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Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV National Compensation Survey March 1998 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner Revised March 1999 Bulletin 3095-02 Preface T For additional information regarding this survey, please contact the BLS Philadelphia Regional Office at (215) 5961154. You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at: Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212-0001, or call (202) 606-6220, or send e-mail to ocltinfo@bls.gov. The data contained in this bulletin are also available at the BLS Internet site (http://stats.bls.gov/comhome.htm). Data are in three formats: an ASCII file containing the published table formats; an ASCII file containing positional columns of data for manipulation as a data base or spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing the entire bulletin. Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission. This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 606-7828; TDD phone: (202) 606-5897; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-326-2577. his bulletin provides results of a March 1998 survey of occupational pay in the Washington-Baltimore, DCMD-VA-WV, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new program known as the National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. Survey data were collected and reviewed by Bureau of Labor Statistics field economists under the direction of John Filemyr, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of the Philadelphia Regional Office. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and analyzed the survey results. iii Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ Wages in the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, CMSA............................................................... 1 2 Tables: A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ........................................... A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and State and local government........................................................................................................... A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers, all industries ................................................................................................................................. A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................ B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................ C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries ................................................................................................................................. C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers ......................................................................................................... C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ............................................................... 4 8 12 17 21 26 33 34 35 36 Appendix A: Technical Note ..................................................................................................................................... Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................ Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors...................................................................................... Appendix table 3. Average work levels ........................................................................................... 1 37 41 42 46 Introduction T data are similar to those released under the Occupational Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued. NCS design and products The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) new National Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on the levels and rates of change of occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These NCS more extensive than OCS The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing broader coverage of occupations and establishments within the survey area. Occupations surveyed for this bulletin were selected using probability techniques from a list of all those present in each establishment. Previous OCS bulletins were limited to a preselected list of occupations, which represented a small subset of all occupations in the economy. Information in the new bulletin is published for a variety of occupation-based data. This new approach includes data on broad occupational classifications such as white-collar workers, major occupational groups such as sales workers, and individual occupations such as cashiers. In tables containing work levels within occupational series, the work levels are derived from generic standards that apply to all occupational groups. The job levels in the OCS bulletins were based on narrowly-defined descriptions that were not comparable across specific occupations. Occupational data in this bulletin are also tabulated for other classifications such as industry group, full-time versus part-time workers, union versus nonunion status, time versus incentive status, and establishment employment size. Not all of these series were generated by the OCS program. The establishments surveyed for this bulletin were limited to those with 50 or more employees. Eventually, NCS will be expanded to cover those now-excluded establishments. Then, virtually all workers in the civilian economy will be surveyed, excluding only agriculture, private households, and employees of the Federal Government. his survey of occupational pay was conducted in the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The CMSA 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; and the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, WV. This area was last surveyed in February 1997. Data from the 1997 sample units were updated to reflect March 1998 wage data. Please see Appendix A: Technical Note for details on updating estimates. This bulletin consists primarily of tables whose data are analyzed in the initial textual section. Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in this bulletin is information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with detailed information on occupational classifications and the generic leveling methodology. 1 Wages in the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area S per hour, while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $18.79. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for white-collar occupations as $20.70 in private industry and $20.90 in State and local government. Bluecollar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $14.02 in private industry and $14.68 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged $8.05 per hour while those found in State and local government averaged $15.11. traight-time wages in the Washington-Baltimore, DCMD-VA-WV, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $17.41 per hour during March 1998. White-collar workers had an average wage of $20.75 per hour. Blue-collar workers averaged $14.09 per hour, while service workers had average earnings of $9.93 per hour. (All comparisons in this analysis cover hourly rates for both full- and part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.) Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational group, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and State and local government, Washington-Baltimore, DCMD-VA-WV, Macrh 1998 Dollars per hour $ 25 Dollars per hour $ 25 Private industry 20 State and local government 20 15 15 10 10 5 0 5 Whitecollar Bluecollar Service workers 0 White-collar Within each of these occupational groups, average hourly wages for individual occupations varied. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at $22.65 per hour, secretaries at $14.73, and general office clerks at $11.75. Among occupations in the blue-collar category, truck drivers averaged $13.30 per hour while stock handlers and baggers averaged $9.74. Finally, service occupations included supervisors, cleaning and building service workers at $11.60 per hour and nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at $8.91 per hour. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 153 detailed occupations; data for other detailed occupations surveyed could not be reported separately due to concerns about the confidentiality of survey respondents and the reliability of the data. Survey results show that private industry workers in Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, earned $17.07 Blue-collar Service Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were $18.31 per hour, compared with an average of $9.76 per hour for part-time workers. Data for specific work levels within major occupational groups are reported in table B-1. Occasionally, wage estimates for lower levels of work within major occupational groups are greater than estimates for higher levels. This can occur due to the mix of specific occupations (and industries) represented by the broad group as well as by the variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may level or because there were not enough data to guarantee 2 wages averaged $17.14 in all goods-producing industries, and $16.77 in manufacturing. Hourly wages averaged $17.05 in all service-producing industries, $21.12 in transportation and public utilities, $12.23 in wholesale and retail trade, and $18.06 in services. Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication criteria. Table C-4 reports that a total of 1,761,608 workers were represented by the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VAWV survey. White-collar occupations included 1,075,574 workers, or 61 percent; blue-collar occupations included 333,827 workers, or 19 percent; and service occupations included 352,207 workers, or 20 percent. not be published because no workers were identified at that confidentiality and reliability. Work levels for all major groups span several levels, with professional specialty occupations and executive, administrative, and managerial occupations typically starting and ending at higher work levels than the other groups. Published data for administrative support occupations, including clerical, ranged from level 1 to level 9. As illustrated in Chart 3, the average hourly rate was $10.36 for level 2, $12.33 for level 4, $15.05 for level 6, and $20.61 for level 8. Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for administrative support occupations, including clerical, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Dollars per hour $ 25 Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by occupational group, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MDVA-WV, March 1998 Percent 70 60 20 50 15 40 10 30 5 20 10 0 2 4 6 8 0 Level Whitecollar Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of $18.89, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion workers averaged $17.05. Time workers, whose wages were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged $17.34 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at least partially based on productivity payments, averaged $19.13 per hour. Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divisions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly Bluecollar Service workers Data are also presented in appendix table 1 on the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The relative standard errors of published mean hourly earnings for all industries, private industry, and State and local government are available in appendix table 2. The average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations are presented in appendix table 3. 3 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ....................................................................... $17.41 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 17.54 $7.00 7.20 25 Median 50 $9.96 $14.73 10.15 14.94 75 90 $21.87 21.97 $31.15 31.20 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 20.75 21.38 9.00 9.90 12.25 13.00 17.64 18.43 26.08 26.63 35.09 35.34 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... 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 occupations ....................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Business, commerce and marketing teachers ...... English teachers ................................................... Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Economists ........................................................... 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 occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. 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 occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Administrators and officials, public administration 25.24 26.50 28.73 24.38 29.18 31.53 26.28 26.74 14.15 15.75 19.20 17.31 19.65 18.72 17.64 17.87 17.36 19.24 22.85 21.28 23.32 26.45 20.91 21.11 23.08 24.95 28.98 24.26 30.69 31.27 25.38 26.06 30.70 32.13 33.55 26.51 33.75 36.89 30.38 31.25 37.89 38.83 37.75 31.54 37.10 42.77 36.03 36.83 21.64 21.00 24.19 35.48 22.65 27.67 21.66 32.95 28.87 18.84 31.37 27.67 20.77 30.54 26.48 24.11 27.62 29.67 26.91 28.02 8.29 25.23 20.72 20.71 24.41 25.41 21.38 15.17 15.33 14.79 42.34 42.34 15.02 13.09 15.98 15.37 16.34 22.90 17.00 23.17 21.22 14.74 14.82 19.77 12.88 17.79 13.88 11.99 19.10 19.41 18.09 11.96 6.85 14.14 12.55 12.55 14.85 12.84 12.47 11.48 11.60 10.67 26.63 26.63 18.27 15.05 17.33 15.96 18.30 27.00 17.25 30.00 23.12 16.14 23.62 23.75 14.02 25.54 20.17 15.31 21.79 23.04 21.14 23.00 7.25 16.78 14.66 14.66 18.47 22.11 16.27 12.98 12.98 13.79 32.54 32.54 21.80 18.30 21.51 18.12 21.84 29.00 19.51 31.68 30.55 17.50 28.13 26.98 14.82 28.28 27.00 27.20 26.56 29.55 26.16 30.33 8.81 25.10 20.19 20.19 22.47 25.24 17.36 14.06 14.06 14.40 40.66 40.66 25.41 24.08 27.80 47.79 25.92 29.00 22.00 39.38 34.11 21.16 36.36 29.20 28.18 34.40 33.41 30.61 32.80 35.34 32.52 36.68 8.81 33.53 25.62 25.62 31.82 31.82 22.56 16.08 16.08 16.67 49.74 49.74 26.47 33.30 34.47 62.87 32.06 29.70 31.90 39.61 35.16 24.00 50.25 37.93 29.86 46.59 37.43 31.03 36.99 39.12 35.72 38.09 9.59 37.78 28.38 28.38 35.96 35.96 38.83 20.13 20.28 19.30 57.94 57.94 26.29 17.24 31.08 25.93 27.93 19.13 15.43 17.84 15.00 15.14 18.07 69.27 15.87 21.79 15.97 27.28 31.44 24.20 15.27 13.35 15.53 15.82 16.92 11.33 10.55 14.65 12.93 9.73 12.61 18.85 7.30 13.48 11.92 14.50 16.10 16.56 16.45 14.99 21.20 21.58 20.17 13.83 11.88 15.21 13.70 11.66 15.50 31.20 7.60 17.18 13.35 18.22 19.77 17.23 22.84 17.67 27.51 23.68 25.61 16.75 14.81 17.28 14.81 15.15 17.87 52.09 10.35 20.43 14.72 23.06 27.88 25.37 33.05 18.74 40.52 23.68 35.15 19.54 18.12 19.42 15.94 18.20 20.40 93.75 18.63 27.12 19.42 32.92 36.88 27.22 42.58 20.88 44.90 53.85 42.69 24.48 19.58 23.93 18.25 20.00 22.37 171.64 38.19 29.71 22.34 42.61 50.96 29.38 See footnotes at end of table. 4 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Financial managers .............................................. $43.40 $18.66 $21.73 $34.36 Personnel and labor relations managers .............. 24.67 16.35 17.67 19.17 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... 35.79 17.20 18.75 36.30 Administrators, education and related fields ......... 29.43 16.72 21.15 28.84 Managers, medicine and health ........................... 28.91 16.15 23.43 26.17 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ 17.12 11.67 13.25 16.18 Managers, properties and real estate ................... 29.71 14.00 18.75 23.06 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. 29.66 14.30 18.27 34.55 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 32.90 17.00 21.47 28.99 Management related occupations ............................ 21.01 13.47 16.32 20.45 Accountants and auditors ..................................... 19.91 12.63 16.84 19.23 Other financial officers .......................................... 22.56 13.52 17.88 23.05 Management analysts .......................................... 24.68 17.15 17.15 20.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... 19.66 14.07 15.70 18.71 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ 26.38 18.58 24.62 24.80 Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... 16.83 12.58 14.70 16.77 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 21.34 12.60 15.45 21.37 Sales occupations ............................................................ 15.61 5.73 7.20 11.06 Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 25.14 9.50 15.38 21.19 Advertising and related sales occupations ........... 13.75 7.95 9.52 10.12 Sales occupations, other business services ......... 22.60 11.06 11.69 20.69 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. 20.42 11.76 13.46 18.03 Sales workers, apparel ......................................... 15.17 5.90 7.23 12.24 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... 10.62 6.50 8.00 9.50 Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 8.50 5.30 5.50 6.73 Sales counter clerks ............................................. 10.09 6.00 6.50 9.50 Cashiers ............................................................... 8.05 5.25 5.90 7.01 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.72 8.12 9.80 12.03 Supervisors, general office ................................... 17.85 10.50 13.81 17.24 Supervisors, financial records processing ............ 17.51 12.50 13.46 14.43 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... 17.01 12.10 12.94 16.00 Computer operators .............................................. 13.59 10.11 12.09 13.66 Secretaries ........................................................... 14.73 10.49 12.08 13.89 Typists .................................................................. 14.15 10.96 11.79 13.92 Hotel clerks ........................................................... 7.51 6.50 6.50 7.50 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... 14.67 7.25 12.68 16.35 Receptionists ........................................................ 9.39 7.06 8.00 9.62 Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... 12.03 9.00 9.00 10.00 Order clerks .......................................................... 10.40 5.25 7.25 10.95 Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping 13.80 7.10 11.87 13.73 Library clerks ........................................................ 9.42 6.10 7.20 9.98 Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 11.69 9.58 10.24 10.43 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.50 8.86 9.57 10.91 Billing clerks .......................................................... 12.50 8.64 9.76 13.04 Telephone operators ............................................ 11.65 6.64 8.00 10.00 Mail clerks except postal service .......................... 7.77 5.86 6.51 7.00 Dispatchers ........................................................... 13.42 8.63 9.95 11.52 Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 12.21 6.93 8.32 13.21 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 13.58 6.34 9.36 17.36 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................................... 13.93 9.13 10.77 13.00 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 12.34 9.64 10.94 12.31 Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. 12.97 9.93 12.58 13.70 See footnotes at end of table. 5 75 90 $48.08 33.59 $92.30 43.82 45.13 33.87 34.61 54.91 40.42 40.02 19.17 47.81 34.55 38.46 24.20 22.65 24.56 27.08 25.61 47.81 42.26 62.30 30.00 24.44 31.93 45.84 21.23 30.44 32.92 35.34 19.95 23.31 18.21 35.43 14.90 29.44 19.95 31.50 31.11 48.75 29.04 31.12 24.31 23.12 12.30 9.85 11.25 9.00 14.90 19.75 24.85 32.00 28.85 15.75 13.94 17.68 14.48 17.89 26.59 25.36 21.76 15.90 16.21 16.27 8.00 17.88 10.28 12.80 13.25 15.38 10.50 13.37 12.38 13.98 16.92 9.00 14.77 15.39 24.05 16.57 21.44 17.43 8.50 18.18 11.43 19.47 14.20 20.06 12.92 14.47 15.29 16.50 16.92 10.78 25.91 18.27 17.36 17.36 18.64 13.85 13.82 18.64 15.41 13.98 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) General office clerks ............................................. $11.75 Bank tellers ........................................................... 9.78 Data entry keyers ................................................. 9.01 Teachers’ aides .................................................... 11.16 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 12.13 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ...................................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Assemblers ........................................................... Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Supervisors, material moving equipment ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................ Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 6 25 Median 50 75 90 $13.30 10.53 9.64 12.56 12.43 $16.68 12.02 10.98 14.89 16.42 $7.51 7.62 6.59 7.10 8.97 $9.38 $11.62 8.49 9.79 7.28 9.30 8.96 11.39 9.60 11.02 14.09 17.39 15.73 19.39 14.81 7.35 10.47 11.68 14.65 10.67 9.97 13.44 12.81 18.38 11.95 13.45 16.78 15.66 18.70 15.20 17.77 22.40 17.14 21.89 16.80 22.43 23.49 21.62 23.16 18.35 14.87 17.06 10.17 11.14 10.97 12.77 15.17 17.39 18.61 21.32 19.12 23.29 24.36 13.71 19.63 10.61 13.63 20.04 18.06 14.49 18.24 12.20 16.83 8.29 11.63 12.56 14.46 9.05 13.82 13.30 11.82 14.44 19.23 14.34 10.63 9.22 10.31 9.34 9.74 12.56 10.08 11.30 9.37 18.01 11.03 13.30 7.84 9.54 10.03 15.30 11.49 14.71 7.26 11.30 6.54 7.71 7.98 7.32 7.55 6.35 8.99 4.50 9.80 14.38 10.04 6.02 7.36 9.44 6.00 5.73 8.06 5.50 8.99 5.50 23.65 12.00 14.28 9.41 10.47 18.80 15.30 11.92 15.00 9.30 13.50 6.90 9.69 9.92 10.99 8.56 10.38 10.75 5.75 10.44 16.35 11.75 8.00 7.69 10.02 8.60 7.00 9.39 7.49 9.39 6.50 23.65 13.00 22.40 10.08 13.44 20.22 18.59 14.55 16.96 11.39 14.14 7.76 11.59 11.49 13.98 8.90 13.51 13.50 12.00 13.67 18.36 12.87 9.66 8.44 10.60 9.60 9.58 11.50 8.38 9.39 8.60 27.32 15.00 24.85 12.33 15.00 22.06 18.63 16.44 21.92 13.80 20.18 9.74 12.81 13.37 20.47 9.02 17.00 15.75 14.70 17.27 22.50 17.97 13.31 9.48 10.62 10.44 11.26 15.90 14.30 10.21 11.50 29.43 17.00 26.36 13.44 20.36 26.54 20.66 16.61 23.28 19.83 23.74 11.28 13.16 20.36 20.57 11.47 20.25 18.46 20.62 21.05 27.06 20.05 15.95 13.59 10.62 11.19 15.26 19.24 14.30 19.77 14.35 9.93 15.96 16.46 18.19 5.25 7.75 11.74 12.57 6.46 11.84 14.58 14.74 8.53 15.41 16.36 19.10 11.84 19.42 19.95 21.86 17.50 24.12 19.95 24.12 16.17 14.96 8.85 16.87 7.09 8.60 12.04 6.50 6.08 2.38 11.96 13.48 7.00 12.40 5.20 12.45 14.86 8.00 17.00 7.00 14.97 16.90 10.68 17.91 8.75 45.84 17.80 11.87 27.10 11.10 12.47 7.29 4.04 8.70 7.15 5.00 2.13 6.60 9.07 5.00 2.37 7.35 12.02 7.00 2.40 8.43 14.73 8.25 5.84 9.67 19.23 12.10 7.47 10.99 Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Percentiles Occupation3 Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Food service occupations (-Continued) Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Public transportation attendants ........................... Baggage porters and bellhops .............................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $8.55 6.42 7.10 9.19 10.18 8.91 8.69 $5.25 3.62 5.15 6.92 6.75 6.91 5.50 $6.25 5.20 5.45 7.53 7.23 7.63 6.16 $8.00 6.66 7.00 8.90 10.03 8.61 8.00 $9.42 7.18 8.21 10.28 12.03 10.17 10.65 $14.58 8.76 9.80 11.67 13.24 10.88 12.53 11.60 8.51 8.48 9.66 6.30 17.14 5.54 12.05 8.20 8.59 7.00 5.75 5.35 5.43 5.20 8.91 4.14 6.61 6.12 5.50 8.00 6.40 5.90 6.17 5.50 10.80 4.22 9.40 6.60 6.17 10.75 8.27 7.92 8.57 6.13 17.75 5.54 12.53 8.41 8.28 14.21 10.65 9.89 10.87 7.07 20.56 6.00 14.52 9.11 10.47 16.83 11.41 12.86 15.03 7.42 23.33 6.00 16.03 10.87 11.00 establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 7 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $17.07 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 17.20 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ................................. Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Physicians .......................................... Registered nurses .............................. Pharmacists ........................................ Respiratory therapists ......................... Physical therapists .............................. Therapists, N.E.C. .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ....... 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 ...... Economists ......................................... Social, recreation, and religious workers Social workers .................................... Recreation workers ............................. Lawyers and judges ................................ Lawyers .............................................. Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. ................. Editors and reporters .......................... Public relations specialists .................. Technical occupations ................................ 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 occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... State and local government $6.63 6.90 25 Median 50 $9.36 $14.30 9.60 14.50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 10 $21.37 21.50 $30.60 30.55 $18.79 18.79 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.68 $12.06 $16.54 $23.75 $32.30 9.69 12.09 16.54 23.68 32.32 20.70 21.52 8.75 9.74 12.06 13.00 17.37 18.35 25.41 26.21 35.34 35.75 20.90 20.92 10.24 10.24 13.21 13.21 18.63 18.63 27.52 27.62 34.54 34.56 25.52 26.92 29.06 – 29.06 32.22 26.28 14.66 16.25 19.20 – 19.65 19.33 17.64 17.43 19.50 22.71 – 23.08 27.25 20.91 22.86 24.70 29.50 – 30.69 31.71 25.41 30.29 31.82 33.93 – 33.49 38.13 30.38 38.58 39.94 38.39 – 36.93 43.59 36.05 24.56 25.53 26.21 25.11 – – – 12.98 12.98 19.63 22.90 – – – 17.22 18.43 24.26 24.26 – – – 23.93 25.15 24.26 24.26 – – – 31.92 32.37 29.71 25.61 – – – 36.96 37.37 31.61 30.60 – – – 26.75 17.85 21.11 26.15 31.25 36.86 – – – – – – 21.66 21.48 23.97 34.41 22.72 27.67 21.66 27.22 19.32 35.48 28.88 20.84 – 22.96 25.19 20.85 13.55 15.02 13.36 15.96 15.34 16.28 22.90 17.00 21.95 16.03 22.09 17.02 12.38 – 13.90 17.13 14.67 6.00 18.27 15.79 17.50 15.91 18.15 27.00 17.25 23.17 16.76 25.50 25.54 15.14 – 18.40 20.05 17.74 9.61 21.80 18.52 21.74 17.12 22.00 29.00 19.51 30.00 17.46 28.62 27.10 20.26 – 22.88 26.13 20.83 12.88 25.41 22.20 26.89 50.94 26.00 29.00 22.00 30.00 21.62 38.62 28.62 26.27 – 27.37 28.39 22.89 15.87 26.47 37.37 33.36 69.47 32.24 29.70 31.90 30.00 24.03 67.22 43.24 30.37 – 30.83 34.32 25.79 19.64 – 19.05 25.22 39.20 21.95 – – – 18.30 27.18 33.37 27.13 24.97 28.05 30.14 28.57 29.98 – 11.52 16.54 18.12 17.23 – – – 14.40 12.70 20.07 15.39 12.59 19.32 19.58 19.27 18.66 – 13.08 17.22 35.62 18.71 – – – 15.11 19.58 25.53 20.97 17.77 22.23 23.54 22.98 25.07 – 18.27 20.46 43.16 20.53 – – – 17.50 26.98 28.28 27.77 29.37 27.20 31.13 29.24 31.55 – 25.49 34.11 46.80 24.42 – – – 21.05 31.25 39.81 33.86 30.61 33.28 35.59 33.02 36.86 – 26.43 39.61 47.78 32.06 – – – 23.21 43.20 59.22 37.79 31.56 37.30 39.50 36.53 38.44 14.95 18.08 17.96 25.94 25.41 13.43 14.54 – 43.18 43.18 11.06 12.55 12.55 12.84 12.84 9.92 11.09 – 26.63 26.63 12.02 14.66 14.66 22.11 22.11 11.31 11.48 – 35.40 35.40 13.22 17.20 17.20 25.24 25.24 12.42 13.73 – 41.65 41.65 15.14 23.10 23.10 31.82 31.82 16.73 17.00 – 50.32 50.32 20.91 25.62 25.19 38.83 35.96 19.25 19.39 – 57.94 57.94 27.27 22.73 22.73 18.04 – 15.46 15.46 15.47 30.89 – 16.78 12.56 12.56 16.02 – 11.60 11.60 10.67 19.24 – 18.53 17.31 17.31 16.27 – 12.98 12.98 13.79 30.93 – 27.12 25.38 25.38 17.36 – 14.40 14.29 15.76 32.17 – 33.53 28.38 28.38 19.04 – 16.08 16.08 16.67 32.54 – 38.14 28.38 28.38 21.84 – 20.95 21.95 19.30 35.88 – 26.45 31.08 27.40 19.70 15.13 15.53 15.82 11.02 16.31 21.20 22.50 13.98 23.06 27.51 23.68 16.98 33.25 40.52 25.03 19.54 42.79 44.90 53.85 25.96 – – – 16.58 – – – 12.62 – – – 13.70 – – – 14.73 – – – 19.54 – – – 22.84 15.46 17.84 15.29 10.54 14.65 13.19 11.77 15.21 14.00 14.91 17.28 15.00 18.12 19.42 16.38 19.60 23.93 18.35 – – 13.97 – – 12.78 – – 13.24 – – 13.77 – – 14.70 – – 16.00 14.36 18.07 69.27 15.47 21.79 9.39 12.61 18.85 7.30 13.48 10.72 15.50 31.20 7.60 17.18 13.90 17.87 52.09 10.35 20.43 17.85 20.40 93.75 14.95 27.12 20.64 22.37 171.64 38.19 29.71 17.35 – – – – 12.99 – – – – 16.04 – – – – 18.18 – – – – 18.68 – – – – 19.99 – – – – 17.16 11.78 13.70 16.60 19.54 22.54 – – – – – – 28.39 14.82 18.66 24.04 34.55 45.84 22.61 13.45 16.32 21.60 27.62 33.64 32.70 15.75 19.74 28.97 39.00 54.91 25.64 16.72 19.77 27.22 30.73 34.15 See footnotes at end of table. 8 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued Private industry State and local government Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... – – – – Financial managers ............................ $43.40 $18.66 $21.73 $34.36 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. 35.79 17.20 18.75 36.30 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 31.56 14.57 19.17 25.00 Managers, medicine and health ......... 28.89 19.73 23.43 26.17 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments .............................. 17.12 11.67 13.25 16.18 Managers, properties and real estate 29.71 14.00 18.75 23.06 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... 30.98 14.30 22.60 34.55 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 33.15 17.00 21.47 28.99 Management related occupations .......... 21.61 13.52 17.15 20.80 Accountants and auditors ................... 20.76 14.42 18.64 19.75 Other financial officers ........................ 22.31 13.52 17.84 23.05 Management analysts ........................ 24.68 17.15 17.15 20.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 20.64 13.23 16.86 19.27 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 26.87 18.58 24.80 24.80 Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction ....................... – – – – Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 21.39 12.37 15.45 21.37 Sales occupations .......................................... 15.58 5.72 7.13 11.05 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 25.14 9.50 15.38 21.19 Advertising and related sales occupations .................................. 13.75 7.95 9.52 10.12 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 22.60 11.06 11.69 20.69 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.42 11.76 13.46 18.03 Sales workers, apparel ....................... 15.17 5.90 7.23 12.24 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ........................................ 10.62 6.50 8.00 9.50 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 8.50 5.30 5.50 6.73 Cashiers ............................................. 8.01 5.24 5.88 7.01 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 12.82 8.01 9.64 12.08 Supervisors, general office ................. 17.48 10.50 13.22 16.59 Supervisors, financial records processing .................................... 17.51 12.50 13.46 14.43 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ...................... 17.01 12.10 12.94 16.00 Computer operators ............................ 13.59 10.11 12.09 13.66 Secretaries ......................................... 15.14 11.06 12.08 14.70 Typists ................................................ 14.60 11.50 13.30 14.29 Hotel clerks ......................................... 7.51 6.50 6.50 7.50 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ........................................... 14.67 7.25 12.68 16.35 Receptionists ...................................... 9.40 7.06 8.00 9.71 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 12.03 9.00 9.00 10.00 Order clerks ........................................ 10.40 5.25 7.25 10.95 Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping .................................. 13.94 7.10 9.60 14.90 Library clerks ...................................... – – – – Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 12.15 9.44 10.29 11.60 See footnotes at end of table. 9 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 75 90 – $48.08 – $92.30 45.13 54.91 – – – – – – 40.22 33.53 62.77 40.02 28.10 – 19.77 – 21.60 – 29.90 – 33.09 – 34.54 – 19.17 47.81 25.61 47.81 – – – – – – – – – – – – 34.55 39.58 24.56 24.20 23.75 27.08 42.77 62.30 30.05 24.98 33.26 45.84 – 27.71 18.83 17.43 – – – 19.34 11.93 11.93 – – – 20.19 13.77 11.93 – – – 31.46 16.54 16.84 – – – 34.15 22.10 21.57 – – – 34.27 27.05 23.21 – – 24.04 32.92 – – – – – – 30.56 35.34 – – – – – – – – 16.24 12.58 13.75 16.54 19.20 19.95 23.85 17.96 35.43 30.53 31.12 48.75 21.18 – – 13.77 – – 16.32 – – 21.59 – – 23.03 – – 31.59 – – 14.90 29.04 – – – – – – 29.44 31.12 – – – – – – 24.31 23.12 32.00 28.85 – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.30 9.85 8.84 15.75 13.94 14.48 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 15.14 20.92 18.64 28.57 12.26 19.16 8.96 15.30 10.18 16.80 11.92 18.10 13.91 19.63 16.41 22.14 24.85 25.36 – – – – – – 21.76 15.90 16.48 16.27 8.00 24.05 16.57 22.33 17.43 8.50 – – 13.00 – – – – 10.49 – – – – 12.94 – – – – 15.49 – – – – 16.47 – – 17.88 10.28 12.80 13.25 18.18 11.49 19.47 14.20 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.99 – 14.37 20.06 – 15.10 – 9.37 10.54 – 7.20 10.24 – 9.64 10.24 – 10.88 10.43 – 13.26 11.39 $23.43 $16.56 $17.23 $25.95 $27.22 $29.38 – – – – – – – – 9.64 – – – – – – – 5.77 9.58 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ $11.52 Billing clerks ........................................ 12.50 Telephone operators .......................... 11.61 Mail clerks except postal service ........ 7.77 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 11.54 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 13.58 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................. 13.93 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 12.34 Eligibility clerks, social welfare ........... – General office clerks ........................... 11.42 Bank tellers ......................................... 9.78 Data entry keyers ............................... 9.77 Teachers’ aides .................................. 8.60 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 12.65 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Automobile mechanics ....................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ................ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Carpenters .......................................... Electricians ......................................... Electrician apprentices ....................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ................ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... Stationary engineers ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Printing press operators ..................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Assemblers ......................................... Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Driver-sales workers ........................... Bus drivers .......................................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... Production helpers .............................. Stock handlers and baggers ............... State and local government $9.00 8.64 6.64 5.86 6.68 25 Median 50 $9.57 $10.88 9.76 13.04 7.75 10.00 6.51 7.00 7.95 9.00 Percentiles Mean 75 90 10 $12.38 13.98 16.92 9.00 14.42 $15.29 16.50 16.92 10.78 18.27 $11.37 – – – – $8.80 – – – – 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.93 $11.39 $13.26 $14.61 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6.34 9.36 17.36 17.36 17.36 – – – – – – 9.13 10.77 13.00 18.64 18.64 – – – – – – 9.64 – 7.50 7.62 8.19 6.63 10.94 – 8.90 8.49 9.30 7.10 12.31 – 11.44 9.79 9.30 7.78 13.85 – 13.00 10.53 9.64 8.96 15.41 – 15.69 12.02 11.54 9.02 – 13.16 12.84 – – 11.76 – 9.93 9.90 – – 8.63 – 12.70 9.90 – – 10.80 – 13.82 12.40 – – 11.77 – 13.82 14.96 – – 13.08 – 13.98 17.49 – – 15.17 8.78 9.45 10.66 13.49 18.46 11.06 9.37 10.55 11.02 11.94 11.94 14.02 7.20 9.75 13.44 17.62 22.75 14.68 9.58 10.63 13.51 18.49 21.32 17.60 15.55 14.86 10.97 11.68 11.50 13.76 12.40 12.69 17.00 15.31 15.80 22.71 16.62 16.10 23.65 21.71 17.59 15.82 – – 10.23 – – 10.47 – – 14.69 – – 20.41 – – 22.61 – – 14.29 17.08 13.50 20.09 10.61 15.45 20.02 18.06 10.17 11.77 11.03 13.40 7.84 10.58 10.03 15.30 10.97 13.30 12.00 14.82 9.41 14.71 18.80 15.30 14.88 16.50 12.96 22.40 10.08 15.00 20.22 18.59 17.12 21.13 14.97 24.85 12.33 17.44 22.06 18.63 18.61 23.31 16.72 26.36 13.44 21.11 26.54 20.66 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.49 18.24 11.49 14.71 11.92 15.00 14.55 16.96 16.44 21.92 16.61 23.28 – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.20 17.03 7.26 11.30 9.25 13.69 11.40 16.40 13.80 20.18 19.83 23.74 – – – – – – – – – – – – 8.29 6.54 6.90 7.76 9.74 11.28 – – – – – – 11.63 12.56 7.71 7.98 9.69 9.92 11.59 11.49 12.81 13.37 13.16 20.36 – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.46 7.32 10.99 13.98 20.47 20.57 – – – – – – 9.05 7.55 8.56 8.90 9.02 11.47 – – – – – – 13.42 13.25 11.82 – 6.15 8.73 4.50 – 9.80 10.70 5.75 – 13.47 13.47 12.00 – 16.99 15.87 14.70 – 20.25 18.46 20.62 – 15.48 13.94 – 15.88 10.63 11.52 – 11.28 12.58 13.08 – 13.01 14.08 14.08 – 14.90 17.56 14.72 – 20.06 21.25 16.17 – 21.25 14.34 10.04 11.75 12.87 17.97 20.05 – – – – – – 10.68 6.20 8.05 9.66 13.45 16.08 10.07 5.50 7.40 10.46 11.26 14.35 9.17 9.34 9.57 7.02 6.00 5.70 7.98 8.60 7.00 8.48 9.60 9.00 9.30 10.44 11.17 12.35 11.19 15.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued Private industry Percentiles Occupation3 Mean 10 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers (-Continued) Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... $12.56 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ 10.08 Hand packers and packagers ............. 11.30 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 9.51 Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Firefighting occupations ...................... Police and detectives, public service .. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ..................... Correctional institution officers ........... Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Bartenders .......................................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ............................. Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ........................ Public transportation attendants ......... Baggage porters and bellhops ............ Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. Child care workers, N.E.C. ................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... State and local government $8.06 25 Median 50 $9.39 $11.50 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $15.90 $19.24 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 5.50 8.99 5.50 7.49 9.39 6.68 8.38 9.39 8.60 14.30 10.21 11.50 14.30 19.77 14.99 – – – 8.05 9.89 – – 5.15 6.50 – – 5.90 7.00 – – 7.48 8.00 – – 9.55 10.68 – – 11.29 14.00 – – $15.11 17.77 16.46 18.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – 16.17 14.96 8.60 12.04 11.96 13.48 12.45 14.86 14.97 16.90 45.84 17.80 8.62 7.01 6.50 2.38 7.00 5.15 7.87 6.94 10.07 8.65 11.64 11.21 – 9.12 – 7.06 – 7.32 – 9.01 – 10.66 – 10.99 12.47 7.29 4.04 8.58 8.40 6.42 7.06 8.88 9.64 7.15 5.00 2.13 6.53 5.25 3.62 5.15 6.85 6.20 9.07 5.00 2.37 7.25 6.00 5.20 5.40 7.46 7.23 12.02 7.00 2.40 8.22 8.00 6.66 7.00 8.57 9.49 14.73 8.25 5.84 9.21 9.20 7.18 8.21 10.01 11.10 19.23 12.10 7.47 10.93 14.58 8.76 9.80 11.00 12.43 – – – – – – 8.18 11.29 – – – – – – – 6.15 8.30 – – – – – – – 7.71 10.43 – – – – – – – 8.28 10.90 – – – – – – – 9.08 12.95 – – – – – – – 9.08 13.77 – 8.67 6.85 7.50 8.48 9.78 10.67 10.95 8.21 9.52 10.43 11.53 15.36 8.12 5.36 5.90 7.30 9.68 11.22 11.22 8.16 8.99 10.61 13.18 15.08 11.21 8.34 7.63 9.30 7.00 5.75 5.25 5.25 8.00 6.40 5.64 6.15 10.50 8.10 6.66 8.41 12.88 10.65 8.73 10.26 16.91 11.18 11.00 13.66 – – 10.93 10.80 – – 8.03 5.64 – – 8.99 7.42 – – 10.09 10.54 – – 12.60 12.98 – – 14.34 17.89 – 20.82 5.54 – 8.04 8.37 – 11.48 4.14 – 6.12 5.50 – 17.39 4.22 – 6.15 6.17 – 19.38 5.54 – 8.41 8.22 – 21.38 6.00 – 9.00 10.25 – 34.24 6.00 – 10.16 11.00 6.46 – – 12.60 – 10.23 5.15 – – 6.95 – 5.64 5.50 – – 12.53 – 7.42 6.35 – – 12.53 – 10.92 7.42 – – 14.52 – 11.90 7.42 – – 17.53 – 15.28 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in $8.63 $11.19 $14.45 $18.70 $21.87 12.40 14.27 17.18 20.25 24.12 11.74 14.58 16.36 19.95 19.95 12.81 14.90 19.20 21.87 24.12 another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 11 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 All occupations ..................................................... $18.31 All occupations excluding sales .......................... 18.31 White-collar occupations ................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ....... Professional specialty and technical occupations .............................................. Professional specialty occupations ............. Engineers, architects, and surveyors ..... Civil engineers .................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ..... Engineers, N.E.C. ............................... Mathematical and computer scientists ... Computer systems analysts and scientists ....................................... Operations and systems researchers and analysts ................................. Natural scientists .................................... Health related occupations ..................... Physicians .......................................... Registered nurses .............................. Speech therapists ............................... Therapists, N.E.C. .............................. Teachers, college and university ............ Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ....... Teachers, except college and university Prekindergarten and kindergarten ...... Elementary school teachers ............... Secondary school teachers ................ Teachers, special education ............... Teachers, N.E.C. ................................ Substitute teachers ............................. Vocational and educational counselors .................................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ......... Librarians ............................................ Social scientists and urban planners ...... Economists ......................................... 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 .................. Technical occupations ................................ 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 occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............................................. Part-time 25 Median 50 $8.03 $10.75 $15.58 8.22 10.87 15.65 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $22.72 22.72 $31.90 31.81 10 25 $9.76 9.96 $5.15 5.15 $5.90 5.89 Median 50 75 90 $7.42 $10.48 $18.35 7.50 10.81 19.10 21.55 21.87 10.00 10.37 13.20 13.48 18.43 18.90 26.80 27.04 35.88 35.91 12.48 14.37 5.93 6.85 7.00 7.78 9.00 10.70 15.06 18.48 26.44 29.37 25.72 26.96 28.70 24.38 29.18 31.47 26.29 14.72 16.25 19.20 17.31 19.65 18.72 17.62 17.77 19.54 22.82 21.28 23.32 26.26 20.88 23.40 25.15 28.87 24.26 30.69 31.15 25.34 31.07 32.32 33.29 26.51 33.75 37.11 30.47 38.37 39.42 37.76 31.54 37.10 42.77 36.06 19.19 20.44 – – – – – 7.30 7.25 – – – – – 10.45 10.48 – – – – – 18.34 20.60 – – – – – 26.47 28.91 – – – – – 33.36 33.36 – – – – – 26.75 17.85 21.12 26.15 31.25 36.86 – – – – – – 21.38 21.00 23.51 35.25 21.06 28.73 18.95 32.04 31.07 28.17 23.67 27.75 29.79 26.94 30.13 – 15.02 13.09 15.83 15.37 15.90 21.22 14.74 16.65 20.07 18.63 11.99 19.24 19.51 18.09 18.85 – 18.27 15.05 17.18 15.96 17.50 23.12 16.14 24.34 26.00 22.11 14.18 21.97 23.12 21.06 25.07 – 21.80 18.30 20.21 18.12 20.37 30.09 17.50 28.30 28.28 28.20 26.84 26.71 29.98 26.26 31.55 – 24.97 24.08 24.57 47.78 23.40 34.11 21.62 36.87 34.40 33.86 30.61 32.96 35.34 32.56 36.86 – 26.34 33.30 34.11 62.87 26.86 35.16 24.03 51.29 47.16 37.89 30.61 36.99 39.17 35.72 38.44 – – – 26.60 – 26.62 – – 17.18 – 11.66 – – 26.08 – 10.94 8.29 – – 17.70 – 18.33 – – 8.38 – 6.85 – – 18.15 – 6.00 6.85 – – 21.09 – 21.23 – – 10.48 – 7.25 – – 20.83 – 6.68 7.25 – – 26.69 – 26.47 – – 15.39 – 8.81 – – 23.49 – 8.76 8.81 – – 32.24 – 33.36 – – 22.10 – 11.59 – – 31.48 – 11.59 8.81 – – 34.47 – 34.47 – – 26.98 – 23.47 – – 35.39 – 17.20 9.59 25.47 21.49 21.44 24.58 25.41 21.72 15.32 15.30 42.49 42.49 14.42 14.24 13.87 14.85 12.84 12.47 11.60 11.60 26.63 26.63 16.78 15.98 15.98 19.04 22.11 16.69 12.98 12.98 32.84 32.84 25.10 23.10 22.56 22.47 25.24 19.04 14.29 14.06 40.86 40.86 33.53 26.78 26.11 31.82 31.82 22.71 16.08 16.08 49.76 49.76 37.84 28.38 28.38 35.96 35.96 38.83 20.13 20.23 57.94 57.94 – 13.90 13.82 – – – 13.91 – – – – 10.90 10.90 – – – 6.25 – – – – 12.39 12.35 – – – 10.67 – – – – 12.55 12.55 – – – 13.79 – – – – 15.05 15.09 – – – 15.76 – – – – 19.19 19.26 – – – 20.95 – – – 26.59 17.24 31.67 26.14 19.60 15.49 13.35 16.45 15.82 11.80 16.92 14.99 21.20 21.58 14.05 23.37 17.67 28.60 23.68 16.98 33.05 18.74 40.52 25.03 19.68 42.69 20.88 45.09 53.85 24.94 15.03 – – – 14.06 6.00 – – – 7.60 11.00 – – – 10.45 11.00 – – – 14.09 22.50 – – – 18.00 22.50 – – – 18.39 15.51 17.93 14.68 10.64 14.65 12.93 12.07 15.21 13.70 15.12 16.82 14.70 18.12 20.19 15.60 19.58 24.47 16.62 14.57 17.37 16.04 9.36 14.09 13.51 10.09 16.20 14.56 11.88 17.87 15.68 17.71 18.86 18.35 25.62 19.42 18.35 15.79 18.07 69.27 21.79 10.50 12.61 18.85 13.48 13.10 15.50 31.20 17.18 16.40 17.87 52.09 20.43 18.63 20.40 93.75 27.12 20.66 22.37 171.64 29.71 12.11 – – – 8.80 – – – 10.13 – – – 10.70 – – – 13.90 – – – 17.70 – – – 15.99 11.92 13.35 14.72 19.46 22.34 – – – – – – 27.40 14.60 18.32 23.09 32.92 42.77 12.37 7.00 7.15 10.97 12.35 33.66 See footnotes at end of table. 12 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers .......................................... $31.56 $16.25 $19.77 $27.88 Administrators and officials, public administration ............................... 24.20 16.56 17.23 25.37 Financial managers ............................ 43.40 18.66 21.73 34.36 Personnel and labor relations managers ...................................... 24.67 16.35 17.67 19.17 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .............................. 35.79 17.20 18.75 36.30 Administrators, education and related fields ............................................. 29.81 17.31 21.60 28.84 Managers, medicine and health ......... 28.91 16.15 23.43 26.17 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments .............................. 17.28 11.84 13.61 16.35 Managers, properties and real estate 29.71 14.00 18.75 23.06 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ........................................... 29.66 14.30 18.27 34.55 Managers and administrators, N.E.C. 33.06 17.00 21.47 28.99 Management related occupations .......... 21.12 13.47 16.32 20.46 Accountants and auditors ................... 19.91 12.63 16.84 19.23 Other financial officers ........................ 22.56 13.52 17.88 23.05 Management analysts ........................ 24.68 17.15 17.15 20.83 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ...................... 19.66 14.07 15.70 18.71 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ........................................... 26.38 18.58 24.62 24.80 Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction ....................... 16.83 12.58 14.70 16.77 Management related occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 21.66 13.70 16.32 21.37 Sales occupations .......................................... 18.21 6.54 8.80 13.97 Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 25.53 10.00 15.76 21.19 Advertising and related sales occupations .................................. 14.29 9.04 9.75 10.12 Sales occupations, other business services ........................................ 22.86 11.06 13.45 21.45 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 20.42 11.76 13.46 18.03 Sales workers, apparel ....................... 15.83 6.33 8.44 14.52 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ........................................ 11.46 7.57 8.50 10.35 Sales workers, other commodities ...... 9.40 5.30 5.51 7.22 Cashiers ............................................. 8.23 5.40 6.60 7.50 Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...................................................... 13.07 8.88 10.16 12.23 Supervisors, general office ................. 17.86 10.50 13.81 17.24 Supervisors, financial records processing .................................... 17.51 12.50 13.46 14.43 Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ...................... 17.30 12.10 12.94 16.00 Computer operators ............................ 13.45 10.11 12.09 13.66 Secretaries ......................................... 14.85 10.49 12.08 14.14 Typists ................................................ 14.40 11.50 12.46 14.22 Hotel clerks ......................................... 7.48 6.50 6.50 7.00 Transportation ticket and reservation agents ........................................... 16.32 12.69 14.13 17.88 Receptionists ...................................... 9.68 7.55 8.91 10.11 Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 12.30 9.00 9.00 9.80 Order clerks ........................................ 11.90 9.25 9.73 11.58 See footnotes at end of table. 13 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – 29.38 92.30 – – – – – – – – – – – – 33.59 43.82 – – – – – – 45.13 54.91 – – – – – – 34.04 34.61 41.22 40.02 – – – – – – – – – – – – 19.17 47.81 25.61 47.81 – – – – – – – – – – – – 34.55 38.75 24.20 22.65 24.56 27.08 42.26 62.30 30.00 24.44 31.93 45.84 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.23 32.92 – – – – – – 30.44 35.34 – – – – – – 19.95 19.95 – – – – – – 23.32 22.77 36.01 31.50 35.38 48.75 – $8.87 – – $5.25 – – $6.00 – – $6.89 – 16.32 29.04 – – – – – – 29.44 44.41 – – – – – – 24.31 17.89 32.00 33.50 – 14.10 – 5.50 – 6.24 – 8.09 – 26.44 – 27.64 13.50 11.91 9.40 16.72 16.05 11.54 – 7.02 7.92 – 5.23 5.20 – 5.34 5.66 – 6.28 6.45 – 7.73 8.73 – 9.85 14.58 15.14 19.75 18.21 26.59 9.18 – 6.20 – 7.06 – 8.25 – 10.56 – 12.73 – 24.85 25.36 – – – – – – 23.77 15.27 16.32 16.27 8.00 24.05 16.57 21.59 17.43 9.25 – – 11.94 – – – – 8.70 – – – – 10.00 – – – – 12.00 – – – – 12.30 – – – – 17.56 – – 17.88 10.34 12.80 13.77 18.22 11.43 19.47 14.99 11.75 8.60 – – 6.23 7.05 – – 7.00 7.40 – – 10.83 8.00 – – 17.20 9.00 – – 17.88 10.50 – – 75 90 $37.02 $52.10 27.22 48.08 – – $9.58 $14.58 – – Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping .................................. $13.80 Library clerks ...................................... 11.10 Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 11.81 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ............................................ 11.86 Billing clerks ........................................ 12.60 Telephone operators .......................... 12.11 Mail clerks except postal service ........ 8.34 Dispatchers ......................................... 13.42 Stock and inventory clerks .................. 13.06 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 14.15 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................. 13.93 Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...................................... 12.34 Eligibility clerks, social welfare ........... 13.29 General office clerks ........................... 12.20 Data entry keyers ............................... 9.16 Teachers’ aides .................................. 11.02 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 12.35 Blue-collar occupations ................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............................................. Automobile mechanics ....................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................................... Industrial machinery repairers ............ Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ................ Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........ Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers .................. Carpenters .......................................... Electricians ......................................... Electrician apprentices ....................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ................ Supervisors, production occupations .. Machinists ........................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ................................... Stationary engineers ........................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ................................................. Printing press operators ..................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...................................... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........................................... Assemblers ......................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..................................... Transportation and material moving occupations .............................................. Truck drivers ....................................... Driver-sales workers ........................... Bus drivers .......................................... Part-time 25 Median 50 $7.10 $11.87 $13.73 9.38 10.07 10.44 10.05 10.24 10.43 Percentiles Mean 75 90 $15.38 11.84 13.54 $20.06 14.04 14.48 10 25 Median 50 – $7.78 – – $5.75 – – $6.21 – – $7.20 – 9.48 8.88 6.97 6.55 8.63 7.95 9.95 9.98 8.14 6.82 9.95 8.80 11.39 13.09 10.00 7.50 11.52 13.46 12.78 14.26 16.92 10.58 14.77 15.77 15.35 16.50 16.92 11.43 25.91 18.27 8.48 – – – – – 6.46 – – – – – 7.05 – – – – – 8.22 – – – – – 7.00 10.06 17.36 17.36 17.36 – – – 9.13 10.77 13.00 18.64 18.64 – – 10.10 11.25 8.75 6.59 7.10 10.94 12.70 9.90 7.68 8.96 12.31 13.82 12.02 9.30 11.32 13.85 13.82 13.76 9.64 12.31 15.41 13.98 17.15 11.12 14.48 – – 8.50 – – 9.18 9.68 11.02 12.93 16.42 14.48 8.22 10.30 13.75 18.24 17.43 15.73 10.47 11.68 13.44 12.81 16.80 15.66 19.39 14.46 14.65 10.23 18.38 11.95 14.87 17.06 10.17 11.14 24.36 13.71 19.63 10.61 13.63 20.04 18.06 75 90 – – $8.50 $10.98 – – 10.00 – – – – – 11.50 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7.00 – – – – 7.50 – – – – 7.67 – – – – 9.40 – – – – 10.81 – – 9.59 6.79 7.30 9.78 11.40 12.92 22.75 7.93 5.21 5.80 6.59 8.68 12.63 22.40 17.14 23.49 21.62 – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.70 15.20 21.89 16.64 23.16 17.59 – – – – – – – – – – – – 10.97 12.77 15.17 17.39 18.61 21.32 19.12 23.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – 18.01 11.03 13.30 7.84 9.54 10.03 15.30 23.65 12.00 14.28 9.41 10.47 18.80 15.30 23.65 13.00 22.40 10.08 13.44 20.22 18.59 27.32 15.00 24.85 12.33 15.00 22.06 18.63 29.43 17.00 26.36 13.44 20.36 26.54 20.66 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.49 18.24 11.49 14.71 11.92 15.00 14.55 16.96 16.44 21.92 16.61 23.28 – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.28 17.03 7.29 11.30 9.34 13.69 11.49 16.40 13.80 20.18 19.83 23.74 7.88 – 6.53 – 7.13 – 7.32 – 7.75 – 8.32 6.54 6.90 7.76 9.76 11.28 – – – – – – 11.63 12.56 7.71 7.98 9.69 9.92 11.59 11.49 12.81 13.37 13.16 20.36 – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.05 7.55 8.56 8.90 9.02 11.47 – – – – – – 14.63 13.72 14.51 14.82 9.15 9.89 8.90 9.80 11.24 11.16 11.01 10.69 14.08 13.52 13.81 14.76 17.69 15.98 16.32 19.96 20.25 18.46 22.41 21.15 7.66 7.65 – 13.14 5.21 5.21 – 10.38 6.00 5.21 – 11.73 9.31 10.45 – 14.76 13.31 14.00 – 18.98 See footnotes at end of table. 14 4.75 5.21 – 9.31 11.28 – Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Transportation and material moving occupations (-Continued) Supervisors, material moving equipment ..................................... $19.23 $14.38 $16.35 $18.36 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ...................................... 14.34 10.04 11.75 12.87 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..................................................... 10.99 6.50 8.38 10.00 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................................... 9.46 7.02 7.98 8.83 Construction laborers ......................... 10.31 9.44 10.02 10.60 Stock handlers and baggers ............... 10.50 6.81 8.22 9.77 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ........................................... 13.30 8.56 9.89 13.45 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ........................................ 10.40 6.00 8.00 8.38 Hand packers and packagers ............. 11.30 8.99 9.39 9.39 Laborers except construction, N.E.C. 9.46 5.50 6.50 8.60 Service occupations ......................................... Protective service occupations ............... Firefighting occupations ...................... Police and detectives, public service .. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ..................... Correctional institution officers ........... Guards and police except public service .......................................... Food service occupations ....................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations ...................... Waiters and waitresses ...................... Cooks ................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations .................................. Kitchen workers, food preparation ...... Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .......... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 – – – – – – 20.05 – – – – – – 13.90 16.50 $7.57 $5.65 $6.00 $7.25 $8.50 $9.80 10.24 10.62 11.33 13.59 10.62 15.56 – – 7.51 – – 5.45 – – 5.80 – – 6.59 – – 7.50 – – 14.58 15.90 19.24 8.13 6.20 7.13 8.50 8.50 9.65 14.30 10.21 11.50 14.30 19.77 14.99 – – 7.81 – – 6.25 – – 7.00 – – 7.85 – – 8.60 – – 8.60 7.65 10.68 – – 9.37 17.00 – – – – – – 75 90 $22.50 $27.06 17.97 10.85 16.26 16.59 18.25 5.80 8.00 11.96 12.58 7.15 12.40 14.74 14.75 9.42 15.94 16.36 19.15 12.80 19.82 19.95 21.86 18.82 24.12 19.98 24.12 6.48 9.91 – – 2.38 6.02 – – 5.20 7.00 – – 6.02 8.66 – – 15.69 14.96 8.60 12.04 8.60 13.48 12.45 14.86 12.45 16.90 45.84 17.80 – – – – – – – – 8.61 7.87 6.50 3.75 7.00 6.00 8.00 7.50 10.26 9.25 11.64 12.00 10.22 5.48 6.97 2.37 7.80 2.58 8.87 5.25 10.68 7.00 17.00 8.32 12.47 4.53 9.00 7.15 2.13 7.00 9.07 2.38 7.50 12.02 3.75 8.52 14.73 5.85 10.08 19.23 8.74 11.24 – 3.49 7.59 – 2.13 5.77 – 2.37 6.77 – 2.38 7.50 – 2.77 8.30 – 7.09 9.60 7.78 8.36 7.16 7.59 5.62 5.25 4.86 5.41 6.00 6.40 5.68 6.50 6.40 8.00 7.00 7.31 10.77 9.20 8.65 8.53 11.28 12.21 8.76 9.88 – 8.97 4.96 5.80 – 5.25 3.35 5.15 – 6.25 3.35 5.15 – 7.45 5.25 5.25 – 10.66 6.00 6.52 – 14.58 6.50 8.02 See footnotes at end of table. 15 Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Full-time Occupation3 Percentiles Mean Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ..................... Health aides, except nursing .............. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ..................................... Cleaning and building service occupations ...................................... Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ............................. Maids and housemen ......................... Janitors and cleaners ......................... Personal service occupations ................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ........................ Public transportation attendants ......... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .. Child care workers, N.E.C. ................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ............... Part-time Percentiles Mean 10 25 Median 50 75 90 10 25 Median 50 75 90 $9.47 10.69 $7.00 7.23 $7.86 7.23 $9.34 10.34 $10.43 12.24 $12.06 13.24 $8.08 7.68 $6.20 5.60 $7.27 6.00 $7.98 6.40 $8.76 9.76 $9.76 10.67 9.11 6.91 7.82 9.00 10.18 11.12 8.15 7.00 7.50 7.98 8.76 9.33 9.10 5.65 6.66 8.61 10.73 13.00 6.16 5.22 5.36 5.64 6.50 7.75 11.83 8.49 9.11 10.90 7.50 5.75 5.50 6.00 9.30 6.40 6.66 7.86 11.06 8.10 8.67 9.96 14.68 10.65 10.63 11.90 16.83 11.41 13.18 17.96 – – 5.93 7.45 – – 5.18 5.15 – – 5.25 5.50 – – 5.64 6.67 – – 6.10 8.57 – – 6.94 11.16 – 18.94 12.21 8.74 9.05 – 10.80 7.44 6.62 6.05 – 12.46 9.57 8.07 7.26 – 18.94 12.53 8.41 9.19 – 21.25 13.31 9.48 10.71 – 26.41 17.53 10.87 11.01 6.30 – – 6.81 6.64 5.20 – – 5.69 5.15 5.50 – – 6.15 5.50 6.13 – – 6.15 6.00 7.07 – – 7.89 7.15 7.42 – – 9.13 9.35 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 16 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All industries Occupation3 Mean weekly hours4 Weekly earnings Mean Median Mean annual hours Annual earnings Mean Median All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 39.7 39.6 $726 725 $616 620 2,014 2,008 $36,863 36,769 $31,720 31,824 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 39.6 39.5 854 865 731 750 1,997 1,986 43,039 43,440 37,170 37,880 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... 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 occupations ....................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... 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 ........................ Economists ........................................................... 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 .................................... Technical occupations .................................................. 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 occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 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, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. 39.3 39.5 40.4 41.8 40.3 39.9 40.5 40.6 1,012 1,065 1,160 1,019 1,175 1,257 1,065 1,085 929 1,000 1,174 970 1,228 1,241 1,034 1,058 1,913 1,897 2,102 2,174 2,095 2,077 2,107 2,110 49,212 51,124 60,335 53,005 61,121 65,375 55,390 56,444 44,990 47,029 61,048 50,461 63,835 64,532 53,768 55,016 40.2 40.2 39.7 40.9 39.5 38.7 39.7 40.9 37.1 36.8 38.7 36.6 36.4 36.9 38.3 36.5 39.2 39.3 39.1 39.1 40.0 39.7 39.7 43.7 43.7 859 845 933 1,444 831 1,112 752 1,310 1,154 1,037 916 1,016 1,083 993 1,154 929 843 842 960 994 869 608 608 1,856 1,856 872 817 806 1,160 804 1,110 700 1,145 1,125 1,045 986 993 1,100 983 1,181 945 874 871 908 1,010 762 562 562 1,769 1,769 2,088 2,073 2,030 2,129 2,052 1,644 2,012 1,748 1,666 1,455 1,592 1,425 1,405 1,501 1,528 1,620 2,025 2,025 2,032 2,035 2,080 2,064 2,064 2,272 2,272 44,647 43,540 47,723 75,067 43,213 47,237 38,134 56,001 51,763 40,980 37,685 39,551 41,837 40,437 46,030 41,245 43,515 43,421 49,936 51,707 45,186 31,635 31,593 96,527 96,526 45,344 38,687 42,016 60,316 41,796 49,899 36,359 50,519 52,227 40,485 44,815 38,572 42,494 39,704 46,834 40,941 45,302 44,990 47,237 52,499 39,603 29,245 29,245 92,004 92,004 39.1 40.0 37.9 38.9 38.5 39.8 38.9 38.4 39.8 40.0 24.5 39.8 39.8 40.0 40.1 38.6 39.7 41.1 1,041 690 1,202 1,016 754 617 697 564 629 723 1,695 868 636 1,096 1,267 935 1,725 1,014 921 707 1,138 876 674 600 653 560 654 715 1,310 817 589 948 1,122 913 1,388 818 2,032 2,080 1,973 2,022 2,001 2,067 2,021 1,998 2,071 2,080 1,272 2,071 2,068 2,069 2,078 2,009 2,066 2,138 54,019 35,858 62,479 52,856 39,212 32,073 36,240 29,328 32,708 37,577 88,132 45,126 33,070 56,693 65,589 48,617 89,680 52,746 47,873 36,752 59,150 45,555 35,027 31,179 33,938 29,120 34,026 37,170 68,116 42,494 30,622 48,734 57,891 47,466 72,197 42,510 42.3 39.6 39.7 1,515 1,180 1,149 1,471 1,144 1,047 2,201 1,978 2,067 78,763 58,973 59,752 76,502 55,843 54,424 39.9 41.9 40.0 689 1,246 1,186 654 922 1,382 2,073 2,180 2,079 35,821 64,777 61,674 34,022 47,965 71,864 See footnotes at end of table. 17 Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, 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 occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. 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 ........................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................................... Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ...................................................... Mean weekly hours4 Median Mean annual hours Mean Mean 40.3 39.8 39.6 39.7 39.2 $1,333 841 789 896 967 $1,202 809 769 922 833 2,096 2,055 2,061 2,065 2,037 $69,294 43,409 41,034 46,582 50,279 $62,504 42,050 39,998 47,944 43,326 39.5 40.3 777 1,062 748 992 2,054 2,094 40,389 55,230 38,917 51,584 40.0 39.1 40.7 42.2 39.3 40.0 673 847 742 1,079 562 914 671 855 560 921 416 858 2,080 1,981 2,118 2,197 2,044 2,080 35,004 42,906 38,566 56,096 29,208 47,545 34,882 44,450 29,120 47,882 21,632 44,616 41.9 40.8 40.0 40.0 39.8 39.5 39.4 39.4 856 646 458 376 328 516 703 690 781 576 414 289 310 483 690 577 2,181 2,122 2,080 2,080 2,070 2,040 2,047 2,048 44,536 33,605 23,833 19,557 17,034 26,658 36,572 35,865 40,611 29,972 21,528 15,018 16,120 25,126 35,859 30,014 41.0 39.8 39.4 39.1 40.0 40.0 39.9 39.7 39.6 39.7 38.6 39.5 39.2 39.2 38.6 39.9 40.0 39.6 709 535 585 563 299 653 386 488 471 548 429 467 465 494 467 333 537 518 640 546 559 542 280 715 404 392 476 549 418 417 454 523 383 300 461 538 2,131 2,068 2,046 2,033 2,080 2,080 2,075 2,065 2,057 2,065 2,008 2,055 2,037 2,037 2,005 2,074 2,080 2,062 36,851 27,806 30,393 29,280 15,569 33,953 20,096 25,398 24,475 28,513 22,285 24,269 24,171 25,664 24,283 17,294 27,914 26,916 33,280 28,413 29,042 28,192 14,560 37,190 21,028 20,384 24,758 28,559 21,715 21,694 23,595 27,196 19,912 15,600 23,962 27,997 40.0 566 694 2,080 29,429 36,109 40.1 39.4 39.8 39.6 39.9 35.6 40.1 559 486 528 483 365 392 495 504 473 553 470 372 406 441 2,087 2,048 2,067 2,056 2,074 1,402 2,085 29,068 25,279 27,479 25,088 18,992 15,457 25,737 26,195 24,586 28,754 24,432 19,344 16,283 22,927 40.0 40.1 40.9 40.0 40.0 579 698 644 776 578 550 671 626 748 608 2,054 2,062 2,124 2,068 2,080 29,734 35,925 33,418 40,101 30,068 28,135 34,195 32,578 38,896 31,611 40.0 595 607 2,080 30,934 31,554 See footnotes at end of table. 18 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Median Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Assemblers ........................................................... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Supervisors, material moving equipment ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 39.9 $681 $696 2,076 $35,415 $36,171 40.0 39.2 40.0 40.0 40.0 40.7 40.0 40.0 40.0 39.8 38.5 39.7 39.9 40.0 40.0 40.1 39.9 44.3 38.4 40.0 40.0 39.8 39.8 40.0 39.8 40.0 40.0 39.8 39.9 974 537 785 424 545 815 722 580 730 489 656 331 464 502 362 587 547 643 569 769 573 437 376 412 418 532 416 449 378 946 518 896 403 538 882 744 582 678 460 656 310 464 460 356 572 546 626 563 734 515 397 353 424 391 538 335 376 344 2,080 2,037 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,115 2,080 2,080 2,080 2,069 2,004 2,067 2,075 2,080 2,080 2,049 2,063 2,303 1,739 2,080 2,080 2,035 1,970 2,014 2,069 2,080 2,080 2,068 1,978 50,666 27,916 40,824 22,066 28,350 42,391 37,569 30,137 37,936 25,412 34,133 17,198 24,132 26,127 18,834 29,989 28,292 33,424 25,765 39,997 29,820 22,357 18,636 20,754 21,716 27,667 21,630 23,368 18,712 49,192 26,955 46,592 20,966 27,955 45,885 38,668 30,264 35,277 23,899 34,112 16,144 24,114 23,899 18,512 28,803 28,080 32,556 22,435 38,189 26,768 20,352 17,641 20,352 20,322 27,976 17,430 19,531 17,888 39.3 40.7 45.4 40.4 426 662 753 738 368 664 768 777 2,027 2,116 2,361 2,102 21,988 34,410 39,174 38,367 18,901 34,528 39,934 40,394 38.5 40.0 39.0 39.3 605 599 336 310 498 594 306 292 2,004 2,082 2,029 2,034 31,439 31,157 17,458 16,009 25,896 30,912 15,937 15,205 42.0 38.2 38.8 39.7 40.2 39.8 39.1 524 173 349 309 336 285 297 519 142 337 256 320 280 290 2,186 1,984 1,988 2,064 2,081 2,069 2,019 27,259 8,987 17,893 16,061 17,392 14,815 15,332 26,998 7,372 17,534 13,312 16,640 14,560 14,997 See footnotes at end of table. 19 Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All industries Occupation3 Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Public transportation attendants ........................... Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Mean weekly hours4 Mean Median Mean annual hours 39.1 39.1 39.1 39.6 $370 418 356 360 $368 414 351 340 2,031 2,021 2,031 2,055 $19,234 21,599 18,509 18,707 $19,157 21,505 18,252 17,680 40.0 39.1 39.8 35.6 24.8 38.9 39.5 38.5 473 332 362 388 470 476 345 348 442 312 346 376 450 501 336 344 2,080 2,031 2,066 1,758 1,232 1,559 2,005 1,933 24,613 17,240 18,815 19,161 23,334 19,036 17,532 17,489 23,005 16,225 17,959 18,448 22,113 18,448 17,493 16,349 1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. Weekly earnings Annual earnings Mean Median 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 20 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $17.41 17.54 $17.07 17.20 $18.79 18.79 $18.31 18.31 $9.76 9.96 White-collar occupations ................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... 20.75 6.79 9.74 9.67 12.16 14.87 15.85 19.75 20.37 25.00 25.67 30.07 37.19 39.93 54.92 23.17 21.38 7.34 10.36 10.01 12.30 14.78 15.25 19.69 20.29 24.94 25.35 29.15 37.24 39.93 54.92 23.41 20.70 6.75 9.68 9.52 12.19 15.53 16.20 19.38 19.44 24.22 27.28 31.45 38.60 43.30 63.27 23.54 21.52 7.47 10.30 9.88 12.38 15.47 15.48 19.28 19.20 24.09 26.98 30.31 38.66 43.30 63.27 23.85 20.90 7.00 11.85 11.03 12.04 12.67 14.34 21.18 22.95 26.84 22.75 25.79 25.03 28.25 – 21.74 20.92 7.00 11.85 11.09 12.01 12.67 14.34 21.18 22.95 26.84 22.75 25.86 25.03 28.25 – 21.74 21.55 7.28 10.29 10.06 12.47 14.86 15.93 19.83 20.39 24.78 26.98 30.07 37.31 39.92 54.92 24.49 21.87 7.72 10.71 10.27 12.49 14.95 15.31 19.76 20.32 24.70 26.75 29.16 37.36 39.92 54.92 24.77 12.48 6.16 8.58 8.25 9.71 15.00 13.17 17.65 19.74 27.83 11.45 28.31 28.00 – – 14.29 14.37 6.54 8.85 8.65 10.39 12.14 13.17 17.98 19.74 27.83 11.45 28.31 28.00 – – 13.98 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ 25.24 26.50 8.81 16.85 15.89 21.98 22.11 26.31 25.31 28.42 34.48 38.02 50.79 24.03 28.73 21.48 24.16 25.68 30.24 34.32 26.28 17.23 22.22 21.88 24.71 26.11 28.66 33.56 34.58 25.52 26.92 – 17.67 16.43 21.03 19.89 24.80 27.45 29.01 36.21 40.65 51.26 25.53 29.06 – – 25.73 30.14 36.29 26.28 16.95 22.23 21.88 24.71 26.11 28.66 33.56 34.58 24.56 25.53 – 14.19 14.71 24.88 24.99 28.66 22.97 26.69 23.54 27.24 – 17.54 26.21 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25.72 26.96 – 17.91 16.23 22.17 22.19 26.10 27.36 28.44 34.63 38.01 50.79 25.60 28.70 21.48 24.16 25.68 30.24 34.29 26.29 17.23 22.23 21.88 24.69 26.11 28.65 33.56 34.58 19.19 20.44 – 10.95 13.46 18.57 20.90 27.97 11.45 – 28.00 – – 16.09 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 21 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level White-collar occupations (-Continued) Natural scientists ...................................................... Level 9 .............................................................. Health related occupations ....................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Teachers, college and university .............................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Teachers, except college and university .................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Social, religious, and recreation workers .................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Lawyers and judges .................................................. Level 13 ............................................................ Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C. .......................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 12 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Technical occupations .................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 22 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $21.00 16.49 24.19 17.90 16.57 19.22 21.52 25.22 25.03 26.96 48.42 23.35 31.37 29.66 23.50 25.94 30.36 21.87 33.02 26.48 9.67 12.25 28.40 27.14 28.73 22.04 27.58 20.72 13.44 14.65 19.87 27.16 24.41 15.17 18.40 13.67 42.34 45.11 $21.48 – 23.97 17.90 16.17 19.75 20.75 25.42 22.47 24.93 50.12 22.78 35.48 – 20.97 21.49 31.18 – 43.12 20.84 13.64 – 20.06 19.69 23.00 – 22.21 18.08 – – – – 25.94 13.43 – 10.36 43.18 45.63 $19.05 – 25.22 – – 17.67 24.82 – – – – – 27.18 – – – 29.27 18.57 25.97 27.13 – – 29.68 27.95 29.48 21.98 27.98 22.73 13.44 – 18.71 – 18.04 15.46 – – 30.89 – $21.00 16.49 23.51 17.31 16.50 18.77 21.30 22.30 25.18 27.07 48.84 – 32.04 – – 25.79 30.49 22.33 33.02 28.17 13.78 – 29.13 27.20 28.89 28.28 27.58 21.49 – – 20.40 27.16 24.58 15.32 – 14.23 42.49 45.11 – – $26.60 – – 21.47 22.77 29.21 24.31 – – – 17.18 – 25.18 – – – – 11.66 9.12 – 10.28 – 24.48 – – 13.90 – – – – – 13.91 – – – – 26.29 18.04 19.67 25.95 42.45 26.43 19.13 12.36 14.01 14.60 18.01 17.28 22.42 84.86 27.28 17.26 15.91 18.37 19.37 22.63 26.01 28.23 40.16 41.52 26.45 – 19.67 26.17 42.45 26.43 19.70 11.88 13.74 14.70 18.28 17.29 23.42 84.86 28.39 18.66 15.86 17.81 19.17 23.20 27.09 29.63 40.96 47.27 – – – – – – 16.58 – 15.40 – – 17.25 – – 22.61 – – 20.07 20.66 18.85 – 24.62 – – 26.59 18.04 19.67 26.02 42.45 27.06 19.60 13.13 14.02 14.63 17.95 17.30 22.42 84.86 27.40 17.60 16.09 18.50 19.37 22.63 26.01 28.21 40.16 41.52 15.03 – – – – – 14.06 10.22 13.89 – – 16.92 – – 12.37 – – – – – – – – – Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Not able to be leveled ....................................... Management related occupations ............................ Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Sales occupations ............................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... $56.74 25.76 31.44 17.74 16.24 18.12 19.89 22.44 29.96 28.83 41.19 41.00 56.74 26.97 21.01 16.88 15.82 18.50 19.01 22.87 23.38 26.29 30.50 15.61 6.23 8.27 8.29 11.70 16.08 22.66 20.75 21.05 27.20 38.72 12.72 7.34 10.36 10.04 12.33 13.49 15.05 17.13 20.61 22.53 13.35 $70.76 26.14 32.70 18.18 16.24 18.38 19.51 22.48 30.72 31.14 41.51 47.32 70.76 26.08 21.61 19.17 15.74 17.46 18.91 24.33 – 26.30 34.03 15.58 6.23 8.27 8.23 11.68 16.08 22.66 20.75 21.05 27.20 – 12.82 7.47 10.30 9.91 12.46 14.09 15.42 17.64 21.01 22.53 13.35 – – $25.64 – – – – – – 24.59 – – – – 18.83 – – 21.05 19.49 18.32 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12.26 7.00 11.85 11.09 11.82 12.00 14.02 14.95 – – – $56.74 25.76 31.56 18.23 – 18.12 19.89 22.44 29.96 28.80 41.19 41.00 56.74 26.97 21.12 17.12 15.84 18.70 19.01 22.87 23.38 26.29 30.50 18.21 6.60 8.04 8.78 12.40 13.28 22.66 21.18 21.05 27.20 38.72 13.07 7.72 10.71 10.30 12.46 13.46 15.05 17.13 20.63 22.53 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $8.87 5.94 8.40 7.70 8.53 – – – – – – 9.18 6.54 8.85 8.69 10.64 14.78 – – – – – Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. 14.09 8.69 10.41 10.83 13.87 13.79 15.92 19.12 19.78 24.54 17.39 9.72 12.44 14.65 16.55 14.02 8.73 10.39 10.79 14.08 14.05 16.12 19.30 20.07 24.44 17.60 9.72 12.36 15.87 16.50 14.68 – 10.60 13.08 11.21 12.77 – 18.20 – 24.90 15.82 – – 11.26 – 14.48 9.02 11.32 11.11 13.99 13.80 15.94 19.18 19.78 24.65 17.43 9.72 12.39 14.66 16.55 7.93 6.81 6.22 7.70 11.45 – – – – – – – – – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 23 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers 4 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. $19.11 21.00 24.86 12.20 8.08 8.87 10.79 13.08 11.96 14.90 19.42 13.82 9.49 10.75 15.27 14.90 15.06 19.42 10.63 8.90 10.94 11.08 11.72 12.52 $19.32 21.11 24.72 12.20 8.08 8.87 10.79 13.11 11.96 14.90 19.42 13.42 9.13 10.60 15.43 14.94 16.23 19.20 10.68 8.97 11.07 11.06 12.31 12.52 $18.00 – – – – – – – – – – 15.48 – – – 14.85 – – 10.07 – – – – – $19.19 21.00 24.86 12.28 8.08 8.87 11.01 13.11 11.96 14.90 19.42 14.63 12.21 11.54 15.45 14.93 15.18 19.42 10.99 9.31 11.20 11.20 12.03 12.57 – – – $7.88 – – – – – – – 7.66 5.84 – 12.26 – – – 7.57 6.87 7.84 9.65 – – Service occupations ........................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Not able to be leveled ....................................... Protective service occupations ............................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Food service occupations ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Health service occupations ..................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. 9.93 6.91 7.55 8.06 10.69 12.38 12.94 18.08 15.11 19.59 13.34 15.96 7.47 14.31 14.04 14.47 18.59 17.02 19.63 7.09 6.27 6.19 6.62 8.67 9.51 12.65 9.19 7.45 8.60 9.93 9.26 8.93 8.69 7.32 8.27 10.07 8.05 6.69 7.18 7.55 9.76 10.85 12.10 14.46 – – – 9.89 7.45 – 9.82 – – – – 7.01 6.24 5.97 6.56 8.31 9.51 12.65 8.88 7.45 8.60 9.17 9.23 8.81 8.12 7.06 7.41 9.59 15.11 9.55 10.40 10.54 12.99 14.59 13.96 18.50 17.02 19.63 – 17.77 – 15.29 14.73 14.46 18.59 17.02 19.63 9.12 – – – – – – 11.29 – – 10.96 – – 11.22 9.61 11.42 11.21 10.85 7.24 8.14 8.86 10.98 12.95 13.02 18.30 15.11 19.59 – 16.26 – 14.97 14.04 14.50 18.56 17.02 19.63 7.87 6.53 6.73 7.61 8.81 9.51 12.65 9.47 – 8.93 10.13 9.44 9.11 9.10 7.68 8.34 10.36 6.48 6.03 6.20 5.98 8.09 8.74 – – – – – 9.91 7.71 – – – – – – 5.48 5.68 5.60 5.18 – – – 8.08 – 7.35 8.52 8.34 – 6.16 6.08 – – Occupational group3 and level See footnotes at end of table. 24 Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers 4 Occupational group3 and level Service occupations (-Continued) Cleaning and building service occupations (-Continued) Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Personal service occupations ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 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 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $12.10 11.91 9.66 6.69 7.57 8.81 11.02 13.24 10.04 $11.56 11.87 9.30 6.31 7.13 7.91 11.07 13.01 – – – $10.80 8.43 – 9.62 – – – $12.10 12.30 10.90 6.73 8.54 9.77 11.43 15.26 – – – $7.45 6.64 6.85 7.76 7.81 – – based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 25 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Civil engineers ...................................................... Electrical and electronic engineers ....................... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Engineers, N.E.C. ................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Computer systems analysts and scientists ........... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Operations and systems researchers and analysts .......................................................... Physicians ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Level 7 .............................................................. Business, commerce and marketing teachers ...... English teachers ................................................... Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Level 8 .............................................................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Level 9 .............................................................. Librarians .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Economists ........................................................... Psychologists ........................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 26 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $24.38 29.18 25.94 31.25 36.34 31.53 33.66 37.49 26.74 22.29 24.70 26.27 29.43 34.58 34.24 – $29.06 25.94 31.25 36.34 32.22 – 37.49 26.75 22.29 24.70 26.27 29.43 34.58 34.24 $25.11 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $24.38 29.18 25.94 31.25 36.34 31.47 33.66 – 26.75 22.29 24.75 26.27 29.43 34.58 34.24 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 21.64 35.48 28.11 56.51 22.65 18.39 16.29 19.95 20.41 25.12 24.08 26.04 27.67 21.66 32.95 28.87 18.84 17.07 27.67 20.77 30.54 38.34 24.11 27.62 26.67 28.03 29.67 31.28 28.74 30.08 26.91 28.31 25.45 28.02 14.11 28.03 29.21 8.29 25.23 29.35 20.71 13.44 19.87 27.16 25.41 21.38 21.66 34.41 – 61.59 22.72 18.39 – 20.05 20.43 25.47 – 26.04 27.67 21.66 27.22 – 19.32 – – – 28.88 – – 22.96 – 22.08 25.19 – – 25.34 20.85 – – 13.55 – – – – 14.95 – 17.96 – – – 25.41 – – 39.20 – – 21.95 – – – – – – – – – – – 18.30 – – – 33.37 – 24.97 28.05 26.72 28.65 30.14 31.34 29.03 30.93 28.57 29.25 – 29.98 – – 30.30 – 27.27 30.60 22.73 13.44 18.71 – – – 21.38 35.25 28.11 56.77 21.06 – – 19.45 20.35 21.85 – 26.27 – – – 28.73 18.95 17.03 – – 31.07 – 23.67 27.75 26.70 28.23 29.79 31.28 29.05 30.27 26.94 28.42 25.45 30.13 – – 28.97 – 25.47 29.35 21.44 – 20.40 27.16 25.41 21.72 – – – – $26.62 – – 21.40 20.72 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 26.08 – – – – – – 10.94 – – – 8.29 – – 13.82 – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Professional specialty and technical occupations: (-Continued) Professional specialty occupations: (-Continued) Social workers ...................................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Recreation workers ............................................... Lawyers ................................................................ Level 13 ............................................................ Designers ............................................................. Editors and reporters ............................................ Level 9 .............................................................. Public relations specialists .................................... Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Radiological technicians ....................................... Licensed practical nurses ..................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. ....... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Electrical and electronic technicians ..................... Level 7 .............................................................. Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. Level 11 ............................................................ Broadcast equipment operators ........................... Computer programmers ....................................... Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration Financial managers .............................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Personnel and labor relations managers .............. Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations .......................................................... Level 12 ............................................................ Administrators, education and related fields ......... Level 9 .............................................................. Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Managers, medicine and health ........................... Level 11 ............................................................ Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Level 10 ............................................................ Level 11 ............................................................ Level 12 ............................................................ Level 14 ............................................................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 27 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $15.33 18.40 12.91 14.79 42.34 45.11 17.24 31.08 30.48 25.93 $14.54 – – – 43.18 45.63 – 31.08 30.48 27.40 $15.46 – – 15.47 – – – – – – $15.30 – 12.91 – 42.49 45.11 17.24 31.67 30.48 26.14 – – – – – – – – – – 15.43 12.54 13.99 16.35 18.95 17.84 15.00 14.46 14.81 14.72 16.02 15.14 11.58 14.66 18.07 19.04 69.27 108.05 15.87 21.79 15.97 15.46 12.56 14.14 16.40 19.06 17.84 15.29 14.46 14.93 15.01 – 14.36 11.58 13.22 18.07 19.04 69.27 108.05 15.47 21.79 17.16 – – – – – – 13.97 – – – – 17.35 – – – – – – – – – 15.51 12.58 13.99 16.33 18.53 17.93 14.68 – 14.75 14.68 – 15.79 12.24 15.29 18.07 19.04 69.27 108.05 – 21.79 15.99 $14.57 – – – – 17.37 16.04 – – – – 12.11 – – – – – – – – – 24.20 43.40 30.38 42.58 24.67 – 43.40 30.38 42.58 – 23.43 – – – – 24.20 43.40 30.38 42.58 24.67 – – – – – 35.79 45.19 29.43 23.85 26.21 34.70 28.91 25.90 35.79 45.19 31.56 21.63 23.53 34.94 28.89 25.90 – – 28.10 – 26.72 – – – 35.79 45.19 29.81 23.85 26.21 34.70 28.91 25.90 – – – – – – – – 17.12 29.71 29.66 32.90 19.87 25.68 27.77 32.76 40.72 62.12 19.91 18.18 24.46 17.12 29.71 30.98 33.15 19.96 25.68 27.77 32.98 40.89 62.12 20.76 18.18 24.19 – – – 27.71 – – – 31.23 – – 17.43 – – 17.28 29.71 29.66 33.06 19.87 25.68 27.77 32.75 40.72 62.12 19.91 18.18 24.46 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: (-Continued) Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Level 9 .............................................................. Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Level 4 .............................................................. Level 9 .............................................................. Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Sales counter clerks ............................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, general office ................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Level 8 .............................................................. Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Typists .................................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Hotel clerks ........................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... Receptionists ........................................................ Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... Order clerks .......................................................... Personnel clerks except payroll and timekeeping Library clerks ........................................................ Level 1 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 28 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $22.56 24.68 $22.31 24.68 – – $22.56 24.68 – – 19.66 21.74 26.38 20.64 – 26.87 – – – 19.66 21.74 26.38 – – – 16.83 21.34 14.39 19.34 17.92 22.08 – 21.39 14.39 15.59 17.92 24.03 $16.24 21.18 – – – – 16.83 21.66 14.38 19.93 17.92 22.08 – – – – – – 25.14 8.62 28.76 13.75 22.60 25.14 8.62 28.76 13.75 22.60 – – – – – 25.53 – 28.76 14.29 22.86 – – – – – 20.42 15.17 10.62 8.50 – – 10.09 8.05 6.53 8.42 8.83 20.42 15.17 10.62 8.50 – – – 8.01 6.53 8.42 8.71 – – – – – – – – – – – 20.42 15.83 11.46 9.40 9.08 11.98 – 8.23 – 7.99 9.00 – $14.10 – 7.02 – – – 7.92 5.93 8.65 8.51 17.85 13.30 21.14 15.32 19.55 17.51 17.48 12.69 – – – 17.51 19.16 – – – – – 17.86 13.32 21.14 15.32 19.55 17.51 – – – – – – 17.01 13.59 14.73 12.50 11.43 13.51 13.56 16.43 17.79 14.15 15.49 7.51 7.58 14.67 9.39 9.26 9.38 10.61 12.03 10.40 13.80 9.42 6.05 17.01 13.59 15.14 12.57 11.60 13.57 14.33 16.93 18.06 14.60 15.49 7.51 7.58 14.67 9.40 9.26 9.48 10.72 12.03 10.40 13.94 – – – – 13.00 – – 13.09 12.29 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.37 6.05 17.30 13.45 14.85 – 11.48 13.57 13.57 16.43 17.81 14.40 – 7.48 – 16.32 9.68 9.78 9.58 – 12.30 11.90 13.80 11.10 – – – 11.94 – – 12.65 – – – – – – – 11.75 8.60 8.20 – – – – – 7.78 6.05 Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level White-collar occupations: (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical: (-Continued) Library clerks (-Continued) Level 2 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Billing clerks .......................................................... Level 4 .............................................................. Telephone operators ............................................ Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Mail clerks except postal service .......................... Level 1 .............................................................. Dispatchers ........................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................................... Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Professional occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Level 9 .............................................................. Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Level 7 .............................................................. Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Level 6 .............................................................. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ...................................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Level 5 .............................................................. Level 6 .............................................................. Level 7 .............................................................. Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ See footnotes at end of table. 29 All industries Private industry $9.64 11.04 11.69 10.53 11.88 11.50 10.34 11.59 12.50 12.46 11.65 12.71 10.45 7.77 6.52 13.42 12.21 8.36 – – $12.15 10.50 13.39 11.52 10.34 11.47 12.50 12.46 11.61 12.71 – 7.77 6.52 – 11.54 8.35 13.58 13.58 13.93 12.34 12.35 12.19 12.97 11.75 11.20 9.42 12.66 12.88 17.28 9.78 9.01 9.74 11.16 11.01 11.06 12.13 9.75 11.15 13.88 27.93 25.17 13.93 12.34 12.35 12.19 – 11.42 11.16 8.96 12.33 13.88 – 9.78 9.77 9.74 8.60 – – 12.65 9.82 10.93 16.17 – 25.17 15.73 19.39 19.79 14.81 15.46 15.55 – – 14.86 15.46 14.87 17.06 13.10 16.90 21.19 24.36 13.71 All industries State and local government $9.63 11.04 10.54 – – 11.37 – – – – – – – – – – – – – Full-time workers Part-time workers – – $11.81 10.86 11.88 11.86 10.34 12.05 12.60 12.46 12.11 – – 8.34 – 13.42 13.06 – – – – – – $8.48 – – – – – – – – – – – – 14.15 – 13.93 12.34 12.35 12.19 13.29 12.20 – 9.71 12.67 12.88 17.28 – 9.16 10.03 11.02 11.01 11.24 12.35 9.89 11.22 13.88 – 25.39 – – – – – 8.50 9.14 – – – – – – – – – – 9.59 – – – – – – – – – – 15.73 19.39 19.79 14.46 15.46 – – – – – 14.29 17.08 – 16.22 20.82 – – – – – 14.87 17.06 13.10 16.90 21.19 – – – – – – 13.50 – – 24.36 13.71 – – – – – – 13.16 12.84 – – 13.24 – – – – – 11.76 12.11 11.21 11.06 – – – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: (-Continued) Carpenters (-Continued) Level 7 .............................................................. Electricians ........................................................... Level 7 .............................................................. Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Assemblers ........................................................... Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers ......................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Level 5 .............................................................. Supervisors, material moving equipment ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Level 4 .............................................................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Level 1 .............................................................. Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Level 7 .............................................................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Level 5 .............................................................. Guards and police except public service .............. Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................ See footnotes at end of table. 30 All industries All industries Private industry State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers $14.06 19.63 19.85 10.61 13.63 20.04 18.06 14.49 18.24 – $20.09 21.75 10.61 15.45 20.02 18.06 14.49 18.24 – – – – – – – – – $14.06 19.63 19.85 10.61 13.63 20.04 18.06 14.49 18.24 – – – – – – – – – 16.83 8.29 7.87 8.94 11.63 12.56 14.46 9.05 17.03 8.29 7.87 8.94 11.63 12.56 14.46 9.05 – – – – – – – – 17.03 8.32 7.88 8.94 11.63 12.56 – 9.05 – – – – – – – – 13.30 12.26 10.79 14.14 14.18 11.82 14.44 15.00 19.23 14.34 15.17 13.25 12.09 10.72 14.14 – 11.82 – – – 14.34 15.17 $13.94 – – – – – 15.88 15.00 – – – 13.72 12.26 12.07 14.15 14.18 14.51 14.82 – 19.23 14.34 15.17 $7.65 – – – – – 13.14 – – – – 9.22 10.31 9.34 9.74 8.54 10.53 12.56 10.36 14.67 13.63 10.08 9.68 11.30 9.37 6.63 11.55 10.14 9.17 – 9.34 9.57 8.54 10.53 12.56 10.36 14.67 13.63 10.08 9.68 11.30 9.51 6.55 11.55 9.95 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9.46 10.31 – 10.50 9.82 10.72 13.30 – – 13.63 10.40 – 11.30 9.46 6.63 – 10.30 – – – 7.51 6.61 – 8.13 8.26 – – – – – 7.81 – – – – – – 16.46 18.19 19.20 – – – 16.46 18.29 19.20 16.59 18.25 19.20 16.17 14.96 14.84 8.85 16.87 – – – 8.62 – 16.17 14.96 14.84 – – 15.69 14.96 14.84 8.61 – – – – 10.22 – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Service occupations: (-Continued) Food service occupations: Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Cooks ................................................................... Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Level 3 .............................................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Level 1 .............................................................. Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing ................................ Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. Level 5 .............................................................. Cleaning and building service occupations: Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Level 5 .............................................................. Maids and housemen ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. See footnotes at end of table. 31 All industries Private industry $12.47 7.29 4.04 4.36 4.99 2.79 8.70 7.89 8.28 9.87 – 8.55 9.51 6.42 6.20 7.10 7.59 7.28 $12.47 7.29 4.04 4.36 4.99 2.79 8.58 7.82 8.24 9.42 – 8.40 9.51 6.42 6.20 7.06 7.58 7.19 10.18 11.18 11.10 8.91 7.56 8.20 9.53 8.85 9.18 11.60 11.83 8.51 7.71 11.25 8.48 7.05 7.77 10.11 12.20 All industries State and local government Full-time workers Part-time workers – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – $8.18 – – $12.47 – 4.53 4.19 5.51 – 9.00 7.93 8.42 10.22 7.78 8.36 9.50 7.16 6.88 7.59 7.72 7.42 – – $3.49 5.06 4.49 2.76 7.59 – – – – 8.97 9.53 4.96 4.96 5.80 6.82 – 9.64 – 11.10 8.67 7.57 8.20 9.15 8.80 9.18 – – – 10.95 – – – – – 10.69 – 11.04 9.11 – 8.32 9.70 9.03 – 7.68 – – 8.15 – 7.70 – 8.12 – 11.21 11.77 8.34 7.71 – 7.63 6.52 7.01 9.38 – – – – – – 10.93 9.61 – 11.22 – 11.83 12.35 8.49 7.65 11.25 9.11 7.71 7.83 10.52 12.20 – – – – – 5.93 5.86 – – – Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All workers4 Occupation3 and level Service occupations: (-Continued) Personal service occupations: Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Public transportation attendants ........................... Baggage porters and bellhops .............................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. Level 1 .............................................................. Level 2 .............................................................. Level 3 .............................................................. Level 4 .............................................................. 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule All industries Private industry $6.30 17.14 5.54 12.05 8.20 8.59 7.26 7.58 7.77 9.82 – $20.82 5.54 – 8.04 8.37 7.21 7.82 7.78 – All industries State and local government $6.46 – – 12.60 – 10.23 – – – – Full-time workers Part-time workers – $18.94 – 12.21 8.74 9.05 7.40 8.13 – – $6.30 – – – 6.81 6.64 – – – – based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 32 Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Occupational group2 Full-time workers3 Part-time workers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5 All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $18.31 18.31 $9.76 9.96 $18.89 19.07 $17.05 17.15 $17.34 17.61 $19.13 14.38 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 21.55 21.87 12.48 14.37 24.01 24.92 20.31 20.88 20.65 21.40 23.46 17.01 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 25.72 26.96 19.60 27.40 18.21 13.07 19.19 20.44 14.06 12.37 8.87 9.18 28.48 28.11 31.22 24.04 – 14.98 24.51 26.10 17.33 27.41 15.90 12.50 25.25 26.50 19.13 27.28 12.11 12.69 – – – – 24.21 16.01 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 14.48 17.43 12.28 14.63 10.99 7.93 – 7.88 7.66 7.57 17.00 19.82 14.96 15.89 13.62 12.14 15.28 10.86 12.16 9.28 14.03 17.49 12.07 13.56 10.59 14.88 15.86 13.18 15.60 12.32 Service occupations ........................................................... 10.85 6.48 13.42 8.97 9.92 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 33 Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Goods-producing industries4 Occupational group3 All private industries Total Mining Construction Manufacturing Service-producing industries5 Total TransWholeportsale ation and and retail public trade utilities Services – – $18.06 18.16 All occupations ........................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ................................................ $17.07 17.20 $17.14 16.90 – – – – White-collar occupations ....................................................... White-collar excluding sales ................................................. 20.70 21.52 21.76 21.50 – – – – 21.84 22.02 20.60 21.52 24.92 25.10 14.72 17.60 – – 21.66 21.91 Professional specialty and technical occupations ................ Professional specialty occupations ................................... Technical occupations ...................................................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ....... Sales occupations ................................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ......... 25.52 26.92 19.70 28.39 15.58 12.82 25.19 26.97 18.99 25.28 24.19 13.64 – – – – – – – – – – – – 25.36 27.25 18.99 25.93 18.65 13.37 25.55 26.91 19.79 28.78 14.99 12.75 39.70 28.83 58.77 30.83 – 14.48 27.44 29.29 – 21.56 13.20 12.04 – – – – – – 24.83 26.75 16.24 28.31 13.67 12.89 Blue-collar occupations ......................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .............. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .................. Transportation and material moving occupations ................. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 14.02 17.60 12.20 13.42 10.68 14.84 17.67 12.74 13.96 11.53 – – – – – – – – – – 13.21 15.75 12.73 13.90 11.98 13.30 17.50 10.61 13.30 10.24 16.77 21.91 – 14.94 12.54 13.23 15.90 11.68 14.23 10.70 – – – – – 10.37 15.24 9.13 8.18 8.64 Service occupations ............................................................... 8.05 12.77 – – 13.75 7.99 16.02 6.95 – 8.15 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. $16.77 $17.05 $21.12 $12.23 16.72 17.26 21.17 11.82 Finance, insurance, and real estate 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 34 Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 100 workers or more All private industry workers 50 - 99 workers All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ $17.07 17.20 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar excluding sales ............................................. Occupational group3 Total 100 - 499 workers 500 workers or more $14.45 14.37 $17.65 17.78 $15.65 15.60 $19.76 19.87 20.70 21.52 18.37 19.65 21.15 21.81 20.12 21.23 21.95 22.17 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support, including clerical occupations ..... 25.52 26.92 19.70 28.39 15.58 12.82 24.59 27.10 13.78 25.79 14.95 12.02 25.62 26.90 20.34 28.92 15.87 12.97 26.69 28.62 17.14 28.83 16.03 13.24 25.15 26.11 21.47 28.97 15.05 12.72 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 14.02 17.60 12.20 13.42 10.68 12.30 15.60 10.95 12.52 8.31 14.51 18.24 12.52 13.61 11.45 12.92 16.16 11.27 13.01 11.11 17.09 20.20 16.75 14.38 12.47 Service occupations ........................................................... 8.05 6.63 8.42 7.81 9.63 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 35 Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All workers Occupational group2 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... 1,761,608 All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 1,632,318 1,387,673 1,260,236 373,935 372,082 White-collar occupations ................................................... 1,075,574 White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 946,285 824,337 696,901 251,237 249,384 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... Technical occupations .................................................. Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Sales occupations ............................................................ Administrative support including clerical occupations ...... 458,989 385,566 73,423 172,153 129,290 315,142 303,662 242,392 61,271 137,671 127,437 255,568 155,327 143,174 12,153 34,482 – 59,575 Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ..... 333,827 115,957 51,812 83,048 83,009 297,431 102,605 51,495 66,387 76,945 36,395 13,352 – 16,662 6,064 Service occupations ........................................................... 352,207 265,904 86,303 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 36 Appendix A: Technical Note and Warren, VA, and the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, WV. This section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the data. While this section answers some questions commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description of all the steps required to produce the data. Sampling frame The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from the State unemployment insurance reports for the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. The reference month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to the volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling frames were developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. The reference month for the private sector is December 1994. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, outof-business and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment levels, industry classification, and other information were updated. Planning for the survey The overall design of the survey, which was based on the type of data to be produced, had to be developed before data collection could begin. Establishments are selected for the sample and used in subsequent years until the sample is replenished. Panels of units beginning in 2000 will replace the current sample. Establishments provide individual wage data at initiation, and in subsequent years the establishments update these wages. In addition, sampled establishments and quotes that were refusals are re-initiated and useable wage data are included with the updated estimates. Sample design The sample for this survey area was selected using a two stage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a probability proportional to its employment. Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy which were not selected for collection. See appendix table 1 for a count of establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. Survey scope This survey of the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MDVA-WV, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goods-producing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes of this survey an establishment was an economic unit which produces goods or services, a central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment was defined as all locations of a government entity. The Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, CMSA 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 if Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park, and the counties of Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauguier, King George, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Data collection The collection of data from survey respondents required detailed procedures. For the initial data collection, field economists, working out of the Regional Office, visited each establishment surveyed. The field economists through mail, telephone, or personal visit completed update collection, which involves obtaining current pay data. 37 · · · · · · · · The following procedures are used for schedules initiated for the first time or reinitiated during an update. Occupational selection and classification Identification of the occupations for which wage data were to be collected was a multi-step process: 1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs. 2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the Census of Population system. 3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time, union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive. 4. Determination of the level of work of each job. A complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong, is contained in appendix B. In step three, certain other job characteristics of the chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, depending on whether any part of pay was directly based on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of Terms” section on the following page for more detail. For each occupation, wage data were collected for those workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for which a correct classification or level could not be determined. In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling, with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment. As with the selection of establishments, the selection of a job was based on probability proportional to its size in the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of selection. The number of jobs collected in each establishment was based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in the following schedule: Number of employees 50-99 100-249 250-999 1000-2,499 2,500+ 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 Generic leveling through point factor analysis In the last step before wage data were collected, the work level of each selected job was determined using a “generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. This is a major departure from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions unique to each occupation. For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental. The 10 factors are: Number of selected jobs 8 10 12 16 20 The second step of the process entailed classifying the selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The National Compensation Survey occupational classification system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level were used to classify the job. Classification by primary duties was the fallback. Each occupational classification is an element of a broader classification known as a major occupational group (MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following MOG’s: · · · · · · · · · · Knowledge Supervision received Guidelines Complexity Scope and effect Personal contacts Purpose of contacts Physical demands Work environment Supervisory duties Each factor contains a number of levels and each level has an associated written description and point value. The number and range of points differ among the factors. For · Professional specialty and technical 38 · · · each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on which written description best matched the job. Within each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3 presents average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C. Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their firm. Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed research continues in the area. The results of this research will be published by BLS in the future. · In order to calculate earnings for various time periods (hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical number of hours actually worked was collected. Definition of terms Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time. Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical note and the example for more details on the leveling process.) Collection period The survey was collected from January 1998 through June 1998. The average payroll reference month was March 1998. For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of collection. Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below). Earnings Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straighttime hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: · · · · · Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time. Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for the job. Incentive pay, including commissions, production bonuses, and piece rates Cost-of-living allowances Hazard pay Payments of income deferred due to participation in a salary reduction plan Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight or passengers Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of production. Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation when all of the following conditions are met: · · The following forms of payments were not considered part of straight-time earnings: · · · Uniform and tool allowances Free room and board Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate) On-call pay · Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for working a schedule that varies from the norm, such as night or weekend work Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends Bonuses not directly tied to production (e.g., Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses) 39 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. all establishments within the scope of the study and not the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number of workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve only to indicate the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. Processing and analyzing the data Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection. Weighting and nonresponse Sample weights were calculated for each establishment/occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights were used to aggregate the individual establishment/occupations into the various data series. Of the establishments surveyed, 25.5 percent (representing 448,551 employees) refused to supply information. If data were not provided by a sample member, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells which were additionally defined by major occupation group and job level. Establishments which were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey (5.3 percent of the total sample) had their weights changed to zero. If only partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a refusal. 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. Appendix table 2 contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office. The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645 times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimate the population value, the interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all survey areas will be used in the development of a formal quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling error. Although they 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. Estimation The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations. Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated. The respondent has the option of giving mean data instead of individual wages in the years following the initiation. In 1998, the publication criteria were changed to allow more data to publish. Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. The number of workers estimates represent the total in 40 Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 Number of establishments studied Industry All industries ......................................................... Private industry ................................................. Goods-producing industries .......................... Mining ....................................................... Construction ............................................. Manufacturing ........................................... Service-producing industries ........................ Tranportation and public utilities ............... Wholesale and retail trade ........................ Finance, insurance and real estate .......... Services .................................................... State and local government .............................. Number of establishments represented 100 workers or more Total studied 8,709 8,533 1,160 6 586 568 7,372 521 2,691 614 3,546 176 475 412 55 2 16 37 357 32 86 24 215 63 50 - 99 workers 115 113 14 2 6 6 99 9 32 6 52 2 Total 360 299 41 – 10 31 258 23 54 18 163 61 100 - 499 workers 188 175 26 – 8 18 149 9 46 10 84 13 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. 41 500 workers or more 172 124 15 – 2 13 109 14 8 8 79 48 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 (in percent) Occupation3 All industries Private industry State and local government All occupations ....................................................................... All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 1.9 1.9 2.4 2.4 1.9 1.9 White-collar occupations ................................................... White-collar occupations excluding sales ......................... 1.9 1.9 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.3 Professional specialty and technical occupations ............ Professional specialty occupations ............................... 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 occupations ....................................... Physicians ............................................................ Registered nurses ................................................ Pharmacists .......................................................... Respiratory therapists ........................................... Physical therapists ................................................ Speech therapists ................................................. Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................ Teachers, college and university .............................. Business, commerce and marketing teachers ...... English teachers ................................................... Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ......................... Teachers, except college and university .................. Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................ Elementary school teachers ................................. Secondary school teachers .................................. Teachers, special education ................................. Teachers, N.E.C. .................................................. Substitute teachers ............................................... Vocational and educational counselors ................ Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................... Librarians .............................................................. Social scientists and urban planners ........................ Economists ........................................................... 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 occupations, N.E.C. ......................... Technical occupations .................................................. 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 occupations, N.E.C. .......... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 1.9 1.9 3.2 1.8 3.3 6.0 3.8 3.8 2.5 2.5 3.5 – 3.2 6.4 3.8 3.8 2.4 2.4 4.9 3.0 – – – – 5.4 6.5 4.1 13.2 5.6 2.3 12.6 8.4 8.1 5.0 6.1 8.8 18.9 6.7 2.2 12.3 1.7 2.0 4.4 6.0 0.7 9.4 6.7 6.8 7.2 10.3 8.6 5.9 7.3 7.0 8.2 8.2 5.4 6.9 4.7 17.2 6.0 2.3 12.6 5.6 – 7.5 8.1 – – 6.5 5.2 – 6.2 4.2 5.3 12.9 – 9.3 8.5 8.8 8.3 10.3 – 9.9 11.2 – 8.7 8.7 – 16.6 9.7 11.1 6.8 – – – – 6.4 7.6 – – 13.4 2.4 13.2 1.6 2.0 3.6 4.7 – 8.8 6.8 6.8 4.2 – – 6.7 8.3 5.5 6.6 – 7.4 5.5 9.8 15.1 5.5 6.0 5.0 6.0 2.1 4.9 7.1 28.4 31.1 11.2 6.1 2.9 3.8 7.7 – 9.8 18.2 – 7.0 5.2 6.0 2.3 6.1 7.1 28.4 36.2 11.2 6.1 3.3 4.3 – – – – – 7.8 – – 1.9 5.1 – – – – – 5.0 5.1 See footnotes at end of table. 42 Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) 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, food servicing and lodging establishments ................................................ Managers, properties and real estate ................... Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. Management related occupations ............................ Accountants and auditors ..................................... Other financial officers .......................................... Management analysts .......................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ....................................................... Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction .................................................... Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ Sales occupations ............................................................ Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ Advertising and related sales occupations ........... Sales occupations, other business services ......... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale ................................................. Sales workers, apparel ......................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ... Sales workers, other commodities ........................ Sales counter clerks ............................................. Cashiers ............................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... Supervisors, general office ................................... Supervisors, financial records processing ............ Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ............................................... Computer operators .............................................. Secretaries ........................................................... Typists .................................................................. 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 ........................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .................................... Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 43 All industries Private industry State and local government 9.1 11.9 16.5 – 11.9 – 8.7 – – 10.9 6.7 6.3 10.9 13.9 6.4 – 5.4 – 6.9 22.4 10.4 5.2 3.1 5.1 9.0 12.4 6.9 22.4 9.8 5.4 2.9 3.5 9.9 12.4 – – – 9.1 8.0 13.4 – – 8.3 7.3 8.5 7.5 – – 5.5 5.3 10.0 12.5 17.3 15.5 – 5.2 10.1 12.5 17.3 15.5 6.9 14.2 – – – – 7.6 20.2 10.2 10.3 14.0 5.6 2.1 6.9 10.0 7.6 20.2 10.2 10.3 – 5.7 2.4 8.4 10.0 – – – – – – 3.0 7.9 – 11.3 5.0 3.8 4.3 3.5 7.2 3.1 11.5 11.5 9.6 4.2 3.5 3.7 7.0 16.8 5.3 12.9 8.0 11.3 5.0 4.5 3.5 3.5 7.2 3.3 11.5 11.5 11.9 – 3.2 4.1 7.0 17.7 5.3 – 9.9 – – 5.2 – – – – – – – 4.9 3.2 8.0 – – – – – 14.8 14.8 – 10.3 10.3 – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Administrative support occupations, including clerical (-Continued) Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. General office clerks ............................................. Bank tellers ........................................................... Data entry keyers ................................................. Teachers’ aides .................................................... Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... Blue-collar occupations ..................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .......... Automobile mechanics ......................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....... Industrial machinery repairers .............................. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ...................................................... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ......................................................... Carpenters ............................................................ Electricians ........................................................... Electrician apprentices ......................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. Supervisors, production occupations .................... Machinists ............................................................. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers .. Stationary engineers ............................................. Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. Printing press operators ....................................... Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... Assemblers ........................................................... Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. Transportation and material moving occupations ............. Truck drivers ......................................................... Driver-sales workers ............................................. Bus drivers ............................................................ Supervisors, material moving equipment ............. Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... Construction laborers ........................................... Production helpers ................................................ Stock handlers and baggers ................................. Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............ Hand packers and packagers ............................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... Service occupations ........................................................... Protective service occupations ................................. Firefighting occupations ........................................ Police and detectives, public service .................... Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ............................................................ Correctional institution officers ............................. Guards and police except public service .............. Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................ Food service occupations ......................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations .................................................... See footnotes at end of table. 44 All industries Private industry State and local government 2.9 3.1 3.4 7.2 7.5 4.8 6.7 2.9 – 4.0 7.2 4.9 9.0 9.0 – 2.8 6.4 – – 4.0 4.4 2.6 3.1 6.4 5.2 5.7 2.9 3.1 6.7 – 6.0 4.8 9.8 – – – 10.1 6.2 11.1 6.4 – – 5.6 5.4 10.7 7.9 10.4 11.2 5.1 3.7 4.1 3.7 9.5 5.9 5.8 6.8 10.2 4.3 5.6 4.1 19.0 8.3 8.6 8.1 4.4 7.4 1.9 4.7 6.2 6.6 13.7 11.2 8.1 – 5.5 11.2 7.9 4.0 11.9 5.1 3.7 4.1 3.8 9.8 5.9 5.8 6.8 10.2 4.3 7.0 4.4 19.0 – – 8.1 4.7 7.9 – 4.7 6.7 6.6 13.7 11.2 8.6 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 4.6 3.1 – 5.1 – – 10.4 – – – – – – – – 2.7 5.5 4.9 4.2 2.4 12.7 – – 3.0 3.3 4.9 4.2 27.4 3.5 8.3 15.7 3.4 – – 8.0 – 3.5 27.4 3.5 – – 5.4 9.2 9.2 – Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers2, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued (in percent) Occupation3 Service occupations (-Continued) Food service occupations (-Continued) Bartenders ............................................................ Waiters and waitresses ........................................ Cooks ................................................................... Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ................. Health service occupations ....................................... Health aides, except nursing ................................ Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... Cleaning and building service occupations .............. Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ........................................................... Maids and housemen ........................................... Janitors and cleaners ........................................... Personal service occupations ................................... Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities .. Public transportation attendants ........................... Baggage porters and bellhops .............................. Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... Service occupations, N.E.C. ................................. 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are All industries Private industry State and local government 15.4 10.2 3.3 8.6 7.1 5.9 2.1 8.1 1.9 4.1 15.4 10.2 3.3 9.1 7.1 6.1 2.0 8.9 1.9 4.3 – – – – – 4.6 4.8 – 6.2 3.7 9.5 6.3 5.3 4.9 3.8 13.8 8.5 10.8 3.9 4.4 11.1 6.4 5.4 5.8 – 14.0 8.5 – 3.9 4.5 – – 4.0 8.2 6.1 – – 11.0 – 12.1 classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. 45 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 All occupations ................................................................................. All occupations excluding sales ...................................................... 6 6 6 6 4 4 White-collar occupations ............................................................. White-collar occupations excluding sales ................................... 7 8 8 8 5 6 Professional specialty and technical occupations ...................... Professional specialty occupations ......................................... 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 occupations ................................................. Physicians ...................................................................... Registered nurses .......................................................... Pharmacists .................................................................... Respiratory therapists ..................................................... Physical therapists .......................................................... Speech therapists ........................................................... Therapists, N.E.C. .......................................................... Teachers, college and university ........................................ Business, commerce and marketing teachers ................ English teachers ............................................................. Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ................................... Teachers, except college and university ............................ Prekindergarten and kindergarten .................................. Elementary school teachers ........................................... Secondary school teachers ............................................ Teachers, special education ........................................... Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................ Substitute teachers ......................................................... Vocational and educational counselors .......................... Librarians, archivists, and curators ..................................... Librarians ........................................................................ Social scientists and urban planners .................................. Economists ..................................................................... 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 occupations, N.E.C. ................................... Technical occupations ............................................................ 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 occupations, N.E.C. .................... Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ............. 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 ................... 9 9 10 11 10 10 10 10 9 10 9 11 8 9 7 10 9 8 11 12 11 10 8 8 9 9 9 7 7 9 9 9 9 9 10 8 9 7 12 12 9 10 10 11 10 10 10 10 9 10 9 11 8 – – – 9 8 12 – – 10 9 7 9 9 9 9 – 9 9 9 9 9 10 8 9 – 12 12 8 8 – – – – – – – – 9 – 8 – – – – – 10 – – – 7 – – 8 – 6 7 – 7 7 – – – 7 – – – – 9 8 9 9 9 7 7 6 6 6 7 11 6 8 6 10 11 12 11 10 11 11 9 8 9 9 – 7 7 6 6 6 7 11 – 8 6 10 11 12 11 10 11 11 6 – – – – 6 6 6 6 6 – – – – – 6 – – – – – – See footnotes at end of table. 46 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 White-collar occupations (-Continued) Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations (-Continued) Executives, administrators, and managers (-Continued) Managers, medicine and health ..................................... Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ... Managers, properties and real estate ............................. Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ....................... Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................ Management related occupations ...................................... Accountants and auditors ............................................... Other financial officers .................................................... Management analysts .................................................... Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........ Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. .......................... Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction Management related occupations, N.E.C. ...................... Sales occupations ...................................................................... Supervisors, sales occupations ...................................... Advertising and related sales occupations ..................... Sales occupations, other business services ................... Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale .................................................................. Sales workers, apparel ................................................... Sales workers, hardware and building supplies ............. Sales workers, other commodities .................................. Sales counter clerks ....................................................... Cashiers ......................................................................... Administrative support occupations, including clerical ............... Supervisors, general office ............................................. Supervisors, financial records processing ...................... Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting clerks ........................................................................ Computer operators ........................................................ Secretaries ..................................................................... Typists ............................................................................ 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 ..................................................................... Stock and inventory clerks .............................................. Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, N.E.C. ....................................................................... Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators ........ Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................ Eligibility clerks, social welfare ....................................... General office clerks ....................................................... Bank tellers ..................................................................... Data entry keyers ........................................................... Teachers’ aides .............................................................. Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ................... Blue-collar occupations ............................................................... Precision production, craft, and repair occupations .................... Automobile mechanics ................................................... Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ................. Industrial machinery repairers ........................................ Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics ... Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .................................... See footnotes at end of table. 47 11 8 9 11 10 8 8 9 10 8 10 8 7 5 8 5 8 11 8 9 11 10 8 8 9 10 8 10 8 8 6 8 5 8 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 3 – – – 8 3 4 4 3 2 4 7 6 8 4 4 4 – 2 5 7 6 – 3 – 4 – 2 3 – – 7 6 5 5 3 4 2 3 3 5 3 4 4 4 2 2 5 4 8 6 5 5 3 5 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 2 2 5 4 – – 3 – – 4 2 – – – 2 – 3 – – – – – 5 5 5 6 4 4 2 4 5 5 5 5 6 4 – 2 4 5 – – – – 2 – – – 4 5 6 6 7 6 6 6 5 6 6 7 6 6 6 3 – – – – – – Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Blue-collar occupations (-Continued) Precision production, craft, and repair occupations (-Continued) Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers ................................................................... Carpenters ...................................................................... Electricians ..................................................................... Electrician apprentices ................................................... Construction trades, N.E.C. ............................................ Supervisors, production occupations .............................. Machinists ....................................................................... Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............ Stationary engineers ....................................................... Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................ Printing press operators ................................................. Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ........... Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ..................... Assemblers ..................................................................... Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. .......... Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............ Transportation and material moving occupations ....................... Truck drivers ................................................................... Driver-sales workers ....................................................... Bus drivers ...................................................................... Supervisors, material moving equipment ....................... Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............ Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................ Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ................. Construction laborers ..................................................... Production helpers .......................................................... Stock handlers and baggers ........................................... Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ................. Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ...................... Hand packers and packagers ......................................... Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ............................. 9 6 7 3 5 7 7 5 6 4 6 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 8 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 9 6 7 3 5 7 7 5 6 4 6 2 3 4 – 4 4 4 4 5 8 3 3 2 2 – 3 3 2 2 2 – – – – – – – – – 3 – – – – – – 3 3 – 4 – – 2 – – – 2 2 – – 2 Service occupations ..................................................................... Protective service occupations ........................................... Firefighting occupations .................................................. Police and detectives, public service .............................. Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ...... Correctional institution officers ....................................... Guards and police except public service ........................ Protective service occupations, N.E.C. .......................... Food service occupations ................................................... Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations Bartenders ...................................................................... Waiters and waitresses .................................................. Cooks ............................................................................. Food counter, fountain, and related occupations ........... Kitchen workers, food preparation .................................. Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ...................................... Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ........................... 3 6 6 7 6 5 3 6 2 6 3 2 3 – 2 1 2 4 6 7 7 6 5 3 – 3 6 – 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 4 – – – – 4 – 2 – – 2 3 – 2 1 2 See footnotes at end of table. 48 Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, March 1998 — Continued All Full-time Part-time workers workers workers Occupation1 Service occupations (-Continued) Health service occupations ................................................. Health aides, except nursing .......................................... Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ......................... Cleaning and building service occupations ........................ Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers ....... Maids and housemen ..................................................... Janitors and cleaners ..................................................... Personal service occupations ............................................. Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ............ Public transportation attendants ..................................... Baggage porters and bellhops ........................................ Early childhood teachers’ assistants .............................. Child care workers, N.E.C. ............................................. Service occupations, N.E.C. ........................................... 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. 3 4 3 2 5 2 2 3 2 4 1 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 5 2 2 4 – 5 – 4 4 4 3 3 4 2 – – 2 3 2 – – – 2 2 include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may 49
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