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Louisville, KY–IN
National Compensation Survey
November 2000
_________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner
April 2001
Bulletin 3105–43

Preface

D

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ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been
conducted without the cooperation of the many private
firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data
included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation.
Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the
Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology
and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and prepared the
survey for publication.
For additional information regarding this survey, please
contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone number listed on the back cover of this bulletin.
You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at:
Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning,

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Contents

Page
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................

1

Tables:
1–1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected worker and establishment
characteristics, private industry, and State and local government ................................................
2–1. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, all workers, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
2–2. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
2–3. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, part-time workers, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
3–1. Mean weekly earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
3–2. Mean annual earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,
and State and local government ....................................................................................................
4–1. Selected occupations and levels, all workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
4–2. Selected occupations and levels, full-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
4–3. Selected occupations and levels, part-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,
and State and local government ......................................................................................... ...........
5–1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group............................
5–2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry.............
5–3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group,
private industry.............................................................................................................................
6–1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:
Selected occupations, all industries ..............................................................................................
6–2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:
Selected occupations, private industry..........................................................................................
6–3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:
Selected occupations, State and local government .......................................................................
6–4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, full-time workers:
Selected occupations, all industries ..............................................................................................
6–5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, part-time workers:
Selected occupations, all industries ..............................................................................................

2
3
5
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
20
21
22
24
26
27
29

Appendixes:
A. Technical Note.................................................................................................................................
Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey, by occupational group............
Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented and studied..........................................
B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................
C. Generic Leveling Criteria.................................................................................................................
D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ...........................................................................................................

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A–1
A–5
A–6
B–1
C–1
D–1

Introduction

T

Table 2–1 presents estimates of mean hourly earnings,
and the relative standard errors associated with them, for
detailed occupations within all industries, private industry,
and State and local government. Table 2–2 presents the
same type of information for full-time workers only. Table
2–3 provides similar data for workers designated as parttime.
Table 3–1 provides mean weekly earnings data, with
relative standard errors, and weekly hours for full-time employees in specific occupations across all industries, private
industry, and State and local government. Table 3–2 provides annual earnings, relative standard errors, and annual
hours for full-time employees in specific occupations.
Table 4–1 provides mean hourly earnings data by work
level for occupational groups and for detailed occupations.
Separate data are also shown for private industry and government workers. Table 4–2 provides work level data for
full-time workers. Table 4–3 provides similar data for
workers designated as part-time.
Table 5–1 presents mean hourly earnings data for selected worker characteristics by major occupational groups.
The worker characteristics include full-time or part-time
designation, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive
pay. Table 5–2 presents mean hourly earnings data for
major industry divisions by occupational groups; these estimates are limited to the private sector. Table 5–3 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by major occupational groups within the private
sector.
Tables 6–1 through 6–5 present hourly wage percentiles
that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for each
published occupation. Data are provided for the 10th,
25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local
government, full-time workers, and part-time workers.
These iterations correspond to those presented in tables 2–
1, 2–2, and 2–3. For each published occupation, these percentiles relate to the average hourly earnings of jobs surveyed in establishments. The percentiles do not relate to
the hourly earnings of individual workers in these establishment jobs.
Appendix table 1 provides the number of workers represented by the survey by major occupational group. Appendix table 2 presents the number of establishments studied and represented by industry group and employment
size.

he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for
the Louisville, KY–IN, metropolitan area. Data were
collected between September 2000 and January 2001; the
average reference month is November 2000. Tabulations
provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of
occupations and at different work levels. Also contained in
this bulletin are information on the program, a technical
note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes
with detailed information on occupational classifications
and the generic leveling methodology.
NCS products
The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides data
on occupational wages and employee benefits for localities,
broad geographic regions, and the Nation as a whole. The
Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change
in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from
the NCS. Another product, Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation, measures employers’ average hourly costs
for total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Still
another NCS product measures the incidence of benefit
plans and their provisions. This bulletin is limited to data
on occupational wages and salaries.
About the tables
The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These
earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 480 detailed occupations are used to describe all occupations in
the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households), as explained in Appendix
A. Data are not shown for any occupations if they would
raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable
estimates.
Table 1–1 presents an overview of all tables in this
bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative
standard errors are given for all industries, private industry,
and State and local government for selected worker and
establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics
include major occupational group, full-time or part-time
status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay.
Establishment characteristics include goods and service
producing and size of establishment.

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Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total

Private industry

Hourly earnings

State and local government

Hourly earnings

Worker and establishment characteristics

Mean
weekly
hours3

Mean

Relative
error2
(percent)

Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3

Mean

Relative
error2
(percent)

Mean
weekly
hours3

Mean

Relative
error2
(percent)

$16.58

4.4

37.8

$16.32

5.2

38.1

$18.21

4.6

36.4

20.06
24.61
28.55
14.99
12.91
14.40
18.44

5.5
7.0
6.9
9.9
4.8
5.0
4.9

37.7
38.1
40.1
34.2
37.3
39.1
39.6

19.70
23.41
29.00
15.04
13.26
14.46
18.56

6.7
10.5
7.3
10.0
5.8
5.2
5.1

38.1
39.3
40.3
34.2
37.6
39.3
39.9

21.62
27.42
25.01
–
11.19
12.92
16.18

5.6
4.7
16.0
–
3.7
7.2
10.9

36.1
35.7
38.8
–
35.9
35.0
35.1

14.15
14.57

8.3
6.2

39.8
40.7

14.15
14.67

8.3
6.5

39.8
41.7

–
12.78

–
4.8

–
28.3

9.93
10.10

4.8
5.5

36.3
34.2

9.86
8.99

5.0
6.8

36.0
32.6

10.77
12.38

8.7
5.0

40.0
37.8

Full time ..................................................................
Part time .................................................................

16.92
10.13

4.5
7.7

40.0
18.8

16.67
9.65

5.2
8.7

40.3
18.7

18.46
13.16

4.8
12.8

38.1
19.4

Union ......................................................................
Nonunion ................................................................

18.38
15.91

4.5
6.0

38.8
37.5

17.69
15.88

5.5
6.6

39.5
37.7

20.64
16.19

6.1
6.7

36.6
36.2

Time ........................................................................
Incentive .................................................................

16.53
17.70

4.4
12.1

37.9
36.6

16.25
17.70

5.2
12.1

38.2
36.6

18.21
–

4.6
–

36.4
–

Goods producing ....................................................
Service producing ...................................................

(6)
(6)

(6)
(6)

(6)
(6)

–
–

–
–

–
–

(6)
(6)

(6)
(6)

(6)
(6)

50-99 workers7 .......................................................
100-499 workers .....................................................
500 workers or more ...............................................

12.64
17.54
17.83

8.1
7.6
4.8

35.1
39.1
38.1

12.63
17.59
17.40

8.1
7.9
6.9

35.1
39.2
39.1

–
16.18
18.53

–
8.6
5.2

–
36.0
36.4

Total ...........................................................................
Worker characteristics:4
White-collar occupations5 .......................................
Professional specialty and technical ...................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .........
Sales ...................................................................
Administrative support ........................................
Blue-collar occupations5 .........................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .........................................................
Transportation and material moving ...................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers,
and laborers ......................................................
Service occupations5 ..............................................

Establishment characteristics:

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of
the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample
estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based
on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are
determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on
hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially

based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production
bonuses.
5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing
industries applies to private industry only.
7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with
fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,
National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$16.58
16.66

4.4
4.5

$16.32
16.39

5.2
5.3

$18.21
18.23

4.6
4.6

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

20.06
20.65

5.5
5.7

19.70
20.38

6.7
7.1

21.62
21.67

5.6
5.6

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

24.61
27.32
28.60
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.22
19.89
37.34
31.61
32.78
32.90
27.17
–
–
–
–

7.0
7.5
3.5
5.6
5.3
–
–
5.7
.8
5.4
3.3
2.7
3.5
6.9
–
–
–
–

23.41
26.28
28.21
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.47
20.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.5
11.9
3.4
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.6
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

27.42
29.28
–
–
–
–
–
19.84
19.18
–
31.78
33.15
32.90
27.17
–
–
–
–

4.7
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
5.1
2.5
–
3.3
2.6
3.5
6.9
–
–
–
–

21.88
15.89
16.34
13.59
13.72

10.3
4.9
5.5
2.2
6.7

21.88
16.24
–
–
–

10.3
4.8
–
–
–

–
13.95
–
–
–

–
13.8
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

28.55
31.62

6.9
6.8

29.00
32.12

7.3
7.1

25.01
27.16

16.0
19.0

34.69
33.00
19.40
20.29

10.9
5.0
6.6
15.8

34.69
31.71
19.21
–

10.9
4.0
6.5
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................

14.99

9.9

15.04

10.0

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................

12.91
13.07
14.34
13.04
11.72
11.63
11.66
8.87

4.8
5.3
11.5
5.2
11.9
11.3
10.6
2.3

13.26
13.39
–
13.27
–
11.63
12.28
–

5.8
5.6
–
5.3
–
11.3
12.9
–

11.19
11.87
–
–
–
–
–
8.92

3.7
6.8
–
–
–
–
–
2.3

Blue collar ...........................................................................

14.40

5.0

14.46

5.2

12.92

7.2

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

18.44
21.58
21.31
19.80

4.9
7.0
6.9
4.4

18.56
21.58
21.31
19.59

5.1
7.0
6.9
4.8

16.18
–
–
–

10.9
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

14.15
14.50
15.75
17.91

8.3
13.0
16.7
12.7

14.15
14.50
15.75
17.91

8.3
13.0
16.7
12.7

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................

14.57
15.38

6.2
6.7

14.67
15.46

6.5
6.8

12.78
–

4.8
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers

9.93

4.8

9.86

5.0

10.77

8.7

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,
National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
–Continued
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

$10.14
8.91

7.0
8.3

$10.14
8.82

7.0
9.3

–
$9.42

–
8.7

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Other food service ..................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................

10.10
14.34
7.57
–
8.25
9.74
9.96
9.79
11.04
11.70
8.95

5.5
5.9
7.8
–
6.4
2.0
3.1
2.1
10.3
10.6
2.4

8.99
–
7.49
–
8.18
–
10.05
9.86
12.82
15.54
–

6.8
–
7.9
–
6.6
–
3.3
2.2
18.1
15.8
–

12.38
14.75
10.15
–
10.15
–
9.16
–
9.56
9.52
9.86

5.0
5.8
7.9
–
7.9
–
2.5
–
5.6
5.6
3.5

Blue collar –Continued

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used
to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around

a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN
THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE
INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS
SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$16.92
16.94

4.5
4.5

$16.67
16.67

5.2
5.3

$18.46
18.46

4.8
4.8

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

20.66
21.09

5.7
5.8

20.35
20.85

7.0
7.2

21.98
21.98

5.8
5.8

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

25.09
27.63
28.60
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.24
19.85
37.34
31.85
32.78
32.90
–
–
–
–

7.0
7.5
3.5
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.0
.8
5.4
3.3
2.7
3.5
–
–
–
–

23.93
26.67
28.21
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.50
19.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.6
11.9
3.4
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.9
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

27.76
29.44
–
–
–
–
–
19.84
–
–
32.03
33.15
32.90
–
–
–
–

4.7
4.1
–
–
–
–
–
5.2
–
–
3.3
2.6
3.5
–
–
–
–

21.88
16.15
13.85
13.49

10.3
5.1
1.8
6.3

21.88
16.49
–
–

10.3
5.2
–
–

–
14.25
–
–

–
13.7
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

28.84
32.10

7.5
7.6

29.34
32.68

8.0
8.0

25.01
27.16

16.0
19.0

36.00
33.00
19.40
20.29

13.0
5.0
6.6
15.8

36.00
31.71
19.21
–

13.0
4.0
6.5
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................

16.51

15.5

16.51

15.5

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................

13.10
13.19
14.34
12.61
11.72
11.63
11.69

5.0
5.3
11.5
4.8
11.9
11.3
10.8

13.47
13.56
–
12.69
–
11.63
12.34

6.0
5.6
–
4.3
–
11.3
13.2

11.32
11.87
–
–
–
–
–

3.8
6.8
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................

14.51

5.0

14.58

5.2

12.77

8.1

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

18.55
21.58
21.31
19.80

4.9
7.0
6.9
4.4

18.66
21.58
21.31
19.59

5.1
7.0
6.9
4.8

16.22
–
–
–

11.9
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

14.15
14.50
15.75
17.91

8.3
13.0
16.7
12.7

14.15
14.50
15.75
17.91

8.3
13.0
16.7
12.7

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................

14.58
15.38

6.3
6.7

14.67
15.46

6.5
6.8

–
–

–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

10.05
10.28
8.91

4.8
7.1
8.3

9.98
10.28
8.82

5.0
7.1
9.3

10.77
–
9.42

8.7
–
8.7

See footnotes at end of table.

5

Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Other food service ..................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$10.44
14.43
8.03
8.36
9.76
9.96
9.86
11.07
11.74
–

5.2
5.9
7.1
6.3
1.9
2.8
2.0
10.4
10.7
–

$9.33
–
7.96
8.29
–
10.06
9.93
12.82
15.54
–

6.2
–
7.2
6.5
–
2.9
2.1
18.1
15.8
–

$12.53
14.86
–
–
–
–
–
9.59
9.55
–

5.2
5.9
–
–
–
–
–
5.6
5.7
–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used
to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.

4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around
a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN
THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE
INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS
SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

6

Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$10.13
10.67

7.7
8.2

$9.65
10.16

8.7
9.4

$13.16
13.44

12.8
13.2

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

11.46
12.94

9.6
9.6

11.06
12.60

10.1
9.8

14.15
14.74

19.8
20.2

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Technical ......................................................................

15.97
18.22
–
–
–
–
–

12.3
16.9
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

19.57
–
–
–
–
–
–

18.3
–
–
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

Sales ................................................................................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................

10.42

14.4

10.65

16.7

9.01

5.9

Blue collar ...........................................................................

9.38

14.1

8.44

13.6

–

–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Transportation and material moving ............................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers

8.46

15.7

8.46

15.7

–

–

6.77
–
–
–
–
–

12.2
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

8.91
–
–
–
–
–

2.4
–
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Personal service .......................................................

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used
to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.

–
–
–
–
–
–

4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around
a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN
THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE
INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS
SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

7

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation3

Weekly earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
weekly
hours5

All ...............................................................
All excluding sales ..............................

$676
677

4.6
4.7

40.0
40.0

$671
672

5.4
5.5

40.3
40.3

$703
703

4.6
4.6

38.1
38.1

White collar ...........................................
White collar excluding sales ...........

818
835

6.0
6.2

39.6
39.6

819
839

7.4
7.7

40.2
40.3

818
818

5.6
5.6

37.2
37.2

988
1,087

8.3
9.1

39.4
39.4

969
1,091

12.5
14.2

40.5
40.9

1,026
1,082

4.1
3.6

37.0
36.8

1,204
1,200
1,213

5.0
2.6
5.3

42.1
42.9
40.0

1,199
1,200
1,213

5.3
2.6
5.3

42.5
42.9
40.0

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
791
733
1,413

–
–
6.6
1.8
6.7

–
–
37.3
37.0
37.8

–
–
794
731
–

–
–
7.7
2.1
–

–
–
36.9
36.7
–

–
–
779
–
–

–
–
4.7
–
–

–
–
39.3
–
–

1,146
1,165
1,156

2.8
2.5
3.4

36.0
35.5
35.1

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

1,152
1,176
1,156

2.8
2.4
3.4

36.0
35.5
35.1

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

928
636
551

11.7
5.3
2.0

42.4
39.4
39.8

928
650
–

11.7
5.5
–

42.4
39.4
–

–
11.9
–

–
38.9
–

540

6.3

40.0

–

–

–

–

–

1,167

8.0

40.5

1,193

8.7

40.7

971

16.7

38.8

1,305

8.3

40.6

1,338

8.8

40.9

1,041

20.5

38.3

1,449

13.9

40.2

1,449

13.9

40.2

–

–

–

1,362
774
811

4.7
6.6
15.8

41.3
39.9
40.0

1,313
766
–

3.9
6.5
–

41.4
39.9
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

660

15.4

40.0

660

15.4

40.0

–

–

–

515
517
573

4.8
4.4
11.5

39.3
39.2
40.0

537
530
–

5.9
4.5
–

39.8
39.1
–

420
468
–

4.9
5.8
–

37.1
39.4
–

498

4.1

39.5

508

4.3

40.0

–

–

–

480
465
461

12.5
11.3
10.6

41.0
40.0
39.4

–
465
492

–
11.3
13.1

–
40.0
39.8

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

584

5.0

40.2

588

5.2

40.3

483

9.4

37.8

Professional specialty and
technical ......................................
Professional specialty .....................
Engineers, architects, and
surveyors ..............................
Industrial engineers ................
Mechanical engineers .............
Mathematical and computer
scientists ...............................
Natural scientists ........................
Health related .............................
Registered nurses ..................
Teachers, college and university
Teachers, except college and
university ..............................
Elementary school teachers ...
Secondary school teachers ....
Librarians, archivists, and
curators .................................
Social scientists and urban
planners ................................
Social, recreation, and religious
workers .................................
Lawyers and judges ....................
Writers, authors, entertainers,
athletes, and professionals,
n.e.c. .....................................
Technical ........................................
Licensed practical nurses .......
Health technologists and
technicians, n.e.c. .............
Executive, administrative, and
managerial ...................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..............................
Managers, marketing,
advertising, and public
relations ............................
Managers and administrators,
n.e.c. .................................
Management related ...................
Management related, n.e.c. ....
Sales ..................................................
Administrative support, including
clerical .........................................
Secretaries .............................
Records clerks, n.e.c. .............
Bookkeepers, accounting and
auditing clerks ...................
Traffic, shipping and receiving
clerks ................................
Stock and inventory clerks ......
General office clerks ...............
Blue collar .............................................
See footnotes at end of table.

8

–
554
–
–

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Weekly earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
weekly
hours5

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and
repair ............................................
Industrial machinery repairers
Electricians .............................
Supervisors, production ..........
Machine operators, assemblers,
and inspectors ............................
Miscellaneous machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Assemblers .............................
Production inspectors,
checkers and examiners ...
Transportation and material
moving .........................................
Truck drivers ...........................
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers .................
Hand packers and packagers
Laborers, except construction,
n.e.c. .................................
Service ...................................................
Protective service .......................
Food service ...............................
Other food service ....................
Cooks .....................................
Health service .............................
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service .....
Janitors and cleaners .............
Personal service .........................

$746
849
852
789

5.0
6.4
6.9
4.7

40.2
39.4
40.0
39.8

$751
849
852
780

5.2
6.4
6.9
5.1

40.2
39.4
40.0
39.8

562

8.1

39.8

562

8.1

39.8

573
630

12.1
16.7

39.5
40.0

573
630

12.1
16.7

716

12.7

40.0

716

600
695

6.8
8.1

41.1
45.2

405
411

4.6
7.1

356

11.9
–
–
–

40.0
–
–
–

–

–

–

39.5
40.0

–
–

–
–

–
–

12.7

40.0

–

–

–

612
700

7.0
8.2

41.7
45.3

–
–

–
–

–
–

40.2
40.0

402
411

4.9
7.1

40.3
40.0

431
–

8.7
–

40.0
–

8.3

40.0

353

9.3

40.0

377

8.7

40.0

421
594
331
346
430
389

5.3
5.6
9.5
9.4
8.6
3.4

40.4
41.2
41.2
41.4
44.1
39.0

377
–
329
346
–
392

6.6
–
9.7
9.7
–
3.7

40.4
–
41.4
41.7
–
39.0

505
614
–
–
–
–

5.2
5.3
–
–
–
–

40.3
41.3
–
–
–
–

380
443
469
–

2.8
10.4
10.7
–

38.6
40.0
40.0
–

381
513
621
–

3.0
18.1
15.8
–

38.4
40.0
40.0
–

–
383
382
–

–
5.6
5.7
–

–
40.0
40.0
–

1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is
the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to
cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

$649
–
–
–

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a
sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a
week, exclusive of overtime.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational
groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY,
THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET
THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

9

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation3

Annual earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
annual
hours5

All ...............................................................
All excluding sales ..............................

$34,495
34,503

4.6
4.7

2,039
2,037

$34,876
34,906

5.4
5.5

2,093
2,093

$32,522
32,522

4.6
4.6

1,762
1,762

White collar ...........................................
White collar excluding sales ...........

41,075
41,733

6.0
6.2

1,988
1,979

42,465
43,524

7.4
7.7

2,086
2,088

36,388
36,388

5.6
5.6

1,656
1,656

47,344
51,000

8.3
9.1

1,887
1,846

50,039
56,174

12.5
14.2

2,091
2,106

42,803
44,091

4.1
3.6

1,542
1,498

62,608
62,413
63,058

5.0
2.6
5.3

2,189
2,229
2,080

62,356
62,413
63,058

5.3
2.6
5.3

2,210
2,229
2,080

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
41,005
37,985
57,689

–
–
6.6
1.8
6.7

–
–
1,931
1,914
1,545

–
–
41,265
38,020
–

–
–
7.7
2.1
–

–
–
1,919
1,906
–

–
–
39,574
–
–

–
–
4.7
–
–

–
–
1,995
–
–

43,590
43,022
42,761

2.8
2.5
3.4

1,368
1,312
1,300

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

43,864
43,510
42,761

2.8
2.4
3.4

1,369
1,312
1,300

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

48,245
33,053
28,644

11.7
5.3
2.0

2,205
2,047
2,069

48,245
33,825
–

11.7
5.5
–

2,205
2,051
–

–
11.9
–

–
2,023
–

28,062

6.3

2,080

–

–

–

–

–

60,355

8.0

2,092

62,049

8.7

2,115

48,373

16.7

1,934

67,375

8.3

2,099

69,563

8.8

2,129

50,859

20.5

1,873

Professional specialty and
technical ......................................
Professional specialty .....................
Engineers, architects, and
surveyors ..............................
Industrial engineers ................
Mechanical engineers .............
Mathematical and computer
scientists ...............................
Natural scientists ........................
Health related .............................
Registered nurses ..................
Teachers, college and university
Teachers, except college and
university ..............................
Elementary school teachers ...
Secondary school teachers ....
Librarians, archivists, and
curators .................................
Social scientists and urban
planners ................................
Social, recreation, and religious
workers .................................
Lawyers and judges ....................
Writers, authors, entertainers,
athletes, and professionals,
n.e.c. .....................................
Technical ........................................
Licensed practical nurses .......
Health technologists and
technicians, n.e.c. .............

–
28,817
–
–

Executive, administrative, and
managerial ...................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..............................
Managers, marketing,
advertising, and public
relations ............................
Managers and administrators,
n.e.c. .................................
Management related ...................
Management related, n.e.c. ....

75,339

13.9

2,093

75,339

13.9

2,093

–

–

–

70,845
40,240
42,158

4.7
6.6
15.8

2,147
2,075
2,077

68,260
39,850
–

3.9
6.5
–

2,152
2,074
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

Sales ..................................................

34,314

15.4

2,078

34,314

15.4

2,078

–

–

–

26,368
26,845
29,813

4.8
4.4
11.5

2,013
2,035
2,079

27,875
27,567
–

5.9
4.5
–

2,069
2,033
–

20,169
24,254
–

4.9
5.8
–

1,781
2,044
–

25,875

4.1

2,052

26,400

4.3

2,080

–

–

–

24,971
24,192
23,432

12.5
11.3
10.6

2,130
2,080
2,005

–
24,192
25,567

–
11.3
13.1

–
2,080
2,072

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

30,266

5.0

2,085

30,578

5.2

2,097

23,307

9.4

1,825

Administrative support, including
clerical .........................................
Secretaries .............................
Records clerks, n.e.c. .............
Bookkeepers, accounting and
auditing clerks ...................
Traffic, shipping and receiving
clerks ................................
Stock and inventory clerks ......
General office clerks ...............
Blue collar .............................................
See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Annual earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

$33,732
–
–
–

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
annual
hours5

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and
repair ............................................
Industrial machinery repairers
Electricians .............................
Supervisors, production ..........
Machine operators, assemblers,
and inspectors ............................
Miscellaneous machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Assemblers .............................
Production inspectors,
checkers and examiners ...
Transportation and material
moving .........................................
Truck drivers ...........................
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers .................
Hand packers and packagers
Laborers, except construction,
n.e.c. .................................
Service ...................................................
Protective service .......................
Food service ...............................
Other food service ....................
Cooks .....................................
Health service .............................
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service .....
Janitors and cleaners .............
Personal service .........................

$38,813
44,173
44,317
41,009

5.0
6.4
6.9
4.7

2,092
2,047
2,080
2,071

$39,051
44,173
44,317
40,561

5.2
6.4
6.9
5.1

2,093
2,047
2,080
2,071

11.9
–
–
–

2,080
–
–
–

29,250

8.1

2,068

29,250

8.1

2,068

–

–

–

29,813
32,767

12.1
16.7

2,056
2,080

29,813
32,767

12.1
16.7

2,056
2,080

–
–

–
–

–
–

37,252

12.7

2,080

37,252

12.7

2,080

–

–

–

30,647
36,126

6.8
8.1

2,103
2,348

31,823
36,407

7.0
8.2

2,169
2,355

–
–

–
–

–
–

21,034
21,390

4.6
7.1

2,092
2,080

20,900
21,390

4.9
7.1

2,094
2,080

22,398
–

8.7
–

2,080
–

18,535

8.3

2,080

18,341

9.3

2,080

19,584

8.7

2,080

21,725
30,882
17,027
17,803
21,733
20,224

5.3
5.6
9.5
9.4
8.6
3.4

2,080
2,140
2,120
2,128
2,227
2,030

19,587
–
17,131
17,971
–
20,381

6.6
–
9.7
9.7
–
3.7

2,099
–
2,151
2,167
–
2,025

25,628
31,906
–
–
–
–

5.2
5.3
–
–
–
–

2,046
2,148
–
–
–
–

19,757
22,997
24,390
–

2.8
10.4
10.7
–

2,005
2,078
2,077
–

19,830
26,671
32,313
–

3.0
18.1
15.8
–

1,997
2,080
2,080
–

–
19,908
19,832
–

–
5.6
5.7
–

–
2,076
2,076
–

1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is
the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to
cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a
sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational
groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY,
THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET
THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$16.58
16.66

4.4
4.5

$16.32
16.39

5.2
5.3

$18.21
18.23

4.6
4.6

White collar .........................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................

20.06
9.35
9.33
11.99
15.82
16.31
19.33
20.37
28.62
27.75
31.01
44.81
20.65
9.41
10.19
12.28
14.85
16.51
19.30
19.61
29.02
28.36
31.01
44.81

5.5
7.7
5.9
5.0
6.8
5.2
3.2
6.3
4.1
3.9
4.1
10.1
5.7
7.8
5.1
5.6
5.4
5.8
3.2
5.7
4.0
4.1
4.1
10.1

19.70
–
9.08
12.19
16.51
16.57
18.50
20.47
26.82
28.00
29.76
45.21
20.38
–
10.10
12.55
15.59
16.86
18.46
19.45
27.31
28.70
29.76
45.21

6.7
–
6.8
5.8
7.4
5.8
3.0
7.9
6.7
4.2
4.3
11.2
7.1
–
6.8
6.7
5.6
6.7
3.0
7.0
6.8
4.5
4.3
11.2

21.62
7.82
10.46
10.62
12.09
14.72
25.29
20.07
31.82
–
–
–
21.67
–
10.46
10.62
12.09
14.72
25.29
20.07
31.82
–
–
–

5.6
5.8
3.2
3.4
6.5
6.2
9.9
9.0
3.2
–
–
–
5.6
–
3.2
3.4
6.5
6.2
9.9
9.0
3.2
–
–
–

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
9 ......................................................................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
7 ......................................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
7 ......................................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
7 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
9 ......................................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians

24.61
27.32
21.97
18.58
27.78
29.33
34.00
44.62
28.60
27.40
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.22
20.35
19.89
20.35
37.34
31.61
30.72
32.79
32.78
33.13
32.90
33.01
27.17
–
–
–
–

7.0
7.5
5.4
5.3
3.7
2.7
5.9
13.9
3.5
6.1
5.6
5.3
–
–
5.7
.6
.8
.6
5.4
3.3
8.3
2.7
2.7
2.6
3.5
3.8
6.9
–
–
–
–

23.41
26.28
19.76
–
23.19
–
–
45.57
28.21
27.40
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.47
–
20.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.5
11.9
4.3
–
3.3
–
–
14.5
3.4
6.1
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.6
–
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

27.42
29.28
30.01
19.34
32.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.84
–
19.18
–
–
31.78
30.72
32.79
33.15
33.13
32.90
33.01
27.17
–
–
–
–

4.7
4.0
7.2
5.8
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.1
–
2.5
–
–
3.3
8.3
2.7
2.6
2.6
3.5
3.8
6.9
–
–
–
–

21.88
15.89
12.81
14.27
15.18
16.34

10.3
4.9
6.0
3.6
3.6
5.5

21.88
16.24
–
14.27
–
–

10.3
4.8
–
3.6
–
–

–
13.95
–
–
–
–

–
13.8
–
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$13.59
13.72

2.2
6.7

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
12 ......................................................................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

28.55
18.10
20.89
33.01
28.67
45.14
31.62
18.30
20.66
34.89
28.67
45.14

6.9
4.3
8.7
6.9
4.5
13.0
6.8
7.4
9.9
5.6
4.5
13.0

$29.00
17.97
20.59
33.60
–
44.53
32.12
–
–
34.85
–
44.53

7.3
4.6
9.3
6.4
–
15.9
7.1
–
–
5.7
–
15.9

$25.01
–
–
–
–
–
27.16
–
–
–
–
–

16.0
–
–
–
–
–
19.0
–
–
–
–
–

34.69
33.00
38.10
19.40
20.29

10.9
5.0
9.2
6.6
15.8

34.69
31.71
34.76
19.21
–

10.9
4.0
6.7
6.5
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................

14.99

9.9

15.04

10.0

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................

12.91
9.41
10.19
12.23
14.82
19.01
16.77
13.07
13.25
14.34
13.04
11.72
11.63
11.66
8.87

4.8
7.8
5.1
6.0
7.6
11.5
5.3
5.3
7.0
11.5
5.2
11.9
11.3
10.6
2.3

13.26
–
10.10
12.45
15.65
–
16.78
13.39
–
–
13.27
–
11.63
12.28
–

5.8
–
6.8
7.1
8.1
–
5.5
5.6
–
–
5.3
–
11.3
12.9
–

11.19
–
10.46
10.69
12.26
–
–
11.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.92

3.7
–
3.2
3.8
8.3
–
–
6.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.3

Blue collar ...........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................

14.40
7.26
9.74
14.56
12.69
14.78
16.39
20.16
22.29
23.23

5.0
5.4
4.5
10.4
5.9
5.2
4.2
4.3
5.9
3.6

14.46
7.28
9.74
14.77
12.77
14.78
16.82
20.30
22.29
23.27

5.2
5.5
4.5
11.0
6.1
5.3
4.8
4.4
5.9
3.9

12.92
–
–
11.44
–
–
–
–
–
–

7.2
–
–
5.8
–
–
–
–
–
–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
7 ......................................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

18.44
11.57
15.09
15.87
20.60
23.16
21.58
22.08
21.31
19.80

4.9
4.7
6.5
4.6
5.4
4.1
7.0
7.6
6.9
4.4

18.56
–
15.09
15.88
20.72
23.21
21.58
22.08
21.31
19.59

5.1
–
7.0
4.8
5.5
4.4
7.0
7.6
6.9
4.8

16.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

13

Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
5 ......................................................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
3 ......................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

$14.15
6.66
8.94
16.67
13.36
14.19
18.98
14.50
14.95
15.75
16.65
17.91

8.3
3.5
7.6
14.2
14.7
8.7
6.4
13.0
12.7
16.7
21.5
12.7

$14.15
6.66
8.94
16.67
13.36
14.19
18.98
14.50
14.95
15.75
16.65
17.91

8.3
3.5
7.6
14.2
14.7
8.7
6.4
13.0
12.7
16.7
21.5
12.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Truck drivers .........................................................

14.57
11.61
13.28
15.91
15.38

6.2
3.4
8.3
2.7
6.7

14.67
11.24
13.28
15.91
15.46

6.5
1.7
8.3
2.7
6.8

$12.78
–
–
–
–

4.8
–
–
–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

9.93
9.91
11.58
10.33
12.18
10.14
8.91

4.8
4.1
12.7
7.4
11.9
7.0
8.3

9.86
9.91
11.96
–
12.02
10.14
8.82

5.0
4.1
16.3
–
12.4
7.0
9.3

10.77
–
–
–
–
–
9.42

8.7
–
–
–
–
–
8.7

Service .................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
6 ......................................................................
Food service .............................................................
3 ......................................................................
Other food service ..................................................
3 ......................................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
1 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
3 ......................................................................
Personal service .......................................................

10.10
6.85
9.67
8.70
11.44
11.24
14.68
14.34
14.68
7.57
8.33
8.25
8.69
9.74
9.76
9.96
10.44
9.79
11.04
7.79
9.24
11.70
9.24
8.95

5.5
5.9
18.6
4.2
4.0
3.7
10.1
5.9
10.1
7.8
6.4
6.4
7.7
2.0
2.0
3.1
2.6
2.1
10.3
7.1
1.1
10.6
1.1
2.4

8.99
–
9.97
8.60
11.48
–
–
–
–
7.49
8.32
8.18
8.68
–
–
10.05
–
9.86
12.82
–
–
15.54
–
–

6.8
–
23.7
4.7
6.9
–
–
–
–
7.9
6.5
6.6
7.8
–
–
3.3
–
2.2
18.1
–
–
15.8
–
–

12.38
8.84
–
9.34
11.39
12.20
14.68
14.75
14.68
10.15
–
10.15
–
–
–
9.16
–
–
9.56
–
–
9.52
–
9.86

5.0
3.5
–
1.7
3.2
3.9
10.1
5.8
10.1
7.9
–
7.9
–
–
–
2.5
–
–
5.6
–
–
5.6
–
3.5

Blue collar –Continued

1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is
used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more
information.
2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work
environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within
each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the
occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information.
3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.
4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.

5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES,
PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

14

Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and
State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$16.92
16.94

4.5
4.5

$16.67
16.67

5.2
5.3

$18.46
18.46

4.8
4.8

White collar .........................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................

20.66
9.76
9.79
12.18
16.08
16.30
19.59
20.62
28.62
27.77
31.01
44.81
21.09
9.76
10.21
12.39
15.11
16.50
19.55
19.84
29.02
28.39
31.01
44.81

5.7
9.1
5.6
4.8
7.1
5.2
3.2
6.2
4.1
3.9
4.1
10.1
5.8
9.1
5.2
5.3
5.5
5.9
3.2
5.6
4.0
4.1
4.1
10.1

20.35
–
9.60
12.41
16.74
16.57
18.80
20.81
26.82
28.00
29.76
45.21
20.85
–
10.11
12.67
15.84
16.86
18.76
19.74
27.31
28.70
29.76
45.21

7.0
–
6.9
5.7
7.6
5.8
2.8
7.8
6.7
4.2
4.3
11.2
7.2
–
7.0
6.5
5.7
6.7
2.9
7.0
6.8
4.5
4.3
11.2

21.98
–
10.46
10.71
12.31
14.55
25.32
20.08
31.82
–
–
–
21.98
–
10.46
10.71
12.31
14.55
25.32
20.08
31.82
–
–
–

5.8
–
3.2
3.4
6.8
6.0
11.3
9.0
3.2
–
–
–
5.8
–
3.2
3.4
6.8
6.0
11.3
9.0
3.2
–
–
–

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
9 ......................................................................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
7 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
9 ......................................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
9 ......................................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

25.09
27.63
22.87
18.58
27.78
29.42
34.00
44.62
28.60
27.40
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.24
19.85
37.34
31.85
32.09
32.79
32.78
33.13
32.90
33.01
–
–
–
–

7.0
7.5
4.7
5.3
3.7
2.7
5.9
13.9
3.5
6.1
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.0
.8
5.4
3.3
8.2
2.7
2.7
2.6
3.5
3.8
–
–
–
–

23.93
26.67
20.63
–
23.19
–
–
45.57
28.21
27.40
28.00
30.32
–
–
21.50
19.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.6
11.9
.9
–
3.3
–
–
14.5
3.4
6.1
5.6
5.3
–
–
6.9
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

27.76
29.44
31.13
19.34
32.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.84
–
–
32.03
32.09
32.79
33.15
33.13
32.90
33.01
–
–
–
–

4.7
4.1
7.2
5.9
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.2
–
–
3.3
8.2
2.7
2.6
2.6
3.5
3.8
–
–
–
–

21.88
16.15
13.07
14.62
13.85
13.49

10.3
5.1
4.9
3.4
1.8
6.3

21.88
16.49
–
14.62
–
–

10.3
5.2
–
3.4
–
–

–
14.25
–
–
–
–

–
13.7
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
7 ......................................................................

28.84
18.53

7.5
4.7

29.34
18.43

8.0
5.1

25.01
–

16.0
–

See footnotes at end of table.

15

Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and
State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$20.89
33.01
28.67
45.14
32.10
19.68
20.66
34.89
28.67
45.14

8.7
6.9
4.5
13.0
7.6
7.7
9.9
5.6
4.5
13.0

$20.59
33.60
–
44.53
32.68
–
–
34.85
–
44.53

9.3
6.4
–
15.9
8.0
–
–
5.7
–
15.9

–
–
–
–
$27.16
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
19.0
–
–
–
–
–

36.00
33.00
38.10
19.40
20.29

13.0
5.0
9.2
6.6
15.8

36.00
31.71
34.76
19.21
–

13.0
4.0
6.7
6.5
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................

16.51

15.5

16.51

15.5

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................

13.10
9.76
10.21
12.32
15.05
19.01
16.77
13.19
13.25
14.34
12.61
11.72
11.63
11.69

5.0
9.1
5.2
5.6
7.8
11.5
5.3
5.3
7.0
11.5
4.8
11.9
11.3
10.8

13.47
–
10.11
12.58
15.82
–
16.78
13.56
–
–
12.69
–
11.63
12.34

6.0
–
7.0
6.9
8.4
–
5.5
5.6
–
–
4.3
–
11.3
13.2

11.32
–
10.46
10.69
12.59
–
–
11.87
–
–
–
–
–
–

3.8
–
3.2
3.8
8.6
–
–
6.8
–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................

14.51
7.27
9.75
14.55
12.67
14.78
16.40
20.16
22.29
23.23

5.0
5.5
4.5
10.6
5.9
5.2
4.3
4.3
5.9
3.6

14.58
7.30
9.75
14.75
12.77
14.78
16.82
20.30
22.29
23.27

5.2
5.6
4.5
11.1
6.1
5.3
4.8
4.4
5.9
3.9

12.77
–
–
10.81
–
–
–
–
–
–

8.1
–
–
2.3
–
–
–
–
–
–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
7 ......................................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

18.55
15.09
15.89
20.60
23.16
21.58
22.08
21.31
19.80

4.9
6.5
4.7
5.4
4.1
7.0
7.6
6.9
4.4

18.66
15.09
15.88
20.72
23.21
21.58
22.08
21.31
19.59

5.1
7.0
4.8
5.5
4.4
7.0
7.6
6.9
4.8

16.22
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

11.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................

14.15
6.66
8.94
16.67
13.36
14.19
18.98

8.3
3.5
7.6
14.2
14.7
8.7
6.4

14.15
6.66
8.94
16.67
13.36
14.19
18.98

8.3
3.5
7.6
14.2
14.7
8.7
6.4

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
12 ......................................................................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

See footnotes at end of table.

16

Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and
State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
–Continued
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
5 ......................................................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
3 ......................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

$14.50
14.95
15.75
16.65
17.91

13.0
12.7
16.7
21.5
12.7

$14.50
14.95
15.75
16.65
17.91

13.0
12.7
16.7
21.5
12.7

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Truck drivers .........................................................

14.58
11.31
13.28
15.91
15.38

6.3
1.6
8.3
2.7
6.7

14.67
11.24
13.28
15.91
15.46

6.5
1.7
8.3
2.7
6.8

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

10.05
9.92
11.29
10.33
11.86
10.28
8.91

4.8
4.2
11.5
7.4
12.4
7.1
8.3

9.98
9.92
11.59
–
–
10.28
8.82

5.0
4.2
15.2
–
–
7.1
9.3

$10.77
–
–
–
–
–
9.42

8.7
–
–
–
–
–
8.7

Service .................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
6 ......................................................................
Food service .............................................................
3 ......................................................................
Other food service ..................................................
3 ......................................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
1 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
3 ......................................................................
Personal service .......................................................

10.44
7.24
10.23
8.87
11.56
11.33
14.68
14.43
14.68
8.03
8.62
8.36
8.69
9.76
9.96
10.44
9.86
11.07
7.79
9.24
11.74
9.24
–

5.2
6.1
17.7
4.3
4.2
3.7
10.1
5.9
10.1
7.1
7.0
6.3
7.7
1.9
2.8
2.7
2.0
10.4
7.4
1.1
10.7
1.1
–

9.33
6.85
10.79
8.80
11.67
–
–
–
–
7.96
8.61
8.29
8.68
–
10.06
–
9.93
12.82
–
–
15.54
–
–

6.2
3.7
23.1
4.8
7.9
–
–
–
–
7.2
7.0
6.5
7.8
–
2.9
–
2.1
18.1
–
–
15.8
–
–

12.53
–
–
9.38
11.45
12.20
14.68
14.86
14.68
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.59
–
–
9.55
–
–

5.2
–
–
1.7
3.2
3.9
10.1
5.9
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.6
–
–
5.7
–
–

Blue collar –Continued

1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is
used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more
information.
2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work
environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within
each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the
occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information.
3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,
where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES,
PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

17

Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and
State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$10.13
10.67

7.7
8.2

$9.65
10.16

8.7
9.4

$13.16
13.44

12.8
13.2

White collar .........................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
5 ......................................................................

11.46
9.86
12.41
12.94
12.41

9.6
20.0
8.9
9.6
8.9

11.06
9.95
–
12.60
–

10.1
21.2
–
9.8
–

14.15
–
–
14.74
–

19.8
–
–
20.2
–

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Technical ......................................................................

15.97
18.22
–
–
–
–
–

12.3
16.9
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

19.57
–
–
–
–
–
–

18.3
–
–
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

Sales ................................................................................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................

10.42

14.4

10.65

16.7

9.01

5.9

Blue collar ...........................................................................

9.38

14.1

8.44

13.6

–

–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Transportation and material moving ............................

–

–

–

–

–

–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers

8.46

15.7

8.46

15.7

–

–

6.77
5.48
–
–
–
–
–

12.2
25.1
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

8.91
–
–
–
–
–
–

2.4
–
–
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Personal service .......................................................
1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is
used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more
information.
2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work
environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within
each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the
occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information.
3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,
where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES,
PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 National
Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Private industry and State and local government
Occupational group

Full-time
workers3

Part-time
workers3

Union4

Nonunion4

Time5

Incentive5

Mean
All occupations .......................................................................
All excluding sales ........................................................

$16.92
16.94

$10.13
10.67

$18.38
18.38

$15.91
15.98

$16.53
16.65

$17.70
17.10

White collar .........................................................................
White-collar excluding sales .........................................

20.66
21.09

11.46
12.94

22.99
22.99

19.59
20.22

20.00
20.52

21.37
–

Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................

25.09
27.63
16.15
28.84
16.51
13.10

15.97
18.22
–
–
–
10.42

28.10
30.44
–
–
–
16.35

23.63
26.39
15.13
28.51
14.99
12.22

24.40
27.14
15.89
28.55
13.02
12.91

–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......

14.51
18.55
14.15
14.58
10.05

9.38
–
–
–
8.46

17.17
19.94
17.78
15.31
10.85

12.22
16.86
10.01
14.09
9.63

14.44
18.60
14.22
14.27
9.98

13.50
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................

10.44

6.77

14.45

9.18

10.10

–

Relative error6 (percent)
All occupations .......................................................................
All excluding sales ........................................................

4.5
4.5

7.7
8.2

4.5
4.5

6.0
6.2

4.4
4.4

12.1
20.6

White collar .........................................................................
White-collar excluding sales .........................................

5.7
5.8

9.6
9.6

5.5
5.5

6.5
6.8

5.4
5.4

14.7
–

Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................

7.0
7.5
5.1
7.5
15.5
5.0

12.3
16.9
–
–
–
14.4

5.8
4.4
–
–
–
6.6

9.4
10.1
3.3
7.0
9.9
5.0

6.5
7.3
4.9
6.9
10.4
4.8

–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......

5.0
4.9
8.3
6.3
4.8

14.1
–
–
–
15.7

6.0
6.2
8.3
7.0
8.8

6.0
6.7
7.6
8.4
4.9

5.2
5.0
8.4
6.8
5.1

15.8
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................

5.2

12.2

7.0

5.6

5.5

–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is
used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more
information.
3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,
where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through
collective bargaining.

5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary;
incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on
productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production
bonuses.
6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE
FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation
Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Full-time and part-time workers
Goods-producing industries3
Occupational group

All private
industries

Total

Mining

Construction

Manufacturing

Service-producing industries4

Total

TransportFinance,
Wholesale
ation and
insurance,
and retail
public utiland real
trade
ities
estate

Services

Mean
All occupations .............................................................
All excluding sales ..............................................

$16.32
16.39

–
–

–
–

$18.83
18.83

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

White collar ...............................................................
White-collar excluding sales ...............................

19.70
20.38

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

Professional specialty and technical .......................
Professional specialty .........................................
Technical ............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .............
Sales .......................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ................

23.41
26.28
16.24
29.00
15.04
13.26

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar .................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ....................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ....
Transportation and material moving .......................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .............................................................

14.46
18.56
14.15
14.67

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

17.03
18.84
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

9.86

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Service .......................................................................

8.99

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Relative error5 (percent)
All occupations .............................................................
All excluding sales ..............................................

5.2
5.3

–
–

–
–

13.6
13.6

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

White collar ...............................................................
White-collar excluding sales ...............................

6.7
7.1

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

Professional specialty and technical .......................
Professional specialty .........................................
Technical ............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .............
Sales .......................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ................

10.5
11.9
4.8
7.3
10.0
5.8

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar .................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ....................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ....
Transportation and material moving .......................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .............................................................

5.2
5.1
8.3
6.5

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

14.2
13.4
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

5.0

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Service .......................................................................

6.8

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing.
4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale
and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of
the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample
estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

20

Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private
industry, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Full-time and part-time workers
100 workers or more
Occupational group

All private
industry
workers

50 - 99
workers3

Total

100 - 499
workers

500
workers or
more

Mean
All occupations .......................................................................
All excluding sales ........................................................

$16.32
16.39

$12.63
12.48

$17.54
17.53

$17.59
17.57

$17.40
17.43

White collar .........................................................................
White-collar excluding sales .........................................

19.70
20.38

15.65
16.73

21.00
21.20

23.20
23.68

17.12
17.17

Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................

23.41
26.28
16.24
29.00
15.04
13.26

17.02
17.93
–
26.43
13.53
12.57

24.58
27.90
16.54
29.49
–
13.46

27.47
31.32
17.59
30.14
–
14.63

21.14
23.67
15.40
25.95
–
12.03

Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......

14.46
18.56
14.15
14.67
9.86

11.40
13.33
8.43
–
9.72

15.36
19.43
15.38
14.45
9.93

14.10
18.91
13.13
12.88
–

19.39
21.33
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................

8.99

7.19

10.24

9.36

11.29

Relative error4 (percent)
All occupations .......................................................................
All excluding sales ........................................................

5.2
5.3

8.1
8.7

5.9
6.0

7.9
8.1

6.9
6.9

White collar .........................................................................
White-collar excluding sales .........................................

6.7
7.1

9.1
11.7

7.6
7.9

7.0
7.0

10.9
11.1

Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................

10.5
11.9
4.8
7.3
10.0
5.8

9.4
9.7
–
11.7
11.1
12.1

11.2
12.2
5.3
8.2
–
6.9

16.6
17.6
7.6
9.2
–
7.0

6.4
6.4
4.1
5.9
–
5.9

Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......

5.2
5.1
8.3
6.5
5.0

10.8
17.1
9.0
–
12.7

5.9
4.9
8.8
9.3
4.6

6.8
6.1
10.2
8.1
–

8.1
7.0
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................

6.8

8.4

6.3

6.7

8.5

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See
appendix B for more information.
3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain
establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between
survey sampling and collection.

4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error
expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information
about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS
SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION
IN MIND.

21

Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$7.90
8.00

$10.08
10.13

$14.34
14.54

$20.54
20.59

$27.60
28.01

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

9.74
10.50

11.49
12.00

17.20
17.37

24.68
25.10

35.55
35.60

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

13.45
15.30
22.40
25.00
22.08
–
–
18.97
18.97
25.36
24.03
28.38
26.75
24.03
–
–
–
–

16.02
19.80
25.00
25.00
26.44
–
–
19.80
19.80
35.55
28.38
30.23
30.00
24.03
–
–
–
–

20.64
25.00
28.46
28.46
27.58
–
–
19.92
19.92
36.34
33.05
33.05
34.59
25.10
–
–
–
–

31.01
33.05
30.79
30.79
37.80
–
–
20.54
20.54
39.44
35.60
35.60
34.59
31.88
–
–
–
–

36.84
38.70
36.84
30.79
39.38
–
–
20.94
20.64
42.48
37.84
37.53
37.84
34.50
–
–
–
–

15.30
12.47
12.09
12.50
9.51

15.30
13.35
15.12
12.70
12.78

19.23
15.12
16.56
13.45
13.72

31.01
18.20
18.20
14.70
15.70

31.01
20.82
21.60
14.76
15.70

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

15.75
17.20

17.37
19.65

24.24
29.59

35.58
39.52

49.86
51.44

16.41
25.98
15.22
12.53

17.20
28.11
15.40
13.93

39.52
30.87
17.37
23.08

49.86
36.97
23.08
28.85

51.44
43.27
28.13
28.85

Sales ................................................................................

7.00

7.90

13.41

18.03

27.22

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................

8.61
10.22
10.75
10.44
6.86
7.94
8.25
8.14

10.70
11.40
11.10
10.70
10.89
7.94
9.35
8.61

11.28
12.90
11.10
13.17
10.89
13.40
10.03
8.92

15.09
15.88
17.39
14.11
14.84
14.45
11.19
8.92

18.39
15.88
21.62
16.45
14.84
14.45
17.87
9.82

Blue collar ...........................................................................

7.55

9.59

12.93

18.72

23.40

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

10.50
14.57
18.54
16.51

14.25
17.21
18.54
17.87

18.57
23.24
19.05
18.57

23.09
23.68
22.07
22.83

25.66
27.85
27.02
25.04

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

7.00
7.00
8.07
11.58

8.46
12.31
8.07
11.89

12.31
13.05
13.51
16.32

21.51
18.56
23.14
23.46

23.46
21.61
23.84
23.46

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................

11.70
13.55

11.76
13.55

13.55
15.73

16.58
16.69

18.72
18.72

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

6.25
7.00
7.55

7.55
8.19
7.55

8.84
10.41
7.55

10.83
11.81
9.80

16.79
12.19
10.83

Service .................................................................................

6.39

8.00

9.38

10.88

15.10

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$10.21
5.64
–
6.39
8.81
8.80
8.80
7.00
8.41
8.81

$11.65
6.39
–
6.80
9.59
9.15
9.54
8.41
8.59
8.81

$13.37
6.80
–
8.00
9.65
9.85
9.85
9.24
9.38
8.81

$15.64
9.58
–
9.65
10.08
10.66
10.09
12.15
12.15
8.81

$18.41
10.08
–
10.08
10.08
10.92
10.09
22.66
22.66
10.65

Occupation3

Service –Continued
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Other food service ..................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the
distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for
its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an
occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in
sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less,
and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations
of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations
is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for
more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.
Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown
separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL
INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private
industry, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Private industry
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$7.71
7.71

$10.00
10.09

$14.45
14.61

$20.49
20.54

$25.66
25.48

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

10.00
10.76

11.83
12.47

17.20
17.37

23.20
23.41

32.81
35.50

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................

13.75
15.30
22.40
25.00
22.08
–
–
19.80
19.80
–
–
–
–
–
–

15.99
19.80
25.00
25.00
26.44
–
–
19.92
19.92
–
–
–
–
–
–

19.92
20.94
28.46
28.46
27.58
–
–
19.92
19.92
–
–
–
–
–
–

26.58
30.79
30.79
30.79
37.80
–
–
20.54
20.54
–
–
–
–
–
–

35.10
38.70
31.12
30.79
39.38
–
–
20.94
20.64
–
–
–
–
–
–

15.30
12.50

15.30
14.70

19.23
15.70

31.01
18.20

31.01
20.82

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................

16.41
17.20

17.37
23.01

24.33
29.59

36.97
39.52

49.86
51.44

16.41
25.98
15.40

17.20
28.11
15.40

39.52
30.87
17.37

49.86
36.53
20.59

51.44
42.80
25.86

Sales ................................................................................

7.00

7.90

13.41

19.91

27.22

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................

8.68
10.70
9.46
7.94
8.25

10.76
11.40
12.30
7.94
9.35

11.83
13.09
13.17
13.40
11.00

15.88
15.88
14.11
14.45
15.66

19.23
15.88
16.45
14.45
20.37

Blue collar ...........................................................................

7.55

9.48

12.93

18.72

23.46

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

10.50
14.57
18.54
16.51

14.00
17.21
18.54
17.87

18.72
23.24
19.05
18.57

23.29
23.68
22.07
22.83

25.66
27.85
27.02
25.04

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

7.00
7.00
8.07
11.58

8.46
12.31
8.07
11.89

12.31
13.05
13.51
16.32

21.51
18.56
23.14
23.46

23.46
21.61
23.84
23.46

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................

11.70
13.55

11.76
13.55

14.62
15.73

16.69
16.69

18.72
18.72

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

6.25
7.00
7.55

7.55
8.19
7.55

8.76
10.41
7.55

10.41
11.81
9.80

16.88
12.19
9.85

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Other food service ..................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................

5.66
–
5.64
–
6.39
9.00
9.00
6.75
9.22

6.80
–
6.25
–
6.80
9.75
9.75
7.50
9.22

8.81
–
6.80
–
8.00
9.97
9.85
9.27
16.30

10.08
–
9.58
–
9.65
10.66
10.09
16.30
22.66

10.88
–
10.08
–
10.08
10.92
10.09
22.66
22.66

See footnotes at end of table.

24

Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private
industry, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
Private industry
Occupation3

Service –Continued
Personal service .......................................................
1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the
distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for
its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an
occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in
sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less,
and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations
of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.

10

25

Median
50

75

90

–

–

–

–

–

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations
is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for
more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.
Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown
separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL
INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

25

Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
State and local
government
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$8.92
8.92

$10.38
10.38

$13.93
13.93

$25.98
25.99

$35.55
35.55

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

9.51
9.74

11.19
11.19

17.22
17.55

32.33
32.33

36.84
36.84

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Technical ......................................................................

12.70
16.13
–
14.52
18.97
–
25.10
28.38
26.75
24.03
–
–
–
9.51

18.97
24.03
–
18.97
18.97
–
28.38
30.23
30.00
24.03
–
–
–
10.24

30.23
31.88
–
18.97
18.97
–
33.05
33.05
34.59
25.10
–
–
–
13.22

35.55
35.60
–
19.38
19.38
–
35.60
35.60
34.59
31.88
–
–
–
13.72

37.84
37.91
–
23.58
19.50
–
37.84
37.53
37.84
34.50
–
–
–
25.99

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Management related .................................................

11.79
11.79
–

13.93
19.16
–

19.65
21.34
–

30.81
31.91
–

48.45
48.45
–

Sales ................................................................................

–

–

–

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................

8.21
10.05
8.14

9.74
10.05
8.61

10.89
11.98
8.92

11.98
11.98
8.92

16.40
15.80
9.82

Blue collar ...........................................................................

9.59

9.77

12.36

15.54

17.31

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................

9.77

15.11

17.24

17.31

22.33

Transportation and material moving ............................

10.38

11.75

13.49

13.49

15.54

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

5.91
5.91

9.59
8.03

10.36
9.59

13.75
10.57

14.75
11.85

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Other food service ..................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................

8.59
10.21
8.51
8.51
8.77
8.36
8.36
8.83

9.38
11.65
9.06
9.06
8.77
8.59
8.59
9.22

11.65
15.02
9.56
9.56
8.93
9.24
9.24
10.26

15.02
17.10
12.99
12.99
9.54
9.38
9.38
10.65

17.90
18.41
12.99
12.99
9.62
12.15
12.15
10.81

1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the
distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for
its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an
occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in
sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less,
and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations
of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations
is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for
more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.
Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown
separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL
INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

26

Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$8.07
8.07

$10.46
10.50

$14.70
14.70

$20.82
20.82

$28.09
28.13

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

10.50
10.76

12.29
12.47

17.37
17.60

25.86
25.98

35.58
35.60

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

13.75
15.99
22.40
25.00
22.08
–
–
18.97
18.97
25.36
24.03
28.38
26.75
–
–
–
–

17.11
19.92
25.00
25.00
26.44
–
–
19.80
19.80
35.55
29.45
30.23
30.00
–
–
–
–

20.82
25.36
28.46
28.46
27.58
–
–
19.92
19.92
36.34
33.05
33.05
34.59
–
–
–
–

31.01
33.05
30.79
30.79
37.80
–
–
20.54
20.54
39.44
35.60
35.60
34.59
–
–
–
–

37.53
38.70
36.84
30.79
39.38
–
–
23.29
20.54
42.48
37.84
37.53
37.84
–
–
–
–

15.30
12.47
12.70
9.51

15.30
13.45
13.35
12.78

19.23
15.12
13.45
12.78

31.01
18.20
14.76
15.02

31.01
20.82
14.76
18.74

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

16.41
17.20

17.37
23.01

25.00
29.59

36.53
39.52

49.86
51.44

17.20
25.98
15.22
12.53

17.20
28.11
15.40
13.93

39.52
30.87
17.37
23.08

49.86
36.97
23.08
28.85

60.10
43.27
28.13
28.85

Sales ................................................................................

7.83

10.00

15.13

23.37

27.22

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
General office clerks .............................................

9.29
10.70
10.75
10.44
6.86
7.94
8.25

10.76
11.40
11.10
10.70
10.89
7.94
9.35

11.40
12.90
11.10
13.17
10.89
13.40
10.03

15.66
15.88
17.39
13.48
14.84
14.45
11.19

18.39
15.88
21.62
15.14
14.84
14.45
17.87

Blue collar ...........................................................................

7.55

9.80

13.11

18.72

23.46

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................

10.50
14.57
18.54
16.51

14.47
17.21
18.54
17.87

18.72
23.24
19.05
18.57

23.24
23.68
22.07
22.83

25.66
27.85
27.02
25.04

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

7.00
7.00
8.07
11.58

8.46
12.31
8.07
11.89

12.31
13.05
13.51
16.32

21.51
18.56
23.14
23.46

23.46
21.61
23.84
23.46

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................

11.70
13.55

11.76
13.55

13.55
15.73

16.58
16.69

18.72
18.72

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

7.55
7.00
7.55

7.55
10.00
7.55

8.84
10.41
7.55

11.00
11.81
9.80

16.88
12.19
10.83

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................

6.75
10.21
5.64
–

8.59
11.65
6.59
–

9.58
13.37
8.00
–

10.92
17.10
9.59
–

15.40
18.41
10.08
–

See footnotes at end of table.

27

Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$6.39
8.81
8.77
9.00
7.00
8.41
–

$6.80
9.65
9.62
9.75
8.41
8.59
–

$8.00
10.08
9.85
9.85
9.24
9.38
–

$9.65
10.08
10.66
10.09
12.15
12.15
–

$10.08
10.08
10.92
10.09
22.66
22.66
–

Occupation3

Service –Continued
Food service –Continued
Other food service ..................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the
distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for
its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an
occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in
sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less,
and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations
of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations
is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for
more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.
Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown
separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL
INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

All .............................................................................................
All excluding sales ............................................................

$5.75
5.66

$7.00
7.71

$8.23
8.51

$12.50
15.40

$16.45
16.79

White collar .........................................................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................

7.00
7.71

7.71
8.38

8.38
11.66

15.70
15.75

20.94
21.08

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Health related ...........................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Technical ......................................................................

11.66
11.66
–
–
–
–
–

11.66
11.66
–
–
–
–
–

15.70
20.94
–
–
–
–
–

20.94
25.10
–
–
–
–
–

25.10
25.10
–
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

Sales ................................................................................

–

–

–

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................

7.71

7.71

8.38

10.22

16.45

Blue collar ...........................................................................

5.75

5.75

8.20

10.44

15.54

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................

–

–

–

–

–

Transportation and material moving ............................

–

–

–

–

–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers

5.75

5.75

8.20

8.20

15.40

3.69
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

5.66
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

6.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

9.15
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.75
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Other food service ..................................................
Health service ...........................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Personal service .......................................................
1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the
distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for
its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an
occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in
sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less,
and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations
of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations
is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for
more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.
Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown
separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL
INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Appendix A: Technical Note

T

his section provides basic information on the
procedures and concepts used to produce the data
contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts:
Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing
and analyzing the data. Although this section answers
some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a
comprehensive description of all the steps required to
produce the data.

Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to
employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of
sample selection was a probability sample of
establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn
by first stratifying the sampling frame by industry and
ownership.
The number of sample establishments
allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to
the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is
selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to
its employment. Use of this technique means that the
larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its
chance of selection. Weights were applied to each
establishment when the data were tabulated so that it
represents similar units (by industry and employment size)
in the economy that were not selected for collection. See
appendix table 2 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 includes questions of
scope, frame, and sample selection.
Survey scope
This survey covered establishments employing 50 workers
or more in goods-producing industries (mining,
construction and manufacturing); service-producing
industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas,
and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance,
insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and
State and local governments. Agriculture, private
households, and the Federal Government were excluded
from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey,
an establishment is an economic unit that produces goods
or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary
unit providing support services to a company. For private
industries in this survey, the establishment is usually at a
single physical location. For State and local governments,
an establishment is defined as all locations of a government
entity.
The Louisville, KY–IN, Metropolitan Statistical Area
includes Bullitt, Jefferson, and Oldham Counties, KY; and
Clark, Floyd, Harrison, and Scott Counties, IN.

Data collection
The collection of data from survey respondents required
detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data,
working out of the Regional Office and visiting each
establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as
mail and telephone, were used to follow-up and update
data.
Occupational selection and classification
Identification of the occupations for which wage data were
to be collected was a multistep process:
1. Probability-proportional-to-size
selection
of
establishment jobs
2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the
Census of Population system
3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time,
union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive
4. Determination of the level of work of each job

Sampling frame
The list of establishments from which the survey sample
was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State
unemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility of
industries within the private sector, sampling frames were
developed using the most recent month of reference
available at the time the sample was selected. The
sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and,
when necessary, missing establishments were added, outof-business and out-of-scope establishments were
removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry
classification, and other information were updated.

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

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for which a correct classification or level could not be
determined.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at
each establishment by the BLS field economist during a
personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for
sampling, with each selected worker representing a job
within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people
working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance
of selection.
The number of jobs collected in each establishment was
based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in
the following schedule:
Number
of employees

Number
of selected jobs

50–99
100–249
250–999
1000–2,499
2,500+

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
MOGs:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Professional specialty and technical
Executive, administrative, and managerial
Sales
Administrative support, including clerical
Precision production, craft, and repair
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
Transportation and material moving
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Service occupations

Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual
occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was
identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job,
based on the establishment’s definition of those terms.
Then, the worker was classified as having a time versus
incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was
directly based on the actual production of the worker,
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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.
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.
For this survey, the level of each occupation in an
establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10
leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the
U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s
Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying
structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal
employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts
to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is
considered experimental. The 10 factors are:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Knowledge
Supervision received
Guidelines
Complexity
Scope and effect
Personal contacts
Purpose of contacts
Physical demands
Work environment
Supervisory duties

Each factor contains a number of levels, and each level
has an associated written description and point value. The
number and range of points differ among the factors. For
each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on
the written description that best matched the job. Within
each occupation, the points for nine factors (supervisory
duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total
determines the overall level of the occupation.
A
description of the levels for each factor is shown in
appendix C.
Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the
survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar
General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels
are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a
job with its associated leveling factors, and a guide to help
data users evaluate jobs in their firms
Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new
generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS
researchers using regression techniques. For each of the
major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10
generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The
analysis showed that several of the generic level factors,
most notably knowledge and supervision received, had
strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels
within a given factor increased, the wages also increased.
For additional information on generic leveling see Brooks
Pierce, “Using the National Compensation Survey to

Working

at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production
bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.

Collection period
Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60
metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small
metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month
period. For each establishment in the survey, the data
reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the
time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in
the tables reflects the average date of this information for
all sample units.

Level.
A ranking of an occupation based on the
requirements of the position. (See the description in the
technical note on generic leveling through point factor
analysis for more details on the leveling process.)

Predict Wage Rates,” Compensation
Conditions, Winter 1999, pp. 8–16.

and

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:
•
•
•
•
•

Incentive pay, including commissions, production
bonuses, and piece rates
Cost-of-living allowances
Hazard pay
Payments of income deferred due to participation
in a salary reduction plan
Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to
transportation workers returning in a vehicle
without freight or passengers

The following forms of payments were not considered
part of straight-time earnings:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for
working a schedule that varies from the norm, such
as night or weekend work
Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends
Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as
Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses)
Uniform and tool allowances
Free room and board
Payments made by third parties (for example,
bonuses given by manufacturers to department
store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate)
On-call pay

To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly,
weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were
collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per
day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded.
Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried
workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work
beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of
hours actually worked was collected.
Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be full time.
Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
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Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below).
Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be part time.
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.
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•

A labor organization is recognized as the
bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation
Wage and salary rates are determined through
collective bargaining or negotiations
Settlement terms, which must include earnings
provisions and may include benefit provisions, are
embodied in a signed, mutually binding collective
bargaining agreement

Processing and analyzing the data
Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National
Office following collection.
Weighting and nonresponse
Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and
occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the
relative size of the occupation within the establishment and
of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights
were used to aggregate the individual establishments or
occupations into the various data series. Some of the
establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to
supply information. If data were not provided by a sample
member, the weights of responding sample members in the
same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the
missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value
of 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 that
were additionally defined by major occupation group and
job level.
Establishments that were determined to be out of

business or outside the scope of the survey had their
weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by
a sample establishment or occupation, or data were
missing, the response was treated as a refusal.
Survey response

Total in sample
Responding
Out of business or not in
survey scope
Unable or refused to provide data

Establishments
211
95
14

occupation’s employment is in sampled establishment jobs
that had average hourly wages at the 10th percentile or less
for that occupation.
Note that the percentiles in earlier NCS bulletins for
this area (in the 3090 and 3095 bulletin series) were
calculated from individual-worker earnings rather than
from average wages for sampled establishment jobs.
Research has shown that using average-wage data for jobs
instead of individual-worker data has the effect of moving
percentile estimates toward the median (50th percentile).
This effect is greatest for occupations with a high degree of
wage dispersion. However, medians calculated using the
two methods are nearly identical.

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Some surveys may have a high nonresponse rate for the
all industries or private industry iterations. Such instances
are noted in the bulletin table footnotes.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining
the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being
combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: the
number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for
nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the
occupation’s scheduled hours of work.
Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication.
Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make
sure that the number of observations underlying it was
sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a
series that could have revealed information about a specific
establishment.
Estimates of the number of workers represent the total
in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not
the number actually surveyed. Because occupational
structures among establishments differ, estimates of the
number of workers obtained from the sample of
establishments serve to indicate only the relative
importance of the occupational groups studied.
Percentiles
The percentiles presented in tables 6–1 through 6–5 are
computed using average hourly wages for sampled
establishment jobs within each occupation. During this
phase of the ongoing NCS development, establishments in
the survey may report either individual-worker earnings or
average wage rates for each sampled job. If individualworker earnings are provided, an average hourly wage rate
is computed for the job and used in the calculation of
percentile estimates. The average hourly wages for each
sampled job are appropriately weighted and then arrayed
from lowest to highest.
The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th
percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s
employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For
example, at the 10th percentile, 10 percent of a published

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Data reliability
The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically
selected probability sample. There are two types of errors
possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling
and nonsampling.
Sampling errors occur because observations come only
from a sample and not from an entire population. The
sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible
samples of the same size that could have been selected
using the sample design. Estimates derived from the
different samples would differ from each other.
A measure of the variation among these differing
estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It
indicates the precision with which an estimate from a
particular sample approximates the average result of all
possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the
standard error divided by the estimate. RSE data are
provided alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables.
The standard error can be used to calculate a
“confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an
example, suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings
for all workers were $12.79, with a relative standard error
of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level,
the confidence interval for the estimate is $13.55 to $12.03
(1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79 = $0.76, plus or
minus $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to
estimate the population value, the interval from each
sample would include the true population value
approximately 90 percent of the time.
Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They
can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain
information for some establishments, difficulties with
survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide
correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the
data obtained. 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.

Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, by occupational group,2
National Compensation Survey, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Full-time and part-time workers
Occupational group

State and local
government

Total

Private industry

All occupations .......................................................................
All excluding sales ........................................................

237,200
224,500

198,700
186,100

38,500
38,400

White collar .........................................................................
White-collar excluding sales .........................................

113,000
100,300

88,000
75,400

25,000
24,900

Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................

39,500
30,500
9,000
19,500
12,700
41,300

24,900
17,500
7,400
17,200
12,600
33,300

14,600
13,000
1,600
2,300
–
8,000

Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......

95,800
24,000
32,300
17,000
22,400

91,100
22,700
32,300
15,300
20,700

4,700
–
–
1,700
1,700

Service .................................................................................

28,400

19,600

8,800

1 The number of workers represented by the survey are
rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers
provide a description of size and composition of the labor force
included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for
comparison to other statistical series to measure employment
trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were
included in the survey.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.

See appendix B for more information.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data
did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, PRIVATE INDUSTRY,
AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH
THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.

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Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and
establishment employment size, Louisville, KY-IN, November 2000
Number of establishments studied
Industry

All industries .......................................................................................
Private industry ...............................................................................
Goods-producing industries ........................................................
Construction ...........................................................................
Manufacturing .........................................................................
Service-producing industries ......................................................
Transportation and public utilities ...........................................
Wholesale and retail trade ......................................................
Finance, insurance and real estate ........................................
Services ..................................................................................
State and local government ............................................................

Number of
establishments repreTotal studied
sented1

1,600
1,600
500
100
300
1,100
100
500
100
400
100

1 Number of establishments represented by the survey rounded to the nearest 100.
2 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with
fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection.

95
73
34
4
30
39
7
9
1
22
22

100 workers or more
50 - 99
workers2

100 - 499
workers

Total

26
24
9
1
8
15
3
4
–
8
2

69
49
25
3
22
24
4
5
1
14
20

500 workers
or more

43
34
20
3
17
14
1
4
–
9
9

26
15
5
–
5
10
3
1
1
5
11

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry
groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

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