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New York–Northern New Jersey–
Long Island, NY–NJ–CT–PA
National Compensation Survey
April 2001
_________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lois L. Orr, Acting Commissioner
December 2001
Bulletin 3110–36

Preface

D

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Data Analysis and Planning, or at the BLS Internet site.
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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 ..............................................................................................

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3
7
11
13
18
23
33
42
45
46
47
48
52
55
57
61

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

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A–1
A–5
B–1
C–1
D–1

Introduction

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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. The
employment estimates relate to all employers in the area,
rather than just to those surveyed.

he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for
the New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island,
NY–NJ–CT–PA, metropolitan area. Data were collected
between September 2000 and October 2001; the average
reference month is April 2001. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations
and at different work levels. Also contained in this bulletin
are information on the program, a technical note describing
survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the occupational leveling methodology.

NCS products
The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides data
on occupational wages and employee benefits for localities,
broad geographic regions, and the Nation as a whole. The
Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change
in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from
the NCS. Another product, Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation, measures employers’ average hourly costs
for total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Still
another NCS product measures the incidence of benefit
plans and their provisions. This bulletin is limited to data
on occupational wages and salaries.
About the tables
The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These
earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 480 detailed occupations are used to describe all occupations in
the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households). Data are not shown for
any occupations if they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates.
Table 1–1 presents an overview of all tables in this
bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative
standard errors are given for all industries, private industry,
and State and local government for selected worker and
establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics
include major occupational group, full-time or part-time
status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay.
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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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)

$22.09

2.3

35.3

$20.94

3.1

35.3

$25.49

2.6

35.2

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 ..............................................

26.96
33.05
36.39
18.24
16.13
16.34
22.79

2.4
2.5
3.6
17.8
2.0
3.2
3.5

35.3
34.9
37.9
30.8
35.5
37.7
39.2

26.20
31.64
37.81
18.26
16.02
15.64
22.62

3.1
3.6
3.7
18.0
2.4
3.7
4.3

35.8
35.3
38.6
30.7
36.3
37.4
39.1

29.19
35.56
31.39
–
16.51
19.85
23.45

3.3
3.3
9.1
–
3.2
4.4
3.8

34.1
34.2
35.7
–
32.9
39.1
39.4

11.63
16.89

4.6
5.3

39.6
35.2

11.60
16.10

4.6
7.2

39.6
33.7

–
18.61

–
7.5

–
38.9

13.85
13.97

6.4
4.5

36.3
33.2

13.20
10.97

7.8
4.8

35.7
32.0

16.97
20.18

4.8
4.0

39.4
36.1

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

23.13
11.74

2.3
4.1

37.9
20.8

22.00
11.43

3.2
4.6

38.3
20.7

26.33
13.20

2.3
8.1

36.9
21.2

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

21.27
22.88

2.8
3.5

35.6
35.0

17.20
22.83

5.0
3.6

35.1
35.4

25.53
24.72

2.6
11.0

36.1
24.8

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

22.04
23.96

2.2
23.0

35.2
36.0

20.83
23.96

2.9
23.0

35.3
36.0

25.49
–

2.6
–

35.2
–

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 ...............................................

17.05
20.86
24.30

4.1
5.4
2.8

35.2
34.5
35.8

17.03
20.21
23.56

4.2
6.0
4.5

35.2
34.7
35.9

18.28
27.24
25.33

7.7
7.5
2.9

31.1
33.0
35.6

Total ...........................................................................
Worker characteristics:4

Establishment characteristics:

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

hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially
based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production
bonuses.
5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing
industries applies to private industry only.
7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with
fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria.

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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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

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

$22.09
22.29

2.3
2.2

$20.94
21.12

3.1
2.9

$25.49
25.51

2.6
2.6

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

26.96
27.75

2.4
2.1

26.20
27.17

3.1
2.7

29.19
29.24

3.3
3.3

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Athletes .................................................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................

33.05
34.97
33.05
36.26
29.80
25.23
35.69
39.64
39.80
36.52
37.82
29.67
33.12
29.12
31.32
19.41
23.80
46.98
45.18
39.88
41.45
43.71
42.76
39.36
12.26
38.25
27.58
27.98
34.58
36.39
24.34
24.47
45.53
45.53

2.5
1.9
4.1
5.7
5.0
8.4
6.5
4.2
4.4
7.6
9.9
2.5
8.9
1.9
5.9
3.9
3.1
5.0
3.9
3.4
4.3
5.9
2.9
6.3
9.9
15.8
11.9
12.1
12.5
14.5
4.3
4.4
10.8
10.8

31.64
33.64
35.00
36.26
29.80
27.30
37.88
39.72
39.88
36.98
37.82
30.73
37.69
29.42
33.14
–
–
47.54
–
25.39
27.97
32.33
–
23.21
–
–
31.94
31.94
28.54
–
23.00
23.02
55.68
55.68

3.6
2.6
3.7
5.7
5.0
10.9
4.4
4.3
4.4
7.8
9.9
2.8
10.1
2.1
2.4
–
–
10.8
–
7.5
8.4
19.9
–
15.8
–
–
15.6
15.6
20.2
–
5.0
4.9
8.8
8.8

35.56
36.91
26.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.58
20.63
27.20
–
–
–
46.57
44.99
42.21
44.77
45.83
43.93
40.72
–
–
24.79
25.27
39.33
40.16
25.31
25.41
36.99
36.99

3.3
2.9
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.6
13.5
4.6
–
–
–
2.5
3.1
3.3
3.9
5.4
2.4
6.3
–
–
14.9
15.4
11.1
10.3
7.0
7.1
6.8
6.8

32.81
32.02

9.0
11.3

33.51
32.02

9.3
11.3

23.57
–

7.1
–

20.30
44.12
23.78
17.28
34.12
24.71
19.66
23.26
18.36
17.21
21.71
19.83
32.45
21.10

19.4
21.4
8.7
10.7
9.6
12.4
5.3
3.0
1.9
3.2
10.1
6.7
5.9
7.9

–
44.12
–
17.09
34.32
25.65
19.09
23.26
18.26
16.59
21.71
19.83
33.36
22.27

–
21.4
–
13.6
9.8
13.8
5.9
3.0
1.7
4.4
10.1
6.7
5.2
8.8

–
–
–
–
–
19.14
23.59
–
18.91
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
5.4
12.3
–
7.4
–
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........

36.39
41.60
37.02
48.02

3.6
3.5
5.4
9.5

37.81
41.49
–
49.47

3.7
3.7
–
9.9

31.39
42.21
36.68
–

9.1
10.1
5.7
–

45.14
49.02

7.7
16.4

45.14
28.19

7.7
11.3

–
58.74

–
9.8

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$39.17
42.39
39.15
29.06
26.22
33.46
31.98

7.5
10.3
3.6
6.2
4.0
11.6
20.8

$42.29
42.91
39.35
31.50
26.68
34.73
–

8.3
10.5
3.9
7.0
4.3
13.2
–

$30.21
–
–
23.67
–
–
–

4.3
–
–
6.5
–
–
–

25.77
31.31

6.2
13.6

28.22
31.61

7.3
14.1

23.26
–

6.9
–

20.48
30.90

8.6
16.3

–
31.90

–
20.5

19.43
27.76

8.2
7.4

Sales ................................................................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

18.24
22.95
50.12
10.66
18.53
9.87
9.70
12.10

17.8
13.9
34.8
19.8
18.6
6.3
6.8
17.4

18.26
22.95
50.12
10.66
18.53
9.87
9.70
12.10

18.0
13.9
34.8
19.8
18.6
6.3
6.8
17.4

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

16.13
22.32
20.24
16.46
18.60
19.29
14.50
14.10
17.16
13.18
21.12
18.01
11.77
12.25
14.56
16.53
15.82
13.39
15.33
13.88
12.15
18.97
12.89
12.61

2.0
7.3
10.0
8.7
2.7
3.7
4.1
4.2
6.3
6.9
5.0
9.3
6.3
2.4
3.6
3.1
8.7
4.2
6.2
11.1
7.3
10.3
5.3
13.5

16.02
22.70
20.24
16.45
18.55
–
15.44
–
17.32
13.30
21.12
–
–
12.25
14.67
16.23
15.82
13.39
15.44
13.88
11.87
–
12.64
12.61

2.4
9.0
10.0
8.8
3.3
–
7.4
–
10.5
7.1
5.0
–
–
2.4
4.3
3.1
8.7
4.2
6.3
11.1
7.8
–
5.9
13.5

16.51
20.91
–
–
18.76
–
13.84
–
–
–
–
–
10.33
–
–
20.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

3.2
6.1
–
–
3.7
–
2.5
–
–
–
–
–
6.2
–
–
6.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

26.43
16.45
15.92
17.71
14.45
10.65
12.30
14.67
14.37
15.41

23.8
7.5
7.7
9.1
5.8
3.6
4.5
14.3
9.6
4.6

26.43
16.38
–
17.71
14.42
10.65
12.14
14.53
–
15.66

23.8
8.3
–
9.1
4.9
3.6
5.2
14.8
–
6.7

–
–
17.22
–
14.49
–
–
–
15.94
14.92

–
–
4.3
–
14.2
–
–
–
5.2
1.5

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

16.34

3.2

15.64

3.7

19.85

4.4

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Executives, administrators, and managers
–Continued
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

See footnotes at end of table.

4

Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,
National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................

$22.79
28.51
24.48
18.69
20.33

3.5
6.1
4.1
5.7
4.6

$22.62
–
–
18.69
21.04

4.3
–
–
5.7
5.3

$23.45
–
24.79
–
–

3.8
–
3.8
–
–

32.76
26.84
25.75
23.83
14.50
22.37

15.5
14.8
10.7
12.1
6.5
9.0

–
26.41
27.60
23.83
14.50
22.63

–
18.6
10.9
12.1
6.5
10.3

–
–
18.18
–
–
–

–
–
10.3
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

11.63
10.39

4.6
4.7

11.60
10.39

4.6
4.7

–
–

–
–

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.88
13.34
13.30
9.25
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.4
25.7
8.1
7.0
8.7

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.47
13.34
13.30
9.25
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.8
25.7
8.1
7.0
8.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................

16.89
17.37
20.27
15.07

5.3
5.1
7.2
9.4

16.10
16.79
20.27
12.02

7.2
5.1
7.2
5.6

18.61
–
–
18.70

7.5
–
–
1.9

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

13.85
12.59

6.4
7.8

13.20
–

7.8
–

16.97
–

4.8
–

18.82
10.89
12.84
13.29
11.90
12.49

9.7
9.7
12.8
7.9
22.2
10.2

–
10.89
12.83
13.29
11.90
11.68

–
9.7
12.9
7.9
22.2
13.4

–
–
–
–
–
15.78

–
–
–
–
–
3.6

13.97
20.55
33.05
25.48

4.5
6.4
6.0
5.9

10.97
11.96
–
–

4.8
11.1
–
–

20.18
24.91
33.05
25.48

4.0
3.7
6.0
5.9

22.92
22.50
11.72
9.10
6.47
5.98
5.83
10.16
15.24
12.17
8.57
12.25
8.11
10.52
12.49
10.26
13.04

6.3
3.0
11.1
6.9
13.2
14.3
26.1
6.5
8.8
9.1
6.0
6.7
7.9
5.4
3.5
5.8
6.4

–
–
11.59
8.73
6.22
5.98
4.18
9.90
15.22
12.02
8.57
12.29
7.21
9.76
11.47
9.56
12.26

–
–
11.8
7.9
13.3
14.3
10.4
7.8
9.8
10.4
6.0
7.1
8.0
5.1
4.2
5.3
8.8

22.92
22.50
14.28
11.57
–
–
–
11.46
–
13.12
–
–
10.91
15.43
15.04
15.55
15.23

6.3
3.0
3.1
4.1
–
–
–
4.1
–
6.0
–
–
2.9
2.3
2.3
2.9
5.6

Blue collar –Continued

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Other food service ..................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related ......................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
See footnotes at end of table.

5

Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,
National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation3

Service –Continued
Cleaning and building service –Continued
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$18.85
13.98
12.41
13.96
9.25
11.48
9.50
11.45

17.3
6.2
8.6
12.4
7.3
8.6
4.6
15.3

–
$13.98
11.05
14.90
–
10.33
8.74
11.32

–
6.2
13.8
16.8
–
7.9
3.9
16.8

–
–
$15.11
11.90
–
–
10.74
–

–
–
6.0
6.5
–
–
4.6
–

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.

6

Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

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

$23.13
23.13

2.3
2.2

$22.00
21.94

3.2
3.0

$26.33
26.35

2.3
2.3

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

27.96
28.28

2.4
2.2

27.25
27.62

3.1
2.8

29.96
30.02

3.2
3.2

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................

33.45
35.25
33.08
36.26
29.80
26.19
35.44
39.64
39.80
36.52
37.82
29.34
31.45
29.21
31.00
19.16
24.06
47.40
45.66
40.62
42.42
43.82
42.79
39.60
38.25
27.62
28.02
34.46
36.27
24.41
24.50
45.21
45.21

2.6
2.0
4.2
5.7
5.0
8.7
7.0
4.2
4.4
7.6
9.9
2.7
9.7
2.1
7.2
4.1
3.0
4.9
3.6
3.4
3.9
5.8
2.9
6.3
15.8
12.0
12.1
12.8
15.0
4.3
4.4
10.9
10.9

32.06
33.90
35.09
36.26
29.80
–
37.73
39.72
39.88
36.98
37.82
30.48
35.72
29.57
–
–
–
48.13
–
26.36
29.59
32.78
–
23.20
–
31.94
31.94
28.06
–
23.04
23.07
55.68
55.68

3.7
2.7
3.8
5.7
5.0
–
4.9
4.3
4.4
7.8
9.9
3.0
11.0
2.3
–
–
–
10.3
–
8.0
6.9
19.0
–
16.7
–
15.6
15.6
21.7
–
5.0
4.9
8.8
8.8

35.81
37.11
26.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.46
20.63
27.20
–
–
–
46.86
44.99
42.59
44.97
45.83
43.93
40.73
–
24.83
25.32
39.33
40.16
25.38
25.41
36.25
36.25

3.3
3.0
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
13.5
4.7
–
–
–
2.6
3.1
3.4
3.7
5.4
2.4
6.3
–
15.0
15.6
11.1
10.3
7.1
7.1
6.1
6.1

33.56
33.52

9.1
11.1

34.07
33.52

9.4
11.1

–
–

–
–

20.30
44.12
23.78
34.12
25.33
19.70
17.92
17.65
21.71
19.68
32.45
21.10

19.4
21.4
8.7
9.6
13.1
5.3
1.6
3.4
10.1
7.8
5.9
7.9

–
44.12
–
34.32
26.41
19.09
18.04
17.03
21.71
19.68
33.36
22.27

–
21.4
–
9.8
14.5
5.8
1.7
5.0
10.1
7.8
5.2
8.8

–
–
–
–
19.09
23.59
17.21
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
5.5
12.3
4.7
–
–
–
–
–

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............

36.43
41.60
37.02
48.02

3.6
3.6
5.4
9.5

37.81
41.48
–
49.47

3.7
3.8
–
9.9

31.52
42.21
36.68
–

9.2
10.1
5.7
–

45.14
49.02
39.10
42.39

7.7
16.4
7.5
10.3

45.14
28.19
42.27
42.91

7.7
11.3
8.5
10.5

–
58.74
30.21
–

–
9.8
4.3
–

See footnotes at end of table.

7

Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$39.15
29.12
26.31
33.46
31.98

3.6
6.2
4.1
11.6
20.8

$39.35
31.50
26.68
34.73
–

3.9
7.0
4.3
13.2
–

–
$23.74
–
–
–

–
6.6
–
–
–

25.77
31.31

6.2
13.6

28.22
31.61

7.3
14.1

23.26
–

6.9
–

20.48
30.99

8.6
16.3

–
31.91

–
20.5

19.43
28.08

8.2
7.2

Sales ................................................................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

22.99
24.56
50.12
12.75
10.85
14.12
13.85

19.3
12.5
34.8
33.4
5.1
6.2
17.0

23.11
24.56
50.12
12.75
10.85
14.12
13.85

19.5
12.5
34.8
33.4
5.1
6.2
17.0

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

16.48
22.32
20.24
16.46
18.65
19.51
14.80
17.41
13.96
21.12
18.01
14.07
12.25
14.56
16.94
15.82
13.44
15.74
13.88
12.48
18.97
12.99
15.59

2.0
7.3
10.0
8.7
2.7
3.6
4.2
6.3
8.0
5.0
9.3
7.0
2.4
3.6
2.9
8.7
4.3
6.1
11.1
8.2
10.3
5.2
8.0

16.32
22.70
20.24
16.45
18.62
–
15.44
17.79
13.96
21.12
–
15.72
12.25
14.67
16.65
15.82
13.44
15.88
13.88
–
–
12.74
15.59

2.5
9.0
10.0
8.8
3.4
–
7.4
10.9
8.0
5.0
–
7.2
2.4
4.3
2.9
8.7
4.3
6.2
11.1
–
–
5.8
8.0

17.06
20.91
–
–
18.76
–
14.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

2.5
6.1
–
–
3.7
–
3.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

26.43
16.73
15.92
17.71
15.21
10.62
12.27
14.67
11.96
15.57

23.8
7.8
7.7
9.1
4.5
4.1
4.6
14.3
10.8
4.8

26.43
16.66
–
17.71
14.67
10.62
12.10
14.53
–
15.93

23.8
8.6
–
9.1
5.2
4.1
5.4
14.8
–
7.0

–
–
17.22
–
16.43
–
–
–
14.07
14.92

–
–
4.3
–
6.7
–
–
–
2.6
1.5

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

16.68

3.2

15.99

3.7

19.97

4.4

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................

22.82
28.51

3.5
6.1

22.65
–

4.3
–

23.45
–

3.8
–

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Executives, administrators, and managers
–Continued
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

See footnotes at end of table.

8

Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$24.48
18.69
20.33

4.1
5.7
4.6

–
$18.69
21.04

–
5.7
5.3

$24.79
–
–

3.8
–
–

32.76
26.84
25.75
23.83
14.50
22.37

15.5
14.8
10.7
12.1
6.5
9.0

–
26.41
27.60
23.83
14.50
22.63

–
18.6
10.9
12.1
6.5
10.3

–
–
18.18
–
–
–

–
–
10.3
–
–
–

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

11.63
10.39

4.6
4.7

11.60
10.39

4.6
4.7

–
–

–
–

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.85
13.34
13.30
9.25
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.6
25.7
8.1
7.0
8.7

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.47
13.34
13.30
9.25
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.8
25.7
8.1
7.0
8.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................

17.66
17.74
20.27
15.86

4.8
4.9
7.2
9.8

17.13
17.15
20.27
–

6.4
4.8
7.2
–

18.66
–
–
–

7.7
–
–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

14.43
13.56

6.5
6.5

13.76
–

8.2
–

17.21
–

4.5
–

18.82
10.89
14.78
14.03
11.90
12.53

9.7
9.7
12.0
9.9
22.2
10.9

–
10.89
14.77
14.03
11.90
11.63

–
9.7
12.1
9.9
22.2
15.0

–
–
–
–
–
15.78

–
–
–
–
–
3.6

15.07
21.68
33.05
25.48
22.50
12.28
10.72
7.93
6.82
11.66
15.24
12.32
13.76
9.01
10.60
12.83
10.31
14.07

4.8
5.9
6.0
5.9
3.0
13.2
7.8
18.3
18.3
6.7
8.8
10.4
7.4
11.2
6.0
3.1
6.3
4.1

11.73
12.58
–
–
–
12.13
10.51
7.53
6.82
11.56
15.23
12.16
13.94
8.39
9.77
11.82
9.55
13.49

5.5
13.0
–
–
–
14.2
8.7
19.1
18.3
7.6
9.9
11.0
7.7
13.0
5.6
3.7
5.8
6.1

21.30
25.44
33.05
25.48
22.50
14.70
12.50
–
–
12.44
–
–
–
11.58
15.44
15.06
15.56
15.34

3.5
3.5
6.0
5.9
3.0
1.4
3.9
–
–
4.7
–
–
–
2.7
2.3
2.4
2.9
5.7

22.15
13.92
13.70

7.7
6.3
5.6

–
13.92
12.62

–
6.3
11.1

–
–
15.22

–
–
6.2

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Other food service ..................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
See footnotes at end of table.

9

Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Service –Continued
Personal service .......................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$15.40
11.84
8.89
11.83

14.7
7.7
4.9
15.9

$16.02
10.77
8.73
11.73

18.3
6.2
4.6
17.5

$13.28
–
–
–

7.5
–
–
–

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 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.

10

Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
Total
Occupation3

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

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

$11.74
12.50

4.1
4.7

$11.43
12.31

4.6
5.6

$13.20
13.20

8.1
8.1

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

14.70
18.24

5.8
6.9

14.56
19.35

6.5
8.0

15.32
15.32

13.1
13.1

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Substitute 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. ............................................
Athletes .................................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

26.05
29.34
–
32.66
63.60
28.37
–
18.14
23.24
13.57
–
–
–
–

6.1
6.5
–
5.8
9.1
3.7
–
10.2
33.6
4.4
–
–
–
–

26.48
30.14
–
32.66
63.60
28.40
–
19.86
23.28
–
–
–
–
–

6.4
6.5
–
5.9
9.1
3.8
–
13.0
34.1
–
–
–
–
–

23.02
24.07
–
–
–
–
–
15.17
–
–
–
–
–
–

16.5
21.2
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
–
–
–
–
–
–

25.27
14.94
18.05
20.42
14.59

32.8
10.4
6.5
5.7
2.2

26.94
–
17.82
19.38
14.76

37.2
–
6.7
4.5
1.9

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

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

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................

8.02
8.70
7.44
7.80

3.2
5.6
8.1
3.6

8.02
8.70
7.44
7.80

3.2
5.6
8.1
3.6

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Receptionists ........................................................
Library clerks ........................................................
General office clerks .............................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

12.44
9.96
10.09
8.48
12.59

9.9
5.2
3.7
21.1
9.2

12.04
9.82
–
11.52
12.59

10.7
6.8
–
5.5
9.2

13.13
–
9.15
–
–

18.4
–
5.5
–
–

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

10.33

6.9

10.22

7.2

–

–

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

–

–

–

–

–

–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........

–

–

–

–

–

–

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

11.04
13.34

12.3
10.5

10.75
13.34

13.0
10.5

–
–

–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........

9.70
7.48
10.81

7.2
6.1
6.7

9.76
7.48
10.81

7.4
6.1
6.7

–
–
–

–
–
–

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Other food service ..................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................

8.52
10.70
6.71
4.87
4.83
7.65
7.94
7.43
9.61

4.4
6.6
8.6
13.3
16.8
8.8
4.1
10.7
6.1

7.83
–
5.90
4.87
4.83
6.62
7.94
6.22
9.58

5.3
–
6.7
13.3
16.8
5.9
4.1
5.6
6.2

11.07
13.14
10.70
–
–
10.70
–
–
–

3.9
6.7
2.4
–
–
2.4
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

11

Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Service –Continued
Health service –Continued
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

$9.18
9.67
8.02
7.74
9.58
10.17

11.5
6.9
4.8
3.3
4.4
4.9

$9.04
9.66
7.91
7.60
8.64
–

11.8
6.9
4.4
2.8
6.7
–

–
–
–
–
$10.26
–

–
–
–
–
4.7
–

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.

12

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ..............................

$877
876

2.3
2.2

37.9
37.9

$842
839

3.1
2.9

38.3
38.2

$972
973

2.3
2.3

36.9
36.9

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

1,050
1,059

2.3
2.1

37.5
37.5

1,046
1,058

2.9
2.7

38.4
38.3

1,061
1,062

3.2
3.2

35.4
35.4

1,238
1,301

2.3
2.1

37.0
36.9

1,226
1,306

3.3
2.8

38.2
38.5

1,257
1,294

3.1
2.9

35.1
34.9

1,315

4.3

39.7

1,410

3.7

40.2

1,002

6.1

38.3

1,435
1,192
986
1,441

6.3
5.0
11.7
7.1

39.6
40.0
37.6
40.7

1,435
1,192
–
1,539

6.3
5.0
–
4.4

39.6
40.0
–
40.8

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

1,543

4.3

38.9

1,548

4.3

39.0

–

–

–

1,547
1,411
1,470
1,149
1,398
1,107
1,183
723
861
1,713

4.4
6.4
8.3
2.3
8.1
1.8
6.0
3.8
6.9
3.4

38.9
38.6
38.9
39.2
44.4
37.9
38.2
37.7
35.8
36.1

1,552
1,429
1,470
1,171
1,439
1,126
–
–
–
1,641

4.4
6.6
8.3
2.6
9.7
1.9
–
–
–
8.2

38.9
38.6
38.9
38.4
40.3
38.1
–
–
–
34.1

–
–
–
1,042
1,242
1,006
–
–
–
1,771

–
–
–
4.0
8.4
4.7
–
–
–
2.7

–
–
–
42.6
60.2
37.0
–
–
–
37.8

1,760

3.5

38.6

–

–

–

1,748

3.5

38.8

1,344
1,462
1,540
1,360
1,268

3.7
3.4
5.7
4.6
6.3

33.1
34.5
35.1
31.8
32.0

978
1,161
1,311
–
778

9.7
8.2
19.0
–
19.7

37.1
39.2
40.0
–
33.5

1,389
1,513
1,576
1,389
1,300

3.8
3.4
5.7
4.8
6.3

32.6
33.6
34.4
31.6
31.9

1,269

12.2

33.2

–

–

–

–

–

–

996
1,012

11.3
11.4

36.1
36.1

1,122
1,122

15.5
15.5

35.1
35.1

912
933

14.0
14.4

36.7
36.8

1,205
1,258

10.1
10.9

35.0
34.7

1,011
–

20.5
–

36.0
–

1,346
1,370

6.9
6.0

34.2
34.1

894
896
1,831
1,831

5.0
5.2
18.1
18.1

36.6
36.6
40.5
40.5

852
851
2,708
2,708

4.9
4.6
14.1
14.1

37.0
36.9
48.6
48.6

923
924
1,283
1,283

8.4
8.4
6.9
6.9

36.4
36.3
35.4
35.4

1,271
1,252

8.7
10.7

37.9
37.4

1,288
1,252

9.0
10.7

37.8
37.4

–
–

–
–

–
–

776
1,567
906
1,338
951

17.3
19.9
8.3
10.3
10.8

38.2
35.5
38.1
39.2
37.6

–
1,567
–
1,345
987

–
19.9
–
10.5
11.8

–
35.5
–
39.2
37.4

–
–
–
–
736

–
–
–
–
4.1

–
–
–
–
38.6

Professional specialty and
technical ......................................
Professional specialty .....................
Engineers, architects, and
surveyors ..............................
Electrical and electronic
engineers ..........................
Industrial engineers ................
Mechanical engineers .............
Engineers, n.e.c. .....................
Mathematical and computer
scientists ...............................
Computer systems analysts
and scientists ....................
Natural scientists ........................
Chemists, except biochemists
Health related .............................
Physicians ..............................
Registered nurses ..................
Pharmacists ............................
Dietitians .................................
Respiratory therapists .............
Teachers, college and university
Other post-secondary
teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and
university ..............................
Elementary school teachers ...
Secondary school teachers ....
Teachers, special education ...
Teachers, n.e.c. ......................
Vocational and educational
counselors ........................
Librarians, archivists, and
curators .................................
Librarians ................................
Social scientists and urban
planners ................................
Psychologists ..........................
Social, recreation, and religious
workers .................................
Social workers ........................
Lawyers and judges ....................
Lawyers ..................................
Writers, authors, entertainers,
athletes, and professionals,
n.e.c. .....................................
Designers ...............................
Painters, sculptors, craft
artists, and artist
printmakers .......................
Editors and reporters ..............
Public relations specialists ......
Professional, n.e.c. .................
Technical ........................................
See footnotes at end of table.

13

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
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

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and
technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
Clinical laboratory
technologists and
technicians ........................
Licensed practical nurses .......
Health technologists and
technicians, n.e.c. .............
Electrical and electronic
technicians ........................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c.
Computer programmers .........
Technical and related, n.e.c. ..
Executive, administrative, and
managerial ...................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..............................
Administrators and officials,
public administration .........
Financial managers ................
Managers, marketing,
advertising, and public
relations ............................
Administrators, education and
related fields .....................
Managers, medicine and
health ................................
Managers, service
organizations, n.e.c. .........
Managers and administrators,
n.e.c. .................................
Management related ...................
Accountants and auditors .......
Other financial officers ............
Management analysts ............
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ..........
Purchasing agents and
buyers, n.e.c. ....................
Inspectors and compliance
officers, except
construction ......................
Management related, n.e.c. ....
Sales ..................................................
Supervisors, sales ..................
Sales, other business services
Sales workers, apparel ...........
Sales workers, other
commodities .....................
Cashiers .................................
Sales support, n.e.c. ...............
Administrative support, including
clerical .........................................
Supervisors, general office .....
Supervisors, financial records
processing ........................

$752
676

5.5
2.3

38.2
37.7

$731
679

6.2
2.5

38.3
37.6

695

3.3

39.4

669

5.2

39.3

867
787
1,269
824

11.0
7.8
8.9
12.3

39.9
40.0
39.1
39.1

867
787
1,312
876

11.0
7.8
8.6
14.6

1,387

3.5

38.1

1,459

1,608

3.6

38.6

1,349
1,828

5.5
9.8

1,821

9.9
6.0

37.4
38.2

–

–

–

39.9
40.0
39.3
39.3

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

3.5

38.6

1,148

9.2

36.4

1,623

3.8

39.1

1,531

10.3

36.3

36.4
38.1

–
1,894

–
10.1

–
38.3

1,340
–

5.8
–

36.5
–

10.3

40.3

1,821

10.3

40.3

–

–

–

1,762

17.0

35.9

999

12.0

35.5

2,125

10.3

36.2

1,460

7.7

37.3

1,615

7.7

38.2

1,062

4.3

35.1

1,575

10.2

37.1

1,598

10.3

37.2

–

–

–

1,557
1,087
1,001
1,211
1,144

3.7
5.8
4.3
11.7
20.7

39.8
37.3
38.0
36.2
35.8

1,573
1,188
1,014
1,267
–

3.8
6.2
4.6
13.2
–

40.0
37.7
38.0
36.5
–

–
867
–
–
–

–
6.4
–
–
–

–
36.5
–
–
–

965

8.6

37.5

1,099

9.8

38.9

839

9.4

36.1

1,216

12.2

38.8

1,230

12.6

38.9

–

–

–

769
1,154

10.6
15.4

37.5
37.3

–
1,208

–
19.1

–
37.9

727
996

10.7
6.7

37.4
35.5

896
1,009
1,843
482

18.6
12.0
33.3
35.0

39.0
41.1
36.8
37.8

901
1,009
1,843
482

18.9
12.0
33.3
35.0

39.0
41.1
36.8
37.8

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

421
553
531

4.9
5.9
16.2

38.8
39.2
38.3

421
553
531

4.9
5.9
16.2

38.8
39.2
38.3

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

618
859

2.0
7.6

37.5
38.5

623
888

2.5
9.3

38.2
39.1

600
761

2.8
5.5

35.2
36.4

770

9.2

38.0

770

9.2

38.0

–

–

–

See footnotes at end of table.

14

$882
657

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
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

White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including
clerical –Continued
Computer operators ................
Secretaries .............................
Stenographers ........................
Typists ....................................
Transportation ticket and
reservation agents ............
Receptionists ..........................
Order clerks ............................
Personnel clerks, except
payroll and timekeeping ....
Library clerks ..........................
File clerks ...............................
Records clerks, n.e.c. .............
Bookkeepers, accounting and
auditing clerks ...................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Billing clerks ............................
Telephone operators ..............
Mail clerks, except postal
service ..............................
Messengers ............................
Dispatchers .............................
Traffic, shipping and receiving
clerks ................................
Stock and inventory clerks ......
Insurance adjusters,
examiners, and
investigators .....................
Investigators and adjusters,
except insurance ..............
Eligibility clerks, social welfare
Bill and account collectors ......
General office clerks ...............
Bank tellers .............................
Data entry keyers ...................
Statistical clerks ......................
Teachers’ aides ......................
Administrative support, n.e.c.
Blue collar .............................................
Precision production, craft, and
repair ............................................
Supervisors, mechanics and
repairers ...........................
Automobile mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery repairers
Mechanics and repairers,
n.e.c. .................................
Supervisors, electricians and
power transmission
installers ...........................
Carpenters ..............................
Electricians .............................
Supervisors, production ..........
Electrical and electronic
equipment assemblers .....
Stationary engineers ...............

$615
682
704
521

8.5
2.5
3.9
5.2

37.4
36.6
36.1
35.2

$616
693
–
565

8.6
3.2
–
6.2

37.4
37.2
–
36.6

683
520
810

6.4
6.7
4.4

39.2
37.3
38.4

687
520
810

11.2
6.7
4.4

38.6
37.3
38.4

701
483
449
560

8.8
10.4
2.9
3.2

38.9
34.3
36.7
38.5

–
572
449
566

–
9.3
2.9
3.8

645
606
510
604

2.7
8.4
4.8
5.8

38.1
38.3
37.9
38.4

639
606
510
611

501
485
757

12.8
7.6
10.3

36.1
38.9
39.9

508
607

5.2
8.5

994

–
2.2
–
5.5

–
34.7
–
34.1

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
36.4
36.7
38.6

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

2.8
8.4
4.8
5.8

38.4
38.3
37.9
38.5

708
–
–
–

5.2
–
–
–

34.7
–
–
–

501
–
–

12.8
–
–

36.1
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

39.1
38.9

501
607

5.9
8.5

39.3
38.9

–
–

–
–

–
–

24.5

37.6

994

24.5

37.6

–

–

–

668
574
699
564
412
478
537
372
572

7.8
5.5
9.4
4.5
4.2
4.1
12.8
8.6
5.3

39.9
36.0
39.5
37.1
38.8
39.0
36.6
31.1
36.8

665
–
699
560
412
469
533
–
602

8.6
–
9.4
5.7
4.2
4.5
13.3
–
7.2

39.9
–
39.5
38.2
38.8
38.7
36.7
–
37.8

–
603
–
574
–
–
–
408
523

–
4.3
–
6.7
–
–
–
4.9
1.6

–
35.0
–
34.9
–
–
–
29.0
35.1

656

3.3

39.3

628

3.8

39.3

788

4.4

39.5

896

3.5

39.3

889

4.3

39.2

924

4.0

39.4

1,129
973
744

5.7
4.4
5.5

39.6
39.8
39.8

–
–
744

–
–
5.5

–
–
39.8

–
985
–

–
4.2
–

–
39.7
–

806

4.7

39.7

832

5.3

39.6

–

–

–

1,247
1,050
1,012
934

12.5
14.5
10.4
12.1

38.1
39.1
39.3
39.2

–
1,057
1,085
934

–
18.6
10.6
12.1

–
40.0
39.3
39.2

–
–
712
–

–
–
9.0
–

–
–
39.1
–

580
875

6.5
8.9

40.0
39.1

580
891

6.5
10.1

40.0
39.4

–
–

–
–

–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

15

–
$650
–
486

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Weekly earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Weekly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
weekly
hours5

Blue collar –Continued
Machine operators, assemblers,
and inspectors ............................
Punching and stamping press
operators ..........................
Grinding, abrading, buffing,
and polishing machine
operators ..........................
Fabricating machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Textile sewing machine
operators ..........................
Laundering and dry cleaning
machine operators ............
Packaging and filling machine
operators ..........................
Miscellaneous machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Assemblers .............................
Production inspectors,
checkers and examiners ...
Transportation and material
moving .........................................
Truck drivers ...........................
Driver-sales workers ...............
Bus drivers ..............................
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers .................
Groundskeepers and
gardeners, except farm .....
Supervisors, handlers,
equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ..................
Production helpers ..................
Stock handlers and baggers ...
Freight, stock, and material
handlers, n.e.c. .................
Hand packers and packagers
Laborers, except construction,
n.e.c. .................................
Service ...................................................
Protective service .......................
Supervisors, police and
detectives .........................
Police and detectives, public
service ..............................
Correctional institution officers
Guards and police, except
public service ....................
Food service ...............................
Waiters, waitresses, and
bartenders ..........................
Waiters and waitresses ..........
Other food service ....................
Supervisors, food preparation
and service .......................
Cooks .....................................

$461

4.5

39.6

$460

4.6

39.6

–

–

–

411

4.6

39.5

411

4.6

39.5

–

–

–

425

5.5

39.4

425

5.5

39.4

–

–

–

463

12.8

40.0

463

12.8

40.0

–

–

–

309

7.8

40.0

309

7.8

40.0

–

–

–

428

8.0

39.4

416

8.3

39.7

–

–

–

534

25.7

40.0

534

25.7

40.0

–

–

–

521
368

7.8
6.8

39.2
39.8

521
368

7.8
6.8

39.2
39.8

–
–

–
–

–
–

499

8.9

39.7

499

8.9

39.7

–

–

–

684
707
810
559

6.0
4.9
7.2
14.8

38.7
39.8
40.0
35.2

657
683
810
–

8.6
4.8
7.2
–

38.3
39.8
40.0
–

$735
–
–
–

7.5
–
–
–

39.4
–
–
–

569

6.7

39.4

541

8.4

39.3

684

4.6

39.7

534

6.8

39.4

–

–

–

–

–

–

737
420
572

11.0
8.8
13.0

39.2
38.6
38.7

–
420
572

–
8.8
13.1

–
38.6
38.7

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

561
476

9.9
22.2

40.0
40.0

561
476

9.9
22.2

40.0
40.0

–
–

–
–

–
–

497

10.9

39.7

460

15.0

39.6

631

3.6

40.0

567
865

5.1
6.0

37.6
39.9

431
499

5.4
13.0

36.7
39.7

840
1,018

3.8
3.7

39.5
40.0

1,323

6.0

40.0

–

–

–

1,323

6.0

40.0

1,009
894

5.4
3.1

39.6
39.8

–
–

–
–

–
–

1,009
894

5.4
3.1

39.6
39.8

486
417

13.2
7.8

39.6
38.9

481
409

14.2
8.8

39.7
39.0

558
476

2.0
4.3

38.0
38.1

306
264
455

17.2
16.9
7.0

38.6
38.6
39.0

293
264
451

18.3
16.9
7.9

38.9
38.6
39.0

–
–
483

–
–
5.1

–
–
38.8

632
474

8.6
8.9

41.4
38.4

634
468

9.6
9.4

41.6
38.5

–
–

–
–

–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

16

Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Weekly earnings

Mean

Service –Continued
Food service –Continued
Other food service –Continued
Kitchen workers, food
preparation .......................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .........
Health service .............................
Health aides, except nursing ..
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service .....
Supervisors, cleaning and
building service workers ...
Maids and housemen .............
Janitors and cleaners .............
Personal service .........................
Early childhood teachers’
assistants ..........................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .......
Service, n.e.c. .........................

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

$549
342
391
492

7.4
11.2
7.0
3.4

39.9
38.0
36.9
38.3

$555
318
358
446

7.8
12.7
6.7
3.9

39.9
37.9
36.6
37.7

–
$446
598
597

–
3.3
2.4
2.4

–
38.5
38.7
39.7

379
544

7.4
4.2

36.7
38.7

349
519

6.9
6.2

36.5
38.4

598
602

3.0
5.7

38.4
39.2

853
517
539
491

5.6
5.5
5.8
10.3

38.5
37.1
39.3
31.9

–
517
498
490

–
5.5
11.5
12.6

–
37.1
39.4
30.6

–
–
596
495

–
–
6.2
8.2

–
–
39.2
37.3

405
348
398

8.7
4.0
21.7

34.2
39.1
33.6

357
344
390

6.3
4.0
23.5

33.1
39.4
33.3

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

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
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.

17

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ..............................

$44,437
44,359

2.3
2.2

1,921
1,918

$43,521
43,357

3.1
2.9

1,978
1,976

$46,769
46,797

2.3
2.3

1,777
1,776

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

52,555
52,910

2.3
2.1

1,880
1,871

54,019
54,634

2.9
2.7

1,982
1,978

49,132
49,183

3.2
3.2

1,640
1,638

59,240
61,188

2.3
2.1

1,771
1,736

62,523
66,215

3.3
2.8

1,950
1,953

54,871
55,853

3.1
2.9

1,532
1,505

68,355

4.3

2,066

73,343

3.7

2,090

52,094

6.1

1,989

74,630
61,987
51,263
74,942

6.3
5.0
11.7
7.1

2,058
2,080
1,957
2,115

74,630
61,987
–
80,042

6.3
5.0
–
4.4

2,058
2,080
–
2,122

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

80,258

4.3

2,025

80,494

4.3

2,027

–

–

–

80,461
73,371
76,441
59,369
72,692
57,132
61,531
37,597
44,793
68,508

4.4
6.4
8.3
2.3
8.1
1.8
6.0
3.8
6.9
3.4

2,022
2,009
2,021
2,023
2,311
1,956
1,985
1,963
1,861
1,445

80,711
74,286
76,441
60,841
74,829
58,546
–
–
–
62,641

4.4
6.6
8.3
2.6
9.7
1.9
–
–
–
8.2

2,024
2,009
2,021
1,996
2,095
1,980
–
–
–
1,302

–
–
–
52,543
64,598
49,747
–
–
–
73,752

–
–
–
4.0
8.4
4.7
–
–
–
2.7

–
–
–
2,148
3,131
1,829
–
–
–
1,574

72,857

3.5

1,595

–

–

–

73,444

3.5

1,633

53,938
57,800
61,697
54,472
51,154

3.7
3.4
5.7
4.6
6.3

1,328
1,362
1,408
1,273
1,292

42,407
45,001
52,203
–
37,076

9.7
8.2
19.0
–
19.7

1,608
1,521
1,593
–
1,598

55,226
60,029
63,195
55,311
51,928

3.8
3.4
5.7
4.8
6.3

1,297
1,335
1,379
1,259
1,275

54,617

12.2

1,428

–

–

–

–

–

–

49,254
49,931

11.3
11.4

1,783
1,782

55,781
55,781

15.5
15.5

1,747
1,747

44,884
45,750

14.0
14.4

1,808
1,807

56,441
56,105

10.1
10.9

1,638
1,547

51,862
–

20.5
–

1,848
–

59,280
59,882

6.9
6.0

1,507
1,491

46,182
46,432
95,187
95,187

5.0
5.2
18.1
18.1

1,892
1,895
2,105
2,105

43,984
44,261
140,810
140,810

4.9
4.6
14.1
14.1

1,909
1,919
2,529
2,529

47,724
47,779
66,731
66,731

8.4
8.4
6.9
6.9

1,880
1,880
1,841
1,841

66,116
65,129

8.7
10.7

1,970
1,943

66,955
65,129

9.0
10.7

1,965
1,943

–
–

–
–

–
–

40,326
81,497
47,087
69,590
49,379

17.3
19.9
8.3
10.3
10.8

1,986
1,847
1,980
2,040
1,949

–
81,497
–
69,954
51,275

–
19.9
–
10.5
11.8

–
1,847
–
2,038
1,941

–
–
–
–
38,132

–
–
–
–
4.1

–
–
–
–
1,998

Professional specialty and
technical ......................................
Professional specialty .....................
Engineers, architects, and
surveyors ..............................
Electrical and electronic
engineers ..........................
Industrial engineers ................
Mechanical engineers .............
Engineers, n.e.c. .....................
Mathematical and computer
scientists ...............................
Computer systems analysts
and scientists ....................
Natural scientists ........................
Chemists, except biochemists
Health related .............................
Physicians ..............................
Registered nurses ..................
Pharmacists ............................
Dietitians .................................
Respiratory therapists .............
Teachers, college and university
Other post-secondary
teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and
university ..............................
Elementary school teachers ...
Secondary school teachers ....
Teachers, special education ...
Teachers, n.e.c. ......................
Vocational and educational
counselors ........................
Librarians, archivists, and
curators .................................
Librarians ................................
Social scientists and urban
planners ................................
Psychologists ..........................
Social, recreation, and religious
workers .................................
Social workers ........................
Lawyers and judges ....................
Lawyers ..................................
Writers, authors, entertainers,
athletes, and professionals,
n.e.c. .....................................
Designers ...............................
Painters, sculptors, craft
artists, and artist
printmakers .......................
Editors and reporters ..............
Public relations specialists ......
Professional, n.e.c. .................
Technical ........................................
See footnotes at end of table.

18

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
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

$45,887
34,180

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
annual
hours5

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and
technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
Clinical laboratory
technologists and
technicians ........................
Licensed practical nurses .......
Health technologists and
technicians, n.e.c. .............
Electrical and electronic
technicians ........................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c.
Computer programmers .........
Technical and related, n.e.c. ..
Executive, administrative, and
managerial ...................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..............................
Administrators and officials,
public administration .........
Financial managers ................
Managers, marketing,
advertising, and public
relations ............................
Administrators, education and
related fields .....................
Managers, medicine and
health ................................
Managers, service
organizations, n.e.c. .........
Managers and administrators,
n.e.c. .................................
Management related ...................
Accountants and auditors .......
Other financial officers ............
Management analysts ............
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ..........
Purchasing agents and
buyers, n.e.c. ....................
Inspectors and compliance
officers, except
construction ......................
Management related, n.e.c. ....
Sales ..................................................
Supervisors, sales ..................
Sales, other business services
Sales workers, apparel ...........
Sales workers, other
commodities .....................
Cashiers .................................
Sales support, n.e.c. ...............
Administrative support, including
clerical .........................................
Supervisors, general office .....
Supervisors, financial records
processing ........................

$39,086
35,153

5.5
2.3

1,984
1,962

$37,991
35,313

6.2
2.5

1,991
1,958

9.9
6.0

1,945
1,986

36,026

3.3

2,041

34,625

5.2

2,034

–

–

–

45,074
40,926
65,964
42,448

11.0
7.8
8.9
12.3

2,076
2,080
2,033
2,012

45,074
40,926
68,241
45,554

11.0
7.8
8.6
14.6

2,076
2,080
2,046
2,046

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

71,732

3.5

1,969

75,854

3.5

2,006

58,246

9.2

1,848

82,778

3.6

1,990

84,393

3.8

2,034

75,239

10.3

1,782

70,152
95,073

5.5
9.8

1,895
1,980

–
98,509

–
10.1

–
1,991

69,662
–

5.8
–

1,899
–

94,673

10.3

2,097

94,673

10.3

2,097

–

–

–

81,372

17.0

1,660

51,958

12.0

1,843

93,168

10.3

1,586

75,929

7.7

1,942

83,962

7.7

1,987

55,210

4.3

1,827

81,880

10.2

1,931

83,082

10.3

1,936

–

–

–

80,955
56,508
52,040
62,946
59,498

3.7
5.8
4.3
11.7
20.7

2,068
1,941
1,978
1,881
1,860

81,794
61,734
52,742
65,859
–

3.8
6.2
4.6
13.2
–

2,079
1,960
1,977
1,897
–

–
45,072
–
–
–

–
6.4
–
–
–

–
1,899
–
–
–

49,983

8.6

1,940

56,622

9.8

2,006

43,639

9.4

1,876

63,210

12.2

2,019

63,959

12.6

2,024

–

–

–

39,986
60,021

10.6
15.4

1,952
1,937

–
62,806

–
19.1

–
1,968

37,778
51,790

10.7
6.7

1,945
1,845

46,612
52,493
95,815
25,046

18.6
12.0
33.3
35.0

2,028
2,137
1,912
1,964

46,842
52,493
95,815
25,046

18.9
12.0
33.3
35.0

2,027
2,137
1,912
1,964

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

21,897
28,778
27,606

4.9
5.9
16.2

2,019
2,038
1,993

21,897
28,778
27,606

4.9
5.9
16.2

2,019
2,038
1,993

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

31,744
44,652

2.0
7.6

1,927
2,001

32,392
46,165

2.5
9.3

1,985
2,033

29,605
39,562

2.8
5.5

1,736
1,892

40,040

9.2

1,979

40,040

9.2

1,979

–

–

–

See footnotes at end of table.

19

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
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

–
$31,464
–
21,899

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
annual
hours5

White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including
clerical –Continued
Computer operators ................
Secretaries .............................
Stenographers ........................
Typists ....................................
Transportation ticket and
reservation agents ............
Receptionists ..........................
Order clerks ............................
Personnel clerks, except
payroll and timekeeping ....
Library clerks ..........................
File clerks ...............................
Records clerks, n.e.c. .............
Bookkeepers, accounting and
auditing clerks ...................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Billing clerks ............................
Telephone operators ..............
Mail clerks, except postal
service ..............................
Messengers ............................
Dispatchers .............................
Traffic, shipping and receiving
clerks ................................
Stock and inventory clerks ......
Insurance adjusters,
examiners, and
investigators .....................
Investigators and adjusters,
except insurance ..............
Eligibility clerks, social welfare
Bill and account collectors ......
General office clerks ...............
Bank tellers .............................
Data entry keyers ...................
Statistical clerks ......................
Teachers’ aides ......................
Administrative support, n.e.c.
Blue collar .............................................
Precision production, craft, and
repair ............................................
Supervisors, mechanics and
repairers ...........................
Automobile mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery repairers
Mechanics and repairers,
n.e.c. .................................
Supervisors, electricians and
power transmission
installers ...........................
Carpenters ..............................
Electricians .............................
Supervisors, production ..........
Electrical and electronic
equipment assemblers .....
Stationary engineers ...............

$31,983
34,788
36,598
24,938

8.5
2.5
3.9
5.2

1,944
1,865
1,876
1,685

$32,008
36,015
–
29,388

8.6
3.2
–
6.2

1,945
1,934
–
1,903

–
2.2
–
5.5

–
1,678
–
1,537

35,520
27,050
42,126

6.4
6.7
4.4

2,040
1,937
1,994

35,746
27,050
42,126

11.2
6.7
4.4

2,009
1,937
1,994

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

36,468
23,130
23,369
29,145

8.8
10.4
2.9
3.2

2,025
1,644
1,907
2,002

–
29,724
23,369
29,450

–
9.3
2.9
3.8

–
1,891
1,907
2,007

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

33,521
31,527
26,517
31,415

2.7
8.4
4.8
5.8

1,979
1,993
1,973
1,996

33,219
31,527
26,517
31,782

2.8
8.4
4.8
5.8

1,995
1,993
1,973
2,002

36,789
–
–
–

5.2
–
–
–

1,804
–
–
–

26,066
25,243
39,377

12.8
7.6
10.3

1,878
2,022
2,076

26,066
–
–

12.8
–
–

1,878
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

26,410
31,546

5.2
8.5

2,033
2,023

26,050
31,546

5.9
8.5

2,044
2,023

–
–

–
–

–
–

51,670

24.5

1,955

51,670

24.5

1,955

–

–

–

34,731
29,829
36,342
29,341
21,417
24,866
27,939
15,777
29,763

7.8
5.5
9.4
4.5
4.2
4.1
12.8
8.6
5.3

2,076
1,874
2,053
1,930
2,017
2,027
1,905
1,319
1,912

34,578
–
36,342
29,114
21,417
24,382
27,730
–
31,278

8.6
–
9.4
5.7
4.2
4.5
13.3
–
7.2

2,075
–
2,053
1,985
2,017
2,015
1,909
–
1,964

–
31,365
–
29,816
–
–
–
15,883
27,212

–
4.3
–
6.7
–
–
–
4.9
1.6

–
1,821
–
1,815
–
–
–
1,129
1,824

33,867

3.3

2,030

32,432

3.8

2,028

40,742

4.4

2,040

46,549

3.5

2,040

46,153

4.3

2,037

48,034

4.0

2,049

58,734
50,608
38,687

5.7
4.4
5.5

2,060
2,068
2,070

–
–
38,687

–
–
5.5

–
–
2,070

–
51,200
–

–
4.2
–

–
2,065
–

41,922

4.7

2,062

43,281

5.3

2,057

–

–

–

64,852
54,584
52,599
47,351

12.5
14.5
10.4
12.1

1,980
2,034
2,043
1,987

–
54,943
56,432
47,351

–
18.6
10.6
12.1

–
2,080
2,045
1,987

–
–
37,006
–

–
–
9.0
–

–
–
2,036
–

30,169
45,507

6.5
8.9

2,080
2,035

30,169
46,333

6.5
10.1

2,080
2,047

–
–

–
–

–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

20

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Annual earnings

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

State and local
government

Private industry
Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Annual earnings
Mean
annual
hours5

Mean

Relative
error4
(percent)

Mean
annual
hours5

Blue collar –Continued
Machine operators, assemblers,
and inspectors ............................
Punching and stamping press
operators ..........................
Grinding, abrading, buffing,
and polishing machine
operators ..........................
Fabricating machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Textile sewing machine
operators ..........................
Laundering and dry cleaning
machine operators ............
Packaging and filling machine
operators ..........................
Miscellaneous machine
operators, n.e.c. ................
Assemblers .............................
Production inspectors,
checkers and examiners ...
Transportation and material
moving .........................................
Truck drivers ...........................
Driver-sales workers ...............
Bus drivers ..............................
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers .................
Groundskeepers and
gardeners, except farm .....
Supervisors, handlers,
equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ..................
Production helpers ..................
Stock handlers and baggers ...
Freight, stock, and material
handlers, n.e.c. .................
Hand packers and packagers
Laborers, except construction,
n.e.c. .................................
Service ...................................................
Protective service .......................
Supervisors, police and
detectives .........................
Police and detectives, public
service ..............................
Correctional institution officers
Guards and police, except
public service ....................
Food service ...............................
Waiters, waitresses, and
bartenders ..........................
Waiters and waitresses ..........
Other food service ....................
Supervisors, food preparation
and service .......................
Cooks .....................................

$23,907

4.5

2,056

$23,855

4.6

2,057

–

–

–

21,356

4.6

2,055

21,356

4.6

2,055

–

–

–

22,104

5.5

2,046

22,104

5.5

2,046

–

–

–

24,095

12.8

2,080

24,095

12.8

2,080

–

–

–

16,071

7.8

2,080

16,071

7.8

2,080

–

–

–

22,242

8.0

2,050

21,629

8.3

2,066

–

–

–

27,755

25.7

2,080

27,755

25.7

2,080

–

–

–

27,081
19,130

7.8
6.8

2,036
2,067

27,081
19,130

7.8
6.8

2,036
2,067

–
–

–
–

–
–

25,940

8.9

2,063

25,940

8.9

2,063

–

–

–

34,537
36,762
42,140
25,990

6.0
4.9
7.2
14.8

1,955
2,072
2,079
1,639

32,953
35,520
42,140
–

8.6
4.8
7.2
–

1,924
2,071
2,079
–

$37,612
–
–
–

7.5
–
–
–

2,016
–
–
–

29,575

6.7

2,050

28,155

8.4

2,046

35,558

4.6

2,066

27,774

6.8

2,049

–

–

–

–

–

–

38,331
21,834
29,746

11.0
8.8
13.0

2,037
2,006
2,012

–
21,834
29,743

–
8.8
13.1

–
2,006
2,013

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

29,190
24,760

9.9
22.2

2,080
2,080

29,190
24,760

9.9
22.2

2,080
2,080

–
–

–
–

–
–

25,848

10.9

2,063

23,935

15.0

2,058

32,792

3.6

2,078

29,324
44,986

5.1
6.0

1,946
2,075

22,348
25,958

5.4
13.0

1,905
2,063

43,184
52,927

3.8
3.7

2,027
2,081

68,808

6.0

2,082

–

–

–

68,808

6.0

2,082

52,457
46,513

5.4
3.1

2,058
2,068

–
–

–
–

–
–

52,457
46,513

5.4
3.1

2,058
2,068

25,254
21,444

13.2
7.8

2,057
2,001

25,015
21,291

14.2
8.8

2,062
2,026

29,012
22,595

2.0
4.3

1,974
1,807

15,506
13,709
23,517

17.2
16.9
7.0

1,956
2,009
2,016

15,226
13,709
23,451

18.3
16.9
7.9

2,021
2,009
2,028

–
–
23,994

–
–
5.1

–
–
1,929

32,842
24,631

8.6
8.9

2,155
1,999

32,949
24,344

9.6
9.4

2,163
2,003

–
–

–
–

–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

21

Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 —
Continued
Total
Occupation3

Annual earnings

Mean

Service –Continued
Other food service –Continued
Kitchen workers, food
preparation .......................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .........
Health service .............................
Health aides, except nursing ..
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service .....
Supervisors, cleaning and
building service workers ...
Maids and housemen .............
Janitors and cleaners .............
Personal service .........................
Early childhood teachers’
assistants ..........................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .......
Service, n.e.c. .........................

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

$28,524
17,545
20,333
25,564

7.4
11.2
7.0
3.4

2,073
1,948
1,918
1,992

$28,885
16,521
18,609
23,194

7.8
12.7
6.7
3.9

2,073
1,970
1,904
1,962

–
$21,567
30,952
31,063

–
3.3
2.4
2.4

–
1,862
2,005
2,063

19,675
28,292

7.4
4.2

1,909
2,011

18,139
26,974

6.9
6.2

1,898
1,999

30,919
31,280

3.0
5.7

1,987
2,039

44,374
26,879
28,019
24,596

5.6
5.5
5.8
10.3

2,003
1,931
2,045
1,598

–
26,879
25,877
25,000

–
5.5
11.5
12.6

–
1,931
2,050
1,561

–
–
31,001
23,063

–
–
6.2
8.2

–
–
2,037
1,736

18,371
17,593
19,856

8.7
4.0
21.7

1,551
1,979
1,678

17,232
17,898
19,421

6.3
4.0
23.5

1,600
2,049
1,656

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

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.

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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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001
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 ............................................................

$22.09
22.29

2.3
2.2

$20.94
21.12

3.1
2.9

$25.49
25.51

2.6
2.6

White collar .........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

26.96
8.48
11.39
12.26
14.55
17.41
18.45
22.14
27.10
33.92
32.03
40.49
47.56
55.14
64.34
33.23
27.75
8.69
12.86
12.95
15.06
17.34
18.48
22.24
27.09
33.94
32.33
40.57
47.58
55.14
64.34
31.43

2.4
6.0
6.2
2.6
2.8
2.3
3.0
2.7
5.1
2.5
4.2
6.9
4.1
4.3
10.3
8.7
2.1
10.2
4.4
2.7
2.9
2.1
3.1
2.7
5.9
2.5
4.2
7.1
4.1
4.3
10.3
6.1

26.20
8.86
11.26
11.96
14.46
17.31
18.69
22.19
25.45
30.20
33.94
42.60
46.50
55.65
64.93
36.15
27.17
9.46
12.95
12.66
15.04
17.20
18.73
22.24
25.07
30.16
34.46
42.76
46.52
55.65
64.93
33.87

3.1
4.7
7.0
2.7
3.1
2.9
3.6
2.4
2.5
2.7
4.4
8.6
3.7
4.9
11.5
9.2
2.7
8.3
5.1
2.7
3.2
2.6
3.7
2.3
2.7
2.8
4.3
8.8
3.7
4.9
11.5
5.9

29.19
–
12.38
14.42
15.20
17.66
17.72
21.99
32.01
37.97
28.08
33.90
51.55
51.34
59.65
25.05
29.24
–
12.38
14.42
15.20
17.66
17.72
22.25
32.01
37.97
28.08
33.90
51.55
51.34
59.65
25.05

3.3
–
5.6
5.6
4.8
3.6
4.2
8.2
14.9
3.7
6.4
3.8
11.1
2.7
5.7
9.6
3.3
–
5.6
5.6
4.8
3.6
4.2
8.3
14.9
3.7
6.4
3.8
11.1
2.7
5.7
9.6

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................

33.05
34.97
20.86
22.07
24.09
32.04
34.95
33.13
35.58
43.93
55.60
57.52
34.74
33.05
27.78
30.09
34.85
37.14
36.26
29.80
25.23
35.69
33.41
35.43
39.64
31.43
37.01
44.35
56.20

2.5
1.9
6.5
15.8
5.3
8.2
3.1
6.3
3.6
4.5
5.6
2.4
5.3
4.1
5.7
8.0
5.9
4.9
5.7
5.0
8.4
6.5
6.8
7.5
4.2
5.5
7.7
6.5
3.5

31.64
33.64
21.17
21.15
24.13
27.36
28.35
35.74
36.52
43.84
56.27
57.11
35.69
35.00
30.45
34.92
34.85
36.70
36.26
29.80
27.30
37.88
33.41
35.43
39.72
31.43
37.12
44.30
56.20

3.6
2.6
6.6
20.3
3.5
3.4
2.9
5.9
4.3
5.3
6.9
2.7
7.6
3.7
5.1
3.2
5.9
5.2
5.7
5.0
10.9
4.4
6.8
7.5
4.3
5.5
7.8
6.5
3.5

35.56
36.91
–
–
23.98
40.26
38.94
28.11
32.51
44.39
52.74
59.19
32.92
26.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

3.3
2.9
–
–
15.0
11.2
3.9
11.9
6.4
4.8
3.3
5.9
3.8
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$36.07
39.80
31.43
37.01
44.35
56.20
34.39
36.52
37.82
29.67
25.61
27.92
26.81
26.70
32.33
43.54
62.41
61.72
34.27
33.12
18.12
28.55
47.45
62.33
61.72
32.90
29.12
27.18
28.77
27.99
31.32
19.41
23.80
46.98
30.61
33.16
42.84
52.36
52.32
45.15
45.18
41.10
49.17
39.88
14.62
11.40
23.95
44.46
43.31
41.45
26.98
43.60
45.11
43.71
49.97
41.89
42.76
42.59
39.36

9.3
4.4
5.5
7.7
6.5
3.5
12.0
7.6
9.9
2.5
3.9
3.0
2.6
10.9
7.1
15.8
4.5
5.5
12.7
8.9
13.9
22.2
19.9
4.7
5.5
22.1
1.9
3.6
2.8
2.3
5.9
3.9
3.1
5.0
6.1
7.5
8.0
9.9
3.3
8.9
3.9
10.0
8.5
3.4
6.9
6.6
13.5
8.6
2.4
4.3
12.0
6.0
4.1
5.9
6.7
5.3
2.9
3.4
6.3

$36.07
39.88
31.43
37.12
44.30
56.20
34.39
36.98
37.82
30.73
25.74
28.24
27.61
31.73
33.28
43.68
64.13
–
41.72
37.69
19.93
–
47.45
64.13
–
–
29.42
27.35
29.09
28.47
33.14
–
–
47.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.39
–
11.40
22.25
30.87
29.92
27.97
–
–
–
32.33
–
–
–
–
23.21

9.3
4.4
5.5
7.8
6.5
3.5
12.0
7.8
9.9
2.8
4.1
3.2
2.7
10.1
7.8
16.7
5.2
–
16.1
10.1
14.8
–
19.9
5.2
–
–
2.1
3.9
3.1
2.3
2.4
–
–
10.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.5
–
6.6
5.4
18.0
10.9
8.4
–
–
–
19.9
–
–
–
–
15.8

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$24.58
24.00
25.54
23.20
16.19
28.40
–
–
–
–
20.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.20
25.20
–
25.63
–
–
–
46.57
–
–
37.01
44.08
51.98
–
44.99
40.48
–
42.21
–
–
24.86
48.53
44.01
44.77
–
–
45.56
45.83
–
42.31
43.93
44.03
40.72

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.6
6.8
4.1
6.3
16.4
17.0
–
–
–
–
13.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.6
8.0
–
7.1
–
–
–
2.5
–
–
9.8
8.9
3.9
–
3.1
11.2
–
3.3
–
–
19.2
5.7
2.4
3.9
–
–
4.3
5.4
–
5.5
2.4
2.7
6.3

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Mathematical and computer scientists –Continued
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, special education .................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$43.30
12.26
38.25
27.58
28.16
27.98
28.16
34.58
32.48
36.39
24.34
18.31
19.31
24.35
30.69
24.47
18.33
20.70
24.02
30.69
45.53
45.53

4.1
9.9
15.8
11.9
20.0
12.1
20.0
12.5
8.5
14.5
4.3
6.9
7.8
6.1
6.4
4.4
7.0
10.2
5.8
6.4
10.8
10.8

–
–
–
$31.94
–
31.94
–
28.54
–
–
23.00
–
–
26.43
–
23.02
–
–
25.02
–
55.68
55.68

–
–
–
15.6
–
15.6
–
20.2
–
–
5.0
–
–
6.7
–
4.9
–
–
5.9
–
8.8
8.8

$43.65
–
–
24.79
28.58
25.27
28.58
39.33
–
40.16
25.31
–
22.67
23.78
–
25.41
–
23.46
23.78
–
36.99
36.99

4.2
–
–
14.9
21.7
15.4
21.7
11.1
–
10.3
7.0
–
9.6
6.8
–
7.1
–
9.1
6.8
–
6.8
6.8

32.81
27.25
24.40
33.78
37.20
40.28
30.09
32.02

9.0
10.6
6.1
15.6
8.8
3.5
23.9
11.3

33.51
27.25
24.40
35.85
38.18
40.28
31.19
32.02

9.3
10.6
6.1
16.1
9.3
3.5
25.4
11.3

23.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

7.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

20.30
20.30
44.12
23.78
17.28
17.28
34.12
32.23
40.28
24.71
15.24
17.54
17.20
19.34
22.17
33.00
31.55
24.89
19.66
19.77
21.42
26.34
23.26
18.36
18.12
18.12

19.4
19.4
21.4
8.7
10.7
10.7
9.6
4.3
3.5
12.4
5.4
3.8
3.6
3.4
4.5
10.2
14.8
15.2
5.3
7.8
11.1
7.1
3.0
1.9
3.2
2.7

–
–
44.12
–
17.09
17.09
34.32
32.91
40.28
25.65
15.31
17.57
17.32
19.26
22.04
34.75
31.55
24.89
19.09
20.30
–
–
23.26
18.26
–
18.24

–
–
21.4
–
13.6
13.6
9.8
4.2
3.5
13.8
6.1
5.0
5.3
3.6
4.6
11.5
14.8
15.2
5.9
9.9
–
–
3.0
1.7
–
2.9

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.14
–
17.46
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.59
–
–
–
–
18.91
17.59
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.4
–
3.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.3
–
–
–
–
7.4
5.4
–

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Teachers, except college and university –Continued
Teachers, n.e.c. –Continued
9 ......................................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
9 ......................................................................
Librarians ..............................................................
9 ......................................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
11 ......................................................................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Social workers ......................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Athletes .................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Technical ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

25

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$18.87
17.21
14.02
15.90
21.71
19.83
32.45
33.38
21.10

3.9
3.2
2.0
5.4
10.1
6.7
5.9
8.7
7.9

$18.19
16.59
14.10
–
21.71
19.83
33.36
33.97
22.27

1.6
4.4
2.1
–
10.1
6.7
5.2
8.2
8.8

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

36.39
18.51
19.24
22.27
23.79
31.51
31.47
38.95
50.61
54.68
72.47
39.32
41.60
23.34
25.42
33.57
32.64
39.15
51.30
52.31
72.87
40.13
37.02
48.02
36.56
39.95
56.87
45.53

3.6
7.3
9.6
4.7
4.5
4.3
5.1
3.8
5.6
6.6
19.0
7.0
3.5
18.6
3.8
6.0
6.8
3.9
6.0
4.9
19.4
7.2
5.4
9.5
13.1
8.4
12.9
8.4

37.81
16.85
21.41
22.77
25.42
31.79
33.73
40.47
49.00
55.12
72.53
39.92
41.49
24.18
25.71
33.42
32.51
40.03
49.54
52.67
72.94
40.65
–
49.47
37.74
41.94
56.87
45.53

3.7
9.5
9.8
5.6
3.5
5.0
5.9
4.4
4.8
6.9
19.2
7.5
3.7
19.9
3.9
6.6
7.0
4.8
5.2
5.2
19.6
7.8
–
9.9
12.8
11.0
12.9
8.4

$31.39
–
–
20.45
20.98
30.07
28.05
35.32
55.52
–
–
34.34
42.21
–
–
34.76
–
36.95
56.14
–
–
–
36.68
–
–
–
–
–

9.1
–
–
3.0
5.5
6.1
2.2
5.3
14.0
–
–
5.0
10.1
–
–
10.8
–
5.1
14.1
–
–
–
5.7
–
–
–
–
–

45.14
43.42
49.02
63.96
39.17
22.82
33.48
55.06
55.39
42.39
39.95
39.15
30.64
39.30
44.78
47.77
57.44
40.58
29.06
18.51

7.7
5.2
16.4
8.2
7.5
9.3
5.9
19.8
9.7
10.3
12.9
3.6
6.7
5.5
4.8
4.6
10.4
6.5
6.2
7.3

45.14
43.42
28.19
–
42.29
–
–
–
–
42.91
–
39.35
30.61
39.30
45.58
47.77
57.44
41.62
31.50
16.85

7.7
5.2
11.3
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
10.5
–
3.9
6.9
5.5
5.4
4.6
10.4
6.9
7.0
9.5

–
–
58.74
64.27
30.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.67
–

–
–
9.8
8.2
4.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.5
–

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
Licensed practical nurses –Continued
7 ......................................................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
4 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
9 ......................................................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
11 ......................................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
12 ......................................................................
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
9 ......................................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Management related .................................................
5 ......................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

26

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$19.27
22.02
23.02
28.54
30.75
37.79
44.34
38.19
26.22
22.45
24.67
28.38
33.87
33.46
33.34
31.98

9.7
3.2
5.7
3.8
6.6
11.6
12.2
10.1
4.0
5.2
7.8
4.0
3.8
11.6
14.9
20.8

$21.50
22.39
25.15
29.01
35.61
43.31
45.10
38.90
26.68
22.45
26.97
29.09
33.87
34.73
33.34
–

10.0
3.9
5.8
4.7
9.7
10.6
12.5
10.6
4.3
5.2
7.7
3.8
3.8
13.2
14.9
–

–
$20.79
21.01
27.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
2.3
5.8
5.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

25.77
31.31

6.2
13.6

28.22
31.61

7.3
14.1

23.26
–

6.9
–

20.48
30.90
21.73
22.84
23.25
26.00
49.19

8.6
16.3
11.2
7.4
5.2
4.6
22.6

–
31.90
21.76
–
–
24.93
–

–
20.5
11.5
–
–
3.6
–

19.43
27.76
–
–
–
–
–

8.2
7.4
–
–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
8 ......................................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
3 ......................................................................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Cashiers ...............................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

18.24
8.19
7.07
10.37
11.37
18.01
27.14
67.28
22.95
22.66
50.12
10.66
9.27
18.53
9.87
10.39
10.65
9.70
10.79
11.03
12.10

17.8
3.1
4.6
6.5
5.6
14.0
5.5
32.7
13.9
9.4
34.8
19.8
11.6
18.6
6.3
10.0
5.0
6.8
9.2
13.3
17.4

18.26
8.19
7.07
10.37
11.37
18.01
27.14
67.28
22.95
22.66
50.12
10.66
9.27
18.53
9.87
10.39
10.65
9.70
10.79
11.03
12.10

18.0
3.1
4.6
6.5
5.6
14.0
5.5
32.7
13.9
9.4
34.8
19.8
11.6
18.6
6.3
10.0
5.0
6.8
9.2
13.3
17.4

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................

16.13
8.69
12.86
12.97
15.05
17.00
18.38
21.39
20.21
29.89

2.0
10.2
4.4
2.7
3.0
2.4
3.1
2.3
5.8
8.0

16.02
9.46
12.95
12.68
15.03
16.77
18.37
21.49
20.34
30.02

2.4
8.3
5.1
2.8
3.4
2.9
3.5
2.4
6.5
8.6

16.51
–
12.38
14.41
15.23
17.46
18.45
21.04
–
–

3.2
–
5.6
5.7
5.1
4.1
5.2
5.7
–
–

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Management related –Continued
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

See footnotes at end of table.

27

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$17.13
22.32
21.11
20.24
16.46
18.60
16.14
19.18
19.92
22.47
19.39
19.29
14.50
14.49
14.10
14.10
17.16
13.18
12.19
12.33
21.12
18.57
18.01
11.77
8.12
12.94
15.22
12.25
14.56
14.49
16.53
14.18
17.35
16.89
19.44
15.82
13.39
13.25
15.33
15.54
13.88
12.15
18.97
12.89
11.92
12.61
14.51

5.2
7.3
5.5
10.0
8.7
2.7
3.1
4.1
5.4
6.1
8.3
3.7
4.1
4.8
4.6
4.2
6.3
6.9
8.3
7.8
5.0
10.0
9.3
6.3
3.3
8.4
12.6
2.4
3.6
5.4
3.1
5.4
4.0
7.1
5.4
8.7
4.2
3.2
6.2
7.8
11.1
7.3
10.3
5.3
8.6
13.5
7.3

$17.04
22.70
–
20.24
16.45
18.55
15.96
18.29
20.35
23.43
20.38
–
15.44
–
14.48
–
17.32
13.30
12.19
12.63
21.12
18.57
–
–
–
–
–
12.25
14.67
14.49
16.23
14.18
16.96
16.92
19.18
15.82
13.39
13.25
15.44
15.71
13.88
11.87
–
12.64
11.92
12.61
14.51

9.8
9.0
–
10.0
8.8
3.3
3.4
4.7
6.2
5.2
14.7
–
7.4
–
8.7
–
10.5
7.1
8.3
8.3
5.0
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
2.4
4.3
5.4
3.1
5.4
3.3
7.7
6.5
8.7
4.2
3.2
6.3
7.9
11.1
7.8
–
5.9
8.6
13.5
7.3

$17.21
20.91
–
–
–
18.76
17.07
–
–
–
–
–
13.84
13.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.33
8.12
–
–
–
–
–
20.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

4.5
6.1
–
–
–
3.7
7.1
–
–
–
–
–
2.5
8.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.2
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
6.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

26.43
16.45
17.46
15.92
17.71
14.45
5.69
12.33
11.96
14.93
15.77
16.51
10.65

23.8
7.5
10.5
7.7
9.1
5.8
10.5
6.3
2.6
6.6
4.5
14.0
3.6

26.43
16.38
17.51
–
17.71
14.42
–
12.21
11.70
14.95
14.43
–
10.65

23.8
8.3
10.6
–
9.1
4.9
–
7.5
4.0
7.4
5.0
–
3.6

–
–
–
17.22
–
14.49
–
–
12.39
14.70
17.21
–
–

–
–
–
4.3
–
14.2
–
–
3.0
4.2
4.4
–
–

White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including clerical –Continued
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
8 ......................................................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
2 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
5 ......................................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
4 ......................................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
2 ......................................................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
4 ......................................................................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
4 ......................................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
4 ......................................................................
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

28

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Administrative support, including clerical –Continued
Bank tellers –Continued
3 ......................................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
4 ......................................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................

$10.34
12.30
12.45
11.56
14.67
14.37
11.23
15.41
11.43
13.41
13.75
17.32
21.47

3.9
4.5
6.9
7.4
14.3
9.6
10.2
4.6
5.2
3.9
6.2
8.8
5.5

$10.34
12.14
12.59
11.56
14.53
–
–
15.66
11.43
13.22
–
17.49
21.47

3.9
5.2
7.9
7.4
14.8
–
–
6.7
5.2
3.7
–
9.9
5.5

–
–
–
–
–
$15.94
13.25
14.92
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
5.2
4.8
1.5
–
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

16.34
9.81
10.07
13.37
15.02
17.71
19.28
23.59
22.88
31.14
13.09

3.2
5.1
8.2
6.6
4.8
5.0
6.5
3.0
4.7
10.0
15.9

15.64
9.33
9.52
13.05
13.89
17.75
18.79
23.83
21.75
31.41
13.09

3.7
4.8
8.4
7.4
5.3
5.7
7.8
3.8
5.3
11.2
15.9

19.85
15.23
17.68
15.17
18.72
17.46
22.24
22.96
25.48
–
–

4.4
9.4
6.9
16.0
1.8
6.5
5.5
4.6
5.3
–
–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
7 ......................................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
7 ......................................................................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
7 ......................................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
7 ......................................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................

22.79
12.00
16.03
18.79
19.71
24.45
23.19
31.14
18.39
28.51
24.48
24.65
18.69
20.33
20.66

3.5
11.3
9.7
6.0
12.4
2.9
5.0
10.0
23.4
6.1
4.1
4.0
5.7
4.6
7.0

22.62
12.00
15.12
18.79
19.02
25.00
21.99
31.41
18.39
–
–
–
18.69
21.04
–

4.3
11.3
11.7
6.0
14.1
3.6
6.3
11.2
23.4
–
–
–
5.7
5.3
–

23.45
–
–
–
–
23.03
25.48
–
–
–
24.79
–
–
–
–

3.8
–
–
–
–
5.4
5.3
–
–
–
3.8
–
–
–
–

32.76
26.84
27.11
25.75
26.25
23.83
14.50
22.37

15.5
14.8
9.9
10.7
10.8
12.1
6.5
9.0

–
26.41
–
27.60
27.60
23.83
14.50
22.63

–
18.6
–
10.9
10.9
12.1
6.5
10.3

–
–
–
18.18
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
10.3
–
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Punching and stamping press operators ..............

11.63
9.90
8.69
10.47
11.33
15.49
15.09
17.41
10.39

4.6
6.7
5.2
6.7
12.0
8.2
6.5
13.7
4.7

11.60
9.84
8.69
10.47
11.29
15.48
15.09
17.41
10.39

4.6
6.9
5.2
6.7
12.1
8.4
6.5
13.7
4.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

White collar –Continued

See footnotes at end of table.

29

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — 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
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
5 ......................................................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
2 ......................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

$10.80
11.58
7.73
10.88
13.34
13.30
18.05
9.25
7.56
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.4
25.7
8.1
6.9
7.0
4.6
8.7

$10.80
11.58
7.73
10.47
13.34
13.30
18.05
9.25
7.56
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.8
25.7
8.1
6.9
7.0
4.6
8.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Truck drivers .........................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
4 ......................................................................

16.89
15.09
16.13
18.37
24.19
17.37
17.53
16.59
20.27
15.07
15.74

5.3
10.6
6.1
3.8
8.5
5.1
10.9
3.9
7.2
9.4
12.1

16.10
14.85
15.23
18.63
–
16.79
15.96
16.65
20.27
12.02
–

7.2
12.5
7.1
5.7
–
5.1
11.8
3.9
7.2
5.6
–

$18.61
–
18.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.70
–

7.5
–
2.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
1.9
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
1 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................

13.85
9.80
12.00
14.82
16.48
19.12
12.59

6.4
7.3
12.6
11.5
6.7
8.2
7.8

13.20
9.05
11.57
14.97
14.78
19.61
–

7.8
6.8
15.1
12.6
8.0
8.1
–

16.97
15.48
–
–
18.53
–
–

4.8
9.7
–
–
2.6
–
–

18.82
10.89
12.84
11.73
8.73
16.26
13.29
9.77
15.38
11.90
12.49
10.01
14.42

9.7
9.7
12.8
20.6
8.7
18.6
7.9
8.2
12.9
22.2
10.2
13.8
16.7

–
10.89
12.83
11.73
8.73
16.26
13.29
9.77
15.38
11.90
11.68
7.96
14.07

–
9.7
12.9
20.6
8.7
18.6
7.9
8.2
12.9
22.2
13.4
13.0
20.8

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.78
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.6
–
–

Service .................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Protective service .....................................................

13.97
10.56
8.45
10.41
11.90
17.33
20.09
24.56
22.74
29.94
30.17
14.60
20.55

4.5
9.5
4.5
4.5
5.1
10.4
5.4
7.1
4.5
8.2
4.1
4.6
6.4

10.97
10.37
8.06
9.49
11.09
17.55
15.47
25.97
–
–
–
14.55
11.96

4.8
10.7
4.4
4.6
5.7
14.0
7.6
20.7
–
–
–
5.0
11.1

20.18
12.45
10.46
13.94
14.71
16.75
22.32
24.09
22.56
29.94
29.77
–
24.91

4.0
7.0
2.3
5.3
4.9
4.5
2.6
5.7
4.5
8.2
4.0
–
3.7

Blue collar –Continued

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Service –Continued
Protective service –Continued
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
10 ......................................................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
9 ......................................................................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Food service .............................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Other food service ..................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related ......................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
3 ......................................................................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$10.06
14.42
15.42
21.66
25.19
22.79
29.95
29.77
33.05
31.12
25.48
28.28

8.4
8.1
12.7
4.2
5.6
4.7
8.2
4.0
6.0
4.7
5.9
7.5

$9.44
13.72
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

8.7
9.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

$13.81
–
19.20
22.89
25.63
22.60
29.95
29.77
33.05
31.12
25.48
28.28

8.7
–
5.6
2.5
6.4
4.6
8.2
4.0
6.0
4.7
5.9
7.5

22.92
22.50
11.72
9.60
14.05
14.53
9.10
7.34
7.24
8.56
13.01
12.69
6.47
6.11
5.69
6.20
5.98
4.70
6.14
5.83
10.16
7.90
8.02
10.03
12.37
12.69
15.24
12.17
12.11
8.57
12.25
10.86
8.11
7.72
7.78
8.92
10.52
10.88
8.36
9.78
11.16
14.41
17.92
17.21
12.49
10.15
11.19
14.16
10.26

6.3
3.0
11.1
8.6
8.9
15.4
6.9
10.5
10.5
7.9
6.1
9.2
13.2
23.8
20.2
16.3
14.3
16.2
19.6
26.1
6.5
10.3
11.7
9.2
7.3
9.2
8.8
9.1
5.5
6.0
6.7
6.8
7.9
12.2
13.3
19.3
5.4
5.4
6.0
7.0
7.2
3.9
8.0
2.0
3.5
5.0
8.3
1.5
5.8

–
–
11.59
9.44
–
–
8.73
7.01
6.24
8.35
13.26
12.69
6.22
6.11
4.86
6.20
5.98
4.70
6.14
4.18
9.90
7.48
7.08
9.84
12.43
12.69
15.22
12.02
–
8.57
12.29
10.86
7.21
7.36
6.55
–
9.76
10.88
8.36
9.50
10.66
12.96
–
–
11.47
10.15
11.04
–
9.56

–
–
11.8
8.7
–
–
7.9
11.3
9.3
8.2
7.4
9.2
13.3
23.8
15.9
16.3
14.3
16.2
19.6
10.4
7.8
11.1
10.8
10.0
10.0
9.2
9.8
10.4
–
6.0
7.1
6.8
8.0
13.1
10.2
–
5.1
5.4
6.0
7.2
7.6
3.5
–
–
4.2
5.0
8.9
–
5.3

22.92
22.50
14.28
–
–
–
11.57
–
11.04
11.85
12.22
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.46
–
–
11.85
12.22
–
–
13.12
–
–
–
–
10.91
–
–
–
15.43
–
–
12.75
14.39
15.80
–
–
15.04
–
–
–
15.55

6.3
3.0
3.1
–
–
–
4.1
–
4.8
4.4
1.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.1
–
–
4.4
1.5
–
–
6.0
–
–
–
–
2.9
–
–
–
2.3
–
–
3.3
.7
3.7
–
–
2.3
–
–
–
2.9

See footnotes at end of table.

31

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Service –Continued
Health service –Continued
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants
–Continued
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
1 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Personal service .......................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
4 ......................................................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................
3 ......................................................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$8.19
9.62
10.67
14.33
17.07
13.04
12.19
10.23
13.85
16.73
20.59

5.8
7.3
7.7
4.2
2.0
6.4
11.2
10.2
6.8
5.5
11.3

$8.18
9.33
10.54
12.84
–
12.26
12.06
10.11
12.03
14.97
–

5.7
7.5
7.8
3.6
–
8.8
12.6
10.9
10.6
6.8
–

–
$12.73
13.81
15.76
–
15.23
13.26
–
14.90
–
–

–
3.6
.5
3.9
–
5.6
8.5
–
8.3
–
–

18.85
13.98
14.13
12.12
13.99
12.41
11.63
14.20
13.96
7.26
9.59
11.25
11.08
12.69
9.25
11.48
9.50
8.97
11.45
11.96

17.3
6.2
9.6
3.7
12.3
8.6
14.3
7.9
12.4
7.1
3.6
3.8
9.1
16.4
7.3
8.6
4.6
5.2
15.3
5.1

–
13.98
14.13
12.12
13.99
11.05
11.37
11.05
14.90
7.24
8.74
–
9.88
–
–
10.33
8.74
8.67
11.32
–

–
6.2
9.6
3.7
12.3
13.8
17.0
10.6
16.8
7.4
5.3
–
9.0
–
–
7.9
3.9
4.4
16.8
–

–
–
–
–
–
15.11
13.26
15.08
11.90
–
–
11.80
13.68
–
–
–
10.74
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
6.0
8.5
8.7
6.5
–
–
3.7
9.6
–
–
–
4.6
–
–
–

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

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

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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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ............................................................

$23.13
23.13

2.3
2.2

$22.00
21.94

3.2
3.0

$26.33
26.35

2.3
2.3

White collar .........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

27.96
9.65
12.87
12.86
14.84
17.41
18.54
22.27
27.12
34.15
31.97
40.42
47.57
54.92
64.55
33.71
28.28
9.89
13.39
13.09
15.14
17.27
18.57
22.38
27.12
34.17
32.27
40.49
47.59
54.92
64.55
31.87

2.4
8.9
4.8
2.8
2.6
2.4
3.0
2.8
5.3
2.6
4.2
7.0
4.1
4.4
10.4
8.9
2.2
10.5
4.4
2.8
2.8
2.3
3.0
2.8
6.2
2.6
4.2
7.1
4.1
4.4
10.4
6.4

27.25
9.65
12.82
12.57
14.74
17.35
18.83
22.31
25.40
30.32
33.87
42.50
46.59
55.41
65.18
36.81
27.62
9.89
13.42
12.77
15.07
17.15
18.88
22.36
24.98
30.28
34.39
42.67
46.61
55.41
65.18
34.49

3.1
8.9
5.5
2.9
2.9
2.8
3.5
2.4
2.5
2.9
4.5
8.6
3.8
5.0
11.6
9.3
2.8
10.5
5.0
3.0
3.1
2.5
3.6
2.4
2.7
2.9
4.3
8.9
3.8
5.0
11.6
6.3

29.96
–
13.23
14.62
15.61
17.60
17.72
22.16
32.09
38.08
28.08
33.90
51.27
51.34
59.65
25.19
30.02
–
13.23
14.62
15.61
17.60
17.72
22.43
32.09
38.08
28.08
33.90
51.27
51.34
59.65
25.19

3.2
–
4.0
5.7
4.9
4.7
4.2
8.5
15.3
3.8
6.4
3.8
11.5
2.7
5.7
9.8
3.2
–
4.0
5.7
4.9
4.7
4.2
8.6
15.3
3.8
6.4
3.8
11.5
2.7
5.7
9.8

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
11 ......................................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

33.45
35.25
20.08
22.73
24.64
32.38
35.25
33.03
35.39
43.81
54.97
57.70
35.25
33.08
27.78
30.09
34.85
36.93
36.26
29.80
26.19
35.44
33.41
39.64
31.43
37.01
44.35
56.20
36.07

2.6
2.0
5.8
16.0
5.4
8.7
3.2
6.4
3.6
4.6
5.8
2.5
5.3
4.2
5.7
8.0
5.9
5.2
5.7
5.0
8.7
7.0
6.8
4.2
5.5
7.7
6.5
3.5
9.3

32.06
33.90
20.35
21.89
24.62
27.28
28.29
35.63
36.28
43.93
55.52
57.32
36.22
35.09
30.45
34.92
34.85
36.42
36.26
29.80
–
37.73
33.41
39.72
31.43
37.12
44.30
56.20
36.07

3.7
2.7
5.9
20.7
3.3
3.8
3.2
6.1
4.3
5.4
7.2
2.8
7.7
3.8
5.1
3.2
5.9
5.6
5.7
5.0
–
4.9
6.8
4.3
5.5
7.8
6.5
3.5
9.3

35.81
37.11
–
–
24.69
40.50
38.99
28.11
32.51
43.18
52.74
59.19
33.47
26.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

3.3
3.0
–
–
15.4
11.2
3.9
11.9
6.4
4.3
3.3
5.9
3.3
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

33

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$39.80
31.43
37.01
44.35
56.20
34.39
36.52
37.82
29.34
25.65
27.76
26.52
26.70
31.42
43.58
60.20
34.27
31.45
18.12
25.02
47.37
59.98
32.90
29.21
27.25
28.66
27.96
31.00
19.16
24.06
47.40
31.81
33.16
42.84
52.36
52.32
45.66
41.10
49.17
40.62
25.31
44.81
43.39
42.42
44.44
45.11
43.82
49.97
41.89
42.79
42.61
39.60
43.31
38.25
27.62
28.22
28.02
28.22
34.46

4.4
5.5
7.7
6.5
3.5
12.0
7.6
9.9
2.7
4.0
3.3
3.0
10.9
6.8
17.2
2.6
12.7
9.7
13.9
21.4
20.5
2.8
22.1
2.1
3.8
3.0
2.5
7.2
4.1
3.0
4.9
4.4
7.5
8.0
9.9
3.3
3.6
10.0
8.5
3.4
14.1
8.4
2.5
3.9
5.0
4.1
5.8
6.7
5.3
2.9
3.4
6.3
4.1
15.8
12.0
20.2
12.1
20.2
12.8

$39.88
31.43
37.12
44.30
56.20
34.39
36.98
37.82
30.48
25.78
28.11
27.41
31.73
32.18
43.76
–
41.72
35.72
19.93
–
47.37
–
–
29.57
27.41
29.02
28.55
–
–
–
48.13
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.36
23.88
31.44
29.45
29.59
–
–
32.78
–
–
–
–
23.20
–
–
31.94
–
31.94
–
28.06

4.4
5.5
7.8
6.5
3.5
12.0
7.8
9.9
3.0
4.2
3.6
3.1
10.1
7.2
17.9
–
16.1
11.0
14.8
–
20.5
–
–
2.3
4.1
3.3
2.4
–
–
–
10.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.0
3.5
18.8
10.7
6.9
–
–
19.0
–
–
–
–
16.7
–
–
15.6
–
15.6
–
21.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$24.46
23.82
25.54
23.14
16.19
28.40
–
–
–
20.63
–
–
–
–
–
27.20
–
–
25.57
–
–
–
46.86
–
–
37.01
44.08
51.98
44.99
40.48
–
42.59
25.97
48.54
44.08
44.97
–
45.56
45.83
–
42.31
43.93
44.03
40.73
43.65
–
24.83
–
25.32
–
39.33

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
7.5
4.1
6.3
16.4
17.0
–
–
–
13.5
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
–
–
7.1
–
–
–
2.6
–
–
9.8
8.9
3.9
3.1
11.2
–
3.4
19.6
5.7
2.5
3.7
–
4.3
5.4
–
5.5
2.4
2.7
6.3
4.2
–
15.0
–
15.6
–
11.1

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Mathematical and computer scientists –Continued
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, special education .................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
9 ......................................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
9 ......................................................................
Librarians ..............................................................
9 ......................................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
See footnotes at end of table.

34

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$32.48
36.27
24.41
18.31
19.29
24.35
30.69
24.50
18.33
20.62
24.02
30.69
45.21
45.21

8.5
15.0
4.3
6.9
8.8
6.1
6.4
4.4
7.0
11.8
5.8
6.4
10.9
10.9

–
–
$23.04
–
–
26.43
–
23.07
–
–
25.02
–
55.68
55.68

–
–
5.0
–
–
6.7
–
4.9
–
–
5.9
–
8.8
8.8

–
$40.16
25.38
–
23.46
23.78
–
25.41
–
23.46
23.78
–
36.25
36.25

–
10.3
7.1
–
9.1
6.8
–
7.1
–
9.1
6.8
–
6.1
6.1

33.56
30.25
24.40
33.78
37.20
40.28
31.93
33.52

9.1
5.7
6.1
15.6
8.8
3.5
30.6
11.1

34.07
30.25
24.40
35.85
38.18
40.28
32.16
33.52

9.4
5.7
6.1
16.1
9.3
3.5
31.3
11.1

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

20.30
20.30
44.12
23.78
34.12
32.23
40.28
25.33
15.67
17.70
17.26
19.12
22.19
33.77
31.55
25.21
19.70
19.77
21.42
17.92
18.27
17.40
18.00
17.65
14.24
21.71
19.68
32.45
33.38
21.10

19.4
19.4
21.4
8.7
9.6
4.3
3.5
13.1
5.8
4.1
3.1
3.5
4.5
10.6
14.8
15.2
5.3
7.8
11.1
1.6
3.6
1.4
1.4
3.4
2.0
10.1
7.8
5.9
8.7
7.9

–
–
44.12
–
34.32
32.91
40.28
26.41
15.68
17.84
17.44
19.23
22.04
35.97
31.55
25.21
19.09
20.30
–
18.04
–
–
18.00
17.03
14.24
21.71
19.68
33.36
33.97
22.27

–
–
21.4
–
9.8
4.2
3.5
14.5
6.4
5.6
4.8
3.8
4.6
12.0
14.8
15.2
5.8
9.9
–
1.7
–
–
1.4
5.0
2.0
10.1
7.8
5.2
8.2
8.8

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.09
–
17.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.59
–
–
17.21
17.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.5
–
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.3
–
–
4.7
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

36.43
18.51
19.24
22.27

3.6
7.3
9.6
4.7

37.81
16.85
21.42
22.77

3.7
9.5
9.8
5.6

31.52
–
–
20.45

9.2
–
–
3.0

White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Social scientists and urban planners –Continued
11 ......................................................................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Social workers ......................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Technical ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
4 ......................................................................
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
9 ......................................................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

35

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$23.77
31.58
31.47
38.95
50.61
54.87
72.47
39.39
41.60
23.34
25.42
33.57
32.64
39.15
51.30
52.47
72.87
40.13
37.02
48.02
36.56
39.95
56.87
45.53

4.5
4.3
5.1
3.8
5.6
6.7
19.0
7.0
3.6
18.6
3.8
6.0
6.8
3.9
6.0
5.1
19.4
7.2
5.4
9.5
13.1
8.4
12.9
8.4

$25.42
31.79
33.73
40.47
49.00
55.32
72.53
39.92
41.48
24.18
25.71
33.42
32.51
40.03
49.54
52.85
72.94
40.65
–
49.47
37.74
41.94
56.87
45.53

3.5
5.0
5.9
4.4
4.8
7.1
19.2
7.5
3.8
19.9
3.9
6.6
7.0
4.8
5.2
5.4
19.6
7.8
–
9.9
12.8
11.0
12.9
8.4

$20.85
30.49
28.05
35.32
55.52
–
–
34.89
42.21
–
–
34.76
–
36.95
56.14
–
–
–
36.68
–
–
–
–
–

5.4
6.0
2.2
5.3
14.0
–
–
4.4
10.1
–
–
10.8
–
5.1
14.1
–
–
–
5.7
–
–
–
–
–

45.14
43.42
49.02
63.96
39.10
22.82
33.48
55.06
42.39
39.95
39.15
30.64
39.30
44.78
47.77
57.44
40.58
29.12
18.51
19.27
22.02
22.97
28.68
30.75
37.79
44.34
38.35
26.31
22.45
24.67
28.82
33.87
33.46
33.34
31.98

7.7
5.2
16.4
8.2
7.5
9.3
5.9
19.8
10.3
12.9
3.6
6.7
5.5
4.8
4.6
10.4
6.5
6.2
7.3
9.7
3.2
5.8
3.8
6.6
11.6
12.2
10.0
4.1
5.2
7.8
3.6
3.8
11.6
14.9
20.8

45.14
43.42
28.19
–
42.27
–
–
–
42.91
–
39.35
30.61
39.30
45.58
47.77
57.44
41.62
31.50
16.85
21.51
22.39
25.15
29.01
35.61
43.31
45.10
38.90
26.68
22.45
26.97
29.09
33.87
34.73
33.34
–

7.7
5.2
11.3
–
8.5
–
–
–
10.5
–
3.9
6.9
5.5
5.4
4.6
10.4
6.9
7.0
9.5
10.0
3.9
5.8
4.7
9.7
10.6
12.5
10.6
4.3
5.2
7.7
3.8
3.8
13.2
14.9
–

–
–
58.74
64.27
30.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.74
–
–
20.79
20.87
27.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
9.8
8.2
4.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.6
–
–
2.3
5.7
5.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
11 ......................................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
12 ......................................................................
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
9 ......................................................................
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
13 ......................................................................
14 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Management related .................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
12 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
11 ......................................................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Management analysts ..........................................
See footnotes at end of table.

36

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$25.77
31.31

6.2
13.6

$28.22
31.61

7.3
14.1

$23.26
–

6.9
–

20.48
30.99
21.73
22.84
23.25
26.00
49.78

8.6
16.3
11.2
7.4
5.2
4.6
22.3

–
31.91
21.77
–
–
24.93
–

–
20.5
11.5
–
–
3.6
–

19.43
28.08
–
–
–
–
–

8.2
7.2
–
–
–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
8 ......................................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
4 ......................................................................
Cashiers ...............................................................
3 ......................................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

22.99
11.82
12.47
18.68
27.14
67.28
24.56
22.66
50.12
12.75
10.85
11.12
14.12
13.89
13.85

19.3
8.6
5.1
14.5
5.5
32.7
12.5
9.4
34.8
33.4
5.1
5.2
6.2
8.2
17.0

23.11
11.82
12.47
18.68
27.14
67.28
24.56
22.66
50.12
12.75
10.85
11.12
14.12
13.89
13.85

19.5
8.6
5.1
14.5
5.5
32.7
12.5
9.4
34.8
33.4
5.1
5.2
6.2
8.2
17.0

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
8 ......................................................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
5 ......................................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................

16.48
9.89
13.39
13.10
15.11
16.96
18.40
21.38
20.21
29.89
17.51
22.32
21.11
20.24
16.46
18.65
16.23
19.19
19.92
22.47
19.39
19.51
14.80
14.49
14.35
17.41
13.96
21.12
18.57
18.01
14.07
12.25

2.0
10.5
4.4
2.9
2.9
2.6
3.1
2.3
5.8
8.0
4.8
7.3
5.5
10.0
8.7
2.7
3.2
4.1
5.4
6.4
8.3
3.6
4.2
4.8
5.1
6.3
8.0
5.0
10.0
9.3
7.0
2.4

16.32
9.89
13.42
12.78
15.03
16.81
18.39
21.48
20.34
30.02
17.88
22.70
–
20.24
16.45
18.62
16.06
18.29
20.35
23.47
20.38
–
15.44
–
14.48
17.79
13.96
21.12
18.57
–
15.72
12.25

2.5
10.5
5.0
3.0
3.3
2.9
3.5
2.4
6.5
8.6
9.3
9.0
–
10.0
8.8
3.4
3.5
4.7
6.2
5.4
14.7
–
7.4
–
8.7
10.9
8.0
5.0
10.0
–
7.2
2.4

17.06
–
13.23
14.61
15.62
17.33
18.45
21.04
–
–
17.21
20.91
–
–
–
18.76
17.07
–
–
–
–
–
14.25
13.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

2.5
–
4.0
5.8
5.1
5.5
5.2
5.7
–
–
4.5
6.1
–
–
–
3.7
7.1
–
–
–
–
–
3.1
8.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Management related –Continued
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

See footnotes at end of table.

37

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$14.56
14.49
16.94
14.96
17.35
16.89
19.44
15.82
13.44
13.33
15.74
15.90
13.88
12.48
18.97
12.99
12.16
15.59
14.51

3.6
5.4
2.9
5.2
4.0
7.1
5.4
8.7
4.3
3.4
6.1
7.6
11.1
8.2
10.3
5.2
8.3
8.0
7.3

$14.67
14.49
16.65
14.96
16.96
16.92
19.18
15.82
13.44
13.33
15.88
16.09
13.88
–
–
12.74
12.16
15.59
14.51

4.3
5.4
2.9
5.2
3.3
7.7
6.5
8.7
4.3
3.4
6.2
7.8
11.1
–
–
5.8
8.3
8.0
7.3

–
–
$20.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
6.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

26.43
16.73
17.51
15.92
17.71
15.21
12.47
12.18
15.08
15.77
16.59
10.62
10.35
12.27
12.42
11.46
14.67
11.96
10.80
15.57
13.32
13.75
17.46
21.47

23.8
7.8
10.6
7.7
9.1
4.5
7.4
2.5
6.8
4.5
13.9
4.1
4.2
4.6
7.1
7.6
14.3
10.8
10.9
4.8
4.0
6.2
9.4
5.5

26.43
16.66
17.51
–
17.71
14.67
12.47
12.06
15.14
14.43
–
10.62
10.35
12.10
–
11.46
14.53
–
–
15.93
13.11
–
17.68
21.47

23.8
8.6
10.6
–
9.1
5.2
8.8
4.1
7.7
5.0
–
4.1
4.2
5.4
–
7.6
14.8
–
–
7.0
3.8
–
10.7
5.5

–
–
–
17.22
–
16.43
–
–
14.70
17.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.07
–
14.92
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
4.3
–
6.7
–
–
4.2
4.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.6
–
1.5
–
–
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

16.68
9.94
10.45
13.53
15.32
17.73
19.44
23.63
22.88
31.14
13.09

3.2
5.3
8.4
6.9
4.8
5.0
6.5
3.0
4.7
10.0
15.9

15.99
9.40
9.87
13.22
14.11
17.75
18.95
23.88
21.75
31.41
13.09

3.7
5.0
8.7
7.7
5.7
5.7
7.9
3.8
5.3
11.2
15.9

19.97
16.32
17.68
15.17
18.72
17.57
22.24
22.96
25.48
–
–

4.4
7.5
6.9
16.0
1.8
7.0
5.5
4.6
5.3
–
–

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................

22.82
12.00
16.03
18.79

3.5
12.2
9.7
6.0

22.65
12.00
15.12
18.79

4.3
12.2
11.7
6.0

23.45
–
–
–

3.8
–
–
–

White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including clerical –Continued
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
4 ......................................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
4 ......................................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
2 ......................................................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
4 ......................................................................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
4 ......................................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
4 ......................................................................
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
3 ......................................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
4 ......................................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................

See footnotes at end of table.

38

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$19.71
24.45
23.19
31.14
18.39
28.51
24.48
24.65
18.69
20.33
20.66

12.4
2.9
5.0
10.0
23.4
6.1
4.1
4.0
5.7
4.6
7.0

$19.02
25.00
21.99
31.41
18.39
–
–
–
18.69
21.04
–

14.1
3.6
6.3
11.2
23.4
–
–
–
5.7
5.3
–

–
$23.03
25.48
–
–
–
24.79
–
–
–
–

–
5.4
5.3
–
–
–
3.8
–
–
–
–

32.76
26.84
27.11
25.75
26.25
23.83
14.50
22.37

15.5
14.8
9.9
10.7
10.8
12.1
6.5
9.0

–
26.41
–
27.60
27.60
23.83
14.50
22.63

–
18.6
–
10.9
10.9
12.1
6.5
10.3

–
–
–
18.18
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
10.3
–
–
–
–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
5 ......................................................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
2 ......................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

11.63
9.89
8.69
10.47
11.33
15.49
15.09
17.41
10.39

4.6
6.8
5.2
6.7
12.0
8.2
6.5
13.7
4.7

11.60
9.84
8.69
10.47
11.29
15.48
15.09
17.41
10.39

4.6
6.9
5.2
6.7
12.1
8.4
6.5
13.7
4.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.85
13.34
13.30
18.05
9.25
7.56
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.6
25.7
8.1
6.9
7.0
4.6
8.7

10.80
11.58
7.73
10.47
13.34
13.30
18.05
9.25
7.56
12.57

4.8
12.8
7.8
8.8
25.7
8.1
6.9
7.0
4.6
8.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Transportation and material moving ............................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Truck drivers .........................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
4 ......................................................................

17.66
15.23
16.95
18.51
24.90
17.74
17.91
16.73
20.27
15.86
17.44

4.8
10.6
3.9
3.8
8.4
4.9
9.7
4.3
7.2
9.8
7.8

17.13
15.05
16.08
18.63
–
17.15
–
16.80
20.27
–
–

6.4
12.4
5.1
5.7
–
4.8
–
4.4
7.2
–
–

18.66
–
18.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

7.7
–
2.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......

14.43
10.02
12.73
15.47
16.97
19.12
13.56

6.5
8.2
12.5
11.9
6.0
8.2
6.5

13.76
9.10
12.34
15.74
15.38
19.61
–

8.2
7.4
15.3
12.9
8.5
8.1
–

17.21
–
–
–
18.53
–
–

4.5
–
–
–
2.6
–
–

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
7 ......................................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
7 ......................................................................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
7 ......................................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
7 ......................................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................

See footnotes at end of table.

39

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
–Continued
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
1 ......................................................................
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................

$18.82
10.89
14.78
14.03
9.32
11.90
12.53
10.04
14.45

9.7
9.7
12.0
9.9
7.7
22.2
10.9
15.5
16.8

–
$10.89
14.77
14.03
9.32
11.90
11.63
–
–

–
9.7
12.1
9.9
7.7
22.2
15.0
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
$15.78
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
3.6
–
–

Service .................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Protective service .....................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
10 ......................................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
10 ......................................................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
9 ......................................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Food service .............................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Other food service ..................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................

15.07
11.94
8.71
10.70
12.00
17.57
20.32
24.66
22.74
29.94
30.17
14.60
21.68
9.55
14.05
15.42
21.66
25.19
22.79
29.95
29.77
33.05
31.12
25.48
28.28
22.50
12.28
9.23
14.05
14.53
10.72
8.56
7.92
9.68
13.95
12.91
7.93
6.82
11.66
8.48
8.50
11.50
13.30
12.91
15.24
12.32
13.76
9.01

4.8
8.7
6.2
5.6
5.7
10.7
4.9
7.1
4.5
8.2
4.1
4.6
5.9
11.9
8.9
12.7
4.2
5.6
4.7
8.2
4.0
6.0
4.7
5.9
7.5
3.0
13.2
11.3
8.9
15.4
7.8
13.9
13.9
11.0
10.2
9.8
18.3
18.3
6.7
15.9
12.8
5.7
13.6
9.8
8.8
10.4
7.4
11.2

11.73
11.80
8.57
9.68
11.22
17.88
15.81
26.47
–
–
–
14.55
12.58
8.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.13
8.98
–
–
10.51
8.18
7.34
9.46
14.18
12.91
7.53
6.82
11.56
7.93
8.37
11.44
13.46
12.91
15.23
12.16
13.94
8.39

5.5
10.0
6.0
5.7
6.4
14.5
6.4
21.1
–
–
–
5.0
13.0
11.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.2
11.3
–
–
8.7
15.6
13.7
11.8
11.6
9.8
19.1
18.3
7.6
18.1
13.1
6.6
16.3
9.8
9.9
11.0
7.7
13.0

21.30
13.16
11.57
14.14
14.82
16.75
22.41
24.09
22.56
29.94
29.77
–
25.44
–
–
19.20
22.89
25.63
22.60
29.95
29.77
33.05
31.12
25.48
28.28
22.50
14.70
–
–
–
12.50
–
–
11.85
–
–
–
–
12.44
–
–
11.85
–
–
–
–
–
11.58

3.5
7.9
4.6
5.7
5.2
4.5
2.6
5.7
4.5
8.2
4.0
–
3.5
–
–
5.6
2.5
6.4
4.6
8.2
4.0
6.0
4.7
5.9
7.5
3.0
1.4
–
–
–
3.9
–
–
4.4
–
–
–
–
4.7
–
–
4.4
–
–
–
–
–
2.7

Blue collar –Continued

See footnotes at end of table.

40

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Service –Continued
Food service –Continued
Other food service –Continued
Food preparation, n.e.c. –Continued
1 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Personal service .......................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
4 ......................................................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................
3 ......................................................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$8.38
11.99
10.60
8.32
9.92
11.12
14.47
17.92
17.21
12.83
10.25
11.92
14.18
10.31
8.15
9.72
10.61
14.40
17.07
14.07
13.36
11.89
14.05
16.73
20.59

20.7
2.9
6.0
6.4
7.7
7.6
4.3
8.0
2.0
3.1
5.5
4.6
1.6
6.3
6.0
8.0
8.2
4.6
2.0
4.1
7.8
2.7
6.8
5.5
11.3

$7.90
–
9.77
8.31
9.63
10.58
12.79
–
–
11.82
10.25
11.82
–
9.55
8.14
9.41
10.48
12.63
–
13.49
13.34
11.93
12.22
14.97
–

23.3
–
5.6
6.4
8.0
8.1
3.5
–
–
3.7
5.5
5.1
–
5.8
6.0
8.2
8.3
3.3
–
6.1
8.8
3.0
10.0
6.8
–

–
–
$15.44
–
12.76
14.40
15.80
–
–
15.06
–
–
–
15.56
–
12.73
–
15.76
–
15.34
13.54
–
14.90
–
–

–
–
2.3
–
3.4
.7
3.7
–
–
2.4
–
–
–
2.9
–
3.6
–
3.9
–
5.7
9.5
–
8.3
–
–

22.15
13.92
14.13
12.12
13.60
13.70
13.05
11.45
14.23
15.40
11.32
11.32
11.84
8.89
8.76
11.83
12.17

7.7
6.3
9.6
3.7
12.5
5.6
10.5
2.0
8.0
14.7
3.9
10.3
7.7
4.9
4.7
15.9
5.4

–
13.92
14.13
12.12
13.60
12.62
12.96
–
10.98
16.02
–
10.06
10.77
8.73
–
11.73
–

–
6.3
9.6
3.7
12.5
11.1
12.8
–
11.3
18.3
–
10.7
6.2
4.6
–
17.5
–

–
–
–
–
–
15.22
13.54
–
15.08
13.28
11.79
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
6.2
9.5
–
8.7
7.5
3.8
–
–
–
–
–
–

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

4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"
around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix
A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall
occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

41

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ............................................................

$11.74
12.50

4.1
4.7

$11.43
12.31

4.6
5.6

$13.20
13.20

8.1
8.1

White collar .........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
White collar excluding sales .........................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
5 ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................

14.70
7.76
7.56
9.69
12.29
17.37
16.16
19.04
26.66
27.79
17.72
18.24
7.23
9.42
11.59
14.26
18.12
16.16
19.04
26.66
27.79
17.72

5.8
6.4
5.9
4.1
12.1
4.9
9.2
4.5
5.9
4.2
30.5
6.9
14.1
5.2
2.8
14.1
3.4
9.2
4.5
5.9
4.2
30.5

14.56
8.28
7.34
9.64
12.15
16.02
16.14
19.07
26.39
28.43
18.04
19.35
–
9.35
11.64
14.69
18.99
16.14
19.07
26.39
28.43
18.04

6.5
2.3
6.1
4.2
14.5
18.3
9.2
6.1
6.8
4.1
34.5
8.0
–
6.4
2.9
18.1
14.3
9.2
6.1
6.8
4.1
34.5

15.32
–
9.59
–
13.00
–
–
18.97
–
20.13
–
15.32
–
9.59
–
13.00
–
–
18.97
–
20.13
–

13.1
–
8.1
–
5.1
–
–
5.4
–
10.4
–
13.1
–
8.1
–
5.1
–
–
5.4
–
10.4
–

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
6 ......................................................................
7 ......................................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Health related ...........................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
8 ......................................................................
9 ......................................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
7 ......................................................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Substitute 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. ............................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Athletes .................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Technical ......................................................................
6 ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

26.05
29.34
12.55
17.81
28.23
28.47
26.09
–
32.66
28.92
28.61
63.60
28.37
29.44
28.16
–
18.14
16.23
23.24
13.57
–
–
–
–

6.1
6.5
10.6
7.9
5.8
4.4
36.1
–
5.8
6.5
4.4
9.1
3.7
7.1
4.8
–
10.2
8.5
33.6
4.4
–
–
–
–

26.48
30.14
–
18.39
27.99
28.81
28.31
–
32.66
28.92
28.57
63.60
28.40
29.44
28.11
–
19.86
–
23.28
–
–
–
–
–

6.4
6.5
–
8.5
6.4
4.3
41.3
–
5.9
6.5
4.5
9.1
3.8
7.1
4.8
–
13.0
–
34.1
–
–
–
–
–

23.02
24.07
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.17
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

16.5
21.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

25.27
26.38
14.94
14.94
18.05
16.73
20.42
14.59

32.8
36.4
10.4
10.4
6.5
11.3
5.7
2.2

26.94
28.75
–
–
17.82
16.73
19.38
14.76

37.2
41.8
–
–
6.7
11.3
4.5
1.9

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

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

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

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

8.02

3.2

8.02

3.2

–

–

See footnotes at end of table.

42

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Sales –Continued
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Cashiers ...............................................................
3 ......................................................................

$8.14
6.52
8.57
8.64
8.70
7.44
8.22
8.04
7.80
7.84

3.4
4.3
3.7
7.5
5.6
8.1
2.3
3.8
3.6
3.7

$8.14
6.52
8.57
8.64
8.70
7.44
8.22
8.04
7.80
7.84

3.4
4.3
3.7
7.5
5.6
8.1
2.3
3.8
3.6
3.7

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Library clerks ........................................................
General office clerks .............................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

12.44
7.23
9.42
11.62
14.44
9.96
10.09
8.48
12.59

9.9
14.1
5.2
3.0
15.3
5.2
3.7
21.1
9.2

12.04
–
9.35
11.68
14.91
9.82
–
11.52
12.59

10.7
–
6.4
3.1
19.3
6.8
–
5.5
9.2

$13.13
–
9.59
–
12.97
–
9.15
–
–

18.4
–
8.1
–
5.8
–
5.5
–
–

Blue collar ...........................................................................
1 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................

10.33
8.82
9.85
12.64

6.9
8.9
5.3
4.6

10.22
8.81
9.85
12.64

7.2
9.8
5.3
4.6

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

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

–

–

–

–

–

–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........

–

–

–

–

–

–

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

11.04
13.34

12.3
10.5

10.75
13.34

13.0
10.5

–
–

–
–

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........

9.70
8.79
7.73
7.48
10.81

7.2
9.3
2.9
6.1
6.7

9.76
8.84
7.73
7.48
10.81

7.4
10.2
2.9
6.1
6.7

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

Service .................................................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
3 ......................................................................
Food service .............................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
2 ......................................................................
Other food service ..................................................
1 ......................................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................

8.52
7.03
7.94
9.28
11.01
10.70
10.94
6.71
5.71
6.78
6.66
4.87
4.58
6.16
4.83
4.27
7.65
6.97
7.74
7.06
7.94

4.4
5.6
8.0
7.2
6.7
6.6
5.6
8.6
9.5
15.4
7.8
13.3
21.0
10.6
16.8
20.9
8.8
4.9
16.1
13.0
4.1

7.83
6.86
6.52
8.82
9.93
–
–
5.90
5.54
5.33
6.66
4.87
4.58
6.16
4.83
4.27
6.62
–
5.87
7.06
7.94

5.3
6.4
8.3
7.8
6.1
–
–
6.7
10.2
10.1
7.8
13.3
21.0
10.6
16.8
20.9
5.9
–
6.3
13.0
4.1

11.07
–
10.20
12.43
13.96
13.14
–
10.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.70
–
–
–
–

3.9
–
2.1
.0
10.7
6.7
–
2.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.4
–
–
–
–

White collar –Continued

See footnotes at end of table.

43

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
Total
Occupation and level

Service –Continued
Food service –Continued
Other food service –Continued
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
2 ......................................................................
Health service ...........................................................
2 ......................................................................
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
3 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
2 ......................................................................
4 ......................................................................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................

Private industry

State and local
government

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

Mean

Relative
error5
(percent)

$7.43
7.78
9.61
8.79
8.26
11.65
9.18
9.67
8.50
11.37
8.02
7.74
9.58
9.68
9.54
10.17

10.7
16.6
6.1
5.6
8.8
5.7
11.5
6.9
10.3
6.3
4.8
3.3
4.4
4.1
7.9
4.9

$6.22
–
9.58
8.79
8.24
11.58
9.04
9.66
8.48
11.33
7.91
7.60
8.64
–
–
–

5.6
–
6.2
5.6
8.8
5.9
11.8
6.9
10.3
6.4
4.4
2.8
6.7
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$10.26
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
–
–
–

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.

44

Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 National
Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ........................................................

$23.13
23.13

$11.74
12.50

$21.27
21.47

$22.88
23.12

$22.04
22.38

$23.96
16.86

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

27.96
28.28

14.70
18.24

26.80
27.52

27.06
27.89

26.86
27.79

31.11
20.58

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

33.45
35.25
25.33
36.43
22.99
16.48

26.05
29.34
18.05
–
8.02
12.44

35.14
36.15
29.44
30.50
11.94
16.86

31.17
33.81
21.82
37.91
19.91
15.61

33.05
34.97
24.71
36.41
13.56
16.14

–
–
–
–
33.89
15.49

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

16.68
22.82
11.63
17.66
14.43

10.33
–
–
11.04
9.70

18.01
24.38
11.94
17.55
15.78

13.46
19.28
11.33
14.51
10.80

16.34
22.82
11.77
16.34
13.90

16.35
–
–
19.24
–

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

15.07

8.52

15.69

10.38

13.98

–

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

2.3
2.2

4.1
4.7

2.8
2.8

3.5
3.2

2.2
2.2

23.0
9.5

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

2.4
2.2

5.8
6.9

3.4
3.4

3.2
2.7

2.1
2.1

30.1
12.4

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

2.6
2.0
13.1
3.6
19.3
2.0

6.1
6.5
6.5
–
3.2
9.9

4.1
2.6
26.6
10.0
8.7
2.2

2.7
2.8
5.2
3.6
20.2
3.0

2.5
1.9
12.4
3.6
7.1
2.1

–
–
–
–
33.7
2.2

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

3.2
3.5
4.6
4.8
6.5

6.9
–
–
12.3
7.2

3.7
3.4
6.1
6.1
6.8

4.8
6.0
6.8
9.7
7.1

3.2
3.5
4.6
5.6
6.5

13.0
–
–
7.4
–

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

4.8

4.4

5.6

5.9

4.5

–

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.

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Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation
Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
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 ..............................................

$20.94
21.12

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

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

26.20
27.17

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

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

31.64
33.64
25.65
37.81
18.26
16.02

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

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

15.64
22.62
11.60
16.10

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

13.20

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

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

10.97

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

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

3.1
2.9

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

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

3.1
2.7

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

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

3.6
2.6
13.8
3.7
18.0
2.4

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

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

3.7
4.3
4.6
7.2

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

7.8

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

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

4.8

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 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.

46

Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private
industry, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001
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 ........................................................

$20.94
21.12

$17.03
17.26

$21.91
22.06

$20.21
20.23

$23.56
23.67

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

26.20
27.17

21.61
23.04

27.14
27.95

25.72
26.99

28.33
28.63

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

31.64
33.64
25.65
37.81
18.26
16.02

28.94
31.31
19.27
33.96
14.55
14.53

32.00
33.97
26.29
38.50
19.58
16.40

29.92
33.47
24.10
37.17
19.98
15.99

32.85
34.13
27.94
40.15
17.18
16.73

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

15.64
22.62
11.60
16.10
13.20

13.80
17.78
10.44
18.47
11.53

16.38
24.69
12.18
15.35
13.73

15.12
23.78
11.45
14.72
13.49

18.65
25.63
13.85
16.41
14.36

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

10.97

10.00

11.19

10.10

12.09

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

3.1
2.9

4.2
4.2

3.6
3.4

6.0
5.3

4.5
4.5

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

3.1
2.7

4.2
4.0

3.4
3.0

6.4
5.0

3.8
3.8

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

3.6
2.6
13.8
3.7
18.0
2.4

4.3
4.4
10.2
7.0
16.3
4.2

4.0
2.8
14.8
4.0
22.2
2.8

4.6
5.4
7.9
5.3
25.3
5.5

5.1
3.3
24.0
6.3
13.6
2.7

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

3.7
4.3
4.6
7.2
7.8

7.0
6.4
8.1
12.6
13.3

4.4
4.1
5.6
7.0
9.1

5.8
6.7
5.7
8.2
12.7

6.8
5.1
13.1
11.0
5.6

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

4.8

8.9

5.5

5.2

9.0

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
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.

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Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

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

$8.30
8.54

$12.14
12.42

$18.21
18.42

$27.09
27.52

$41.67
41.74

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

11.42
12.44

15.51
16.52

22.72
23.59

34.66
35.79

46.71
47.53

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Athletes .................................................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................

17.06
20.12
23.37
27.78
24.04
18.51
23.37
25.82
25.82
21.29
22.87
19.72
11.08
23.67
22.82
16.69
20.29
28.17
28.17
21.95
24.43
35.77
37.87
26.96
10.27
22.22
19.77
19.77
14.38
19.37
18.07
18.34
33.08
33.08

22.27
25.69
26.19
28.30
25.67
21.87
29.22
31.78
31.73
24.01
24.01
24.42
13.30
26.00
29.65
17.71
22.45
35.54
34.14
37.20
36.02
37.74
41.67
40.87
10.27
23.85
19.77
19.77
28.56
28.56
20.94
20.94
33.08
33.08

30.33
33.05
31.92
33.46
30.21
22.27
32.97
39.45
40.87
37.54
41.63
27.73
23.27
28.79
34.55
19.72
24.54
46.27
45.65
40.87
42.72
43.61
41.67
40.87
10.27
46.25
20.73
20.84
35.72
44.15
23.90
23.90
44.10
44.10

41.28
43.02
39.74
43.78
31.75
35.25
42.26
46.14
46.14
44.82
44.82
32.22
55.86
32.08
34.55
20.63
25.15
56.72
55.38
46.66
49.35
49.56
44.27
40.87
14.38
46.25
43.39
43.39
47.53
47.53
27.07
27.07
51.02
51.02

50.16
51.83
44.49
49.92
35.17
35.62
45.81
56.02
56.54
51.79
51.79
39.50
68.30
35.79
34.55
21.76
25.15
64.36
59.53
52.03
52.97
56.78
51.83
48.65
14.38
46.25
44.50
44.50
47.53
47.53
30.36
30.36
64.74
64.74

17.40
18.90

20.49
22.08

29.37
27.23

43.27
43.27

49.28
43.27

14.25
17.40
18.20
8.67
20.88
14.42
12.17
21.85
17.00
13.66
14.20
14.75
21.38
15.51

14.25
28.87
20.49
11.23
24.90
16.97
14.52
21.97
17.25
14.48
16.86
16.03
29.48
18.26

16.00
34.78
23.62
18.78
35.10
18.65
19.49
22.17
18.14
16.97
24.10
20.73
34.07
18.98

20.00
55.77
24.44
19.00
45.61
24.72
24.62
23.48
19.00
17.91
25.65
22.35
38.11
24.72

42.56
68.38
33.78
19.00
45.61
34.07
27.21
24.96
20.29
22.76
30.97
23.45
38.11
26.63

19.28
23.66
30.57
24.29

24.22
30.42
36.29
33.85

33.12
38.93
37.00
41.25

45.00
49.35
39.24
52.92

56.41
61.68
43.68
67.50

24.13
24.40
24.04
24.96
23.50

37.11
28.13
29.28
29.68
30.09

47.88
51.87
33.65
38.54
37.75

50.77
71.74
46.00
59.84
46.33

58.17
71.74
62.25
60.76
52.81

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
See footnotes at end of table.

48

Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$17.40
18.96
15.40
16.61

$20.61
21.57
25.42
16.61

$25.51
25.89
28.25
31.89

$31.95
30.89
42.56
43.01

$43.59
34.29
44.19
50.33

20.79
20.34

20.79
21.35

23.65
24.36

28.66
45.50

32.00
46.21

15.72
18.41

15.72
20.61

19.28
25.51

22.61
34.70

27.71
71.43

Sales ................................................................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

6.82
12.51
14.00
6.68
11.86
7.40
6.77
7.42

8.08
17.00
15.00
6.81
13.91
7.95
7.11
8.89

12.22
21.82
33.30
8.29
14.83
9.45
8.08
9.00

21.82
24.12
99.90
10.33
25.32
11.24
11.49
11.58

33.30
46.26
99.90
12.56
30.00
12.79
15.32
19.47

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

10.39
16.37
16.21
13.82
13.24
16.87
11.10
11.92
13.64
9.50
15.27
12.44
8.50
11.09
11.05
12.50
10.85
12.02
11.74
11.33
8.75
12.87
9.74
8.30

12.44
17.44
16.21
13.87
15.75
18.70
13.08
12.39
14.97
10.56
17.29
15.79
10.50
11.58
13.38
13.70
13.50
12.12
12.81
11.88
10.35
13.63
9.97
8.30

15.51
22.49
19.42
16.35
18.29
18.70
14.41
14.09
16.94
11.34
22.61
17.35
10.50
12.54
13.60
16.69
14.40
12.92
16.45
11.88
11.33
18.74
12.36
10.36

18.75
25.32
21.49
16.35
21.02
19.65
15.78
15.38
19.64
14.80
23.51
20.20
13.34
12.54
15.02
18.36
19.95
13.19
17.99
15.66
12.47
24.30
15.09
15.49

22.61
32.06
31.81
26.18
23.89
22.75
18.50
15.43
19.68
22.05
24.34
24.72
17.00
13.56
18.96
20.77
21.25
16.33
18.49
16.80
16.81
25.51
17.00
18.14

12.20
10.53
10.73
13.88
9.46
9.42
10.25
11.19
9.33
11.00

13.87
12.99
16.52
13.88
11.63
9.83
10.50
11.19
12.03
12.40

23.85
17.14
16.52
18.75
13.97
10.36
11.46
14.60
14.05
15.06

26.64
18.36
16.52
19.98
19.24
11.89
13.71
19.03
17.86
16.88

50.21
22.39
19.43
21.61
20.04
12.93
14.30
19.66
17.86
21.06

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

8.00

10.62

15.53

21.31

26.30

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................

13.95
20.36
21.36
14.48
15.98

17.67
26.19
22.49
17.00
17.07

22.49
27.92
26.15
17.85
20.13

27.08
32.06
26.30
20.75
22.10

31.50
33.40
26.30
21.68
22.12

20.55

20.55

36.67

42.00

42.00

Occupation3

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Management related .................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$13.50
16.03
15.84
11.45
14.96

$16.33
18.34
16.00
11.45
17.44

$31.50
27.77
22.19
13.66
23.33

$33.39
34.35
34.50
16.00
28.13

$40.42
35.00
36.54
18.12
28.23

Occupation3

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

6.96
7.14

8.31
10.20

10.62
10.85

13.63
12.75

17.69
12.92

9.65
8.34
6.44
8.72
7.09
8.20
6.94
8.21

10.00
8.79
6.44
8.72
7.09
9.36
6.96
9.94

10.18
9.65
7.28
9.55
8.71
13.92
8.00
10.81

11.65
14.90
7.61
12.89
22.68
15.28
10.86
15.25

13.85
16.50
10.73
14.87
22.68
18.42
13.20
15.63

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................

10.82
11.44
16.58
10.16

12.22
15.70
16.58
10.88

17.21
17.21
22.94
12.88

20.25
19.31
22.94
18.99

22.94
22.77
22.94
19.62

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

7.25
8.50

9.16
11.12

13.57
12.62

18.36
13.84

22.40
17.39

9.58
6.69
6.65
7.65
7.84
5.38

17.00
9.84
7.58
8.67
8.00
9.19

18.40
10.09
11.62
12.68
9.00
13.57

22.90
12.22
15.05
17.32
14.30
16.62

28.23
14.17
23.06
19.77
22.51
17.87

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Other food service ..................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related ......................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............

7.20
8.50
29.04
21.21

8.11
13.43
29.04
21.21

11.88
21.21
32.35
22.90

17.45
25.67
35.46
25.89

24.21
32.35
38.72
38.05

15.50
19.10
6.62
4.00
3.30
3.30
3.03
5.45
9.00
8.94
6.77
7.81
5.40
7.40
9.25
7.40

20.42
21.15
7.20
5.58
3.30
3.30
3.50
6.50
11.25
9.01
7.20
8.71
5.58
7.44
9.99
7.44

24.33
22.15
10.23
8.70
4.74
4.74
4.00
9.66
15.35
11.93
9.03
12.08
6.51
9.25
12.96
8.68

26.02
25.06
15.24
12.02
8.61
8.61
8.74
12.11
19.70
14.67
9.03
15.35
10.46
13.15
14.61
12.93

26.02
25.69
18.47
15.35
12.79
8.70
12.79
15.35
19.70
17.86
9.66
18.63
12.10
15.15
14.61
15.15

See footnotes at end of table.

50

Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$7.70

$9.58

$12.67

$16.40

$17.45

8.00
8.25
7.70
7.95
7.18
8.58
8.11
5.15

15.35
11.43
8.94
8.46
8.46
9.54
8.11
7.40

19.95
15.20
11.89
10.29
8.46
10.53
9.59
10.29

21.82
17.45
16.40
14.24
10.89
14.22
10.29
15.86

26.97
17.45
17.24
26.62
10.89
15.26
10.29
16.02

Occupation3

Service –Continued
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................
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.

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Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private
industry, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April
2001
Private industry
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

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

$7.70
7.70

$10.81
11.10

$16.79
17.06

$26.00
26.10

$40.14
40.87

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

10.73
12.10

14.65
15.86

21.92
23.24

32.69
33.85

46.26
46.71

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Designers .............................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Athletes .................................................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................

17.25
19.75
25.67
27.78
24.04
10.00
29.22
25.82
25.92
21.29
22.87
21.51
19.25
24.79
29.65
30.56
14.01
18.98
19.68
10.95
19.67
19.67
14.23
15.58
15.58
46.16
46.16

21.38
25.15
29.22
28.30
25.67
18.51
32.26
31.78
31.78
23.62
24.01
25.15
20.60
26.10
31.00
32.69
18.38
21.95
19.83
13.36
20.84
20.84
14.38
18.17
18.34
48.21
48.21

28.12
31.00
32.97
33.46
30.21
21.87
35.39
39.45
40.87
38.39
41.63
28.12
24.07
28.99
34.55
46.27
23.85
24.43
31.53
26.79
30.08
30.08
28.82
23.90
23.90
51.02
51.02

36.57
40.00
40.08
43.78
31.75
35.62
43.00
46.14
46.14
44.82
44.82
32.22
59.13
32.08
34.55
64.36
31.53
37.59
41.67
29.95
43.39
43.39
41.75
27.43
27.43
64.74
64.74

49.28
51.59
45.81
49.92
35.17
39.78
45.81
56.02
56.54
51.79
51.79
39.50
68.30
35.79
34.55
67.18
39.59
40.14
48.61
31.79
43.39
43.39
43.41
30.78
30.78
64.74
64.74

17.40
18.90
17.40
8.67
20.77
14.37
12.17
21.85
17.00
13.29
14.20
14.75
24.67
18.26

20.17
22.08
28.87
10.30
22.25
17.01
14.42
21.97
17.41
14.37
16.86
16.03
29.48
18.26

30.02
27.23
34.78
18.78
35.10
19.49
19.49
22.17
18.00
14.99
24.10
20.73
34.07
20.00

43.27
43.27
55.77
19.00
45.61
24.72
24.62
23.48
18.65
18.53
25.65
22.35
38.11
24.72

51.59
43.27
68.38
19.00
45.61
34.07
26.04
24.96
20.09
22.76
30.97
23.45
38.11
26.63

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

20.03
23.50
24.12

25.00
29.94
33.85

34.29
39.38
46.71

46.52
49.35
58.08

58.17
60.65
67.50

24.13
21.92
24.04
24.96
23.50
17.42
18.96
15.40

37.11
21.92
29.28
31.43
30.00
21.73
21.73
25.36

47.88
25.06
38.52
42.29
37.83
26.55
26.39
34.10

50.77
28.13
49.67
59.84
46.52
35.77
30.89
42.56

58.17
48.08
69.47
60.76
56.03
47.36
34.58
44.19

22.94
20.34
18.00

23.65
21.35
19.88

24.51
24.36
24.94

32.00
45.50
35.77

38.40
46.21
71.43

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

6.82

8.08

11.97

21.82

33.30

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private
industry, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April
2001 — Continued
Private industry
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$12.51
14.00
6.68
11.86
7.40
6.77
7.42

$17.00
15.00
6.81
13.91
7.95
7.11
8.89

$21.82
33.30
8.29
14.83
9.45
8.08
9.00

$24.12
99.90
10.33
25.32
11.24
11.49
11.58

$46.26
99.90
12.56
30.00
12.79
15.32
19.47

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

10.25
16.37
16.21
13.82
12.96
11.10
13.64
9.50
15.27
11.09
11.05
12.50
10.85
12.02
11.74
11.33
8.75
9.74
8.30

12.20
17.06
16.21
13.87
15.51
14.41
13.64
10.77
17.29
11.58
13.00
13.62
13.50
12.12
12.81
11.88
10.35
9.97
8.30

14.87
22.48
19.42
16.35
17.83
14.62
17.41
12.25
22.61
12.54
13.60
16.69
14.40
12.92
16.45
11.88
11.33
10.83
10.36

18.96
26.58
21.49
16.35
21.40
17.16
19.64
14.80
23.51
12.54
17.14
18.27
19.95
13.19
17.99
15.66
12.32
14.19
15.49

23.23
35.58
31.81
26.18
24.85
20.19
22.98
22.05
24.34
13.56
18.96
20.11
21.25
16.33
18.49
16.80
16.81
17.00
18.14

12.20
10.53
13.88
9.67
9.42
10.25
11.19
10.92

13.87
12.30
13.88
11.37
9.83
10.38
11.19
11.70

23.85
16.00
18.75
13.73
10.36
11.23
11.19
14.64

26.64
20.09
19.98
17.61
11.89
14.13
19.66
18.53

50.21
22.39
21.61
20.33
12.93
14.53
19.66
23.61

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

7.50

10.15

14.17

19.94

26.13

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Stationary engineers .............................................

13.50
14.48
17.07
13.50
18.34
15.84
11.45
14.96

16.79
17.00
19.07
13.50
18.34
16.00
11.45
17.44

22.19
17.85
19.07
25.55
27.77
22.19
13.66
23.33

27.72
20.75
22.12
33.39
34.35
34.50
16.00
28.13

33.39
21.68
27.08
40.42
37.00
36.54
18.12
28.23

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

6.96
7.14

8.31
10.20

10.62
10.85

13.63
12.75

17.69
12.92

9.65
8.34
6.44
8.72
7.09
8.20
6.94
8.21

10.00
8.79
6.44
8.72
7.09
9.36
6.96
9.94

10.18
9.65
7.28
9.55
8.71
13.92
8.00
10.81

11.65
14.90
7.61
11.02
22.68
15.28
10.86
15.25

13.85
16.50
10.73
14.87
22.68
18.42
13.20
15.63

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................

10.16
10.82
16.58

11.53
15.70
16.58

16.74
17.21
22.94

18.77
17.56
22.94

22.94
22.52
22.94

White collar –Continued
Sales –Continued
Supervisors, sales ................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

See footnotes at end of table.

53

Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private
industry, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April
2001 — Continued
Private industry
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

Transportation and material moving –Continued
Bus drivers ............................................................

$10.16

$10.88

$10.88

$12.88

$12.88

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

6.91
6.69
6.65
7.65
7.84
5.38

8.67
9.84
7.58
8.67
8.00
9.10

12.00
10.09
11.62
12.68
9.00
9.65

17.87
12.22
15.05
17.32
14.30
15.70

22.40
14.17
23.06
19.77
22.51
17.87

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Other food service ..................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related ......................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................

6.61
6.62
6.62
3.30
3.30
3.30
3.03
5.40
9.00
8.94
6.77
7.81
5.40
7.40
8.50
7.40
7.62
8.25
7.05
7.40
6.83
8.11
5.15

7.44
7.20
7.20
5.40
3.30
3.30
3.50
6.50
11.25
9.01
7.20
8.71
5.45
7.44
9.92
7.44
8.25
11.43
7.70
8.11
8.58
8.11
7.40

9.42
10.23
10.23
7.69
4.35
4.74
4.00
9.00
12.11
9.69
9.03
12.08
6.50
8.50
11.70
8.29
11.70
15.20
9.63
9.54
9.54
8.32
9.29

13.27
15.70
15.70
11.25
8.33
8.61
4.00
12.22
19.70
14.67
9.03
15.35
8.06
11.91
12.96
11.79
16.40
17.45
14.63
14.35
11.22
9.55
15.87

16.40
18.47
18.47
15.35
8.74
8.70
4.33
17.31
19.70
17.86
9.66
18.63
12.22
13.71
14.37
13.62
17.45
17.45
16.40
33.04
13.18
9.59
16.02

Blue collar –Continued

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.

54

Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001
State and local
government
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

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

$12.48
12.48

$16.52
16.52

$21.57
21.57

$32.35
32.35

$44.10
44.15

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

14.09
14.09

17.45
17.75

25.96
26.01

40.87
40.87

48.65
48.65

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

16.97
20.73
22.27
–
–
11.36
9.89
20.03
28.17
28.17
28.32
36.02
36.49
39.18
26.96
19.77
19.77
28.56
28.56
20.94
20.94
33.08
33.08

25.30
26.96
23.37
–
–
13.30
11.08
21.11
35.94
34.14
39.73
39.66
38.35
41.67
40.87
19.77
19.77
28.56
28.58
20.94
20.94
33.08
33.08

39.04
40.07
23.59
–
–
22.45
13.30
28.14
46.96
45.65
41.67
45.70
45.45
41.74
40.87
20.73
20.73
47.53
47.53
25.69
25.69
33.08
33.08

45.45
45.70
26.19
–
–
30.16
13.30
30.99
55.38
55.38
47.55
50.15
50.30
46.55
40.87
20.73
20.73
47.53
47.53
27.07
27.07
40.07
40.07

51.83
52.03
30.45
–
–
38.19
54.02
35.70
58.73
58.73
52.59
57.40
56.78
51.83
48.65
44.50
44.50
47.53
47.53
30.36
30.36
44.10
44.10

18.00
15.51
18.27
14.64

23.62
16.97
18.30
15.16

24.44
16.97
18.30
19.32

24.54
19.32
30.65
19.75

28.57
26.13
33.83
25.72

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Management related .................................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

18.89
29.68
30.57
38.57
19.30
15.72

20.85
32.73
36.29
51.87
29.47
19.28

28.25
37.00
37.00
54.76
30.90
22.33

35.93
49.47
39.24
71.74
30.90
28.25

51.87
71.74
44.25
71.74
33.49
31.95

20.79

20.79

20.79

26.97

28.56

15.72
20.54

15.72
23.61

19.28
25.58

19.29
34.70

27.71
34.70

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

–

–

–

–

–

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Library clerks ........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

12.03
17.44
16.19
10.68
8.50
14.41
16.52
5.15
12.03
14.26

14.05
17.44
17.21
12.77
8.50
18.32
16.52
11.97
13.65
14.26

16.52
22.49
18.29
14.09
10.00
21.67
16.52
15.42
17.86
15.06

18.70
23.70
21.02
14.98
12.03
21.67
16.52
19.26
17.86
15.06

21.02
23.70
21.02
15.88
12.03
25.15
19.43
19.26
17.86
15.06

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

12.89

16.54

19.07

22.49

26.30

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Electricians ...........................................................

16.03
21.93
14.04

21.36
22.49
14.04

24.33
26.30
16.03

26.30
26.30
18.43

27.85
26.30
35.00

See footnotes at end of table.

55

Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and
local government, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA, April 2001 — Continued
State and local
government
Occupation3
10

25

Median
50

75

90

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........

–

–

–

–

–

Transportation and material moving ............................
Bus drivers ............................................................

$12.09
17.67

$16.08
18.99

$18.99
18.99

$21.54
18.99

$23.90
19.62

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

13.07
13.07

13.86
15.83

17.39
15.87

19.07
16.92

19.07
17.99

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Other food service ..................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................

10.89
19.29
29.04
21.21

13.49
21.21
29.04
21.21

21.21
23.60
32.35
22.90

24.33
26.29
35.46
25.89

29.15
34.18
38.72
38.05

15.50
19.10
13.43
10.35
–
10.35
11.93
10.35
12.82
14.61
12.72
11.69
11.32
9.47
10.29

20.42
21.15
13.80
10.35
–
10.35
11.93
10.35
14.44
14.61
13.84
12.02
12.27
10.29
10.29

24.33
22.15
14.38
11.25
–
11.25
11.93
10.35
14.61
14.61
15.15
13.49
13.49
10.53
10.29

26.02
25.06
15.24
12.67
–
12.05
13.25
11.35
16.98
14.61
16.98
17.30
17.30
12.95
10.29

26.02
25.69
15.76
13.25
–
13.38
15.30
12.10
18.85
17.01
19.45
19.76
19.76
17.61
10.63

Blue collar –Continued

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.

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Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

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

$9.42
9.44

$13.19
13.28

$19.23
19.26

$28.25
28.27

$42.41
42.56

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

12.50
12.87

16.52
16.94

23.61
24.04

35.79
36.24

47.53
47.88

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ...................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Other post-secondary teachers ............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. ............................................
Designers .............................................................
Painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist
printmakers .....................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Public relations specialists ....................................
Professional, n.e.c. ...............................................
Technical ......................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. .............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................

17.40
20.60
23.37
27.78
24.04
18.51
23.37
25.82
25.82
21.29
22.87
19.39
11.08
24.68
22.82
16.69
20.29
28.30
28.17
24.43
28.32
35.77
37.87
26.96
22.22
19.77
19.77
14.38
19.37
18.17
18.34
33.08
33.08

22.90
25.86
26.19
28.30
25.67
22.27
29.22
31.78
31.73
24.01
24.01
24.09
13.30
26.10
29.65
16.69
22.62
35.54
34.14
37.74
37.20
37.74
41.67
40.87
23.85
19.77
19.77
28.56
28.56
20.94
20.94
33.08
33.08

30.94
33.08
31.92
33.46
30.21
22.27
32.97
39.45
40.87
37.54
41.63
27.09
23.15
28.99
34.55
19.72
24.54
47.08
45.65
40.87
45.58
43.61
41.67
40.87
46.25
20.73
20.84
35.72
44.15
23.90
23.90
44.10
44.10

41.67
43.27
39.74
43.78
31.75
35.25
42.26
46.14
46.14
44.82
44.82
32.22
54.02
32.08
34.55
20.63
25.15
57.81
55.38
46.66
50.15
49.56
44.27
40.87
46.25
43.39
43.39
47.53
47.53
27.07
27.07
51.02
51.02

50.16
52.03
44.49
49.92
35.17
35.62
45.81
56.02
56.54
51.79
51.79
39.44
68.30
35.70
34.55
20.63
25.15
64.36
59.53
52.03
52.97
56.78
51.83
48.65
46.25
44.50
44.50
47.53
47.53
30.36
30.36
64.74
64.74

18.20
22.08

22.08
27.23

30.02
38.46

43.27
43.27

45.61
43.27

14.25
17.40
18.20
20.88
14.64
12.17
16.28
14.37
14.20
14.75
21.38
15.51

14.25
28.87
20.49
24.90
16.97
14.52
17.25
14.77
16.86
16.03
29.48
18.26

16.00
34.78
23.62
35.10
18.91
19.49
17.80
16.97
24.10
20.73
34.07
18.98

20.00
55.77
24.44
45.61
24.72
24.62
18.53
18.59
25.65
23.45
38.11
24.72

42.56
68.38
33.78
45.61
34.07
26.04
20.09
22.76
30.97
23.45
38.11
26.63

19.28
23.66
30.57
24.29

24.22
30.42
36.29
33.85

33.12
38.57
37.00
41.25

45.00
49.35
39.24
52.92

56.41
61.68
43.68
67.50

24.13
24.40
24.04
24.96
23.50
17.40
18.96
15.40

37.11
28.13
29.28
29.68
30.09
20.61
21.57
25.42

47.88
51.87
33.65
38.54
37.75
25.51
26.15
28.25

50.77
71.74
46.00
59.84
46.33
31.95
30.89
42.56

58.17
71.74
62.25
60.76
52.81
43.59
34.29
44.19

Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ...............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ....................
Management related .................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
See footnotes at end of table.

57

Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$16.61

$16.61

$31.89

$43.01

$50.33

20.79
20.34

20.79
21.35

23.65
24.36

28.66
45.50

32.00
46.21

15.72
18.52

15.72
20.61

19.28
25.51

22.61
34.70

27.71
71.43

Sales ................................................................................
Supervisors, sales ................................................
Sales, other business services .............................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. .............................................

8.89
13.55
14.00
6.68
7.88
11.13
8.89

11.54
17.09
15.00
6.68
8.97
11.85
8.89

15.32
21.82
33.30
8.00
10.64
12.80
11.54

25.32
25.11
99.90
10.47
12.22
17.50
13.98

38.65
46.26
99.90
38.65
13.54
17.85
24.18

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ...........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks, except postal service .........................
Messengers ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators ...................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .....
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Bank tellers ...........................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

10.83
16.37
16.21
13.82
13.24
16.87
11.10
13.64
10.56
15.27
12.44
11.86
11.09
11.05
12.67
10.85
12.02
12.14
11.33
8.75
12.87
9.90
8.55

12.81
17.44
16.21
13.87
15.86
18.70
13.73
16.94
11.34
17.29
15.79
12.03
11.58
13.38
13.82
13.50
12.25
12.81
11.88
11.33
13.63
10.64
13.00

15.79
22.49
19.42
16.35
18.29
18.70
14.62
16.94
13.57
22.61
17.35
13.59
12.54
13.60
16.79
14.40
13.09
16.45
11.88
12.30
18.74
13.75
14.66

19.24
25.32
21.49
16.35
21.02
19.65
15.78
19.64
14.84
23.51
20.20
17.00
12.54
15.02
18.39
19.95
14.15
17.99
15.66
15.65
24.30
15.09
17.86

22.98
32.06
31.81
26.18
23.89
22.75
18.50
19.68
22.05
24.34
24.72
18.67
13.56
18.96
20.77
21.25
16.33
18.49
16.80
16.81
25.51
17.00
24.69

12.20
10.53
10.73
13.88
10.76
9.42
10.25
11.19
6.60
11.00

13.87
12.99
16.52
13.88
11.97
9.83
10.50
11.19
9.33
12.47

23.85
17.35
16.52
18.75
14.65
10.36
11.46
14.60
12.03
15.06

26.64
20.09
16.52
19.98
19.26
12.20
13.71
19.03
13.76
17.97

50.21
22.39
19.43
21.61
20.11
12.93
14.30
19.66
15.25
23.61

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

8.17

10.86

15.87

21.61

26.30

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ...........................
Supervisors, electricians and power transmission
installers .........................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Supervisors, production ........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..

13.95
20.36
21.36
14.48
15.98

17.67
26.19
22.49
17.00
17.07

22.49
27.92
26.15
17.85
20.13

27.08
32.06
26.30
20.75
22.10

31.50
33.40
26.30
21.68
22.12

20.55
13.50
16.03
15.84
11.45

20.55
16.33
18.34
16.00
11.45

36.67
31.50
27.77
22.19
13.66

42.00
33.39
34.35
34.50
16.00

42.00
40.42
35.00
36.54
18.12

Occupation3

White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued
Management related –Continued
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ..................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ..................................

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$14.96

$17.44

$23.33

$28.13

$28.23

Occupation3

Blue collar –Continued
Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. ..................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. .............
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..

6.96
7.14

8.31
10.20

10.62
10.85

13.63
12.75

17.69
12.92

9.65
8.34
6.44
8.72
7.09
8.20
6.94
8.21

10.00
8.79
6.44
8.72
7.09
9.36
6.96
9.94

10.18
9.65
7.28
9.55
8.71
13.92
8.00
10.81

11.65
14.90
7.61
12.89
22.68
15.28
10.86
15.25

13.85
16.50
10.73
14.87
22.68
18.42
13.20
15.63

Transportation and material moving ............................
Truck drivers .........................................................
Driver-sales workers .............................................
Bus drivers ............................................................

10.88
11.53
16.58
10.88

13.95
16.85
16.58
10.88

17.56
17.56
22.94
18.99

20.37
19.70
22.94
18.99

22.94
22.77
22.94
19.62

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. ................................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ....................

7.38
12.00

9.44
12.00

14.29
12.62

18.57
14.08

22.40
17.39

9.58
6.69
7.22
7.55
7.84
5.38

17.00
9.84
11.30
8.67
8.00
9.19

18.40
10.09
14.29
13.53
9.00
13.57

22.90
12.22
18.36
18.57
14.30
16.92

28.23
14.17
23.06
19.77
22.51
17.87

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police, except public service .............
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Other food service ..................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ...........
Cooks ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............

7.40
8.88
29.04
21.21
19.10
7.00
4.35
3.30
3.30
6.32
9.00
8.94
10.00
6.32
7.40
9.92
7.40

8.74
17.73
29.04
21.21
21.15
7.20
7.50
4.35
4.35
8.98
11.25
9.01
12.08
6.32
7.44
10.59
7.44

13.03
22.12
32.35
22.90
22.15
10.76
10.46
8.33
5.35
11.25
15.35
12.00
12.96
8.06
9.33
12.96
8.68

19.10
25.69
35.46
25.89
25.06
16.28
13.50
8.70
8.70
13.71
19.70
14.67
15.35
11.25
13.42
14.61
13.03

25.69
32.35
38.72
38.05
25.69
20.39
17.86
15.30
8.70
18.30
19.70
17.86
18.63
13.38
15.64
14.61
15.64

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all
industries, National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$9.42

$11.32

$13.49

$16.45

$17.85

17.92
8.25
9.58
8.11
9.44
8.11
5.15

19.95
11.43
10.91
8.83
9.54
8.11
7.40

21.82
15.20
12.87
10.89
11.22
8.38
10.29

26.97
17.45
16.40
15.86
15.26
9.59
15.86

26.97
17.45
17.30
26.62
15.26
10.40
16.02

Occupation3

Service –Continued
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service .......................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
Service, n.e.c. .......................................................
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.

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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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001
Occupation3

10

25

Median
50

75

90

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

$6.00
5.58

$7.43
7.70

$9.40
10.29

$12.88
13.66

$18.65
21.22

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

6.77
8.30

8.08
10.48

10.50
14.38

17.86
21.97

28.24
31.00

Professional specialty and technical ............................
Professional specialty ...................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Health related ...........................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Teachers, n.e.c. ....................................................
Substitute 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. ............................................
Athletes .................................................................
Technical ......................................................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........

13.27
14.38
–
21.76
51.38
22.31
–
13.08
13.36
13.08
–
–
–
–

17.82
18.98
–
25.55
51.38
25.55
–
13.36
13.36
13.17
–
–
–
–

23.61
27.33
–
28.83
58.43
28.24
–
14.38
14.01
14.38
–
–
–
–

29.98
35.94
–
36.57
66.67
30.63
–
18.98
39.59
14.38
–
–
–
–

40.08
50.00
–
51.38
86.54
37.08
–
26.60
39.59
14.38
–
–
–
–

10.30
8.00
11.75
17.74
11.75

11.23
10.30
13.66
18.00
13.29

18.90
18.00
17.82
19.00
13.66

19.00
19.00
22.00
24.88
14.44

58.75
19.00
25.72
25.72
17.82

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

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

Sales ................................................................................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................

6.50
6.81
5.25
6.50

6.82
7.02
5.25
6.82

7.77
8.29
7.75
7.77

8.55
9.85
8.59
8.08

10.33
11.13
8.63
9.35

Administrative support, including clerical ...................
Receptionists ........................................................
Library clerks ........................................................
General office clerks .............................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ...............................

7.93
8.00
8.50
5.15
7.68

8.30
8.08
10.00
5.15
11.45

11.44
10.16
10.50
7.93
13.23

14.81
10.48
10.50
12.51
15.20

17.86
12.25
10.50
13.01
15.44

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

6.41

7.65

10.16

12.88

14.26

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

–

–

–

–

–

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........

–

–

–

–

–

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

5.26
8.50

8.50
8.50

11.48
15.43

12.88
16.74

16.08
16.74

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. .........

6.41
6.50
7.65

7.58
6.55
8.91

9.10
7.07
11.87

12.33
7.80
12.33

13.74
9.16
12.33

Service .................................................................................
Protective service .....................................................
Food service .............................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ......................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Other food service ..................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .......................................
Health service ...........................................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service ...................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................

5.40
6.46
3.30
3.03
3.05
5.40
6.50
5.40
7.14
5.83
7.14
6.61
6.61

6.61
9.66
5.40
3.30
3.30
5.45
7.21
5.45
7.42
6.73
7.42
6.74
6.74

8.32
9.66
6.50
4.00
3.30
6.51
7.81
6.50
8.50
8.50
9.21
7.70
7.70

10.29
12.42
8.60
6.58
6.54
10.35
8.71
10.35
11.39
11.54
11.39
7.70
7.70

12.10
13.79
10.35
7.69
7.69
10.98
8.71
10.35
13.71
13.45
13.71
9.75
8.94

See footnotes at end of table.

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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, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
April 2001 — Continued
10

25

Median
50

75

90

$7.18
8.32

$8.32
9.40

$9.55
10.29

$10.29
10.29

$10.29
10.29

Occupation3

Service –Continued
Personal service .......................................................
Child care workers, n.e.c. .....................................
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.

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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.

developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The sampling
frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business
and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and
other information were updated.

Planning for the survey

Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample
selection was a probability sample of establishments. The
sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the
sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of
sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each
sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a
probability proportional to its employment. Use of this
technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were
applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated
so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed
below, was a probability sample of occupations within a
sampled establishment.

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 New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island,
NY–NJ–CT–PA, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes:
• Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange,
Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, and
Westchester Counties, NY
• Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex,
Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex,
Union, and Warren Counties, NJ
• Fairfield County, eight towns in Litchfield County, two
towns in Middlesex County, and New Haven County,
CT
• Pike County, PA

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

A-1

For each occupation, wage data were collected for those
workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three
steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for
which a correct classification or level could not be determined.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each
establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal
visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling,
with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people
working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance
of selection.
The number of jobs for which data were collected in
each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size, as shown in the following schedule:
Number
of employees

Number
of selected jobs

50–99
100–249
250–999
1,000–2,499
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.
For cases in which a job’s duties overlapped two or more
census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage
level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback.
Each occupational classification is an element of a
broader classification known as a major occupational group
(MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following
MOGs:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

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

Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual
occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was idenA-2

tified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based
on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, the
worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job,
depending on whether any part of pay was directly based
on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely
on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as
being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition
of terms” section on the following page for more detail.
Occupational leveling
In the last step before wage data were collected, the work
level of each selected job was determined using an “occupational leveling” process. Occupational leveling ranks
and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria.
For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10
leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the
U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for
evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The
tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the
effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental.
The 10 factors are:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

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

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

eling factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is,
as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also
increased.
Collection period
Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60
metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period.
For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the
establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables
reflects the average date of this information for all sample
units.
Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time
hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings:
•
•
•
•
•

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

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

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

A-3

Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time.
Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical
note on occupational leveling through point factor analysis
for more details on the leveling process.)
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage. (See below.)
Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part time.
Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of
production.
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•

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

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

into these cells according to industry and employment size.
Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were
additionally defined by major occupation group and job
level.
Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights
changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the
response was treated as a refusal.
Survey response

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

Establishments
24,414
1,039
528
109
402

In this survey, the nonresponse rate for all industries
and private industry exceeded regular survey standards.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining
the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being
combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work.
Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication.
Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make
sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a series
that could have revealed information about a specific establishment.
Estimates of the number of workers represent the total
in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not
the number actually surveyed. Because occupational
structures among establishments differ, estimates of the
number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve to indicate only the relative importance of the
occupational groups studied.
Percentiles
The percentiles presented in tables 6–1 through 6–5 are
computed using 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 individual-worker
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

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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 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 individualworker 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.
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.

Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, by occupational group,2
National Compensation Survey, New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, April
2001
Full-time and part-time workers
Occupational group
Total

Private industry

State and local
government

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

4,047,500
3,828,100

2,951,900
2,734,600

1,095,600
1,093,500

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

2,400,900
2,181,500

1,710,600
1,493,300

690,300
688,200

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

935,900
774,900
161,000
470,700
219,400
774,800

559,000
421,400
137,600
358,000
217,300
576,300

376,900
353,500
23,400
112,700
–
198,600

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

717,500
191,700
189,600
157,100
179,100

601,600
151,500
187,700
112,400
150,000

115,800
40,200
–
44,700
29,100

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

929,200

639,700

289,500

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.

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