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Rockford, IL National Compensation Survey April 2007 _________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Elaine L. Chao, Secretary U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Keith Hall, Commissioner January 2008 Preface D Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212–0001, call (202) 691–6199, or send an e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm, the BLS Internet site. Data are presented in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the core bulletin, and in an ASCII file containing the published table formats. Results of earlier surveys of this area are available from BLS regional offices, the Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, or at the BLS Internet site. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691–5200; Federal Relay Service: 1–800–877–8339. ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private establishments and government agencies that provided pay data included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and prepared the survey for publication. For additional information regarding this survey, please contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone number listed on the back cover of this bulletin. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Tables: 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics.................................................................................................. 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers by work levels............................................................................................................................... 5. Combined work levels for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers ................................................................................................................... 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles................................................................................... 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles ...................................................................... 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................... 9. Full-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................................... 10. Part-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................................... 11. Full-time civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 12. Full-time private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 13. Full-time State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings of private industry establishments for major occupational groups...................................................................................................... 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 17. Union and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................. 18. Time and incentive workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................... 19. Industry sector: Mean hourly earnings for private industry workers by major occupational group ........................................................................................................ 3 4 8 12 13 17 19 21 22 24 25 28 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 Appendixes: A. Technical Note............................................................................................................................... Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey ................................................ Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response ........................................................................ B. Standard Occupational Classification System................................................................................ v A–1 A–5 A–6 B–1 Introduction T About the tables The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 800 detailed occupations, listed in Appendix B, are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households). Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates. Table 1 presents an overview of all tables in this bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative standard errors are given for all industries, private industry, and State and local government for selected worker and establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics include high-level and intermediate occupational aggregation, fulltime or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. Establishment characteristics include goods producing, service providing, and size of establishment. Table 2 presents mean hourly earnings data by work level for occupational major groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for full-time and part-time workers. Table 3 provides work level data for private industry workers. Table 4 provides similar data for State and local government workers. Table 5 simplifies the work levels by combining them into broader groups within major and detailed occupations, and for full-time and parttime workers. Tables 6 through 10 present hourly wage percentiles that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for individual workers within each published occupation. Data are provided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time workers, and part-time workers. Table 11 presents mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings, and the associated hours, for major occupational groups and detailed occupations for full-time workers. Table 12 provides the same type of information for private industry workers. Table 13 provides similar data for State and local government workers. Table 14 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by high-level occupational aggregations in the private sector. Tables 15 and 16 provide he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for the Rockford, IL, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Data were collected between September 2006 and October 2007; the average reference month is April 2007. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at different work levels. Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and an appendix with detailed information on occupational classifications. Most of the earnings estimates in this bulletin are presented as mean hourly earnings. Mean weekly and annual earnings, and the corresponding hours, also are provided for full-time employees in specific occupations. Some occupations, such as teachers and fire fighters, typically have shorter or longer work schedules than do the majority of full-time workers. The weekly and annual estimates are useful for comparing the earnings of occupations having different work schedules. NCS products The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed plan provisions. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from the NCS. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation measures employers’ average hourly costs for wages and benefits. NCS also measures the incidence and provisions of benefit plans. This bulletin is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries. Changes to the publications The locality wage publications are undergoing a number of significant changes. Please see the bulletins published between September 2006 and July 2007 for information on earlier changes. The areas covered by the publications are currently being updated to the December 2003 definitions of Combined Statistical Areas, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, as determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This bulletin includes a new State and local government sample that reflects the new area definition. In appendix table 2, the total numbers of establishments in the sampling frame are now benchmarked to the latest available establishment counts, adjusted for establishments that are out of scope for NCS. 1 high-level occupational aggregation. Table 19 presents mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions within the private sector. Appendix table 1 presents the number of workers represented by the survey, by high-level occupational aggregation and for all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Appendix table 2 provides the number of establishments in the sampling frame and the number of responding and nonresponding establishments. mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings data for full-time employees in private establishments with fewer than 100 workers, and in private establishments with 100 workers or more. Table 17 presents mean hourly earnings data for union and nonunion workers in all, private, and State and local government establishments by high-level occupational aggregation. Table 18 provides hourly earnings data for time and incentive workers in all and private establishments by 2 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Civilian workers Worker and establishment characteristics Private industry workers Hourly earnings Mean Relative error2 (percent) $18.53 3.3 Management, professional, and related ........... Management, business, and financial .......... Professional and related ............................... Service .............................................................. Sales and office ................................................ Sales and related .......................................... Office and administrative support ................. Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ................................................... Construction and extraction ......................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ............ Production, transportation, and material moving ............................................................ Production .................................................... Transportation and material moving ............. 31.00 29.51 31.59 9.95 14.20 15.22 13.68 State and local government workers Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) 34.6 $18.15 3.6 4.6 5.3 5.6 5.4 3.7 8.9 2.6 35.1 39.2 33.7 29.7 32.7 29.9 34.4 30.99 28.79 31.92 9.61 14.28 15.22 13.73 21.56 23.94 20.14 7.2 8.3 10.4 39.1 38.8 39.3 14.67 15.64 12.87 3.8 3.2 7.5 Full time ............................................................ Part time ........................................................... 19.73 11.20 Union ................................................................ Nonunion .......................................................... Time .................................................................. Incentive ........................................................... Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) 34.9 $23.62 5.0 31.6 5.1 6.2 6.2 4.7 4.0 8.9 2.7 36.5 43.1 34.2 29.6 32.5 29.9 34.2 31.02 34.27 30.10 16.08 13.15 – 13.15 9.9 8.9 13.4 18.3 8.9 – 8.9 29.5 24.6 31.3 31.2 36.4 – 36.4 21.83 24.97 20.14 7.7 9.0 10.4 39.2 39.0 39.3 – – – – – – – – – 36.8 38.9 33.6 14.70 15.69 12.84 3.8 3.2 7.7 36.9 38.9 33.7 – – – – – – – – – 3.1 14.4 39.7 19.6 19.35 10.99 3.4 15.5 39.8 20.1 24.44 15.59 3.2 19.4 37.7 12.2 22.76 17.56 3.4 3.7 36.9 34.2 21.87 17.49 4.1 3.8 36.9 34.6 25.50 20.10 4.8 10.6 37.0 24.7 18.13 27.66 3.3 15.6 34.4 40.6 17.70 27.66 3.5 15.6 34.7 40.6 23.62 – 5.0 – 31.6 – Goods producing .............................................. Service providing .............................................. (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 21.19 16.41 5.1 4.7 39.5 32.7 (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers ..................................................... 100-499 workers ............................................... 500 workers or more ......................................... 17.10 16.89 24.44 7.2 4.0 4.3 32.6 36.8 35.9 16.98 16.80 24.04 7.4 4.1 5.4 32.8 37.2 36.5 22.61 18.60 25.97 10.0 16.0 4.0 26.2 30.2 33.7 All workers .......................................................... Worker characteristics4,5 Establishment characteristics 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 3 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $18.53 3.3 $19.73 3.1 $11.20 14.4 Management occupations ................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Financial managers .......................................................... 34.88 27.87 34.10 54.84 37.53 33.39 6.2 8.9 7.9 9.0 5.1 5.2 34.74 27.87 34.10 54.84 – 33.39 6.3 8.9 7.9 9.0 – 5.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. 22.26 20.30 24.90 4.7 4.2 7.8 22.26 20.30 24.90 4.7 4.2 7.8 – – – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Level 7 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Engineers ......................................................................... Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Mechanical engineers ................................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 33.60 25.58 32.82 37.91 34.93 32.82 37.91 32.50 24.58 4.0 5.6 4.5 7.5 3.5 4.5 7.5 6.7 10.9 33.60 25.58 32.82 37.91 34.93 32.82 37.91 32.50 24.58 4.0 5.6 4.5 7.5 3.5 4.5 7.5 6.7 10.9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Community and social services occupations .................. 15.55 17.9 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Level 9 ............................................................. Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... Level 9 ............................................................. Elementary school teachers, except special education ............................................................ 30.19 12.08 41.88 10.3 6.9 4.1 31.37 – 42.28 9.0 – 4.6 13.02 12.08 – 4.1 6.9 – 36.93 42.56 36.62 45.88 7.4 4.8 10.6 4.2 38.92 42.56 39.76 45.88 7.2 4.8 11.8 4.2 – – – – – – – – 36.93 12.2 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... 16.16 16.10 12.4 12.3 16.08 – 13.4 – – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Level 5 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 8 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Registered nurses ............................................................ Level 9 ............................................................. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... Level 5 ............................................................. 32.95 19.43 27.07 28.09 – 34.02 – 19.56 19.53 10.7 2.4 9.5 2.9 – 15.9 – .7 1.6 32.52 19.51 27.35 – 31.62 31.26 31.85 – – 10.6 4.1 12.0 – 15.8 15.6 16.7 – – 34.28 – – – – – – – – 16.4 – – – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 12.30 11.18 13.64 12.09 10.59 10.45 14.55 6.4 8.5 7.0 9.5 3.7 3.1 6.1 12.44 11.07 14.15 12.07 10.65 10.48 14.64 7.5 8.0 9.3 9.6 4.8 4.0 5.7 11.30 – – – – – – 4.1 – – – – – – Protective service occupations ......................................... 15.45 16.3 16.45 16.8 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 8.29 7.18 6.97 7.71 5.37 4.77 3.5 3.0 6.5 .4 21.6 9.5 10.33 – 7.34 – – – 7.7 – 8.7 – – – See footnotes at end of table. 4 6.90 6.90 6.77 7.04 5.85 5.13 6.2 2.5 6.9 13.6 20.1 10.3 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $7.30 6.94 7.47 2.7 3.2 5.6 – – – – – – $7.01 6.94 6.81 0.5 3.2 2.1 7.30 7.47 2.7 5.6 – – – – 7.02 6.81 .5 2.1 10.54 9.35 10.83 9.60 7.6 11.4 7.8 10.8 $12.04 10.77 12.25 10.77 10.9 8.6 11.7 8.6 7.00 6.92 – – 3.2 2.4 – – 12.02 9.46 9.38 11.8 9.5 13.1 12.56 – – 16.1 – – – – – – – – Personal care and service occupations ........................... Level 2 ............................................................. 9.52 8.41 11.9 13.4 – – – – 8.15 8.14 16.0 16.2 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Retail salespersons ...................................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ................. 15.22 8.17 9.61 14.56 22.37 9.67 8.17 9.79 7.91 8.80 7.91 8.80 10.52 9.36 23.66 8.9 9.6 3.4 3.4 9.0 13.9 9.6 3.5 7.4 2.2 7.4 2.2 17.6 2.6 20.6 18.78 – 10.53 15.16 22.95 11.80 – 11.13 – – – – 13.56 – 25.70 9.1 – 2.0 2.6 10.7 10.8 – 2.6 – – – – 12.9 – 25.3 8.04 7.32 – – – 7.93 7.32 – 7.31 – 7.31 – 8.44 – – 10.4 6.4 – – – 11.3 6.4 – 5.1 – 5.1 – 15.2 – – 19.73 19.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers ................................... Financial clerks ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Tellers ........................................................................... Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Level 3 ............................................................. Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Level 5 ............................................................. Office clerks, general ........................................................ Level 4 ............................................................. 13.68 8.61 11.03 11.86 13.07 17.57 17.50 2.6 2.8 3.4 5.9 3.7 5.5 4.6 14.19 – 11.12 11.81 13.20 17.85 17.50 2.7 – 3.7 7.1 3.5 5.4 4.6 10.33 8.26 10.71 12.12 – – – 6.5 3.0 5.4 9.6 – – – 20.76 12.73 11.86 13.23 12.48 10.64 14.19 11.72 11.63 10.16 16.25 18.11 13.09 15.21 9.4 6.4 7.4 8.5 4.9 3.0 10.3 4.6 8.7 9.2 9.8 5.9 5.3 9.4 20.76 12.94 11.92 13.64 12.57 – 14.19 11.66 11.26 – 16.15 18.05 13.58 15.21 9.4 6.6 7.5 8.7 4.9 – 10.3 3.6 6.8 – 10.1 6.5 6.2 9.4 – – – – – – – – – 8.50 – – 10.24 – – – – – – – – – – .5 – – 6.4 – Construction and extraction occupations ....................... Level 7 ............................................................. 23.94 28.93 8.3 1.5 24.38 28.93 8.4 1.5 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Level 7 ............................................................. 20.14 25.17 10.4 10.0 20.19 25.17 10.6 10.0 – – – – Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... See footnotes at end of table. 5 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers .............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Level 7 ............................................................. Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Level 7 ............................................................. Production occupations .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Computer control programmers and operators ................ Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Level 4 ............................................................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Level 2 ............................................................. Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $32.45 13.62 10.1 21.8 – $13.62 – 21.8 – – – – 22.14 25.93 23.90 26.35 8.1 4.5 6.9 4.1 22.14 25.93 23.90 26.35 8.1 4.5 6.9 4.1 – – – – – – – – 15.64 10.37 10.31 17.72 16.92 16.24 17.99 21.16 3.2 5.2 1.5 12.3 4.9 1.8 7.5 4.9 15.76 10.58 10.27 17.62 16.92 16.55 17.99 21.16 3.6 5.4 2.0 13.5 4.9 .3 7.5 4.9 $12.01 – – – – – – – 16.7 – – – – – – – 24.90 14.8 24.90 14.8 – – 12.57 11.27 12.39 18.97 11.01 22.67 17.19 5.1 2.6 7.6 10.2 13.7 18.5 12.0 12.57 11.27 12.39 18.88 11.01 22.67 17.19 5.1 2.6 7.6 10.7 13.7 18.5 12.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.19 12.0 17.19 12.0 – – 14.44 14.2 14.44 14.2 – – 17.22 4.8 17.22 4.8 – – 13.58 12.01 15.04 6.5 9.9 9.6 13.58 12.01 15.04 6.5 9.9 9.6 – – – – – – 11.30 10.9 11.30 10.9 – – 11.60 7.1 11.60 7.1 – – 16.37 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 15.51 11.38 8.2 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 10.7 1.8 16.37 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 15.51 11.38 8.2 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 10.7 1.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.38 12.55 10.10 11.41 1.8 13.2 3.5 7.6 11.38 12.80 10.38 11.71 1.8 14.1 3.1 7.5 – – – – – – – – 12.87 9.86 13.16 16.08 18.39 14.63 18.53 15.62 13.41 12.74 11.11 7.5 7.4 12.3 18.7 13.9 7.2 18.1 9.6 3.0 2.1 10.0 13.75 10.54 13.42 16.06 18.39 15.63 18.53 15.62 13.41 12.74 12.00 8.3 10.6 12.0 18.9 13.9 6.9 18.1 9.6 3.0 2.1 12.0 8.80 8.66 – – – – – – – – 8.17 7.7 8.2 – – – – – – – – 8.6 See footnotes at end of table. 6 Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Laborers and material movers, hand –Continued Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $9.09 16.56 12.52 6.9 26.3 7.7 $9.63 16.68 12.52 8.6 27.1 7.7 $8.03 – – 8.2 – – 12.18 9.50 10.73 9.44 9.92 8.27 16.0 10.7 12.7 13.2 8.4 5.8 15.66 11.90 10.73 9.44 9.92 8.27 17.9 9.9 12.7 13.2 8.4 5.8 8.13 7.99 – – – – 8.5 8.0 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 7 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $18.15 3.6 $19.35 3.4 $10.99 15.5 Management occupations ................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Financial managers .......................................................... 33.87 27.87 33.39 33.39 7.4 8.9 8.0 5.2 33.87 27.87 33.39 33.39 7.4 8.9 8.0 5.2 – – – – – – – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. 22.52 20.30 25.94 5.0 4.2 9.8 22.52 20.30 25.94 5.0 4.2 9.8 – – – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Level 7 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Engineers ......................................................................... Level 9 ............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Mechanical engineers ................................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 33.60 25.58 32.82 37.91 34.93 32.82 37.91 32.50 24.58 4.0 5.6 4.5 7.5 3.5 4.5 7.5 6.7 10.9 33.60 25.58 32.82 37.91 34.93 32.82 37.91 32.50 24.58 4.0 5.6 4.5 7.5 3.5 4.5 7.5 6.7 10.9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... 16.14 16.06 13.1 13.2 16.08 – 13.4 – – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Level 5 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. Level 9 ............................................................. Registered nurses ............................................................ Level 9 ............................................................. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... Level 5 ............................................................. 32.97 19.43 27.04 – 34.04 – 19.56 19.53 10.7 2.4 9.6 – 16.0 – .7 1.6 32.55 19.51 27.31 31.62 31.26 31.85 – – 10.7 4.1 12.2 15.8 15.8 16.7 – – 34.28 – – – – – – – 16.4 – – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 12.25 11.18 13.64 11.88 10.45 10.45 14.55 6.4 8.5 7.0 9.6 3.1 3.1 6.1 12.39 11.07 14.15 11.86 10.48 10.48 14.64 7.5 8.0 9.3 9.6 4.0 4.0 5.7 11.30 – – – – – – 4.1 – – – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. 8.27 7.18 6.97 7.71 5.37 4.77 7.30 6.94 7.47 3.4 3.0 6.5 .4 21.6 9.5 2.7 3.2 5.6 10.31 – 7.34 – – – – – – 7.7 – 8.7 – – – – – – 6.90 6.90 6.77 7.04 5.85 5.13 7.01 6.94 6.81 6.2 2.5 6.9 13.6 20.1 10.3 .5 3.2 2.1 7.30 7.47 2.7 5.6 – – – – 7.02 6.81 .5 2.1 10.26 8.73 10.55 8.95 7.5 9.9 8.0 9.1 11.76 – 11.96 – 12.0 – 13.1 – 6.99 – – – 3.4 – – – 12.16 11.9 12.56 16.1 – – 9.52 8.14 13.1 16.2 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Level 1 ............................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Personal care and service occupations ........................... Level 2 ............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 8 8.15 8.14 16.0 16.2 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Sales and related occupations .......................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Level 2 ............................................................. Retail salespersons ...................................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ................. $15.22 8.17 9.61 14.56 22.37 9.67 8.17 9.79 7.91 8.80 7.91 8.80 10.52 9.36 23.66 8.9 9.6 3.4 3.4 9.0 13.9 9.6 3.5 7.4 2.2 7.4 2.2 17.6 2.6 20.6 $18.78 – 10.53 15.16 22.95 11.80 – 11.13 – – – – 13.56 – 25.70 9.1 – 2.0 2.6 10.7 10.8 – 2.6 – – – – 12.9 – 25.3 $8.04 7.32 – – – 7.93 7.32 – 7.31 – 7.31 – 8.44 – – 10.4 6.4 – – – 11.3 6.4 – 5.1 – 5.1 – 15.2 – – 19.73 19.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Financial clerks ................................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Level 4 ............................................................. Tellers ........................................................................... Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Level 3 ............................................................. Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Level 5 ............................................................. Office clerks, general ........................................................ Level 4 ............................................................. 13.73 8.59 11.04 11.61 13.36 17.89 17.50 12.86 11.95 13.59 12.84 10.64 14.19 11.92 12.10 10.16 16.72 18.11 12.87 16.15 2.7 2.8 3.6 5.2 3.5 5.9 4.6 6.8 8.9 9.5 5.2 3.0 10.3 4.9 9.7 9.2 10.0 5.9 5.5 8.9 14.25 – 11.12 11.49 13.41 18.24 17.50 13.11 12.02 14.14 12.98 – 14.19 11.91 – – 16.63 18.05 13.40 16.15 2.8 – 3.7 6.3 3.5 5.8 4.6 7.0 9.0 9.5 5.0 – 10.3 3.1 – – 10.4 6.5 7.3 8.9 10.42 8.23 10.68 12.12 – – – – – – – – – – – 8.50 – – – – 7.3 3.1 6.7 9.6 – – – – – – – – – – – .5 – – – – Construction and extraction occupations ....................... Level 7 ............................................................. 24.97 29.28 9.0 .7 24.97 29.28 9.0 .7 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Level 7 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers .............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Level 7 ............................................................. Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Level 7 ............................................................. 20.14 25.17 10.4 10.0 20.19 25.17 10.6 10.0 – – – – 32.45 13.62 10.1 21.8 – 13.62 – 21.8 – – – – 22.14 25.93 23.90 26.35 8.1 4.5 6.9 4.1 22.14 25.93 23.90 26.35 8.1 4.5 6.9 4.1 – – – – – – – – 15.69 10.44 10.31 17.72 16.92 16.24 17.99 21.16 3.2 5.6 1.5 12.3 4.9 1.8 7.5 4.9 15.81 10.67 10.27 17.62 16.92 16.55 17.99 21.16 3.6 5.7 2.0 13.5 4.9 .3 7.5 4.9 12.01 – – – – – – – 16.7 – – – – – – – 24.90 14.8 24.90 14.8 – – 12.57 5.1 12.57 5.1 – – Production occupations .................................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Level 6 ............................................................. Level 7 ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 9 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers –Continued Level 3 ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Level 2 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Computer control programmers and operators ................ Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Level 3 ............................................................. Level 5 ............................................................. Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $11.27 12.39 18.97 11.01 22.67 17.19 2.6 7.6 10.2 13.7 18.5 12.0 $11.27 12.39 18.88 11.01 22.67 17.19 2.6 7.6 10.7 13.7 18.5 12.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.19 12.0 17.19 12.0 – – 14.44 14.2 14.44 14.2 – – 17.22 4.8 17.22 4.8 – – 13.58 12.01 15.04 6.5 9.9 9.6 13.58 12.01 15.04 6.5 9.9 9.6 – – – – – – 11.30 10.9 11.30 10.9 – – 11.60 7.1 11.60 7.1 – – 16.37 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 15.51 11.38 8.2 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 10.7 1.8 16.37 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 15.51 11.38 8.2 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 10.7 1.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.38 12.55 1.8 13.2 11.38 12.80 1.8 14.1 – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Miscellaneous production workers –Continued Level 1 ............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Level 4 ............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Level 4 ............................................................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Level 2 ............................................................. Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Level 2 ............................................................. Level 3 ............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Level 1 ............................................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Level 1 ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $10.10 11.41 3.5 7.6 $10.38 11.71 3.1 7.5 – – – – 12.84 9.86 13.16 16.57 18.39 14.63 18.53 15.62 13.41 12.74 11.11 9.09 16.56 12.52 7.7 7.4 12.3 21.8 13.9 7.2 18.1 9.6 3.0 2.1 10.0 6.9 26.3 7.7 13.74 10.54 13.42 16.57 18.39 15.63 18.53 15.62 13.41 12.74 12.00 9.63 16.68 12.52 8.6 10.6 12.0 21.8 13.9 6.9 18.1 9.6 3.0 2.1 12.0 8.6 27.1 7.7 $8.73 8.66 – – – – – – – – 8.17 8.03 – – 7.6 8.2 – – – – – – – – 8.6 8.2 – – 12.18 9.50 10.73 9.44 9.92 8.27 16.0 10.7 12.7 13.2 8.4 5.8 15.66 11.90 10.73 9.44 9.92 8.27 17.9 9.9 12.7 13.2 8.4 5.8 8.13 7.99 – – – – 8.5 8.0 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 11 Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $23.62 5.0 $24.44 3.2 $15.59 19.4 Management occupations ................................................. 40.01 7.4 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. Level 9 ............................................................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Level 9 ............................................................. Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... Level 9 ............................................................. Elementary school teachers, except special education ............................................................ 31.13 42.56 11.2 4.8 32.31 42.56 9.5 4.8 – – – – 39.84 42.56 41.48 45.88 1.6 4.8 2.6 4.2 42.13 42.56 45.88 45.88 3.3 4.8 4.2 4.2 – – – – – – – – 42.79 4.0 – – – – 13.15 8.9 13.61 7.5 – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 12 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Total Occupation4 and level Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All workers .............................................................................. $18.53 3.3 $19.73 3.1 $11.20 14.4 Management occupations ................................................. Group III ............................................................ Financial managers .......................................................... 34.88 34.40 33.39 6.2 8.0 5.2 34.74 – 33.39 6.3 – 5.2 – – – – – – Business and financial operations occupations ............. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ 22.26 18.44 25.30 4.7 4.5 8.1 22.26 – – 4.7 – – – – – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Engineers ......................................................................... Group III ............................................................ Mechanical engineers ................................................... Group III ............................................................ Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... Group II ............................................................. 33.60 25.18 35.58 34.93 35.58 32.50 33.80 24.58 24.58 4.0 .6 3.1 3.5 3.1 6.7 4.9 10.9 10.9 33.60 – – 34.93 – 32.50 33.80 24.58 – 4.0 – – 3.5 – 6.7 4.9 10.9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Community and social services occupations .................. Group II ............................................................. 15.55 15.55 17.9 17.9 – – – – – – – – Education, training, and library occupations .................. Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Elementary school teachers, except special education ............................................................ Group II ............................................................. 30.19 10.79 19.13 41.44 10.3 1.1 11.7 3.5 31.37 – – – 9.0 – – – 13.02 – – – 4.1 – – – 36.93 19.78 42.56 36.62 19.46 45.88 7.4 9.9 4.8 10.6 12.9 4.2 38.92 – – 39.76 – – 7.2 – – 11.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 36.93 19.46 12.2 12.9 – – – – – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. 16.16 12.4 16.08 13.4 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Group II ............................................................. Registered nurses ............................................................ Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... Group II ............................................................. 32.95 23.16 34.02 24.86 – 19.56 19.73 10.7 3.0 15.9 8.0 – .7 1.5 32.52 – 31.26 – 31.45 – – 10.6 – 15.6 – 16.3 – – 34.28 – – – – – – 16.4 – – – – – – Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Group I .............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ Group I .............................................................. 12.30 12.36 12.09 10.59 10.45 10.45 10.45 14.55 14.92 6.4 6.6 9.5 3.7 3.1 3.1 3.1 6.1 7.9 12.44 – – 10.65 – 10.48 10.48 14.64 – 7.5 – – 4.8 – 4.0 4.0 5.7 – 11.30 – – – – – – – – 4.1 – – – – – – – – Protective service occupations ......................................... 15.45 16.3 16.45 16.8 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Group I .............................................................. Food service, tipped ......................................................... Group I .............................................................. Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 8.29 7.26 5.37 5.37 4.77 3.5 3.4 21.6 21.6 9.5 10.33 – – – – 7.7 – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 13 6.90 – 5.85 – 5.13 6.2 – 20.1 – 10.3 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Waiters and waitresses –Continued Group I .............................................................. Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Group I .............................................................. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... Group I .............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $4.77 7.30 7.30 9.5 2.7 2.7 – – – – – – $5.13 7.01 – 10.3 .5 – 7.30 7.30 2.7 2.7 – – – – 7.02 7.02 .5 .5 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Group I .............................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Group I .............................................................. Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... Group I .............................................................. 10.54 10.57 10.83 10.83 7.6 8.0 7.8 7.8 $12.04 – 12.25 – 10.9 – 11.7 – 7.00 – – – 3.2 – – – 12.02 12.02 9.38 9.38 11.8 11.8 13.1 13.1 12.56 12.56 – – 16.1 16.1 – – – – – – – – – – Personal care and service occupations ........................... Group I .............................................................. 9.52 8.25 11.9 6.5 – – – – 8.15 – 16.0 – Sales and related occupations .......................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Group III ............................................................ First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Group I .............................................................. Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Group I .............................................................. Cashiers ................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Retail salespersons ...................................................... Group I .............................................................. Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ................. 15.22 9.14 18.91 39.89 22.37 9.67 9.19 7.91 7.91 7.91 7.91 10.52 9.66 23.66 8.9 9.9 13.5 8.4 9.0 13.9 10.9 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 17.6 13.6 20.6 18.78 – – – 22.95 11.80 – – – – – 13.56 – 25.70 9.1 – – – 10.7 10.8 – – – – – 12.9 – 25.3 8.04 – – – – 7.93 – 7.31 – 7.31 7.31 8.44 8.44 – 10.4 – – – – 11.3 – 5.1 – 5.1 5.1 15.2 15.2 – 19.73 19.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations .............. Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers ................................... Financial clerks ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Group I .............................................................. Tellers ........................................................................... Group I .............................................................. Customer service representatives .................................... Group II ............................................................. Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Group I .............................................................. Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Group I .............................................................. Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Group II ............................................................. Office clerks, general ........................................................ Group I .............................................................. 13.68 11.85 18.29 2.6 2.1 4.1 14.19 – – 2.7 – – 10.33 – – 6.5 – – 20.76 12.73 11.77 13.23 12.55 10.64 10.64 14.19 17.13 11.72 11.72 10.16 10.16 16.25 19.04 13.09 12.00 9.4 6.4 2.6 8.5 3.3 3.0 3.0 10.3 10.4 4.6 4.6 9.2 9.2 9.8 5.1 5.3 4.6 20.76 12.94 – 13.64 12.63 – – 14.19 17.13 11.66 11.66 – – 16.15 – 13.58 12.40 9.4 6.6 – 8.7 3.4 – – 10.3 10.4 3.6 3.6 – – 10.1 – 6.2 6.3 – – – – – – – – – – – 8.50 8.50 – – 10.24 10.24 – – – – – – – – – – – .5 .5 – – 6.4 6.4 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. 23.94 13.07 28.80 8.3 7.9 2.1 24.38 – – 8.4 – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 20.14 10.4 20.19 10.6 – – See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations –Continued Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers .............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Group II ............................................................. Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... Group II ............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $10.78 22.25 8.0 8.4 – – – – – – – – 32.45 13.62 10.1 21.8 – $13.62 – 21.8 – – – – 22.14 22.27 23.90 24.10 8.1 8.2 6.9 6.3 22.14 – 23.90 24.10 8.1 – 6.9 6.3 – – – – – – – – 15.64 14.58 18.16 3.2 5.4 2.1 15.76 – – 3.6 – – $12.01 – – 16.7 – – 24.90 22.53 14.8 11.2 24.90 22.53 14.8 11.2 – – – – 12.57 12.14 12.39 12.39 18.97 17.19 17.56 5.1 5.5 7.6 7.6 10.2 12.0 12.0 12.57 – 12.39 12.39 18.88 17.19 – 5.1 – 7.6 7.6 10.7 12.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 17.19 17.56 12.0 12.0 17.19 17.56 12.0 12.0 – – – – 14.44 14.2 14.44 14.2 – – 17.22 4.8 17.22 4.8 – – 13.58 13.05 15.18 6.5 10.1 8.9 13.58 – – 6.5 – – – – – – – – 11.30 10.44 10.9 7.7 11.30 10.44 10.9 7.7 – – – – 11.60 11.60 7.1 7.1 11.60 11.60 7.1 7.1 – – – – Production occupations .................................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Group II ............................................................. Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Group I .............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Computer control programmers and operators ................ Group II ............................................................. Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Group I .............................................................. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Group I .............................................................. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Group II ............................................................. Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Group I .............................................................. Group II ............................................................. Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Group I .............................................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Group I .............................................................. Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Group I .............................................................. Helpers--production workers ........................................ Group I .............................................................. 16.37 18.50 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 12.68 19.97 15.51 11.38 11.38 8.2 5.1 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 2.3 9.9 10.7 1.8 1.8 16.37 18.50 18.50 16.11 14.98 14.75 12.68 19.97 15.51 11.38 – 8.2 5.1 5.1 7.0 3.9 2.9 2.3 9.9 10.7 1.8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.38 11.38 12.55 12.38 11.41 11.41 1.8 1.8 13.2 12.6 7.6 7.6 11.38 11.38 12.80 – 11.71 11.71 1.8 1.8 14.1 – 7.5 7.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 12.87 7.5 13.75 8.3 8.80 7.7 See footnotes at end of table. 15 Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Total Occupation4 and level Transportation and material moving occupations –Continued Group I .............................................................. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Group I .............................................................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Group I .............................................................. Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Group I .............................................................. Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Group I .............................................................. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Group I .............................................................. Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Group I .............................................................. Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... Group I .............................................................. Full-time workers Part-time workers Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $12.68 14.63 14.63 15.62 15.62 13.41 13.34 11.11 11.03 7.9 7.2 7.2 9.6 9.6 3.0 3.8 10.0 10.8 – $15.63 – 15.62 15.62 13.41 13.34 12.00 – – 6.9 – 9.6 9.6 3.0 3.8 12.0 – – – – – – – – $8.17 – – – – – – – – 8.6 – 12.18 12.06 10.73 10.73 9.92 9.92 16.0 17.8 12.7 12.7 8.4 8.4 15.66 15.75 10.73 10.73 9.92 9.92 17.9 18.9 12.7 12.7 8.4 8.4 8.13 8.13 – – – – 8.5 8.5 – – – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 16 Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $7.73 $10.33 $14.83 $22.81 $33.70 Management occupations ................................................. Financial managers .......................................................... 24.04 26.00 28.31 30.71 35.65 35.65 41.48 35.65 48.08 35.65 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.25 19.07 20.07 23.08 29.62 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Engineers ......................................................................... Mechanical engineers ................................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 23.74 24.55 27.93 16.58 27.93 30.13 29.78 22.91 31.13 32.76 31.13 24.04 38.10 39.63 35.67 27.86 48.53 49.04 39.42 31.78 Community and social services occupations .................. 9.72 10.00 13.78 20.45 21.08 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... Elementary school teachers, except special education ............................................................ 9.56 13.00 27.62 41.49 53.78 19.25 14.11 24.50 23.67 34.56 32.09 48.28 51.03 57.44 65.37 12.83 23.46 32.31 51.46 66.95 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. 11.23 11.23 14.46 16.59 30.60 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 16.16 21.50 17.02 20.64 24.73 18.48 26.73 31.55 19.85 43.00 45.00 20.64 45.00 45.00 21.81 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 9.38 8.90 8.90 11.57 10.08 9.73 9.73 13.26 11.55 10.25 10.25 14.11 14.11 11.26 11.15 16.00 16.00 12.40 12.32 18.75 Protective service occupations ......................................... 7.28 10.00 15.56 20.00 23.51 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 3.90 3.90 3.90 6.38 6.50 3.90 3.90 6.50 7.25 3.90 3.90 6.95 9.50 7.00 3.90 7.75 11.00 8.75 7.25 9.00 6.38 6.50 6.95 8.00 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 6.50 6.50 7.50 7.60 9.50 9.50 11.78 11.90 16.83 16.83 7.50 6.50 9.00 6.68 10.00 8.55 16.15 11.36 20.52 11.90 Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.85 7.50 8.50 12.26 14.78 Sales and related occupations .......................................... First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Retail salespersons ...................................................... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ................. 7.00 14.40 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 9.56 8.24 17.25 7.25 7.00 7.00 7.50 14.11 11.79 17.25 9.00 7.57 7.57 9.00 16.66 17.25 20.19 11.79 8.00 8.00 12.99 36.28 30.30 42.22 14.50 9.50 9.50 15.73 41.51 9.56 14.11 16.16 16.66 41.51 Office and administrative support occupations .............. First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers ................................... Financial clerks ................................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Tellers ........................................................................... Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 8.50 10.50 12.80 16.51 20.08 12.99 9.40 9.59 8.44 9.25 9.00 7.50 16.54 10.87 11.33 9.36 11.12 10.00 7.95 21.78 11.50 12.99 10.87 13.00 11.89 9.22 24.51 13.95 14.00 11.29 16.42 12.80 12.00 28.14 18.69 20.80 12.50 17.51 13.25 15.05 See footnotes at end of table. 17 Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ $9.82 7.69 $12.73 10.00 $15.80 12.55 $19.50 16.04 $21.47 18.82 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 11.25 16.50 26.61 30.23 33.70 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers .............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 11.25 14.00 19.05 22.23 33.92 16.50 9.00 31.14 9.00 31.30 11.25 37.45 19.05 40.87 19.05 13.30 16.63 17.33 20.82 21.15 22.23 23.95 28.79 33.92 33.92 Production occupations .................................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Computer control programmers and operators ................ Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ 9.25 11.11 14.00 18.90 25.00 15.88 16.30 25.00 27.00 41.04 9.50 9.32 10.41 10.67 10.90 10.20 11.77 14.00 12.00 12.00 15.33 16.95 13.95 14.51 29.11 19.38 16.96 15.69 29.11 22.00 10.67 14.00 16.95 19.38 22.00 8.75 8.75 15.50 19.46 22.17 9.09 15.50 17.10 19.46 22.17 9.25 10.00 11.72 18.12 18.90 9.00 9.00 10.00 12.59 15.59 9.88 10.50 10.55 11.10 16.37 12.00 13.33 12.95 12.62 10.71 12.02 9.79 13.50 16.00 13.73 13.39 11.01 12.02 10.77 16.25 18.36 15.50 14.64 12.77 14.70 11.00 18.13 21.08 18.57 16.19 16.40 20.22 11.57 20.34 23.23 20.27 17.89 24.50 20.70 13.52 9.79 8.25 9.00 10.77 10.00 10.00 11.00 11.83 11.70 11.57 13.71 13.58 13.52 20.95 13.58 7.00 7.25 12.50 10.27 7.00 8.00 12.50 12.50 11.80 7.50 11.80 14.80 14.80 12.76 9.50 15.00 16.00 16.00 15.00 13.60 21.00 27.00 16.95 16.80 15.72 6.50 7.35 7.00 7.50 7.35 7.25 9.91 11.48 8.50 14.77 14.00 10.88 20.70 14.00 14.83 Occupation2 Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 18 Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $7.65 $10.25 $14.78 $22.00 $31.50 Management occupations ................................................. Financial managers .......................................................... 24.04 26.00 26.00 30.71 33.84 35.65 39.29 35.65 44.20 35.65 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.25 19.07 20.07 26.10 29.62 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Engineers ......................................................................... Mechanical engineers ................................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 23.74 24.55 27.93 16.58 27.93 30.13 29.78 22.91 31.13 32.76 31.13 24.04 38.10 39.63 35.67 27.86 48.53 49.04 39.42 31.78 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. 11.23 11.23 14.46 16.56 30.60 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 16.16 21.47 17.02 20.64 24.53 18.48 26.73 31.55 19.85 43.00 45.00 20.64 45.00 45.00 21.81 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 9.38 8.90 8.90 11.57 10.03 9.73 9.73 13.26 11.55 10.25 10.25 14.11 14.11 11.15 11.15 16.00 16.00 12.32 12.32 18.75 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 3.90 3.90 3.90 6.38 6.50 3.90 3.90 6.50 7.25 3.90 3.90 6.95 9.28 7.00 3.90 7.75 11.00 8.75 7.25 9.00 6.38 6.50 6.95 8.00 9.00 6.50 6.50 7.50 7.60 9.50 9.50 11.00 11.36 16.69 16.69 7.81 9.43 10.45 16.69 20.52 Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.50 7.50 8.45 12.26 14.78 Sales and related occupations .......................................... First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Retail salespersons ...................................................... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ................. 7.00 14.40 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 9.56 8.24 17.25 7.25 7.00 7.00 7.50 14.11 11.79 17.25 9.00 7.57 7.57 9.00 16.66 17.25 20.19 11.79 8.00 8.00 12.99 36.28 30.30 42.22 14.50 9.50 9.50 15.73 41.51 9.56 14.11 16.16 16.66 41.51 Office and administrative support occupations .............. Financial clerks ................................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Tellers ........................................................................... Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 8.44 9.40 9.40 8.44 9.25 9.00 7.50 9.97 7.69 10.50 10.74 11.33 9.36 11.12 10.64 7.95 13.46 8.50 12.98 11.77 13.00 10.87 13.00 11.89 9.22 18.36 12.00 16.72 14.00 14.50 11.29 16.42 12.80 12.00 19.50 14.95 20.69 20.80 20.80 12.50 17.51 13.25 15.05 21.47 18.82 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 12.99 17.50 27.08 30.23 33.70 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers .............................................................. Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 11.25 14.00 19.05 22.23 33.92 16.50 9.00 31.14 9.00 31.30 11.25 37.45 19.05 40.87 19.05 13.30 16.63 17.33 20.82 21.15 22.23 23.95 28.79 33.92 33.92 Production occupations .................................................... 9.25 11.11 14.10 18.90 25.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 19 Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $15.88 $16.30 $25.00 $27.00 $41.04 9.50 9.32 10.41 10.67 10.90 10.20 11.77 14.00 12.00 12.00 15.33 16.95 13.95 14.51 29.11 19.38 16.96 15.69 29.11 22.00 10.67 14.00 16.95 19.38 22.00 8.75 8.75 15.50 19.46 22.17 9.09 15.50 17.10 19.46 22.17 9.25 10.00 11.72 18.12 18.90 9.00 9.00 10.00 12.59 15.59 9.88 10.50 10.55 11.10 16.37 12.00 13.33 12.95 12.62 10.71 12.02 9.79 13.50 16.00 13.73 13.39 11.01 12.02 10.77 16.25 18.36 15.50 14.64 12.77 14.70 11.00 18.13 21.08 18.57 16.19 16.40 20.22 11.57 20.34 23.23 20.27 17.89 24.50 20.70 13.52 9.79 8.25 9.00 10.77 10.00 10.00 11.00 11.83 11.70 11.57 13.71 13.58 13.52 20.95 13.58 7.00 7.25 12.50 10.27 7.00 8.00 12.50 12.50 11.80 7.50 11.59 14.80 14.80 12.76 9.50 15.00 16.00 16.00 15.00 13.60 21.00 27.00 16.95 16.80 15.72 6.50 7.35 7.00 7.50 7.35 7.25 9.91 11.48 8.50 14.77 14.00 10.88 20.70 14.00 14.83 Occupation2 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Computer control programmers and operators ................ Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 20 Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Occupation2 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $9.56 $11.50 $17.17 $32.09 $48.13 Management occupations ................................................. 28.31 30.75 39.90 48.08 51.68 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... Elementary school teachers, except special education ............................................................ 9.03 12.11 30.35 44.80 55.77 22.87 12.84 28.55 28.55 38.42 40.00 51.10 54.27 60.61 71.71 12.38 30.35 43.17 55.85 71.71 Office and administrative support occupations .............. 9.91 10.50 12.55 16.04 17.43 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 21 Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Full-time workers Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $9.00 $11.50 $16.40 $24.13 $34.30 Management occupations ................................................. Financial managers .......................................................... 24.04 26.00 26.78 30.71 35.65 35.65 41.48 35.65 48.08 35.65 Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.25 19.07 20.07 23.08 29.62 Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... Engineers ......................................................................... Mechanical engineers ................................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 23.74 24.55 27.93 16.58 27.93 30.13 29.78 22.91 31.13 32.76 31.13 24.04 38.10 39.63 35.67 27.86 48.53 49.04 39.42 31.78 Education, training, and library occupations .................. Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ...................................................................... Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 9.30 13.91 28.97 42.55 54.27 23.46 21.59 26.43 25.65 36.06 35.72 49.51 52.61 59.03 66.95 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................................................................. 11.23 11.23 14.46 16.56 30.60 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ Registered nurses ............................................................ 16.11 21.38 19.31 22.79 25.77 27.50 35.07 43.00 57.84 45.00 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 9.38 8.78 8.78 11.57 10.15 9.53 9.49 13.26 11.79 10.30 10.25 14.15 14.11 11.50 11.32 16.00 16.00 12.64 12.39 18.75 Protective service occupations ......................................... 9.30 11.25 15.89 20.15 24.92 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 3.90 8.00 9.50 10.36 19.23 8.22 7.81 9.50 9.43 10.63 11.00 12.70 16.15 18.52 20.52 7.81 9.43 11.00 16.69 20.52 Sales and related occupations .......................................... First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Retail salespersons ...................................................... Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 8.39 14.40 8.00 8.87 14.11 11.79 17.25 9.40 11.22 16.16 15.73 17.25 11.79 13.22 16.66 18.03 20.19 13.22 15.73 36.28 38.59 42.22 15.73 15.81 41.51 Office and administrative support occupations .............. First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers ................................... Financial clerks ................................................................. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. Customer service representatives .................................... Receptionists and information clerks ................................ Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 9.59 11.19 13.18 16.83 20.80 12.99 9.59 10.50 9.25 9.91 9.63 7.69 16.54 11.19 11.50 11.12 10.00 12.08 10.10 21.78 11.50 12.99 13.00 11.89 15.80 13.27 24.51 14.00 14.33 16.42 12.80 19.50 16.51 28.14 20.60 20.80 17.51 13.25 21.47 18.82 Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 12.30 17.50 27.08 30.23 33.70 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 11.25 9.00 14.00 9.00 19.05 11.25 22.23 19.05 33.92 19.05 13.30 16.63 17.33 20.82 21.15 22.23 23.95 28.79 33.92 33.92 Production occupations .................................................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ....................................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ................................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .......... 9.25 11.29 14.31 18.90 25.20 15.88 16.30 25.00 27.00 41.04 9.50 9.32 10.90 10.20 12.00 12.00 13.95 14.51 16.96 15.69 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. Building cleaning workers ................................................. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ........................................... See footnotes at end of table. 22 Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Full-time workers Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... Computer control programmers and operators ................ Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic .............................................................. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .................................................................. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..................................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......................................................... Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .............. Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................................... Machinists ......................................................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ...... Painting workers ............................................................... Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ........................................... Miscellaneous production workers ................................... Helpers--production workers ........................................ $10.41 10.67 $11.77 14.00 $13.50 16.95 $29.11 19.38 $29.11 22.00 10.67 14.00 16.95 19.38 22.00 8.75 8.75 15.50 19.46 22.17 9.09 15.50 17.10 19.46 22.17 9.25 10.00 11.72 18.12 18.90 9.00 9.00 10.00 12.59 15.59 9.88 10.50 10.55 11.10 16.37 12.00 13.33 12.95 12.62 10.71 12.02 9.79 13.50 16.00 13.73 13.39 11.01 12.02 10.77 16.25 18.36 15.50 14.64 12.77 14.70 11.00 18.13 21.08 18.57 16.19 16.40 20.22 11.57 20.34 23.23 20.27 17.89 24.50 20.70 13.52 9.79 9.00 9.65 10.77 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.72 11.70 11.57 14.15 13.58 13.52 20.95 14.31 Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 7.35 7.32 12.50 10.27 7.00 9.61 12.50 12.50 11.80 8.00 12.50 14.80 14.80 12.76 10.00 16.00 16.00 16.00 15.00 14.15 21.00 27.00 16.95 16.80 18.89 9.00 7.35 7.00 10.00 7.35 7.25 14.66 11.48 8.50 20.07 14.00 10.88 28.71 14.00 14.83 1 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. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 23 Table 10. Part-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Part-time workers Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All workers .............................................................................. $6.50 $6.75 $7.90 $11.06 $20.50 Education, training, and library occupations .................. 10.00 10.97 12.11 13.99 17.00 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 19.92 21.81 43.00 45.00 45.00 Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 9.54 10.00 10.42 13.20 13.97 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ Food service, tipped ......................................................... Waiters and waitresses ................................................ Fast food and counter workers ......................................... Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food ................................................... 3.90 3.90 3.90 6.25 6.50 3.90 3.90 6.50 6.70 3.90 3.90 6.75 7.50 7.25 6.50 7.20 8.50 9.63 8.25 8.25 6.25 6.50 6.75 7.20 8.25 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations .................................................................. 6.50 6.50 6.88 7.50 7.60 Personal care and service occupations ........................... 5.85 5.85 7.50 8.18 12.26 Sales and related occupations .......................................... Retail sales workers ......................................................... Cashiers, all workers .................................................... Cashiers ................................................................... Retail salespersons ...................................................... 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.96 6.75 6.50 6.50 7.00 7.50 7.40 7.20 7.20 8.87 9.00 9.00 7.67 7.67 9.00 9.29 9.00 8.20 8.20 9.00 Office and administrative support occupations .............. Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ Office clerks, general ........................................................ 7.63 6.60 8.22 7.95 7.70 10.00 9.40 8.10 10.00 11.80 9.08 12.00 13.45 11.20 13.00 Production occupations .................................................... 6.50 8.25 11.11 11.94 21.05 Transportation and material moving occupations .......... Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ........................................................................ 6.50 6.50 7.25 6.55 7.77 7.50 9.00 8.99 14.00 10.00 6.50 6.50 7.50 8.00 10.00 1 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. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 24 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $648 39.7 $39,692 $33,407 2,012 1,542 1,486 1,466 1,517 44.4 44.5 79,926 77,274 76,224 78,892 2,300 2,314 20.07 911 858 40.9 47,369 44,631 2,128 33.60 34.93 32.50 31.13 32.76 31.13 1,358 1,414 1,307 1,246 1,346 1,254 40.4 40.5 40.2 70,634 73,543 67,982 64,769 69,992 65,229 2,102 2,105 2,092 24.58 24.04 983 962 40.0 51,135 50,003 2,080 31.37 28.97 1,134 1,079 36.2 41,743 40,998 1,330 Mean Median Mean Median All workers ................................................ $19.73 $16.40 $782 Management occupations ................... Financial managers ............................ 34.74 33.39 35.65 35.65 Business and financial operations occupations .................................... 22.26 Architecture and engineering occupations .................................... Engineers ........................................... Mechanical engineers ..................... Engineering technicians, except drafters ......................................... Annual earnings5 Education, training, and library occupations .................................... Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ............ Elementary and middle school teachers .................................... 38.92 36.06 1,367 1,307 35.1 50,451 48,257 1,296 39.76 35.72 1,335 1,253 33.6 49,733 46,671 1,251 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................. 16.08 14.46 604 463 37.6 31,415 24,053 1,954 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations .................................... Registered nurses .............................. 32.52 31.26 25.77 27.50 1,267 1,202 1,050 1,105 38.9 38.4 65,872 62,490 54,600 57,443 2,025 1,999 12.44 11.79 486 472 39.0 25,253 24,565 2,029 10.65 10.30 422 407 39.6 21,928 21,174 2,058 10.48 10.25 415 407 39.6 21,592 21,154 2,061 14.64 14.15 561 530 38.3 29,183 27,570 1,993 Protective service occupations ........... 16.45 15.89 658 636 40.0 34,206 33,051 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations .................................... 10.33 9.50 394 350 38.2 19,816 16,835 1,917 12.04 12.25 10.63 11.00 491 490 445 440 40.7 40.0 25,510 25,470 23,150 22,880 2,119 2,080 12.56 11.00 503 440 40.0 26,131 22,880 2,080 18.78 15.73 746 632 39.7 38,803 32,885 2,066 22.95 11.80 13.56 17.25 11.79 13.22 938 457 526 693 455 529 40.9 38.7 38.8 48,760 23,760 27,353 36,051 23,640 27,498 2,125 2,013 2,018 25.70 16.66 1,028 666 40.0 53,462 34,647 2,080 14.19 13.18 558 520 39.4 28,793 27,040 2,030 20.76 12.94 21.78 11.50 810 513 868 460 39.0 39.7 42,128 26,685 45,136 23,920 2,029 2,063 13.64 12.99 546 520 40.0 28,372 27,019 2,080 Healthcare support occupations ......... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ............................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations .................................. Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ............. Building cleaning workers ................... Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners .................................... Sales and related occupations ............ First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ......................................... Retail sales workers ........................... Retail salespersons ........................ Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ............................... Office and administrative support occupations .................................... First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers ......................................... Financial clerks ................................... Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ........................... See footnotes at end of table. 25 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Customer service representatives ...... Receptionists and information clerks .. Secretaries and administrative assistants ...................................... Office clerks, general .......................... Construction and extraction occupations .................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................... Automotive technicians and repairers ....................................... Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ......................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ..... Production occupations ...................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ......................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ..... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............................... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ..................................... Computer control programmers and operators ...................................... Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic ..... Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ...... Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ........................................... Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......... Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................................ Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................... Machinists ........................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ......................................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ................................ Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders .................. Painting workers ................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Miscellaneous production workers ..... Helpers--production workers .......... Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $520 475 39.9 38.7 $29,441 23,465 $27,040 24,721 2,074 2,013 641 540 632 531 39.7 39.7 33,341 26,548 32,872 25,664 2,065 1,955 27.08 954 1,064 39.1 46,807 50,400 1,920 20.19 19.05 807 762 40.0 41,988 39,624 2,080 13.62 11.25 545 450 40.0 28,326 23,400 2,080 22.14 23.90 21.15 22.23 886 956 846 889 40.0 40.0 46,050 49,707 43,992 46,238 2,080 2,080 15.76 14.31 629 570 39.9 32,716 29,640 2,076 24.90 25.00 1,005 1,046 40.4 52,256 54,371 2,099 12.57 12.00 503 480 40.0 26,147 24,960 2,080 12.39 12.00 495 480 40.0 25,765 24,960 2,080 18.88 13.50 751 540 39.8 39,062 28,080 2,070 17.19 16.95 687 678 40.0 35,745 35,256 2,080 17.19 16.95 687 678 40.0 35,745 35,256 2,080 14.44 15.50 578 620 40.0 30,030 32,240 2,080 17.22 17.10 689 684 40.0 35,827 35,568 2,080 13.58 11.72 543 469 40.0 28,236 24,378 2,079 11.30 10.00 452 400 40.0 23,499 20,800 2,080 11.60 10.55 463 422 39.9 24,070 21,934 2,076 16.37 18.50 16.25 18.36 655 740 650 734 40.0 40.0 34,055 38,479 33,800 38,189 2,080 2,080 16.11 15.50 644 620 40.0 33,499 32,240 2,080 14.98 14.64 599 586 40.0 31,168 30,451 2,080 14.75 12.77 590 511 40.0 30,689 26,562 2,080 15.51 11.38 14.70 11.00 620 455 588 440 40.0 40.0 32,257 23,664 30,576 22,880 2,080 2,080 11.38 12.80 11.71 11.00 11.72 11.70 455 509 463 440 468 440 40.0 39.8 39.6 23,664 26,492 24,097 22,880 24,336 22,880 2,080 2,070 2,058 Mean Median Mean Median $14.19 11.66 $13.00 11.89 $566 451 16.15 13.58 15.80 13.27 24.38 See footnotes at end of table. 26 Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ........................................... Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............................. Industrial truck and tractor operators .. Laborers and material movers, hand .. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand .............. Machine feeders and offbearers ..... Packers and packagers, hand ........ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $488 39.2 $27,440 $24,882 1,996 619 555 39.6 31,306 28,860 2,002 14.80 12.76 10.00 617 533 468 555 488 400 39.5 39.7 39.0 30,901 27,714 24,355 28,860 25,376 20,800 1,978 2,067 2,029 14.66 11.48 8.50 618 421 381 586 440 338 39.5 39.2 38.4 32,136 21,899 19,827 30,493 22,864 17,576 2,052 2,040 1,999 Mean Median Mean Median $13.75 $12.50 $538 15.63 14.80 15.62 13.41 12.00 15.66 10.73 9.92 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 27 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $644 39.8 $39,779 $33,280 2,055 1,524 1,486 1,466 1,517 45.0 44.5 79,232 77,274 76,224 78,892 2,339 2,314 20.07 924 860 41.0 48,023 44,745 2,132 Mean Median Mean Median All workers ................................................ $19.35 $16.25 $771 Management occupations ................... Financial managers ............................ 33.87 33.39 33.84 35.65 Business and financial operations occupations .................................... 22.52 Architecture and engineering occupations .................................... Engineers ........................................... Mechanical engineers ..................... Engineering technicians, except drafters ......................................... 33.60 34.93 32.50 31.13 32.76 31.13 1,358 1,414 1,307 1,246 1,346 1,254 40.4 40.5 40.2 70,634 73,543 67,982 64,769 69,992 65,229 2,102 2,105 2,092 24.58 24.04 983 962 40.0 51,135 50,003 2,080 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations .................. 16.08 14.46 604 463 37.6 31,415 24,053 1,954 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations .................................... Registered nurses .............................. 32.55 31.26 25.73 27.31 1,268 1,202 1,046 1,100 39.0 38.5 65,940 62,501 54,392 57,200 2,026 2,000 12.39 11.67 484 472 39.0 25,164 24,565 2,030 10.48 10.25 415 407 39.6 21,592 21,154 2,061 Healthcare support occupations ......... Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ............................................. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ................................. Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations .................................. 10.48 10.25 415 407 39.6 21,592 21,154 2,061 14.64 14.15 561 530 38.3 29,183 27,570 1,993 Food preparation and serving related occupations .................................... 10.31 9.50 395 350 38.3 19,957 18,200 1,935 11.76 11.96 10.00 10.49 480 478 440 420 40.8 40.0 24,966 24,872 22,880 21,819 2,124 2,080 12.56 11.00 503 440 40.0 26,131 22,880 2,080 18.78 15.73 746 632 39.7 38,803 32,885 2,066 22.95 11.80 13.56 17.25 11.79 13.22 938 457 526 693 455 529 40.9 38.7 38.8 48,760 23,760 27,353 36,051 23,640 27,498 2,125 2,013 2,018 25.70 16.66 1,028 666 40.0 53,462 34,647 2,080 14.25 13.11 13.18 11.77 561 519 527 471 39.4 39.6 29,187 27,011 27,414 24,482 2,048 2,061 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ............. Building cleaning workers ................... Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners .................................... Sales and related occupations ............ First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ......................................... Retail sales workers ........................... Retail salespersons ........................ Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ............................... Office and administrative support occupations .................................... Financial clerks ................................... Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ........................... Customer service representatives ...... Receptionists and information clerks .. Secretaries and administrative assistants ...................................... Office clerks, general .......................... 14.14 14.19 11.91 13.00 13.00 11.89 565 566 459 520 520 475 40.0 39.9 38.5 29,401 29,441 23,857 27,040 27,040 24,721 2,080 2,074 2,003 16.63 13.40 17.72 12.97 660 534 664 519 39.7 39.9 34,295 27,787 34,550 26,978 2,063 2,074 Construction and extraction occupations .................................... 24.97 27.08 975 1,083 39.0 47,609 51,709 1,907 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................... 20.19 19.05 807 762 40.0 41,988 39,624 2,080 See footnotes at end of table. 28 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Automotive technicians and repairers ....................................... Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ......................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ..... Production occupations ...................... First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers ......................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ..... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............................... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ..................................... Computer control programmers and operators ...................................... Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic ..... Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ...... Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .. Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ........................................... Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ......... Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................................ Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....................... Machinists ........................................... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ......................................... Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................................... Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ................................ Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders .................. Painting workers ................................. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ...................................... Miscellaneous production workers ..... Helpers--production workers .......... Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ........................................... Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............................. Industrial truck and tractor operators .. Laborers and material movers, hand .. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand .............. Machine feeders and offbearers ..... Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $450 40.0 $28,326 $23,400 2,080 886 956 846 889 40.0 40.0 46,050 49,707 43,992 46,238 2,080 2,080 14.31 631 572 39.9 32,836 29,765 2,077 24.90 25.00 1,005 1,046 40.4 52,256 54,371 2,099 12.57 12.00 503 480 40.0 26,147 24,960 2,080 12.39 12.00 495 480 40.0 25,765 24,960 2,080 18.88 13.50 751 540 39.8 39,062 28,080 2,070 17.19 16.95 687 678 40.0 35,745 35,256 2,080 17.19 16.95 687 678 40.0 35,745 35,256 2,080 14.44 15.50 578 620 40.0 30,030 32,240 2,080 17.22 17.10 689 684 40.0 35,827 35,568 2,080 13.58 11.72 543 469 40.0 28,236 24,378 2,079 11.30 10.00 452 400 40.0 23,499 20,800 2,080 11.60 10.55 463 422 39.9 24,070 21,934 2,076 16.37 18.50 16.25 18.36 655 740 650 734 40.0 40.0 34,055 38,479 33,800 38,189 2,080 2,080 16.11 15.50 644 620 40.0 33,499 32,240 2,080 14.98 14.64 599 586 40.0 31,168 30,451 2,080 14.75 12.77 590 511 40.0 30,689 26,562 2,080 15.51 11.38 14.70 11.00 620 455 588 440 40.0 40.0 32,257 23,664 30,576 22,880 2,080 2,080 11.38 12.80 11.71 11.00 11.72 11.70 455 509 463 440 468 440 40.0 39.8 39.6 23,664 26,492 24,097 22,880 24,336 22,880 2,080 2,070 2,058 13.74 12.50 542 488 39.4 28,022 25,116 2,039 15.63 14.80 619 555 39.6 31,306 28,860 2,002 15.62 13.41 12.00 14.80 12.76 10.00 617 533 468 555 488 400 39.5 39.7 39.0 30,901 27,714 24,355 28,860 25,376 20,800 1,978 2,067 2,029 15.66 10.73 14.66 11.48 618 421 586 440 39.5 39.2 32,136 21,899 30,493 22,864 2,052 2,040 Mean Median Mean Median $13.62 $11.25 $545 22.14 23.90 21.15 22.23 15.81 See footnotes at end of table. 29 Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Packers and packagers, hand ........ Mean Median Mean Median $9.92 $8.50 $381 $338 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours 38.4 $19,827 $17,576 1,999 paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 30 Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 All workers ................................................ Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $730 37.7 $38,848 $35,006 1,589 1,166 1,190 36.1 42,194 43,201 1,306 Mean Median Mean Median $24.44 $18.26 $921 32.31 32.09 Education, training, and library occupations .................................... Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers ............ Elementary and middle school teachers .................................... 42.13 40.00 1,481 1,461 35.1 53,561 52,894 1,271 45.88 44.69 1,518 1,485 33.1 54,819 53,474 1,195 Office and administrative support occupations .................................... 13.61 12.73 533 460 39.2 25,639 23,920 1,883 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 31 Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Occupational group2 Total 1-99 workers 100-499 workers 500 workers or more All workers .................................................................... $18.15 $16.98 $16.80 $24.04 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 30.99 28.79 31.92 9.61 14.28 15.22 13.73 21.83 24.97 20.14 14.70 15.69 12.84 28.93 24.02 32.23 8.98 14.41 14.69 14.18 21.34 28.45 16.90 13.77 15.42 11.19 28.77 31.75 27.94 10.86 14.28 17.75 13.02 20.92 – 23.33 13.50 14.10 11.93 36.40 39.56 35.53 11.76 13.44 – 14.40 27.31 – 30.70 18.72 21.11 15.93 Relative error3 (percent) All workers .................................................................... 3.6 7.4 4.1 5.4 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 5.1 6.2 6.2 4.7 4.0 8.9 2.7 7.7 9.0 10.4 3.8 3.2 7.7 12.5 9.7 16.3 5.5 8.0 14.4 3.4 12.4 1.1 7.2 6.6 5.1 19.0 1.4 5.4 1.7 8.4 3.9 15.0 3.5 12.5 – 10.7 5.0 6.2 9.1 5.9 7.9 8.3 4.2 13.5 – 13.4 1.5 – 8.1 5.8 3.3 13.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 32 Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $660 39.8 $38,089 $33,904 2,037 1,388 1,466 47.8 72,159 76,224 2,485 19.23 792 846 41.6 41,193 44,013 2,166 35.40 35.07 1,308 1,400 37.0 68,018 72,800 1,921 Healthcare support occupations ............................. 13.54 14.11 514 480 37.9 26,716 24,946 1,973 Food preparation and serving related occupations ........................................................ 10.31 9.50 395 350 38.3 19,957 18,200 1,935 Sales and related occupations ................................ Retail sales workers ............................................... 18.23 10.85 16.66 9.50 724 414 666 376 39.7 38.2 37,663 21,528 34,647 19,552 2,066 1,984 Office and administrative support occupations .... Financial clerks ....................................................... 14.81 13.08 14.00 11.19 582 515 540 448 39.3 39.4 30,285 26,789 28,080 23,279 2,044 2,049 Construction and extraction occupations ............. 28.45 30.00 1,095 1,200 38.5 51,567 58,531 1,813 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ........................................................ 16.90 18.50 676 740 40.0 35,145 38,480 2,080 15.83 16.85 16.19 16.50 633 674 648 660 40.0 40.0 32,919 35,058 33,675 34,320 2,080 2,080 Mean Median Mean Median All workers .................................................................... $18.70 $16.88 $743 Management occupations ....................................... 29.04 29.32 Business and financial operations occupations ... 19.02 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........................................................ Production occupations .......................................... Computer control programmers and operators ...... Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic ........................................... Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................................. Miscellaneous production workers ......................... 16.85 16.50 674 660 40.0 35,058 34,320 2,080 15.40 11.54 17.45 11.70 616 462 698 468 40.0 40.0 32,024 24,011 36,302 24,336 2,080 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations ........................................................ Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ................... 12.76 13.41 12.50 14.80 499 513 500 500 39.1 38.2 25,482 25,756 26,000 26,000 1,998 1,921 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 33 Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Annual earnings5 Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $618 39.9 $41,092 $32,136 2,070 1,661 1,640 42.2 86,347 85,280 2,192 29.62 1,167 1,185 39.8 60,706 61,610 2,070 34.19 36.02 32.50 24.58 31.65 34.17 31.13 24.04 1,375 1,450 1,300 983 1,266 1,367 1,245 962 40.2 40.3 40.0 40.0 71,518 75,421 67,608 51,135 65,832 71,069 64,742 50,003 2,092 2,094 2,080 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........................................................ Registered nurses .................................................. 31.41 24.48 21.59 23.01 1,251 975 864 920 39.8 39.8 65,051 50,697 44,907 47,861 2,071 2,071 Healthcare support occupations ............................. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .......... Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ............ Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ...... 11.45 10.52 10.52 13.21 11.20 10.35 10.35 13.32 458 421 421 528 448 414 414 533 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.0 23,820 21,874 21,874 27,468 23,296 21,528 21,528 27,706 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,080 11.98 11.98 10.50 10.50 479 479 420 420 40.0 40.0 24,917 24,917 21,840 21,840 2,080 2,080 12.56 11.00 503 440 40.0 26,131 22,880 2,080 Sales and related occupations ................................ Retail sales workers ............................................... 20.07 13.13 13.19 13.19 798 519 589 529 39.8 39.5 41,486 26,993 30,638 27,498 2,067 2,055 Office and administrative support occupations .... Financial clerks ....................................................... Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ... Customer service representatives .......................... Receptionists and information clerks ...................... Secretaries and administrative assistants .............. Office clerks, general .............................................. 13.76 13.15 13.34 14.93 11.88 13.06 14.42 12.99 12.99 13.00 14.38 11.89 13.46 13.89 543 526 533 595 460 521 573 520 520 520 575 475 505 556 39.4 40.0 40.0 39.8 38.7 39.9 39.8 28,221 27,353 27,739 30,926 23,927 27,081 29,821 27,019 27,019 27,040 29,910 24,721 26,243 28,891 2,051 2,080 2,080 2,071 2,014 2,073 2,069 Construction and extraction occupations ............. 19.40 13.87 776 555 40.0 40,348 28,850 2,080 24.58 23.86 983 954 40.0 51,130 49,620 2,080 22.81 24.92 21.77 23.54 912 997 871 942 40.0 40.0 47,438 51,830 45,282 48,963 2,080 2,080 15.80 13.58 631 543 39.9 32,808 28,246 2,076 12.72 12.00 509 480 40.0 26,456 24,960 2,080 12.36 18.99 12.00 15.07 494 756 480 589 40.0 39.8 25,709 39,297 24,960 30,618 2,080 2,069 13.87 12.04 555 482 40.0 28,843 25,047 2,080 17.27 19.46 691 778 40.0 35,920 40,468 2,080 12.67 11.10 506 444 40.0 26,325 23,088 2,078 11.56 16.11 14.98 11.29 15.50 14.64 462 644 599 452 620 586 40.0 40.0 40.0 24,045 33,499 31,168 23,483 32,240 30,451 2,080 2,080 2,080 14.74 12.23 589 489 40.0 30,649 25,438 2,080 15.51 14.70 620 588 40.0 32,257 30,576 2,080 Mean Median Mean Median All workers .................................................................... $19.85 $15.55 $791 Management occupations ....................................... 39.38 41.00 Business and financial operations occupations ... 29.32 Architecture and engineering occupations ........... Engineers ............................................................... Mechanical engineers ......................................... Engineering technicians, except drafters ................ Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations ........................................................ Building cleaning workers ....................................... Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners ................................. Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ........................................................ Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers ....................................... Industrial machinery mechanics ......................... Production occupations .......................................... Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers ....................................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................................... Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ............. Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ............................................... Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ............................. Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................................. Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic .... Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ................ Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ............ Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ........................................................... Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 34 Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Rockford, IL, April 2007 — Continued Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Occupation2 Miscellaneous production workers ......................... Transportation and material moving occupations ........................................................ Industrial truck and tractor operators ...................... Laborers and material movers, hand ...................... Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ................................................ Machine feeders and offbearers ......................... Packers and packagers, hand ............................ Mean weekly hours Mean Median Mean annual hours $478 39.7 $27,600 $24,856 2,065 558 538 485 483 488 435 39.5 39.6 38.9 29,016 27,994 25,215 25,104 25,376 22,630 2,055 2,061 2,024 618 494 386 586 494 340 39.5 38.8 38.4 32,136 25,692 20,064 30,493 25,701 17,680 2,052 2,017 1,996 Mean Median Mean Median $13.37 $11.95 $531 14.12 13.58 12.46 12.20 12.76 11.00 15.66 12.74 10.05 14.66 13.18 8.71 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to Annual earnings5 employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 35 Table 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Union Nonunion Civilian workers Private industry workers State and local government workers Civilian workers Private industry workers State and local government workers All workers .................................................................... $22.76 $21.87 $25.50 $17.56 $17.49 $20.10 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 33.03 – 33.03 14.66 15.52 – 15.82 26.28 25.62 28.18 18.99 20.26 17.17 – – – – – – – 26.39 25.75 28.18 19.35 20.60 17.44 33.28 – 33.28 16.53 – – – – – – – – – 30.73 29.51 31.31 9.55 14.13 15.27 13.48 17.77 14.43 18.25 13.10 14.17 10.94 31.01 28.79 31.96 9.55 14.23 15.27 13.61 18.03 – 18.25 13.10 14.17 10.93 26.71 34.27 13.11 – 10.83 – 10.83 – – – – – – Occupational group3 Relative error4 (percent) All workers .................................................................... 3.4 4.1 4.8 3.7 3.8 10.6 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 11.9 – 11.9 17.3 9.5 – 8.8 4.0 8.9 10.6 7.6 3.5 14.3 – – – – – – – 4.1 9.2 10.6 7.5 2.9 15.0 12.4 – 12.4 18.8 – – – – – – – – – 4.9 5.3 6.2 4.7 4.0 9.0 2.8 7.9 15.5 9.2 3.0 2.0 8.5 5.2 6.2 6.3 4.7 4.1 9.0 2.8 8.5 – 9.2 3.0 2.0 8.5 2.8 8.9 7.3 – 6.6 – 6.6 – – – – – – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 36 Table 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Time Occupational group3 Incentive Civilian workers Private industry workers Civilian workers Private industry workers All workers .................................................................... $18.13 $17.70 $27.66 $27.66 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 30.37 29.58 30.66 9.95 13.07 11.79 13.61 21.48 – 19.98 14.67 15.69 12.87 30.23 28.76 30.79 9.61 13.07 11.79 13.67 21.73 24.97 19.98 14.71 15.74 12.84 42.39 – – – 24.03 27.01 – – – – 14.39 14.39 – 42.39 – – – 24.03 27.01 – – – – 14.39 14.39 – Relative error4 (percent) All workers .................................................................... 3.3 3.5 15.6 15.6 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 3.6 5.7 4.5 5.4 2.0 2.9 2.7 7.0 – 10.1 3.5 2.8 7.5 3.8 6.8 4.5 4.7 2.0 2.9 2.8 7.5 9.0 10.1 3.6 2.8 7.7 23.4 – – – 13.1 16.3 – – – – 15.4 15.4 – 23.4 – – – 13.1 16.3 – – – – 15.4 15.4 – 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 37 Table 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Goods producing Occupational group3 All workers ................................................ Management, professional, and related ............................................... Management, business, and financial ........................................ Professional and related ..................... Service .................................................... Sales and office ...................................... Sales and related ................................ Office and administrative support ....... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ..................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair .. Production, transportation, and material moving .............................................. Production .......................................... Transportation and material moving ... Service providing Construction Manufacturing Trade, transportation, and utilities Information Financial activities Professional and business services Education and health services Leisure and hospitality Other services – $20.40 $14.62 – $18.02 $17.46 $19.37 $8.71 $19.57 – 31.81 28.64 – 23.11 – 28.79 – – – – – – – – 32.86 31.36 – 20.06 31.07 15.63 30.54 25.55 8.68 11.88 11.23 13.19 – – – – – – 23.63 – – 13.93 – 13.72 – – – 12.45 – 12.75 27.23 29.00 10.96 12.34 – 12.45 – – 8.28 – – – – – – – – – – – 22.23 24.45 17.58 17.03 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.96 17.15 16.20 12.72 16.59 12.19 – – – – – – 9.72 10.48 8.07 – – – – – – – – – Relative error4 (percent) All workers ................................................ Management, professional, and related ............................................... Management, business, and financial ........................................ Professional and related ..................... Service .................................................... Sales and office ...................................... Sales and related ................................ Office and administrative support ....... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ..................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair .. Production, transportation, and material moving .............................................. Production .......................................... Transportation and material moving ... – 5.8 4.3 – 7.5 19.1 7.9 2.5 0.0 – 5.2 18.2 – 14.4 – 6.0 – – – – – – – – 14.0 2.0 – 4.8 19.5 5.2 22.8 32.8 7.9 2.1 5.0 5.0 – – – – – – 17.0 – – 8.2 – 8.4 – – – 5.3 – 6.1 8.8 7.2 6.8 5.8 – 6.6 – – 3.8 – – – – – – – – – – – 9.5 7.1 10.9 8.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.1 3.6 12.6 7.8 23.6 6.8 – – – – – – 6.4 1.2 6.1 – – – – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 38 Appendix A: Technical Note T Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to its employment. Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. his section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. Although this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all of the steps required to produce the data. Planning for the survey The overall design of the National Compensation Survey (NCS) includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection. Survey scope This survey covered establishments employing one worker or more in private goods-producing industries (mining, construction, and manufacturing); private service-providing industries (trade, transportation, and utilities, information, financial activities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and other services); State governments; and local governments. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment is an economic unit that produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment is usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government agency within the sampled area. The statistical area covered by this survey is defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of December 2003. The Rockford, IL, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Boone and Winnebago Counties, IL. Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data, working out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Regional Offices and visiting each establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to clarify and update data. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multistep process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time versus parttime, union versus nonunion, and time versus 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. Approximately one-fifth of the sample is reselected each year. For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers whose jobs could be characterized by the criteria A-1 identified in the last three steps. If a specific work level could not be determined, wages were still collected. In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each establishment by the BLS field economist. A complete list of employees was used for sampling, with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment. As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs for which data were collected in each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size. The number of jobs selected followed this schedule: Number of employees Number of selected jobs 1–49 50–249 250 or more Up to 4 6 8 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. NCS uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. A selected job may fall into any one of about 800 occupational classifications, from accountant to zoologist. When workers could be classified in more than one occupation, they were classified in the occupation that required the higher skill level. When there was no perceptible difference in skill level, the workers were classified in the occupation that described their primary activity. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major group. Occupations can fall into any of 22 major groups. Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the major group 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. Occupational leveling In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “point factor leveling” process. Point factor leveling matches certain aspects of a job to specific levels of work with assigned point values. Points for each factor are then totaled to determine the overall work level for the job. A-2 The NCS program is in the process of converting from a nine-factor to a four-factor occupational leveling system. The conversion is being phased in via annual NCS sample replenishment groups and will require several years for full implementation. The four occupational leveling factors are: • • • • Knowledge Job controls and complexity Contacts (nature and purpose) Physical environment Each factor consists of several levels, and each level has an associated description and assigned points. A knowledge guide for 24 families of closely related occupations contains short definitions of the point levels of knowledge expected for the occupations and presents relevant examples. The other three factors use identical descriptions for all occupational categories and contain a definition of each point level within each factor. The description within each factor best matching the job is chosen. The point levels within each factor are designed to describe the thresholds of distinct levels of work. When a job does not meet the full description of a point level, the next lowest point level is used. Points for the four factors are totaled to determine the overall work level. NCS publishes data for up to 15 work levels. Most supervisory occupations are evaluated based on their duties and responsibilities. A modified approach is used for professional and administrative supervisors when they direct professional work and are paid primarily to supervise. Such supervisory occupations are leveled based on the work level of the highest position reporting to them. For a complete description of point factor leveling, refer to the publication “National Compensation Survey: Guide for Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs and Pay,” available at the BLS National Compensation Survey Internet site at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbr0004.pdf. Combined work levels This bulletin includes a table which simplifies the presentation of work levels by combining them into four broad groups. The groups were determined by combinations of knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, physical environment, and supervisory duties, and are meant to be comparable across different occupations. The broad groups and the combined work levels are: Group designation Levels combined Group I Group II Group III Group IV Levels 1–4 Levels 5–8 Levels 9–12 Levels 13–15 Collection period Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60 metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample units. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are solely tied to an hourly rate or salary. 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: Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: • • • • • Incentive pay, including commissions, production bonuses, and piece rates Cost-of-living allowances Hazard pay Payments of income deferred due to participation in a salary reduction plan Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight or passengers The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: • • • • • • • Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for working a schedule that varies from the norm, such as night or weekend work Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free or subsidized room and board Payments made by third parties (for example, tips) On-call pay To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers who are 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 whom the employer considers to be full time. Part-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be part time. A-3 Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage. • • • 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 Level. A ranking within an occupation based on the requirements of the position. Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the BLS National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate data for the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member during the initial interview, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value of data for the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally defined by major occupation group. If average hourly earnings data were not provided by a sample member during the update interview, then missing average hourly earnings were imputed by multiplying prior average hourly earnings by the rate of change in the average hourly earnings of respondents. The regression model that takes into account available establishment characteris- tics is used to derive the rate of change in the average hourly earnings. Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights changed to zero. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The sample weight reflects the inverse of each unit’s probability of selection at each sample selection stage and four weight adjustment factors. The first factor adjusts for establishment nonresponse and the second factor adjusts for occupational nonresponse. The third factor adjusts for any special situations that may have occurred during data collection. The fourth factor, post-stratification, also called benchmarking, is introduced to adjust estimated employment totals to the current counts of employment by industry. The latest available employment counts were used to derive average hourly earnings in this publication. Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. Estimates of the number of workers represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve to indicate only the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Percentiles The percentiles presented in tables 6 through 10 are computed using earnings reported for individual workers in sampled establishment jobs and their scheduled hours of work. Establishments in the survey may report only individual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the calculation of percentile estimates, the individual-worker hourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest. The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution within A-4 each published occupation. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. RSE data are provided alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers were $17.75, with a relative standard error of 1.0 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is from $17.46 to $18.04 ($17.75 minus and plus $0.29, where $0.29 is the product of 1.645 times 1.0 percent times $17.75). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. Although they were not specifically measured, the nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the extensive training of the field economists who gathered the survey data, computer edits of the data, and detailed data review. Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Civilian workers Occupational group2 Private industry workers State and local government workers All workers .................................................................... 160,400 145,600 14,800 Management, professional, and related ..................... Management, business, and financial .................... Professional and related ......................................... Service ........................................................................ Sales and office .......................................................... Sales and related .................................................... Office and administrative support ........................... Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... Construction and extraction ................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... Production, transportation, and material moving ........ Production .............................................................. Transportation and material moving ....................... 37,900 9,100 28,800 26,000 34,700 12,800 21,900 17,600 7,200 10,400 44,100 26,900 17,200 28,500 7,100 21,500 24,800 32,200 12,800 19,400 16,800 6,400 10,400 43,300 26,700 16,600 9,300 2,000 7,300 1,300 2,500 – 2,500 – – – – – – 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. A-5 Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Rockford, IL, April 2007 Establishments Total Private industry State and local government Total in sampling frame1 ................................................ 5,654 5,534 120 Total in sample ............................................................... Responding ............................................................ Refused or unable to provide data ......................... Out of business or not in survey scope .................. 277 192 39 46 264 180 38 46 13 12 1 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. A-6
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