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Pittsburgh, PA National Compensation Survey January 1999 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner August 1999 Bulletin 3095-41 Preface 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212-0001, or call (202) 606-6199, or send e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm, the BLS Internet site. Data are in three formats: An ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Results of earlier surveys of this area are also available from BLS regional offices, the Division of Compensation Data Analysis, or at the BLS Internet site. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 606-7828; Federal Relay Service: 1-800-877-8339. Data 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 inside back cover of this bulletin. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Tables: A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ........................................... A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and State and local government........................................................................................................... A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers, all industries ................................................................................................................................. A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................ B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries ................................................................................................................................. C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ............................................................... 2 5 9 13 16 20 24 25 26 27 Appendixes: A. Technical Note................................................................................................................................. Table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented ......................................................... Table 2. Relative standard errors................................................................................................... Table 3. Average work levels ........................................................................................................ B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................ C. Generic Leveling Criteria................................................................................................................. D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ........................................................................................................... E. A Guide for Users of Prior BLS Wage Surveys............................................................................... v A-1 A-5 A-6 A-9 B-1 C-1 D-1 E-1 Introduction Table A-3 compares the type of data and details shown in table A-1 for full-time and part-time workers. The definitions of full-time and part-time workers are those used in the surveyed establishments. Table A-4 presents the weekly and annual straight-time earnings for full-time employees in specific occupations across all industries. For the weekly and annual earnings, the mean and median earnings and the mean hours are shown. The mean hours reflect hours employees are scheduled to work, excluding overtime hours. Table B-1 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings for groups of occupations and for levels of job requirements related to occupations in the group. Separate data are also shown for private industry and government workers, and for full-time and part-time workers in all industries. (See appendix C, Generic Leveling Criteria, for more information on job ranking in this survey. Average work levels for published occupation groups and their component occupations are presented in appendix table 3.) Table B-2 also presents mean straight-time hourly earnings, but for detailed occupations at several levels of job requirements for each detailed occupation. Table C-1 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings for occupation groups and selected occupation characteristics. The occupation characteristics include full-time and part-time status, union and nonunion status, and time or incentive pay status. Union workers’ wages are determined through collective bargaining. Time workers’ wages are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers’ wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions and production bonuses. Table C-2 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings for occupation groups and industry division of employers; these are limited to the private sector. Table C-3 presents mean straight-time hourly earnings for occupation groups and the employment size of employers; these are also limited to the private sector. Table C-4 presents the employment scope of this survey. The occupation employment estimates shown relate to all employers in the area surveyed, not just the surveyed employers. The tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS survey results for the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology. NCS products The National Compensation Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data on the 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, will be 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. Straight-time earnings 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. A total of 480 detailed occupations are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households). Table A-1 presents straight-time earnings for detailed occupations. Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondent or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates. The earnings shown include the mean for each occupation, as well as earnings for selected percentiles in each occupation. Table A-2 compares the type of data and details shown in table A-1 for the private industry and State and local government sector. 1 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ....................................................................... $15.82 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 16.22 $6.63 7.05 25 Median 50 $9.00 $13.47 9.50 13.94 75 90 $18.74 18.94 $28.23 28.85 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 18.79 20.07 7.50 9.05 10.51 11.66 15.34 16.66 23.37 24.88 34.58 35.79 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... 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 .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Technical occupations .................................................. 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. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations 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 occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... 23.91 25.76 27.99 22.78 29.56 24.10 28.32 24.45 22.36 20.01 19.82 19.16 26.23 25.42 14.81 40.13 42.48 32.23 35.53 35.34 26.17 33.19 10.85 23.34 – 27.95 17.86 17.45 14.36 14.37 – 12.26 13.80 17.73 16.43 17.75 21.86 17.73 15.08 15.08 11.56 15.19 15.34 23.15 23.11 9.23 25.14 19.85 12.26 23.93 23.85 11.54 8.16 7.83 11.38 – 13.85 14.28 14.28 10.26 9.83 – 15.75 17.40 22.28 17.54 25.64 22.28 23.82 18.94 18.94 14.27 17.31 17.08 25.00 25.00 10.00 28.06 33.61 24.02 28.07 27.85 12.26 23.33 7.86 14.00 – 15.99 14.62 14.62 11.33 11.33 – 20.49 22.50 28.78 21.96 28.90 22.28 29.62 22.28 20.34 19.72 19.10 18.70 25.38 25.59 12.74 34.82 40.86 33.97 35.07 34.72 25.73 41.04 8.87 15.92 – 25.63 15.00 15.00 13.48 13.48 – 29.62 31.90 32.27 27.69 32.00 23.66 32.25 27.62 26.54 26.05 22.06 20.68 29.14 26.04 20.36 46.00 50.83 42.09 43.10 43.92 39.93 43.13 16.00 37.49 – 46.78 20.48 20.48 16.48 16.95 – 41.59 42.45 34.78 32.79 42.94 34.54 34.97 36.12 30.01 31.22 25.43 22.97 29.14 28.90 21.95 63.73 53.93 45.97 47.70 47.37 40.97 44.00 16.01 37.94 – 46.78 21.88 21.88 21.00 21.49 – 24.06 19.25 18.18 13.82 14.59 12.82 12.70 16.97 19.03 21.30 16.10 18.91 16.73 27.08 30.60 31.47 28.10 14.07 15.87 10.65 8.50 11.65 11.56 7.50 10.53 15.75 10.65 14.63 11.65 13.46 14.29 14.85 15.86 16.96 15.87 15.87 12.65 9.50 12.86 12.13 10.00 12.77 16.47 16.43 14.86 13.94 13.95 17.49 19.21 18.91 18.30 18.68 16.66 16.43 14.29 14.60 12.65 11.85 15.99 19.23 20.00 16.03 20.11 16.86 23.61 29.21 24.88 30.23 24.94 20.27 19.88 17.52 16.58 13.38 12.77 20.41 21.24 27.18 18.04 22.64 17.83 32.69 36.06 34.67 36.25 51.83 20.52 27.63 17.88 17.53 14.56 17.02 23.85 22.44 33.37 18.58 22.64 19.30 41.03 45.38 47.06 43.97 33.11 31.72 28.59 16.84 34.24 20.43 17.38 22.85 20.43 17.49 19.21 11.53 14.69 13.19 11.00 13.20 24.76 26.16 26.24 12.51 23.87 15.00 15.00 14.57 31.25 32.50 29.17 15.93 31.31 18.59 16.47 22.80 37.07 39.54 29.21 21.15 36.54 23.08 19.85 25.00 43.58 41.03 34.61 21.15 46.77 30.77 24.53 35.10 18.04 12.16 13.47 16.83 21.59 25.99 See footnotes at end of table. 2 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ $18.20 $14.01 $16.20 $18.88 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 21.40 14.29 17.53 20.46 Sales occupations ............................................................ 11.04 5.36 6.09 7.62 Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 21.44 9.75 11.88 15.81 Sales occupations, other business services ......... 21.42 6.96 11.48 11.80 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. 20.63 11.13 13.23 17.31 Sales workers, apparel ......................................... 7.05 5.35 5.75 6.77 Sales workers, parts ............................................. 10.04 6.71 7.10 8.25 Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 10.10 6.00 6.50 8.00 Cashiers ............................................................... 6.83 5.35 5.45 5.94 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... 10.94 5.36 5.36 10.00 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 11.69 7.50 9.15 11.01 Supervisors, general office ................................... 15.08 13.80 13.80 14.13 Secretaries ........................................................... 12.73 8.84 10.53 12.74 Stenographers ...................................................... 12.27 9.50 10.51 11.95 Interviewers .......................................................... 10.60 8.77 8.99 9.60 Receptionists ........................................................ 8.39 5.64 6.75 8.56 Order clerks .......................................................... 14.89 9.01 10.77 17.17 Library clerks ........................................................ 8.60 6.11 6.50 8.25 Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 10.95 7.25 10.02 10.62 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.01 7.90 8.76 10.70 Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. 11.36 8.46 9.41 9.54 Billing clerks .......................................................... 11.26 9.01 10.05 10.60 Telephone operators ............................................ 12.25 7.36 10.27 11.42 Dispatchers ........................................................... 10.93 9.34 9.51 10.45 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 11.50 7.86 9.15 10.34 Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 12.49 9.24 10.13 14.00 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 11.20 8.36 9.17 10.13 General office clerks ............................................. 10.53 6.93 8.74 10.51 Bank tellers ........................................................... 9.19 6.88 7.50 8.75 Data entry keyers ................................................. 8.59 7.20 7.56 8.37 Teachers’ aides .................................................... 10.02 6.05 7.77 9.20 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 11.34 7.70 9.23 10.69 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 3 75 90 $19.80 23.37 12.22 28.09 16.48 $22.21 31.46 22.79 39.39 59.39 28.32 7.85 10.75 11.26 7.10 13.33 13.78 14.76 14.74 13.67 11.39 10.22 19.34 11.10 12.58 12.36 9.75 12.26 15.20 12.95 13.76 14.54 12.82 11.24 10.59 9.25 12.27 13.20 38.25 8.75 21.72 14.42 10.00 21.99 16.91 19.39 16.25 15.09 13.63 11.49 19.34 11.10 13.32 14.76 25.31 14.90 16.35 12.95 14.76 14.99 16.76 16.94 11.75 10.56 14.34 16.40 13.59 16.80 24.26 14.78 14.83 17.15 17.04 16.89 16.08 22.49 19.68 10.02 12.47 7.00 10.00 11.54 10.00 11.80 14.40 14.38 14.10 13.47 17.07 14.05 8.45 7.15 9.22 13.71 18.67 13.71 12.00 15.35 16.05 15.09 14.74 18.13 15.00 8.45 8.90 13.71 16.59 26.79 15.00 15.88 17.41 17.60 16.18 16.50 24.02 20.00 9.00 12.65 17.31 19.53 28.32 16.85 17.56 17.77 18.26 20.94 16.66 25.03 24.88 9.29 15.03 19.55 23.98 35.13 18.00 18.32 19.57 19.51 20.94 18.10 25.03 25.88 13.55 17.94 14.75 13.37 8.54 12.07 14.24 13.64 16.67 9.24 13.07 13.49 12.62 14.53 13.08 9.77 7.52 8.66 8.50 8.67 14.48 6.50 9.39 7.00 6.55 7.50 13.60 12.25 8.26 12.59 9.01 10.35 15.59 6.50 11.35 10.10 9.88 12.24 14.39 13.98 8.90 12.71 17.51 14.39 15.68 8.50 13.25 13.49 12.99 17.31 15.10 14.50 8.90 12.73 17.51 15.63 18.47 10.75 14.53 17.23 15.02 17.31 17.41 14.75 9.43 12.77 18.29 18.13 19.53 14.14 16.40 18.29 18.65 17.31 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued) Crane and tower operators ................................... $16.06 $13.46 $14.88 $15.68 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 12.06 7.76 9.50 12.51 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 15.98 12.30 15.41 17.23 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 10.75 6.00 7.00 9.75 Production helpers ................................................ 12.43 5.71 8.00 11.85 Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 8.25 5.50 6.00 7.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 13.26 6.00 9.00 12.50 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ 8.01 6.00 6.25 6.50 Hand packers and packagers ............................... 8.89 7.25 7.25 8.47 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 10.87 7.00 7.30 10.16 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 75 90 $17.16 14.09 $18.43 16.90 17.24 14.42 15.93 10.00 18.22 7.50 9.85 14.17 17.54 17.67 19.72 12.18 18.27 14.63 11.58 17.54 9.81 13.67 21.49 7.71 6.65 5.40 5.86 17.83 5.49 2.83 6.75 6.25 19.26 5.95 5.25 8.79 12.47 21.68 6.25 6.40 11.56 19.26 23.97 7.81 8.45 16.25 23.45 25.22 12.47 10.50 10.60 3.30 8.37 8.29 5.20 7.42 9.06 8.57 9.29 10.97 8.72 11.07 10.40 8.40 8.08 8.41 6.52 2.83 6.00 5.50 2.83 5.25 7.21 7.21 6.98 6.98 7.15 6.84 5.90 6.02 5.90 5.15 8.25 2.83 7.25 7.00 5.25 5.55 7.77 7.77 7.86 8.42 7.32 8.90 6.65 6.02 5.90 6.58 10.25 2.83 7.62 7.90 5.43 6.85 8.58 7.98 9.20 10.56 8.95 11.48 8.79 8.13 7.20 7.50 12.81 2.91 9.18 10.00 5.97 9.21 10.19 9.76 10.43 13.49 10.24 13.54 12.37 9.78 9.77 10.83 14.98 5.75 10.69 10.50 6.34 10.14 11.32 11.09 11.49 14.69 10.56 14.17 19.38 11.54 12.29 12.37 establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 4 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $14.95 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 15.34 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Physical therapists .............................. Therapists, N.E.C. .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ 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 ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Editors and reporters .......................... Technical occupations ................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .................................... Radiological technicians ..................... Licensed practical nurses ................... Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ........................................... Electrical and electronic technicians ... Drafters ............................................... Computer programmers ..................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Financial managers ............................ Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. Managers, medicine and health ......... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... State and local government $6.50 6.90 25 Median 50 $8.46 $12.78 8.90 13.33 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $18.13 18.27 $25.26 25.57 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $20.75 $10.58 $12.74 $16.66 $25.22 $41.04 20.81 10.58 12.74 16.66 25.22 41.04 17.63 18.93 7.01 8.76 10.00 11.25 14.77 16.08 21.50 22.58 31.33 32.21 25.48 25.66 11.08 11.08 13.87 13.87 22.62 23.21 36.10 36.29 43.78 43.95 21.61 23.04 28.22 23.01 29.56 24.10 28.32 25.62 12.01 13.46 17.73 16.43 17.75 21.86 17.73 18.46 14.91 16.43 22.64 16.43 25.64 22.28 23.82 19.25 18.94 20.31 28.78 21.22 28.90 22.28 29.62 23.15 25.43 27.57 32.74 27.69 32.00 23.66 32.25 28.13 32.86 33.94 34.81 32.79 42.94 34.54 34.97 36.53 31.62 32.63 – – – – – – 15.08 15.97 – – – – – – 21.96 23.42 – – – – – – 31.94 33.61 – – – – – – 41.96 41.96 – – – – – – 46.38 46.69 – – – – – – 23.37 20.01 19.94 19.29 26.23 25.42 14.08 – 14.43 – 27.98 – – – 18.46 11.56 15.34 15.40 23.15 23.11 9.23 – 8.16 – 19.57 – – – 19.25 14.27 17.43 17.25 25.00 25.00 10.00 – 10.53 – 24.15 – – – 22.58 19.72 19.21 18.82 25.38 25.59 12.74 – 12.26 – 27.48 – – – 26.54 26.05 22.25 20.69 29.14 26.04 20.36 – 15.46 – 33.74 – – – 30.01 31.22 25.59 22.99 29.14 28.90 21.94 – 24.55 – 36.21 – – – – – – – – – – – 35.68 36.10 35.68 37.18 38.17 11.24 – – – – – – – – 23.38 24.62 23.94 26.58 23.33 7.83 – – – – – – – – 28.33 28.62 28.11 32.36 32.66 7.86 – – – – – – – – 37.08 35.79 34.72 39.93 41.96 9.55 – – – – – – – – 43.60 43.29 43.95 40.31 43.73 16.00 – – – – – – – – 47.00 47.70 47.43 45.33 44.92 16.01 13.78 – 15.85 13.02 12.89 – 9.56 – 14.28 9.15 9.15 – 13.46 – 14.62 10.98 10.46 – 14.00 – 15.00 13.34 13.34 – 15.00 – 15.73 15.18 14.42 – 16.55 – 20.48 16.48 16.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.06 19.25 18.26 14.07 15.87 10.50 15.87 15.87 12.41 18.68 16.66 16.05 24.94 20.27 19.83 51.83 20.52 29.25 – – 17.00 – – 12.72 – – 13.02 – – 16.47 – – 22.44 – – 22.44 13.82 14.59 12.58 8.50 11.65 11.03 9.50 12.86 11.83 14.29 14.60 12.27 17.52 16.58 13.38 17.88 17.53 13.95 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.70 16.97 21.30 18.91 7.50 10.53 10.65 11.65 10.00 12.77 16.43 13.94 11.85 15.99 20.00 20.11 12.77 20.41 27.18 22.64 17.02 23.85 33.37 22.64 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.73 13.46 13.95 16.86 17.83 19.30 – – – – – – 27.25 14.01 17.39 23.57 33.72 41.46 25.75 15.44 17.60 25.06 32.28 34.99 30.65 31.47 14.69 15.86 18.91 18.91 28.63 24.88 36.25 34.67 45.38 47.06 30.19 – 17.72 – 27.34 – 32.28 – 34.86 – 36.30 – 28.10 16.96 18.30 30.23 36.25 43.97 – – – – – – 33.11 20.43 24.76 31.25 37.07 43.58 – – – – – – 29.71 28.59 17.44 19.21 18.75 26.24 27.47 29.17 41.03 29.21 41.03 34.61 33.12 – 25.04 – 32.28 – 32.50 – 34.86 – 40.76 – 16.84 11.53 12.51 15.93 21.15 21.15 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 5 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers and administrators, N.E.C. $34.59 $14.69 $24.00 $31.31 Management related occupations .......... 20.74 12.97 15.00 18.88 Accountants and auditors ................... 17.45 8.65 14.36 15.00 Other financial officers ........................ 22.85 13.20 14.57 22.80 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 18.04 12.16 13.47 16.83 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 18.20 14.01 16.20 18.88 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 21.43 14.29 17.46 20.46 Sales occupations .......................................... 11.00 5.36 6.09 7.50 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 21.44 9.75 11.88 15.81 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 21.42 6.96 11.48 11.80 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.63 11.13 13.23 17.31 Sales workers, apparel ....................... 7.05 5.35 5.75 6.77 Sales workers, parts ........................... 10.04 6.71 7.10 8.25 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 10.10 6.00 6.50 8.00 Cashiers ............................................. 6.39 5.35 5.45 5.85 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 10.94 5.36 5.36 10.00 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 11.54 7.36 8.87 10.76 Supervisors, general office ................. 15.08 13.80 13.80 14.13 Secretaries ......................................... 12.30 8.50 10.17 12.15 Stenographers .................................... 11.36 9.50 10.11 11.51 Interviewers ........................................ 10.60 8.77 8.99 9.60 Receptionists ...................................... 8.39 5.64 6.75 8.56 Order clerks ........................................ 14.89 9.01 10.77 17.17 Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 10.95 7.25 10.02 10.62 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 10.90 7.35 8.75 10.73 Payroll and timekeeping clerks ........... 11.40 8.46 8.46 9.54 Billing clerks ........................................ 11.26 9.01 10.05 10.60 Telephone operators .......................... 12.25 7.36 10.27 11.42 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 11.50 7.86 9.15 10.34 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 12.17 9.24 9.79 11.06 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 11.20 8.36 9.17 10.13 General office clerks ........................... 10.01 6.90 7.94 9.31 Bank tellers ......................................... 9.19 6.88 7.50 8.75 Data entry keyers ............................... 8.59 7.20 7.56 8.37 Teachers’ aides .................................. 8.63 6.05 6.50 7.87 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 11.37 7.67 9.23 10.69 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Automobile mechanics ....................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Electricians ......................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters Supervisors, production occupations .. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 75 90 $37.16 23.37 20.09 25.00 $46.77 31.46 25.82 35.10 21.59 25.99 – – – – – – 19.80 22.21 – – – – – – 23.37 11.88 28.09 31.46 22.79 39.39 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.48 59.39 – – – – – – 28.32 7.85 10.75 11.26 7.00 13.33 38.25 8.75 21.72 14.42 7.75 21.99 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.71 14.76 14.52 12.60 11.39 10.22 19.34 12.58 16.95 19.39 16.25 13.13 13.63 11.49 19.34 13.32 12.71 – 13.99 – – – – – 9.45 – 10.58 – – – – – 10.61 – 12.52 – – – – – 12.74 – 13.63 – – – – – 14.34 – 15.11 – – – – – 15.76 – 16.11 – – – – – 12.19 9.75 12.26 15.20 13.76 14.00 13.68 25.31 14.90 16.35 14.76 14.99 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.82 11.18 10.59 9.25 8.24 16.76 13.78 11.75 10.56 16.71 – – – – 10.46 – – – – 7.27 – – – – 8.62 – – – – 10.66 – – – – 12.27 – – – – 14.34 13.32 16.40 – – – – – – – – – – – – $18.09 $15.22 $15.44 $17.60 $20.46 $22.44 – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.35 7.00 8.90 13.31 17.23 19.55 15.87 12.16 13.71 16.18 17.31 19.23 16.94 24.26 14.64 10.00 11.54 10.00 13.67 18.67 13.50 16.72 26.79 15.00 20.00 28.32 16.52 24.00 35.13 18.00 15.34 – – 12.16 – – 13.71 – – 15.90 – – 16.66 – – 17.56 – – 13.87 17.15 17.04 16.18 22.59 19.68 11.80 14.40 14.38 13.47 17.07 14.05 11.80 15.35 16.05 14.74 23.64 15.00 12.44 17.41 17.60 16.28 24.02 20.00 18.13 17.77 18.26 17.11 25.03 24.88 18.32 19.57 19.51 18.10 25.03 25.88 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.02 8.45 8.45 9.00 9.29 13.55 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 6 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. $12.48 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators ......... 14.75 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.37 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... 8.59 Packaging and filling machine operators ...................................... 12.07 Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... 14.24 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.64 Welders and cutters ............................ 16.67 Assemblers ......................................... 9.24 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... 13.07 Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. 12.49 Truck drivers ....................................... 12.40 Crane and tower operators ................. 16.06 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... 12.06 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... 10.35 Production helpers .............................. 12.43 Stock handlers and baggers ............... 8.25 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.26 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ 8.01 Hand packers and packagers ............. 8.89 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 10.18 Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Police and detectives, public service .. Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. State and local government 25 Median 50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $15.03 $17.94 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – $7.15 $8.90 $12.71 13.08 13.60 14.39 15.10 17.41 – – – – – – 9.77 12.25 13.98 14.50 14.75 – – – – – – 7.52 8.26 8.90 8.90 9.43 – – – – – – 8.66 12.59 12.71 12.73 12.77 – – – – – – 8.50 9.01 17.51 17.51 18.29 – – – – – – 8.67 14.48 6.50 10.35 15.59 6.50 14.39 15.68 8.50 15.63 18.47 10.75 18.13 19.53 14.14 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.39 11.35 13.25 14.53 16.40 – – – – – – 6.55 6.55 13.46 8.50 9.88 14.88 12.51 12.30 15.68 15.12 14.56 17.16 17.91 18.65 18.43 7.76 9.50 12.51 14.09 16.90 – – – – – – 6.00 5.71 5.50 7.00 8.00 6.00 9.00 11.85 7.00 14.17 15.93 10.00 17.51 19.72 12.18 15.09 – – 11.31 – – 12.92 – – 14.40 – – 16.13 – – 20.46 – – 6.00 9.00 12.50 18.22 18.27 – – – – – – 6.00 7.25 6.83 6.25 7.25 7.30 6.50 8.47 8.00 7.50 9.85 13.35 14.63 11.58 17.24 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.33 8.10 – 5.25 5.49 – 6.14 5.95 – 7.90 6.25 – 9.69 7.81 – 12.23 16.25 – 14.50 18.99 21.49 9.99 11.35 17.83 10.69 15.31 19.26 13.16 19.26 21.68 18.35 21.75 23.97 21.68 25.22 25.22 7.24 6.28 5.46 2.83 5.90 5.15 6.15 6.14 7.09 7.82 10.81 9.53 – 9.89 – 8.29 – 9.43 – 10.14 – 10.69 – 10.69 10.60 3.30 8.04 8.28 5.20 6.64 6.52 2.83 6.00 5.50 2.83 5.20 8.25 2.83 7.00 7.00 5.25 5.35 10.25 2.83 7.60 7.90 5.43 6.35 12.81 2.91 8.45 10.00 5.97 7.82 14.98 5.75 10.30 10.50 6.34 8.77 – – – – – 9.74 – – – – – 8.29 – – – – – 9.43 – – – – – 9.99 – – – – – 10.55 – – – – – 10.55 See footnotes at end of table. 7 $16.63 $13.17 $15.63 $17.31 $17.31 $19.65 – – – – – – – – – – – – Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... State and local government Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $8.63 8.54 $7.00 7.21 $7.67 7.77 $8.13 7.98 $9.78 9.76 $10.79 11.09 $11.73 – 8.68 6.43 7.59 8.65 9.84 10.70 11.75 9.33 10.17 10.81 14.15 15.09 9.85 8.35 10.13 10.20 6.99 6.99 6.25 7.15 6.00 5.70 5.90 5.15 7.65 7.32 7.96 6.53 5.90 5.40 9.53 8.23 10.05 8.33 6.35 7.15 12.15 9.63 12.23 10.80 7.20 7.92 14.00 10.21 14.17 20.12 8.92 8.80 13.00 – 12.77 11.63 – – 10.47 – 10.47 8.46 – – 12.01 – 12.09 11.28 – – 12.84 – 12.80 12.03 – – 13.99 – 13.99 12.52 – – 16.21 – 14.69 13.16 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as 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 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.33 $10.17 $10.81 $13.87 $15.09 – – – – – another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 8 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $16.85 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 17.03 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Industrial engineers ............................ Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Physical therapists .............................. Therapists, N.E.C. .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ....... 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 ......... Social scientists and urban planners ...... Psychologists ...................................... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Lawyers and judges ................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Editors and reporters .......................... Technical occupations ................................ 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. ......... Drafters ............................................... Chemical technicians .......................... Computer programmers ..................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... Financial managers ............................ Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... Part-time 25 Median 50 $7.75 $10.16 $14.40 7.98 10.40 14.53 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $19.55 19.55 $29.43 29.75 10 25 Median 50 $8.08 8.61 $5.25 5.20 $5.55 5.77 $6.60 7.00 75 90 $8.45 $13.58 9.30 16.01 19.96 20.66 8.86 9.50 11.50 12.27 16.47 17.06 24.87 25.57 35.65 36.53 9.50 12.17 5.35 6.22 5.85 7.19 7.00 9.82 10.53 16.33 17.79 21.52 24.34 26.26 27.99 22.78 29.56 24.10 28.32 24.45 12.34 14.00 17.73 16.43 17.75 21.86 17.73 15.08 15.87 17.54 22.28 17.54 25.64 22.28 23.82 18.94 20.97 23.16 28.78 21.96 28.90 22.28 29.62 22.28 30.52 32.68 32.27 27.69 32.00 23.66 32.25 27.62 41.92 43.29 34.78 32.79 42.94 34.54 34.97 36.12 17.64 19.01 – – – – – – 9.65 10.98 – – – – – – 13.10 15.23 – – – – – – 17.03 17.88 – – – – – – 21.50 21.96 – – – – – – 25.00 26.55 – – – – – – 22.36 20.01 19.82 19.18 26.36 25.41 14.81 40.88 42.65 33.14 35.58 35.62 26.94 34.20 – 15.08 11.56 15.34 15.34 23.14 23.11 9.23 25.14 19.69 13.46 23.98 24.02 12.26 8.16 – 18.94 14.27 17.46 17.31 25.19 23.11 10.00 28.06 33.61 25.15 28.07 28.05 12.98 23.95 – 20.34 19.72 19.21 18.82 25.43 25.59 12.74 38.07 40.86 34.72 35.11 34.72 27.81 41.85 – 26.54 26.05 22.11 20.49 29.14 26.04 20.36 46.00 50.83 42.64 43.10 43.95 39.93 43.73 – 30.01 31.22 25.59 22.96 29.14 28.90 21.95 70.43 55.38 46.60 47.70 47.37 40.97 44.33 – – – 19.84 19.07 – – – – – 13.99 – – – – 10.04 – – 14.50 14.49 – – – – – 7.83 – – – – 7.83 – – 16.48 16.20 – – – – – 8.00 – – – – 7.83 – – 18.64 18.41 – – – – – 11.03 – – – – 8.87 – – 22.01 21.96 – – – – – 16.01 – – – – 11.03 – – 25.00 23.00 – – – – – 27.00 – – – – 16.01 23.48 – 17.83 17.42 14.38 14.38 – 11.38 – 14.28 14.28 9.83 9.46 – 14.00 – 14.62 14.62 11.33 11.33 – 15.92 – 15.00 15.00 13.34 13.48 – 37.49 – 20.48 20.48 16.48 16.47 – 37.94 – 21.88 21.88 21.00 21.95 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.10 19.25 18.52 14.41 15.87 10.92 15.87 15.87 12.77 18.68 16.66 16.47 24.94 20.27 20.41 51.83 20.52 29.25 – – 11.75 – – 8.76 – – 9.65 – – 11.58 – – 13.10 – – 16.50 13.69 14.76 12.94 8.50 12.53 11.83 9.50 12.86 12.13 13.90 14.96 12.65 17.60 17.24 13.38 17.88 17.53 14.53 – 13.64 – – 10.97 – – 12.39 – – 13.10 – – 15.09 – – 15.97 – 13.08 16.97 19.03 21.30 16.10 19.56 8.00 10.53 15.75 10.65 14.63 13.04 10.50 12.77 16.47 16.43 14.86 14.13 11.85 15.99 19.23 20.00 16.03 20.42 12.77 20.41 21.24 27.18 18.04 22.64 17.02 23.85 22.44 33.37 18.58 22.64 10.25 – – – – – 6.50 – – – – – 7.50 – – – – – 10.71 – – – – – 12.26 – – – – – 12.46 – – – – – 17.24 13.94 13.95 16.86 17.83 19.30 – – – – – – 27.08 14.29 17.49 23.61 32.69 41.03 – – – – – – 30.60 31.47 14.85 15.86 19.21 18.91 29.21 24.88 36.06 34.67 45.38 47.06 – – – – – – – – – – – – 28.10 16.96 18.30 30.23 36.25 43.97 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 9 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. $33.11 $20.43 $24.76 $31.25 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 31.72 17.49 26.16 32.50 Managers, medicine and health ......... 28.59 19.21 26.24 29.17 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... 16.84 11.53 12.51 15.93 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 34.24 14.69 23.87 31.31 Management related occupations .......... 20.43 13.19 15.00 18.59 Accountants and auditors ................... 17.38 11.00 15.00 16.47 Other financial officers ........................ 22.85 13.20 14.57 22.80 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 18.04 12.16 13.47 16.83 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 18.20 14.01 16.20 18.88 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 21.40 14.29 17.53 20.46 Sales occupations .......................................... 13.70 6.50 7.40 10.00 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 21.44 9.75 11.88 15.81 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.63 11.13 13.23 17.31 Sales workers, apparel ....................... 7.69 6.50 6.77 7.62 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 11.78 6.50 7.00 9.30 Cashiers ............................................. 8.69 5.65 6.45 7.75 Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 11.40 5.36 5.36 11.33 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 12.12 8.24 9.54 11.36 Supervisors, general office ................. 15.08 13.80 13.80 14.13 Secretaries ......................................... 12.99 9.48 10.74 12.90 Stenographers .................................... 12.27 9.50 10.51 11.95 Receptionists ...................................... 8.72 6.38 7.00 8.83 Order clerks ........................................ 15.08 9.35 10.87 17.44 Library clerks ...................................... – – – – Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 11.39 8.52 10.40 10.72 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 11.25 8.16 9.43 11.18 Payroll and timekeeping clerks ........... 11.40 8.46 8.46 9.54 Billing clerks ........................................ 11.26 9.01 10.05 10.60 Telephone operators .......................... 12.86 9.23 10.76 11.42 Dispatchers ......................................... 10.97 9.34 9.51 10.25 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks 11.71 8.00 10.00 13.23 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 12.57 9.24 10.13 14.00 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 11.20 8.36 9.17 10.13 General office clerks ........................... 11.28 8.68 9.31 10.61 Bank tellers ......................................... 9.60 7.00 7.97 9.27 Data entry keyers ............................... 8.96 7.56 8.00 8.37 Teachers’ aides .................................. 10.45 6.69 7.87 10.66 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 11.41 7.70 9.23 10.69 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Supervisors, mechanics and repairers Automobile mechanics ....................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................................... Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – 41.03 34.61 – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.15 36.54 23.08 19.85 25.00 21.15 46.77 30.77 24.53 35.10 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.59 25.99 – – – – – – 19.80 22.21 – – – – – – 23.37 17.31 28.09 31.46 25.26 39.39 – $6.40 – – $5.35 – – $5.41 – – $5.85 – – $6.65 – – $7.56 – 28.32 7.85 13.00 10.00 15.12 38.25 9.41 19.22 14.75 21.92 – – 6.78 6.07 – – – 5.76 5.35 – – – 6.00 5.41 – – – 6.50 5.73 – – – 7.00 6.43 – – – 9.00 7.10 – 14.13 14.76 15.02 13.67 10.25 19.34 – 13.24 17.08 19.39 16.25 15.09 11.49 19.34 – 13.32 8.40 – 9.43 – 7.33 – 6.95 – 5.85 – 7.64 – 5.25 – 5.59 – 6.67 – 8.00 – 5.49 – 6.33 – 7.64 – 9.00 – 6.67 – 6.50 – 9.50 – 10.00 – 8.00 – 6.75 – 11.58 – 12.00 – 10.84 – 10.22 – 12.43 9.75 12.26 15.20 12.95 13.76 14.54 14.76 25.31 14.90 16.35 12.95 14.76 14.99 8.04 – – – – – – 7.00 – – – – – – 7.00 – – – – – – 8.18 – – – – – – 8.50 – – – – – – 9.44 – – – – – – 12.82 12.08 11.12 9.47 12.27 16.76 16.95 12.06 10.93 14.34 – 7.28 – 7.94 – – 6.50 – 6.25 – – 6.75 – 7.50 – – 6.90 – 7.50 – – 7.00 – 8.44 – – 10.00 – 10.16 – 13.32 16.40 10.66 7.20 8.50 10.43 11.57 15.00 75 90 $37.07 $43.58 39.54 29.21 13.98 7.33 9.88 14.05 17.31 19.72 7.01 5.30 5.56 6.50 7.50 9.22 16.82 24.26 14.78 10.00 11.54 10.00 13.71 18.67 13.71 16.62 26.79 15.00 19.55 28.32 16.85 23.98 35.13 18.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.83 11.80 12.00 15.88 17.56 18.32 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Industrial machinery repairers ............ $17.15 $14.40 $15.35 $17.41 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ 17.16 14.38 16.05 17.60 Carpenters .......................................... 16.89 14.10 15.09 16.18 Electricians ......................................... 16.08 13.47 14.74 16.50 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters 22.49 17.07 18.13 24.02 Supervisors, production occupations .. 19.68 14.05 15.00 20.00 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... 10.02 8.45 8.45 9.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. 12.55 7.38 8.90 12.71 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators ......... 14.75 13.08 13.60 14.39 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.37 9.77 12.25 13.98 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... 8.89 8.26 8.30 8.90 Packaging and filling machine operators ...................................... 12.07 8.66 12.59 12.71 Mixing and blending machine operators ...................................... 14.24 8.50 9.01 17.51 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.64 8.67 10.35 14.39 Welders and cutters ............................ 16.67 14.48 15.59 15.68 Assemblers ......................................... 9.35 6.50 6.95 8.50 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... 13.07 9.39 11.35 13.25 Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. 13.90 7.61 11.25 13.97 Truck drivers ....................................... 12.76 6.55 9.88 12.99 Bus drivers .......................................... – – – – Crane and tower operators ................. 16.06 13.46 14.88 15.68 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... 12.06 7.76 9.50 12.51 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ........ 15.98 12.30 15.41 17.23 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... 11.47 6.50 7.33 10.16 Production helpers .............................. 12.43 5.71 8.00 11.85 Stock handlers and baggers ............... 10.43 6.84 7.86 10.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... 14.32 6.50 10.00 17.88 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ 8.12 6.00 6.25 6.50 Hand packers and packagers ............. 9.23 7.25 7.25 8.47 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 11.24 7.05 7.33 10.16 Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Police and detectives, public service .. Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Health service occupations ..................... Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.55 – – – – – – 15.13 17.94 – – – – – – 15.10 17.41 – – – – – – 14.50 14.75 – – – – – – 8.90 10.63 – – – – – – 12.73 12.77 – – – – – – 17.51 18.29 – – – – – – 15.63 18.47 10.75 18.13 19.53 14.14 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.53 16.40 – – – – – – 17.31 15.02 – 17.16 18.43 18.65 – 18.43 $8.19 – 9.35 – $5.25 – 5.82 – $6.00 – 7.50 – $7.50 – 7.50 – 14.09 16.90 – – – – – – 17.24 17.54 – – – – – – 14.79 15.93 12.18 17.88 19.72 13.31 6.61 – 6.30 5.31 – 5.35 5.50 – 5.75 6.31 – 6.31 7.00 – 7.00 8.30 – 7.00 18.27 18.27 – – – – – – 7.50 9.85 14.74 14.63 13.02 17.54 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 75 90 $17.77 18.26 20.94 16.66 25.03 24.88 $19.57 19.51 20.94 18.10 25.03 25.88 9.29 $8.70 $12.69 – – 12.24 14.27 – – 10.90 15.05 21.49 6.25 6.00 17.83 7.85 7.22 19.26 9.93 15.31 21.68 12.80 20.49 23.97 18.53 23.97 25.22 6.31 6.32 – 2.83 5.45 – 5.30 5.61 – 6.13 6.10 – 7.46 6.40 – 8.98 7.79 – 8.27 7.82 5.75 2.92 6.00 6.00 6.58 7.90 11.11 10.00 13.79 10.69 – 5.33 – 2.83 – 2.87 – 5.43 – 6.52 – 7.98 11.59 3.82 9.15 9.22 – 8.70 9.18 8.25 2.83 7.41 7.74 – 6.35 7.21 10.00 2.87 7.50 7.90 – 7.00 7.93 10.75 2.92 8.25 9.00 – 9.21 8.81 13.00 5.35 10.69 10.50 – 10.13 10.23 15.54 6.88 10.92 10.50 – 10.55 11.49 – 2.93 6.81 6.58 4.75 6.34 8.11 – 2.83 5.75 5.35 2.83 5.15 5.75 – 2.83 6.00 5.49 2.83 5.25 7.35 – 2.83 6.30 6.65 5.25 5.73 7.71 – 2.83 7.42 7.00 5.72 6.87 9.45 – 2.89 8.49 8.90 6.11 8.45 10.23 See footnotes at end of table. 11 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations (-Continued) Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $8.57 $7.21 $7.77 $7.98 $9.76 $11.09 9.51 7.43 8.13 9.33 10.67 11.41 8.73 11.60 12.56 9.49 – 7.59 7.31 8.00 7.20 7.20 – 9.24 7.32 10.05 8.79 7.20 – 11.48 8.96 12.10 10.80 8.30 – 13.60 10.21 13.70 18.53 11.56 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based 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 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $8.59 $7.17 $8.04 $8.30 $9.82 $9.83 11.52 8.04 5.75 7.35 7.71 9.31 10.37 14.71 10.56 14.62 20.12 12.52 – 7.61 – 7.46 6.89 6.06 6.76 5.32 – 5.32 5.15 5.70 5.15 6.16 – 5.77 5.90 5.90 5.25 7.24 – 7.00 6.35 5.90 7.08 9.12 – 8.70 7.40 5.90 7.50 10.12 – 9.86 8.33 6.35 8.33 minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 12 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 39.4 39.4 $664 671 $567 577 2,002 1,999 $33,729 34,052 $29,744 30,014 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 39.3 39.2 784 811 651 673 1,967 1,957 39,250 40,438 33,800 34,835 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... 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 ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Technical occupations .................................................. 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. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations 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 occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ 38.7 38.8 39.9 40.0 39.3 39.8 40.0 39.6 39.7 39.5 39.6 39.5 40.5 39.0 39.7 37.0 37.9 37.5 37.6 37.8 39.0 36.3 39.1 – 39.6 39.6 38.4 38.4 – 941 1,019 1,117 911 1,162 958 1,133 969 887 790 785 757 1,068 992 588 1,511 1,615 1,242 1,339 1,346 1,051 1,242 918 – 706 689 551 552 – 827 915 1,140 878 1,127 891 1,185 909 853 789 759 741 1,063 968 510 1,284 1,532 1,360 1,347 1,379 1,069 1,452 637 – 600 600 517 517 – 1,852 1,810 2,035 2,080 1,874 2,067 2,080 2,061 2,063 2,053 2,059 2,052 2,107 2,029 2,067 1,564 1,558 1,441 1,378 1,381 1,650 1,447 1,749 – 2,032 2,025 1,994 1,996 – 45,061 47,530 56,966 47,386 55,401 49,816 58,903 50,398 46,123 41,082 40,818 39,351 55,526 51,558 30,601 63,917 66,429 47,751 49,027 49,196 44,442 49,475 41,065 – 36,236 35,263 28,678 28,716 – 41,267 44,086 58,594 45,677 58,178 46,342 61,610 47,274 44,360 41,018 39,478 38,552 55,251 50,349 26,499 60,222 61,290 50,811 49,535 49,435 46,218 55,750 40,747 – 31,200 31,200 26,905 26,905 – 37.2 38.6 38.3 39.9 39.7 39.3 37.4 39.2 39.3 40.0 40.0 39.2 39.3 40.3 40.6 39.2 44.9 896 743 709 547 586 509 490 665 748 852 644 766 677 1,092 1,243 1,235 1,263 753 666 647 556 598 502 474 600 769 800 641 817 632 935 1,168 981 1,241 1,912 2,008 1,991 2,077 2,063 2,046 1,947 2,036 2,044 2,080 2,080 2,038 2,043 2,089 2,101 2,040 2,337 46,072 38,658 36,859 28,442 30,447 26,470 25,462 34,560 38,896 44,306 33,480 39,853 35,220 56,566 64,281 64,199 65,659 39,169 34,653 33,618 28,912 31,117 26,119 24,648 31,200 39,998 41,600 33,342 42,474 32,877 48,610 60,757 51,002 64,542 39.6 39.2 40.0 39.3 41.5 39.7 39.1 39.8 1,312 1,242 1,144 661 1,422 812 679 908 1,250 1,394 1,167 597 1,252 739 618 888 2,061 1,963 2,080 2,012 2,157 2,067 2,032 2,067 68,244 62,269 59,474 33,881 73,866 42,225 35,325 47,234 65,000 66,814 60,674 31,064 65,125 38,417 32,117 46,176 39.7 40.0 39.9 39.5 716 728 854 542 673 755 818 400 2,063 2,080 2,076 2,056 37,219 37,860 44,429 28,153 35,006 39,270 42,557 20,800 See footnotes at end of table. 13 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Sales occupations (-Continued) Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Stenographers ...................................................... Receptionists ........................................................ Order clerks .......................................................... Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Crane and tower operators ................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 39.3 $842 $756 2,042 $43,778 $39,291 40.0 39.9 40.0 39.5 38.9 39.3 40.8 39.5 39.0 39.9 38.9 39.4 39.5 38.8 40.0 38.4 38.9 39.6 39.7 39.0 39.2 39.7 39.2 36.9 39.6 825 307 471 344 443 477 616 513 478 348 587 449 444 443 450 494 427 463 499 437 442 381 351 385 452 692 305 372 310 425 449 577 512 482 353 698 428 428 382 424 430 395 496 560 402 424 370 335 373 428 2,080 2,075 2,080 2,050 2,022 2,030 2,124 2,050 1,979 2,074 2,024 2,051 2,053 2,018 2,080 1,996 2,023 2,057 2,064 2,029 2,031 2,063 2,036 1,499 2,060 42,902 15,955 24,500 17,820 23,053 24,589 32,033 26,624 24,281 18,090 30,534 23,348 23,086 23,012 23,417 25,670 22,190 24,093 25,956 22,721 22,908 19,808 18,238 15,662 23,495 36,005 15,845 19,344 16,120 22,094 23,192 29,994 26,624 24,701 18,366 36,275 22,269 22,256 19,843 22,048 22,381 20,550 25,799 29,120 20,914 22,069 19,221 17,410 15,259 22,235 40.0 39.9 38.7 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.8 39.7 40.0 40.6 40.0 40.0 559 671 940 591 593 686 686 673 639 900 799 401 502 562 663 1,072 600 635 696 704 647 651 961 800 360 509 2,076 2,071 2,014 2,080 2,080 2,075 2,080 2,072 2,061 2,080 2,111 2,080 2,080 29,012 34,819 48,864 30,740 30,840 35,576 35,697 34,981 33,148 46,783 41,553 20,850 26,105 29,120 34,486 55,723 31,200 33,030 36,213 36,608 33,654 33,862 49,962 41,600 18,720 26,478 40.0 40.2 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.2 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.2 40.9 40.0 40.0 590 538 356 483 570 549 667 374 523 559 522 642 483 576 559 356 508 700 576 627 340 530 561 520 627 500 2,080 2,092 2,080 2,074 2,080 2,081 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,082 2,126 2,080 2,078 30,676 27,961 18,495 25,032 29,625 28,384 34,670 19,444 27,181 28,938 27,125 33,403 25,070 29,931 29,078 18,512 26,437 36,421 29,845 32,614 17,680 27,560 28,704 27,019 32,614 26,021 38.5 39.9 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.9 615 458 497 417 573 325 369 449 646 406 474 400 715 260 339 406 2,002 2,074 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,074 2,080 2,076 32,001 23,791 25,847 21,691 29,794 16,833 19,189 23,335 33,599 21,133 24,648 20,800 37,190 13,520 17,618 21,133 See footnotes at end of table. 14 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 38.8 40.1 40.0 39.9 37.9 $422 604 859 330 296 $385 612 867 263 305 1,996 2,071 2,080 2,043 1,925 $21,749 31,169 44,693 16,899 15,049 $19,822 31,845 45,094 13,924 15,286 41.3 35.7 39.7 39.7 37.2 39.7 40.0 39.5 39.7 39.8 39.7 32.8 39.9 479 136 363 366 324 365 343 376 453 347 461 412 379 498 104 330 360 340 346 319 369 459 346 484 454 334 2,085 1,856 2,053 2,063 1,795 2,064 2,080 2,055 2,066 2,068 2,065 1,636 2,045 24,176 7,083 18,775 19,020 15,620 18,955 17,831 19,536 23,577 18,051 23,965 20,545 19,406 23,141 5,413 17,160 18,720 14,206 17,984 16,598 19,198 23,878 17,992 25,147 18,653 16,942 1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 15 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $15.82 16.22 $14.95 15.34 $20.75 20.81 $16.85 17.03 $8.08 8.61 White-collar occupations ................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... 18.79 6.26 8.04 8.66 12.05 13.52 15.84 18.35 21.08 26.66 25.51 29.61 35.44 45.74 82.34 24.68 20.07 6.67 8.50 9.86 12.30 13.72 15.97 18.25 21.03 26.57 25.46 29.52 35.04 45.74 82.34 24.66 17.63 6.18 8.03 8.57 11.86 13.43 15.30 16.63 18.93 22.33 24.79 29.27 35.12 45.74 82.34 25.52 18.93 6.45 8.51 9.79 12.19 13.63 15.40 16.42 18.57 22.15 24.46 29.16 34.66 45.74 82.34 25.52 25.48 – – 10.76 12.79 14.51 18.01 26.84 28.62 36.91 – 33.29 37.97 – – – 25.66 – – 10.87 12.68 14.51 18.01 26.84 28.62 36.91 – 33.29 37.97 – – – 19.96 6.86 8.64 9.39 12.24 13.63 15.88 18.48 21.18 26.96 25.61 29.61 35.56 45.57 82.34 25.94 20.66 7.06 9.01 10.22 12.40 13.81 16.02 18.38 21.14 26.87 25.59 29.52 35.16 45.57 82.34 25.94 9.50 6.06 7.01 6.86 9.74 11.35 13.43 15.98 19.60 21.21 – – – – – 14.81 12.17 6.07 7.45 7.95 10.77 11.67 13.43 15.98 19.60 21.21 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Level 11 ............................................................ Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Level 7 .............................................................. 23.91 25.76 13.14 16.70 19.65 23.11 27.60 23.42 28.69 35.84 36.10 27.99 18.07 25.70 30.17 32.46 24.45 25.94 20.01 19.82 16.46 19.94 20.44 27.09 40.13 33.94 41.68 32.23 27.35 21.61 23.04 13.31 13.52 16.30 19.47 20.04 22.78 28.39 34.93 36.10 28.22 18.07 25.70 30.17 32.46 25.62 25.94 20.01 19.94 16.53 20.05 20.44 27.39 – – – 14.43 12.79 31.62 32.63 – – 27.89 30.84 37.88 – – 42.25 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 35.68 31.60 24.34 26.26 13.49 16.86 20.05 23.56 28.12 23.55 28.69 36.09 36.85 27.99 18.07 25.70 30.17 32.46 24.45 25.94 20.01 19.82 16.53 20.06 20.13 27.09 40.88 33.94 42.89 33.14 29.34 17.64 19.01 9.86 – 16.16 19.72 21.42 – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.84 16.11 19.52 21.52 – – – – 13.99 10.32 Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 16 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level White-collar occupations (-Continued) Teachers, except college and university (-Continued) Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Level 9 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Management related occupations ............................ Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Sales occupations ............................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 17 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $31.58 37.35 – 17.86 14.36 – $20.19 20.73 – 15.85 13.02 – $33.59 37.95 – – – – $31.90 37.84 – 17.83 14.38 – – – – – – – 24.06 18.95 36.56 18.18 11.47 13.53 16.79 16.52 17.69 34.47 27.08 15.82 16.52 17.65 18.20 21.70 31.84 30.95 34.21 47.22 85.37 30.60 17.14 18.13 21.41 30.66 34.18 46.30 85.37 20.43 14.87 17.65 17.94 18.25 22.41 11.04 6.06 7.03 7.17 9.41 11.58 14.66 21.46 25.65 11.69 6.67 8.50 9.83 12.47 13.24 14.54 15.65 24.06 18.95 36.56 18.26 11.26 13.57 16.34 16.52 17.69 34.47 27.25 15.82 16.31 17.35 16.57 21.50 27.94 30.54 34.37 47.22 85.37 30.65 16.06 15.22 21.06 30.13 34.34 46.30 85.37 20.74 14.87 17.65 18.00 18.00 22.48 11.00 6.06 7.03 7.15 8.57 11.58 14.66 21.46 25.65 11.54 6.45 8.51 9.75 12.43 12.95 14.56 15.29 – – – 17.00 – – – – – – 25.75 – – – – – – – – – – 30.19 – – – – – – – 18.09 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.71 – – 10.87 12.61 – – – 24.10 18.95 36.85 18.52 11.61 13.74 16.81 16.61 17.72 35.04 27.08 15.82 16.52 17.65 18.20 21.70 31.84 30.95 34.21 47.22 85.37 30.60 17.14 18.13 21.41 30.66 34.18 46.30 85.37 20.43 14.87 17.65 17.94 18.25 22.41 13.70 – – 7.81 10.18 11.75 14.66 21.46 25.65 12.12 7.06 9.03 10.18 12.57 13.26 14.59 15.65 – – – $11.75 – 12.09 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.40 6.06 6.33 6.39 – – – – – 8.40 6.07 7.45 7.88 10.91 – – – 13.59 13.35 15.87 13.98 7.01 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. $8.11 10.14 11.10 13.57 14.92 17.49 18.75 18.61 24.68 16.80 11.09 12.56 14.48 17.84 18.99 18.19 24.68 12.47 7.40 10.28 10.16 12.73 14.59 15.99 17.53 13.49 10.28 11.46 14.82 15.60 18.07 10.75 8.42 10.33 11.82 13.89 16.94 $7.91 9.64 10.95 13.57 14.77 17.55 19.08 18.29 24.68 16.94 11.09 12.67 14.41 17.96 19.51 18.19 24.68 12.48 7.40 10.33 10.16 12.73 14.59 15.99 17.53 12.49 8.83 11.34 14.76 15.51 – 10.35 8.22 9.91 11.44 13.86 16.37 – $13.48 – – 16.69 – 16.74 – – 15.34 – – – – 15.87 – – – – – – – – – – 16.63 – – – – – 15.09 – – – – – $8.57 10.54 11.31 13.57 14.92 17.49 18.75 18.61 24.68 16.82 11.09 12.56 14.48 17.84 18.99 18.19 24.68 12.55 7.48 10.34 10.21 12.73 14.59 15.99 17.53 13.90 10.71 11.77 14.82 15.60 18.07 11.47 9.04 11.08 12.35 13.89 16.94 $6.36 7.69 7.87 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.19 8.97 – – – – 6.61 6.17 6.58 8.37 – – Service occupations ........................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Protective service occupations ............................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Food service occupations ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Health service occupations ..................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. 9.81 6.80 7.58 8.75 10.46 14.25 15.01 18.62 20.93 13.67 6.88 19.78 22.85 6.65 5.10 6.92 7.03 8.57 9.06 8.13 9.11 9.33 10.97 9.02 9.05 8.33 6.19 7.20 7.78 9.76 14.34 13.48 – – 8.10 6.90 – – 6.28 4.81 6.83 6.36 8.07 8.63 7.85 8.40 9.33 9.85 8.38 7.79 14.50 11.31 10.72 11.91 12.26 – – 20.40 – 18.99 – 20.56 – 9.89 – – – – 11.73 – – – 13.00 – – 10.90 8.06 8.58 9.08 10.76 14.25 15.06 18.62 20.93 15.05 7.16 19.78 22.85 7.82 5.86 9.25 7.44 8.70 9.18 8.23 9.16 9.64 11.41 9.33 10.74 6.31 5.49 6.52 6.73 8.53 – – – – 6.32 – – – 5.33 4.64 6.09 6.07 – 8.11 7.76 7.85 7.88 7.61 – 6.71 Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 18 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level Service occupations (-Continued) Cleaning and building service occupations (-Continued) Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Personal service occupations ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $10.93 13.19 10.40 6.73 6.65 8.05 11.73 $9.13 12.25 10.20 5.83 6.65 8.06 11.93 $12.09 – 11.63 – – – – $11.01 13.24 12.56 – – – 12.27 – – $6.89 5.83 – – – based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 19 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Level 11 ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Pharmacists .......................................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Level 9 .............................................................. Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Elementary school teachers ................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians .............................................................. Psychologists ........................................................ Social workers ...................................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Financial managers .............................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Level 11 ............................................................ Managers, medicine and health ........................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. See footnotes at end of table. 20 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $22.78 29.56 24.10 28.32 26.13 22.36 25.94 19.16 17.36 19.39 19.67 26.23 25.42 25.62 14.81 42.48 35.53 33.89 37.41 35.34 34.51 32.84 36.84 26.17 37.18 33.19 37.99 10.85 10.24 23.34 27.95 17.45 14.37 19.25 $23.01 29.56 24.10 28.32 26.13 23.37 25.94 19.29 17.56 19.49 19.67 26.23 25.42 25.62 14.08 – – – – 27.98 – – – – – – – – – 13.78 – – 12.89 19.25 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $36.10 34.84 38.06 35.68 – 33.09 37.28 37.18 37.18 38.17 – 11.24 – – – – – – $22.78 29.56 24.10 28.32 26.13 22.36 25.94 19.18 17.64 19.41 19.16 26.36 25.41 – 14.81 42.65 35.58 33.89 37.52 35.62 – 32.84 36.86 26.94 37.18 34.20 – – – 23.48 – 17.42 14.38 19.25 – – – – – – – $19.07 16.11 19.34 21.13 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.04 10.24 – – – – – 13.82 14.59 12.82 13.56 12.64 12.69 12.70 9.77 13.39 16.97 19.03 21.30 16.10 18.91 16.73 13.82 14.59 12.58 – 12.51 – 12.70 9.77 13.39 16.97 – 21.30 – 18.91 16.73 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.69 14.76 12.94 – 12.98 12.69 13.08 10.07 – 16.97 19.03 21.30 16.10 19.56 17.24 – 13.64 – – – – 10.25 – – – – – – – – 31.47 28.38 28.10 31.47 28.38 28.10 – – – 31.47 28.38 28.10 – – – 33.11 31.72 34.11 28.59 23.73 28.92 16.84 33.11 29.71 – 28.59 23.73 28.92 16.84 33.11 31.72 34.11 28.59 23.73 28.92 16.84 – – – – – – – – 33.12 – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: (-Continued) Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Level 9 .............................................................. Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, parts ............................................. Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Level 3 .............................................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Stenographers ...................................................... Interviewers .......................................................... Receptionists ........................................................ Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Order clerks .......................................................... Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. Billing clerks .......................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Telephone operators ............................................ Level 2 .............................................................. Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Level 4 .............................................................. General office clerks ............................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 21 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $34.24 21.86 32.23 37.41 50.33 17.38 22.85 $34.59 22.31 32.23 37.58 50.33 17.45 22.85 – – – – – – – $34.24 21.86 32.23 37.41 50.33 17.38 22.85 – – – – – – – 18.04 18.20 21.40 21.45 18.04 18.20 21.43 – – – – – 18.04 18.20 21.40 21.45 – – – – 21.44 21.42 21.44 21.42 – – 21.44 – – – 20.63 7.05 10.04 10.10 7.91 6.83 5.87 6.74 10.94 20.63 7.05 10.04 10.10 7.91 6.39 5.87 6.64 10.94 – – – – – – – – – 20.63 7.69 – 11.78 – 8.69 – 7.86 11.40 – – – $6.78 – 6.07 5.87 6.19 – 15.08 12.73 11.05 11.80 14.61 14.91 12.27 10.60 8.39 8.47 9.49 14.89 8.60 10.95 9.95 11.01 8.36 10.14 11.22 12.35 11.36 11.26 11.37 12.25 13.00 10.93 11.50 12.49 11.13 11.20 10.54 10.53 9.33 12.37 9.19 9.07 15.08 12.30 10.68 11.28 13.91 15.04 11.36 10.60 8.39 8.47 9.49 14.89 – 10.95 9.95 10.90 8.36 10.02 11.30 – 11.40 11.26 11.37 12.25 13.00 – 11.50 12.17 11.13 11.20 10.54 10.01 9.33 12.66 9.19 9.07 – $13.99 – 12.70 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.08 12.99 11.09 11.99 14.61 14.91 12.27 – 8.72 8.40 10.14 15.08 – 11.39 – 11.25 – 10.35 11.22 – 11.40 11.26 11.37 12.86 – 10.97 11.71 12.57 – 11.20 10.54 11.28 9.68 12.39 9.60 – – 9.43 – 9.84 – – – – 7.33 – – – 6.95 – – 8.04 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.28 – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical: (-Continued) Data entry keyers ................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Level 7 .............................................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers ......................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Crane and tower operators ................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Level 5 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Production helpers ................................................ Level 4 .............................................................. Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Level 3 .............................................................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 22 All industries Private industry $8.59 8.13 10.02 11.76 11.34 11.13 11.00 14.89 $8.59 8.13 8.63 – 11.37 11.26 – 14.89 24.26 14.78 15.37 14.83 17.15 17.04 16.89 16.08 16.62 22.49 23.08 19.68 10.02 All industries State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers – – $10.46 – – – – – $8.96 – 10.45 11.76 11.41 – – – $7.94 – – – 10.66 – – – 24.26 14.64 – 13.87 17.15 17.04 – 16.18 16.94 22.59 23.14 19.68 10.02 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 24.26 14.78 15.37 14.83 17.15 17.16 16.89 16.08 16.62 22.49 23.08 19.68 10.02 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.75 13.37 8.54 12.07 14.24 13.64 16.67 9.24 13.07 14.75 13.37 8.59 12.07 14.24 13.64 16.67 9.24 13.07 – – – – – – – – – 14.75 13.37 8.89 12.07 14.24 13.64 16.67 9.35 13.07 – – – – – – – – – 12.62 8.66 12.32 16.36 15.18 14.53 16.06 12.06 11.05 12.99 12.40 7.86 12.21 16.32 15.02 – 16.06 12.06 11.05 12.99 – – – – – – – – – – 12.76 8.82 12.32 16.36 15.18 – 16.06 12.06 11.05 12.99 – – – – – 9.35 – – – – – – 15.98 15.97 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.43 15.74 10.43 – – 14.32 – 8.12 9.23 11.24 9.24 – – – 6.30 6.29 – – – – – – – – 15.98 15.97 12.43 15.74 8.25 7.04 7.61 13.26 11.36 8.01 8.89 10.87 9.03 9.59 – – 12.43 15.74 8.25 7.04 7.61 13.26 11.36 8.01 8.89 10.18 8.42 9.59 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: (-Continued) Laborers except construction, N.E.C. (-Continued) Level 4 .............................................................. Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Level 3 .............................................................. Food service occupations: Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Cooks ................................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Level 2 .............................................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing ................................ Level 4 .............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations: Maids and housemen ........................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Personal service occupations: Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $14.66 – – $14.66 – – – – 21.49 7.71 6.90 – $7.24 6.90 $21.49 – – 21.49 8.27 7.16 10.60 3.30 3.07 8.37 7.09 8.62 8.29 9.12 5.20 7.42 6.69 9.05 10.60 3.30 3.07 8.04 7.09 7.93 8.28 9.10 5.20 6.64 6.26 7.92 – – – – – – – – – 9.74 – – 11.59 3.82 – 9.15 – 8.81 9.22 – – 8.70 8.07 9.23 – $2.93 2.91 6.81 6.73 – 6.58 – 4.75 6.34 5.99 – 8.57 9.60 9.29 8.14 10.11 9.21 8.54 9.60 8.68 7.84 8.84 9.19 – – 11.75 – – – 8.57 9.63 9.51 8.23 10.30 9.64 8.59 – 8.04 7.74 7.22 7.81 8.72 9.27 11.07 9.29 8.97 11.37 13.24 8.35 – 10.13 8.54 7.19 9.49 12.31 – – 12.77 – – 12.27 – 8.73 – 11.60 9.76 11.12 11.49 13.24 – – 7.46 – – – – 8.40 8.08 8.41 7.27 – 6.99 6.99 5.98 – 9.49 – – – 6.06 6.76 5.98 – – – – based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 23 Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 Occupational group2 Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $16.85 17.03 $8.08 8.61 $17.06 17.37 $15.22 15.63 $15.78 16.23 $16.86 15.82 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 19.96 20.66 9.50 12.17 23.47 25.42 17.83 18.92 18.77 20.08 20.26 17.70 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 24.34 26.26 18.52 27.08 13.70 12.12 17.64 19.01 11.75 – 6.40 8.40 32.76 34.30 25.72 20.44 7.48 13.56 21.13 22.78 16.59 27.43 11.57 11.32 23.91 25.76 18.17 27.10 10.16 11.70 – – – – 21.11 – Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 13.98 16.82 12.55 13.90 11.47 7.01 – – 8.19 6.61 15.10 17.78 14.33 15.38 12.17 11.26 15.15 10.46 9.92 8.29 13.41 16.93 12.15 13.64 10.32 15.64 15.86 – 11.85 16.96 Service occupations ........................................................... 10.90 6.31 12.67 8.16 9.81 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 24 Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 Goods-producing industries4 Occupational group3 All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries5 Total TransWholeportsale ation and and retail public trade utilities Services – – $15.20 15.21 All occupations ........................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ................................................ $14.95 15.34 $16.49 16.38 – – White-collar occupations ....................................................... White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 17.63 18.93 20.66 20.66 – – 20.76 18.27 20.55 21.02 17.06 18.56 21.15 21.21 11.41 17.02 – – 18.33 18.51 Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ Professional specialty occupations ................................... Technical occupations ...................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... Sales occupations ................................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 21.61 23.04 18.26 27.25 11.00 11.54 22.08 26.03 17.79 30.13 20.68 12.88 – – – – – – – – – 26.36 – 12.15 21.95 26.35 17.79 32.09 – 13.06 21.54 22.68 18.40 26.38 10.24 11.25 29.39 28.77 29.79 28.95 – 14.75 24.75 26.61 – 26.91 8.49 9.97 – – – – – – 20.91 22.33 16.39 23.43 14.98 10.54 Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. Transportation and material moving occupations ................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 13.35 16.94 12.48 12.49 10.35 14.32 17.39 13.29 13.93 11.90 – – – – – 19.54 22.40 – – – 13.67 16.24 13.29 13.07 11.25 12.13 16.42 8.85 11.66 9.14 15.37 21.49 – 12.21 12.82 10.93 14.04 – 10.97 8.14 – – – – – 9.87 15.76 7.34 – 8.72 Service occupations ............................................................... 8.33 13.50 – – 13.58 8.20 – 6.19 – 8.41 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. $20.13 $15.91 $14.42 $18.10 $10.32 18.96 15.95 14.95 18.12 11.18 Finance, insurance, and real estate 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 25 Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers2, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 100 workers or more All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $14.95 15.34 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. Occupational group3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more $13.18 13.30 $15.40 15.84 $13.62 13.95 $17.51 17.88 17.63 18.93 15.69 17.09 18.00 19.21 16.80 18.50 19.07 19.72 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 21.61 23.04 18.26 27.25 11.00 11.54 18.77 19.00 18.26 23.80 12.37 10.21 21.97 23.54 18.26 28.03 10.44 11.74 20.39 22.15 16.27 27.24 11.08 11.06 22.92 24.38 19.47 28.94 8.12 12.23 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 13.35 16.94 12.48 12.49 10.35 13.17 16.50 12.49 10.92 10.33 13.42 17.15 12.47 13.71 10.36 11.57 15.15 11.42 12.17 8.48 16.67 19.70 14.57 16.14 14.74 Service occupations ........................................................... 8.33 6.39 8.84 8.11 10.15 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 26 Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All workers Occupational group2 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 561,193 510,552 470,054 420,336 91,139 90,216 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 313,509 262,868 257,861 208,143 55,648 54,725 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 125,446 97,776 27,671 44,100 50,641 93,322 88,746 62,634 26,112 38,957 49,719 80,440 36,700 35,141 – 5,143 – 12,882 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 140,481 42,170 33,339 27,485 37,486 127,007 38,342 33,224 20,766 34,675 13,474 3,829 – 6,719 2,812 Service occupations ........................................................... 107,203 85,186 22,017 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 27 Appendix A: Technical Note ployment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to its employment. Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy which were not selected for collection. See appendix table 1 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. This section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. Although this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all the steps required to produce the data. Planning for the survey The overall design of the survey includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection. Survey scope This survey covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goods-producing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey an establishment was an economic unit which produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment was defined as all locations of a government entity. The Pittsburgh, PA, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties, PA. Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Collection was the responsibility of the field economists, working out of the Regional Office, who visited each establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to followup and update data. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multi-step process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs. 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the Census of Population system. 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time, union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive. 4. Determination of the level of work of each job. Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling frames were developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and other information were updated. 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. Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a two stage stratified design with probability proportional to em- A-1 As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs collected in each establishment was based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in the following schedule: Number of employees 50-99 100-249 250-999 1000-2,499 2,500+ Number of selected jobs 8 10 12 16 20 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOGs: · · · · · · · · · Professional specialty and technical Executive, administrative, and managerial Sales Administrative support including clerical Precision production, craft, and repair Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors Transportation and material moving Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Service occupations Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong. In step three, certain other job characteristics of the chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of Terms” section on the following page for more detail. Generic leveling through point factor analysis In the last step before wage data were collected, the work A-2 level of each selected job was determined using a “generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. This is a major departure from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions unique to each occupation. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: · · · · · · · · · · Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on which written description best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3 presents average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firm. Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed research continues in the area. The results of this research will be published by BLS in the future. Collection period The survey data were collected over several months. 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. ments of the position. (See the description in the technical note and the example for more details on the leveling process.) 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: Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time. · · · · · 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 (e.g., Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free room and board Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay In order to calculate earnings for various time periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of hours actually worked was collected. 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 requireA-3 Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below). Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: · · · A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed mutually binding collective bargaining agreement Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally defined by major occupation group and job level. Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a refusal. Survey response Total in sample Responding Out of business or not in survey scope Unable or refused to provide data Establishments 442 322 31 89 Some surveys may have a high nonresponse rate for the all industries or private industry iterations. Such instances are noted in the bulletin table footnotes. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated. Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. The number of workers estimates represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve only to indicate the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors A-4 possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2 contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain inform ation for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all survey areas will be used in the development of a formal quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling error. Although they were not specifically measured, the nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the extensive training of the field economists who gathered the survey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data, and detailed data review. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 Number of establishments studied Industry All industries ......................................................... Private industry ................................................. Goods-producing industries .......................... Mining ....................................................... Construction ............................................. Manufacturing ........................................... Service-producing industries ........................ Tranportation and public utilities ............... Wholesale and retail trade ........................ Finance, insurance and real estate .......... Services .................................................... State and local government .............................. Number of establishments represented 100 workers or more Total studied 3,207 2,994 738 13 237 487 2,256 168 965 139 984 213 318 284 69 6 7 56 215 27 61 9 118 34 50 - 99 workers 85 82 19 3 4 12 63 11 26 2 24 3 Total 233 202 50 3 3 44 152 16 35 7 94 31 100 - 499 workers 140 128 31 1 3 27 97 7 27 5 58 12 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. A-5 500 workers or more 93 74 19 2 – 17 55 9 8 2 36 19 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 (in percent) Occupation3 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 2.0 1.9 2.4 2.3 2.6 2.6 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 2.4 2.1 2.9 2.6 3.1 3.2 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Industrial engineers .............................................. Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related occupations ....................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... 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 .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Editors and reporters ............................................ Technical occupations .................................................. 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. ........................... Drafters ................................................................. Chemical technicians ............................................ Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations 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 occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... 2.5 2.8 4.0 9.4 5.8 6.3 6.0 7.1 5.0 10.6 2.2 1.4 3.7 2.4 17.4 9.9 8.6 3.7 2.6 3.3 21.9 6.7 9.4 15.0 – 20.2 7.6 8.7 6.6 6.9 – 3.3 3.9 4.1 12.0 5.8 6.3 6.0 6.9 4.4 10.6 2.2 1.4 3.7 2.4 17.6 – – 7.2 – 4.9 – – – 4.7 – – 3.8 – 5.0 5.1 – 3.1 3.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2.3 2.5 3.4 2.0 4.5 9.2 – – – – – – – – 19.8 11.3 5.3 10.2 3.5 2.0 13.7 9.7 5.0 14.7 4.9 9.5 6.2 4.0 4.5 12.2 14.4 19.8 11.3 5.6 10.2 3.5 2.0 13.7 9.7 – 14.7 – 9.5 6.2 4.4 5.0 12.2 14.4 – – 9.1 – – – – – – – – – – 7.0 5.9 – – 9.1 5.8 6.4 11.2 9.2 4.9 9.0 17.0 9.1 13.2 6.4 11.2 9.4 5.4 11.3 17.0 – 6.0 – – – 4.9 – – See footnotes at end of table. A-6 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Management related occupations (-Continued) Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, parts ............................................. Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Stenographers ...................................................... Interviewers .......................................................... Receptionists ........................................................ Order clerks .......................................................... Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... General office clerks ............................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ................. Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters .................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .......................................... Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................ Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Mixing and blending machine operators ............... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Welders and cutters .............................................. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. See footnotes at end of table. A-7 All industries Private industry State and local government 8.4 4.2 4.9 9.3 17.2 42.9 8.4 4.2 5.0 9.5 17.2 42.9 – – – – – – 19.1 5.8 16.7 14.9 6.1 19.4 1.5 4.6 2.9 5.1 5.4 6.6 5.8 8.4 5.8 4.0 16.8 5.1 5.7 5.4 7.5 6.3 4.9 5.2 4.1 4.8 8.0 4.7 19.1 5.8 16.7 14.9 2.8 19.4 1.7 4.6 3.4 1.6 5.4 6.6 5.8 – 5.8 4.5 17.3 5.1 5.7 – 7.5 7.4 4.9 4.6 4.1 4.8 16.0 5.1 – – – – – – 3.3 – 5.1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.2 – 2.6 2.9 14.7 2.9 6.5 4.2 3.2 6.9 3.3 5.6 9.1 6.2 4.6 2.8 3.1 14.7 3.3 8.6 4.2 3.2 – 4.4 5.5 9.1 6.2 4.6 2.9 3.2 – – – – – – – – – – – 3.3 4.2 3.9 5.4 12.5 7.0 4.3 9.8 5.8 3.3 4.2 4.0 5.4 12.5 7.0 4.3 9.8 5.8 – – – – – – – – – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Crane and tower operators ................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ............................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Police and detectives, public service .................... Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are All industries Private industry State and local government 3.8 6.4 9.2 3.5 6.1 4.5 6.9 – 3.5 6.1 2.8 – – – – 3.1 4.9 12.9 8.6 11.5 15.4 6.1 9.8 – 5.2 12.9 8.6 11.5 15.4 6.1 9.5 – 7.3 – – – – – – 3.0 12.1 5.8 8.6 4.2 2.5 10.7 – 7.2 4.4 4.6 5.8 5.8 – 2.5 9.0 6.5 5.0 4.8 6.9 4.6 3.1 5.6 2.5 2.9 4.7 3.2 7.3 12.0 13.2 7.9 9.0 6.5 4.9 4.9 6.9 3.8 2.8 5.5 2.7 4.2 4.7 4.7 8.4 – 7.3 6.6 – – – – – 2.9 3.3 – 3.4 2.8 – 2.5 3.9 – – – classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. A-8 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 All occupations ................................................................................. All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 5 5 6 6 3 3 White-collar occupations ............................................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 6 7 7 7 4 5 Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... Professional specialty occupations ......................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. Civil engineers ................................................................ Electrical and electronic engineers ................................. Industrial engineers ........................................................ Engineers, N.E.C. ........................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ..................... Natural scientists ................................................................ Health related occupations ................................................. Registered nurses .......................................................... Pharmacists .................................................................... Physical therapists .......................................................... Therapists, N.E.C. .......................................................... Teachers, college and university ........................................ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ................................... 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 ............................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ........................................................................... Editors and reporters ...................................................... Technical occupations ............................................................ 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. ..................................... Drafters ........................................................................... Chemical technicians ...................................................... Computer programmers ................................................. Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... Financial managers ........................................................ Personnel and labor relations 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 occupations ...................................... Accountants and auditors ............................................... Other financial officers .................................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. .......................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Sales occupations ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... Sales occupations, other business services ................... 8 9 10 8 11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 9 9 8 11 11 8 8 8 7 8 7 8 – 7 10 10 7 7 – 8 9 10 8 11 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 10 9 8 11 11 8 8 8 8 8 – 8 – – 10 10 7 7 – 8 8 – – – – – – – – 8 8 – – – – – 8 – – – – 7 – – – – – – – – 8 9 7 6 6 6 5 7 7 7 7 9 6 9 11 11 11 11 11 11 9 11 7 7 8 7 6 8 4 8 5 8 9 7 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 10 6 9 11 11 11 11 11 11 9 11 7 7 8 7 6 8 5 8 – – – 5 – 6 – 5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2 – – See footnotes at end of table. A-9 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Sales occupations (-Continued) Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .................................................................. Sales workers, apparel ................................................... Sales workers, parts ....................................................... Sales workers, other commodities .................................. Cashiers ......................................................................... Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... Supervisors, general office ............................................. Secretaries ..................................................................... Stenographers ................................................................ Interviewers .................................................................... Receptionists .................................................................. Order clerks .................................................................... Library clerks .................................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ Payroll and timekeeping clerks ....................................... Billing clerks .................................................................... Telephone operators ...................................................... Dispatchers ..................................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................ General office clerks ....................................................... Bank tellers ..................................................................... Data entry keyers ........................................................... Teachers’ aides .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ........................... Automobile mechanics ................................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ................. Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... Carpenters ...................................................................... Electricians ..................................................................... Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ............................ Supervisors, production occupations .............................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............ Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators .................................................................. Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. .......................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ........... Packaging and filling machine operators ........................ Mixing and blending machine operators ......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... Welders and cutters ........................................................ Assemblers ..................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Bus drivers ...................................................................... Crane and tower operators ............................................. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ Production helpers .......................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. See footnotes at end of table. A-10 7 2 4 4 2 5 4 7 4 5 3 2 4 3 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 5 3 3 3 3 4 7 2 – 5 4 5 4 7 5 5 – 2 4 – 3 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 5 4 3 3 3 4 – – – 3 2 – 3 – 4 – – 2 – 2 – 3 – – – – – – – 2 – 3 – 3 4 6 8 6 6 7 6 6 6 7 8 3 4 4 6 8 6 6 7 6 6 6 7 8 3 4 2 – – – – – – – – – – – – 5 5 2 3 4 4 6 2 4 4 3 5 4 3 5 5 2 3 4 4 6 3 4 4 3 – 4 3 – – – – – – – – – 2 – 2 – – 5 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 – 2 – 2 – – – – Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1999 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Service occupations ..................................................................... Protective service occupations ........................................... Police and detectives, public service .............................. Guards and police except public service ........................ Food service occupations ................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations Waiters and waitresses .................................................. Cooks ............................................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ...................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... Health service occupations ................................................. Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ Maids and housemen ..................................................... Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service occupations ............................................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ............................................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may 3 5 7 3 2 5 2 4 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 4 5 7 3 3 6 2 4 3 – 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 – 4 – 2 2 – – 2 – 2 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 – 2 2 – 2 2 include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. A-11
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