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Washington–Baltimore, DC–MD–VA–WV National Compensation Survey July 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner June 2000 Bulletin 3100–33 Preface D 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212–0001, or call (202) 691–6199, or send e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm, the BLS Internet site. Data are in three formats: An ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Results of earlier surveys of this area are also available from BLS regional offices, the Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, or at the BLS Internet site. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691–5200; Federal Relay Service: 1–800–877–8339. ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and prepared the survey for publication. For additional information regarding this survey, please contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone number listed on the back cover of this bulletin. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Tables: 1–1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected worker and establishment characteristics, private industry, and State and local government ................................................ 2–1. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, all workers, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 2–2. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 2–3. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, part-time workers, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 3–1. Mean weekly earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 3–2. Mean annual earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry, and State and local government .................................................................................................... 4–1. Selected occupations and levels, all workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 4–2. Selected occupations and levels, full-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 4–3. Selected occupations and levels, part-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry, and State and local government ......................................................................................... ........... 5–1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group............................ 5–2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry............. 5–3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry............................................................................................................................. 6–1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 6–2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, private industry.......................................................................................... 6–3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers: Selected occupations, State and local government ....................................................................... 6–4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, full-time workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 6–5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, part-time workers: Selected occupations, all industries .............................................................................................. 2 3 7 11 13 18 23 33 42 45 46 47 48 51 54 56 59 Appendixes: A. Technical Note................................................................................................................................. Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey, by occupational group............ Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented and studied.......................................... Appendix table 3. Median work levels for selected occupations................................................... B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................ C. Generic Leveling Criteria................................................................................................................. D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ........................................................................................................... v A–1 A–5 A–6 A–7 B–1 C–1 D–1 Introduction T detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Table 2–2 presents the same type of information for full-time workers only. Table 2–3 provides similar data for workers designated as parttime. Table 3–1 provides mean weekly earnings data, with relative standard errors, and weekly hours for full-time employees in specific occupations across all industries, private industry, and State and local government. Table 3–2 provides annual earnings, relative standard errors, and annual hours for full-time employees in specific occupations. Table 4–1 provides mean hourly earnings data by work level for occupational groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for private industry and government workers. Table 4–2 provides work level data for full-time workers. Table 4–3 provides similar data for workers designated as part-time. Table 5–1 presents mean hourly earnings data for selected worker characteristics by major occupational groups. The worker characteristics include full-time or part-time designation, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. Table 5–2 presents mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions by occupational groups; these estimates are limited to the private sector. Table 5–3 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by major occupational groups; these estimates also are limited to the private sector. Tables 6–1 through 6–5 present hourly wage percentiles that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for each published occupation. Data are provided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time workers, and part-time workers. These iterations correspond to those presented in tables 2– 1, 2–2, and 2–3. For each published occupation, these percentiles relate to the average hourly earnings of jobs surveyed in establishments. The percentiles do not relate to the hourly earnings of individual workers in these establishment jobs. Appendix table 1 provides the employment scope of this survey. The occupation employment estimates relate to all employers in the area, rather than just to those surveyed. Appendix table 2 presents the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The median work levels for published occupations are presented in appendix table 3. he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for the Washington–Baltimore, DC–MD–VA–WV, metropolitan area. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at different work levels. Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology. NCS products The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides data on occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions, and the Nation as a whole. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived from the NCS. Another product, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, measures employers’ average hourly costs for total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Still another NCS product measures the incidence of benefit plans and their provisions. This bulletin is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries. About the tables The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 480 detailed occupations are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households), as explained in Appendix A. Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates. Table 1–1 presents an overview of all tables in this bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative standard errors are given for all industries, private industry, and State and local government for selected worker and establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics include major occupational group, full-time or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay. Establishment characteristics include goods and service producing and size of establishment. Table 2–1 presents estimates of mean hourly earnings, and the relative standard errors associated with them, for 1 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Private industry Hourly earnings State and local government Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) Hourly earnings Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) Mean weekly hours3 Mean Relative error2 (percent) $17.86 2.1 35.9 $17.21 2.7 35.6 $20.38 2.0 36.8 21.46 26.93 27.15 15.18 13.37 14.65 17.76 2.4 2.2 3.4 11.8 2.1 3.0 3.1 36.3 36.3 39.4 32.8 36.2 38.0 39.7 21.06 27.09 27.80 15.12 13.48 14.60 17.88 3.0 3.0 4.0 12.1 2.5 3.3 3.3 36.3 36.6 39.7 32.8 36.2 38.0 39.7 22.82 26.58 24.89 – 12.87 15.22 16.44 2.3 2.2 5.5 – 3.0 4.5 7.0 36.2 35.7 38.4 – 36.4 38.6 40.0 13.71 14.32 5.0 6.7 39.3 36.6 13.71 14.19 5.0 8.2 39.4 36.2 – 14.95 – 5.1 – 38.4 11.52 10.53 5.0 2.9 36.5 32.9 11.32 8.58 5.2 2.7 36.4 31.5 14.11 16.00 14.7 3.3 38.1 37.8 Full time .................................................................. Part time ................................................................. 18.90 9.52 2.1 3.5 39.5 20.6 18.37 9.05 2.7 3.6 39.6 20.8 20.81 13.43 2.0 8.2 39.1 19.0 Union ...................................................................... Nonunion ................................................................ 20.30 17.19 3.3 2.5 37.3 35.5 19.36 16.83 5.8 2.9 37.6 35.3 21.48 19.44 2.4 3.1 36.8 36.9 Time ........................................................................ Incentive ................................................................. 17.77 19.73 2.1 12.2 35.8 38.3 17.06 19.73 2.8 12.2 35.5 38.3 20.38 – 2.0 – 36.8 – Goods producing .................................................... Service producing ................................................... (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) – – – – – – (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers7 ....................................................... 100-499 workers ..................................................... 500 workers or more ............................................... 14.29 16.34 20.26 5.8 4.5 2.3 33.7 35.9 36.6 14.30 16.35 20.00 5.9 4.6 3.7 33.7 35.9 36.4 13.80 15.79 20.62 2.4 12.2 2.0 33.8 36.5 36.9 Total ........................................................................... Worker characteristics:4 White-collar occupations5 ....................................... Professional specialty and technical ................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ......... Sales ................................................................... Administrative support ........................................ Blue-collar occupations5 ......................................... Precision production, craft, and repair ................ Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ......................................................... Transportation and material moving ................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...................................................... Service occupations5 .............................................. Establishment characteristics: 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 2 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $17.86 18.06 2.1 2.1 $17.21 17.41 2.7 2.7 $20.38 20.39 2.0 2.0 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 21.46 22.29 2.4 2.3 21.06 22.11 3.0 3.0 22.82 22.85 2.3 2.3 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. English teachers ................................................... Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... Technical ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Broadcast equipment operators ........................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ 26.93 28.22 29.68 27.39 32.72 32.10 28.27 28.75 2.2 2.1 4.6 4.0 3.1 9.3 3.5 3.8 27.09 28.50 30.08 – 32.72 32.84 28.28 28.76 3.0 2.9 5.1 – 3.1 9.8 3.5 3.8 26.58 27.69 26.38 26.74 – – – – 2.2 2.2 4.2 3.3 – – – – 22.89 22.71 24.58 37.22 22.25 21.08 29.07 18.51 34.90 23.24 30.13 28.66 25.36 29.04 30.79 26.95 27.08 25.48 22.83 22.70 26.42 22.01 16.00 16.18 15.89 49.58 49.58 6.0 9.0 3.9 15.2 2.0 11.3 8.0 4.0 5.6 15.3 8.8 1.8 12.8 2.0 1.7 4.6 7.9 11.6 6.8 7.0 8.6 6.4 6.2 7.9 5.3 4.9 4.9 22.89 22.59 24.31 36.76 22.02 21.08 – – 39.49 – 28.39 21.34 – 25.42 28.66 18.37 – – 20.16 19.70 28.92 – 13.87 14.58 – 51.73 51.73 6.0 10.2 4.1 18.2 1.9 11.3 – – 8.0 – 10.0 7.3 – 5.4 3.7 11.9 – – 9.0 9.1 9.3 – 8.0 10.3 – 4.2 4.2 – 23.62 25.81 39.60 24.71 – – 18.85 30.62 – 31.77 29.66 – 29.39 31.00 28.96 30.23 28.28 24.57 24.57 18.41 – 16.37 16.45 16.09 31.70 – – 9.9 10.6 13.6 7.7 – – 4.9 6.2 – 14.1 1.6 – 2.1 1.8 2.9 4.4 8.5 7.1 7.1 4.0 – 7.1 9.1 5.2 6.1 – 29.34 17.60 30.79 31.08 31.81 20.84 16.97 18.28 15.50 16.29 18.82 89.67 21.05 19.48 17.42 7.8 5.9 12.7 19.9 4.8 7.8 5.6 7.4 1.9 5.6 5.8 24.6 34.1 7.6 5.8 29.44 – 30.79 31.08 – 21.80 17.09 18.28 15.81 15.25 18.82 89.67 21.31 19.48 18.58 8.0 – 12.7 19.9 – 9.0 5.9 7.4 2.0 7.9 5.8 24.6 37.6 7.6 6.6 – – – – – 16.42 – – 14.55 18.57 – – – – – – – – – – 4.0 – – 1.7 4.3 – – – – – 27.15 30.56 24.14 41.08 29.91 3.4 4.4 7.9 11.0 14.8 27.80 31.35 – 41.08 28.57 4.0 5.3 – 11.0 17.2 24.89 27.57 24.14 – – 5.5 5.8 7.9 – – 37.28 14.1 37.28 14.1 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 3 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $30.97 31.57 29.24 30.31 21.25 19.82 25.73 5.9 4.8 14.5 5.9 4.8 6.9 5.9 $29.88 31.52 30.96 30.20 21.39 20.61 26.05 11.8 4.5 14.7 6.1 5.5 6.5 6.3 $31.70 – – – 20.81 18.14 – 5.9 – – – 9.8 15.0 – 18.59 25.42 7.2 11.4 18.89 26.12 9.1 11.1 – – – – 17.52 22.00 8.2 6.2 – 20.21 – 5.8 17.52 26.82 8.2 11.4 Sales ................................................................................ Supervisors, sales ................................................ Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... 15.18 18.25 25.78 11.8 14.6 12.0 15.12 18.25 25.78 12.1 14.6 12.0 – – – – – – 21.78 9.92 11.58 8.31 9.45 2.8 13.5 8.1 7.8 12.6 21.78 9.92 11.58 8.31 9.43 2.8 13.5 8.1 7.8 12.9 – – – – – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, n.e.c. ...................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Mail clerks, except postal service ......................... Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. Bill and account collectors .................................... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 13.37 18.55 15.27 14.23 11.83 7.83 15.11 10.15 18.47 13.75 16.14 9.73 12.72 11.47 13.19 8.92 8.83 12.55 10.74 14.07 2.1 5.4 4.1 5.7 7.5 4.9 10.4 2.7 19.1 14.6 15.7 4.6 4.9 4.2 7.1 7.8 10.8 11.4 11.0 5.8 13.48 18.31 15.67 14.63 11.83 7.83 15.11 10.12 18.47 13.75 16.45 – 13.48 11.40 13.19 8.57 8.83 – 10.74 13.74 2.5 6.4 5.0 6.1 7.5 4.9 10.4 2.8 19.1 14.6 20.0 – 4.9 4.8 7.1 7.0 10.8 – 11.0 8.0 12.87 19.46 13.50 – – – – – – – – 9.47 11.26 11.78 – – – – – – 3.0 8.4 5.3 – – – – – – – – 5.0 3.0 7.9 – – – – – – 10.99 13.14 13.42 14.40 12.43 9.56 14.42 11.72 12.87 13.0 6.3 3.4 24.7 3.7 6.5 7.3 5.2 5.6 10.99 13.14 – – 12.14 10.23 14.42 8.11 13.00 13.0 6.3 – – 4.8 6.0 7.3 15.1 6.3 – – 13.67 – 13.05 – – 12.65 – – – 3.1 – 5.4 – – 2.6 – Blue collar ........................................................................... 14.65 3.0 14.60 3.3 15.22 4.5 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. 17.76 17.07 16.61 3.1 5.9 7.5 17.88 – 16.99 3.3 – 7.9 16.44 – – 7.0 – – White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Executives, administrators, and managers –Continued Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $18.80 5.4 $19.65 4.8 – – 26.33 14.92 21.23 11.45 15.90 21.74 14.55 18.52 4.8 5.9 11.1 6.4 10.7 7.2 4.4 5.6 – 14.83 21.97 11.45 – 21.76 14.55 18.52 – 6.3 10.9 6.4 – 7.4 4.4 5.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 13.71 18.68 8.89 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 16.7 5.8 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 13.71 19.05 8.89 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 16.9 5.8 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 14.32 13.65 10.62 13.01 16.80 6.7 4.9 18.6 6.7 9.6 14.19 13.56 10.62 – 16.80 8.2 5.3 18.6 – 9.6 $14.95 14.71 – 14.13 – 5.1 3.7 – 4.0 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 11.52 10.42 10.14 13.43 10.43 12.16 10.12 5.0 9.6 11.0 7.2 15.9 12.8 7.4 11.32 9.77 10.05 13.43 10.43 12.16 10.11 5.2 8.2 12.2 7.2 15.9 12.8 7.6 14.11 – – – – – – 14.7 – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police, except public service ............. Protective service, n.e.c. ...................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... 10.53 16.54 17.65 19.27 2.9 5.1 4.8 4.5 8.58 9.73 – – 2.7 7.7 – – 16.00 18.99 17.65 19.35 3.3 3.6 4.8 4.5 17.09 15.65 9.29 18.05 7.55 4.96 4.23 6.95 8.86 14.28 9.45 6.97 8.25 7.33 9.82 10.17 9.61 9.07 29.4 3.3 6.6 25.6 4.1 8.9 11.0 6.9 4.6 8.5 4.2 9.5 8.5 8.1 3.2 7.8 3.6 4.0 – – 9.01 – 7.46 4.96 4.23 6.95 8.78 14.28 9.33 6.97 8.18 7.16 9.49 9.36 9.37 8.56 – – 6.2 – 4.2 8.9 11.0 6.9 4.7 8.5 4.4 9.5 9.3 8.2 3.6 7.3 4.1 4.5 17.09 15.65 – – 10.46 – – – 10.46 – – – – – 11.86 – 11.64 11.45 29.4 3.3 – – 8.2 – – – 8.2 – – – – – 4.1 – 5.5 3.1 12.90 8.79 8.77 10.47 11.0 6.4 5.2 7.5 12.61 8.77 7.94 10.63 13.1 6.4 5.6 9.5 – – 11.27 9.96 – – 3.3 7.4 Blue collar –Continued Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. See footnotes at end of table. 5 Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Service –Continued Personal service –Continued Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Public transportation attendants ........................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $6.57 21.38 9.91 8.64 8.78 3.9 15.7 12.4 4.7 4.8 – $27.22 – 8.32 8.67 – 8.4 – 3.9 5.2 $6.71 – – – 9.57 6.5 – – – 12.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 6 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $18.90 18.96 2.1 2.1 $18.37 18.41 2.7 2.7 $20.81 20.80 2.0 2.0 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 22.45 22.91 2.4 2.4 22.24 22.84 3.0 3.1 23.12 23.12 2.3 2.4 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... Technical ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ 27.33 28.60 29.63 27.39 32.72 31.93 28.26 28.77 2.3 2.1 4.6 4.0 3.1 9.6 3.5 3.8 27.55 28.90 30.03 – 32.72 32.67 28.27 28.78 3.1 3.0 5.1 – 3.1 10.1 3.5 3.8 26.86 28.05 26.38 26.74 – – – – 2.3 2.3 4.2 3.3 – – – – 21.88 22.71 24.69 36.94 22.13 21.71 29.05 18.40 35.83 32.19 29.16 24.48 29.10 30.81 27.14 30.73 25.59 23.69 23.49 26.64 22.17 16.10 16.16 49.91 49.92 5.0 9.0 4.5 15.7 2.6 12.1 9.1 4.4 5.6 8.5 1.8 15.0 2.0 1.7 4.6 3.8 11.7 6.9 7.0 8.7 6.4 6.9 7.9 4.8 4.8 21.88 22.59 24.43 36.54 21.79 21.71 – – 40.00 – 22.78 – 25.79 27.93 18.76 18.47 – 20.39 – 28.83 – 14.03 14.58 51.73 51.73 5.0 10.2 5.0 18.7 2.5 12.1 – – 8.3 – 6.8 – 5.8 3.5 12.0 13.2 – 9.6 – 9.4 – 8.6 10.3 4.2 4.2 – 23.62 25.68 39.03 24.80 – – 18.66 31.60 36.47 29.92 – 29.39 31.09 28.96 31.80 28.47 25.99 25.99 – – 16.48 16.42 – – – 9.9 11.2 14.1 7.7 – – 5.9 5.5 14.3 1.7 – 2.1 1.8 2.9 3.2 8.5 5.6 5.6 – – 8.0 9.1 – – 29.73 17.60 31.21 31.08 31.96 21.26 16.71 18.35 15.51 16.61 18.82 89.67 19.48 17.44 7.6 5.9 12.7 19.9 4.8 8.1 5.9 8.0 1.8 5.9 5.8 24.6 7.6 5.9 29.85 – 31.21 31.08 – 22.39 16.82 18.35 15.93 15.55 18.82 89.67 19.48 18.58 7.8 – 12.7 19.9 – 9.5 6.2 8.0 1.7 8.8 5.8 24.6 7.6 6.6 – – – – – 16.43 – – 14.52 18.57 – – – – – – – – – 4.0 – – 1.7 4.3 – – – – 27.42 30.84 24.09 41.08 29.91 3.4 4.4 8.1 11.0 14.8 28.14 31.70 – 41.08 28.57 4.0 5.3 – 11.0 17.2 24.87 27.59 24.09 – – 5.6 5.8 8.1 – – 37.28 31.47 31.69 29.24 14.1 5.6 5.0 14.5 37.28 31.10 31.65 30.96 14.1 11.2 4.6 14.7 – 31.70 – – – 5.9 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... See footnotes at end of table. 7 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $30.87 21.43 19.82 25.73 5.7 4.8 6.9 5.9 $30.77 21.68 20.61 26.05 5.9 5.5 6.5 6.3 – $20.65 18.14 – – 10.1 15.0 – 18.59 25.42 7.2 11.4 18.89 26.12 9.1 11.1 – – – – 17.52 22.40 8.2 6.3 – 20.78 – 5.7 17.52 – 8.2 – Sales ................................................................................ Supervisors, sales ................................................ Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... 17.88 19.24 26.03 12.6 15.2 11.9 17.80 19.24 26.03 12.8 15.2 11.9 – – – – – – 21.78 11.06 12.11 9.13 10.44 2.8 15.1 8.9 8.9 11.9 21.78 11.06 12.11 9.13 10.44 2.8 15.1 8.9 8.9 11.9 – – – – – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 13.83 18.56 15.52 14.54 7.84 16.32 10.67 14.84 16.14 11.46 12.82 11.94 13.29 9.03 12.55 10.74 14.07 2.2 5.4 4.4 5.8 6.0 7.8 2.6 11.7 15.7 2.4 5.0 4.4 7.1 9.5 11.4 11.0 5.8 14.02 18.31 16.01 15.03 7.84 16.32 10.67 14.84 16.45 – 13.65 11.92 13.29 8.62 – 10.74 13.74 2.6 6.4 5.7 5.9 6.0 7.8 2.8 11.7 20.0 – 4.8 5.2 7.1 8.6 – 11.0 8.0 13.03 19.53 13.50 – – – – – – 11.64 11.26 12.03 – – – – – 3.2 8.4 5.3 – – – – – – 3.2 3.1 7.8 – – – – – 11.77 13.11 13.77 12.97 9.75 14.56 11.57 13.27 11.8 6.8 1.7 3.5 7.5 7.3 5.8 6.1 11.77 13.11 – 12.87 10.66 14.56 – 13.44 11.8 6.8 – 4.4 7.3 7.3 – 6.8 – – – 13.16 – – 12.46 – – – – 5.9 – – 2.7 – Blue collar ........................................................................... 15.06 3.0 15.03 3.2 15.41 4.7 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... 17.80 17.07 16.61 18.80 3.1 5.9 7.5 5.4 17.92 – 16.99 19.65 3.3 – 7.9 4.8 16.44 – – – 7.0 – – – 26.33 14.92 21.23 11.45 15.90 4.8 5.9 11.1 6.4 10.7 – 14.83 21.97 11.45 – – 6.3 10.9 6.4 – – – – – – – – – – – White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Executives, administrators, and managers –Continued Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. See footnotes at end of table. 8 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. $21.74 14.55 18.52 7.2 4.4 5.6 $21.76 14.55 18.52 7.4 4.4 5.6 – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 13.79 19.05 8.91 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 16.9 5.9 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 13.79 19.05 8.91 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 16.9 5.9 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 15.17 14.11 12.88 13.13 16.80 6.0 3.8 12.5 7.9 9.6 15.18 14.06 12.88 – 16.80 7.2 4.2 12.5 – 9.6 $15.13 14.71 – – – 5.4 3.7 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 11.94 10.54 10.81 14.34 10.86 13.01 10.33 5.1 10.4 10.5 7.3 14.2 14.1 8.1 11.73 9.77 10.78 14.34 10.86 13.01 10.32 5.4 8.2 11.9 7.3 14.2 14.1 8.3 14.41 – – – – – – 15.0 – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police, except public service ............. Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 11.59 17.20 17.79 19.34 3.1 5.1 4.7 4.5 9.36 9.92 – – 3.1 10.2 – – 16.67 19.06 17.79 19.43 3.3 3.6 4.7 4.5 16.69 15.65 9.18 8.59 5.58 4.68 7.45 9.81 14.40 9.84 8.38 8.53 8.07 10.01 10.60 9.75 31.3 3.3 8.0 4.5 11.0 14.6 7.5 4.6 8.5 4.6 12.7 9.0 4.8 3.3 8.2 4.0 – – 8.76 8.51 5.58 4.68 7.45 9.75 14.40 9.73 8.38 8.52 7.86 9.65 9.79 9.47 – – 6.9 4.7 11.0 14.6 7.5 4.7 8.5 4.9 12.7 9.0 4.7 3.8 8.3 4.6 16.69 15.65 – 11.35 – – – 11.35 – – – – – 11.98 – 11.83 31.3 3.3 – 5.7 – – – 5.7 – – – – – 3.8 – 5.6 Blue collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 9 Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Service –Continued Cleaning and building service ................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Public transportation attendants ........................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $9.53 4.2 $9.03 4.9 $11.46 3.1 13.06 8.79 9.45 12.13 23.72 9.75 9.18 10.9 6.5 5.9 8.9 14.5 4.5 4.7 12.78 8.77 8.60 12.11 27.22 – 8.99 13.0 6.6 7.2 10.5 8.4 – 5.0 – – 11.28 12.20 – – – – – 3.3 8.8 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 10 Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings1, part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation3 Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $9.52 9.76 3.5 3.9 $9.05 9.21 3.6 4.0 $13.43 13.50 8.2 8.4 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 12.13 14.13 4.5 4.9 11.51 13.51 4.7 5.2 16.96 17.25 9.2 9.3 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 20.45 21.84 – – 24.04 22.68 22.84 17.63 30.15 8.60 15.91 15.94 – 15.16 – 4.5 4.6 – – 3.2 2.2 30.5 19.1 9.3 9.4 6.7 7.2 – 7.7 – 20.40 22.32 – – 23.78 22.71 23.86 13.17 – – – – – – – 4.8 4.9 – – 3.2 2.2 14.1 26.2 – – – – – – – 20.62 20.71 – – 28.50 – 22.56 20.79 – – 15.37 15.37 – – – 10.8 10.6 – – 16.8 – 39.4 17.5 – – 8.1 8.1 – – – – 14.98 15.48 13.69 – 8.3 5.9 6.2 – 14.99 15.47 13.69 – 8.5 6.0 6.2 – – – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Management related ................................................. 14.00 – – 24.8 – – 10.78 – – 23.1 – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Cashiers ............................................................... 8.41 7.74 8.62 7.7 6.8 14.2 8.38 7.74 8.55 7.8 6.8 14.7 – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Secretaries ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Library clerks ........................................................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 9.87 11.77 12.79 9.25 8.05 8.23 9.00 8.33 10.27 3.6 3.7 20.8 5.7 5.7 6.6 5.1 7.8 6.6 9.78 11.77 12.79 9.26 – 8.23 8.45 8.33 9.76 4.0 3.7 20.8 5.7 – 7.3 3.5 7.8 7.0 10.62 – – – 8.05 – – – – 5.6 – – – 5.7 – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 7.57 7.8 7.11 7.1 – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Bus drivers ............................................................ 7.52 12.63 14.9 5.2 6.64 – 12.5 – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 7.54 8.54 8.14 5.2 5.2 9.2 7.50 8.54 8.14 5.4 5.2 9.2 – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. 6.54 9.59 9.57 5.45 4.12 3.72 5.85 6.45 3.7 6.9 7.5 5.0 12.4 14.0 16.7 5.2 6.29 9.27 9.57 5.33 4.12 3.72 5.85 6.30 4.0 7.9 7.5 5.1 12.4 14.0 16.7 4.9 See footnotes at end of table. 11 8.65 – – 8.87 – – – 8.87 5.6 – – 10.4 – – – 10.4 Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings1, part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Service –Continued Food service –Continued Other food service –Continued Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean Relative error4 (percent) $7.98 5.98 7.51 8.51 8.72 6.41 6.30 7.28 6.57 7.29 6.85 4.4 1.1 8.3 4.2 2.4 3.8 3.6 5.3 3.9 6.8 9.5 $7.89 5.98 – 8.51 8.74 6.41 6.30 6.68 – – 6.84 4.4 1.1 – 4.4 2.5 3.8 3.6 5.8 – – 12.3 – – – – – – – $8.17 6.71 – – – – – – – – – 6.9 6.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 12 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 All ............................................................... All excluding sales .............................. $747 748 2.1 2.1 39.5 39.5 $728 729 2.7 2.7 39.6 39.6 $814 814 2.0 2.0 39.1 39.1 White collar ........................................... White collar excluding sales ........... 886 903 2.4 2.3 39.5 39.4 885 908 3.0 3.1 39.8 39.7 888 889 2.3 2.3 38.4 38.4 1,066 1,120 2.2 2.1 39.0 39.2 1,090 1,155 3.0 2.9 39.6 40.0 1,018 1,058 2.2 2.1 37.9 37.7 1,196 1,144 4.7 6.2 40.4 41.7 1,215 – 5.2 – 40.4 – 1,051 1,070 4.0 3.3 39.8 40.0 1,323 1,275 3.1 9.5 40.4 39.9 1,323 1,307 3.1 10.1 40.4 40.0 – – – – – – 1,141 3.3 40.4 1,141 3.3 40.4 – – – 1,162 3.5 40.4 1,162 3.5 40.4 – – – 882 914 977 1,475 867 868 1,122 736 1,500 4.9 8.9 4.5 15.7 2.7 12.1 8.6 4.4 6.1 40.3 40.2 39.6 39.9 39.2 40.0 38.6 40.0 41.9 882 910 967 1,462 852 868 – – 1,705 4.9 10.1 5.0 18.7 2.7 12.1 – – 9.4 40.3 40.3 39.6 40.0 39.1 40.0 – – 42.6 – 945 1,012 1,543 992 – – 746 1,300 – 9.9 10.7 13.6 7.7 – – 5.9 5.5 – 40.0 39.4 39.5 40.0 – – 40.0 41.1 1,204 6.0 37.4 – – – 1,270 7.0 34.8 1,075 1.7 36.9 872 6.4 38.3 1,098 1.7 36.7 954 1,066 1,122 1,005 1,176 14.6 2.1 1.8 3.8 4.6 39.0 36.6 36.4 37.0 38.3 – 970 1,069 746 683 – 4.7 4.7 12.0 12.9 – 37.6 38.3 39.8 37.0 – 1,074 1,127 1,057 1,221 – 2.2 1.9 2.3 3.9 – 36.5 36.2 36.5 38.4 944 9.1 36.9 – – – 1,031 6.1 36.2 931 926 7.1 7.2 39.3 39.4 801 – 9.8 – 39.3 – 1,022 1,022 6.1 6.1 39.3 39.3 1,028 887 7.2 6.4 38.6 40.0 1,107 – 7.4 – 38.4 – – – – – – – 636 639 2,024 2,024 6.8 7.8 4.9 4.9 39.5 39.5 40.6 40.6 548 575 2,104 2,104 8.9 10.2 4.1 4.1 39.0 39.5 40.7 40.7 653 649 – – 7.9 8.9 – – 39.6 39.5 – – 1,164 704 1,199 1,189 1,261 816 7.4 5.9 11.2 19.2 5.3 7.1 39.1 40.0 38.4 38.3 39.4 38.4 1,168 – 1,199 1,189 – 854 7.6 – 11.2 19.2 – 8.2 39.1 – 38.4 38.3 – 38.1 – – – – – 648 – – – – – 4.1 – – – – – 39.4 663 717 6.0 8.8 39.7 39.1 667 717 6.4 8.8 39.6 39.1 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ...................................... Professional specialty ..................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors .............................. Civil engineers ........................ Electrical and electronic engineers .......................... Engineers, n.e.c. ..................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists .................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts Natural scientists ........................ Health related ............................. Physicians .............................. Registered nurses .................. Respiratory therapists ............. Speech therapists ................... Therapists, n.e.c. .................... Teachers, college and university Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .............................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ...................... Elementary school teachers ... Secondary school teachers .... Teachers, special education ... Teachers, n.e.c. ...................... Vocational and educational counselors ........................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ................................. Librarians ................................ Social scientists and urban planners ................................ Psychologists .......................... Social, recreation, and religious workers ................................. Social workers ........................ Lawyers and judges .................... Lawyers .................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ..................................... Designers ............................... Editors and reporters .............. Public relations specialists ...... Professional, n.e.c. ................. Technical ........................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........................ Radiological technicians ......... See footnotes at end of table. 13 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Technical –Continued Licensed practical nurses ....... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ............. Electrical and electronic technicians ........................ Airplane pilots and navigators Computer programmers ......... Technical and related, n.e.c. .. Executive, administrative, and managerial ................................... Executives, administrators, and managers .............................. Administrators and officials, public administration ......... Financial managers ................ Personnel and labor relations managers .......................... Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations ............................ Administrators, education and related fields ..................... Managers, medicine and health ................................ Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ......... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ................................. Management related ................... Accountants and auditors ....... Other financial officers ............ Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists .......... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................... Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction ...................... Management related, n.e.c. .... Sales .................................................. Supervisors, sales .................. Sales, other business services Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .......................... Sales workers, apparel ........... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ............... Sales workers, other commodities ..................... Cashiers ................................. Administrative support, including clerical ......................................... Supervisors, general office ..... Secretaries ............................. $598 3.0 38.6 $617 3.4 38.7 $556 1.8 38.3 662 5.7 39.8 620 8.9 39.9 738 5.1 39.8 753 2,148 773 698 5.8 21.9 7.7 5.9 40.0 24.0 39.7 40.0 753 2,148 773 743 5.8 21.9 7.7 6.6 40.0 24.0 39.7 40.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – 1,099 3.4 40.1 1,135 4.0 40.3 973 5.5 39.1 1,238 4.5 40.1 1,284 5.3 40.5 1,071 5.7 38.8 929 1,644 8.0 10.4 38.5 40.0 – 1,644 – 10.4 – 40.0 929 – 8.0 – 38.5 – 1,229 14.1 41.1 1,178 16.5 41.2 – – – 1,491 14.1 40.0 1,491 14.1 40.0 – – – 1,240 6.0 39.4 1,248 12.8 40.1 1,235 5.8 39.0 1,285 5.9 40.5 1,284 5.7 40.6 – – – 1,188 13.3 40.6 1,265 13.0 40.9 – – – 1,250 857 783 1,021 5.7 4.8 6.7 6.1 40.5 40.0 39.5 39.7 1,247 869 815 1,042 5.9 5.3 6.2 6.3 40.5 40.1 39.6 40.0 – 819 714 – – 10.0 14.2 – – 39.6 39.4 – 730 7.2 39.3 739 9.2 39.1 – – – 1,027 11.1 40.4 1,056 10.8 40.4 – – – 701 899 8.2 6.1 40.0 40.1 – 835 – 5.3 – 40.2 701 – 8.2 – 40.0 – 719 766 1,041 12.6 15.1 11.9 40.2 39.8 40.0 717 766 1,041 12.9 15.1 11.9 40.3 39.8 40.0 – – – – – – – – – 942 442 3.5 15.1 43.3 40.0 942 442 3.5 15.1 43.3 40.0 – – – – – – 484 8.9 40.0 484 8.9 40.0 – – – 365 415 8.9 11.9 40.0 39.8 365 415 8.9 11.9 40.0 39.8 – – – – – – 546 736 613 2.1 5.4 4.2 39.5 39.7 39.5 555 732 631 2.5 6.5 5.3 39.6 40.0 39.4 511 751 538 3.2 8.9 5.3 39.2 38.4 39.9 See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 White collar –Continued Administrative support, including clerical –Continued Typists .................................... Hotel clerks ............................. Transportation ticket and reservation agents ............ Receptionists .......................... Order clerks ............................ Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping .... Library clerks .......................... Records clerks, n.e.c. ............. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................... Billing clerks ............................ Telephone operators .............. Dispatchers ............................. Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................................ Stock and inventory clerks ...... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................. Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .............. Eligibility clerks, social welfare General office clerks ............... Data entry keyers ................... Statistical clerks ...................... Teachers’ aides ...................... Administrative support, n.e.c. Blue collar ............................................. Precision production, craft, and repair ............................................ Automobile mechanics ........... Industrial machinery repairers Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ................................. Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ........................... Carpenters .............................. Electricians ............................. Electrician apprentices ........... Construction trades, n.e.c. ...... Supervisors, production .......... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..... Stationary engineers ............... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ Printing press operators ......... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ............ Packaging and filling machine operators .......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ................ $574 313 5.7 6.0 39.5 40.0 $592 313 5.6 6.0 39.4 40.0 – – – – – – 653 424 590 7.8 2.2 11.8 40.0 39.7 39.8 653 424 590 7.8 2.4 11.8 40.0 39.8 39.8 – – – – – – – – – 639 447 510 15.0 2.4 5.0 39.6 39.0 39.8 649 – 543 19.1 – 4.8 39.5 – 39.8 – $449 449 – 3.5 3.1 – 38.5 39.9 466 526 358 502 4.4 6.6 10.1 11.4 39.0 39.6 39.6 40.0 467 526 341 – 5.1 6.6 9.3 – 39.2 39.6 39.5 – 462 – – – 9.4 – – – 38.4 – – – 430 561 11.0 5.8 40.0 39.9 430 548 11.0 7.9 40.0 39.9 – – – – – – 471 11.8 40.0 471 11.8 40.0 – – – 514 547 510 389 566 414 525 5.8 1.7 3.5 7.3 8.1 9.1 6.1 39.2 39.8 39.4 39.9 38.9 35.8 39.6 514 – 512 424 566 – 534 5.8 – 4.3 6.9 8.1 – 6.6 39.2 – 39.8 39.8 38.9 – 39.8 – – 507 – – 461 – – – 5.9 – – 4.1 – – – 38.5 – – 37.0 – 601 3.0 39.9 599 3.3 39.9 615 4.7 39.9 711 683 664 3.2 5.9 7.5 40.0 40.0 40.0 716 – 680 3.4 – 7.9 40.0 – 40.0 658 – – 7.0 – – 40.0 – – 752 5.4 40.0 786 4.8 40.0 – – – 1,053 584 849 458 636 897 4.8 5.8 11.1 6.4 10.7 7.3 40.0 39.1 40.0 40.0 40.0 41.2 – 579 879 458 – 898 – 6.1 10.9 6.4 – 7.5 – 39.1 40.0 40.0 – 41.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 582 741 4.4 5.6 40.0 40.0 582 741 4.4 5.6 40.0 40.0 – – – – – – 548 706 4.8 15.3 39.7 37.1 548 706 4.8 15.3 39.7 37.1 – – – – – – 354 5.9 39.7 354 5.9 39.7 – – – 700 8.1 39.6 700 8.1 39.6 – – – 457 6.8 40.0 457 6.8 40.0 – – – See footnotes at end of table. 15 Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 Blue collar –Continued Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Assemblers ............................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ... Transportation and material moving ......................................... Truck drivers ........................... Driver-sales workers ............... Bus drivers .............................. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ......... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................. Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ..... Stock handlers and baggers ... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners .......... Hand packers and packagers Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ................................. Service ................................................... Protective service ....................... Firefighting .............................. Police and detectives, public service .............................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ......... Correctional institution officers Guards and police, except public service .................... Food service ............................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders .......................... Waiters and waitresses .......... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......................... Other food service .................... Supervisors, food preparation and service ....................... Cooks ..................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ............................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ....................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... Health service ............................. Health aides, except nursing .. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service ..... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ... Maids and housemen ............. $548 8.1 40.0 $548 8.1 40.0 – – – 403 4.2 40.0 403 4.2 40.0 – – – 609 563 562 501 6.0 3.9 12.2 9.3 40.1 39.9 43.6 38.2 610 560 562 – 7.2 4.3 12.2 – 40.2 39.9 43.6 – 5.4 3.7 – – 39.9 40.0 – – 672 9.6 40.0 672 9.6 40.0 – – – 474 5.2 39.7 465 5.5 39.7 577 15.0 40.0 418 429 9.9 10.6 39.6 39.7 387 428 7.3 12.0 39.6 39.7 – – – – – – 574 7.3 40.0 574 7.3 40.0 – – – 435 516 14.2 14.1 40.0 39.7 435 516 14.2 14.1 40.0 39.7 – – – – – – 411 8.2 39.8 411 8.4 39.8 – – – 455 702 813 3.1 5.5 4.2 39.2 40.8 45.7 362 387 – 2.7 10.3 – 38.7 39.0 – 678 787 813 3.5 3.8 4.2 40.7 41.3 45.7 783 4.4 40.5 – – – 787 4.4 40.5 644 627 32.7 3.3 38.6 40.1 – – – – – – 644 627 32.7 3.3 38.6 40.1 358 339 8.1 4.7 39.0 39.4 341 335 6.8 4.8 38.9 39.4 – 454 – 5.7 – 39.9 215 179 11.1 14.7 38.6 38.3 215 179 11.1 14.7 38.6 38.3 – – – – – – 296 390 7.2 4.7 39.8 39.8 296 387 7.2 4.9 39.8 39.8 – 454 – 5.7 – 39.9 604 389 9.5 4.9 41.9 39.5 604 384 9.5 5.3 41.9 39.5 – – – – – – 333 12.5 39.7 333 12.5 39.7 – – – 335 315 391 413 8.9 5.4 3.6 7.0 39.3 39.0 39.1 38.9 335 306 378 391 8.9 5.5 4.2 8.2 39.3 39.0 39.2 39.9 – – 463 – – – 3.7 – – – 38.7 – 381 377 4.4 4.2 39.0 39.5 369 356 5.1 4.8 39.0 39.4 470 458 5.9 3.1 39.7 40.0 523 343 10.9 6.1 40.0 39.0 511 342 13.0 6.2 40.0 39.0 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 16 $603 588 – – Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Weekly earnings Mean Service –Continued Cleaning and building service –Continued Janitors and cleaners ............. Personal service ......................... Public transportation attendants ......................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ....... Service, n.e.c. ......................... Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Weekly earnings Mean weekly hours5 $376 421 5.9 4.8 39.8 34.7 $341 413 7.2 5.3 39.7 34.1 547 380 354 7.5 3.1 4.7 23.1 39.0 38.5 562 – 350 8.4 – 5.2 20.6 – 38.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a Mean $451 461 – – – Relative error4 (percent) Mean weekly hours5 3.3 10.0 40.0 37.8 – – – – – – percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 17 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 All ............................................................... All excluding sales .............................. $37,819 37,842 2.1 2.1 2,001 1,996 $37,660 37,687 2.7 2.7 2,050 2,047 $38,333 38,311 2.0 2.0 1,842 1,841 White collar ........................................... White collar excluding sales ........... 44,335 45,003 2.4 2.3 1,975 1,964 45,722 46,847 3.0 3.1 2,056 2,051 40,523 40,505 2.3 2.3 1,753 1,752 51,191 52,905 2.2 2.1 1,873 1,850 55,850 58,943 3.0 2.9 2,027 2,040 43,362 44,209 2.2 2.1 1,615 1,576 62,217 59,467 4.7 6.2 2,100 2,171 63,164 – 5.2 – 2,103 – 54,650 55,622 4.0 3.3 2,072 2,080 68,790 66,276 3.1 9.5 2,102 2,076 68,790 67,948 3.1 10.1 2,102 2,080 – – – – – – 59,309 3.3 2,098 59,325 3.3 2,098 – – – 60,422 3.5 2,100 60,442 3.5 2,100 – – – 45,839 47,128 49,902 76,691 45,094 45,149 47,995 38,265 62,142 4.9 8.9 4.5 15.7 2.7 12.1 8.6 4.4 6.1 2,095 2,075 2,021 2,076 2,038 2,080 1,652 2,080 1,734 45,839 46,845 50,277 76,006 44,293 45,149 – – 71,121 4.9 10.1 5.0 18.7 2.7 12.1 – – 9.4 2,095 2,074 2,058 2,080 2,032 2,080 – – 1,778 – 49,129 48,600 80,221 51,594 – – 38,814 53,479 – 9.9 10.7 13.6 7.7 – – 5.9 5.5 – 2,080 1,893 2,055 2,080 – – 2,080 1,692 53,332 6.0 1,657 – – – 51,750 7.0 1,419 42,448 1.7 1,456 37,072 6.4 1,627 43,014 1.7 1,438 39,514 41,263 43,475 41,558 46,478 14.6 2.1 1.8 3.8 4.6 1,614 1,418 1,411 1,531 1,513 – 38,524 39,563 36,849 34,604 – 4.7 4.7 12.0 12.9 – 1,494 1,417 1,964 1,874 – 41,493 43,861 42,320 47,304 – 2.2 1.9 2.3 3.9 – 1,412 1,411 1,461 1,487 42,215 9.1 1,649 – – – 44,373 6.1 1,559 48,414 48,131 7.1 7.2 2,044 2,049 41,640 – 9.8 – 2,043 – 53,144 53,144 6.1 6.1 2,045 2,045 53,472 46,114 7.2 6.4 2,007 2,080 57,539 – 7.4 – 1,996 – – – – – – – 33,078 33,216 105,254 105,255 6.8 7.8 4.9 4.9 2,055 2,055 2,109 2,109 28,481 29,919 109,385 109,385 8.9 10.2 4.1 4.1 2,030 2,051 2,115 2,115 33,936 33,770 – – 7.9 8.9 – – 2,059 2,056 – – 60,400 36,600 62,372 61,845 65,120 42,409 7.4 5.9 11.2 19.2 5.3 7.1 2,031 2,080 1,999 1,990 2,038 1,995 60,712 – 62,372 61,845 – 44,377 7.6 – 11.2 19.2 – 8.2 2,034 – 1,999 1,990 – 1,982 – – – – – 33,709 – – – – – 4.1 – – – – – 2,051 34,471 37,267 6.0 8.8 2,063 2,031 34,673 37,267 6.4 8.8 2,061 2,031 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ...................................... Professional specialty ..................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors .............................. Civil engineers ........................ Electrical and electronic engineers .......................... Engineers, n.e.c. ..................... Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists .................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts Natural scientists ........................ Health related ............................. Physicians .............................. Registered nurses .................. Respiratory therapists ............. Speech therapists ................... Therapists, n.e.c. .................... Teachers, college and university Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .............................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ...................... Elementary school teachers ... Secondary school teachers .... Teachers, special education ... Teachers, n.e.c. ...................... Vocational and educational counselors ........................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ................................. Librarians ................................ Social scientists and urban planners ................................ Psychologists .......................... Social, recreation, and religious workers ................................. Social workers ........................ Lawyers and judges .................... Lawyers .................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ..................................... Designers ............................... Editors and reporters .............. Public relations specialists ...... Professional, n.e.c. ................. Technical ........................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........................ Radiological technicians ......... See footnotes at end of table. 18 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Technical –Continued Licensed practical nurses ....... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ............. Electrical and electronic technicians ........................ Airplane pilots and navigators Computer programmers ......... Technical and related, n.e.c. .. Executive, administrative, and managerial ................................... Executives, administrators, and managers .............................. Administrators and officials, public administration ......... Financial managers ................ Personnel and labor relations managers .......................... Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations ............................ Administrators, education and related fields ..................... Managers, medicine and health ................................ Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ......... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. ................................. Management related ................... Accountants and auditors ....... Other financial officers ............ Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists .......... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................... Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction ...................... Management related, n.e.c. .... Sales .................................................. Supervisors, sales .................. Sales, other business services Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .......................... Sales workers, apparel ........... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ............... Sales workers, other commodities ..................... Cashiers ................................. Administrative support, including clerical ......................................... Supervisors, general office ..... Secretaries ............................. $31,114 3.0 2,006 $32,068 3.4 2,013 $28,909 1.8 1,991 34,401 5.7 2,071 32,226 8.9 2,073 38,392 5.1 2,067 39,140 111,687 40,200 36,245 5.8 21.9 7.7 5.9 2,080 1,246 2,064 2,078 39,140 111,687 40,200 38,596 5.8 21.9 7.7 6.6 2,080 1,246 2,064 2,077 – – – – – – – – – – – – 56,787 3.4 2,071 58,921 4.0 2,094 49,623 5.5 1,995 63,888 4.5 2,072 66,557 5.3 2,099 54,498 5.7 1,975 48,287 85,492 8.0 10.4 2,004 2,081 – 85,492 – 10.4 – 2,081 48,287 – 8.0 – 2,004 – 63,903 14.1 2,136 61,253 16.5 2,144 – – – 77,536 14.1 2,080 77,536 14.1 2,080 – – – 61,106 6.0 1,942 62,084 12.8 1,996 60,515 5.8 1,909 66,801 5.9 2,108 66,783 5.7 2,110 – – – 61,782 13.3 2,113 65,793 13.0 2,125 – – – 64,953 44,358 40,701 53,076 5.7 4.8 6.7 6.1 2,104 2,070 2,054 2,063 64,807 45,158 42,405 54,185 5.9 5.3 6.2 6.3 2,106 2,083 2,057 2,080 – 41,876 37,124 – – 10.0 14.2 – – 2,028 2,046 – 37,974 7.2 2,043 38,412 9.2 2,033 – – – 53,384 11.1 2,100 54,903 10.8 2,102 – – – 36,433 46,018 8.2 6.1 2,080 2,054 – 43,380 – 5.3 – 2,087 36,433 – 8.2 – 2,080 – 37,409 39,835 54,136 12.6 15.1 11.9 2,092 2,070 2,080 37,298 39,835 54,136 12.9 15.1 11.9 2,095 2,070 2,080 – – – – – – – – – 48,991 22,998 3.5 15.1 2,250 2,080 48,991 22,998 3.5 15.1 2,250 2,080 – – – – – – 25,189 8.9 2,080 25,189 8.9 2,080 – – – 18,984 21,605 8.9 11.9 2,080 2,070 18,984 21,605 8.9 11.9 2,080 2,070 – – – – – – 28,208 38,271 31,890 2.1 5.4 4.2 2,040 2,062 2,055 28,803 38,067 32,835 2.5 6.5 5.3 2,055 2,079 2,051 25,819 39,027 27,996 3.2 8.9 5.3 1,981 1,998 2,073 See footnotes at end of table. 19 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 White collar –Continued Administrative support, including clerical –Continued Typists .................................... Hotel clerks ............................. Transportation ticket and reservation agents ............ Receptionists .......................... Order clerks ............................ Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping .... Library clerks .......................... Records clerks, n.e.c. ............. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................... Billing clerks ............................ Telephone operators .............. Dispatchers ............................. Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................................ Stock and inventory clerks ...... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................. Investigators and adjusters, except insurance .............. Eligibility clerks, social welfare General office clerks ............... Data entry keyers ................... Statistical clerks ...................... Teachers’ aides ...................... Administrative support, n.e.c. Blue collar ............................................. Precision production, craft, and repair ............................................ Automobile mechanics ........... Industrial machinery repairers Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ................................. Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ........................... Carpenters .............................. Electricians ............................. Electrician apprentices ........... Construction trades, n.e.c. ...... Supervisors, production .......... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..... Stationary engineers ............... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ Printing press operators ......... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ............ Packaging and filling machine operators .......................... Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ................ $29,850 16,301 5.7 6.0 2,053 2,080 $30,799 16,301 5.6 6.0 2,049 2,080 – – – – – – 33,942 22,031 30,671 7.8 2.2 11.8 2,080 2,065 2,067 33,942 22,069 30,671 7.8 2.4 11.8 2,080 2,069 2,067 – – – – – – – – – 33,217 23,241 26,538 15.0 2.4 5.0 2,059 2,029 2,071 33,748 – 28,247 19.1 – 4.8 2,052 – 2,069 – $23,334 23,344 – 3.5 3.1 – 2,004 2,074 24,233 27,376 18,591 26,101 4.4 6.6 10.1 11.4 2,029 2,060 2,059 2,080 24,286 27,376 17,722 – 5.1 6.6 9.3 – 2,038 2,060 2,057 – 24,035 – – – 9.4 – – – 1,998 – – – 22,343 29,172 11.0 5.8 2,080 2,074 22,343 28,481 11.0 7.9 2,080 2,073 – – – – – – 24,487 11.8 2,080 24,487 11.8 2,080 – – – 26,709 28,464 26,497 20,212 29,442 16,460 27,291 5.8 1.7 3.5 7.3 8.1 9.1 6.1 2,037 2,067 2,044 2,074 2,022 1,423 2,057 26,709 – 26,579 22,070 29,442 – 27,793 5.8 – 4.3 6.9 8.1 – 6.6 2,037 – 2,066 2,071 2,022 – 2,069 – – 26,339 – – 18,099 – – – 5.9 – – 4.1 – – – 2,001 – – 1,452 – 30,997 3.0 2,058 31,021 3.3 2,064 30,748 4.7 1,995 36,959 35,434 34,551 3.2 5.9 7.5 2,076 2,076 2,080 37,216 – 35,348 3.4 – 7.9 2,076 – 2,080 34,124 – – 7.0 – – 2,076 – – 39,111 5.4 2,080 40,880 4.8 2,080 – – – 54,775 30,360 44,161 23,812 33,082 46,618 4.8 5.8 11.1 6.4 10.7 7.3 2,080 2,034 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,144 – 30,132 45,692 23,812 – 46,715 – 6.1 10.9 6.4 – 7.5 – 2,032 2,080 2,080 – 2,146 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 30,262 38,518 4.4 5.6 2,080 2,080 30,262 38,518 4.4 5.6 2,080 2,080 – – – – – – 28,503 36,734 4.8 15.3 2,066 1,928 28,503 36,734 4.8 15.3 2,066 1,928 – – – – – – 18,386 5.9 2,065 18,386 5.9 2,065 – – – 36,383 8.1 2,061 36,383 8.1 2,061 – – – 23,779 6.8 2,080 23,779 6.8 2,080 – – – See footnotes at end of table. 20 Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 Blue collar –Continued Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Assemblers ............................. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ... Transportation and material moving ......................................... Truck drivers ........................... Driver-sales workers ............... Bus drivers .............................. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ......... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................. Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ..... Stock handlers and baggers ... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners .......... Hand packers and packagers Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. ................................. Service ................................................... Protective service ....................... Firefighting .............................. Police and detectives, public service .............................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ......... Correctional institution officers Guards and police, except public service .................... Food service ............................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders .......................... Waiters and waitresses .......... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......................... Other food service .................... Supervisors, food preparation and service ....................... Cooks ..................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ............................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ....................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... Health service ............................. Health aides, except nursing .. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service ..... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ... Maids and housemen ............. $28,517 8.1 2,080 $28,517 8.1 2,080 – – – 20,944 4.2 2,080 20,944 4.2 2,080 – – – 31,068 29,106 29,221 21,976 6.0 3.9 12.2 9.3 2,048 2,062 2,268 1,673 31,609 28,976 29,221 – 7.2 4.3 12.2 – 2,082 2,061 2,268 – 5.4 3.7 – – 1,903 2,080 – – 34,941 9.6 2,080 34,941 9.6 2,080 – – – 24,299 5.2 2,035 23,832 5.5 2,031 29,982 15.0 2,080 20,809 22,330 9.9 10.6 1,975 2,065 19,170 22,243 7.3 12.0 1,962 2,064 – – – – – – 29,834 7.3 2,080 29,834 7.3 2,080 – – – 22,598 26,856 14.2 14.1 2,080 2,065 22,598 26,856 14.2 14.1 2,080 2,065 – – – – – – 20,584 8.2 1,993 20,533 8.4 1,990 – – – 23,447 36,490 42,274 3.1 5.5 4.2 2,024 2,122 2,377 18,793 20,124 – 2.7 10.3 – 2,009 2,028 – 34,319 40,927 42,274 3.5 3.8 4.2 2,059 2,147 2,377 40,714 4.4 2,105 – – – 40,900 4.4 2,105 33,488 32,590 32.7 3.3 2,006 2,083 – – – – – – 33,488 32,590 32.7 3.3 2,006 2,083 18,603 17,504 8.1 4.7 2,027 2,037 17,710 17,427 6.8 4.8 2,022 2,047 – 19,684 – 5.7 – 1,734 11,201 9,319 11.1 14.7 2,008 1,990 11,201 9,319 11.1 14.7 2,008 1,990 – – – – – – 15,397 20,098 7.2 4.7 2,068 2,048 15,397 20,119 7.2 4.9 2,068 2,064 – 19,684 – 5.7 – 1,734 31,384 19,965 9.5 4.9 2,179 2,029 31,384 19,974 9.5 5.3 2,179 2,053 – – – – – – 17,294 12.5 2,065 17,294 12.5 2,065 – – – 17,334 16,104 20,319 21,314 8.9 5.4 3.6 7.0 2,031 1,997 2,031 2,010 17,310 15,890 19,661 20,329 8.9 5.5 4.2 8.2 2,031 2,023 2,037 2,077 – – 23,916 – – – 3.7 – – – 1,997 – 19,792 19,570 4.4 4.2 2,030 2,054 19,190 18,491 5.1 4.8 2,026 2,048 24,444 23,811 5.9 3.1 2,066 2,078 27,173 17,824 10.9 6.1 2,080 2,027 26,588 17,777 13.0 6.2 2,080 2,026 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 21 $28,790 30,599 – – Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation3 Annual earnings Mean Service –Continued Cleaning and building service –Continued Janitors and cleaners ............. Personal service ......................... Public transportation attendants ......................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ....... Service, n.e.c. ......................... Relative error4 (percent) State and local government Private industry Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean Relative error4 (percent) Annual earnings Mean annual hours5 Mean $23,427 17,508 $19,517 20,689 5.9 4.8 2,066 1,706 $17,714 21,483 7.2 5.3 2,061 1,774 27,184 18,826 17,752 7.5 3.1 4.7 1,146 1,931 1,934 29,201 – 18,179 8.4 – 5.2 1,073 – 2,022 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a – – – Relative error4 (percent) Mean annual hours5 3.3 10.0 2,077 1,435 – – – – – – percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 22 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $17.86 18.06 2.1 2.1 $17.21 17.41 2.7 2.7 $20.38 20.39 2.0 2.0 White collar ......................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... 21.46 7.19 10.08 10.20 12.62 15.18 16.67 20.56 21.54 25.79 28.35 32.24 39.10 45.29 48.47 24.76 22.29 8.05 10.75 10.64 13.01 15.11 16.47 20.50 21.62 25.87 28.20 31.34 39.18 45.29 48.47 24.79 2.4 5.6 5.4 2.1 2.5 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.3 2.2 3.6 4.1 3.8 6.7 10.1 9.8 2.3 9.0 4.3 2.2 2.5 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.5 2.2 3.9 3.4 3.8 6.7 10.1 9.8 21.06 7.13 10.00 9.98 12.58 15.60 16.84 20.01 20.40 24.46 29.23 34.46 40.36 50.99 56.82 24.99 22.11 8.22 10.70 10.42 13.08 15.53 16.61 19.88 20.39 24.51 29.12 33.29 40.45 50.99 56.82 25.04 3.0 6.4 5.7 2.3 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.6 2.8 3.1 5.1 4.5 3.8 6.6 4.9 12.9 3.0 12.2 4.6 2.4 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.7 3.1 3.2 6.0 3.7 3.8 6.6 4.9 13.0 22.82 7.64 11.65 11.93 12.82 13.47 15.76 22.46 24.48 28.40 26.79 27.09 28.65 31.60 – 24.17 22.85 7.64 11.65 12.02 12.80 13.47 15.76 22.46 24.48 28.40 26.79 27.18 28.65 31.60 – 24.17 2.3 4.0 8.6 2.6 3.8 4.7 4.6 6.0 8.2 2.6 3.2 5.5 8.7 5.1 – 10.5 2.3 4.0 8.6 2.7 3.9 4.7 4.6 6.0 8.2 2.6 3.2 5.7 8.7 5.1 – 10.5 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 26.93 28.22 17.51 16.97 22.71 23.81 27.61 28.03 30.09 38.13 43.66 53.92 26.00 29.68 22.34 23.58 26.15 29.65 32.25 35.48 27.39 32.72 27.56 32.40 37.93 32.10 28.27 21.58 23.54 2.2 2.1 5.1 4.6 3.8 5.6 2.0 4.7 3.2 4.9 6.8 6.1 14.3 4.6 3.3 6.9 5.7 6.2 4.0 7.1 4.0 3.1 4.1 3.6 3.6 9.3 3.5 1.9 9.4 27.09 28.50 17.23 17.60 21.60 21.25 25.71 28.34 31.47 40.16 48.25 54.55 28.57 30.08 – – 26.16 30.48 32.11 38.36 – 32.72 27.56 32.40 37.93 32.84 28.28 – 23.54 3.0 2.9 5.9 5.7 5.4 3.5 3.5 8.3 2.9 4.8 6.0 6.4 15.4 5.1 – – 6.1 6.8 4.2 3.0 – 3.1 4.1 3.6 3.6 9.8 3.5 – 9.4 26.58 27.69 19.12 15.50 25.61 27.17 29.84 27.67 27.12 27.15 31.24 – 18.26 26.38 – – – – – – 26.74 – – – – – – – – 2.2 2.2 7.9 5.5 7.0 11.6 2.1 2.9 7.1 10.1 4.5 – 8.6 4.2 – – – – – – 3.3 – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 23 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $26.42 27.80 31.31 34.31 38.74 28.75 23.86 26.37 28.06 31.99 35.91 37.82 6.0 4.9 3.7 3.1 8.4 3.8 9.5 6.7 5.0 3.4 2.9 8.6 $26.42 27.80 31.31 34.31 38.74 28.76 23.86 26.37 28.06 31.99 35.91 37.82 6.0 4.9 3.7 3.1 8.4 3.8 9.5 6.7 5.0 3.4 2.9 8.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 22.89 22.71 16.02 24.58 18.07 19.30 22.27 23.94 26.19 28.25 57.21 27.03 37.22 58.07 22.25 20.27 21.92 22.80 28.31 21.08 29.07 18.51 17.41 34.90 29.89 26.30 33.24 25.47 39.23 23.24 30.13 39.35 28.66 13.20 13.47 29.08 31.90 29.63 27.34 28.32 25.36 29.04 32.49 29.53 30.79 32.05 6.0 9.0 4.0 3.9 2.2 3.3 4.0 3.0 8.8 8.1 17.6 30.8 15.2 17.8 2.0 2.7 1.7 2.4 7.8 11.3 8.0 4.0 5.5 5.6 21.9 6.2 5.9 11.7 9.2 15.3 8.8 17.9 1.8 19.1 3.5 4.0 3.7 2.1 1.3 4.8 12.8 2.0 2.3 2.5 1.7 3.3 22.89 22.59 – 24.31 – 19.83 21.18 23.80 23.68 28.07 60.39 – 36.76 61.62 22.02 20.29 21.84 22.91 28.31 21.08 – – – 39.49 – – 41.09 – 48.83 – 28.39 – 21.34 14.42 – 17.77 25.13 24.17 – – – 25.42 – 24.09 28.66 – 6.0 10.2 – 4.1 – 2.0 2.4 3.0 7.4 8.2 20.9 – 18.2 21.2 1.9 2.7 1.9 2.5 7.9 11.3 – – – 8.0 – – 7.2 – 9.2 – 10.0 – 7.3 20.3 – 33.9 17.2 5.2 – – – 5.4 – 4.8 3.7 – – $23.62 – 25.81 – 17.43 27.16 – – – – – 39.60 – 24.71 – – – – – – 18.85 – 30.62 – – 30.26 – 30.54 – 31.77 – 29.66 – – 30.54 33.19 30.36 27.26 28.62 – 29.39 – 30.14 31.00 32.16 – 9.9 – 10.6 – 7.9 10.9 – – – – – 13.6 – 7.7 – – – – – – 4.9 – 6.2 – – 5.0 – 5.5 – 14.1 – 1.6 – – 2.6 2.3 2.2 1.2 4.9 – 2.1 – 2.5 1.8 3.5 White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Professional specialty –Continued Mathematical and computer scientists –Continued 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Health related ........................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Physicians ............................................................ 12 ...................................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. 7 ...................................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. 8 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... English teachers ................................................... Other post-secondary teachers ............................ 8 ...................................................................... Teachers, except college and university .................. 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Secondary school teachers .................................. 7 ...................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 24 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $34.95 30.89 26.95 24.70 27.08 28.58 25.48 28.70 22.83 14.72 16.38 21.41 29.51 22.70 14.72 21.41 29.51 26.42 22.01 16.00 14.45 16.18 13.10 15.89 49.58 49.58 5.2 2.0 4.6 11.2 7.9 8.7 11.6 11.5 6.8 6.9 2.6 6.6 4.4 7.0 6.9 6.6 4.4 8.6 6.4 6.2 8.2 7.9 4.5 5.3 4.9 4.9 – $28.73 18.37 – – – – – 20.16 – – – – 19.70 – – – 28.92 – 13.87 – 14.58 – – 51.73 51.73 – 3.9 11.9 – – – – – 9.0 – – – – 9.1 – – – 9.3 – 8.0 – 10.3 – – 4.2 4.2 – $31.21 28.96 – 30.23 – 28.28 30.86 24.57 14.72 – 19.92 – 24.57 14.72 19.92 – 18.41 – 16.37 15.43 16.45 – 16.09 31.70 – – 2.1 2.9 – 4.4 – 8.5 8.3 7.1 6.9 – 12.6 – 7.1 6.9 12.6 – 4.0 – 7.1 7.9 9.1 – 5.2 6.1 – 29.34 21.44 29.33 33.88 44.16 29.13 17.60 30.79 31.08 31.81 31.29 20.84 13.30 15.30 15.70 18.93 18.58 25.29 110.94 16.97 18.01 18.28 15.50 15.55 15.50 16.29 12.92 16.14 18.82 89.67 136.26 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.5 3.9 16.4 5.9 12.7 19.9 4.8 3.0 7.8 7.4 2.9 3.9 4.5 4.9 16.4 19.4 5.6 6.5 7.4 1.9 2.7 2.6 5.6 10.6 7.8 5.8 24.6 9.1 29.44 21.44 29.69 33.88 44.16 29.16 – 30.79 31.08 – 31.29 21.80 12.13 15.16 15.83 19.33 18.60 28.06 110.94 17.09 18.06 18.28 15.81 15.82 15.82 15.25 12.92 – 18.82 89.67 136.26 8.0 8.2 8.4 8.5 3.9 16.6 – 12.7 19.9 – 3.0 9.0 8.0 3.2 4.1 4.7 6.0 16.8 19.4 5.9 6.5 7.4 2.0 2.7 2.7 7.9 10.6 – 5.8 24.6 9.1 – – – – – – – – – – – 16.42 – 15.97 – – 18.50 – – – – – 14.55 – – 18.57 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 4.0 – 6.4 – – 6.8 – – – – – 1.7 – – 4.3 – – – – – White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Professional specialty –Continued Teachers, except college and university –Continued Secondary school teachers –Continued 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Teachers, special education ................................. 9 ...................................................................... Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ 9 ...................................................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Librarians .............................................................. 6 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 7 ...................................................................... Social workers ...................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... 9 ...................................................................... Technical ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 8 ...................................................................... Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. 11 ...................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 25 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $21.05 19.48 17.42 34.1 7.6 5.8 $21.31 19.48 18.58 37.6 7.6 6.6 – – – – – – 27.15 17.20 16.19 18.96 20.45 22.07 28.72 30.12 39.83 42.42 45.54 26.79 30.56 18.75 16.80 22.62 21.32 32.52 30.83 40.32 40.15 45.54 24.20 24.14 41.08 42.74 29.91 3.4 11.2 6.7 6.5 4.0 4.2 7.8 4.7 5.7 9.3 14.5 8.5 4.4 11.9 11.2 6.9 6.2 8.1 5.3 5.9 8.7 14.5 11.7 7.9 11.0 21.1 14.8 27.80 19.12 16.12 17.95 20.35 22.29 31.07 31.56 40.06 48.53 58.94 – 31.35 19.25 17.18 21.64 21.28 33.36 33.14 40.59 45.78 58.94 – – 41.08 42.74 28.57 4.0 10.3 7.2 5.1 4.2 4.7 8.1 4.4 5.9 6.8 7.1 – 5.3 12.1 12.9 7.4 6.4 8.0 4.6 6.1 6.1 7.1 – – 11.0 21.1 17.2 $24.89 – – 23.91 20.88 20.62 – 27.27 – – – – 27.57 – – – – – 27.16 – – – – 24.14 – – – 5.5 – – 16.9 11.3 6.6 – 9.9 – – – – 5.8 – – – – – 10.1 – – – – 7.9 – – – 37.28 30.97 25.69 29.71 35.15 31.57 31.56 29.24 30.31 20.49 28.36 34.05 37.28 58.99 21.25 14.75 15.34 19.71 18.97 23.00 22.56 26.37 19.82 19.80 20.54 24.78 25.73 14.1 5.9 13.2 6.6 9.2 4.8 7.2 14.5 5.9 10.0 6.4 7.1 3.4 9.0 4.8 14.1 4.1 7.2 4.2 4.7 6.0 6.9 6.9 5.0 7.0 13.3 5.9 37.28 29.88 24.12 26.21 36.19 31.52 31.56 30.96 30.20 20.49 28.36 34.06 37.17 58.99 21.39 – 15.16 18.24 19.44 23.90 23.05 26.07 20.61 19.80 20.68 24.44 26.05 14.1 11.8 15.2 10.7 10.1 4.5 7.2 14.7 6.1 10.0 6.4 7.9 3.5 9.0 5.5 – 4.3 4.9 4.8 5.2 13.4 7.3 6.5 5.0 7.1 15.2 6.3 – 31.70 – 30.59 – – – – – – – – – – 20.81 – – 26.39 17.07 20.25 – – 18.14 – – – – – 5.9 – 7.4 – – – – – – – – – – 9.8 – – 15.1 3.6 6.2 – – 15.0 – – – – White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Technical –Continued Broadcast equipment operators ........................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 5 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. 12 ...................................................................... Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Managers, medicine and health ........................... 11 ...................................................................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Management related ................................................. 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Accountants and auditors ..................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Other financial officers .......................................... See footnotes at end of table. 26 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $18.59 25.42 7.2 11.4 $18.89 26.12 9.1 11.1 – – – – 17.52 22.00 21.82 19.04 22.53 8.2 6.2 16.9 8.9 8.2 – 20.21 16.18 19.04 23.96 – 5.8 8.4 8.9 9.3 $17.52 26.82 – – – 8.2 11.4 – – – Sales ................................................................................ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales ................................................ Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 4 ...................................................................... Cashiers ............................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 15.18 6.51 6.94 8.76 11.75 16.64 19.68 21.52 20.48 23.45 18.25 25.78 11.8 3.7 10.7 4.2 6.1 16.8 11.5 10.3 5.1 6.2 14.6 12.0 15.12 6.51 6.94 8.71 11.73 16.64 19.68 21.52 20.48 23.45 18.25 25.78 12.1 3.7 10.7 4.3 6.2 16.8 11.5 10.3 5.1 6.2 14.6 12.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.78 9.92 11.58 8.31 8.18 9.45 6.42 6.99 8.89 2.8 13.5 8.1 7.8 7.4 12.6 5.2 12.8 4.8 21.78 9.92 11.58 8.31 8.18 9.43 6.42 6.99 8.76 2.8 13.5 8.1 7.8 7.4 12.9 5.2 12.8 5.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Supervisors, general office ................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Secretaries ........................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Typists .................................................................. 3 ...................................................................... Interviewers .......................................................... Hotel clerks ........................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 13.37 8.05 10.75 10.64 13.04 14.07 16.79 17.41 21.39 22.83 14.06 18.55 16.63 20.99 16.91 15.27 14.35 12.25 13.96 13.60 17.50 18.41 14.23 11.78 11.83 7.83 7.73 2.1 9.0 4.3 2.2 2.5 3.2 4.3 4.7 5.1 3.5 10.6 5.4 7.6 12.6 5.9 4.1 4.4 5.6 5.0 4.3 7.2 6.1 5.7 1.5 7.5 4.9 3.8 13.48 8.22 10.70 10.40 13.21 14.52 17.01 18.04 21.68 – 14.06 18.31 – – – 15.67 – 12.17 13.99 14.32 17.80 18.99 14.63 – 11.83 7.83 7.73 2.5 12.2 4.6 2.5 3.1 3.5 4.8 5.1 5.5 – 10.6 6.4 – – – 5.0 – 6.8 5.6 4.5 8.8 6.3 6.1 – 7.5 4.9 3.8 12.87 7.64 11.65 12.02 12.49 12.37 15.98 15.42 – – – 19.46 – – – 13.50 – – 13.71 11.94 – – – – – – – 3.0 4.0 8.6 2.7 3.4 5.1 7.8 4.0 – – – 8.4 – – – 5.3 – – 6.0 6.4 – – – – – – – White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Management related –Continued Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 27 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $15.11 10.15 9.82 10.31 11.42 18.47 13.75 16.14 9.73 6.15 10.44 12.72 11.04 12.89 11.47 10.77 11.57 13.19 12.95 8.92 8.83 12.55 11.39 10.74 14.07 10.4 2.7 3.3 6.5 6.1 19.1 14.6 15.7 4.6 1.5 4.2 4.9 4.6 9.5 4.2 5.8 6.1 7.1 4.6 7.8 10.8 11.4 14.6 11.0 5.8 $15.11 10.12 9.82 10.37 – 18.47 13.75 16.45 – – – 13.48 – 15.17 11.40 10.77 11.38 13.19 12.95 8.57 8.83 – – 10.74 13.74 10.4 2.8 3.3 7.4 – 19.1 14.6 20.0 – – – 4.9 – 9.8 4.8 5.8 7.4 7.1 4.6 7.0 10.8 – – 11.0 8.0 – – – – – – – – $9.47 6.15 – 11.26 – – 11.78 – 11.98 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.0 1.5 – 3.0 – – 7.9 – 9.7 – – – – – – – – 10.99 13.14 14.36 12.32 13.42 14.40 12.43 11.90 10.57 13.84 13.02 9.56 9.88 14.42 11.72 11.21 11.86 12.87 10.69 11.82 16.87 13.0 6.3 4.3 8.5 3.4 24.7 3.7 10.0 5.3 3.1 6.8 6.5 6.3 7.3 5.2 11.6 3.9 5.6 5.6 5.2 7.4 10.99 13.14 14.36 12.32 – – 12.14 11.81 10.14 14.00 13.88 10.23 9.98 14.42 8.11 – – 13.00 10.83 11.37 17.15 13.0 6.3 4.3 8.5 – – 4.8 10.8 6.4 3.8 5.6 6.0 6.8 7.3 15.1 – – 6.3 5.6 5.6 7.3 – – – – 13.67 – 13.05 – – 13.65 – – – – 12.65 – – – – – – – – – – 3.1 – 5.4 – – 4.8 – – – – 2.6 – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 14.65 8.91 10.90 11.72 14.79 15.17 16.98 19.01 20.22 24.41 3.0 8.7 7.8 4.6 6.1 4.0 3.6 3.7 6.0 3.0 14.60 8.84 10.87 11.71 14.96 15.26 17.20 19.44 20.30 25.03 3.3 9.2 8.4 4.7 6.3 4.6 3.8 4.1 6.7 2.4 15.22 – 11.31 – – 14.54 – 16.58 – – 4.5 – 6.4 – – 3.7 – 7.1 – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 17.76 11.21 3.1 8.3 17.88 11.21 3.3 8.3 16.44 – 7.0 – White collar –Continued Administrative support, including clerical –Continued Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Information clerks, n.e.c. ...................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Billing clerks .......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Mail clerks, except postal service ......................... Dispatchers ........................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. Bill and account collectors .................................... General office clerks ............................................. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. 2 ...................................................................... Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 28 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $12.82 16.24 17.59 18.72 21.15 24.79 17.07 16.61 18.80 21.24 7.8 6.8 5.3 3.9 5.8 2.9 5.9 7.5 5.4 4.0 $12.82 16.61 17.55 19.14 – 24.86 – 16.99 19.65 21.30 7.8 7.2 5.4 4.3 – 2.9 – 7.9 4.8 4.5 – – – $16.55 – – – – – – – – – 7.6 – – – – – – 26.33 14.92 21.23 19.83 11.45 15.90 21.74 14.55 18.52 4.8 5.9 11.1 14.2 6.4 10.7 7.2 4.4 5.6 – 14.83 21.97 – 11.45 – 21.76 14.55 18.52 – 6.3 10.9 – 6.4 – 7.4 4.4 5.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 13.71 8.65 9.67 12.41 14.09 14.28 16.83 20.70 18.68 8.89 8.40 9.61 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 6.3 5.5 6.7 5.5 8.0 5.6 7.9 16.7 5.8 7.5 7.4 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 13.71 8.65 9.67 12.41 14.12 14.28 16.83 20.70 19.05 8.89 8.40 9.61 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 6.3 5.5 6.7 5.7 8.0 5.6 7.9 16.9 5.8 7.5 7.4 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Truck drivers ......................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 14.32 8.72 11.04 16.14 15.40 15.52 13.65 11.44 10.80 14.87 15.16 10.62 13.01 16.80 6.7 12.7 10.7 8.6 4.7 4.3 4.9 8.4 14.1 5.8 6.5 18.6 6.7 9.6 14.19 7.88 10.95 16.29 15.54 16.75 13.56 – 10.70 14.87 15.12 10.62 – 16.80 8.2 13.7 11.2 8.7 7.7 3.4 5.3 – 14.7 5.8 8.4 18.6 – 9.6 14.95 – – – 15.19 – 14.71 – – – – – 14.13 – 5.1 – – – 2.6 – 3.7 – – – – – 4.0 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 11.52 8.90 11.71 11.75 13.06 12.86 10.42 10.14 5.0 11.2 9.5 7.9 7.2 8.5 9.6 11.0 11.32 8.80 11.83 11.75 13.46 12.86 9.77 10.05 5.2 12.2 9.7 7.9 7.8 8.5 8.2 12.2 14.11 – – – – – – – 14.7 – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued Precision production, craft, and repair –Continued 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 7 ...................................................................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. See footnotes at end of table. 29 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $6.60 10.10 14.55 13.43 10.48 14.89 10.43 12.16 10.12 7.41 11.31 4.4 10.5 12.7 7.2 13.8 10.1 15.9 12.8 7.4 7.5 17.3 $6.60 10.10 – 13.43 10.48 14.89 10.43 12.16 10.11 7.10 11.31 4.4 10.5 – 7.2 13.8 10.1 15.9 12.8 7.6 6.3 17.3 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.53 7.35 7.81 8.25 11.60 13.77 14.13 19.29 17.57 20.89 9.91 16.54 7.89 13.35 14.27 15.82 19.79 19.10 20.90 17.65 19.27 20.59 2.9 3.2 5.4 5.5 6.2 5.5 4.2 3.4 5.7 11.6 5.5 5.1 3.2 9.5 4.2 4.4 3.5 7.0 12.7 4.8 4.5 3.9 8.58 7.09 7.53 7.69 11.29 12.68 13.27 – – – – 9.73 7.86 – 9.74 – – – – – – – 2.7 3.3 5.4 6.4 8.3 9.8 5.2 – – – – 7.7 3.1 – 3.7 – – – – – – – $16.00 10.24 10.81 11.07 12.40 15.10 15.34 19.54 19.10 20.90 – 18.99 – – 15.31 16.06 19.79 19.10 20.90 17.65 19.35 20.59 3.3 3.2 9.3 4.4 7.4 3.1 5.1 3.5 7.0 12.7 – 3.6 – – 3.3 5.1 3.5 7.0 12.7 4.8 4.5 3.9 17.09 15.65 15.50 9.29 7.82 10.78 18.05 7.55 6.57 6.83 6.29 9.18 10.47 13.27 4.96 5.43 6.51 2.96 4.23 4.53 5.95 2.85 6.95 29.4 3.3 3.4 6.6 2.9 9.1 25.6 4.1 5.2 7.7 8.5 6.0 9.2 3.7 8.9 8.9 16.9 10.3 11.0 15.0 18.5 11.4 6.9 – – – 9.01 7.82 – – 7.46 6.54 6.58 6.23 8.72 10.47 13.27 4.96 5.43 6.51 2.96 4.23 4.53 5.95 2.85 6.95 – – – 6.2 2.9 – – 4.2 5.3 7.6 8.6 5.1 9.2 3.7 8.9 8.9 16.9 10.3 11.0 15.0 18.5 11.4 6.9 17.09 15.65 15.50 – – – – 10.46 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 29.4 3.3 3.4 – – – – 8.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar –Continued Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers –Continued Stock handlers and baggers –Continued 1 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 1 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Service ................................................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Protective service ..................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... 7 ...................................................................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. 5 ...................................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. 3 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Protective service, n.e.c. ...................................... Food service ............................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ See footnotes at end of table. 30 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Food service –Continued Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders –Continued Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants –Continued 1 ...................................................................... Other food service .................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 3 ...................................................................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 1 ...................................................................... Health service ........................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ 3 ...................................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Personal service ....................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Public transportation attendants ........................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $6.48 8.86 7.40 6.96 8.42 9.77 10.47 13.27 14.28 9.45 8.60 8.82 6.97 8.25 9.21 7.33 8.09 9.82 8.54 10.30 10.29 9.71 10.17 11.49 9.61 8.45 9.91 10.08 9.79 9.07 7.84 8.62 10.87 11.51 13.52 7.2 4.6 6.1 10.0 4.2 6.3 9.2 3.7 8.5 4.2 7.4 4.4 9.5 8.5 5.3 8.1 3.5 3.2 5.0 6.3 4.1 6.4 7.8 8.6 3.6 4.9 6.1 5.8 2.0 4.0 4.4 13.2 7.2 5.2 13.9 $6.48 8.78 7.37 6.61 8.39 9.21 10.47 13.27 14.28 9.33 8.60 8.76 6.97 8.18 9.21 7.16 8.07 9.49 8.54 9.45 10.24 9.61 9.36 – 9.37 8.44 9.49 10.00 9.79 8.56 7.54 7.99 10.43 12.77 13.55 7.2 4.7 6.2 9.5 4.3 5.3 9.2 3.7 8.5 4.4 7.4 4.7 9.5 9.3 5.3 8.2 3.6 3.6 5.0 7.3 4.3 6.7 7.3 – 4.1 4.9 8.2 6.3 2.0 4.5 4.6 12.6 10.2 8.0 14.9 – $10.46 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.86 – 11.49 – – – – 11.64 – – – – 11.45 10.40 – 12.01 – – – 8.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 4.1 – 4.9 – – – – 5.5 – – – – 3.1 3.1 – 4.6 – – 12.90 13.75 8.79 8.07 10.24 8.77 7.72 8.35 11.35 10.47 7.13 7.37 8.88 13.43 19.23 9.97 6.57 21.38 9.91 8.64 8.78 7.30 7.94 7.91 11.0 16.9 6.4 7.1 5.2 5.2 5.3 14.6 9.6 7.5 6.8 4.9 9.3 18.6 15.9 3.5 3.9 15.7 12.4 4.7 4.8 9.1 8.9 12.7 12.61 13.81 8.77 8.07 10.24 7.94 7.18 7.52 10.85 10.63 6.74 7.27 7.85 14.62 21.67 – – 27.22 – 8.32 8.67 7.21 8.25 7.90 13.1 18.6 6.4 7.1 5.2 5.6 5.3 12.7 16.9 9.5 6.8 4.9 12.1 20.6 18.5 – – 8.4 – 3.9 5.2 9.4 9.3 14.0 – – – – – 11.27 10.40 – – 9.96 8.89 – 9.64 – – – 6.71 – – – 9.57 – – – – – – – – 3.3 3.1 – – 7.4 6.4 – 10.2 – – – 6.5 – – – 12.9 – – – See footnotes at end of table. 31 Table 4-1.Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Personal service –Continued Service, n.e.c. –Continued 4 ...................................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $9.84 5.5 – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 32 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $18.90 18.96 2.1 2.1 $18.37 18.41 2.7 2.7 $20.81 20.80 2.0 2.0 White collar ......................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... 22.45 8.10 10.84 10.62 12.99 15.34 16.77 20.69 21.60 25.80 28.47 32.26 39.40 45.16 48.47 26.10 22.91 8.68 11.31 10.90 13.30 15.22 16.57 20.59 21.70 25.87 28.32 31.36 39.47 45.16 48.47 26.10 2.4 7.9 5.3 2.3 2.6 3.1 2.7 3.0 3.4 2.3 3.7 4.1 3.8 6.7 10.1 10.2 2.4 11.1 4.4 2.4 2.6 3.1 2.7 3.1 3.7 2.3 4.0 3.4 3.8 6.7 10.1 10.2 22.24 8.27 10.78 10.39 12.99 15.80 16.92 20.12 20.38 24.41 29.39 34.49 40.38 51.01 56.82 25.75 22.84 9.34 11.28 10.67 13.41 15.68 16.69 19.94 20.37 24.46 29.31 33.31 40.48 51.01 56.82 25.75 3.0 9.6 5.7 2.5 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.8 2.9 3.3 5.3 4.5 3.8 6.6 4.9 13.1 3.1 12.7 4.7 2.7 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.9 3.2 3.4 6.2 3.7 3.8 6.6 4.9 13.1 23.12 – – 12.15 13.00 13.48 15.98 22.59 24.67 28.44 26.88 27.09 29.63 30.93 – 27.37 23.12 – – 12.15 12.98 13.48 15.98 22.59 24.67 28.44 26.88 27.18 29.63 30.93 – 27.37 2.3 – – 2.8 3.9 5.0 5.0 6.2 8.3 2.7 3.2 5.5 9.7 4.8 – 6.9 2.4 – – 2.8 3.9 5.0 5.0 6.2 8.3 2.7 3.2 5.7 9.7 4.8 – 6.9 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 27.33 28.60 17.49 17.48 23.00 24.08 27.75 28.19 30.11 38.62 43.47 53.92 28.19 29.63 22.34 23.58 26.15 29.65 32.25 35.37 27.39 32.72 27.56 32.40 37.93 31.93 28.26 21.58 23.54 2.3 2.1 4.9 4.8 3.9 5.9 2.1 4.9 3.2 5.0 6.9 6.1 14.5 4.6 3.3 6.9 5.7 6.2 4.0 7.2 4.0 3.1 4.1 3.6 3.6 9.6 3.5 1.9 9.4 27.55 28.90 17.06 17.89 21.77 21.18 25.78 28.56 31.51 40.20 48.26 54.55 29.19 30.03 – – 26.16 30.48 32.11 38.31 – 32.72 27.56 32.40 37.93 32.67 28.27 – 23.54 3.1 3.0 5.6 5.8 5.6 3.7 3.8 8.8 2.9 4.9 6.1 6.4 15.3 5.1 – – 6.1 6.8 4.2 3.1 – 3.1 4.1 3.6 3.6 10.1 3.5 – 9.4 26.86 28.05 20.16 16.37 26.03 27.62 29.93 27.79 27.12 28.03 30.20 – – 26.38 – – – – – – 26.74 – – – – – – – – 2.3 2.3 6.6 6.7 7.3 12.1 2.2 2.9 7.1 11.5 3.5 – – 4.2 – – – – – – 3.3 – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 33 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $26.27 27.80 31.31 34.31 38.74 28.77 23.86 26.46 28.06 31.99 35.91 37.82 6.3 4.9 3.7 3.1 8.4 3.8 9.5 6.7 5.0 3.4 2.9 8.6 $26.27 27.80 31.31 34.31 38.74 28.78 23.86 26.46 28.06 31.99 35.91 37.82 6.3 4.9 3.7 3.1 8.4 3.8 9.5 6.7 5.0 3.4 2.9 8.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.88 22.71 16.02 24.69 18.70 22.30 23.59 26.15 28.39 58.65 36.94 58.65 22.13 19.40 22.43 22.48 28.65 21.71 29.05 18.40 17.37 35.83 26.19 33.32 27.34 38.62 32.19 29.16 30.80 31.73 29.73 27.34 28.32 24.48 29.10 32.49 29.63 30.81 32.05 34.20 31.02 27.14 30.73 25.59 28.70 23.69 5.0 9.0 4.0 4.5 3.2 4.6 3.5 10.7 8.1 18.2 15.7 18.2 2.6 2.3 1.8 2.9 7.6 12.1 9.1 4.4 5.7 5.6 6.3 5.9 12.3 9.4 8.5 1.8 2.2 3.6 2.1 1.3 4.8 15.0 2.0 2.3 2.5 1.7 3.3 5.9 2.0 4.6 3.8 11.7 11.5 6.9 21.88 22.59 – 24.43 19.15 21.31 23.37 – 28.21 62.32 36.54 62.32 21.79 19.40 22.36 22.62 28.65 21.71 – – – 40.00 – 41.51 – 48.83 – 22.78 – 23.83 24.41 – – – 25.79 – 24.43 27.93 – – 28.57 18.76 18.47 – – 20.39 5.0 10.2 – 5.0 1.7 2.9 3.4 – 8.3 21.8 18.7 21.8 2.5 2.3 2.0 3.1 7.7 12.1 – – – 8.3 – 7.3 – 9.2 – 6.8 – 13.9 5.9 – – – 5.8 – 5.2 3.5 – – 3.9 12.0 13.2 – – 9.6 – $23.62 – 25.68 17.40 26.22 – – – – 39.03 – 24.80 – – – – – – 18.66 – 31.60 – 30.26 – – 36.47 29.92 31.31 33.19 30.41 27.26 28.62 – 29.39 – 30.14 31.09 32.16 – 31.40 28.96 31.80 28.47 30.86 25.99 – 9.9 – 11.2 8.0 12.6 – – – – 14.1 – 7.7 – – – – – – 5.9 – 5.5 – 5.0 – – 14.3 1.7 2.2 2.3 2.3 1.2 4.9 – 2.1 – 2.5 1.8 3.5 – 2.1 2.9 3.2 8.5 8.3 5.6 White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Professional specialty –Continued Mathematical and computer scientists –Continued 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Health related ........................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Physicians ............................................................ 12 ...................................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. 7 ...................................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Secondary school teachers .................................. 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ 9 ...................................................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... See footnotes at end of table. 34 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) White collar –Continued Professional specialty and technical –Continued Professional specialty –Continued Librarians, archivists, and curators –Continued 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Librarians .............................................................. 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 7 ...................................................................... Social workers ...................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... 9 ...................................................................... Technical ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 8 ...................................................................... Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 6 ...................................................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 5 ...................................................................... Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. 11 ...................................................................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ $22.14 29.51 23.49 22.14 29.51 26.64 22.17 16.10 14.60 16.16 13.10 49.91 49.92 5.9 4.4 7.0 5.9 4.4 8.7 6.4 6.9 8.4 7.9 4.5 4.8 4.8 – – – – – $28.83 – 14.03 – 14.58 – 51.73 51.73 – – – – – 9.4 – 8.6 – 10.3 – 4.2 4.2 – – $25.99 – – – – 16.48 15.43 16.42 – – – – – 5.6 – – – – 8.0 7.9 9.1 – – – 29.73 21.44 29.45 33.88 44.16 29.92 17.60 31.21 31.08 31.96 31.83 21.26 13.95 15.30 15.72 18.93 18.60 25.27 110.94 16.71 18.03 18.35 15.51 15.45 16.61 16.54 18.82 89.67 136.26 19.48 17.44 7.6 8.2 8.5 8.5 3.9 16.0 5.9 12.7 19.9 4.8 2.7 8.1 5.8 3.2 4.1 4.7 5.1 16.9 19.4 5.9 7.1 8.0 1.8 2.6 5.9 8.1 5.8 24.6 9.1 7.6 5.9 29.85 21.44 29.82 33.88 44.16 29.97 – 31.21 31.08 – 31.83 22.39 12.97 15.14 15.84 19.34 18.64 28.14 110.94 16.82 18.09 18.35 15.93 15.77 15.55 – 18.82 89.67 136.26 19.48 18.58 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.5 3.9 16.1 – 12.7 19.9 – 2.7 9.5 7.5 3.7 4.3 4.9 6.5 17.4 19.4 6.2 7.2 8.0 1.7 2.8 8.8 – 5.8 24.6 9.1 7.6 6.6 – – – – – – – – – – – 16.43 – 15.97 – – 18.50 – – – – – 14.52 – 18.57 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 4.0 – 6.4 – – 6.8 – – – – – 1.7 – 4.3 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 27.42 18.37 16.34 18.95 20.45 22.03 28.72 30.12 39.83 42.42 45.54 26.86 30.84 3.4 11.0 6.9 6.7 4.0 4.2 7.8 4.7 5.7 9.3 14.5 9.2 4.4 28.14 21.15 16.28 18.13 20.35 22.25 31.07 31.56 40.06 48.53 58.94 – 31.70 4.0 6.9 7.6 5.2 4.2 4.7 8.1 4.4 5.9 6.8 7.1 – 5.3 24.87 – – 23.56 20.88 20.62 – 27.27 – – – – 27.59 5.6 – – 20.7 11.3 6.6 – 9.9 – – – – 5.8 See footnotes at end of table. 35 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $20.57 16.80 22.62 21.25 32.52 30.83 40.32 40.15 45.54 24.09 41.08 42.74 29.91 8.0 11.2 6.9 6.2 8.1 5.3 5.9 8.7 14.5 8.1 11.0 21.1 14.8 $21.31 17.18 21.64 21.20 33.36 33.14 40.59 45.78 58.94 – 41.08 42.74 28.57 7.7 12.9 7.4 6.4 8.0 4.6 6.1 6.1 7.1 – 11.0 21.1 17.2 – – – – – $27.16 – – – 24.09 – – – – – – – – 10.1 – – – 8.1 – – – 37.28 31.47 25.69 29.71 35.15 31.69 31.56 29.24 30.87 20.49 28.36 34.05 37.28 58.99 21.43 15.30 19.74 18.97 23.00 22.56 26.37 19.82 19.80 20.54 24.78 25.73 14.1 5.6 13.2 6.6 9.2 5.0 7.2 14.5 5.7 10.0 6.4 7.1 3.4 9.0 4.8 4.2 7.6 4.2 4.7 6.0 6.9 6.9 5.0 7.0 13.3 5.9 37.28 31.10 24.12 26.21 36.19 31.65 31.56 30.96 30.77 20.49 28.36 34.06 37.17 58.99 21.68 15.12 18.49 19.44 23.90 23.05 26.07 20.61 19.80 20.68 24.44 26.05 14.1 11.2 15.2 10.7 10.1 4.6 7.2 14.7 5.9 10.0 6.4 7.9 3.5 9.0 5.5 4.3 4.9 4.8 5.2 13.4 7.3 6.5 5.0 7.1 15.2 6.3 – 31.70 – 30.59 – – – – – – – – – – 20.65 – – 17.07 20.25 – – 18.14 – – – – – 5.9 – 7.4 – – – – – – – – – – 10.1 – – 3.6 6.2 – – 15.0 – – – – 18.59 25.42 7.2 11.4 18.89 26.12 9.1 11.1 – – – – 17.52 22.40 22.51 19.04 22.53 8.2 6.3 19.5 8.9 8.2 – 20.78 17.01 19.04 23.96 – 5.7 8.2 8.9 9.3 17.52 – – – – 8.2 – – – – 17.88 9.22 12.16 17.92 19.68 22.35 20.48 23.45 19.24 12.6 4.1 6.8 17.3 11.5 13.5 5.1 6.2 15.2 17.80 9.22 12.14 17.92 19.68 22.35 20.48 23.45 19.24 12.8 4.1 6.9 17.3 11.5 13.5 5.1 6.2 15.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Executives, administrators, and managers –Continued 5 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 13 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. 12 ...................................................................... Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... 9 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Managers, medicine and health ........................... 11 ...................................................................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... 14 ...................................................................... Management related ................................................. 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 11 ...................................................................... Accountants and auditors ..................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Sales ................................................................................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales ................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 36 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $26.03 11.9 $26.03 11.9 – – 21.78 11.06 12.11 9.13 8.78 10.44 9.41 2.8 15.1 8.9 8.9 8.9 11.9 4.5 21.78 11.06 12.11 9.13 8.78 10.44 9.41 2.8 15.1 8.9 8.9 8.9 11.9 4.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 13.83 8.68 11.31 10.89 13.25 14.07 16.79 17.42 21.41 22.83 18.56 16.67 20.99 16.91 15.52 12.57 14.17 13.68 17.50 18.45 14.54 7.84 16.32 10.67 10.77 14.84 16.14 11.46 12.82 11.54 12.92 11.94 10.77 12.25 13.29 12.95 9.03 12.55 11.39 10.74 14.07 2.2 11.1 4.4 2.4 2.7 3.3 4.3 4.7 5.2 3.5 5.4 7.7 12.6 5.9 4.4 6.9 5.6 4.5 7.2 6.1 5.8 6.0 7.8 2.6 6.5 11.7 15.7 2.4 5.0 2.2 9.7 4.4 5.8 6.7 7.1 4.6 9.5 11.4 14.6 11.0 5.8 14.02 9.34 11.28 10.64 13.43 14.53 17.01 18.06 21.70 – 18.31 – – – 16.01 12.56 14.24 14.50 17.80 19.04 15.03 7.84 16.32 10.67 – 14.84 16.45 – 13.65 – 15.17 11.92 10.77 12.21 13.29 12.95 8.62 – – 10.74 13.74 2.6 12.7 4.7 2.8 3.3 3.6 4.8 5.1 5.5 – 6.4 – – – 5.7 8.9 6.5 4.8 8.8 6.3 5.9 6.0 7.8 2.8 – 11.7 20.0 – 4.8 – 9.8 5.2 5.8 8.9 7.1 4.6 8.6 – – 11.0 8.0 $13.03 – – 12.15 12.66 12.27 15.97 15.42 – – 19.53 – – – 13.50 – 13.71 11.94 – – – – – – – – – 11.64 11.26 – – 12.03 – – – – – – – – – 3.2 – – 2.8 3.5 5.3 7.8 4.0 – – 8.4 – – – 5.3 – 6.0 6.4 – – – – – – – – – 3.2 3.1 – – 7.8 – – – – – – – – – 11.77 13.11 14.50 12.32 13.77 12.97 11.05 13.86 13.02 11.8 6.8 4.5 8.5 1.7 3.5 6.3 3.1 6.8 11.77 13.11 14.50 12.32 – 12.87 10.69 14.00 13.88 11.8 6.8 4.5 8.5 – 4.4 7.6 3.8 5.6 – – – – – 13.16 – 13.69 – – – – – – 5.9 – 4.8 – White collar –Continued Sales –Continued Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 4 ...................................................................... Cashiers ............................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Administrative support, including clerical ................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Supervisors, general office ................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Secretaries ........................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Typists .................................................................. Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ 3 ...................................................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Billing clerks .......................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Dispatchers ........................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 37 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Administrative support, including clerical –Continued Data entry keyers ................................................. 2 ...................................................................... Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... $9.75 10.22 14.56 11.57 11.21 13.27 10.76 12.21 16.87 7.5 7.0 7.3 5.8 11.6 6.1 5.8 6.2 7.4 $10.66 – 14.56 – – 13.44 – 11.72 17.15 7.3 – 7.3 – – 6.8 – 6.3 7.3 – – – $12.46 – – – – – – – – 2.7 – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 15.06 9.22 11.87 12.10 14.94 15.20 16.99 19.01 20.22 24.41 3.0 9.4 6.8 4.4 6.3 4.0 3.6 3.7 6.0 3.0 15.03 9.16 11.95 12.09 15.05 15.31 17.21 19.44 20.30 25.03 3.2 10.0 7.3 4.5 6.4 4.6 3.8 4.1 6.7 2.4 15.41 – – – – 14.54 – 16.58 – – 4.7 – – – – 3.7 – 7.1 – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 7 ...................................................................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. 17.80 11.21 12.82 16.35 17.59 18.72 21.15 24.79 17.07 16.61 18.80 21.24 3.1 8.3 7.8 6.8 5.3 3.9 5.8 2.9 5.9 7.5 5.4 4.0 17.92 11.21 12.82 16.74 17.55 19.14 – 24.86 – 16.99 19.65 21.30 3.3 8.3 7.8 7.2 5.4 4.3 – 2.9 – 7.9 4.8 4.5 16.44 – – – – 16.55 – – – – – – 7.0 – – – – 7.6 – – – – – – 26.33 14.92 21.23 19.83 11.45 15.90 21.74 14.55 18.52 4.8 5.9 11.1 14.2 6.4 10.7 7.2 4.4 5.6 – 14.83 21.97 – 11.45 – 21.76 14.55 18.52 – 6.3 10.9 – 6.4 – 7.4 4.4 5.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 13.79 8.66 9.67 12.67 14.12 14.28 16.83 20.70 19.05 8.91 8.41 9.61 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 6.4 5.5 6.8 5.7 8.0 5.6 7.9 16.9 5.9 7.6 7.4 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 13.79 8.66 9.67 12.67 14.12 14.28 16.83 20.70 19.05 8.91 8.41 9.61 17.65 11.43 13.71 10.07 5.0 6.4 5.5 6.8 5.7 8.0 5.6 7.9 16.9 5.9 7.6 7.4 8.2 6.8 8.1 4.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – White collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 38 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Transportation and material moving ............................ 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Truck drivers ......................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. $15.17 10.70 12.14 16.33 15.40 15.55 14.11 11.44 12.24 14.91 15.16 12.88 13.13 16.80 6.0 7.1 5.6 8.7 4.7 4.3 3.8 8.4 7.0 6.1 6.5 12.5 7.9 9.6 $15.18 10.16 12.08 16.39 15.54 16.85 14.06 – 12.16 14.91 15.12 12.88 – 16.80 7.2 9.2 6.0 8.7 7.7 3.4 4.2 – 7.4 6.1 8.4 12.5 – 9.6 $15.13 – – – 15.19 – 14.71 – – – – – – – 5.4 – – – 2.6 – 3.7 – – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 4 ...................................................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 3 ...................................................................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 11.94 9.26 12.25 11.90 13.42 12.86 10.54 10.81 14.55 14.34 14.89 10.86 13.01 10.33 7.42 12.59 5.1 12.3 9.6 8.0 8.3 8.5 10.4 10.5 12.7 7.3 10.1 14.2 14.1 8.1 7.6 18.8 11.73 9.16 12.42 11.90 13.74 12.86 9.77 10.78 – 14.34 14.89 10.86 13.01 10.32 7.11 12.59 5.4 13.5 9.8 8.0 9.0 8.5 8.2 11.9 – 7.3 10.1 14.2 14.1 8.3 6.5 18.8 14.41 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.0 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Protective service ..................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... 7 ...................................................................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. 5 ...................................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. 3 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Food service ............................................................. 11.59 7.74 8.51 9.27 12.00 13.95 14.37 19.27 17.57 20.89 17.20 7.77 15.05 14.27 16.07 19.77 19.10 20.90 17.79 19.34 20.59 3.1 3.7 6.5 5.0 7.0 5.6 4.2 3.5 5.7 11.6 5.1 3.7 11.9 4.2 3.7 3.6 7.0 12.7 4.7 4.5 3.9 9.36 7.47 8.19 8.71 11.67 12.83 13.29 – – – 9.92 7.77 – 9.74 – – – – – – – 3.1 4.0 6.5 6.0 10.0 10.1 5.2 – – – 10.2 3.7 – 3.7 – – – – – – – 16.67 10.59 12.01 11.56 12.71 15.28 16.03 19.52 19.10 20.90 19.06 – – 15.31 16.35 19.77 19.10 20.90 17.79 19.43 20.59 3.3 3.5 6.5 3.5 7.6 3.0 3.9 3.5 7.0 12.7 3.6 – – 3.3 4.0 3.6 7.0 12.7 4.7 4.5 3.9 16.69 15.65 15.50 9.18 7.63 10.78 8.59 31.3 3.3 3.4 8.0 2.6 9.1 4.5 – – – 8.76 7.63 – 8.51 – – – 6.9 2.6 – 4.7 16.69 15.65 15.50 – – – 11.35 31.3 3.3 3.4 – – – 5.7 Blue collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 39 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Food service –Continued 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 1 ...................................................................... Other food service .................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 3 ...................................................................... Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 1 ...................................................................... Health service ........................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Personal service ....................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Public transportation attendants ........................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $6.86 7.66 7.65 9.25 10.47 13.27 5.58 5.47 6.76 4.68 4.29 6.32 7.45 7.13 9.81 8.02 8.17 8.66 9.75 10.47 13.27 14.40 9.84 8.64 9.15 8.38 8.53 9.68 8.07 8.21 10.01 8.66 10.43 10.62 9.83 10.60 9.75 8.43 9.98 10.53 9.53 8.31 8.77 11.03 11.60 13.81 6.4 9.0 8.2 6.3 9.2 3.7 11.0 11.0 24.5 14.6 18.2 27.5 7.5 7.1 4.6 5.1 8.5 5.5 6.7 9.2 3.7 8.5 4.6 7.9 6.3 12.7 9.0 4.5 4.8 4.0 3.3 5.7 6.4 4.2 6.8 8.2 4.0 5.5 6.1 6.2 4.2 5.0 14.5 6.9 5.4 13.5 $6.83 7.38 7.62 8.77 10.47 13.27 5.58 5.47 6.76 4.68 4.29 6.32 7.45 7.13 9.75 8.00 7.76 8.64 9.15 10.47 13.27 14.40 9.73 8.64 9.14 8.38 8.52 9.68 7.86 8.18 9.65 8.65 9.53 10.58 9.73 9.79 9.47 8.42 9.54 10.46 9.03 7.97 8.12 10.62 – 13.86 6.5 9.3 8.4 5.5 9.2 3.7 11.0 11.0 24.5 14.6 18.2 27.5 7.5 7.1 4.7 5.1 8.0 5.7 5.6 9.2 3.7 8.5 4.9 7.9 6.8 12.7 9.0 4.5 4.7 4.0 3.8 5.7 7.9 4.4 7.2 8.3 4.6 5.5 8.4 6.7 4.9 5.4 14.1 9.8 – 14.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $11.35 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.98 – 11.52 – – – 11.83 – – – 11.46 10.42 – 12.01 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 3.8 – 4.9 – – – 5.6 – – – 3.1 3.1 – 4.6 – – 13.06 14.15 8.79 8.06 9.45 8.52 8.50 11.63 12.13 7.25 8.30 9.84 14.03 20.20 23.72 10.9 16.0 6.5 7.2 5.9 6.1 16.0 8.8 8.9 8.0 7.9 6.1 19.3 15.8 14.5 12.78 – 8.77 8.06 8.60 7.87 – 11.28 12.11 7.18 8.30 8.59 14.88 21.67 27.22 13.0 – 6.6 7.2 7.2 7.2 – 15.9 10.5 8.2 7.9 5.6 21.3 18.5 8.4 – – – – 11.28 10.42 – – 12.20 – – – – – – – – – – 3.3 3.1 – – 8.8 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 40 Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued Personal service –Continued Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $9.75 9.18 7.39 8.55 4.5 4.7 10.0 10.3 – $8.99 7.29 8.55 – 5.0 10.4 10.3 – – – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 41 Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $9.52 9.76 3.5 3.9 $9.05 9.21 3.6 4.0 $13.43 13.50 8.2 8.4 White collar ......................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... 12.13 6.36 8.28 9.04 10.69 13.11 13.50 18.11 20.38 25.69 25.04 27.50 16.54 14.13 6.88 9.04 9.61 10.77 13.45 13.50 18.70 20.38 25.69 25.04 27.50 16.34 4.5 3.8 5.8 3.6 6.3 8.7 6.3 8.9 6.4 4.0 7.3 18.3 10.7 4.9 7.2 4.9 3.3 5.4 9.7 6.3 9.2 6.4 4.0 7.3 18.3 11.3 11.51 6.24 8.22 8.91 10.73 13.08 14.07 17.90 20.66 25.29 25.87 – 13.07 13.51 6.56 8.97 9.50 10.88 13.48 14.07 18.60 20.66 25.29 25.87 – 11.71 4.7 3.4 5.9 3.8 6.6 10.2 8.3 9.9 5.3 4.6 8.0 – 19.4 5.2 5.5 5.1 3.6 5.9 11.6 8.3 10.4 5.3 4.6 8.0 – 20.6 16.96 8.12 – 10.81 9.92 13.30 12.11 19.11 19.24 27.22 – – – 17.25 8.12 – – 9.92 13.30 12.11 19.11 19.24 27.22 – – – 9.2 12.0 – 5.4 9.3 6.4 7.1 18.8 27.0 5.6 – – – 9.3 12.0 – – 9.3 6.4 7.1 18.8 27.0 5.6 – – – Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... 6 ...................................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... 12 ...................................................................... Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... 10 ...................................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ 7 ...................................................................... 8 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. 7 ...................................................................... 9 ...................................................................... Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... 20.45 21.84 12.27 18.67 21.13 25.60 25.04 27.50 15.99 – – 24.04 22.62 22.17 24.95 26.34 22.68 22.85 20.41 23.74 22.84 17.63 9.50 26.98 30.15 8.60 15.91 15.94 – 15.16 – 4.5 4.6 9.4 10.8 7.4 4.3 7.3 18.3 10.8 – – 3.2 3.2 7.1 5.6 8.0 2.2 3.0 3.6 4.4 30.5 19.1 17.2 6.4 9.3 9.4 6.7 7.2 – 7.7 – 20.40 22.32 – 19.54 21.77 25.13 25.87 – – – – 23.78 22.70 20.72 24.95 – 22.71 22.89 20.42 23.74 23.86 13.17 – – – – – – – – – 4.8 4.9 – 11.4 6.1 5.1 8.0 – – – – 3.2 3.2 3.8 5.6 – 2.2 3.0 3.7 4.4 14.1 26.2 – – – – – – – – – 20.62 20.71 – 13.29 19.24 27.22 – – – – – 28.50 – – – – – – – – 22.56 20.79 – – – – 15.37 15.37 – – – 10.8 10.6 – 9.5 27.0 5.6 – – – – – 16.8 – – – – – – – – 39.4 17.5 – – – – 8.1 8.1 – – – – 14.98 15.32 – 8.3 4.2 – 14.99 15.32 – 8.5 4.2 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 42 Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Professional specialty and technical –Continued Technical –Continued 8 ...................................................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ $17.98 15.48 13.69 7.9 5.9 6.2 $17.98 15.47 13.69 7.9 6.0 6.2 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Management related ................................................. 14.00 – – 24.8 – – 10.78 – – 23.1 – – – – – – – – Sales ................................................................................ 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Cashiers ............................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 8.41 6.13 6.67 8.25 10.61 7.74 8.62 5.94 6.36 8.23 7.7 4.1 7.5 5.6 9.9 6.8 14.2 4.1 9.2 7.5 8.38 6.13 6.67 8.09 10.61 7.74 8.55 5.94 6.36 – 7.8 4.1 7.5 5.6 9.9 6.8 14.7 4.1 9.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 5 ...................................................................... Secretaries ........................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ 2 ...................................................................... Library clerks ........................................................ 1 ...................................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... General office clerks ............................................. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 9.87 6.88 9.04 9.64 11.23 14.07 11.77 12.32 12.79 9.25 8.76 8.05 6.15 8.23 9.00 9.97 8.86 8.33 10.27 3.6 7.2 4.9 3.4 5.0 9.7 3.7 7.4 20.8 5.7 6.8 5.7 1.5 6.6 5.1 7.7 6.3 7.8 6.6 9.78 6.56 8.97 9.53 11.44 – 11.77 12.32 12.79 9.26 8.76 – – 8.23 8.45 9.30 8.28 8.33 9.76 4.0 5.5 5.1 3.7 5.3 – 3.7 7.4 20.8 5.7 6.8 – – 7.3 3.5 5.8 2.5 7.8 7.0 $10.62 8.12 – – 10.00 – – – – – – 8.05 6.15 – – – – – – 5.6 12.0 – – 9.5 – – – – – – 5.7 1.5 – – – – – – Blue collar ........................................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... 7.57 6.99 6.39 6.67 11.71 7.8 6.2 10.1 10.5 6.6 7.11 6.94 6.15 6.67 11.44 7.1 6.4 8.6 10.5 8.4 – – – – – – – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Bus drivers ............................................................ 7.52 12.63 14.9 5.2 6.64 – 12.5 – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 7.54 7.09 7.42 8.54 8.14 5.2 7.0 5.8 5.2 9.2 7.50 7.09 7.42 8.54 8.14 5.4 7.0 5.8 5.2 9.2 – – – – – – – – – – Service ................................................................................. 6.54 3.7 6.29 4.0 8.65 5.6 White collar –Continued See footnotes at end of table. 43 Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Total Occupation and level Service –Continued 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Protective service ..................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. 3 ...................................................................... Food service ............................................................. 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 1 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 1 ...................................................................... Other food service .................................................. 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. 1 ...................................................................... Health service ........................................................... 4 ...................................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 4 ...................................................................... Cleaning and building service ................................... 1 ...................................................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 1 ...................................................................... Personal service ....................................................... 1 ...................................................................... 2 ...................................................................... 3 ...................................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... Private industry State and local government Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) Mean Relative error5 (percent) $6.27 6.36 5.86 9.60 9.59 8.12 9.57 8.26 5.45 5.85 5.98 4.60 4.12 5.27 6.16 2.97 3.72 5.61 2.82 5.85 5.02 6.45 5.92 7.72 7.98 5.98 7.51 2.9 5.8 8.4 6.6 6.9 4.0 7.5 3.9 5.0 3.6 8.0 9.5 12.4 9.9 25.6 12.5 14.0 11.9 12.5 16.7 11.9 5.2 6.8 4.5 4.4 1.1 8.3 $6.07 6.15 5.57 9.88 9.27 8.04 9.57 8.26 5.33 5.82 5.74 4.54 4.12 5.27 6.16 2.97 3.72 5.61 2.82 5.85 5.02 6.30 – 7.64 7.89 5.98 – 2.3 5.7 8.4 6.0 7.9 4.1 7.5 3.9 5.1 3.7 7.6 9.5 12.4 9.9 25.6 12.5 14.0 11.9 12.5 16.7 11.9 4.9 – 4.6 4.4 1.1 – $9.03 8.51 8.64 – – – – – 8.87 – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.87 – – – – – 6.4 10.8 15.3 – – – – – 10.4 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.4 – – – – – 7.15 8.51 8.88 8.72 8.65 6.41 6.30 6.30 6.24 7.28 6.98 6.84 7.81 6.57 7.29 6.85 6.6 4.2 4.0 2.4 3.0 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.3 5.3 11.8 4.8 16.6 3.9 6.8 9.5 – 8.51 8.85 8.74 – 6.41 6.30 6.30 6.24 6.68 5.94 6.58 – – – 6.84 – 4.4 4.0 2.5 – 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.3 5.8 8.9 3.7 – – – 12.3 – – – – – – – – – 8.17 – – – 6.71 – – – – – – – – – – – 6.9 – – – 6.5 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 44 Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 Mean All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ $18.90 18.96 $9.52 9.76 $20.30 20.44 $17.19 17.37 $17.77 18.12 $19.73 15.74 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 22.45 22.91 12.13 14.13 25.87 26.58 20.66 21.46 21.38 22.33 23.45 16.22 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 27.33 28.60 21.26 27.42 17.88 13.83 20.45 21.84 14.98 14.00 8.41 9.87 30.46 29.73 36.22 26.46 – 15.30 25.78 27.68 17.97 27.19 15.16 13.12 26.92 28.22 20.81 27.14 11.55 13.37 – – – – 24.46 13.14 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 15.06 17.80 13.79 15.17 11.94 7.57 – – 7.52 7.54 17.34 19.97 17.00 16.34 14.82 13.02 16.44 11.41 12.81 10.00 14.50 17.67 13.57 14.07 11.48 16.20 18.80 14.66 15.75 13.23 Service ................................................................................. 11.59 6.54 14.37 9.36 10.50 12.76 Relative error6 (percent) All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 2.1 2.1 3.5 3.9 3.3 3.3 2.5 2.4 2.1 2.2 12.2 4.2 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 2.4 2.4 4.5 4.9 4.3 4.2 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.3 16.8 18.6 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 2.3 2.1 8.1 3.4 12.6 2.2 4.5 4.6 8.3 24.8 7.7 3.6 4.4 3.4 24.4 11.9 – 4.9 2.5 2.6 3.5 3.4 12.9 2.2 2.2 2.1 7.8 3.4 6.5 2.1 – – – – 17.4 15.8 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 3.0 3.1 5.0 6.0 5.1 7.8 – – 14.9 5.2 3.6 3.6 6.1 7.8 6.0 3.0 3.4 4.6 6.4 5.2 3.3 3.4 5.5 8.1 5.1 4.3 2.9 8.2 4.8 14.1 Service ................................................................................. 3.1 3.7 5.2 3.3 3.0 9.6 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 45 Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing industries3 Occupational group All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries4 Total TransportFinance, Wholesale ation and insurance, and retail public utiland real trade ities estate Services Mean All occupations ............................................................. All excluding sales .............................................. $17.21 17.41 – – – – – – $18.45 18.46 – – $22.32 22.33 – – – – – – White collar ............................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................... 21.06 22.11 – – – – – – 23.65 23.90 – – 26.68 26.75 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ....................... Professional specialty ......................................... Technical ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. Sales ....................................................................... Administrative support, including clerical ................ 27.09 28.50 21.80 27.80 15.12 13.48 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 26.46 28.18 21.01 25.71 – 15.55 – – – – – – 48.58 34.45 73.25 28.66 – 14.82 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ................................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... Transportation and material moving ....................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ............................................................. 14.60 17.88 13.71 14.19 – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.00 18.17 14.62 13.85 – – – – 17.05 22.18 – 14.81 – – – – – – – – – – – – 11.32 – – – 13.59 – 12.91 – – – Service ....................................................................... 8.58 – – – – – 21.33 – – – Relative error5 (percent) All occupations ............................................................. All excluding sales .............................................. 2.7 2.7 – – – – – – 5.9 5.9 – – 9.2 9.3 – – – – – – White collar ............................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................... 3.0 3.0 – – – – – – 6.1 5.8 – – 11.8 12.0 – – – – – – Professional specialty and technical ....................... Professional specialty ......................................... Technical ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. Sales ....................................................................... Administrative support, including clerical ................ 3.0 2.9 9.0 4.0 12.1 2.5 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.2 7.9 12.4 8.8 – 7.6 – – – – – – 15.4 14.7 26.8 8.7 – 6.4 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Blue collar ................................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair .................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... Transportation and material moving ....................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ............................................................. 3.3 3.3 5.0 8.2 – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.6 6.9 6.0 8.6 – – – – 5.4 3.3 – 5.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.2 – – – 9.5 – 8.7 – – – Service ....................................................................... 2.7 – – – – – 20.6 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 46 Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more Mean All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ $17.21 17.41 $14.30 14.04 $17.85 18.12 $16.35 16.56 $20.00 20.13 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 21.06 22.11 18.22 18.85 21.58 22.63 20.46 22.07 22.86 23.15 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 27.09 28.50 21.80 27.80 15.12 13.48 21.37 23.57 15.14 25.51 16.19 12.69 27.55 28.88 22.48 28.46 14.76 13.64 28.54 30.54 19.17 28.46 14.80 13.96 27.02 27.93 23.88 28.46 14.40 13.18 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 14.60 17.88 13.71 14.19 11.32 13.08 16.81 11.84 12.87 8.59 15.02 18.22 14.18 14.49 12.06 13.89 17.38 12.59 12.99 11.39 17.50 20.15 16.44 17.13 14.69 Service ................................................................................. 8.58 7.14 8.97 8.48 9.91 Relative error4 (percent) All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 2.7 2.7 5.9 6.1 3.0 3.0 4.6 4.6 3.7 3.7 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 3.0 3.0 6.0 6.1 3.4 3.4 5.5 5.8 3.8 3.6 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 3.0 2.9 9.0 4.0 12.1 2.5 6.8 6.9 12.3 6.9 14.5 6.5 3.1 3.0 9.5 4.7 15.7 2.7 6.0 6.2 10.9 7.2 17.6 4.3 3.5 2.9 12.5 4.9 8.7 2.7 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 3.3 3.3 5.0 8.2 5.2 6.8 8.2 4.9 15.2 7.9 3.7 3.4 5.8 9.2 5.4 3.9 4.6 7.7 5.0 6.0 5.4 3.5 8.5 15.3 9.9 Service ................................................................................. 2.7 6.6 3.1 3.3 6.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 47 Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $7.23 7.50 $10.25 10.60 $14.90 15.24 $22.44 22.73 $31.97 32.27 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 9.49 10.43 12.98 13.67 18.23 19.25 27.76 28.50 35.79 36.06 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. English teachers ................................................... Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... Technical ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Broadcast equipment operators ........................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ 15.03 16.23 18.50 20.64 23.40 18.06 18.50 18.63 18.37 20.64 23.40 25.68 27.77 27.40 21.25 21.63 25.20 27.48 28.62 26.24 32.97 31.85 27.95 29.30 32.42 33.06 35.58 28.62 36.50 38.12 33.37 33.37 38.26 39.34 41.38 39.58 42.21 48.06 37.55 37.75 16.92 14.35 16.23 15.83 17.45 17.07 21.22 13.23 19.51 15.82 14.19 23.02 14.02 24.67 27.76 17.14 8.99 14.42 13.79 13.79 16.79 13.03 11.93 13.06 11.28 34.57 34.57 19.23 15.42 18.54 16.75 20.12 17.80 22.83 16.96 26.73 15.82 23.05 26.64 14.02 25.98 28.03 23.28 23.02 18.91 16.88 16.88 20.27 17.75 13.06 13.06 15.30 45.67 45.67 23.46 20.42 21.64 18.12 22.00 18.00 32.62 18.54 29.83 18.79 29.81 29.34 30.15 28.42 29.95 29.11 31.23 28.04 24.39 23.72 24.97 20.36 15.68 15.68 17.05 47.67 47.67 26.97 26.76 25.90 52.68 23.77 20.60 34.47 20.31 45.59 28.97 29.93 32.62 31.56 32.62 33.90 29.40 33.06 32.20 26.98 26.98 34.09 25.36 17.18 16.98 17.55 59.59 59.59 30.86 38.23 34.90 68.53 26.51 33.57 34.91 21.74 54.28 32.00 48.75 34.41 32.62 34.53 34.41 32.62 36.36 36.07 30.93 30.93 37.02 37.02 21.79 22.26 17.55 59.59 59.59 14.86 14.78 18.62 16.25 22.00 12.16 11.58 15.73 14.38 11.20 12.12 21.62 8.32 13.84 13.94 19.40 16.00 23.36 25.00 25.02 14.83 12.86 15.98 14.70 13.13 16.23 45.43 9.14 16.15 15.37 25.02 19.23 27.07 25.00 30.44 16.78 17.56 16.94 15.36 15.86 19.11 86.96 13.13 17.16 15.90 36.06 19.40 38.51 26.04 37.89 19.70 18.25 19.84 16.48 19.47 20.43 128.01 30.60 23.74 19.70 41.86 21.83 41.61 53.85 42.74 24.42 22.85 25.00 16.70 20.30 22.94 161.91 40.53 27.70 20.67 14.42 15.40 17.48 21.63 15.88 17.55 20.43 17.48 29.78 20.47 24.04 29.29 25.04 33.65 21.45 33.10 37.21 27.02 40.17 40.05 41.62 46.13 31.00 80.68 45.00 17.30 17.80 24.68 13.65 14.42 22.40 23.61 25.85 15.40 22.03 36.54 31.09 30.44 28.85 30.07 47.70 37.02 36.59 36.04 37.31 65.55 41.37 38.50 48.08 44.87 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... See footnotes at end of table. 48 Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $13.01 12.36 18.69 $16.13 15.63 24.04 $20.00 19.30 24.71 $24.04 22.00 25.92 $30.48 27.34 32.47 14.65 16.80 14.65 20.35 17.49 25.42 22.56 29.70 24.04 34.78 14.18 14.14 16.15 15.70 16.34 20.61 21.32 27.28 21.32 30.48 Sales ................................................................................ Supervisors, sales ................................................ Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... 6.15 6.80 13.25 7.81 9.20 15.67 11.57 16.88 30.95 20.00 24.23 30.95 30.95 30.33 36.25 20.00 6.73 9.26 5.15 5.38 20.71 6.90 9.62 6.02 6.15 21.35 7.88 11.57 7.81 8.78 23.00 11.94 11.92 9.38 12.84 25.04 19.81 13.27 11.30 15.63 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, n.e.c. ...................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Mail clerks, except postal service ......................... Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. Bill and account collectors .................................... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 8.62 14.03 10.79 11.47 10.00 7.00 6.87 7.75 9.93 5.84 7.25 5.90 9.47 8.63 9.08 6.97 6.56 8.00 8.30 9.50 10.28 15.87 12.50 12.00 10.21 7.00 11.00 9.75 9.93 11.30 9.60 7.82 11.04 10.03 10.22 6.97 6.56 9.25 8.47 13.05 12.78 18.25 14.00 13.72 12.00 7.50 16.64 10.12 24.04 13.50 15.12 10.77 11.48 11.13 12.88 8.33 9.34 10.14 9.93 14.42 15.38 20.84 17.38 15.81 14.63 8.50 18.05 10.90 24.04 19.00 19.75 11.08 13.89 12.81 14.25 9.56 11.00 17.08 13.30 15.06 19.00 21.67 21.84 16.59 14.63 10.50 19.60 11.61 27.85 19.00 28.21 12.92 16.30 14.61 17.02 11.17 11.35 17.08 14.30 17.38 6.32 8.62 10.02 8.83 8.75 7.50 11.64 6.69 9.40 6.72 11.47 13.82 8.83 10.08 7.50 12.57 11.04 10.03 11.40 13.18 13.82 10.75 12.32 9.12 13.96 12.34 11.95 14.80 14.59 14.08 16.18 14.53 10.00 18.02 13.25 14.80 14.80 16.79 14.08 26.45 16.25 12.23 18.02 13.75 19.25 Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.05 10.46 14.10 18.81 21.94 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. 11.30 13.38 11.20 11.74 13.80 15.03 13.23 16.47 16.96 18.35 16.55 19.44 22.06 18.35 20.23 23.04 25.00 20.02 20.23 23.09 25.00 11.70 14.23 9.98 13.12 10.35 9.88 14.73 25.00 14.44 14.23 9.98 13.12 21.63 13.50 16.63 25.00 15.56 23.65 10.46 18.00 22.39 15.51 16.93 28.60 16.27 25.60 13.34 18.00 25.38 16.15 19.00 30.38 16.50 25.60 13.80 19.64 25.38 17.00 24.64 Occupation3 White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. See footnotes at end of table. 49 Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. $8.27 11.43 6.77 13.42 8.87 8.15 7.73 $10.20 14.56 7.09 13.42 10.20 11.85 8.12 $12.40 15.78 8.27 19.83 11.46 12.40 10.70 $17.85 22.87 11.05 20.00 12.15 19.44 11.13 $20.22 28.19 11.73 20.74 13.24 20.22 11.47 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 7.00 9.42 4.99 10.88 10.34 11.00 11.77 5.50 10.88 13.75 14.30 14.01 10.34 13.20 17.11 17.25 15.75 14.30 14.35 21.49 21.21 17.73 19.47 15.95 21.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 6.59 8.67 6.29 8.50 5.75 6.76 6.38 8.60 8.67 6.75 9.00 8.42 9.50 7.12 10.00 8.67 9.17 12.99 8.77 10.76 9.50 14.35 12.87 11.07 16.35 14.70 17.34 11.50 19.24 13.94 17.15 19.24 14.70 21.32 15.15 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police, except public service ............. Protective service, n.e.c. ...................................... Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Public transportation attendants ........................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 5.60 7.75 12.21 13.36 6.80 12.00 16.76 16.34 9.00 16.76 17.36 19.73 12.38 21.46 20.39 22.45 18.05 24.26 21.44 23.98 7.53 14.56 7.12 6.75 2.38 2.13 2.13 3.75 5.60 7.50 7.33 5.73 5.60 5.30 7.21 6.75 7.21 6.00 12.76 14.64 7.73 7.29 5.35 2.37 2.37 5.35 5.95 8.50 8.00 5.88 6.25 5.60 8.00 8.00 7.97 6.41 12.76 14.64 8.57 17.40 7.20 3.89 2.58 7.00 8.00 15.38 9.00 5.95 8.45 7.68 9.52 10.96 9.31 8.55 19.49 17.70 11.20 28.06 9.15 6.70 6.04 8.90 10.10 17.72 11.25 6.83 9.73 8.08 11.15 12.18 10.70 10.91 46.52 17.70 12.00 28.06 12.36 9.15 8.52 9.17 13.03 18.72 12.36 11.36 10.31 9.66 11.92 12.84 11.92 13.27 8.00 6.00 5.75 5.60 5.77 9.72 5.96 6.27 5.60 10.71 6.78 6.25 6.56 5.85 11.12 7.23 6.58 6.75 11.06 8.70 7.82 9.50 6.50 25.98 10.47 8.24 8.93 16.31 10.95 10.60 11.12 6.97 26.35 12.28 10.19 10.45 19.26 11.46 13.27 16.01 7.84 26.39 12.71 12.98 11.42 Occupation3 Blue collar –Continued 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 50 Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Private industry Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $6.90 7.00 $9.54 9.86 $14.25 14.44 $21.21 21.32 $30.95 31.12 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 9.07 10.09 12.23 13.43 17.56 18.63 25.80 26.76 36.59 37.38 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Respiratory therapists ........................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Technical ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Broadcast equipment operators ........................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ 14.70 16.68 18.50 23.40 18.06 18.50 18.63 17.78 20.20 23.00 27.77 28.03 21.25 21.63 23.35 25.37 29.48 32.97 31.85 27.95 29.30 32.51 33.37 36.50 36.50 38.12 33.37 33.37 42.21 43.00 41.38 42.21 48.06 37.55 37.75 16.92 14.35 17.00 15.54 17.45 17.07 23.63 15.86 8.99 21.31 20.20 11.70 15.94 15.94 20.27 11.69 11.69 45.64 45.64 19.23 15.19 19.16 16.23 20.12 17.80 27.42 26.74 15.31 21.55 25.43 15.31 15.94 15.94 20.36 11.69 11.69 46.15 46.15 23.46 20.42 21.61 17.57 21.69 18.00 35.27 29.81 22.21 24.30 27.83 17.14 19.93 19.93 32.77 11.93 13.94 47.84 47.84 26.97 26.76 24.63 56.68 23.70 20.60 48.75 29.81 26.98 26.98 29.16 23.28 24.39 24.39 34.09 13.94 18.51 59.59 59.59 30.86 43.00 33.33 77.11 26.14 33.57 59.68 29.81 29.16 29.08 37.18 23.28 24.39 24.39 37.02 18.90 18.90 59.59 59.59 14.86 18.62 16.25 12.10 11.58 15.73 14.55 11.19 12.12 21.62 8.32 13.84 13.94 19.40 23.36 25.00 14.70 12.86 15.98 14.73 12.59 16.23 45.43 9.14 16.15 16.73 25.02 27.07 25.00 16.86 17.56 16.94 16.01 13.90 19.11 86.96 13.13 17.16 19.70 36.06 38.51 26.04 20.39 18.47 19.84 16.50 17.25 20.43 128.01 30.60 23.74 20.67 41.86 41.61 53.85 26.00 22.85 25.00 16.70 23.39 22.94 161.91 40.53 27.70 23.23 14.42 14.90 21.63 15.88 18.00 19.76 29.78 20.43 23.83 29.70 33.65 21.45 34.56 37.91 40.17 45.00 44.47 48.76 80.68 45.00 17.30 14.42 24.68 15.40 14.42 13.94 13.94 24.04 22.40 18.76 25.85 15.40 21.63 15.70 17.37 24.04 36.54 29.48 30.44 32.50 29.64 20.35 19.72 24.71 47.70 41.37 36.59 43.46 37.31 23.67 22.00 32.47 65.55 46.70 38.50 48.08 45.61 30.45 26.25 32.47 14.65 16.80 11.75 14.65 20.35 15.37 18.16 25.42 19.92 22.56 29.70 23.11 24.04 34.78 30.45 6.15 6.80 7.81 9.20 11.57 16.88 19.04 24.23 30.95 30.33 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Management related, n.e.c. .................................. Sales ................................................................................ Supervisors, sales ................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 51 Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Private industry Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $13.25 $15.67 $30.95 $30.95 $36.25 20.00 6.73 9.26 5.15 5.38 20.71 6.90 9.62 6.02 6.15 21.35 7.88 11.57 7.81 8.45 23.00 11.94 11.92 9.38 12.84 25.04 19.81 13.27 11.30 15.63 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Interviewers .......................................................... Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Information clerks, n.e.c. ...................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Mail clerks, except postal service ......................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 8.54 14.03 11.47 11.47 10.00 7.00 6.87 7.64 9.93 5.84 7.25 9.47 8.63 9.08 6.97 6.56 8.30 8.79 10.12 14.55 12.50 11.54 10.21 7.00 11.00 9.60 9.93 11.30 9.60 11.40 10.00 10.22 6.97 6.56 8.47 10.59 12.55 18.25 14.45 14.39 12.00 7.50 16.64 10.12 24.04 13.50 18.27 12.30 10.95 12.88 8.33 9.34 9.93 13.99 15.80 20.75 18.23 15.81 14.63 8.50 18.05 10.75 24.04 19.00 19.75 16.30 12.81 14.25 9.56 11.00 13.30 14.42 19.70 21.67 22.65 16.59 14.63 10.50 19.60 11.41 27.85 19.00 28.21 18.35 14.05 17.02 11.17 11.35 14.30 21.25 6.32 8.62 8.10 8.48 11.64 5.96 9.32 6.72 11.47 9.62 9.12 12.57 5.96 10.03 11.40 13.18 11.90 10.00 13.96 6.69 11.95 14.80 14.59 14.70 11.09 18.02 8.44 15.03 14.80 16.79 16.04 12.23 18.02 8.83 19.25 Blue collar ........................................................................... 7.72 10.17 14.10 18.81 22.25 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. 11.70 12.90 13.61 11.70 14.23 9.98 10.35 9.88 14.73 14.10 13.23 16.47 11.70 14.75 9.98 21.63 13.50 16.63 16.96 16.55 20.00 15.56 23.65 10.46 22.39 15.51 16.93 22.39 20.23 23.04 16.18 25.60 13.34 25.38 16.15 19.00 25.23 20.23 23.83 16.50 25.60 13.80 25.38 17.00 24.64 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 8.27 11.43 6.77 13.42 8.87 8.15 7.73 10.20 14.56 7.09 13.42 10.20 11.85 8.12 12.40 15.78 8.27 19.83 11.46 12.40 10.70 17.85 22.87 11.05 20.00 12.15 19.44 11.13 20.22 28.19 11.73 20.74 13.24 20.22 11.47 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 6.20 9.42 4.99 10.34 10.78 11.03 5.50 13.75 14.01 14.01 10.34 17.11 17.65 16.26 14.30 21.49 21.21 17.73 19.47 21.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 6.40 8.67 6.29 8.50 8.50 8.67 6.75 9.00 9.59 8.67 9.08 12.99 14.28 9.28 11.09 16.35 18.81 12.87 17.15 19.24 White collar –Continued Sales –Continued Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 52 Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued Private industry Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $5.75 6.76 6.38 $8.42 9.50 7.12 $8.77 10.76 9.50 $14.70 17.34 11.50 $14.70 21.32 15.15 5.30 7.12 7.12 2.38 2.13 2.13 3.75 5.60 7.50 7.29 5.73 5.60 5.30 7.21 6.60 7.21 5.75 6.25 7.68 7.68 5.30 2.37 2.37 5.35 5.95 8.50 8.00 5.88 6.25 5.30 8.00 8.00 7.75 6.25 7.87 8.57 8.43 7.00 3.89 2.58 7.00 8.00 15.38 9.00 5.95 8.45 7.63 9.31 9.34 9.00 7.46 10.24 11.20 10.90 9.00 6.70 6.04 8.90 9.96 17.72 11.03 6.83 9.73 8.00 10.70 11.12 10.00 10.62 12.00 12.00 11.82 12.36 9.15 8.52 9.17 13.50 18.72 12.36 11.36 10.31 9.66 11.78 11.48 11.92 12.07 7.00 6.00 5.75 5.30 17.26 6.27 5.30 8.57 6.78 6.25 6.50 25.98 6.58 6.75 11.06 8.70 6.90 8.99 26.35 7.15 8.81 16.80 10.95 8.78 10.93 26.39 10.19 10.46 19.26 11.46 12.89 25.98 40.42 12.98 11.42 Blue collar –Continued Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers –Continued Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Public transportation attendants ........................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 53 Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 State and local government Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $10.77 10.77 $13.26 13.26 $17.62 17.59 $27.72 27.72 $32.80 32.80 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 11.78 11.78 14.61 14.61 23.02 23.02 29.96 29.96 34.21 34.23 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 15.37 16.16 19.87 25.68 – 18.23 16.16 18.12 18.91 14.89 15.82 11.54 24.67 24.67 28.03 27.25 23.02 18.91 13.79 13.79 16.26 13.06 13.06 11.28 25.36 20.13 24.67 25.68 25.68 – 18.23 16.16 41.51 21.04 16.94 26.73 22.42 27.72 26.37 29.21 27.25 28.44 19.72 18.75 18.75 16.79 13.06 13.06 15.30 30.55 28.03 28.97 25.68 25.68 – 25.00 22.87 41.71 23.09 19.21 29.45 28.13 29.71 29.06 29.96 29.40 31.40 29.10 26.98 26.98 17.75 15.68 15.68 17.05 34.57 32.41 32.62 26.92 26.24 – 27.85 34.84 43.77 25.99 20.02 32.42 41.75 32.80 32.62 33.98 29.40 33.06 32.80 30.93 30.93 20.79 17.18 16.98 17.55 34.57 34.57 34.91 33.85 26.92 – 27.85 36.98 52.68 34.84 23.66 45.59 57.60 34.41 35.18 34.41 32.62 36.36 36.07 30.93 30.93 20.79 22.26 26.80 17.55 34.85 – 13.40 13.39 14.02 – 14.85 14.38 17.30 – 15.37 14.85 19.47 – 18.85 14.85 20.13 – 20.30 15.03 20.30 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Administrators, education and related fields ......... Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. 14.18 17.48 17.48 21.40 12.36 12.36 17.48 21.40 17.48 30.68 16.42 12.36 24.64 27.02 25.04 32.88 18.86 16.97 31.00 33.30 27.02 37.02 25.81 22.82 35.27 37.63 31.00 40.73 30.48 27.34 14.18 18.86 16.15 18.86 16.34 30.48 21.32 30.48 21.32 34.23 Sales ................................................................................ – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... 9.65 15.00 10.43 5.90 9.40 9.83 10.02 10.55 11.04 11.04 15.91 12.25 6.56 11.04 10.24 13.82 11.09 12.19 13.12 17.91 13.39 10.15 11.04 11.16 13.82 12.61 13.20 14.08 20.84 15.74 11.00 11.53 14.61 14.08 14.33 13.25 16.49 21.54 16.72 12.92 13.26 14.61 14.08 17.03 13.75 Blue collar ........................................................................... 10.93 11.29 14.58 18.84 21.06 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 11.04 11.74 16.52 19.44 21.32 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ 11.10 12.74 14.73 15.95 20.50 See footnotes at end of table. 54 Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, all workers:2 Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued State and local government Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $12.61 11.94 $14.37 13.20 $14.88 13.90 $15.75 15.30 $15.75 15.95 8.47 10.16 11.07 21.45 21.94 9.69 13.24 12.21 13.36 11.60 14.64 16.76 16.78 14.64 17.70 17.36 20.07 19.73 22.34 20.39 22.45 23.44 24.77 21.44 23.98 7.53 14.56 7.81 7.81 9.44 9.44 9.69 9.69 5.89 5.77 5.89 12.76 14.64 8.03 8.03 10.93 10.21 9.94 9.94 7.84 5.77 8.00 12.76 14.64 10.20 10.20 11.69 10.93 10.60 10.60 9.50 6.56 9.50 19.49 17.70 11.63 11.63 12.84 11.69 13.05 13.05 11.74 7.84 9.50 46.52 17.70 13.03 13.03 15.36 15.36 13.52 13.52 16.01 7.84 13.58 Blue collar –Continued Transportation and material moving –Continued Truck drivers ......................................................... Bus drivers ............................................................ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Food service ............................................................. Other food service .................................................. Health service ........................................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 55 Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $8.52 8.62 $11.42 11.50 $15.95 16.15 $23.58 23.58 $32.62 32.62 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 10.58 11.26 13.82 14.08 19.37 19.72 28.86 29.20 36.30 36.36 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Natural scientists ...................................................... Health related ........................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Respiratory therapists ........................................... Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, n.e.c. .................................................. Teachers, college and university .............................. Other post-secondary teachers ............................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Psychologists ........................................................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Social workers ...................................................... Lawyers and judges .................................................. Lawyers ................................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Public relations specialists .................................... Professional, n.e.c. ............................................... Technical ...................................................................... Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related, n.e.c. ................................ 15.37 16.75 18.50 20.64 23.40 18.06 18.50 18.63 18.63 21.09 23.40 25.68 27.77 27.21 21.25 21.63 25.68 27.72 28.62 26.24 32.97 31.85 27.95 29.30 32.61 33.14 35.08 28.62 36.50 38.12 33.37 33.37 38.90 40.40 41.38 39.58 42.21 48.06 37.55 37.75 16.92 14.35 16.23 15.83 17.45 17.07 21.22 13.23 24.02 22.42 23.02 14.02 24.67 27.83 19.91 23.02 14.42 15.94 15.94 16.79 13.03 12.52 13.06 34.57 34.57 19.23 15.42 18.12 16.75 19.76 17.80 23.35 16.94 27.42 28.13 27.21 14.02 25.98 28.79 27.25 28.44 18.91 17.40 17.40 20.27 17.75 13.06 13.06 46.15 46.15 22.51 20.42 21.22 17.78 21.69 19.16 32.62 18.54 30.08 29.81 29.40 31.56 28.42 29.96 29.11 31.40 28.04 24.39 24.39 24.97 20.36 15.68 15.68 47.67 47.67 23.71 26.76 25.90 52.68 23.70 20.60 34.47 20.31 45.59 34.36 32.62 31.56 32.62 33.90 29.40 33.06 32.20 29.38 26.98 34.09 25.36 17.55 16.98 59.59 59.59 27.19 38.23 35.00 68.53 26.51 33.57 34.47 21.74 54.28 57.60 34.41 32.62 34.85 34.41 32.62 36.36 36.07 30.93 30.93 37.02 37.02 22.26 22.26 59.59 59.59 15.67 14.78 19.47 16.25 24.23 12.86 11.58 15.73 14.38 11.47 12.12 21.62 13.84 13.94 19.40 16.00 23.36 25.00 25.02 14.85 12.86 15.98 14.73 13.71 16.23 45.43 16.15 15.37 26.30 19.23 27.07 25.00 30.44 16.85 17.23 16.94 15.36 17.25 19.11 86.96 17.16 15.90 36.06 19.40 38.51 26.04 37.89 20.00 18.25 22.18 16.48 19.47 20.43 128.01 23.74 19.70 41.86 21.83 41.61 53.85 42.74 24.57 22.13 25.00 16.70 22.27 22.94 161.91 27.70 22.93 14.65 15.72 17.48 21.63 15.88 18.00 21.40 17.48 29.78 20.47 24.04 29.32 25.04 33.65 21.45 33.30 37.21 27.02 40.17 40.05 41.74 46.70 31.00 80.68 45.00 17.30 18.34 24.68 13.65 14.42 13.94 12.36 18.69 22.40 23.61 25.85 15.40 22.16 16.34 15.63 24.04 36.54 32.31 32.30 28.85 31.00 20.26 19.30 24.71 47.70 37.02 36.59 36.04 37.31 24.04 22.00 25.92 65.55 41.37 38.50 48.08 44.87 30.48 27.34 32.47 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations .......................................................... Administrators, education and related fields ......... Managers, medicine and health ........................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... Management related ................................................. Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... See footnotes at end of table. 56 Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $14.65 16.80 $14.65 20.35 $17.49 25.42 $22.56 29.70 $24.04 34.78 14.18 15.00 16.15 18.86 16.34 20.98 21.32 29.82 21.32 30.48 Sales ................................................................................ Supervisors, sales ................................................ Sales, other business services ............................. Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Cashiers ............................................................... 7.02 6.80 13.25 9.30 12.25 16.00 14.68 17.37 30.95 24.00 24.86 30.95 30.95 31.68 36.25 20.00 6.90 9.26 6.06 5.50 20.71 7.00 9.62 6.75 7.50 21.35 9.00 11.57 7.81 9.30 23.00 14.20 11.92 9.49 15.63 25.04 20.53 20.00 15.21 15.74 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Supervisors, general office ................................... Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. Hotel clerks ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Billing clerks .......................................................... Telephone operators ............................................ Dispatchers ........................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ..... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Statistical clerks .................................................... Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 9.12 14.03 11.47 11.54 7.00 11.00 9.75 9.07 7.25 10.77 11.04 9.83 9.08 6.97 8.00 8.30 9.50 11.04 15.87 13.13 12.02 7.00 16.64 10.00 12.33 9.60 10.78 11.04 10.24 10.13 6.97 9.25 8.47 13.05 13.22 18.25 14.42 14.39 7.22 16.64 10.28 15.32 15.12 11.08 11.48 11.34 12.88 8.85 10.14 9.93 14.42 15.81 20.84 17.44 15.81 8.50 18.05 11.40 19.00 19.75 12.29 13.89 12.86 14.25 11.17 17.08 13.30 15.06 19.59 21.67 22.65 16.59 10.50 19.60 11.61 19.00 28.21 12.98 16.30 14.61 17.02 13.36 17.08 14.30 17.38 6.72 8.62 11.90 9.73 7.50 11.64 6.69 9.55 8.20 11.47 13.82 10.55 7.50 12.57 11.04 10.03 11.40 13.18 13.82 13.07 9.12 13.96 12.34 11.95 14.80 14.59 14.08 14.78 10.00 18.02 13.20 15.03 14.80 16.79 14.08 16.25 12.23 18.02 13.25 19.25 Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.69 10.93 14.37 19.15 22.25 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ Automobile mechanics ......................................... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................... Supervisors, production ........................................ Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. 11.70 13.38 11.20 11.74 13.80 15.03 13.23 16.47 16.96 18.35 16.55 19.44 22.25 18.35 20.23 23.04 25.00 20.02 20.23 23.09 25.00 11.70 14.23 9.98 13.12 10.35 9.88 14.73 25.00 14.44 14.23 9.98 13.12 21.63 13.50 16.63 25.00 15.56 23.65 10.46 18.00 22.39 15.51 16.93 28.60 16.27 25.60 13.34 18.00 25.38 16.15 19.00 30.38 16.50 25.60 13.80 19.64 25.38 17.00 24.64 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Packaging and filling machine operators .............. Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ............. 8.27 11.43 6.77 13.42 8.87 10.66 14.56 6.93 13.42 10.20 12.40 15.78 8.27 19.83 11.46 17.85 22.87 11.05 20.00 12.15 20.22 28.19 11.73 20.74 13.24 Occupation3 White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Management related –Continued Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. .................. Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related, n.e.c. .................................. See footnotes at end of table. 57 Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors –Continued Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. $8.15 7.73 $11.85 8.12 $12.40 10.70 $19.44 11.13 $20.22 11.47 Transportation and material moving ............................ Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 10.34 10.60 7.69 10.88 10.34 12.15 12.00 10.34 10.88 13.75 14.60 14.01 14.30 13.90 17.11 18.74 16.26 14.30 15.30 21.49 21.21 17.73 19.47 15.95 21.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ...... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 6.97 8.67 6.40 8.78 5.75 8.62 6.38 8.67 8.67 7.89 12.49 8.42 10.76 7.48 10.16 8.76 9.39 14.75 8.77 10.76 9.59 14.70 12.87 12.40 16.72 14.70 17.34 11.50 19.24 13.94 17.15 19.24 14.70 21.32 15.15 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Firefighting ............................................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police, except public service ............. Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Supervisors, food preparation and service ........... Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... Health service ........................................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Public transportation attendants ........................... Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 6.20 8.10 13.24 13.36 7.57 13.07 16.76 16.78 10.10 16.78 17.36 19.73 13.52 21.70 20.39 22.45 19.73 24.77 21.44 23.98 7.53 14.56 7.12 3.84 2.13 2.13 5.35 5.82 7.50 7.33 5.75 5.60 5.82 7.21 8.00 7.17 6.20 7.53 14.64 7.73 6.17 2.58 2.38 6.98 7.63 12.50 8.85 6.17 6.25 7.38 8.44 8.00 7.97 7.00 12.76 14.64 8.25 8.07 5.85 3.89 7.00 8.90 15.38 9.69 6.83 8.90 7.70 9.88 10.96 9.48 9.23 19.49 17.70 11.61 10.39 7.00 6.15 9.11 11.47 17.72 11.63 11.36 10.10 8.81 11.44 12.18 10.93 11.06 46.52 17.70 12.00 13.03 9.17 9.15 9.17 14.94 18.72 12.58 11.97 10.31 10.39 11.92 12.84 11.92 13.52 8.00 6.00 6.25 6.75 11.12 6.58 6.00 10.71 6.78 6.90 8.65 17.26 8.24 7.81 13.20 8.75 9.23 10.35 26.35 9.39 9.50 16.31 10.95 11.10 11.93 26.35 12.35 10.46 19.26 11.46 13.52 25.98 40.42 12.98 11.42 Occupation3 Blue collar –Continued 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 58 Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Occupation3 10 25 Median 50 75 90 All ............................................................................................. All excluding sales ............................................................ $5.30 5.15 $5.95 5.92 $7.81 7.92 $10.83 11.00 $16.19 19.00 White collar ......................................................................... White collar excluding sales ......................................... 6.10 7.15 7.31 8.33 9.93 11.00 13.94 17.87 22.21 24.63 Professional specialty and technical ............................ Professional specialty ................................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Health related ........................................................... Registered nurses ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, except college and university .................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ Technical ...................................................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 9.50 10.00 – – 19.21 19.29 8.70 6.59 27.76 6.00 12.95 12.35 – 11.28 – 15.34 16.19 – – 20.80 20.80 11.54 8.99 27.76 6.59 13.79 13.79 – 11.93 – 20.05 21.74 – – 22.83 22.80 15.68 11.85 27.76 8.32 14.00 14.00 – 15.96 – 24.49 25.34 – – 24.63 24.00 19.32 27.76 27.76 9.59 18.00 18.00 – 17.05 – 30.86 30.86 – – 32.25 27.03 67.15 30.15 38.00 11.83 19.42 19.42 – 17.05 – – 8.32 13.90 10.55 – 11.20 14.65 11.20 – 15.34 15.34 13.90 – 17.55 16.35 13.93 – 20.00 20.00 17.04 Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Management related ................................................. 6.45 – – 7.15 – – 11.00 – – 25.81 – – 25.96 – – Sales ................................................................................ Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Cashiers ............................................................... 5.38 6.61 5.35 6.15 6.64 6.15 7.36 7.64 6.72 9.98 7.88 12.84 13.75 7.88 13.94 Administrative support, including clerical ................... Secretaries ........................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Library clerks ........................................................ Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................... 6.56 10.21 6.87 7.31 5.90 6.35 7.50 6.90 7.40 8.00 10.38 6.87 7.64 6.00 7.18 8.00 6.90 9.00 9.80 11.70 13.08 9.15 7.99 8.21 8.10 8.28 10.00 11.09 12.45 19.25 10.12 8.10 10.00 9.92 9.50 11.94 13.08 13.36 19.25 12.87 12.29 10.20 11.09 9.73 12.13 Blue collar ........................................................................... 4.99 5.50 6.59 8.47 12.24 Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – Transportation and material moving ............................ Bus drivers ............................................................ 4.99 10.34 4.99 10.34 5.50 13.20 10.34 13.20 13.20 14.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 5.59 6.01 6.59 6.32 8.13 6.59 7.18 9.00 8.00 8.47 9.00 10.22 10.22 10.50 10.22 Service ................................................................................. Protective service ..................................................... Guards and police, except public service ............. Food service ............................................................. Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Other food service .................................................. Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related ...................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Health service ........................................................... 2.38 7.29 7.50 2.37 2.13 2.13 3.35 5.30 5.75 5.73 5.35 6.60 5.30 7.68 7.70 2.77 2.37 2.37 3.35 5.30 8.00 5.88 6.75 7.75 6.27 8.70 8.70 5.73 2.38 2.38 5.15 5.95 8.00 5.95 7.81 8.49 7.84 11.20 11.20 6.70 5.75 3.10 7.41 7.81 8.25 5.95 8.25 9.10 9.70 11.20 11.20 8.25 8.00 6.70 12.95 8.25 9.95 6.43 8.25 10.00 See footnotes at end of table. 59 Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs1, part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $7.64 5.40 5.40 5.15 5.77 6.27 5.15 $8.49 5.75 5.75 5.81 5.85 6.27 5.60 $8.56 6.41 6.18 6.50 6.50 7.15 5.89 $9.00 6.97 6.80 8.00 6.97 8.24 7.47 $10.00 7.00 7.00 10.50 7.84 9.65 9.39 Occupation3 Service –Continued Health service –Continued Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service ................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service ....................................................... Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................... Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation’s employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 60 Appendix A: Technical Note T his section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. Although this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all the steps required to produce the data. developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and other information were updated. Planning for the survey Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to its employment. Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. See appendix table 2 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. The overall design of the survey includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection. Survey scope This survey covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goods-producing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment is an economic unit that produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment is usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. The Washington–Baltimore, DC–MD–VA–WV, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes: • The District of Columbia • Baltimore City and the counties of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Queen Anne’s, and Washington, MD • The cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park, and the counties of Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren, VA • The counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, WV Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data, working out of the Regional Office and visiting each establishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were used to follow-up and update data. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multistep process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the Census of Population system 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time, union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive 4. Determination of the level of work of each job Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling frames were A-1 For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for which a correct classification or level could not be determined. In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling, with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment. As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs collected in each establishment was based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in the following schedule: Number of employees Number of selected jobs 50–99 100–249 250–999 1000–2,499 2,500+ 8 10 12 16 20 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOGs: • • • • • • • • • Professional specialty and technical Executive, administrative, and managerial Sales Administrative support, including clerical Precision production, craft, and repair Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors Transportation and material moving Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers Service occupations Appendix B contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong. In step three, certain other job characteristics of the A-2 chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, the worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of Terms” section on the following page for more detail. Generic leveling through point factor analysis In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: • • • • • • • • • • Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels, and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on the written description that best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for nine factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3 presents median work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a job with its associated leveling factors, and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firms Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. For additional information on generic leveling see Brooks Pierce, “Using the National Compensation Survey to Predict Wage Rates,” Compensation and Working Conditions, Winter 1999, pp. 8–16. Collection period Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60 metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample units. Earnings Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: • • • • • Incentive pay, including commissions, production bonuses, and piece rates Cost-of-living allowances Hazard pay Payments of income deferred due to participation in a salary reduction plan Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight or passengers The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: • • • • • • • Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for working a schedule that varies from the norm, such as night or weekend work Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses) Uniform and tool allowances Free room and board Payments made by third parties (for example, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work beA-3 yond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of hours actually worked was collected. Definition of terms Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time. Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical note on generic leveling through point factor analysis for more details on the leveling process.) Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below). Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part time. Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: • • • A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed, mutually binding collective bargaining agreement Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally defined by major occupation group and job level. Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a refusal. Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. Estimates of the number of workers represent the total in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve to indicate only the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Survey response Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other. A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. RSE data are provided alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers were $12.79, with a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 (1.645 times 3.6 percent = 5.922 percent times $12.27, plus or minus $0.76). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all survey areas will be used in the development of a formal quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling error. Although they were not specifically measured, the nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the extensive training of the field economists who gathered the survey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data, and detailed data review. Total in sample Responding Out of business or not in survey scope Unable or refused to provide data Establishments 694 418 47 229 Some surveys may have a high nonresponse rate for the all industries or private industry iterations. Such instances are noted in the bulletin table footnotes. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The percentiles presented in tables 6–1 through 6–5 are computed using average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. Establishments in the survey may report either individual-worker earnings or average wage rates for each sampled job. If individualworker earnings are provided, an average hourly wage rate is computed for the job and used in the calculation of percentile estimates. The average hourly wages for each sampled job are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest. The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation’s employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile, 10 percent of a published occupation’s employment is in sampled establishment jobs that had average hourly wages at the 10th percentile or less for that occupation. Note that the percentiles in previous NCS bulletins for this area were calculated from individualworker earnings rather than from average wages for sampled establishment jobs. Data users should keep this difference in mind. A-4 Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, by occupational group,2 National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Total Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All excluding sales ........................................................ 1,585,600 1,465,400 1,242,800 1,124,600 342,700 340,800 White collar ......................................................................... White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 945,600 825,400 711,600 593,400 233,900 232,000 Professional specialty and technical ................................. Professional specialty ................................................... Technical ...................................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... Sales ................................................................................. Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 403,200 338,000 65,200 142,400 120,200 279,800 257,100 202,600 54,500 109,500 118,200 226,800 146,100 135,300 10,700 32,900 – 53,100 Blue collar ........................................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving ................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 292,200 92,900 48,900 72,700 77,700 265,700 85,300 48,600 59,600 72,300 26,500 7,600 – 13,100 5,400 Service ................................................................................. 347,800 265,500 82,300 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. A-5 Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and establishment employment size, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 Number of establishments studied Industry All industries ....................................................................................... Private industry ............................................................................... Goods-producing industries ........................................................ Mining ..................................................................................... Construction ........................................................................... Manufacturing ......................................................................... Service-producing industries ...................................................... Transportation and public utilities ........................................... Wholesale and retail trade ...................................................... Finance, insurance and real estate ........................................ Services .................................................................................. State and local government ............................................................ Number of establishments repreTotal studied sented1 8,700 8,600 1,200 (3) 600 600 7,300 600 2,500 700 3,500 200 1 Number of establishments represented by the survey rounded to the nearest 100. 2 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 3 Number of establishments represented by the survey is fewer than 50. 418 359 52 1 14 37 307 30 71 16 190 59 100 workers or more 50 - 99 workers2 93 91 11 1 5 5 80 9 22 5 44 2 100 - 499 workers Total 325 268 41 – 176 165 27 – 9 32 227 21 49 11 146 57 500 workers or more 149 103 14 – 8 19 138 8 41 7 82 11 1 13 89 13 8 4 64 46 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. A-6 Appendix table 3. Median work levels for all workers, full-time and part-time workers:1 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation2 All ....................................................................................................... All excluding sales ...................................................................... 5 5 6 6 3 3 White collar ................................................................................... White collar excluding sales ................................................... 7 7 7 8 4 4 Professional specialty and technical ...................................... Professional specialty ............................................................. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ................................. Civil engineers ................................................................ Electrical and electronic engineers ................................. Engineers, n.e.c. ............................................................. Mathematical and computer scientists ............................... Computer systems analysts and scientists ..................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ........ Natural scientists ................................................................ Health related ..................................................................... Physicians ...................................................................... Registered nurses .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ..................................................... Speech therapists ........................................................... Therapists, n.e.c. ............................................................ Teachers, college and university ........................................ English teachers ............................................................. Other post-secondary teachers ...................................... Teachers, except college and university ............................ Prekindergarten and kindergarten .................................. Elementary school teachers ........................................... Secondary school teachers ............................................ Teachers, special education ........................................... Teachers, n.e.c. .............................................................. Vocational and educational counselors .......................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... Librarians ........................................................................ Social scientists and urban planners .................................. Psychologists .................................................................. Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................ Social workers ................................................................ Recreation workers ......................................................... Lawyers and judges ............................................................ Lawyers .......................................................................... Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c. ............................................................................. Designers ....................................................................... Editors and reporters ...................................................... Public relations specialists .............................................. Professional, n.e.c. ......................................................... Technical ................................................................................ Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ........... Radiological technicians ................................................. Licensed practical nurses ............................................... Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. .................. Electrical and electronic technicians ............................... Airplane pilots and navigators ........................................ Broadcast equipment operators ..................................... Computer programmers ................................................. Technical and related, n.e.c. .......................................... 9 9 11 11 11 11 9 9 9 9 8 11 8 7 9 7 12 11 8 9 7 9 9 10 7 9 9 9 9 8 7 8 – 13 13 9 9 11 11 11 11 9 9 9 9 8 11 8 7 9 7 12 – 8 9 7 9 9 10 7 9 9 9 9 11 8 8 – 13 13 8 8 – – – – – – – – 8 – 8 – – – 9 – – 6 – – 9 – 6 – 7 7 – – – – – – – 9 9 9 10 9 6 7 6 5 5 7 11 8 7 6 9 9 9 10 9 7 7 6 6 5 7 11 – 7 6 – – – – – 5 – – 5 5 – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial ............................ Executives, administrators, and managers ......................... Administrators and officials, public administration .......... Financial managers ........................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers ........................ Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations Administrators, education and related fields ................... Managers, medicine and health ..................................... Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ......................... Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .............................. Management related ........................................................... 9 11 11 12 10 11 11 11 11 10 8 9 11 11 12 10 11 11 11 11 11 8 5 – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. A-7 Appendix table 3. Median work levels for all workers, full-time and part-time workers:1 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation2 White collar –Continued Executive, administrative, and managerial –Continued Management related –Continued Accountants and auditors ............................................... Other financial officers .................................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ............................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction Management related, n.e.c. ............................................ 8 11 9 9 8 7 8 11 9 9 8 8 – – – – – – 4 6 8 4 8 9 3 – – 8 2 4 4 2 8 4 4 4 3 – 1 – – 2 Administrative support, including clerical ............................. Supervisors, general office ............................................. Secretaries ..................................................................... Typists ............................................................................ Interviewers .................................................................... Hotel clerks ..................................................................... Transportation ticket and reservation agents ................. Receptionists .................................................................. Information clerks, n.e.c. ................................................ Order clerks .................................................................... Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping ......... Library clerks .................................................................. Records clerks, n.e.c. ..................................................... Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................ Billing clerks .................................................................... Telephone operators ...................................................... Mail clerks, except postal service ................................... Dispatchers ..................................................................... Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ............................. Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c. ......................................................................... Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ............... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ....................................... Bill and account collectors .............................................. General office clerks ....................................................... Data entry keyers ........................................................... Statistical clerks .............................................................. Teachers’ aides .............................................................. Administrative support, n.e.c. ......................................... 4 7 5 5 4 3 4 2 4 4 7 2 4 4 4 2 2 4 4 4 4 7 5 5 – 3 4 2 – 4 7 2 4 4 4 2 – 4 4 4 3 – 4 – – – 4 2 – – – 1 – 4 – – – – – – 4 5 6 4 3 2 4 4 4 4 5 6 – 4 2 4 3 4 – – – – 3 2 – – 4 Blue collar ..................................................................................... 4 4 2 Precision production, craft, and repair .................................. Automobile mechanics ................................................... Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ..................................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ................................................................... Carpenters ...................................................................... Electricians ..................................................................... Electrician apprentices ................................................... Construction trades, n.e.c. .............................................. Supervisors, production .................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............ Stationary engineers ....................................................... 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 – – – – 9 6 7 3 7 7 6 6 9 6 7 3 7 7 6 6 – – – – – – – – Sales .......................................................................................... Supervisors, sales .......................................................... Sales, other business services ....................................... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .................................................................. Sales workers, apparel ................................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ............. Sales workers, other commodities .................................. Cashiers ......................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. A-8 Appendix table 3. Median work levels for all workers, full-time and part-time workers:1 Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, July 1999 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation2 Blue collar –Continued Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. Printing press operators ................................................. Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ........... Packaging and filling machine operators ........................ Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c. ....................... Assemblers ..................................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ 4 6 1 5 3 4 4 4 7 1 5 3 4 4 – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving ...................................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Driver-sales workers ....................................................... Bus drivers ...................................................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ 4 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 2 – – 4 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .......... Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm ................ Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ................... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .............................. 2 2 2 3 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 1 2 2 1 – – 1 – – 2 Service ........................................................................................... Protective service ............................................................... Firefighting ...................................................................... Police and detectives, public service .............................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ...... Correctional institution officers ....................................... Guards and police, except public service ....................... Protective service, n.e.c. ................................................ Food service ....................................................................... Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ................................ Waiters and waitresses .................................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ...................................... Other food service ............................................................ Supervisors, food preparation and service ..................... Cooks ............................................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related ................................ Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. Food preparation, n.e.c. ................................................. Health service ..................................................................... Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service ............................................. Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ....... Maids and housemen ..................................................... Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service ................................................................. Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities ........... Public transportation attendants ..................................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. Child care workers, n.e.c. ............................................... Service, n.e.c. ................................................................. 3 6 7 7 6 5 3 6 2 2 3 1 2 6 3 1 3 2 3 4 3 1 5 1 1 3 2 4 3 2 3 3 6 7 7 6 5 3 – 2 1 2 1 3 7 3 1 3 1 3 4 3 2 5 1 2 4 – 4 – 3 3 2 3 – – – – 3 – 2 3 3 1 2 – 3 1 2 – 3 – 4 1 – – 1 2 2 – – 1 3 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. A-9
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