 26.01 28.75 30.58 36.76 47.02 36.06 40.00 28.46 37.14 36.36 30.90 36.78 39.00 43.94 55.77 39.18 44.23 29.22 37.14 45.27 39.42 17.76 18.46 – – – – – – – – 8.00 8.00 – – – – – – – – 12.50 12.22 – – – – – – – – 17.30 18.05 – – – – – – – – 22.05 22.25 – – – – – – – – 28.00 30.90 – – – – – – – – 27.52 22.82 30.84 22.11 20.87 26.26 44.39 23.63 23.31 23.62 25.18 18.65 12.67 18.27 16.12 15.82 21.83 23.24 17.84 17.92 17.92 17.81 21.34 14.40 22.84 18.38 17.89 24.16 26.44 19.72 19.73 19.66 20.65 25.96 19.23 30.39 20.72 20.19 26.82 37.22 23.24 22.87 23.21 24.48 31.17 29.99 37.82 24.00 23.37 27.67 61.12 27.15 26.53 26.97 29.36 39.32 37.82 47.31 28.15 26.30 30.05 74.53 30.10 29.56 29.58 32.87 – – – 22.68 20.72 – 16.15 11.09 – – 12.05 – – – 17.30 16.78 – 8.00 6.88 – – 7.00 – – – 19.00 19.08 – 8.00 7.50 – – 8.50 – – – 21.82 20.47 – 18.05 10.00 – – 12.50 – – – 24.00 22.25 – 18.05 13.00 – – 14.50 – – – 32.50 24.00 – 22.05 14.50 – – 15.00 23.19 19.60 19.60 22.33 14.19 14.04 34.62 34.33 13.34 11.72 11.72 15.12 10.34 10.34 21.81 21.81 15.22 13.20 13.20 16.25 11.69 11.69 25.33 25.38 24.16 20.10 20.10 20.57 13.33 13.03 27.23 27.23 29.70 25.59 25.59 22.69 16.68 16.55 37.74 36.06 31.11 31.28 31.28 35.09 19.72 18.28 59.62 60.58 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 23.96 20.60 23.06 31.81 18.09 14.76 6.50 15.99 14.76 10.00 18.27 7.25 18.27 21.06 12.09 21.74 22.31 20.43 32.31 15.00 27.41 30.95 20.46 39.22 20.35 33.09 37.21 55.53 43.51 27.02 – – – – 14.93 – – – – 8.77 – – – – 13.31 – – – – 15.00 – – – – 16.00 – – – – 20.00 15.10 16.86 15.18 7.92 10.90 10.70 11.48 11.57 11.77 15.45 16.00 13.13 18.00 19.50 14.69 22.36 25.12 27.02 – – 14.74 – – 12.15 – – 15.00 – – 15.00 – – 16.00 – – 16.00 13.72 21.64 21.48 19.63 19.21 16.96 8.25 14.30 11.00 13.75 14.42 12.00 9.79 14.75 15.75 19.87 14.48 12.00 14.42 19.58 20.74 21.11 18.13 18.75 16.58 28.85 30.00 21.62 21.56 20.21 18.00 33.00 33.00 21.80 29.95 22.07 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.52 10.24 10.67 13.70 16.82 19.71 – – – – – – 29.96 15.67 19.39 26.44 36.42 48.08 – – – – – – 33.28 16.30 22.00 30.32 40.63 53.29 – – – – – – 25.33 36.07 13.77 17.79 20.12 18.88 24.97 31.97 31.20 46.69 37.09 59.90 – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 12 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... $36.97 $23.56 $23.56 $32.53 Purchasing managers ......................... 34.72 23.35 24.51 30.00 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. 34.02 16.34 22.22 29.87 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 33.10 19.40 26.55 31.53 Managers, medicine and health ......... 23.49 16.89 16.89 26.17 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments .............................. 28.68 11.34 13.50 16.04 Managers, properties and real estate 32.10 19.23 21.19 34.47 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 35.64 17.95 24.00 32.40 Management related occupations .......... 24.90 15.04 17.58 21.45 Accountants and auditors ................... 24.83 16.35 18.23 22.19 Other financial officers ........................ 29.21 16.88 19.81 24.13 Management analysts ........................ 25.82 19.60 21.08 26.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 22.55 13.94 17.58 21.12 Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .................... 27.71 14.90 16.35 20.19 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 22.93 15.18 15.18 20.31 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 23.32 14.55 15.04 18.27 Sales occupations .......................................... 15.23 6.00 7.69 11.70 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 20.95 10.00 13.13 18.75 Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................. 13.66 9.70 11.50 13.24 Advertising and related sales occupations .................................. 20.82 12.50 14.66 17.15 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 16.60 6.53 8.41 15.86 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 17.73 6.34 8.00 17.31 Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............................................. 15.29 5.17 7.91 10.96 Sales workers, parts ........................... 18.02 11.43 16.84 18.57 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 11.87 5.41 7.00 9.70 Sales counter clerks ........................... 8.96 6.30 7.00 8.75 Cashiers ............................................. 7.43 5.15 6.00 6.97 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 11.67 5.25 9.62 11.04 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 11.64 7.60 9.00 11.00 Supervisors, general office ................. 13.05 9.75 11.20 12.63 Supervisors, financial records processing .................................... 17.27 14.27 14.65 15.62 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ...................... 16.15 12.89 12.94 14.42 Computer operators ............................ 13.55 8.50 11.26 13.45 Secretaries ......................................... 13.51 9.61 11.29 13.00 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ........................................... 13.10 6.50 7.85 11.55 Receptionists ...................................... 8.82 6.97 7.00 8.78 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 12.35 8.50 9.10 12.02 Order clerks ........................................ 12.19 9.00 9.00 11.15 Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping .................................. 11.84 7.28 7.90 12.20 File clerks ........................................... 8.82 7.38 7.94 8.08 See footnotes at end of table. 13 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – 54.61 – – – – – – 42.09 27.89 42.61 28.85 – – – – – – – – – – – – 39.90 40.63 41.99 29.33 28.85 31.25 30.24 72.12 47.02 60.30 37.97 37.87 49.33 34.13 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25.72 36.06 – – – – – – 25.10 57.69 – – – – – – 28.61 35.52 – – – – – – 30.00 19.13 21.82 41.54 27.38 38.12 – $6.38 – – $5.00 – – $5.15 – – $5.60 – – $7.00 – – $8.50 – 15.82 17.40 – – – – – – 24.21 33.88 – – – – – – 20.60 33.90 – – – – – – 26.30 28.79 – – – – – – 20.59 20.67 14.83 10.82 8.12 16.25 29.60 21.19 22.27 12.79 10.05 18.12 – – 6.63 – – – – – 5.15 – – – – – 5.50 – – – – – 5.82 – – – – – 7.30 – – – – – 8.81 – – – 13.50 14.66 16.43 16.71 8.52 – 5.50 – 6.40 – 8.14 – 10.00 – 12.00 – 17.00 27.48 – – – – – – 17.22 16.88 15.38 25.29 16.88 18.10 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.77 10.50 15.93 13.73 19.79 11.17 15.93 17.31 – 7.57 – – – 5.50 – – – 6.00 – – – 8.00 – – – 8.50 – – – 9.00 – – 14.78 10.02 15.20 11.10 – – – – – – – – – – – – 75 90 $43.36 46.87 $64.90 48.72 43.76 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... $11.18 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 11.34 Billing clerks ........................................ 13.18 Production coordinators ...................... 13.69 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 9.30 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 10.22 Expeditors ........................................... 14.74 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 13.33 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 13.06 General office clerks ........................... 10.65 Data entry keyers ............................... 9.10 Teachers’ aides .................................. 9.10 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 12.14 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Automobile mechanics ....................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment .............. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. ........................................... Carpenters .......................................... Electricians ......................................... Painters, construction and maintenance ................................. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters Insulation workers ............................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ................ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ......... Stationary engineers ........................... Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. .......................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Punching and stamping press operators ...................................... Numerical control machine operators Printing press operators ..................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Welders and cutters ............................ Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Part-time 25 Median 50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $13.00 $13.91 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – $8.02 $9.92 $10.99 8.13 9.49 10.07 6.75 7.00 6.25 9.75 10.00 11.50 7.56 7.71 11.66 11.21 10.85 13.13 8.47 9.40 16.06 12.50 16.48 15.29 11.00 12.45 16.83 13.95 19.23 16.35 12.00 13.38 17.77 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.00 10.83 13.20 15.51 17.31 – – – – – – 8.54 7.18 7.50 7.38 9.86 8.29 8.31 7.60 11.01 10.02 9.00 8.67 14.33 12.20 10.00 10.34 19.47 14.74 10.85 12.02 – $7.21 – – – $5.00 – – – $5.25 – – – $6.06 – – – – $7.00 $10.40 – – – – 8.44 9.65 11.40 13.67 15.67 11.14 7.50 9.09 11.00 13.20 14.00 12.70 6.00 8.00 11.45 16.50 21.09 6.39 4.75 5.00 5.35 7.00 9.00 16.06 23.00 18.47 9.00 16.73 9.91 11.55 18.98 13.03 15.75 21.63 17.44 21.03 28.38 24.11 22.36 31.28 28.72 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.17 15.18 13.74 10.50 15.75 12.00 15.75 14.80 16.57 18.38 21.37 21.84 – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.66 14.82 9.23 10.00 18.00 11.64 21.16 14.64 22.33 16.32 23.45 21.84 – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.20 14.40 17.38 14.75 11.00 13.66 15.00 12.95 15.23 17.50 15.00 16.90 18.13 16.35 19.15 19.33 17.00 21.37 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.33 16.55 11.74 9.81 21.25 17.59 15.75 15.58 9.00 11.75 9.00 6.50 11.69 13.52 9.10 11.26 10.00 15.00 9.60 7.00 15.25 15.63 12.89 11.26 11.00 16.00 11.50 8.50 19.95 16.74 16.19 13.80 12.75 18.20 13.25 10.75 28.85 21.03 18.55 18.91 13.00 21.03 15.50 15.00 31.40 21.09 19.87 21.20 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.52 20.03 21.03 21.35 22.38 22.64 – – – – – – 10.75 6.00 6.81 10.61 13.36 15.81 – – – – – – 10.07 15.13 12.51 6.55 11.32 8.00 7.60 14.90 9.53 10.00 15.28 13.50 11.06 16.50 15.75 15.00 18.80 16.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.81 5.85 6.00 6.65 7.40 8.25 – – – – – – 11.99 12.68 8.73 6.75 11.00 5.15 10.14 11.00 6.00 10.61 11.75 7.00 13.73 13.88 10.07 20.30 15.50 14.55 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.21 6.00 8.00 9.44 16.74 35.63 – – – – – – 13.19 7.15 8.50 12.49 17.89 20.30 6.78 4.75 4.75 5.15 8.45 See footnotes at end of table. 14 10.85 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued) Truck drivers ....................................... $11.60 Bus drivers .......................................... 13.67 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... 7.91 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ........ 15.62 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... 8.39 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... 8.17 Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. ..... 12.55 Helpers, mechanics and repairers ...... 9.86 Helpers, construction trades ............... 9.28 Construction laborers ......................... 8.06 Production helpers .............................. 8.74 Stock handlers and baggers ............... 7.50 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... 7.99 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ 8.44 Hand packers and packagers ............. 6.99 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 8.31 Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Police and detectives, public service .. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ..................... Correctional institution officers ........... Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations .................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Part-time $8.00 8.85 25 Median 50 $8.50 $10.00 12.49 14.80 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $13.85 15.19 $18.48 15.99 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.50 6.75 7.32 8.21 9.80 – – – – – – 9.67 11.38 14.97 20.30 20.30 – – – – – – 5.15 6.00 7.75 9.68 12.76 $5.82 $4.75 $5.00 $5.15 $6.00 $7.24 6.00 6.75 7.98 9.04 11.74 – – – – – – 7.85 6.76 7.00 5.75 6.25 5.25 10.15 7.75 8.00 6.50 7.50 5.50 12.98 9.50 9.00 7.87 8.00 6.95 16.15 11.95 10.55 9.00 9.50 8.10 16.15 13.36 11.59 11.21 11.54 10.87 – – – – – 5.23 – – – – – 4.75 – – – – – 4.75 – – – – – 5.00 – – – – – 5.50 – – – – – 6.00 5.35 5.75 6.50 8.70 14.60 7.44 5.15 5.35 6.68 7.78 12.00 5.22 5.15 4.75 6.30 5.50 5.15 8.00 6.25 7.50 9.25 7.57 9.88 13.50 8.60 14.68 – – 5.79 – – 5.00 – – 5.15 – – 5.25 – – 6.50 – – 7.00 9.06 13.33 16.77 5.15 6.50 13.69 5.90 10.59 15.16 7.70 13.81 17.11 11.42 16.51 18.37 15.91 18.37 20.72 5.43 7.04 – 2.38 4.75 – 4.75 5.15 – 5.15 5.75 – 6.00 7.00 – 7.47 15.00 – 16.04 10.97 13.72 9.30 14.27 10.47 15.57 11.19 17.84 11.69 18.32 11.69 – – – – – – – – – – 8.57 6.54 6.00 2.13 6.30 5.15 6.50 6.25 9.09 8.00 14.42 10.40 8.10 4.56 5.25 2.13 5.75 2.13 6.25 5.15 8.67 5.50 15.00 7.00 10.54 3.29 7.78 8.15 2.13 5.98 9.50 2.13 6.75 10.50 2.13 7.00 11.54 2.50 8.00 13.00 6.40 9.00 – 2.56 6.53 – 2.13 5.15 – 2.13 5.50 – 2.13 6.25 – 2.26 7.50 – 2.38 8.25 7.00 6.42 7.21 6.89 5.15 5.15 4.25 5.15 5.65 5.25 4.55 5.45 6.50 6.10 5.55 6.25 7.25 7.27 13.50 7.77 10.63 8.03 13.50 9.69 – 5.50 – 5.36 – 4.75 – 5.00 – 5.00 – 5.15 – 5.25 – 5.15 – 6.00 – 5.40 – 6.50 – 5.75 See footnotes at end of table. 15 – – Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ........................ Welfare service aides ......................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $8.03 8.62 $5.53 6.85 $6.80 7.94 $8.01 8.37 $8.87 9.00 $10.38 11.41 7.55 5.25 6.08 7.31 8.59 7.21 5.71 7.38 10.74 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.30 5.30 5.25 5.35 5.97 6.25 5.66 6.85 7.94 – 8.53 6.92 9.18 – 7.03 5.25 5.50 – 7.03 5.50 6.73 – 8.04 6.25 9.60 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $6.56 – $4.75 – $4.75 – $6.18 – $8.75 – $9.00 – 9.82 6.50 4.75 4.75 6.18 8.75 9.00 8.47 6.00 8.83 11.78 10.42 6.55 10.50 22.50 5.32 – 5.33 5.70 4.75 – 4.75 5.15 5.00 – 5.00 5.15 5.15 – 5.15 5.25 5.15 – 5.15 6.00 6.00 – 6.00 6.67 – 9.61 7.94 11.78 – 10.95 9.11 11.78 5.76 – – – 5.15 – – – 5.25 – – – 5.25 – – – 6.00 – – – 7.00 – – – on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 16 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 39.9 39.8 $676 680 $553 560 2,017 2,008 $34,166 34,299 $28,253 28,517 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 40.0 39.9 819 845 692 717 1,999 1,982 40,873 41,989 33,571 34,694 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Petroleum engineers ............................................ Chemical engineers .............................................. Civil engineers ...................................................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Designers ............................................................. Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Legal assistants .................................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Purchasing managers ........................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... 39.5 39.7 41.1 40.3 40.6 42.7 40.0 40.7 41.2 40.5 40.5 40.2 40.5 39.8 39.8 40.0 34.7 38.9 38.8 39.6 36.5 39.8 39.5 39.5 40.0 40.0 40.0 42.0 42.1 961 1,063 1,291 1,583 1,284 1,392 995 1,139 1,309 1,119 1,116 918 1,250 881 830 1,050 1,542 919 904 936 919 924 775 775 893 568 562 1,453 1,447 882 980 1,240 1,602 1,192 1,298 1,027 1,027 1,253 1,048 1,046 767 1,200 823 805 1,073 1,288 912 882 915 970 958 804 804 823 533 521 1,151 1,151 1,895 1,855 2,135 2,097 2,109 2,221 2,080 2,117 2,143 2,106 2,108 2,091 2,108 1,994 2,013 1,985 1,660 1,470 1,441 1,470 1,405 1,735 1,703 1,703 2,080 2,042 2,039 2,182 2,191 46,144 49,594 67,152 82,291 66,777 72,401 51,750 59,241 68,080 58,164 58,021 47,729 65,010 44,102 41,999 52,121 73,664 34,751 33,590 34,734 35,383 40,234 33,382 33,382 46,446 28,979 28,643 75,540 75,219 40,232 42,905 64,459 83,325 62,005 67,509 53,394 53,414 65,162 54,475 54,392 39,874 62,400 42,267 41,184 55,702 54,995 33,848 32,649 33,848 37,914 41,386 31,824 31,824 42,786 27,165 26,832 59,852 59,852 39.8 40.0 40.0 38.6 38.8 39.7 39.7 39.6 39.8 40.7 40.6 41.0 39.8 40.0 40.7 40.8 41.2 40.0 41.7 40.9 41.3 953 824 922 1,228 701 600 670 601 547 880 873 804 764 678 592 1,224 1,370 1,013 1,504 1,512 1,434 870 892 817 1,292 600 610 608 518 568 766 825 872 725 750 548 1,100 1,231 999 1,300 1,437 1,350 2,054 2,080 2,080 1,940 2,007 2,000 2,067 2,018 2,071 2,114 2,113 2,129 2,068 2,080 2,118 2,113 2,123 1,994 2,168 2,127 2,147 49,201 42,850 47,968 61,729 36,323 30,190 34,842 30,646 28,425 45,750 45,386 41,795 39,718 35,274 30,768 63,299 70,656 50,513 78,203 78,631 74,551 45,219 46,405 42,494 67,205 31,131 31,699 31,616 26,957 29,536 39,832 42,890 45,344 37,710 39,000 28,496 56,410 63,066 51,397 67,600 74,714 70,200 40.6 40.0 40.0 1,380 1,324 939 1,195 1,261 1,047 2,110 2,020 2,078 71,765 66,870 48,815 62,130 62,797 54,434 39.5 41.9 41.9 40.3 40.1 1,133 1,345 1,493 1,004 995 642 1,317 1,379 865 888 1,957 2,180 2,179 2,097 2,083 56,135 69,963 77,635 52,216 51,721 33,363 68,494 71,718 44,990 46,155 See footnotes at end of table. 17 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .......................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................................... Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. Sales workers, parts ............................................. Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Sales counter clerks ............................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping File clerks ............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Expeditors ............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Mean weekly hours4 Median Mean annual hours Mean Mean 41.0 40.5 $1,198 1,046 $1,006 1,052 2,134 2,107 $62,310 54,413 $52,291 54,704 40.2 907 849 2,091 47,146 44,138 40.0 40.4 40.5 40.9 43.2 1,108 925 944 624 906 808 812 729 477 744 2,080 2,099 2,104 2,129 2,248 57,637 48,123 49,072 32,422 47,087 41,995 42,245 37,912 24,810 38,688 40.0 40.0 40.3 546 833 669 530 686 634 2,080 2,080 2,096 28,410 43,298 34,782 27,539 35,672 32,989 39.9 50.3 45.1 41.8 39.4 38.2 39.3 39.9 40.2 41.2 707 768 813 496 353 284 459 464 525 712 719 550 848 397 350 260 415 439 505 642 2,075 2,614 2,345 2,175 2,051 1,988 2,044 2,018 2,090 2,144 36,788 39,955 42,256 25,814 18,369 14,775 23,857 23,484 27,281 37,039 37,398 28,574 44,075 20,654 18,200 13,520 21,590 22,048 26,270 33,392 40.1 40.0 39.9 40.0 39.6 40.0 40.0 39.9 39.8 39.9 39.6 40.0 40.0 39.7 40.0 40.0 648 542 539 524 349 494 487 472 351 446 449 527 548 369 409 590 577 538 520 462 340 481 446 488 323 440 443 434 525 339 376 642 2,087 2,080 2,048 2,080 1,981 2,080 2,080 2,073 2,067 2,013 2,047 2,080 1,963 2,065 2,080 2,080 33,706 28,190 27,666 27,238 17,466 25,698 25,347 24,546 18,232 22,502 23,223 27,411 26,887 19,200 21,267 30,664 29,994 27,976 26,915 24,024 17,555 25,002 23,192 25,376 16,806 21,882 23,026 22,568 24,960 17,618 19,552 33,405 40.0 40.0 39.9 40.0 39.4 40.0 533 522 425 364 358 485 528 440 400 360 327 456 2,080 2,080 2,011 2,080 1,465 2,065 27,727 27,163 21,427 18,935 13,325 25,067 27,456 22,901 20,259 18,720 12,395 23,483 40.2 39.9 40.0 43.8 40.0 40.0 511 641 920 809 647 607 453 625 865 780 630 592 2,085 2,074 2,080 2,279 2,080 2,080 26,483 33,307 47,838 42,089 33,636 31,573 23,421 32,552 44,990 40,560 32,760 30,784 40.0 39.8 40.0 40.0 40.0 787 590 688 576 695 846 576 700 600 676 2,080 2,071 2,080 2,080 2,080 40,901 30,698 35,771 29,962 36,150 44,013 29,973 36,400 31,200 35,152 See footnotes at end of table. 18 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Median Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Painters, construction and maintenance .............. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Insulation workers ................................................. Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Stationary engineers ............................................. Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Punching and stamping press operators .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................ Helpers, construction trades ................................. Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Welfare service aides ........................................... Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 40.0 40.0 30.9 40.0 40.3 40.0 45.3 39.9 $453 662 363 392 856 704 714 621 $440 640 400 340 865 670 700 552 2,080 2,065 1,609 2,080 2,095 2,080 2,358 2,072 $23,574 34,178 18,898 20,405 44,507 36,588 37,136 32,270 $22,880 33,280 20,800 17,680 44,990 34,819 36,400 28,704 40.2 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.9 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.1 41.9 41.0 37.6 39.7 866 430 403 605 500 272 480 507 349 570 553 476 513 314 854 424 400 611 540 266 424 470 280 378 477 383 592 292 2,093 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,077 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,085 2,141 2,133 1,725 2,065 45,036 22,366 20,942 31,478 26,022 14,148 24,938 26,367 18,155 29,614 28,233 24,736 23,580 16,343 44,408 22,069 20,800 31,782 28,080 13,832 22,069 24,440 14,560 19,635 24,024 19,906 27,394 15,205 40.0 40.0 40.0 625 336 327 599 310 319 2,080 2,077 2,056 32,480 17,433 16,792 31,138 16,120 15,896 44.7 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.2 39.5 40.0 40.0 40.0 561 394 371 322 350 294 316 338 279 332 531 380 360 315 320 271 250 320 250 300 2,323 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,038 2,055 2,080 2,080 2,073 29,152 20,499 19,306 16,768 18,185 15,289 16,427 17,564 14,531 17,219 27,612 19,760 18,720 16,370 16,640 14,102 13,000 16,640 13,000 15,600 38.5 40.7 40.0 349 543 671 300 571 684 1,944 2,106 2,073 17,604 28,070 34,765 14,560 29,682 35,589 40.1 40.0 39.9 37.5 644 439 342 245 623 448 260 230 2,086 2,080 2,027 1,845 33,474 22,818 17,372 12,066 32,386 23,275 14,560 11,279 44.8 35.5 37.1 40.0 37.3 37.8 36.8 39.4 39.9 39.0 39.7 39.4 39.8 32.7 40.0 472 117 289 280 240 273 254 316 344 294 286 225 293 351 341 475 80 272 260 225 200 242 319 335 285 250 214 274 319 322 2,330 1,821 1,879 2,080 1,886 1,965 1,632 2,020 2,075 1,984 2,022 2,005 2,024 1,594 2,080 24,558 5,997 14,616 14,559 12,102 14,174 11,253 16,227 17,887 14,975 14,580 11,442 14,937 17,114 17,749 24,700 4,010 14,040 13,520 11,284 10,408 10,982 16,515 17,410 14,602 12,938 11,128 13,745 14,622 16,723 See footnotes at end of table. 19 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Service occupations (-Continued) Personal service occupations (-Continued) Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Mean weekly hours4 38.3 40.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours $265 367 $239 384 1,665 2,003 Annual earnings Mean $11,530 18,382 Median $10,981 16,598 a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 20 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.26 16.47 $16.04 16.27 $17.18 17.21 $16.94 17.08 $7.39 7.59 White-collar occupations ................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... 19.94 6.73 8.50 9.62 11.68 14.58 17.79 21.89 22.20 26.40 28.69 32.59 42.55 46.23 62.92 22.48 20.90 7.83 8.62 9.60 11.82 14.47 17.84 22.03 22.40 26.16 31.94 31.41 42.49 45.92 62.92 22.78 20.03 6.61 8.56 9.72 11.70 14.94 17.64 21.52 22.39 26.35 28.80 33.72 42.37 48.93 60.46 21.79 21.33 7.89 8.68 9.73 11.89 14.88 17.68 21.72 22.74 26.03 32.27 32.33 42.31 48.61 60.46 22.04 19.65 7.71 8.10 9.44 11.55 11.97 18.18 22.47 21.88 26.60 26.35 27.80 45.49 – – 26.30 19.70 7.71 8.16 9.44 11.55 11.97 18.18 22.47 21.88 26.60 26.35 27.80 45.49 – – 26.30 20.45 7.38 8.66 9.72 11.85 14.65 17.81 21.98 22.23 26.39 28.67 32.61 42.55 46.23 62.92 24.03 21.19 8.22 8.78 9.66 11.85 14.50 17.85 22.13 22.43 26.14 31.95 31.42 42.49 45.92 62.92 24.01 9.93 5.62 7.40 8.57 8.23 12.60 16.85 15.93 21.05 27.29 – – – – – 13.29 12.41 5.65 7.58 8.95 10.48 13.69 17.15 15.93 21.05 27.29 – – – – – 14.02 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ 24.15 26.45 11.73 16.14 20.56 23.25 22.76 25.46 29.30 30.70 40.92 39.82 64.01 22.73 31.46 20.50 26.18 29.16 27.91 30.54 32.40 40.41 44.60 27.65 23.20 24.53 26.66 29.46 38.29 24.47 27.83 – 17.31 19.24 24.27 23.56 26.49 29.67 32.41 40.92 44.64 – 19.42 31.46 20.50 26.18 29.16 27.91 30.54 32.40 40.41 44.60 27.83 23.20 24.65 26.94 29.46 38.29 23.51 24.48 – 12.42 21.90 22.66 22.03 22.17 26.90 22.10 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.35 26.73 – 16.54 20.65 23.39 22.85 25.40 29.26 30.70 40.92 39.82 64.01 25.47 31.46 20.50 26.18 29.16 27.91 30.53 32.40 40.41 44.60 27.61 23.20 24.52 26.66 29.37 38.29 17.76 18.46 11.73 12.53 17.73 16.29 20.87 27.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 21 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level White-collar occupations (-Continued) Natural scientists ...................................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Health related occupations ....................................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. Level 7 .............................................................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Management related occupations ............................ Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 22 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $22.82 23.88 22.17 19.92 23.19 19.95 24.32 42.51 24.73 26.62 23.37 11.80 23.03 23.30 23.85 19.51 22.33 14.08 14.39 34.62 $26.02 – 22.19 20.06 21.02 20.53 23.52 36.68 – – 20.70 13.67 – 21.34 25.79 – – 12.52 – 37.46 – – $22.11 – – 19.03 – 42.75 24.73 27.53 23.51 – 23.52 23.37 23.71 19.43 – 14.54 – – $22.82 23.88 22.11 19.83 23.43 19.72 23.90 44.39 – 26.79 23.63 – 23.28 23.40 24.01 19.60 22.33 14.19 14.39 34.62 – – $22.68 21.22 – 21.94 – 16.15 – – 11.09 11.49 – – – – – – – – 22.77 24.48 22.57 13.75 18.02 – 11.99 13.88 17.03 20.90 20.43 27.28 51.69 29.95 17.64 18.45 21.59 23.36 27.31 30.37 31.46 44.42 49.72 62.13 40.74 33.28 12.84 19.66 23.05 20.89 28.75 28.66 31.29 45.69 50.06 63.29 24.88 19.20 18.16 20.13 26.03 23.27 23.04 25.03 23.39 13.15 18.45 – – 14.34 17.76 21.23 20.74 27.41 51.69 30.66 18.33 18.61 21.27 23.81 25.79 30.46 31.60 44.12 50.04 62.13 41.92 35.02 – – 22.60 19.47 26.98 28.80 31.40 45.45 50.40 63.29 25.32 19.20 18.60 20.40 26.33 23.27 – – – – 15.05 – – – 12.26 – – – – 26.29 – – 22.79 22.19 34.17 – – 47.32 – – – 27.66 – – – 22.37 34.17 – – 47.32 – – 16.84 – – – – – 23.96 25.03 22.57 – 18.09 10.62 11.99 13.85 17.06 21.01 20.37 27.28 51.69 29.96 17.64 18.45 21.58 23.36 27.31 30.37 31.46 44.42 49.72 62.13 41.92 33.28 12.84 19.66 23.05 20.89 28.75 28.66 31.29 45.69 50.06 63.29 24.90 19.20 18.16 20.11 26.03 23.27 – – – – 14.93 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers White-collar occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Sales occupations ............................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... $32.39 32.16 41.01 13.96 6.14 7.68 9.70 11.24 15.29 17.37 19.74 19.95 30.27 52.61 11.47 7.84 8.64 9.59 11.78 13.02 15.25 17.79 17.74 11.09 $32.39 32.16 41.01 14.01 6.14 7.66 9.70 11.24 15.29 17.37 19.74 19.95 30.27 52.61 11.79 7.89 8.73 9.70 11.86 13.23 15.83 17.87 17.91 11.18 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $10.43 7.71 7.83 9.44 11.48 11.36 13.92 – – – $32.39 32.16 41.01 15.23 6.64 7.89 10.02 11.82 15.72 17.43 19.74 19.95 30.27 52.61 11.64 8.22 8.81 9.64 11.82 12.99 15.25 17.86 17.74 10.94 – – – $6.38 5.61 – 7.50 6.73 – – – – – – 8.52 5.64 7.57 8.96 9.84 – – – – – Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. 12.41 6.56 8.35 10.24 12.95 14.36 16.23 18.52 19.54 23.62 15.93 8.12 9.83 13.18 14.71 17.18 18.62 20.00 22.35 10.73 6.54 7.84 10.29 11.96 13.11 13.15 16.93 12.73 8.46 8.24 10.70 15.95 14.68 17.97 8.12 6.39 8.68 12.43 6.51 8.30 9.97 13.33 14.48 16.32 18.66 19.54 23.80 16.09 8.11 9.78 13.81 14.91 17.42 18.75 20.00 22.57 10.73 6.54 7.84 10.29 11.95 13.11 13.15 16.93 12.85 8.54 8.22 9.96 16.46 14.75 18.43 8.02 6.32 8.60 12.18 8.36 9.10 12.53 10.26 12.20 15.22 16.50 – – 14.09 – – – – 15.22 16.70 – – – – – – – – – – 11.74 – – 12.95 – – – 9.44 8.47 9.33 12.70 6.71 8.62 10.37 12.96 14.42 16.23 18.49 19.54 23.62 16.06 8.13 10.52 13.18 14.78 17.18 18.59 20.00 22.35 10.75 6.57 7.84 10.29 11.96 13.11 13.15 16.93 13.19 8.54 8.99 10.73 16.05 14.81 17.97 8.39 6.57 9.05 6.39 5.21 6.14 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.78 – – – – – – 5.82 5.22 6.16 Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 23 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers (-Continued) Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. $9.82 11.26 $9.78 11.51 – – $9.83 11.26 – – Service occupations ........................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Protective service occupations ............................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Food service occupations ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Health service occupations ..................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Personal service occupations ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 8.25 5.44 6.63 7.29 12.29 12.01 15.37 15.65 16.25 12.52 6.15 7.83 13.96 12.44 16.15 16.11 16.03 5.99 4.76 6.34 5.52 7.99 7.81 6.93 7.10 7.91 10.22 6.70 5.84 7.06 9.37 9.40 5.94 6.15 7.10 17.02 6.61 5.29 6.00 6.55 12.14 11.65 11.36 – – 7.30 6.14 7.49 – – – – – 5.76 4.59 5.70 5.52 7.99 7.32 – 6.25 7.76 10.50 6.14 5.69 6.05 7.53 9.66 5.94 5.93 – 18.10 $11.70 7.46 8.12 9.15 12.55 12.11 16.00 16.11 16.03 14.72 – – – 12.25 16.19 16.11 16.03 7.96 – 8.09 – – 8.59 – 8.36 – – 8.89 – 8.14 10.62 8.75 – – 8.11 – 9.06 5.77 7.09 7.51 12.49 11.92 15.39 15.79 16.25 13.33 – 8.02 13.96 12.35 16.19 16.11 16.03 6.54 5.05 7.10 5.77 8.12 8.03 – 7.41 7.87 10.22 7.21 6.20 7.18 9.46 10.74 – – 7.12 17.23 $5.43 4.85 5.45 6.22 – – – – – 7.04 5.74 – – – – – – 4.56 4.11 4.77 4.91 – 6.56 – – 8.03 – 5.32 5.18 – – 5.70 5.34 6.57 – – Occupational group3 and level 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 24 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Petroleum engineers ............................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Chemical engineers .............................................. Civil engineers ...................................................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Geologists and geodesists ................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Pharmacists .......................................................... Level 8 .............................................................. Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Elementary school teachers ................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians .............................................................. Social workers ...................................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Designers ............................................................. Public relations specialists .................................... Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Level 6 .............................................................. Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Electrical and electronic technicians Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 25 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $39.23 46.95 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 20.93 25.93 30.89 30.35 30.63 33.42 38.46 27.57 23.47 24.08 26.66 29.46 36.98 30.84 20.86 19.87 22.01 19.38 23.79 26.11 26.15 17.77 31.16 23.31 22.94 22.72 23.53 23.45 24.21 23.98 13.67 25.19 22.86 19.51 14.05 14.39 34.33 20.60 23.06 $39.23 46.95 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 20.93 25.93 30.89 30.35 30.63 33.42 38.46 27.75 23.47 24.22 26.94 29.46 36.98 30.84 20.50 19.98 20.92 19.66 22.39 25.90 26.15 17.77 – 23.34 – – – – – 18.44 13.67 – – – – – 37.46 20.60 23.06 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $21.51 – – 19.03 – – – – – 23.31 22.89 22.61 23.43 – 23.88 25.45 – – 23.34 19.43 14.54 – – – – $39.23 46.95 31.66 32.60 24.88 27.98 31.76 20.93 25.93 30.89 30.35 30.63 33.42 38.46 27.52 23.47 24.07 26.66 29.37 36.98 30.84 20.87 19.85 22.11 19.17 24.07 26.26 – – – 23.31 22.94 22.72 23.62 23.45 24.18 25.18 – 25.23 23.19 19.60 14.04 14.39 34.33 20.60 23.06 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $20.72 – – 21.27 – – – – – – – – – – – 12.05 – – – – – – – – – 14.88 16.34 17.09 15.14 12.32 13.05 13.39 13.70 14.42 14.13 14.88 16.29 15.36 13.07 – 13.08 13.39 13.93 14.37 – – – – 19.32 – – – – – – 15.10 16.33 16.86 15.18 12.32 12.93 12.71 13.72 14.35 14.13 – – – 14.74 – – – – – – 14.53 19.73 21.64 21.48 14.53 19.81 23.37 21.48 – – – – 14.53 19.73 21.64 21.48 – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Technical occupations: (-Continued) Drafters (-Continued) Level 5 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Legal assistants .................................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Purchasing managers ........................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Level 9 .............................................................. Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .......................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Level 7 .............................................................. Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................................... Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, other business services ......... Level 4 .............................................................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. Sales workers, parts ............................................. Level 4 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 26 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $15.20 20.42 19.63 19.21 16.96 14.52 $15.20 20.42 19.63 20.11 16.96 – – – – – – – $15.20 20.42 19.63 19.21 16.96 14.52 – – – – – – 25.33 36.07 26.44 28.48 36.97 34.72 – 36.40 26.73 28.48 36.97 34.72 $25.27 – – – – – 25.33 36.07 26.44 28.48 36.97 34.72 – – – – – – 34.02 33.10 35.36 23.49 34.02 32.36 – 23.97 – 33.14 – – 34.02 33.10 35.36 23.49 – – – – 28.68 32.10 35.64 25.49 21.22 27.11 29.99 31.79 47.47 50.07 63.43 24.83 17.78 18.49 21.01 23.84 22.36 29.21 25.82 30.65 32.10 37.11 24.17 – 27.11 29.99 31.79 47.47 50.07 63.43 24.83 17.78 18.49 21.01 23.84 22.36 29.21 25.82 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 28.68 32.10 35.64 25.49 21.22 27.11 29.99 31.79 47.47 50.07 63.43 24.83 17.78 18.49 21.01 23.84 22.36 29.21 25.82 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 22.46 19.04 21.89 23.61 19.04 21.89 – – – 22.55 19.04 21.89 – – – 27.71 22.93 23.33 17.60 27.71 25.95 23.58 17.60 – – – – 27.71 22.93 23.32 17.52 – – – – 20.95 9.27 12.13 20.60 20.95 9.27 12.13 20.60 – – – – 20.95 9.27 12.13 20.60 – – – – 13.24 20.82 15.78 11.39 13.24 20.82 15.78 11.39 – – – – 13.66 20.82 16.60 – – – – – 17.73 15.29 17.95 18.38 17.73 15.29 17.95 18.38 – – – – 17.73 15.29 18.02 18.38 – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Sales occupations: (-Continued) Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Level 2 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Sales counter clerks ............................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Level 5 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ File clerks ............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Level 3 .............................................................. Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Expeditors ............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. General office clerks ............................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 27 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $10.86 9.05 9.29 – 8.43 6.76 6.02 8.82 11.63 14.11 $10.86 9.05 9.29 – 8.43 6.71 6.02 8.82 11.63 14.11 – – – – – – – – – – $11.87 9.41 9.94 14.74 8.96 7.43 6.55 9.60 11.67 14.11 $6.63 – – – – – – – – – 13.05 17.27 12.50 17.27 – – 13.05 17.27 – – 16.15 13.50 13.48 10.38 13.03 13.58 17.23 17.82 10.92 12.28 8.61 6.59 8.41 10.87 11.23 12.19 11.85 8.04 8.82 11.16 10.47 11.35 9.25 9.66 11.46 11.79 13.18 11.10 13.69 9.21 8.70 10.13 11.22 14.74 16.15 13.50 13.97 10.48 13.44 13.58 17.23 17.82 – 12.28 8.48 6.59 8.41 – 11.28 12.19 13.47 – 8.88 10.79 – 11.37 9.25 9.69 11.43 11.79 13.82 – 13.99 8.98 8.70 10.56 11.22 14.74 – – $11.28 – 11.72 – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.99 – 11.44 10.93 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.15 13.55 13.51 10.42 13.04 13.59 17.23 17.82 – 13.10 8.82 – 8.49 10.87 12.35 12.19 11.84 – 8.82 11.18 10.48 11.34 – 9.66 11.46 11.79 13.18 – 13.69 9.30 – 10.22 11.22 14.74 – – – – – – – – – – 7.57 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.33 12.85 11.32 12.72 10.40 7.89 8.27 9.21 12.00 14.50 9.13 9.08 8.68 9.06 12.87 12.95 11.32 12.72 10.75 7.80 8.52 9.42 12.07 17.27 9.13 9.08 8.68 – – – – – 9.95 – – 9.02 11.95 – – – – 9.06 13.33 13.06 11.43 12.72 10.65 8.31 8.86 9.26 12.07 14.30 – 9.10 8.63 9.10 – – – – 7.21 – 5.97 – – – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical: (-Continued) Teachers’ aides (-Continued) Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Level 6 .............................................................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Painters, construction and maintenance .............. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Insulation workers ................................................. Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Level 7 .............................................................. Machinists ............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Level 5 .............................................................. Stationary engineers ............................................. Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Punching and stamping press operators .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Level 3 .............................................................. Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers ......................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Level 3 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 28 All industries Private industry $8.32 9.30 12.10 8.76 9.99 11.17 12.50 14.92 28.53 – – $12.39 8.76 – 11.52 12.50 – 30.14 23.00 18.47 16.63 16.17 15.18 13.14 15.42 23.69 18.74 – – 15.27 13.14 – 15.39 14.82 13.17 15.31 17.20 14.40 17.38 17.77 18.83 11.33 16.55 11.74 9.81 21.36 23.25 17.63 18.01 15.75 15.52 15.58 All industries State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers – $9.30 12.14 8.81 9.99 11.14 12.48 14.92 31.81 – – $11.14 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 23.00 18.47 16.63 16.17 15.18 13.14 15.42 – – – – – – – 15.39 15.13 13.17 15.45 17.18 14.40 17.58 17.70 18.83 – 16.20 11.74 9.62 23.19 23.25 17.63 18.01 15.75 15.52 15.58 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.66 14.82 13.17 15.31 17.20 14.40 17.38 17.77 18.83 11.33 16.55 11.74 9.81 21.25 23.02 17.59 17.95 15.75 15.52 15.58 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.52 21.54 21.52 21.54 – – 21.52 21.54 – – 10.07 15.13 12.51 6.81 11.95 10.60 12.68 8.64 7.68 14.21 10.07 15.13 12.51 6.81 11.95 10.60 12.68 8.64 7.68 14.28 – – – – – – – – – – 10.07 15.13 12.51 6.81 11.99 10.60 12.68 8.73 7.69 14.21 – – – – – – – – – – 11.56 9.05 10.89 13.38 12.77 13.07 11.66 9.34 10.87 13.38 – – 11.60 9.08 10.89 13.38 13.67 – – – – – – – $8.32 9.30 11.73 – – 10.12 – – – – – – – 12.34 13.07 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations: (-Continued) Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................ Level 4 .............................................................. Helpers, construction trades ................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Construction laborers ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Level 7 .............................................................. Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Food service occupations: Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Cooks ................................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Level 1 .............................................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 29 All industries State and local government All industries Private industry Full-time workers Part-time workers $7.91 7.64 8.17 $7.91 7.64 8.17 – – – $7.91 7.64 8.17 – – – 15.49 15.75 – 15.62 – 8.17 6.70 $9.29 8.17 – 12.55 9.61 10.79 9.28 9.14 8.06 7.13 8.74 6.60 5.83 7.82 8.26 7.90 6.15 8.29 8.27 6.54 8.20 6.03 10.01 12.55 9.81 – 8.99 9.14 8.00 7.13 8.74 6.60 5.83 7.82 8.26 7.90 6.15 8.29 8.09 6.54 8.10 5.82 9.98 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.59 8.93 – 12.55 9.86 10.79 9.28 9.14 8.06 7.13 8.74 7.50 6.60 7.86 9.21 7.99 6.14 – 8.44 6.99 8.31 6.08 10.14 – – – – – – – – $5.23 5.10 – – 7.44 – – – – 5.79 – – 14.11 16.77 – – 14.11 16.77 – 16.77 – – 16.04 16.08 10.97 8.42 6.41 8.05 14.83 – – – 7.77 6.41 7.64 – 16.04 16.08 10.97 – – – – 16.04 16.08 10.97 8.57 – 8.32 – – – – 8.10 – – – 10.18 5.34 3.01 2.86 3.89 2.81 7.40 6.78 7.37 7.04 6.12 6.16 6.18 6.76 6.55 5.77 7.44 10.07 5.34 3.01 2.86 3.89 2.81 7.46 6.83 7.37 7.04 6.12 6.14 6.15 6.76 5.73 5.48 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.14 – – 10.54 – 3.29 3.22 – – 7.78 7.31 – – 7.00 6.42 6.26 7.21 6.89 5.96 7.80 – – 2.56 2.23 – – 6.53 – – – – 5.50 5.91 – 5.36 – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Service occupations: (-Continued) Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing ................................ Level 4 .............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations: Maids and housemen ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Personal service occupations: Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Welfare service aides ........................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Level 3 .............................................................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. All industries Private industry $8.60 9.86 7.31 6.92 7.93 $8.14 – 6.93 6.05 7.90 5.67 5.63 6.70 5.89 7.46 9.95 5.87 8.25 6.89 7.10 8.64 All industries State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $8.91 – 8.25 8.34 – $8.62 9.86 7.55 7.28 7.88 – – $6.50 – 8.03 5.66 5.62 5.95 5.70 6.29 – – – 8.92 – 8.14 10.62 5.71 5.66 7.38 6.41 7.64 10.08 – – 5.33 5.19 – – 5.87 – – – 6.99 – – 7.74 8.10 – – 8.53 6.92 7.10 9.18 5.76 – – – – Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 30 Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Occupational group2 Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.94 17.08 $7.39 7.59 $19.30 19.33 $16.10 16.30 $16.25 16.43 $16.60 19.31 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 20.45 21.19 9.93 12.41 32.40 32.99 19.81 20.76 20.11 20.87 16.59 26.55 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 24.35 26.73 18.09 29.96 15.23 11.64 17.76 18.46 14.93 – 6.38 8.52 56.53 – 56.53 – – 15.87 23.77 26.45 16.33 29.95 13.97 11.38 24.15 26.45 18.02 29.87 13.32 11.48 – – – 33.96 15.36 – Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 12.70 16.06 10.75 13.19 8.39 6.39 – – 6.78 5.82 17.35 19.22 14.72 16.08 12.26 11.54 15.05 10.24 11.80 7.90 12.27 15.77 10.73 12.73 8.11 17.55 18.73 – – – Service occupations ........................................................... 9.06 5.43 20.15 8.01 8.24 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 31 Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Goods-producing industries4 Occupational group3 All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries5 Total TransWholeportsale ation and and retail public trade utilities – – Services All occupations ........................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ................................................ $16.04 16.27 $18.97 18.91 – – White-collar occupations ....................................................... White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 20.03 21.33 25.91 26.15 – – 24.54 24.54 24.69 25.14 17.88 19.18 21.97 22.75 – – 18.33 17.85 19.77 20.02 Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ Professional specialty occupations ................................... Technical occupations ...................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... Sales occupations ................................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 24.47 27.83 18.45 30.66 14.01 11.79 28.33 31.83 20.03 33.02 21.61 13.92 – – – – – – 27.74 32.56 19.92 28.63 – 13.74 26.64 29.46 19.80 33.59 19.09 13.16 22.55 25.55 17.86 29.03 13.36 11.21 33.88 28.05 41.26 32.10 18.08 13.51 – – – – – – 22.42 23.99 – 27.14 21.38 11.57 22.50 25.18 16.13 29.43 13.99 10.63 Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. Transportation and material moving occupations ................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 12.43 16.09 10.73 12.85 8.02 13.58 16.06 11.67 13.21 9.54 – – – – – 12.27 13.59 11.99 11.81 9.13 13.97 17.33 11.58 13.09 9.68 10.80 16.16 8.39 12.68 6.98 14.25 18.67 – 14.56 8.91 – – – – – 11.19 – – – – 8.10 12.86 7.93 9.40 5.84 Service occupations ............................................................... 6.61 8.97 – – – 6.57 19.24 – 9.56 6.30 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. $15.98 $18.13 $14.52 $18.82 15.98 18.10 14.71 18.90 Finance, insurance, and real estate $17.48 $14.51 16.95 14.52 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 32 Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 100 workers or more All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.04 16.27 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. Occupational group3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more $13.02 12.85 $16.66 16.92 $14.92 15.03 $18.20 18.46 20.03 21.33 16.44 17.51 20.65 21.87 19.65 21.49 21.36 22.09 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 24.47 27.83 18.45 30.66 14.01 11.79 22.15 25.97 16.00 25.85 14.01 10.97 24.68 27.99 18.69 31.35 14.00 11.96 25.04 28.92 17.96 30.89 14.17 12.29 24.49 27.49 19.08 31.61 13.66 11.73 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 12.43 16.09 10.73 12.85 8.02 11.61 14.91 9.86 12.35 7.92 12.61 16.32 10.91 13.02 8.04 11.09 14.73 10.58 13.25 7.75 14.39 17.26 11.62 12.76 8.69 Service occupations ........................................................... 6.61 5.75 6.88 6.34 7.53 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 33 Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All workers Occupational group2 All industries All occupations ....................................................................... 1,145,775 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 1,051,488 Private industry State and local government 904,815 811,194 240,960 240,294 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 664,830 570,543 494,995 401,374 169,835 169,169 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 259,229 193,403 65,826 111,126 94,288 200,187 159,372 101,430 57,942 92,081 93,621 149,921 99,857 91,973 7,884 19,045 – 50,266 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 305,850 120,393 53,191 43,445 88,821 284,048 111,117 53,096 36,927 82,908 21,802 9,276 – 6,519 5,913 Service occupations ........................................................... 175,095 125,772 49,323 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 34 Appendix A: Technical Note els, industry classification, and other information were updated. This section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. While this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all the steps required to produce the data. Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a two stage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame 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 which were not selected for collection. See appendix table 1 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. Planning for the survey The overall design of the survey, which was based on the type of data to be produced, had to be developed before data collection could begin. Survey scope This survey of the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goodsproducing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey an establishment was an economic unit which produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment was defined as all locations of a government entity. The Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, CMSA includes Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller Counties, TX.. Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Collection was the responsibility of the field economists, working out of the Regional Office, who visited each establishment surveyed. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multi-step process: Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from the State unemployment insurance reports for the HoustonGalveston-Brazoria, TX, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. The reference month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to the volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling frames were developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The reference month for the private sector is June 1995. 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 lev- 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. 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. 35 depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of Terms” section on the following page for more detail. In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling, with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment. As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs collected in each establishment was based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in the following schedule: Number of employees 50-99 100-249 250-999 1000-2,499 2,500+ Generic leveling through point factor analysis In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. This is a major departure from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions unique to each occupation. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: Number of selected jobs 8 10 12 16 20 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOG’s: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 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 Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on which written description best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3 presents average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firm. Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers A complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong, is contained in appendix B. In step three, certain other job characteristics of the chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, 36 In order to calculate earnings for various time periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were 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. using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed research continues in the area. The results of this research will be published by BLS in the future. Definition of terms Collection period The survey was collected from June 1997 through March 1998. The average payroll reference month was October 1997. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of collection. Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time. Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Earnings Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straighttime hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: · · · · · Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical note and the example for more details on the leveling process.) Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below). 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 Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time. Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: · · · · · · · Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for working a schedule that varies from the norm, such as night or weekend work Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends Bonuses not directly tied to production (e.g., Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free room and board Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: · · · 37 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. among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve only to indicate the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2 contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all survey areas will be used in the development of a formal quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling error. Although they 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. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment/occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate the individual establishment/occupations into the various data series. Of the establishments surveyed, 24.7 percent (representing 267,979 employees) refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells which were additionally defined by major occupation group and job level. Establishments which were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey (7.5 percent of the total sample) had their weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a refusal. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated. Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. The number of workers estimates represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures 38 Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 Number of establishments studied Industry All industries ......................................................... Private industry ................................................. Goods-producing industries .......................... Mining ....................................................... Construction ............................................. Manufacturing ........................................... Service-producing industries ........................ Tranportation and public utilities ............... Wholesale and retail trade ........................ Finance, insurance and real estate .......... Services .................................................... State and local government .............................. Number of establishments represented 100 workers or more Total studied 5,126 5,016 1,217 110 393 714 3,800 390 1,594 364 1,452 110 407 368 114 19 30 65 254 29 81 20 124 39 50 - 99 workers 106 105 20 – 9 11 85 8 31 10 36 1 Total 301 263 94 19 21 54 169 21 50 10 88 38 100 - 499 workers 168 159 50 8 9 33 109 13 36 5 55 9 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 39 500 workers or more 133 104 44 11 12 21 60 8 14 5 33 29 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 (in percent) Occupation3 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 2.2 2.2 2.6 2.7 3.3 3.3 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 2.5 2.5 3.1 3.2 3.9 3.9 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Petroleum engineers ............................................ Chemical engineers .............................................. Civil engineers ...................................................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Mechanical engineers ........................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Geologists and geodesists ................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Designers ............................................................. Public relations specialists .................................... Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Legal assistants .................................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Purchasing managers ........................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ 3.2 2.4 3.7 11.2 6.0 9.8 4.5 9.8 4.4 4.1 4.3 9.2 10.6 3.3 2.4 3.4 4.0 11.7 16.8 1.4 1.3 1.0 4.3 10.2 16.4 16.4 13.3 7.3 8.0 16.0 17.4 4.3 2.7 3.7 11.2 6.0 9.8 4.5 9.8 4.4 4.1 4.3 8.1 10.6 4.5 2.6 3.1 4.0 42.7 – 10.0 13.8 – 14.5 – – – – 14.2 – 21.3 21.3 4.4 4.5 – – – – – – – – – – – 4.2 4.3 – – 11.9 – 1.4 1.3 0.8 4.5 10.2 18.8 18.8 – 7.7 7.7 – – 7.9 31.9 16.5 12.6 7.2 8.9 12.5 12.6 5.6 14.1 9.3 5.7 8.1 11.6 8.3 3.0 4.0 13.3 13.5 17.6 11.6 8.4 31.9 16.5 13.3 8.2 9.2 10.1 2.0 5.9 15.1 9.3 5.7 8.9 11.6 – 3.2 4.6 – 13.7 17.6 11.6 – – – – 13.6 – – 21.7 – – – – – – – 7.0 7.2 13.4 – – – 14.7 8.1 8.3 14.7 13.1 8.6 – 8.4 – 30.6 30.3 – See footnotes at end of table. 40 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .......................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Securities and financial services sales occupations .................................................... Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. Sales workers, parts ............................................. Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Sales counter clerks ............................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Interviewers .......................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ File clerks ............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Production coordinators ........................................ Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Expeditors ............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 41 All industries Private industry State and local government 15.7 5.3 4.1 7.8 11.4 7.2 15.7 5.1 4.1 7.8 11.4 7.2 – – 4.2 – – – 7.3 7.9 – 25.4 13.2 9.0 5.8 9.5 25.4 9.1 9.4 5.8 9.5 – – – – – 8.7 16.5 14.7 8.7 16.5 14.7 – – – 21.2 12.6 5.6 8.3 9.0 5.1 9.2 1.7 5.5 7.8 21.2 12.6 5.6 8.3 9.0 5.3 9.2 2.1 6.0 7.8 – – – – – – – 2.7 – – 6.7 8.2 2.9 14.8 19.8 4.9 9.3 10.8 11.8 6.2 5.9 4.3 2.9 11.8 22.1 6.6 5.5 6.3 9.8 6.7 8.2 3.1 – 19.8 5.1 10.5 10.8 5.0 – 6.3 7.9 3.0 13.2 – 7.0 5.4 5.8 9.8 – – 4.8 – – – – – – 6.8 – 4.5 – – – – – – – 7.7 8.0 3.4 3.2 2.3 2.0 5.1 8.8 8.2 4.7 3.2 2.3 – 6.2 – – 5.0 – – 2.0 8.7 2.9 3.1 4.3 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment ....................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. .............. Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Painters, construction and maintenance .............. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Insulation workers ................................................. Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................... Stationary engineers ............................................. Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Punching and stamping press operators .............. Numerical control machine operators ................... Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................ Helpers, construction trades ................................. Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ See footnotes at end of table. 42 All industries Private industry State and local government 2.7 6.3 7.6 4.9 7.7 2.9 6.6 7.6 – 7.8 6.0 – – – – 22.4 5.0 3.8 4.8 3.2 3.2 6.1 5.8 13.9 8.6 4.2 7.3 10.7 22.4 5.6 4.0 4.8 3.8 – 7.6 5.8 15.0 6.0 4.2 7.3 10.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1.0 5.6 12.1 6.1 8.4 3.0 10.9 6.5 11.6 23.0 6.3 7.6 5.7 4.8 1.0 5.6 12.1 6.1 8.4 3.0 10.9 6.5 11.6 23.6 7.0 7.8 – 4.8 – – – – – – – – – – 4.6 – 4.8 – 13.2 3.7 7.5 13.1 4.0 7.4 – 4.6 8.7 9.3 5.9 5.6 5.8 7.5 4.5 9.7 7.5 5.7 11.4 9.3 6.9 6.0 5.9 7.5 4.5 9.7 7.7 5.7 12.3 – – – – – – – – – 5.6 3.5 6.7 2.3 4.7 3.3 7.4 – – 4.0 3.5 2.3 4.7 3.2 2.6 11.4 4.4 – – 9.9 4.8 3.2 2.6 – 3.9 4.7 18.6 13.2 4.7 18.6 13.2 – – – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Service occupations (-Continued) Food service occupations (-Continued) Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Welfare service aides ........................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is All industries Private industry State and local government 6.6 7.0 3.3 22.3 4.5 3.5 3.6 5.1 4.1 2.0 4.7 10.5 3.2 9.6 7.7 12.9 6.9 7.0 3.5 22.3 3.7 4.9 6.3 5.9 3.7 2.0 3.3 14.1 3.3 – – 10.9 – – – – 4.0 2.9 4.2 5.0 3.9 – 3.9 7.5 – – 5.8 – the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 43 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 All occupations ................................................................................. All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 5 5 6 6 3 3 White-collar occupations ............................................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 6 7 7 7 4 5 Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... Professional specialty occupations ......................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. Petroleum engineers ...................................................... Chemical engineers ........................................................ Civil engineers ................................................................ Industrial engineers ........................................................ Mechanical engineers ..................................................... Engineers, N.E.C. ........................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ..................... Natural scientists ................................................................ Geologists and geodesists ............................................. Health related occupations ................................................. Registered nurses .......................................................... Pharmacists .................................................................... Respiratory therapists ..................................................... Teachers, college and university ........................................ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ................................... Teachers, except college and university ............................ Elementary school teachers ........................................... Secondary school teachers ............................................ Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................ Vocational and educational counselors .......................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... Librarians ........................................................................ Social scientists and urban planners .................................. Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................ Social workers ................................................................ Lawyers and judges ............................................................ Lawyers .......................................................................... Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ........................................................................... Designers ....................................................................... Public relations specialists .............................................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ................................... Technical occupations ............................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........... Radiological technicians ................................................. Licensed practical nurses ............................................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ................. Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ..................................... Drafters ........................................................................... Chemical technicians ...................................................... Computer programmers ................................................. Legal assistants .............................................................. Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... Administrators and officials, public administration .......... Financial managers ........................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers ........................ Purchasing managers ..................................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .. Administrators, education and related fields ................... Managers, medicine and health ..................................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ... Managers, properties and real estate ............................. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................ Management related occupations ...................................... Accountants and auditors ............................................... Other financial officers .................................................... Management analysts .................................................... 8 8 10 11 10 11 9 10 10 9 9 8 9 8 8 8 7 12 8 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 10 7 7 11 11 8 9 10 11 10 11 9 10 10 9 9 8 9 8 8 8 – 12 – 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 10 7 7 11 11 7 7 – – – – – – – – – – – 8 8 – – 7 – 6 – – 5 – – – – – – – – 7 6 8 8 6 6 7 6 5 7 7 6 7 7 6 9 10 8 11 11 11 11 10 9 8 11 11 8 8 10 7 7 6 8 8 6 6 7 6 5 7 7 6 7 7 6 9 10 8 11 11 11 11 10 9 8 11 11 8 8 10 7 – – – – 5 – – 6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 44 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm products .................................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. .......................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Sales occupations ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... Securities and financial services sales occupations ....... Advertising and related sales occupations ..................... Sales occupations, other business services ................... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .................................................................. Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ....................... Sales workers, parts ....................................................... Sales workers, other commodities .................................. Sales counter clerks ....................................................... Cashiers ......................................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... Supervisors, general office ............................................. Supervisors, financial records processing ...................... Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ........................................................................ Computer operators ........................................................ Secretaries ..................................................................... Interviewers .................................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ................. Receptionists .................................................................. Information clerks, N.E.C. ............................................... Order clerks .................................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping .......... Library clerks .................................................................. File clerks ....................................................................... Records clerks, N.E.C. ................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ Billing clerks .................................................................... Telephone operators ...................................................... Production coordinators .................................................. Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. Expeditors ....................................................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................ General office clerks ....................................................... Bank tellers ..................................................................... Data entry keyers ........................................................... Teachers’ aides .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ........................... Automobile mechanics ................................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ................. Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Electronic repairers, communications and industrial equipment ................................................................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... Supervisors, construction trades, N.E.C. ........................ Carpenters ...................................................................... Electricians ..................................................................... Painters, construction and maintenance ........................ Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ............................ See footnotes at end of table. 45 7 7 – 7 7 8 5 8 6 6 5 7 7 8 5 8 6 6 6 – – – 2 – – – – 9 4 4 4 2 2 4 4 6 7 9 4 4 5 2 2 4 4 6 7 – – – 3 – – – 3 – – 7 5 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 5 2 5 3 3 5 7 5 5 – 5 2 4 4 4 – 3 4 4 5 – 5 3 3 5 – – – – – 2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5 5 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 3 – 3 3 4 – – 2 – – – 4 4 6 7 6 6 6 4 6 7 6 6 6 2 – – – – – 5 6 7 6 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 6 5 6 – – – – – – – Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Insulation workers ........................................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ............................................ Supervisors, production occupations .............................. Machinists ....................................................................... Inspectors, testers, and graders ..................................... Stationary engineers ....................................................... Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ........ Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ Punching and stamping press operators ........................ Numerical control machine operators ............................. Printing press operators ................................................. Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ........... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... Welders and cutters ........................................................ Assemblers ..................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Bus drivers ...................................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................. Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. ........................................................ Helpers, mechanics and repairers .................................. Helpers, construction trades ........................................... Construction laborers ..................................................... Production helpers .......................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. Service occupations ..................................................................... Protective service occupations ........................................... Firefighting occupations .................................................. Police and detectives, public service .............................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ...... Correctional institution officers ....................................... Guards and police except public service ........................ Food service occupations ................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations Bartenders ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses .................................................. Cooks ............................................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations ........... Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ...................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... See footnotes at end of table. 46 5 4 7 6 5 6 6 4 3 5 5 2 3 6 2 5 4 3 3 3 5 4 7 6 5 6 6 4 3 5 5 2 3 6 3 5 4 3 3 3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2 – – – 4 2 2 3 2 2 – 2 – 6 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 – – – – – 1 2 – – 1 3 5 5 6 6 5 3 2 5 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 5 – 6 6 5 3 2 5 – 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 – – – – 3 2 – – 2 3 – 2 – 2 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, October 1997 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ................................................. Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ Maids and housemen ..................................................... Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service occupations ............................................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ............ Welfare service aides ..................................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. 3 3 2 2 1 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 2 3 – 4 3 4 2 – 2 1 – 1 2 2 – – – NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." 47
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