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Springfield, MO
National Compensation Survey
September 1998
________________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Alexis M. Herman, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner
August 1999
Bulletin 3095-29

Springfield, MO
Metropolitan Statistical Area

Greene

Springfield

Christian

Webster

Preface

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For additional information regarding this survey, please
contact the BLS Kansas City Regional Office at (816) 4262481. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington,
DC 20212-0001, or call (202) 606-6220, or send e-mail to
ocltinfo@bls.gov.
The data contained in this bulletin are also available at
the BLS Internet site (http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm).
Data are in three formats: an ASCII file containing the
published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional
columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin.
Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and,
with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory
impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202)
606-7828; Federal Relay Service: 1-800-877-8339.

his bulletin provides results of a September 1998 survey of occupational pay in the Springfield, MO, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new program known as the National Compensation Survey (NCS).
The survey could not have been conducted without the
cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin.
The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation.
Survey data were collected and reviewed by Bureau of
Labor Statistics field economists under the direction of
Stan Suchman, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of the Kansas City Regional Office. The Office of
Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation
with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office,
designed the survey, processed the data, and analyzed the
survey results.

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Contents

Page
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................
Wages in the Springfield, MO, MSA .........................................................................................................

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Tables:
A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ...........................................
A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and
State and local government...........................................................................................................
A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations,
full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................
B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ...............................................................

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Appendixes:
A. Technical Note.................................................................................................................................
Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors......................................................................................
Appendix table 3. Average work levels ...........................................................................................
B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................
C. Generic Leveling Criteria.................................................................................................................
D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ...........................................................................................................
E. A Guide for Users of Prior BLS Wage Surveys...............................................................................

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Introduction

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coverage of occupations and establishments within the survey area.
Occupations surveyed for this bulletin were selected
using probability techniques from a list of all those present
in each establishment. Previous OCS bulletins were limited to a preselected list of occupations, which represented
a small subset of all occupations in the economy. Information in the new bulletin is published for a variety of occupation-based data. This new approach includes data on
broad occupational classifications such as white-collar
workers, major occupational groups such as sales workers,
and individual occupations such as cashiers.
In tables containing work levels within occupational series, the work levels are derived from generic standards that
apply to all occupational groups. The job levels in the
OCS bulletins were based on narrowly-defined descriptions
that were not comparable across specific occupations.
Occupational data in this bulletin are also tabulated for
other classifications such as industry group, full-time versus part-time workers, union versus nonunion status, time
versus incentive status, and establishment employment size.
Not all of these series were generated by the OCS program.
The establishments surveyed for this bulletin were limited to those with 50 or more employees. Eventually, NCS
will be expanded to cover those now-excluded establishments. Then, virtually all workers in the civilian economy
will be surveyed, excluding only agriculture, private households, and employees of the Federal government.
.

his survey of occupational pay was conducted in the
Springfield, MO, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
The MSA includes Christian, Greene, and Webster
Counties.
This bulletin consists primarily of tables whose data are
analyzed in the initial textual section. Tabulations provide
information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in
this bulletin is information on the program, a technical note
describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with
detailed information on occupational classifications and the
generic leveling methodology.
NCS design and products
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new National Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on the
levels and rates of change of occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions,
and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be
the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the
change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This
bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These
data are similar to those released under the Occupational
Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued.
NCS more extensive than OCS
The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous
Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing broader

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Wages in the
Springfield, MO
Metropolitan Statistical Area

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Springfield, MO earned $11.59 per hour, while surveyed
State and local government workers averaged $17.66. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for white-collar occupations as $13.53 in private industry and $19.49 in State
and local government. Blue-collar occupations showed an
average hourly rate of $11.11 in private industry and
$14.71 in State and local government. Service occupations
within private industry averaged $7.05 per hour while those
found in State and local government averaged $12.25.

traight-time wages in the Springfield, MO, Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $12.53 per hour during
September 1998. White-collar workers had an average
wage of $14.82 per hour. Blue-collar workers averaged
$11.32 per hour, while service workers had average earnings of $7.89 per hour. (All hourly rates in this summary
cover both full-and part-time workers, unless otherwise
noted.)
Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational
group, Springfield, MO, September 1998

Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and
State and local government, Springfield, MO, September
1998

Dollars per hour
$ 15

Dollars per hour
$
20

10

15

10
5
5

0

0
Whitecollar

Bluecollar

Service
workers

White-collar
Private industry

Within each of these occupational groups, average
hourly wages for individual occupations were estimated.
For example, white-collar occupations included registered
nurses at $17.29 per hour, secretaries at $10.10, and general office clerks at $8.25. Among occupations in the bluecollar category, truck drivers averaged $12.63 per hour
while stock handlers and baggers averaged $7.35. Finally,
service occupations included janitors and cleaners at $7.73
per hour and nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at
$7.84. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 62 detailed
occupations; data for other detailed occupations surveyed
could not be reported separately due to concerns about the
confidentiality of survey respondents and the reliability of
the data.
Survey results show that private industry workers in

Blue-collar

Service

State and local government

Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the
survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were
$13.17 per hour, compared with an average of $7.34 per
hour for part-time workers.
Data for specific work levels within major occupational
groups are reported in table B-1. Occasionally, wage estimates for lower levels of work within major occupational
groups are greater than estimates for higher levels. This
can occur due to the mix of specific occupations (and industries) represented by the broad group as well as by the
variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may
not be published because no workers were identified at that
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wages averaged $12.10 in all goods-producing industries
and $11.98 in manufacturing. Hourly wages averaged
$11.36 in all service-producing industries, $13.18 in finance, insurance, and real estate, and $11.89 in services.
Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication
criteria.
Table C-4 reports that a total of 78,730 workers were
represented by the Springfield, MO survey. White-collar
occupations included 39,178 workers, or 50 percent; bluecollar occupations included 24,865 workers, or 32 percent;
and service occupations included 14,687 workers, or 19
percent.

level or because there were not enough data to guarantee
confidentiality and reliability.
Work levels for all major groups span several levels,
with professional specialty occupations and executive, administrative, and managerial occupations typically starting
and ending at higher work levels than the other groups.
Published data for administrative support occupations, including clerical, ranged from level 1 to level 6. As illustrated in chart 3, the average hourly rate was $7.36 for level
1, $7.88 for level 3, $11.86 for level 5 and $12.18 for level
6.

Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for
administrative support occupations, including clerical,
Springfield, MO, September 1998

Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by
occupational group, Springfield, MO, September 1998

Dollars per hour

Percent
50

$15

40
10
30

20

5

10
0
1

3

5

6

0
Whitecollar

Level

Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of
$13.63, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion
workers averaged $12.40. Time workers, whose wages
were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged
$12.57 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at
least partially based on productivity payments, averaged
$11.78 per hour.
Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divisions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly

Bluecollar

Service
workers

Data are also presented in appendix table 1 on the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The relative standard errors of published
mean hourly earnings for all industries, private industry,
and State and local government are available in appendix
table 2. The average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations are presented in appendix table 3.

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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Springfield,
MO, September 1998
All industries
Percentiles

Occupation3
Mean
10

All occupations ....................................................................... $12.53
All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 12.70

$6.08
6.15

25

Median
50

$7.50 $10.45
7.80 10.76

75

90

$15.36
15.53

$21.89
22.12

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

14.82
15.72

6.50
7.11

8.13
8.80

11.87
13.13

19.28
20.39

26.37
26.92

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations ............................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........

19.25
21.54
22.34
–
–
21.95
17.29
24.64
22.11
23.18
24.80
22.55
7.48
–
–
11.27
12.36
–

10.00
11.89
17.63
–
–
14.14
14.22
10.00
15.69
17.31
18.56
18.52
7.14
–
–
7.00
10.59
–

12.58
16.07
20.80
–
–
15.72
15.59
19.18
18.48
19.08
20.78
20.10
7.14
–
–
10.80
11.23
–

17.92
19.74
22.28
–
–
17.92
17.62
24.44
21.54
22.48
23.90
22.35
7.33
–
–
11.54
12.11
–

22.79
24.32
24.32
–
–
20.14
19.19
27.82
26.19
27.15
29.01
25.57
7.69
–
–
12.84
12.98
–

28.58
29.29
24.73
–
–
31.91
20.14
44.51
29.87
30.05
31.41
27.81
7.93
–
–
13.34
14.45
–

18.24
12.23
13.42
10.77
13.00
22.33
25.36
23.93
30.70
24.38
18.88
18.28
10.76
12.29
10.74
8.45
6.21
8.96
10.10
9.19
7.55
9.06
12.89
8.35
9.17
8.76
8.25
8.90
8.13
9.14

8.65
8.45
7.10
8.45
10.00
12.98
15.59
15.59
24.92
16.44
10.88
10.88
5.81
8.80
5.98
5.51
5.50
6.20
6.42
7.80
6.25
7.11
9.13
6.08
6.42
7.00
6.64
6.25
6.11
6.00

11.89
9.77
7.91
9.25
10.00
16.40
20.19
17.95
28.73
20.19
14.45
12.74
6.44
10.00
6.76
5.97
5.59
7.21
7.56
8.02
6.88
7.80
10.14
6.08
6.78
7.81
6.98
6.93
6.95
7.81

19.77
11.34
12.45
10.17
11.24
22.40
23.99
23.99
31.74
23.32
16.83
16.56
8.09
11.35
8.34
7.31
6.09
8.44
9.82
8.75
7.21
8.96
12.50
7.23
8.27
9.15
7.75
8.32
7.88
8.50

22.79
13.47
18.51
11.84
16.13
26.92
28.53
26.92
36.21
26.92
23.66
24.03
12.25
15.36
11.25
9.60
6.50
10.25
11.55
9.26
8.00
10.00
16.10
11.61
10.78
9.62
9.35
11.05
9.43
11.36

28.73
18.27
21.88
14.31
18.93
33.31
38.97
28.53
36.21
31.78
27.20
24.73
18.44
17.55
15.00
12.97
7.08
12.41
13.84
12.20
9.53
11.10
16.10
13.20
14.42
9.87
10.42
13.59
10.39
12.42

Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................

11.32
13.88
12.15
15.16
12.26
17.02
10.18
10.27
10.51
12.25

6.45
8.38
8.28
12.01
9.47
11.99
5.98
6.86
6.39
10.00

8.38
10.00
9.63
14.80
9.52
15.61
7.48
7.25
8.38
10.10

11.00
13.79
12.46
15.61
12.47
16.91
10.11
10.00
10.51
11.60

13.64
16.50
14.31
16.39
12.89
18.27
12.57
13.40
13.64
15.22

16.35
18.90
15.92
16.50
16.78
22.99
13.97
13.40
13.94
15.80

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Springfield,
MO, September 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles

Occupation3
Mean
10

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Assemblers ........................................................... $10.15
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
8.75
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
8.43
Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 12.43
Truck drivers ......................................................... 12.63
Bus drivers ............................................................ 14.87
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 11.58
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 13.03
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
9.46
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... 10.24
Construction laborers ........................................... 12.25
Production helpers ................................................
7.92
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
7.35
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 10.39
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
9.47
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
8.19
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
Service occupations, N.E.C. .................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid
to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living
adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for
overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and
dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th,
25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the
earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of
the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown,
and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or
less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn
the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th
percentiles follow the same logic.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.
Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a
part-time schedule based on the definition used by each
establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week
schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one

$7.23
5.40
5.75
8.23
8.26
10.43
7.25

25

Median
50

$8.93 $10.00
5.40
8.00
5.75
7.29
9.48 11.85
9.92 11.85
10.43 14.90
8.89 10.60

75

90

$12.45
11.59
11.67
15.40
15.00
16.55
15.40

$12.60
11.84
14.42
16.91
16.87
16.55
15.40

8.78
5.50
5.15
9.73
5.25
5.50
8.24
6.00
6.11

8.78
6.62
6.18
10.72
6.25
5.50
8.24
8.30
6.36

13.54
9.00
11.50
12.90
8.38
6.25
10.45
9.99
7.20

17.12
11.95
13.69
14.03
9.00
8.26
13.12
11.95
9.97

17.12
13.25
13.69
14.58
11.05
11.65
13.14
11.95
12.66

7.89
12.86
14.40
6.71

5.25
5.79
11.06
2.30

5.96
10.30
13.23
5.40

7.00
11.87
14.21
6.29

9.12
14.94
16.00
8.00

11.79
17.74
17.74
10.75

9.70
3.63
8.53
8.10
5.11
5.88
7.90
7.84
7.82

7.08
2.13
6.29
5.65
3.50
5.15
6.26
6.24
5.50

7.75
2.13
6.90
6.39
4.61
5.28
6.89
6.74
6.05

9.00
2.27
8.16
7.75
4.80
5.70
7.55
7.25
6.88

11.53
6.36
9.40
9.74
6.05
6.25
8.86
8.45
9.97

13.00
6.70
12.23
11.50
6.25
6.95
9.53
9.97
11.07

10.64
6.79
7.73
–
6.24

8.02
5.50
5.50
–
5.15

8.40
6.05
5.99
–
5.25

10.61
6.49
7.00
–
5.50

12.47
6.85
9.97
–
7.24

13.75
8.65
10.11
–
7.24

establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a
40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data
did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected.
This
procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote
level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean
wages for the occupation.

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Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Springfield,
MO, September 1998
Private industry
Percentiles

Occupation3
Mean

Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Natural scientists ....................................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, special education ...............
Substitute teachers .............................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social scientists and urban planners ......
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Lawyers and judges ................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Technical occupations ................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians ....................................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Technical and related occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Financial managers ............................
Administrators, education and related
fields .............................................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
Management related occupations ..........
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Sales occupations ..........................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ..........
Sales workers, hardware and building
supplies ........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ......
Cashiers .............................................
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ......................................................
Secretaries .........................................
Receptionists ......................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks
Stock and inventory clerks ..................
Investigators and adjusters except
insurance ......................................
Data entry keyers ...............................
Teachers’ aides ..................................
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Blue-collar occupations ...................................

Percentiles
Mean

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$6.00
6.00

$7.21
7.30

$9.90
10.00

$13.64
13.75

$19.19
19.19

$17.66
17.66

13.53
14.36

6.41
6.89

7.75
8.27

10.76
11.54

16.88
18.22

24.03
24.15

19.49
19.49

8.74
8.74

11.92
11.92

18.71
18.71

24.47
24.47

30.11
30.11

17.71
21.06
22.34
–
–
22.16
17.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

8.87
11.89
17.63
–
–
14.14
14.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

11.54
15.08
20.80
–
–
15.81
15.69
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

15.73
18.31
22.28
–
–
18.07
17.69
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

19.96
21.33
24.32
–
–
20.14
19.19
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

24.70
28.73
24.73
–
–
31.91
20.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

21.82
22.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.17
23.18
24.80
22.55
7.48
–
–
–
–

12.11
11.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.69
17.31
18.56
18.52
7.14
–
–
–
–

16.93
17.31
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.37
19.08
20.78
20.10
7.14
–
–
–
–

22.21
22.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.77
22.48
23.90
22.35
7.33
–
–
–
–

26.78
26.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.43
27.15
29.01
25.57
7.69
–
–
–
–

29.69
29.83
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.99
30.05
31.41
27.81
7.93
–
–
–
–

–
12.08

–
8.45

–
9.63

–
11.24

–
13.19

–
18.29

–
14.96

–
12.35

–
12.57

–
13.84

–
16.67

–
18.05

13.42
10.60

7.10
8.45

7.91
9.20

12.45
10.14

18.51
11.49

21.88
14.31

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

12.99

10.00

10.00

11.24

16.38

18.93

–

–

–

–

–

–

21.35

12.02

16.15

21.40

26.60

29.45

25.69

14.45

16.67

23.85

33.71

39.62

23.68
23.92

14.42
15.59

19.71
17.95

23.32
26.92

26.92
26.92

35.89
35.89

31.34
–

22.78
–

23.99
–

29.50
–

39.62
–

43.90
–

–
24.58
18.66

–
16.44
10.82

–
20.19
12.98

–
24.43
17.16

–
27.91
23.66

–
31.78
25.63

30.53
–
19.61

25.24
–
14.45

28.73
–
14.45

29.56
–
16.67

32.56
–
23.85

37.52
–
33.71

18.31
10.76
12.29

10.88
5.81
8.80

12.74
6.44
10.00

16.56
8.09
11.35

24.03
12.25
15.36

24.73
18.44
17.55

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

10.74
8.45
6.21

5.98
5.51
5.50

6.76
5.97
5.59

8.34
7.31
6.09

11.25
9.60
6.50

15.00
12.97
7.08

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

8.79
9.35
7.55

6.15
6.18
6.25

7.07
6.42
6.88

8.19
8.98
7.21

10.00
11.54
8.00

12.26
14.42
9.53

9.87
10.96
–

6.91
8.74
–

8.02
8.74
–

9.10
11.30
–

11.47
13.84
–

13.84
13.84
–

9.04
8.35
8.49

7.11
6.08
6.42

7.80
6.08
6.78

8.96
7.23
8.20

10.00
11.61
9.39

11.10
13.20
10.78

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

8.76
8.90
–

7.00
6.25
–

7.81
6.93
–

9.15
8.32
–

9.62
11.05
–

9.87
13.59
–

–
–
8.13

–
–
6.11

–
–
6.95

–
–
7.88

–
–
9.43

9.13

6.00

7.81

8.50

11.36

12.42

–

–

–

–

–

–

11.11

6.33

8.30

10.75

13.40

15.80

14.71

10.81

14.82

17.72

20.87

All occupations ..................................................... $11.59
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 11.69
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......

State and local government

See footnotes at end of table.

6

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$8.74 $11.07 $16.24 $23.15 $28.64
8.74 11.07 16.24 23.15 28.64

9.90

–
–
10.39

Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Springfield,
MO, September 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles

Occupation3
Mean
10

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations .............................................. $13.43
Industrial machinery repairers ............ 15.16
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ 11.17
Supervisors, production occupations .. 17.02
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors ................................................. 10.18
Punching and stamping press
operators ...................................... 10.27
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.51
Welders and cutters ............................ 12.25
Assemblers ......................................... 10.15
Miscellaneous hand working
occupations, N.E.C. ......................
8.75
Production inspectors, checkers and
examiners .....................................
8.43
Transportation and material moving
occupations .............................................. 12.49
Truck drivers ....................................... 12.78
Bus drivers ..........................................
–
Industrial truck and tractor equipment
operators ...................................... 11.58
Miscellaneous material moving
equipment operators, N.E.C. ........ 13.03
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
9.16
Construction laborers .........................
–
Production helpers ..............................
7.92
Stock handlers and baggers ...............
7.35
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.39
Hand packers and packagers .............
9.47
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
7.90
Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Police and detectives, public service ..
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Waiters and waitresses ......................
Cooks .................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ......
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ..........
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.

State and local government

$8.38
12.01
9.20
11.99

25

Median
50

$9.83 $12.89
14.80 15.61
9.47 12.27
15.61 16.91

Percentiles
Mean
75

90

$15.93
16.39
12.89
18.27

$18.27
16.50
12.89
22.99

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$17.28 $13.06 $15.92 $16.78 $18.58 $21.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

5.98

7.48

10.11

12.57

13.97

–

–

–

–

–

–

6.86

7.25

10.00

13.40

13.40

–

–

–

–

–

–

6.39
10.00
7.23

8.38
10.10
8.93

10.51
11.60
10.00

13.64
15.22
12.45

13.94
15.80
12.60

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

5.40

5.40

8.00

11.59

11.84

–

–

–

–

–

–

5.75

5.75

7.29

11.67

14.42

–

–

–

–

–

–

8.26
8.34
–

9.39
10.02
–

11.85
11.96
–

15.40
15.02
–

17.12
16.90
–

11.48
–
13.61

8.00
–
10.43

10.43
–
10.43

10.43
–
10.43

11.21
–
12.30

12.43
–
26.90

7.25

8.89

10.60

15.40

15.40

–

–

–

–

–

–

8.78

8.78

13.54

17.12

17.12

–

–

–

–

–

–

5.50
–
5.25
5.50

6.50
–
6.25
5.50

8.75
–
8.38
6.25

11.74
–
9.00
8.26

13.14
–
11.05
11.65

12.62
10.41
–
–

10.38
9.78
–
–

12.44
10.59
–
–

13.69
11.21
–
–

17.72
11.47
–
–

8.24
6.00
6.11

8.24
8.30
6.11

10.45
9.99
6.94

13.12
11.95
8.50

13.14
11.95
12.66

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

7.05
–
–
6.58

5.15
–
–
2.30

5.75
–
–
5.37

6.73
–
–
6.25

8.18
–
–
7.75

9.90
–
–
10.75

12.25
14.50
14.40
9.16

8.14
10.35
11.06
6.59

9.97
11.43
13.23
7.50

11.07
13.49
14.21
9.48

14.21
15.53
16.00
10.75

17.43
17.98
17.74
11.05

9.70
3.63
8.54
7.68
5.11
5.88

7.08
2.13
6.29
5.65
3.50
5.15

7.75
2.13
6.90
6.18
4.61
5.28

9.00
2.27
8.16
6.99
4.80
5.70

11.53
6.36
9.40
8.46
6.05
6.25

13.00
6.70
12.51
11.50
6.25
6.95

–
–
8.37
–
–
–

–
–
6.23
–
–
–

–
–
6.59
–
–
–

–
–
8.25
–
–
–

–
–
8.86
–
–
–

–
–
12.02
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

7

9.75
9.70
–
–

Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Springfield,
MO, September 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles

Occupation3
Mean

Service occupations (-Continued)
Health service occupations .....................
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Maids and housemen .........................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................

State and local government
Percentiles
Mean

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$7.90

$6.26

$6.85

$7.53

$8.86

$9.62

7.84

6.24

6.74

7.25

8.45

7.17
6.79
6.59
–

5.50
5.50
5.50
–

5.96
6.05
5.67
–

6.56
6.49
6.30
–

7.76
6.85
7.11
–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in
the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive
the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the
rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less
than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than
the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as
working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each
establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be
considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

10

25

Median
50

75

90

–

–

–

–

–

–

9.97

–

–

–

–

–

–

9.90
8.65
8.50
–

$10.26
–
–
–

$9.97
–
–
–

$9.97 $10.11 $11.07 $11.07
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

8

Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Springfield, MO, September
1998
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3

Percentiles
Mean
10

All occupations ..................................................... $13.17
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 13.28
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Natural scientists ....................................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, special education ...............
Substitute teachers .............................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social scientists and urban planners ......
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Technical occupations ................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians ....................................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Financial managers ............................
Administrators, education and related
fields .............................................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
Management related occupations ..........
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Sales occupations ..........................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ..........
Sales workers, hardware and building
supplies ........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ......
Cashiers .............................................
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ......................................................
Secretaries .........................................
Typists ................................................
Receptionists ......................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks
Stock and inventory clerks ..................
Investigators and adjusters except
insurance ......................................
General office clerks ...........................
Data entry keyers ...............................
Teachers’ aides ..................................
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................

Part-time

$6.52
6.63

25

Median
50

$8.23 $11.30
8.38 11.47

Percentiles
Mean
75

90

$15.80
15.90

$22.88
22.79

10

25

Median
50

$7.34
7.48

$5.24
5.15

$5.51
5.50

$6.20
6.22

75

90

$8.02 $10.39
8.03 10.75

15.46
16.11

7.00
7.30

8.74
9.20

12.50
13.46

20.19
20.80

26.85
26.92

8.50
9.90

5.70
5.70

5.98
6.18

6.87
7.69

8.41
10.39

14.29
17.46

19.40
21.68
22.34
–
–
22.00
17.28
25.18
22.33
23.18
24.80
22.55
–
–
–
11.15
12.28
–

10.00
11.89
17.63
–
–
14.10
14.15
10.00
15.69
17.31
18.56
18.52
–
–
–
7.00
10.59
–

12.70
16.13
20.80
–
–
15.69
15.59
19.18
18.53
19.08
20.78
20.10
–
–
–
10.59
11.00
–

18.05
19.77
22.28
–
–
17.86
17.65
25.54
21.65
22.48
23.90
22.35
–
–
–
11.54
11.87
–

23.03
24.32
24.32
–
–
19.90
19.19
27.82
26.26
27.15
29.01
25.57
–
–
–
12.34
13.07
–

28.58
29.23
24.73
–
–
29.23
20.14
44.51
29.99
30.05
31.41
27.81
–
–
–
13.60
14.74
–

16.00
18.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.36
–
–
–
7.48
–
–
–
–
–

7.26
8.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.14
–
–
–
7.14
–
–
–
–
–

10.00
13.68
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.14
–
–
–
7.14
–
–
–
–
–

14.93
17.19
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.33
–
–
–
7.33
–
–
–
–
–

18.75
20.16
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.93
–
–
–
7.69
–
–
–
–
–

31.91
31.91
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.57
–
–
–
7.93
–
–
–
–
–

18.24
12.36

8.65
8.45

11.89
9.79

19.77
11.43

22.79
13.73

28.73
18.29

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

13.42
10.77

7.10
8.45

7.91
9.25

12.45
10.17

18.51
11.84

21.88
14.31

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

22.33

12.98

16.40

22.40

26.92

33.31

–

–

–

–

–

–

25.36
23.93

15.59
15.59

20.19
17.95

23.99
23.99

28.53
26.92

38.97
28.53

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

30.70
24.38
18.88

24.92
16.44
10.88

28.73
20.19
14.45

31.74
23.32
16.83

36.21
26.92
23.66

36.21
31.78
27.20

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

18.28
11.91
12.29

10.88
6.15
8.80

12.74
7.00
10.00

16.56
9.15
11.35

24.03
14.17
15.36

24.73
25.03
17.55

–
6.70
–

–
5.50
–

–
5.75
–

–
6.10
–

–
7.63
–

–
8.21
–

11.29
–
6.44

5.98
–
5.50

7.16
–
6.00

9.26
–
6.39

11.25
–
6.60

15.00
–
7.25

–
6.79
5.99

–
5.51
5.25

–
5.75
5.50

–
6.02
5.84

–
6.85
6.30

–
9.02
6.76

9.17
10.30
9.19
7.86

6.50
6.42
7.80
7.21

7.30
8.74
8.02
7.21

8.74
10.12
8.75
8.00

10.56
13.50
9.26
8.00

12.50
13.84
12.20
9.53

7.29
–
–
–

5.70
–
–
–

6.00
–
–
–

6.75
–
–
–

8.35
–
–
–

9.30
–
–
–

9.14
8.35
9.71

7.11
6.08
6.78

7.80
6.08
7.22

9.08
7.23
8.92

10.20
11.61
10.78

11.30
13.20
14.42

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

8.85
8.30
8.90
7.11

7.02
6.64
6.25
5.67

8.05
7.13
6.93
6.39

9.15
7.93
8.32
6.98

9.62
9.35
11.05
7.84

9.87
10.47
13.59
8.68

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

9.67

7.81

7.82

9.44

11.36

12.42

–

–

–

–

–

–

See footnotes at end of table.

9

Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Springfield, MO, September
1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3

Part-time

Percentiles
Mean
10

Blue-collar occupations ................................... $11.52
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations .............................................. 13.88
Bus, truck, and stationary engine
mechanics .................................... 12.15
Industrial machinery repairers ............ 15.16
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ 12.26
Supervisors, production occupations .. 17.02
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors ................................................. 10.19
Punching and stamping press
operators ...................................... 10.27
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.39
Welders and cutters ............................ 12.25
Assemblers ......................................... 10.15
Miscellaneous hand working
occupations, N.E.C. ......................
8.75
Transportation and material moving
occupations .............................................. 12.40
Truck drivers ....................................... 12.63
Industrial truck and tractor equipment
operators ...................................... 11.58
Miscellaneous material moving
equipment operators, N.E.C. ........ 13.03
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers ..................................................... 10.02
Construction laborers ......................... 12.29
Production helpers ..............................
8.22
Stock handlers and baggers ...............
9.04
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.39
Hand packers and packagers .............
9.75
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
8.26

$6.63

Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Police and detectives, public service ..
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Waiters and waitresses ......................
Cooks .................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ......
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ..........
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.

25

Median
50

$8.58 $11.21

Percentiles
Mean
75

90

$13.94

$16.43

10

25

Median
50

$7.79

$5.25

$5.50

$6.50

75

90

$9.80 $12.03

8.38

10.00

13.75

16.50

18.90

–

–

–

–

–

–

8.28
12.01
9.47
11.99

9.63
14.80
9.52
15.61

12.46
15.61
12.47
16.91

14.31
16.39
12.89
18.27

15.92
16.50
16.78
22.99

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

6.03

7.48

10.11

12.60

13.97

–

–

–

–

–

–

6.86

7.25

10.00

13.40

13.40

–

–

–

–

–

–

6.33
10.00
7.23

8.25
10.10
8.93

10.25
11.60
10.00

13.64
15.22
12.45

13.94
15.80
12.60

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

5.40

5.40

8.00

11.59

11.84

–

–

–

–

–

–

8.23
8.26

9.38
9.91

11.85
11.85

15.40
15.00

16.91
16.87

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
–

7.25

8.89

10.60

15.40

15.40

–

–

–

–

–

–

8.78

8.78

13.54

17.12

17.12

–

–

–

–

–

–

6.15
9.75
5.40
5.97

8.00
10.72
6.30
7.36

9.99
12.90
8.53
8.44

12.11
14.03
9.00
11.65

13.50
14.58
11.05
11.65

6.89
–
–
–

5.25
–
–
–

5.50
–
–
–

6.00
–
–
–

8.20
–
–
–

8.24
7.43
6.11

8.24
8.30
6.36

10.45
9.99
7.18

13.12
11.95
10.10

13.14
11.95
12.66

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–

8.66
13.98
14.40
7.52

5.73
9.55
11.06
4.80

6.50
10.93
13.23
6.05

7.79
13.23
14.21
6.95

10.11
15.10
16.00
8.88

13.00
17.98
17.74
11.53

6.02
6.23
–
5.49

4.00
5.25
–
2.13

5.35
5.50
–
5.15

5.75
5.75
–
5.51

6.90
6.15
–
6.15

8.02
7.00
–
7.50

10.03
–
8.55
–
–
6.15

7.08
–
6.29
–
–
5.25

7.75
–
6.90
–
–
5.65

10.75
–
8.25
–
–
6.20

11.53
–
9.40
–
–
6.50

13.00
–
12.30
–
–
7.25

–
4.01
–
7.96
4.74
5.59

–
2.13
–
5.37
3.13
5.15

–
2.13
–
5.65
4.61
5.25

–
2.30
–
7.25
4.61
5.38

–
6.36
–
9.86
5.51
5.75

–
6.36
–
10.75
5.80
6.25

See footnotes at end of table.

10

10.01
–
–
–

Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Springfield, MO, September
1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3

Percentiles
Mean

Service occupations (-Continued)
Health service occupations .....................
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................

Part-time
Percentiles
Mean

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$8.11

$6.30

$7.00

$7.79

$8.86

$9.90

8.12

6.30

6.83

7.44

9.08

7.94
7.91
–

5.67
5.57
–

6.11
6.09
–

7.00
7.41
–

9.97
9.97
–

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in
the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive
the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the
rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less
than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than
the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based
on the definition used by each establishment.
Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the

10

25

Median
50

75

90

$7.16

$5.94

$6.56

$6.97

$7.77

$8.49

10.72

7.10

5.91

6.49

6.90

7.77

8.53

11.07
10.11
–

6.92
–
–

5.50
–
–

5.50
–
–

6.00
–
–

7.50
–
–

12.47
–
–

minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

11

Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Springfield, MO, September 1998
All industries
Occupation3

Mean
weekly
hours4

Weekly earnings
Mean

Median

Mean
annual
hours

Annual earnings
Mean

Median

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

39.9
39.9

$525
530

$452
459

2,013
2,009

$26,506
26,671

$23,480
23,774

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

39.8
39.8

615
641

497
538

1,977
1,962

30,554
31,606

25,610
27,312

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations ............................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........

39.4
39.2
43.0
–
–
40.4
39.9
39.7
37.0
36.8
36.5
36.5
–
–
40.0
40.0
–

764
851
961
–
–
888
690
1,000
827
852
906
824
–
–
446
491
–

705
769
966
–
–
714
706
1,022
813
834
883
818
–
–
462
475
–

1,835
1,772
2,236
–
–
2,092
2,074
1,595
1,425
1,366
1,351
1,355
–
–
2,080
2,080
–

35,615
38,417
49,955
–
–
46,030
35,842
40,172
31,824
31,670
33,499
30,566
–
–
23,185
25,545
–

32,635
34,951
50,232
–
–
37,153
36,691
39,894
30,758
30,830
32,458
30,461
–
–
24,003
24,690
–

40.0
39.8
40.0
39.8
41.1
41.9
42.6
39.0
43.3
40.2
39.3
39.8
41.6
40.0
39.8
39.7
39.9
40.0
40.0
39.8
40.3
40.0
40.0
39.8
40.0
35.9
40.0

729
492
537
428
917
1,062
1,019
1,199
1,057
759
719
474
511
452
256
364
411
368
315
364
337
389
354
330
356
255
387

791
457
498
407
918
1,047
960
1,190
1,047
679
658
352
454
370
256
350
405
350
320
363
284
357
366
317
333
247
378

2,080
2,065
2,080
2,059
2,117
2,140
2,215
1,809
2,246
2,091
2,045
2,061
2,163
2,080
1,987
2,051
2,056
2,080
2,080
2,068
2,097
2,080
2,080
2,067
2,080
1,316
2,080

37,933
25,522
27,910
22,173
47,265
54,267
53,001
55,541
54,755
39,482
37,395
24,541
26,573
23,483
12,800
18,813
21,177
19,112
16,356
18,905
17,504
20,202
18,405
17,150
18,511
9,360
20,114

41,122
23,590
25,896
21,155
47,129
52,604
49,899
52,570
54,425
35,293
34,200
18,304
23,608
19,261
13,012
18,054
20,426
18,200
16,640
18,886
14,791
18,555
19,032
16,494
17,306
8,914
19,632

Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..

40.1
38.8
40.0
39.7
39.7
40.2
39.8
40.0
39.8
40.0
40.0
40.0
43.0
46.5
39.5

461
538
486
601
487
684
406
411
414
490
406
350
534
587
457

453
540
499
624
499
634
404
400
420
464
400
320
521
594
421

2,060
1,979
2,080
2,062
2,066
2,086
2,068
2,080
2,070
2,076
2,073
2,041
2,211
2,393
2,052

23,735
27,460
25,276
31,269
25,328
35,507
21,078
21,358
21,505
25,423
21,044
17,854
27,406
30,216
23,768

23,088
26,936
25,922
32,469
25,938
32,992
21,008
20,800
21,840
24,128
20,800
18,866
26,416
30,888
21,902

See footnotes at end of table.

12

Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Springfield, MO, September 1998 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Transportation and material moving occupations
(-Continued)
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................

Mean
weekly
hours4

Mean

Median

Mean
annual
hours

40.0
39.6
40.0
37.9
39.4
40.0
39.5
40.0

$521
397
492
312
356
416
385
330

$542
391
516
321
330
418
375
287

2,080
2,031
1,882
1,973
2,049
2,062
2,056
2,080

$27,096
20,361
23,136
16,210
18,515
21,430
20,045
17,184

$28,163
19,500
21,060
16,702
17,141
21,736
19,481
14,940

39.6
41.7
40.1
39.4

343
583
577
297

310
529
568
276

2,030
2,168
2,085
1,979

17,574
30,300
30,023
14,884

15,678
27,518
29,557
14,040

41.6
39.2
38.8
39.7
39.6
39.8
39.6
–

417
336
239
322
321
316
314
–

348
320
234
310
295
280
286
–

2,018
1,967
1,880
2,065
2,057
2,069
2,062
–

20,251
16,815
11,564
16,750
16,705
16,430
16,316
–

16,640
16,432
11,960
16,097
15,354
14,560
14,893
–

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

Weekly earnings

Annual earnings
Mean

Median

4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a
week, exclusive of overtime.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere
classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey.
A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages
were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the
quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the
prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.

13

Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September 1998
All workers 4

All industries

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

Full-time
workers

Part-time
workers

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

$12.53
12.70

$11.59
11.69

$17.66
17.66

$13.17
13.28

$7.34
7.48

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

14.82
6.76
7.49
7.56
9.59
12.80
13.81
16.48
20.24
20.79
25.92
27.74
37.68
22.51
15.72
7.36
7.72
7.88
9.35
11.90
13.67
15.24
20.34
20.79
24.98
27.73
37.68

13.53
6.41
7.46
7.56
9.60
12.86
12.58
17.04
17.44
20.50
27.05
26.72
–
–
14.36
6.81
7.72
7.90
9.29
11.76
12.30
15.58
17.48
20.50
26.00
26.61
–

19.49
–
–
7.43
9.58
12.43
16.21
13.92
21.70
22.81
22.92
28.90
–
–
19.49
–
–
7.43
9.58
12.43
16.21
13.92
21.70
22.81
22.92
28.90
–

15.46
6.71
7.80
7.78
9.66
13.09
13.78
16.62
20.26
20.72
25.92
27.74
37.68
–
16.11
6.90
7.96
8.10
9.36
12.18
13.63
15.22
20.36
20.72
24.98
27.73
37.68

8.50
6.82
6.75
6.71
7.30
9.21
15.47
15.36
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.90
–
7.03
6.58
–
9.18
15.47
15.36
–
–
–
–
–

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, religious, and recreation workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................

19.25
21.54
14.16
16.68
15.89
20.98
19.76
20.89
25.61
22.34
–
–
21.95
24.64
23.95
22.11
22.31
13.63
23.28
–
–
11.27
–

17.71
21.06
–
–
16.44
16.57
–
22.84
–
22.34
–
–
22.16
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

21.82
22.06
16.14
18.07
14.30
22.29
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.17
22.31
13.63
23.28
–
–
–
–

19.40
21.68
14.90
16.60
–
21.01
19.56
20.85
25.61
22.34
–
–
22.00
25.18
23.96
22.33
22.40
13.90
23.28
–
–
11.15
–

16.00
18.35
–
–
17.10
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.36
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

18.24
12.23
9.77
10.91
12.90
16.00
22.33
16.24
18.61
21.91

–
12.08
9.69
10.91
–
–
21.35
16.24
20.15
21.72

–
14.96
–
–
–
–
25.69
–
–
–

18.24
12.36
9.82
11.10
–
16.00
22.33
16.24
18.61
21.91

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Occupational group3 and level

See footnotes at end of table.

14

Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September 1998 —
Continued
All workers 4

All industries

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

Full-time
workers

Part-time
workers

White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Management related occupations ............................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................

$26.19
31.38
33.46
25.36
19.95
21.99
26.19
32.09
33.46
18.88
17.45
21.85
10.76
6.10
6.55
6.88
10.33
14.52
8.96
7.36
7.72
7.88
9.32
11.86
12.18

–
$30.21
–
23.68
19.95
21.83
–
–
–
18.66
–
21.60
10.76
6.10
6.55
6.88
10.33
14.52
8.79
6.81
7.72
7.90
9.26
12.23
12.63

–
–
–
$31.34
–
–
–
–
–
19.61
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.87
–
–
7.43
9.49
11.11
–

$26.19
31.38
33.46
25.36
19.95
21.99
26.19
32.09
33.46
18.88
17.45
21.85
11.91
–
–
6.92
10.61
14.76
9.17
6.90
7.96
8.10
9.32
12.15
12.18

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$6.70
–
–
6.81
–
–
7.29
–
7.03
6.58
–
–
–

Blue-collar occupations .........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................

11.32
7.53
9.56
11.08
12.21
12.00
14.74
15.61
18.23
19.90
13.88
12.23
11.10
13.83
15.65
18.23
10.18
7.60
9.61
10.99
11.99
11.98
12.43
9.57
12.12
13.60
12.67
9.46
7.13
9.64
9.46
11.36

11.11
7.53
9.45
11.08
12.31
12.01
15.09
15.32
–
–
13.43
12.23
11.10
13.97
15.30
–
10.18
7.60
9.61
10.99
11.99
11.98
12.49
9.07
12.43
13.64
12.71
9.16
7.13
9.64
8.82
11.57

14.71
–
–
11.03
10.39
–
–
–
–
–
17.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.48
–
–
–
–
12.62
–
–
–
10.34

11.52
7.67
9.47
11.17
12.33
12.00
14.74
15.61
18.23
19.90
13.88
12.23
11.10
13.83
15.65
18.23
10.19
7.52
9.61
10.99
11.99
11.98
12.40
9.08
12.12
13.66
12.67
10.02
7.69
9.70
9.73
11.74

7.79
6.73
10.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.89
–
–
–
–

Service occupations ...........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................

7.89
6.11

7.05
5.65

12.25
9.84

8.66
6.32

6.02
5.82

Occupational group3 and level

See footnotes at end of table.

15

Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September 1998 —
Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level

Service occupations (-Continued)
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Protective service occupations ...............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Food service occupations ........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Health service occupations .....................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations ............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Personal service 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.
2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an
establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,
complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the
occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to
determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for
more information.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees
are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

All industries

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

Full-time
workers

Part-time
workers

$6.72
7.25
8.68
9.51
9.83
11.25
12.86
11.17
6.71
5.72
6.39
5.54
9.22
9.08
7.90
7.01
7.82
6.67
–

$6.52
7.24
8.38
9.36
–
–
–
–
6.58
5.29
6.36
5.52
9.25
9.08
7.90
7.01
7.17
6.12
–

$8.29
–
–
10.50
10.63
11.17
14.50
11.17
9.16
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.26
–
–

$7.80
7.54
9.35
9.47
9.78
11.25
13.98
11.17
7.52
5.60
7.69
5.94
9.24
–
8.11
–
7.94
6.83
–

$5.78
5.38
7.57
–
–
–
6.23
–
5.49
5.80
4.92
–
–
–
7.16
–
6.92
5.70
–

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time
schedule.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.

16

Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September
1998
All workers4
Occupation3 and level

White-collar occupations:
Professional specialty and technical occupations:
Professional specialty occupations:
Registered nurses ................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Social workers ......................................................
Technical occupations:
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
Financial managers ..............................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations:
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
Secretaries ...........................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Blue-collar occupations:
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Transportation and material moving occupations:
Truck drivers .........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.

17

All industries

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

Full-time
workers

Part-time
workers

$17.29
23.18
21.97
23.49
24.80
23.05
25.54
22.55
7.48
12.36

$17.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
$23.18
21.97
23.49
24.80
23.05
25.54
22.55
7.48
–

$17.28
23.18
21.97
23.49
24.80
23.05
25.54
22.55
–
12.28

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.48
–

13.42
10.77
13.00

13.42
10.60
12.99

–
–
–

13.42
10.77
–

–
–
–

23.93
30.70
24.38
22.76
18.28

23.92
–
24.58
22.76
18.31

23.93
30.70
24.38
22.76
18.28

–
–
–
–
–

12.29
10.74
8.45
6.21
6.60
6.16

12.29
10.74
8.45
6.21
6.60
6.16

12.29
11.29
–
6.44
–
–

–
–
6.79
5.99
–
6.12

10.10
8.81
9.19
7.55
9.06
7.98
9.09
12.89
8.35
9.17
8.76
8.25
8.90
8.13
9.14

9.35
–
–
7.55
9.04
7.98
9.10
–
8.35
8.49
8.76
–
8.90
–
9.13

10.30
8.81
9.19
7.86
9.14
–
9.09
–
8.35
9.71
8.85
8.30
8.90
7.11
9.67

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

12.15
15.16
15.14
12.26
17.02
15.90

–
15.16
15.14
11.17
17.02
15.90

–
–
–
–
–
–

12.15
15.16
15.14
12.26
17.02
15.90

–
–
–
–
–
–

10.27
10.51
12.25
10.15
8.75
8.43

10.27
10.51
12.25
10.15
8.75
8.43

–
–
–
–
–
–

10.27
10.39
12.25
10.15
8.75
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

12.63
9.96

12.78
–

–
–

12.63
9.96

–
–

–
30.53
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.13
–

Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September
1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level

Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Transportation and material moving occupations:
(-Continued)
Truck drivers (-Continued)
Level 4 ..............................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers:
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations:
Protective service occupations:
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Food service occupations:
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Health service occupations:
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations:
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Personal service occupations:
Service occupations, N.E.C. .................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an
establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,
complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the
occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to
determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for
more information.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees
are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

All industries

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

Full-time
workers

Part-time
workers

$14.01
14.87
11.58

$14.04
–
11.58

–
$13.61
–

$14.11
–
11.58

–
–
–

13.03

13.03

–

13.03

–

10.24
12.25
7.92
6.86
7.35
8.27
10.39
9.47
8.24
8.19

–
–
7.92
6.86
7.35
8.27
10.39
9.47
8.24
7.90

–
10.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
12.29
8.22
7.14
9.04
–
10.39
9.75
8.36
8.26

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

14.40

14.40

–

10.03
–
–
8.55
–
–
–
–
6.15
–

–
$4.01
4.38
–
–
7.96
4.74
4.74
5.59
5.66

14.40

–

9.70
3.63
4.50
8.53
8.61
8.10
5.11
5.11
5.88
5.80

9.70
3.63
4.50
8.54
–
7.68
5.11
5.11
5.88
5.80

–
–
–
8.37
–
–
–
–
–
–

7.84
7.01

7.84
7.01

–
–

8.12
–

7.10
–

10.64
6.79
6.04
7.73
6.94

–
6.79
6.04
6.59
6.17

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
7.91
7.12

–
–
–
–
–

–

–

–

–

6.24

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time
schedule.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.

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Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries,
Springfield, MO, September 1998
Occupational group2

Full-time
workers3

Part-time
workers3

Union4

Nonunion4

Time5

Incentive5

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

$13.17
13.28

$7.34
7.48

$13.63
13.86

$12.40
12.56

$12.57
12.81

$11.78
10.51

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

15.46
16.11

8.50
9.90

12.05
15.72

14.87
15.72

15.03
16.04

11.62
–

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

19.40
21.68
12.36
22.33
11.91
9.17

16.00
18.35
–
–
6.70
7.29

19.00
19.00
–
–
–
–

19.26
21.58
12.23
22.33
10.92
8.88

19.25
21.54
12.23
22.33
9.84
9.17

–
–
–
–
15.86
–

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

11.52
13.88
10.19
12.40
10.02

7.79
–
–
–
6.89

13.99
16.21
13.12
14.92
11.58

10.38
13.20
9.50
10.32
8.76

11.26
13.62
10.46
11.89
9.44

11.95
–
–
–
–

Service occupations ...........................................................

8.66

6.02

–

7.86

7.89

–

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

incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on
productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production
bonuses.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not
elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update
survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics
where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality
survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey.
Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in
mean wages for the occupation.

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Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Springfield, MO,
September 1998
Goods-producing industries4

Occupational group3

All private
industries

Total

Mining

Construction

Manufacturing

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

$11.59
11.69

$12.10
12.02

–
–

–
–

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

13.53
14.36

16.57
16.20

–
–

–
–

16.57
16.20

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

17.71
21.06
12.08
21.35
10.76
8.79

20.37
22.47
–
22.08
–
9.86

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

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

11.11
13.43
10.18
12.49
9.16

11.28
13.20
10.54
11.02
10.70

–
–
–
–
–

Service occupations ...............................................................

7.05

–

–

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

Service-producing industries5

Total

$11.98 $11.36
11.89 11.51

TransWholeportsale
ation
and
and
retail
public
trade
utilities

Finance,
insurance,
and
real
estate

Services

–
–

–
–

$13.18 $11.89
13.26 12.00

13.17
14.08

–
–

–
–

13.54
13.62

14.74
15.19

20.37
22.47
–
22.08
–
9.86

17.43
20.86
12.12
21.16
10.50
8.62

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
21.57
–
8.90

17.47
20.89
11.90
20.52
–
8.18

–
–
–
–
–

11.09
12.75
10.53
11.02
10.52

10.74
14.08
6.62
13.05
7.11

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

7.64
–
6.62
–
6.89

–

–

7.00

–

–

–

7.61

4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing.
5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale
and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private
industry, all workers2, Springfield, MO, September 1998
100 workers or more
All private
industry
workers

50 - 99
workers

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

$11.59
11.69

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

Occupational group3

Total

100 - 499
workers

500
workers or
more

$10.96
10.64

$11.75
11.96

$10.82
10.80

$13.20
13.66

13.53
14.36

13.78
13.89

13.49
14.43

12.27
12.71

15.41
16.85

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

17.71
21.06
12.08
21.35
10.76
8.79

27.40
37.06
–
20.59
13.56
9.48

17.42
20.62
12.02
21.53
10.02
8.63

15.02
17.68
11.89
19.99
10.98
8.37

19.57
22.62
12.21
24.10
7.56
9.16

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

11.11
13.43
10.18
12.49
9.16

11.67
14.46
9.92
11.32
9.24

10.94
12.95
10.22
13.12
9.14

10.13
13.02
9.17
12.48
8.38

12.30
12.87
12.02
–
10.79

Service occupations ...........................................................

7.05

6.17

7.50

6.90

8.20

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

Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.

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Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Springfield, MO,
September 1998
All workers
Occupational group2
All industries

Private
industry

State and
local government

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

78,730
71,377

65,132
57,779

13,599
13,599

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

39,178
31,825

29,426
22,073

9,752
9,752

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

14,795
11,666
3,130
4,885
7,353
12,145

8,281
5,310
2,972
3,742
7,353
10,049

6,514
6,356
158
1,143
–
2,096

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

24,865
6,179
7,892
4,134
6,660

23,235
5,503
7,892
3,670
6,169

1,630
676
–
464
491

Service occupations ...........................................................

14,687

12,471

2,216

1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in
the survey. Employees are classified as working either a
full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition
used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time
in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the
minimum full-time schedule.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian
economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of
nine major occupational groups.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that
data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational
groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not
elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in
this update survey. A procedure was put into place to
"move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey
data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior
survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Appendix A. Technical Note

sampling frames were developed using the most recent
month of reference available at the time the sample was
selected. The reference month for the private sector is
September 1996. The sampling frame was reviewed prior
to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments
were
added,
out-of-business
and
out-of-scope
establishments were removed, and addresses, employment
levels, industry classification, and other information were
updated.

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

Planning for the survey

Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a two
stage stratified design with probability proportional to
employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of
sample selection was a probability sample of
establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn
by first stratifying the sampling frame where the strata are
determined by industry and whether the establishment is
private, State government or local government. 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 the sample units within each stratum
represent all the units within the stratum, both sampled and
nonsampled. See appendix table 1 for a count of
establishments in the survey by employment size. The
second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a
probability sample of occupations within a sampled
establishment.

The overall design of the survey is based on the type of
data to be produced. Establishments that participate in the
NCS are studied for several collection cycles. This allows
changes in wages within these establishments to be
observed over time. Individual wage data are collected for
selected jobs during each establishment’s initial cycle and
updated during subsequent cycles. When data are not
available during a collection cycle, efforts are made to
collect the data during subsequent cycles and include it in
later tabulations. Beginning in the year 2001, the current
NCS sample will be replenished on a rotating basis.
Survey scope
This survey of the Springfield, MO Metropolitan
Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50
workers or more in goods-producing industries (mining,
construction and manufacturing); service-producing
industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas,
and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance,
insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and
State and local governments. Agriculture, private
households, and the Federal Government were excluded
from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey
an establishment was an economic unit which produces
goods or services, a central administrative office, or an
auxiliary unit providing support services to a company.
For private industries in this survey, the establishment was
usually at a single physical location. For State and local
governments, an establishment was defined as all locations
of a government entity.
The Springfield, MO MSA includes Christian, Greene,
and Webster Counties.

Data collection
Detailed procedures are followed when collecting data
from survey respondents. For the initial data collection,
field economists, working out of the Regional Office,
visited each establishment surveyed. The field economists
- through mail, phone, or personal visit - completed update
collection, which involved obtaining current pay data.
The following procedures are used for schedules
initiated for the first time or reinitiated during an update.

Sampling frame
The list of establishments from which the survey
sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from
the State unemployment insurance reports for the
Springfield, MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The
reference month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to
the volatility of industries within the private sector,

Occupational selection and classification
Identification of the occupations for which wage data
were to be collected was a multi-step process:
1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs.
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A complete list of all individual occupations, classified
by the MOG to which they belong, is contained in
appendix B.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was
identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job,
based on the establishment’s definition of those terms.
Then the worker was classified as having a time versus
incentive job, 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.

2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the
Census of Population system.
3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time,
union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive.
4. Determination of the level of work of each job.
For each occupation, wage data were collected for those
workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three
steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for
which a correct classification or level could not be
determined.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at
each establishment by the BLS field economist during a
personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for
sampling, with each selected worker representing a job
within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people
working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance
of selection.
The number of jobs collected in each establishment was
based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in
the following schedule:

Number of employees
50-99
100-249
250-999
1000-2,499
2,500+

Generic leveling through point factor analysis
In the last step before wage data were collected, the
work level of each selected job was determined using a
“generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and
compares all occupations randomly selected in an
establishment using the same criteria. This is a major
departure from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s
Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied
specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions
unique to each occupation.
For this survey, the level of each occupation in an
establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10
leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the
U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s
Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying
structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal
employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts
to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is
considered experimental. The 10 factors are:

Number of selected jobs
8
10
12
16
20

The second step of the process entailed classifying the
selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The
National Compensation Survey occupational classification
system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A
selected job may fall into any one of about 480
occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe
operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or
more Census classification codes, the duties used to set the
wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by
primary duties was the fallback.
Each occupational classification is an element of a
broader classification known as a major occupational group
(MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following
MOG’s:
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

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

Each factor contains a number of levels and each level
has an associated written description and point value. The
number and range of points differ among the factors. For
each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on
which written description best matched the job. Within
each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory
duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total
determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix
table 3 presents average work levels for published
occupational groups and selected occupations.
A
description of the levels for each factor is shown in
appendix C.

Professional specialty and technical
Executive, administrative, and managerial
Sales
Administrative support including clerical
Precision production, craft, and repair
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
Transportation and material moving
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Service occupations
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also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours
worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were
recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined.
Because salaried workers, exempt from overtime
provisions, often work beyond the assigned work schedule,
their typical number of hours actually worked was
collected.

Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the
survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar
General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels
are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a
leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in
their firm.
Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new
generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS
researchers using regression techniques. For each of the
major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10
generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The
analysis showed that several of the generic level factors,
most notably knowledge and supervision received, had
strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels
within a given factor increased, the wages also increased.
Detailed research continues in the area. The results of this
research will be published by BLS in the future.

Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be full time.
Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production
bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the
requirements of the position. (See the description in the
technical note and the example for more details on the
leveling process.)

Collection period
The survey was collected from July 1998 through
December 1998. The average payroll reference month was
September 1998. For each establishment in the survey, the
data reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of
collection.

Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below).

Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the
employer to the employee as compensation for straighttime hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The
following components were included as part of earnings:
·
·
·
·
·

Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be part-time.
Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for
the job.

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

Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level
of production.
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
·
·

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

·
·
·
·
·

·

·

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

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

Processing and analyzing the data
Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s
National Office following collection.
Weighting and nonresponse
Sample weights were calculated for each establishment/occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the
relative size of the occupation within the establishment and
of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights
were used to aggregate the individual establishment/occupations into the various data series. Of the

In order to calculate earnings for various time periods
(hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were
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cally selected probability sample. There are two types of
errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey,
sampling and nonsampling.
Sampling errors occur because observations come only
from a sample and not from an entire population. The
sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible
samples of the same size that could have been selected
using the sample design. Estimates derived from the
different samples would differ from each other.
A measure of the variation among these differing
estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It
indicates the precision with which an estimate from a
particular sample approximates the average result of all
possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the
standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2
contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE
data for all series in this bulletin are available on the
Internet web site and by request to the BLS National
Office.
The standard error can be used to calculate a
“confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an
example, suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly
earnings for all workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix
table 2 shows a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for
this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence
interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus
and minus 1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all
possible samples were selected to estimate the population
value, the interval from each sample would include the true
population value approximately 90 percent of the time.
Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can
stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain
information for some establishments, difficulties with
survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide
correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the
data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in
all survey areas will be used in the development of a
formal quality assessment process to help compute
nonsampling error.
Although they also were not
specifically measured, efforts were made to minimize
nonsampling errors by the extensive training of field
economists who gathered survey data, computer editing of
the data, and detailed data review.

establishments surveyed, 27.3 percent (representing 19,250
employees) refused to supply information. If data were not
provided by a sample member, the weights of responding
sample members in the same or similar “cells” were
adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique
assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals
the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell”
level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were
classified into these cells according to industry and
employment size. Responding and nonresponding
occupations within responding establishments were
classified into cells which were additionally defined by
major occupation group and job level.
Establishments which were determined to be out of
business or outside the scope of the survey (3.6 percent of
the total sample) had their weights changed to zero. If only
partial data were given by a sample establishment or
occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated
as a refusal.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations.
Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted
by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for
nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the
occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether
hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated. The
respondent has the option of giving mean data instead of
individual wages in the years following the initiation.
In 1998, the publication criteria were changed to allow
more data to publish. Not all series that were calculated
met the criteria for publication. Before any series was
published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of
observations underlying it was sufficient. This review
prevented publishing a series that could have revealed
information about a specific establishment.
As a result of the use of sampling weights, the number
of workers estimates represent the total in all
establishments within the scope of the study not the actual
number of workers surveyed.
Data reliability
The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifi-

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Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size,
and number of establishments represented, Springfield, MO, September 1998
Number of establishments studied
Industry

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

Number of
establishments represented

100 workers or more
Total studied

456
425
89
9
80
337
54
149
16
118
31

150
121
36
2
34
85
8
33
4
40
29

50 - 99
workers

55
48
10
2
8
38
6
18
1
13
7

Total

100 - 499
workers

95
73
26
–

73
57
19
–

26
47
2
15
3
27
22

22
16
7
–

19
38
2
12
2
22
16

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

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500 workers
or more

7
9
–
3
1
5
6

Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Springfield, MO, September 1998
(in percent)

Occupation3

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

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

2.4
2.3

2.9
2.8

3.8
3.8

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

3.5
3.6

4.6
4.8

4.5
4.5

Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations ............................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ...
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........

4.7
5.0
5.2
–
–
12.9
1.5
12.0
3.3
2.1
2.5
5.2
1.6
–
–
6.8
3.1
–

7.5
9.1
5.2
–
–
13.2
1.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

4.0
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.4
2.1
2.5
5.2
1.6
–
–
–
–
–

10.9
4.3
15.7
4.2
11.7
4.0
4.4
8.0
6.1
4.9
5.8
9.5
8.6
7.3
16.4
7.3
1.2
2.4
7.5
7.5
3.7
4.1
12.4
11.1
9.9
6.0
5.1
6.9
4.9
8.7

–
4.6
15.7
4.5
12.4
3.9
4.1
9.7
–
5.3
6.5
9.7
8.6
7.3
16.4
7.3
1.2
2.6
10.5
–
3.7
4.1
–
11.1
6.8
6.0
–
6.9
–
8.8

–
6.7
–
–
–
9.9
8.3
–
4.6
–
13.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.9
9.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.9
–

Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........

2.2
3.8
9.5
3.0
9.4
7.3
3.0
10.8
6.9

2.3
4.2
–
3.0
6.8
7.3
3.0
10.8
6.9

5.0
4.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

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Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Springfield, MO, September 1998 — Continued
(in percent)

Occupation3

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ...........................................................
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
Service occupations, N.E.C. .................................
1 The relative standard error is the standard error
expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly
earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables
A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could
not be determined for all occupations.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time
workers. Employees are classified as working either a
full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition
used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with
a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified
as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is
the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480
individual occupations is used to cover all workers in
the civilian economy. Individual occupations are

All industries

Private
industry

State and
local
government

4.9
4.0
21.5
14.6
4.7
7.1
11.4
6.9

4.9
4.0
21.5
14.6
4.9
7.3
–
6.9

–
–
–
–
8.3
–
18.3
–

11.6
3.4
18.9
5.3
8.0
7.4
7.2
5.8
8.4

11.6
3.3
–
–
8.0
7.4
7.2
5.8
9.0

–
9.2
–
2.1
–
–
–
–
–

3.5
9.7
4.5
5.4

2.9
–
–
5.7

7.1
8.5
4.5
5.5

7.8
21.9
8.8
5.6
8.4
2.0
3.6
4.8
4.9

7.8
21.9
9.6
7.5
8.4
2.0
3.6
4.8
5.0

–
–
8.6
–
–
–
–
–
2.4

6.1
7.3
6.3
–
6.9

–
7.3
3.4
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

classified into one of nine major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall
occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were
collected in this update survey. A procedure was put
into place to "move" the positional statistics where
averages were collected. This procedure compares
current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average
change in mean wages for the occupation.

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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September 1998
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers

Occupation1

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

5
5

5
5

3
3

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

6
6

6
6

4
5

Professional specialty and technical occupations ......................
Professional specialty occupations .........................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...............................
Natural scientists ................................................................
Health related occupations .................................................
Registered nurses ..........................................................
Teachers, college and university ........................................
Teachers, except college and university ............................
Elementary school teachers ...........................................
Secondary school teachers ............................................
Teachers, special education ...........................................
Substitute teachers .........................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .....................................
Social scientists and urban planners ..................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................
Social workers ................................................................
Lawyers and judges ............................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals,
N.E.C. ...........................................................................
Technical occupations ............................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ...........
Licensed practical nurses ...............................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ....................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............
Executives, administrators, and managers .........................
Financial managers ........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields ...................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................
Management related occupations ......................................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ......................
Sales occupations ......................................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ......................................
Sales workers, hardware and building supplies .............
Sales workers, other commodities ..................................
Cashiers .........................................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...............
Secretaries .....................................................................
Typists ............................................................................
Receptionists ..................................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................
Dispatchers .....................................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .............................
Stock and inventory clerks ..............................................
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................
General office clerks .......................................................
Data entry keyers ...........................................................
Teachers’ aides ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ...................

8
8
9
–
–
9
8
9
7
8
7
8
6
–
–
6
7
–

8
8
9
–
–
9
8
10
8
8
7
8
–
–
–
6
7
–

7
7
–
–
–
–
–
–
6
–
–
–
6
–
–
–
–
–

8
6
6
5
6
9
10
10
11
10
8
7
4
5
4
4
2
4
5
4
2
4
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3

8
6
6
5
–
9
10
10
11
10
8
7
5
5
5
–
2
4
5
4
2
4
–
4
4
3
3
3
4
3

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3
–
–
4
2
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Blue-collar occupations ...............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ....................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................
Industrial machinery repairers ........................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ....................................
Supervisors, production occupations ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................
Punching and stamping press operators ........................
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. .....................
Welders and cutters ........................................................
Assemblers .....................................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............
Transportation and material moving occupations .......................

4
6
6
6
6
7
3
4
3
5
2
2
2
4

4
6
6
6
6
7
3
4
3
5
2
2
–
4

2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

See footnotes at end of table.

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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Springfield, MO, September 1998 — Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers

Occupation1

Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued)
Truck drivers ...................................................................
Bus drivers ......................................................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............
Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators,
N.E.C. .......................................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .................
Construction laborers .....................................................
Production helpers ..........................................................
Stock handlers and baggers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .................
Hand packers and packagers .........................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. .............................

4
3
3

4
–
3

–
–
–

3
2
2
4
2
2
3
2
3

3
3
–
4
2
3
3
2
3

–
2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

Service occupations .....................................................................
Protective service occupations ...........................................
Police and detectives, public service ..............................
Food service occupations ...................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations
Waiters and waitresses ..................................................
Cooks .............................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ..................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ......................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ...........................
Health service occupations .................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service occupations ........................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers .......
Maids and housemen .....................................................
Janitors and cleaners .....................................................
Personal service occupations .............................................
Service occupations, N.E.C. ...........................................

3
6
8
2
5
2
4
2
1
2
3
3
2
5
2
2
–
2

4
8
8
3
6
–
4
–
–
2
3
3
2
–
–
2
–
–

2
2
–
2
–
2
–
1
1
2
3
3
2
–
–
–
–
–

1 A classification system including about 480
individual occupations is used to cover all workers in
the civilian economy. Individual occupations are
classified into one of nine major occupational groups.
The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors,
painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and
legislators cannot be assigned a work level.

include data for categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were
collected in this update survey. A procedure was put
into place to "move" the positional statistics where
averages were collected. This procedure compares
current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average
change in mean wages for the occupation.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall
occupational groups and occupational levels may

31