NC BL 08/00/1998 Table: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, Bulletin 3090-46, March 1998 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $16.61 3.2% $7.22 $9.41 $13.55 $20.68 $29.81 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.59 3.3 7.25 9.40 13.39 20.67 29.73 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.06 3.3 9.24 11.69 16.82 25.04 33.51 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.36 3.5 9.44 11.69 16.83 25.35 33.70 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.41 4.4 13.73 16.72 21.76 28.75 37.33 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.33 4.8 14.90 18.14 24.04 30.29 39.06 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.21 4.3 18.14 21.16 28.23 32.93 40.73 Civil engineers............................................. 23.70 9.6 18.51 19.65 20.42 24.09 33.08 Industrial engineers........................................ 26.38 14.1 17.47 17.47 27.76 32.29 41.21 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 33.72 5.1 23.44 26.49 35.40 40.13 44.86 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.52 4.3 17.42 22.98 27.89 32.88 38.94 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.62 4.6 17.13 23.29 28.13 33.38 39.07 Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 27.44 13.5 17.84 20.01 22.56 27.57 48.88 Natural scientists............................................ 25.70 7.0 18.10 21.01 24.96 27.84 36.44 Chemists, except biochemists................................ 27.10 10.3 15.25 22.12 26.13 33.51 39.28 Medical scientists.......................................... 23.49 7.5 18.10 19.45 24.96 24.96 30.41 Health related occupations.................................... 18.23 5.9 13.83 15.59 17.31 20.90 23.13 Registered nurses........................................... 19.72 5.1 15.15 16.29 19.76 23.13 23.94 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 19.38 1.9 14.52 15.71 18.48 22.73 25.63 Elementary school teachers.................................. 19.73 1.4 14.58 15.90 18.82 23.04 25.76 Secondary school teachers................................... 19.27 3.0 13.89 14.94 18.00 22.60 25.84 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 24.51 5.4 17.56 21.55 24.34 26.49 30.59 Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.81 5.6 9.57 11.25 13.77 15.69 18.43 Social workers.............................................. 13.81 5.6 9.57 11.25 13.77 15.69 18.43 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.26 6.9 11.06 14.44 16.19 20.19 26.77 Professional occupations, N.E.C............................. 22.20 9.8 14.42 15.87 19.33 25.14 34.06 Technical occupations........................................... 16.83 5.4 10.68 12.69 16.32 19.42 24.52 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 15.16 7.7 12.07 12.07 15.37 16.94 18.87 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 20.60 10.0 15.06 16.18 21.20 22.55 29.76 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.72 6.8 12.00 15.38 17.52 21.29 22.09 Computer programmers........................................ 22.25 5.2 15.40 18.20 22.79 25.96 28.00 Technical and related occupations, N.E.C.................... 12.44 13.9 8.20 9.02 10.64 14.61 19.71 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 26.94 4.6 15.15 17.76 24.70 31.25 41.83 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 33.34 4.8 20.77 24.52 29.12 39.61 48.62 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.38 11.1 14.26 16.80 23.19 25.39 41.72 Financial managers.......................................... 32.27 5.0 26.41 28.04 32.69 35.07 39.61 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 32.22 7.6 26.00 26.00 29.81 35.10 41.83 Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations...... 40.83 8.3 27.72 38.70 38.70 41.83 50.67 Administrators, education and related fields................ 23.92 7.8 20.77 20.77 21.61 25.31 34.34 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... $22.62 18.5% $13.75 $15.38 $21.10 $26.04 $38.08 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 36.28 8.9 21.64 24.28 29.27 44.08 59.33 Management related occupations................................ 20.11 3.3 14.19 15.95 18.27 24.25 28.48 Accountants and auditors.................................... 26.46 2.8 19.11 21.63 25.96 30.92 33.66 Other financial officers.................................... 17.70 8.5 12.60 14.19 16.88 18.49 25.00 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.77 4.8 13.46 14.57 17.31 22.14 25.19 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 19.42 8.6 15.15 15.75 18.27 21.15 26.92 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 17.66 4.7 14.66 15.63 16.34 19.47 20.96 Sales occupations................................................. 16.95 6.7 6.25 10.21 15.25 20.75 29.90 Advertising and related sales occupations................... 30.61 6.4 14.42 26.44 29.90 34.38 45.23 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.78 30.5 6.00 7.00 9.57 12.05 23.63 Cashiers.................................................... 7.38 4.1 5.75 6.00 6.50 7.00 14.19 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.28 1.8 8.52 9.38 10.72 12.67 14.56 Supervisors, general office................................. 17.57 11.4 11.30 11.30 12.89 25.35 25.35 Secretaries................................................. 12.76 2.7 9.83 11.69 12.74 14.37 15.53 Order clerks................................................ 12.09 17.7 5.25 8.00 12.88 16.33 16.59 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 11.80 5.9 9.23 10.24 11.91 13.07 14.61 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.43 4.0 8.50 9.20 9.74 11.24 14.04 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.03 7.2 7.82 8.05 9.74 11.99 13.31 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 11.30 4.2 9.23 9.76 10.72 12.17 14.47 General office clerks....................................... 10.78 2.9 8.52 9.30 10.44 12.00 13.63 Data entry keyers........................................... 9.88 3.0 9.12 9.35 9.64 10.00 11.44 Teachers' aides............................................. 9.87 1.3 8.88 8.89 9.88 10.61 11.30 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.11 5.9 9.22 10.82 14.56 14.56 16.69 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.31 3.4 6.95 7.74 10.47 13.94 17.01 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.58 4.1 8.00 11.46 14.57 17.01 20.29 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 14.26 7.4 10.40 11.41 14.57 15.89 17.01 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.97 9.8 9.25 14.23 18.39 23.09 24.38 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.28 4.8 6.96 7.25 7.50 8.75 11.46 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.36 5.1 6.67 7.65 10.40 12.20 14.45 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.96 3.7 9.92 10.15 10.39 11.26 14.05 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.15 9.9 8.41 9.38 11.40 14.49 18.49 Assemblers.................................................. 9.80 8.0 6.67 7.00 9.96 11.32 13.53 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.54 13.6 5.75 6.75 11.16 13.83 14.74 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 9.47 8.3 6.50 7.25 9.00 10.71 13.50 Bus drivers................................................. 7.84 5.7 6.75 7.25 7.50 8.31 9.84 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.57 3.0 6.50 7.30 8.00 9.95 10.90 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.49 4.3 5.75 6.60 8.25 10.00 10.96 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.03 8.0 7.25 10.05 10.63 11.02 18.82 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.33 8.0 6.00 7.30 8.65 9.75 10.24 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 7.60 2.8 6.65 7.30 7.30 7.74 9.02 Service occupations................................................. 8.60 3.7 5.82 6.50 7.50 9.63 12.35 Protective service occupations................................ 10.81 8.3 6.35 7.12 9.51 12.77 17.50 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... $21.22 4.8% $16.53 $20.04 $21.85 $22.09 $24.89 Firefighting occupations.................................... 15.86 19.8 8.02 9.28 13.24 22.67 25.27 Police and detectives, public service....................... 14.75 7.1 11.11 11.87 14.24 17.97 19.58 Guards and police except public service..................... 8.59 9.3 6.17 6.75 7.50 10.65 12.35 Food service occupations...................................... 6.71 5.6 2.57 5.88 6.50 7.72 9.95 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.49 16.8 2.13 2.13 2.30 6.50 6.80 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.52 7.1 5.75 6.00 8.00 8.75 8.85 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.14 8.4 5.50 5.94 6.50 8.06 10.50 Health service occupations.................................... 8.50 4.4 7.03 7.37 8.76 9.20 10.21 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 8.37 5.4 6.00 6.50 7.75 9.63 11.02 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.71 10.3 6.00 6.00 6.75 9.07 11.02 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.96 5.3 6.25 6.67 7.63 9.26 9.68 Personal service occupations.................................. 9.01 7.5 6.84 7.00 7.90 9.05 10.71 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 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." Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $16.44 3.2% $7.00 $8.88 $13.42 $20.94 $30.77 $17.06 7.6% $8.70 $10.21 $14.01 $20.01 $25.96 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.40 3.4 7.00 8.88 13.21 21.01 30.78 17.06 7.7 8.70 10.21 14.04 20.06 25.97 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.84 2.8 9.20 12.52 17.52 26.87 34.81 18.51 8.6 9.35 10.64 15.39 21.69 28.04 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 21.42 2.9 9.50 12.77 18.22 27.67 35.77 18.52 8.6 9.35 10.64 15.40 21.79 28.04 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.68 3.1 13.46 16.92 23.13 30.50 37.69 23.93 11.1 14.04 16.31 19.88 24.96 35.59 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.55 3.3 14.90 19.30 25.86 32.35 38.80 25.94 12.1 14.84 17.34 21.37 25.29 42.16 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 29.13 3.8 17.79 23.34 29.44 33.32 41.21 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 26.38 14.1 17.47 17.47 27.76 32.29 41.21 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 33.50 5.7 22.60 25.01 33.68 40.75 45.20 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.52 4.3 17.42 22.98 27.89 32.88 38.94 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.62 4.6 17.13 23.29 28.13 33.38 39.07 - - - - - - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 27.44 13.5 17.84 20.01 22.56 27.57 48.88 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.93 8.7 18.10 19.45 23.13 32.83 39.18 - - - - - - - Chemists, except biochemists................................ 27.19 10.3 15.25 22.12 26.29 33.51 39.28 - - - - - - - Medical scientists.......................................... 22.56 10.6 18.10 19.16 20.55 22.33 32.41 - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... - - - - - - - 19.64 5.8 14.62 15.73 18.58 22.32 25.00 Registered nurses........................................... - - - - - - - 19.88 5.3 15.15 16.82 19.27 22.69 25.00 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - - 19.65 1.2 14.52 15.90 18.82 22.92 25.76 Elementary school teachers.................................. - - - - - - - 19.73 1.4 14.58 15.90 18.82 23.04 25.76 Secondary school teachers................................... - - - - - - - 19.27 3.0 13.89 14.94 18.00 22.60 25.84 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - 14.74 5.9 10.70 12.41 14.45 16.33 19.29 Social workers.............................................. - - - - - - - 14.74 5.9 10.70 12.41 14.45 16.33 19.29 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.28 6.9 11.06 14.44 16.20 20.19 26.77 - - - - - - - Professional occupations, N.E.C............................. 22.20 9.8 14.42 15.87 19.33 25.14 34.06 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 17.22 5.0 11.61 13.25 16.24 19.85 24.65 16.17 12.2 9.02 11.90 16.64 18.00 24.04 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 20.60 10.0 15.06 16.18 21.20 22.55 29.76 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.72 6.8 12.00 15.38 17.52 21.29 22.09 - - - - - - - Computer programmers........................................ 20.68 4.6 15.34 16.39 19.11 24.04 28.85 - - - - - - - Technical and related occupations, N.E.C.................... 14.82 14.6 9.24 10.64 11.40 18.75 27.61 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 28.04 5.2 14.66 17.98 25.17 33.08 42.05 23.29 8.9 15.72 16.80 20.85 28.04 35.07 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 34.21 5.6 20.77 24.28 29.27 40.87 50.67 29.55 4.5 19.49 25.91 28.04 35.07 38.82 Administrators and officials, public administration......... - - - - - - - 23.38 11.1 14.26 16.80 23.19 25.39 41.72 Financial managers.......................................... 32.74 8.2 22.60 26.44 32.69 39.61 40.87 - - - - - - - Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations...... 40.83 8.3 27.72 38.70 38.70 41.83 50.67 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 36.49 9.2 21.64 24.28 29.27 44.31 59.33 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 20.60 4.4 13.46 15.63 18.13 25.19 30.41 18.87 3.0 15.01 16.12 19.11 20.70 22.14 Accountants and auditors.................................... 27.38 2.5 21.57 24.05 27.02 31.25 33.78 - - - - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 18.05 10.6 12.60 13.70 16.88 19.96 25.00 - - - - - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $18.81 7.6% $13.08 $14.23 $17.31 $25.19 $25.51 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 16.99 6.8 6.25 9.84 15.42 20.94 29.90 $12.84 4.1% $10.09 $10.34 $12.55 $14.55 $17.25 Advertising and related sales occupations................... 30.61 6.4 14.42 26.44 29.90 34.38 45.23 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.78 30.5 6.00 7.00 9.57 12.05 23.63 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.23 3.5 5.75 6.00 6.50 7.00 9.50 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.68 2.6 8.22 9.23 11.06 13.72 15.36 10.78 2.1 8.86 9.54 10.50 11.69 13.11 Secretaries................................................. 13.01 2.8 9.86 11.72 13.26 14.42 15.38 12.29 4.8 9.71 11.69 11.69 13.26 15.67 Order clerks................................................ 12.09 17.7 5.25 8.00 12.88 16.33 16.59 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 10.86 6.8 7.47 9.78 10.63 12.55 12.55 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.30 4.3 8.50 9.20 9.61 10.53 14.04 11.85 5.7 9.74 10.36 12.64 13.01 13.12 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.03 7.2 7.82 8.05 9.74 11.99 13.31 - - - - - - - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 11.30 4.2 9.23 9.76 10.72 12.17 14.47 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 11.14 6.3 7.50 8.45 11.00 13.71 15.38 10.66 3.2 8.52 9.47 10.37 11.67 12.92 Teachers' aides............................................. - - - - - - - 9.87 1.3 8.88 8.89 9.88 10.61 11.30 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.13 6.1 9.22 10.82 14.56 14.56 16.74 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.19 3.7 6.81 7.51 10.26 13.50 17.04 12.66 5.7 8.01 9.58 13.53 14.97 15.94 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.60 4.9 7.58 10.70 14.57 17.67 21.29 14.48 0.9 13.04 13.51 14.49 15.35 16.09 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 14.39 7.8 10.40 12.46 14.57 15.89 17.01 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.97 9.8 9.25 14.23 18.39 23.09 24.38 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.28 4.8 6.96 7.25 7.50 8.75 11.46 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.39 5.1 6.70 7.70 10.42 12.22 14.49 - - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.96 3.7 9.92 10.15 10.39 11.26 14.05 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.15 9.9 8.41 9.38 11.40 14.49 18.49 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 9.80 8.0 6.67 7.00 9.96 11.32 13.53 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.54 13.6 5.75 6.75 11.16 13.83 14.74 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 9.52 9.1 6.00 7.25 9.00 10.75 13.95 8.87 2.8 7.10 7.77 8.54 9.82 10.48 Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 8.87 2.8 7.10 7.77 8.54 9.82 10.48 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.53 3.2 6.50 7.25 8.00 9.95 10.63 9.26 3.1 7.76 8.19 8.70 10.13 11.88 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.48 4.6 5.75 6.50 8.00 10.00 11.50 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.03 8.0 7.25 10.05 10.63 11.02 18.82 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.33 8.0 6.00 7.30 8.65 9.75 10.24 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 7.59 2.9 6.65 7.30 7.30 7.60 9.00 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 7.57 3.8 5.50 6.25 7.05 8.67 10.14 10.83 6.5 6.23 7.82 10.18 12.23 17.12 Protective service occupations................................ 7.96 7.6 6.00 6.50 7.12 7.87 9.51 14.07 6.7 10.84 11.16 12.24 15.92 21.85 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... - - - - - - - 21.22 4.8 16.53 20.04 21.85 22.09 24.89 Firefighting occupations.................................... - - - - - - - 15.86 19.8 8.02 9.28 13.24 22.67 25.27 Police and detectives, public service....................... - - - - - - - 14.75 7.1 11.11 11.87 14.24 17.97 19.58 Guards and police except public service..................... 7.96 7.6 6.00 6.50 7.12 7.87 9.51 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 6.77 6.1 2.57 5.84 6.50 8.09 10.14 - - - - - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.49 16.8 2.13 2.13 2.30 6.50 6.80 - - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.50 7.2 5.75 6.00 8.00 8.75 8.85 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.42 9.4 5.50 6.00 6.95 8.50 10.67 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... - - - - - - - $8.84 5.4% $6.52 $7.89 $8.93 $10.08 $10.78 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... $8.32 7.0% $6.00 $6.25 $7.23 $9.63 $10.50 8.54 4.2 7.24 7.63 8.04 8.79 11.08 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.71 10.3 6.00 6.00 6.75 9.07 11.02 - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.69 7.1 6.00 6.25 7.23 9.63 9.63 8.54 4.2 7.24 7.63 8.04 8.79 11.08 Personal service occupations.................................. 9.49 16.6 6.75 7.00 7.25 8.10 9.70 8.73 5.4 6.97 7.67 8.13 9.34 12.32 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 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." Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $17.07 3.1% $7.54 $9.81 $14.11 $21.12 $30.00 $8.23 9.5% $5.25 $6.00 $6.60 $7.67 $15.00 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 17.01 3.2 7.55 9.75 13.89 21.15 29.99 8.45 10.4 5.25 6.00 6.80 7.89 16.00 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.26 3.3 9.47 11.78 16.82 25.19 33.65 12.01 16.9 5.75 6.00 7.21 17.98 23.13 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.44 3.5 9.53 11.69 16.87 25.48 33.70 15.37 17.2 6.00 7.21 14.62 22.00 23.13 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.46 4.4 13.73 16.72 21.76 28.85 37.41 21.69 12.9 14.46 16.38 21.03 23.13 23.13 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.43 4.8 14.90 18.17 24.09 30.45 39.09 21.69 12.9 14.46 16.38 21.03 23.13 23.13 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.21 4.3 18.14 21.16 28.23 32.93 40.73 - - - - - - - Civil engineers............................................. 23.70 9.6 18.51 19.65 20.42 24.09 33.08 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 26.38 14.1 17.47 17.47 27.76 32.29 41.21 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 33.72 5.1 23.44 26.49 35.40 40.13 44.86 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.52 4.3 17.42 22.98 27.89 32.88 38.94 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.62 4.6 17.13 23.29 28.13 33.38 39.07 - - - - - - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 27.44 13.5 17.84 20.01 22.56 27.57 48.88 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.23 6.5 18.10 21.01 24.96 27.55 34.57 - - - - - - - Chemists, except biochemists................................ 27.10 10.3 15.25 22.12 26.13 33.51 39.28 - - - - - - - Medical scientists.......................................... 23.49 7.5 18.10 19.45 24.96 24.96 30.41 - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 17.68 6.2 13.09 15.18 16.72 19.95 23.93 20.64 6.6 15.45 18.58 22.97 23.13 23.13 Registered nurses........................................... 19.22 5.4 14.75 15.83 18.71 21.70 24.95 21.21 5.2 17.11 19.76 23.13 23.13 23.13 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 19.39 1.9 14.52 15.71 18.48 22.73 25.63 - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 19.73 1.4 14.58 15.90 18.82 23.04 25.76 - - - - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 19.27 3.0 13.89 14.94 18.00 22.60 25.84 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 24.51 5.4 17.56 21.55 24.34 26.49 30.59 - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.81 5.6 9.57 11.25 13.77 15.69 18.43 - - - - - - - Social workers.............................................. 13.81 5.6 9.57 11.25 13.77 15.69 18.43 - - - - - - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.64 6.4 11.54 14.53 16.63 20.19 26.77 - - - - - - - Professional occupations, N.E.C............................. 22.20 9.8 14.42 15.87 19.33 25.14 34.06 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 16.83 5.4 10.68 12.69 16.32 19.42 24.52 - - - - - - - Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 15.16 7.7 12.07 12.07 15.37 16.94 18.87 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 20.60 10.0 15.06 16.18 21.20 22.55 29.76 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.72 6.8 12.00 15.38 17.52 21.29 22.09 - - - - - - - Computer programmers........................................ 22.25 5.2 15.40 18.20 22.79 25.96 28.00 - - - - - - - Technical and related occupations, N.E.C.................... 12.44 13.9 8.20 9.02 10.64 14.61 19.71 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 26.97 4.6 15.14 17.74 24.75 31.25 41.83 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 33.34 4.8 20.77 24.52 29.12 39.61 48.62 - - - - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.38 11.1 14.26 16.80 23.19 25.39 41.72 - - - - - - - Financial managers.......................................... 32.27 5.0 26.41 28.04 32.69 35.07 39.61 - - - - - - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 32.22 7.6 26.00 26.00 29.81 35.10 41.83 - - - - - - - Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations...... $40.83 8.3% $27.72 $38.70 $38.70 $41.83 $50.67 - - - - - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 23.92 7.8 20.77 20.77 21.61 25.31 34.34 - - - - - - - Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 22.62 18.5 13.75 15.38 21.10 26.04 38.08 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 36.28 8.9 21.64 24.28 29.27 44.08 59.33 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 20.13 3.3 14.19 15.92 18.35 24.25 28.49 - - - - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 26.53 2.8 19.42 21.63 26.02 30.92 33.66 - - - - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.66 9.2 12.60 13.70 16.88 19.96 25.00 - - - - - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.77 4.8 13.46 14.57 17.31 22.14 25.19 - - - - - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 19.42 8.6 15.15 15.75 18.27 21.15 26.92 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 17.66 4.7 14.66 15.63 16.34 19.47 20.96 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 18.16 6.6 7.54 13.04 16.82 20.94 31.44 $6.54 2.5% $5.65 $6.00 $6.25 $6.50 $7.00 Advertising and related sales occupations................... 30.61 6.4 14.42 26.44 29.90 34.38 45.23 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 14.04 32.9 6.00 7.54 11.27 12.05 44.15 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 8.31 9.1 5.75 6.25 7.00 9.50 14.36 6.30 1.0 5.75 6.00 6.25 6.50 7.00 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.36 1.8 8.69 9.49 10.77 12.77 14.56 7.80 7.0 5.50 6.00 7.30 9.02 9.58 Supervisors, general office................................. 17.57 11.4 11.30 11.30 12.89 25.35 25.35 - - - - - - - Secretaries................................................. 12.80 2.7 9.96 11.69 12.77 14.37 15.53 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 13.90 10.6 9.50 10.94 15.29 16.35 17.34 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 12.02 5.6 9.55 10.44 12.14 13.24 14.78 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.45 4.1 8.50 9.20 9.74 11.24 14.04 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.03 7.2 7.82 8.05 9.74 11.99 13.31 - - - - - - - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 11.30 4.2 9.23 9.76 10.72 12.17 14.47 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 10.85 2.9 8.52 9.42 10.50 12.03 13.69 - - - - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 9.88 3.0 9.12 9.35 9.64 10.00 11.44 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 9.87 1.3 8.88 8.89 9.88 10.61 11.30 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.21 5.8 9.22 10.82 14.56 14.56 16.72 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.53 3.3 7.00 8.00 10.64 14.11 17.04 7.02 4.7 5.25 6.00 6.95 7.50 8.47 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.58 4.1 8.00 11.46 14.57 17.01 20.29 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 14.26 7.4 10.40 11.41 14.57 15.89 17.01 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.97 9.8 9.25 14.23 18.39 23.09 24.38 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.28 4.8 6.96 7.25 7.50 8.75 11.46 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.36 5.1 6.67 7.65 10.40 12.20 14.45 - - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.96 3.7 9.92 10.15 10.39 11.26 14.05 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.15 9.9 8.41 9.38 11.40 14.49 18.49 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 9.80 8.0 6.67 7.00 9.96 11.32 13.53 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.54 13.6 5.75 6.75 11.16 13.83 14.74 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.62 6.8 7.25 8.35 9.40 12.00 16.82 7.09 5.5 5.25 6.50 7.00 7.77 8.55 Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 8.65 1.7 7.10 7.77 8.39 9.49 10.37 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.66 3.2 6.65 7.30 8.00 10.00 10.96 6.70 7.9 5.45 5.75 6.10 6.60 7.00 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.92 4.7 6.50 7.50 8.70 10.15 11.50 6.17 1.8 5.45 5.75 6.00 6.60 6.80 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 10.86 8.0 7.25 10.05 10.63 11.02 13.26 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.33 8.0 6.00 7.30 8.65 9.75 10.24 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... $7.60 2.8% $6.75 $7.30 $7.30 $7.74 $9.02 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 9.17 4.3 6.00 6.96 8.12 10.65 13.09 $6.52 5.6% $5.15 $6.00 $6.35 $7.12 $7.87 Protective service occupations................................ 11.31 8.4 6.35 7.47 11.08 12.96 18.46 8.19 12.1 6.25 6.87 7.25 7.87 15.00 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 21.22 4.8 16.53 20.04 21.85 22.09 24.89 - - - - - - - Firefighting occupations.................................... 15.86 19.8 8.02 9.28 13.24 22.67 25.27 - - - - - - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 14.75 7.1 11.11 11.87 14.24 17.97 19.58 - - - - - - - Guards and police except public service..................... 8.72 10.9 6.00 6.75 7.80 11.07 12.35 8.20 12.2 6.25 6.87 7.25 7.87 15.00 Food service occupations...................................... 7.27 6.8 5.75 6.05 7.00 8.75 10.50 5.62 6.0 2.13 5.40 6.00 6.50 7.30 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.65 9.6 5.88 6.05 7.25 8.93 10.67 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 8.50 4.4 7.03 7.37 8.76 9.20 10.21 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 8.71 5.3 6.00 7.14 8.06 9.63 11.08 - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.30 3.9 6.25 7.23 8.00 9.63 10.07 - - - - - - - Personal service occupations.................................. 9.34 9.5 7.00 7.25 8.05 9.22 12.19 6.94 5.3 4.75 6.00 7.00 7.36 8.70 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." Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 39.9 $681 3.1% $558 2,038 $34,802 $28,142 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 39.7 676 3.2 545 2,029 34,515 27,706 White-collar occupations............................................ 39.8 806 3.3 673 2,022 40,966 34,008 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 39.6 808 3.5 668 2,006 41,005 33,779 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 39.3 961 4.5 853 1,966 48,081 41,829 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 39.1 1,034 4.9 940 1,958 51,753 46,010 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 39.9 1,127 4.3 1,131 2,077 58,594 58,822 Civil engineers............................................. 40.0 948 9.6 817 2,080 49,302 42,474 Industrial engineers........................................ 39.4 1,038 13.1 1,110 2,046 53,976 57,741 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 40.0 1,349 5.1 1,416 2,080 70,144 73,632 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 40.0 1,141 4.3 1,116 2,080 59,318 58,011 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 40.0 1,145 4.6 1,125 2,080 59,540 58,510 Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 40.0 1,097 13.5 902 2,080 57,067 46,925 Natural scientists............................................ 39.8 1,004 6.4 998 2,068 52,196 51,917 Chemists, except biochemists................................ 40.0 1,084 10.3 1,045 2,080 56,371 54,350 Medical scientists.......................................... 40.0 940 7.5 998 2,080 48,867 51,917 Health related occupations.................................... 39.1 692 6.4 665 1,905 33,679 33,301 Registered nurses........................................... 38.6 742 7.2 715 1,870 35,951 36,608 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 36.0 698 1.9 671 1,583 30,690 29,788 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.3 697 1.4 659 1,532 30,213 28,719 Secondary school teachers................................... 36.9 710 2.5 662 1,592 30,670 28,533 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 39.9 979 5.5 974 2,077 50,899 50,627 Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 39.0 539 5.4 549 2,029 28,033 28,558 Social workers.............................................. 39.0 539 5.4 549 2,029 28,033 28,558 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 40.2 750 6.3 670 2,093 39,009 34,847 Professional occupations, N.E.C............................. 40.0 888 9.8 773 2,080 46,166 40,206 Technical occupations........................................... 40.0 673 5.4 652 1,996 33,603 33,758 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 40.0 607 7.7 615 1,946 29,503 30,742 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 40.0 824 10.0 848 2,080 42,839 44,096 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 40.0 709 6.8 701 2,080 36,851 36,442 Computer programmers........................................ 40.0 890 5.2 912 2,080 46,270 47,403 Technical and related occupations, N.E.C.................... 40.5 503 14.9 418 2,104 26,179 21,736 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 40.2 1,084 4.6 981 2,088 56,326 51,002 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 40.4 1,348 4.7 1,212 2,100 70,012 63,024 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 39.9 932 10.9 928 2,074 48,482 48,235 Financial managers.......................................... 40.1 1,293 5.0 1,308 2,084 67,241 67,995 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 40.0 1,289 7.6 1,192 2,080 67,009 62,005 Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations...... 39.9 1,629 8.2 1,548 2,074 84,685 80,496 Administrators, education and related fields................ 39.9 954 7.8 864 2,045 48,926 44,949 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 39.4 891 18.3 844 2,049 46,333 43,888 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 41.2 $1,495 8.5% $1,269 2,143 $77,744 $65,998 Management related occupations................................ 39.9 804 3.3 731 2,076 41,783 38,002 Accountants and auditors.................................... 39.9 1,058 2.8 1,041 2,073 54,999 54,122 Other financial officers.................................... 40.4 713 10.1 675 2,099 37,061 35,110 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 39.8 746 5.0 692 2,067 38,814 36,005 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 39.9 774 8.6 731 2,074 40,266 38,002 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 40.0 706 4.7 654 2,078 36,698 33,987 Sales occupations................................................. 42.9 778 6.4 730 2,228 40,463 37,981 Advertising and related sales occupations................... 39.0 1,192 6.3 1,196 2,025 61,997 62,192 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 40.0 562 32.9 451 2,080 29,202 23,442 Cashiers.................................................... 40.0 332 9.1 280 2,080 17,286 14,560 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 39.6 450 1.8 428 2,031 23,075 22,173 Supervisors, general office................................. 40.8 716 11.1 580 2,120 37,241 30,163 Secretaries................................................. 39.5 506 2.3 507 2,022 25,883 26,333 Order clerks................................................ 40.0 556 10.6 612 2,080 28,903 31,803 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 39.9 480 5.6 482 2,075 24,952 25,085 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 40.0 418 4.1 390 2,076 21,702 20,259 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 40.0 401 7.2 390 2,080 20,870 20,259 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 40.0 452 4.2 429 2,080 23,504 22,298 General office clerks....................................... 39.9 433 2.9 420 2,074 22,502 21,840 Data entry keyers........................................... 40.0 395 3.0 386 2,080 20,554 20,051 Teachers' aides............................................. 35.2 347 1.3 346 1,504 14,846 14,558 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 40.0 528 5.8 582 2,079 27,463 30,285 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 40.1 462 3.4 427 2,085 24,027 22,194 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 40.3 587 4.2 583 2,094 30,524 30,306 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 40.0 570 7.4 583 2,080 29,666 30,306 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 42.8 769 8.7 804 2,226 40,003 41,787 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 40.0 331 4.8 300 2,080 17,231 15,600 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 40.0 414 5.1 416 2,080 21,548 21,611 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 39.9 437 3.7 416 2,076 22,748 21,611 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 40.3 490 10.6 456 2,097 25,470 23,712 Assemblers.................................................. 40.0 392 8.0 398 2,080 20,382 20,717 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 40.0 421 13.6 446 2,080 21,917 23,213 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 40.0 424 6.8 376 2,078 22,062 19,552 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 40.0 346 3.2 320 2,080 18,005 16,640 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 357 4.7 348 2,080 18,559 18,096 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 40.0 434 8.0 425 2,080 22,590 22,110 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 40.0 333 8.0 346 2,080 17,335 17,992 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 40.0 304 2.8 292 2,080 15,816 15,184 Service occupations................................................. 39.9 366 4.8 322 2,035 18,662 16,536 Protective service occupations................................ 41.4 468 9.1 447 2,151 24,331 23,233 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 41.3 877 5.5 918 2,149 45,595 47,720 Firefighting occupations.................................... 49.2 781 19.0 702 2,560 40,601 36,489 Police and detectives, public service....................... 42.4 625 7.0 604 2,203 32,497 31,393 Guards and police except public service..................... 40.0 $349 10.9% $312 2,077 $18,104 $16,224 Food service occupations...................................... 38.8 282 8.3 266 1,974 14,351 13,520 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 39.4 302 9.7 277 2,021 15,468 14,040 Health service occupations.................................... 40.0 340 4.4 350 1,975 16,784 18,221 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 39.6 345 5.7 322 1,996 17,377 16,494 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 39.5 328 4.6 318 1,975 16,388 16,286 Personal service occupations.................................. 38.8 362 7.3 322 1,990 18,589 16,432 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. 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." Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $16.61 3.2% $16.44 3.2% $17.06 7.6% $17.07 3.1% $8.23 9.5% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.59 3.3 16.40 3.4 17.06 7.7 17.01 3.2 8.45 10.4 White-collar occupations............................................ 20.06 3.3 20.84 2.8 18.51 8.6 20.26 3.3 12.01 16.9 Level 1................................................... 6.53 7.1 6.53 7.1 - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 7.99 5.1 7.61 5.2 - - 8.93 4.3 6.37 1.9 Level 3................................................... 9.97 1.4 10.04 2.9 9.94 1.7 9.99 1.4 8.45 2.5 Level 4................................................... 11.19 3.7 11.23 5.7 11.12 1.6 11.30 3.6 7.96 10.0 Level 5................................................... 13.63 3.0 13.77 3.3 12.39 3.0 13.65 3.0 - - Level 6................................................... 14.32 3.5 13.53 4.8 15.71 5.1 14.31 3.5 - - Level 7................................................... 18.43 2.4 18.13 3.2 19.13 2.5 18.43 2.5 - - Level 8................................................... 19.53 4.2 20.25 5.7 17.78 1.7 19.53 4.2 - - Level 9................................................... 22.64 2.8 24.70 3.7 20.07 2.8 22.70 2.8 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.32 4.7 28.36 4.7 - - 28.35 4.7 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.21 3.9 26.61 4.7 28.64 5.6 27.21 3.9 - - Level 12.................................................. 37.18 15.3 33.68 2.6 42.59 32.9 37.18 15.3 - - Level 13.................................................. 39.70 2.7 39.65 2.8 - - 39.70 2.7 - - Level 14.................................................. 49.63 7.3 49.54 7.4 - - 49.62 7.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.32 10.2 15.35 10.2 - - 16.04 7.6 - - White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.36 3.5 21.42 2.9 18.52 8.6 20.44 3.5 15.37 17.2 Level 2................................................... 8.88 5.0 8.70 8.3 - - 9.22 4.4 6.51 8.4 Level 3................................................... 10.01 1.4 10.21 2.7 9.94 1.7 10.03 1.4 - - Level 4................................................... 10.76 2.2 10.49 3.3 11.12 1.6 10.85 2.2 8.15 11.6 Level 5................................................... 13.22 3.9 13.35 4.3 12.33 3.1 13.24 3.9 - - Level 6................................................... 14.36 3.8 13.53 5.2 15.71 5.2 14.36 3.8 - - Level 7................................................... 18.43 2.7 18.08 3.8 19.13 2.5 18.44 2.7 - - Level 8................................................... 19.07 4.0 19.67 5.7 17.78 1.7 19.07 4.0 - - Level 9................................................... 22.58 2.8 24.63 3.8 20.07 2.8 22.64 2.9 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.88 5.0 28.93 5.1 - - 28.92 5.0 - - Level 11.................................................. 26.62 4.1 25.69 4.7 28.64 5.6 26.62 4.1 - - Level 12.................................................. 37.18 15.2 33.66 2.4 42.59 32.9 37.18 15.2 - - Level 13.................................................. 39.70 2.7 39.65 2.8 - - 39.70 2.7 - - Level 14.................................................. 49.63 7.3 49.54 7.4 - - 49.62 7.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.32 10.2 15.35 10.2 - - 16.04 7.6 - - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.41 4.4 24.68 3.1 23.93 11.1 24.46 4.4 21.69 12.9 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.33 4.8 26.55 3.3 25.94 12.1 26.43 4.8 21.69 12.9 Level 5................................................... 15.02 8.0 15.33 8.4 - - 15.05 8.0 - - Level 6................................................... 16.38 5.4 14.74 9.5 18.42 2.5 16.41 5.5 - - Level 7................................................... 20.72 1.8 21.09 2.0 20.20 3.0 20.72 1.8 - - Level 8................................................... 21.15 5.4 22.98 6.7 18.29 3.1 21.16 5.5 - - Level 9................................................... 22.34 3.6 25.58 5.2 19.55 1.8 22.40 3.7 - - Level 10.................................................. 27.65 5.2 27.70 5.3 - - 27.70 5.2 - - Level 11.................................................. 26.07 5.6 25.12 6.2 - - 26.07 5.6 - - Level 12.................................................. 37.90 19.5 33.28 2.7 - - 37.90 19.5 - - Level 13.................................................. $38.78 4.0% $38.70 4.0% - - $38.78 4.0% - - Level 14.................................................. 45.28 3.1 45.28 3.1 - - 44.96 3.4 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.36 10.8 - - - - - - - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.21 4.3 29.13 3.8 - - 28.21 4.3 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.85 2.9 29.27 2.4 - - 29.85 2.9 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.33 7.2 34.33 7.2 - - 34.33 7.2 - - Level 13.................................................. 40.27 3.8 40.27 3.8 - - 40.27 3.8 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.52 4.3 28.52 4.3 - - 28.52 4.3 - - Level 7................................................... 22.29 2.4 22.29 2.4 - - 22.29 2.4 - - Level 9................................................... 28.02 3.0 28.02 3.0 - - 28.02 3.0 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.41 7.5 28.41 7.5 - - 28.41 7.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 26.46 4.3 26.46 4.3 - - 26.46 4.3 - - Level 12.................................................. 30.39 2.0 30.39 2.0 - - 30.39 2.0 - - Level 14.................................................. 44.19 4.8 44.19 4.8 - - 44.19 4.8 - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.70 7.0 25.93 8.7 - - 25.23 6.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 24.30 8.0 23.86 12.8 - - 24.30 8.0 - - Health related occupations.................................... 18.23 5.9 - - $19.64 5.8% 17.68 6.2 $20.64 6.6% Level 9................................................... 19.97 6.2 - - 20.47 7.2 19.42 7.3 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 19.38 1.9 - - 19.65 1.2 19.39 1.9 - - Level 8................................................... 19.90 4.6 - - 18.73 3.6 19.90 4.6 - - Level 9................................................... 19.27 1.8 - - - - 19.27 1.8 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 24.51 5.4 - - - - 24.51 5.4 - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... 13.81 5.6 - - 14.74 5.9 13.81 5.6 - - Level 8................................................... 16.02 4.4 - - - - 16.02 4.4 - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.26 6.9 18.28 6.9 - - 18.64 6.4 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.36 10.8 - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 16.83 5.4 17.22 5.0 16.17 12.2 16.83 5.4 - - Level 4................................................... 12.52 3.7 12.52 5.1 - - 12.52 3.7 - - Level 5................................................... 13.72 4.5 14.00 5.5 - - 13.72 4.5 - - Level 6................................................... 16.52 3.5 16.71 3.4 - - 16.52 3.5 - - Level 7................................................... 15.92 6.1 15.74 11.6 16.10 2.0 15.92 6.1 - - Level 8................................................... 16.14 6.2 - - - - 16.14 6.2 - - Level 9................................................... 22.39 5.1 22.88 5.9 - - 22.39 5.1 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 26.94 4.6 28.04 5.2 23.29 8.9 26.97 4.6 - - Level 7................................................... 17.79 4.3 17.06 4.5 - - 17.77 4.5 - - Level 8................................................... 19.57 4.1 20.32 5.1 17.98 1.1 19.57 4.1 - - Level 9................................................... 23.67 7.7 23.78 8.6 22.84 10.0 23.70 7.7 - - Level 10.................................................. 31.96 11.1 31.96 11.1 - - 31.96 11.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.91 4.0 27.23 4.3 28.98 5.8 27.91 4.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.89 4.0 34.40 4.6 38.15 1.8 34.89 4.0 - - Level 13.................................................. 42.10 5.4 42.10 5.4 - - 42.10 5.4 - - Level 14.................................................. $59.97 16.3% $59.96 16.8% - - $59.97 16.3% - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 33.34 4.8 34.21 5.6 $29.55 4.5% 33.34 4.8 - - Level 8................................................... 21.96 4.8 22.46 5.4 - - 21.96 4.8 - - Level 9................................................... 26.31 8.3 26.61 9.4 24.43 9.3 26.31 8.3 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.49 4.1 27.30 4.5 30.27 3.3 28.49 4.1 - - Level 12.................................................. 38.82 5.1 39.03 6.6 38.15 1.8 38.82 5.1 - - Level 13.................................................. 42.71 6.0 42.71 6.0 - - 42.71 6.0 - - Level 14.................................................. 60.03 16.4 60.03 16.9 - - 60.03 16.4 - - Management related occupations................................ 20.11 3.3 20.60 4.4 18.87 3.0 20.13 3.3 - - Level 7................................................... 17.87 4.5 17.18 4.9 - - 17.87 4.7 - - Level 8................................................... 18.88 4.2 19.42 6.3 - - 18.88 4.2 - - Level 9................................................... 18.95 7.3 19.05 7.9 - - 18.96 7.4 - - Level 11.................................................. 25.88 5.3 27.00 6.7 - - 25.88 5.3 - - Sales occupations................................................. 16.95 6.7 16.99 6.8 12.84 4.1 18.16 6.6 $6.54 2.5% Level 2................................................... 6.59 1.7 6.58 1.7 - - - - 6.33 0.9 Level 4................................................... 14.21 13.9 14.28 14.1 - - 14.46 13.4 - - Level 6................................................... 13.66 4.1 - - - - 13.66 4.1 - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.28 1.8 11.68 2.6 10.78 2.1 11.36 1.8 7.80 7.0 Level 2................................................... 8.71 8.2 8.70 8.3 - - 9.28 8.0 6.51 8.4 Level 3................................................... 9.99 1.4 10.20 2.7 9.92 1.7 10.01 1.4 - - Level 4................................................... 10.65 2.3 10.34 3.4 11.07 1.6 10.74 2.3 8.15 11.6 Level 5................................................... 12.47 4.5 12.53 5.0 11.89 3.3 12.49 4.6 - - Level 6................................................... 12.69 3.7 12.12 5.2 13.59 2.6 12.69 3.7 - - Level 7................................................... 15.50 5.3 15.44 5.6 - - 15.50 5.3 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 11.31 3.4 11.19 3.7 12.66 5.7 11.53 3.3 7.02 4.7 Level 1................................................... 7.28 4.0 7.27 4.0 - - 7.45 4.7 6.59 6.8 Level 2................................................... 9.13 3.3 9.13 3.5 9.14 3.3 9.17 3.3 - - Level 3................................................... 9.66 2.8 9.82 3.0 8.28 4.4 9.74 3.0 - - Level 4................................................... 11.00 4.5 11.01 4.6 10.22 3.4 11.00 4.5 - - Level 5................................................... 12.71 6.0 12.71 6.1 12.56 2.7 12.71 6.0 - - Level 6................................................... 14.91 4.2 14.93 4.3 - - 14.91 4.2 - - Level 7................................................... 16.32 2.5 16.94 2.5 14.68 0.7 16.32 2.5 - - Level 8................................................... 18.51 10.4 18.50 10.5 - - 18.51 10.4 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.58 4.1 14.60 4.9 14.48 0.9 14.58 4.1 - - Level 4................................................... 10.28 5.2 10.30 5.4 - - 10.28 5.2 - - Level 5................................................... 11.63 8.8 11.59 9.2 - - 11.63 8.8 - - Level 6................................................... 15.32 5.3 15.37 5.6 - - 15.32 5.3 - - Level 7................................................... 16.41 2.6 17.11 2.5 14.68 0.7 16.41 2.6 - - Level 8................................................... 19.10 11.4 19.11 11.6 - - 19.10 11.4 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.36 5.1 10.39 5.1 - - 10.36 5.1 - - Level 1................................................... 7.46 7.3 7.46 7.3 - - 7.46 7.3 - - Level 2................................................... 9.94 4.6 9.94 4.6 - - 9.94 4.6 - - Level 3................................................... 9.89 4.8 10.14 4.3 - - 9.89 4.8 - - Level 4................................................... 10.99 6.8 10.99 6.8 - - 10.99 6.8 - - Level 5................................................... $13.22 9.3% $13.22 9.3% - - $13.22 9.3% - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 9.47 8.3 9.52 9.1 $8.87 2.8% 10.62 6.8 $7.09 5.5% Level 2................................................... 8.66 5.6 8.67 5.6 - - 8.73 5.9 - - Level 3................................................... 9.43 3.8 - - - - - - - - Level 4................................................... 12.81 10.7 - - - - 12.85 10.9 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 8.57 3.0 8.53 3.2 9.26 3.1 8.66 3.2 6.70 7.9 Level 1................................................... 7.36 3.2 7.35 3.2 - - 7.46 3.5 - - Level 2................................................... 8.62 3.3 8.52 3.8 - - 8.68 3.4 - - Level 3................................................... 9.45 2.3 9.48 2.4 - - 9.46 2.4 - - Level 4................................................... 10.90 11.3 11.00 12.4 - - 10.90 11.3 - - Service occupations................................................. 8.60 3.7 7.57 3.8 10.83 6.5 9.17 4.3 6.52 5.6 Level 1................................................... 6.89 3.6 6.91 4.0 6.83 7.5 7.14 4.5 6.28 1.9 Level 2................................................... 7.25 6.3 7.19 7.2 7.61 1.6 7.51 6.5 - - Level 3................................................... 7.34 5.5 7.06 6.5 8.31 2.5 7.68 4.7 6.46 9.8 Level 4................................................... 8.33 8.6 6.67 12.2 10.24 2.8 9.57 5.0 5.98 15.4 Level 5................................................... 12.10 5.4 - - 11.54 0.9 12.10 5.4 - - Level 6................................................... 12.64 7.7 - - 13.29 1.7 12.16 6.7 - - Level 7................................................... 12.64 7.2 - - 11.33 9.5 12.64 7.2 - - Protective service occupations.............................. 10.81 8.3 7.96 7.6 14.07 6.7 11.31 8.4 8.19 12.1 Level 5................................................... 11.44 1.4 - - 11.44 1.4 11.44 1.4 - - Level 6................................................... 13.85 3.3 - - 13.38 1.8 13.38 1.8 - - Level 7................................................... 12.29 9.4 - - - - 12.29 9.4 - - Food service occupations..................................... 6.71 5.6 6.77 6.1 - - 7.27 6.8 5.62 6.0 Level 1................................................... 6.20 1.7 6.26 2.3 - - - - 6.10 2.4 Level 2................................................... 6.90 11.9 6.90 11.9 - - 7.33 14.3 - - Level 3................................................... 6.04 10.4 5.97 10.8 - - 6.66 9.2 4.63 22.2 Health service occupations.................................. 8.50 4.4 - - 8.84 5.4 8.50 4.4 - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 8.37 5.4 8.32 7.0 8.54 4.2 8.71 5.3 - - Level 1................................................... 7.13 4.5 6.92 4.6 - - 7.43 5.0 - - Level 3................................................... 9.81 4.9 - - - - 9.72 6.3 - - Personal service occupations................................ 9.01 7.5 9.49 16.6 8.73 5.4 9.34 9.5 6.94 5.3 Level 4................................................... 7.51 4.7 - - - - - - - - 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 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." Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Civil engineers............................................. $23.70 9.6% - - - - $23.70 9.6% - - Industrial engineers........................................ 26.38 14.1 $26.38 14.1% - - 26.38 14.1 - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 33.72 5.1 33.50 5.7 - - 33.72 5.1 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.62 4.6 28.62 4.6 - - 28.62 4.6 - - Level 7................................................... 22.50 2.6 22.50 2.6 - - 22.50 2.6 - - Level 9................................................... 28.09 3.1 28.09 3.1 - - 28.09 3.1 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.44 7.6 28.44 7.6 - - 28.44 7.6 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.04 4.7 27.04 4.7 - - 27.04 4.7 - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 27.44 13.5 27.44 13.5 - - 27.44 13.5 - - Chemists, except biochemists................................ 27.10 10.3 27.19 10.3 - - 27.10 10.3 - - Medical scientists.......................................... 23.49 7.5 22.56 10.6 - - 23.49 7.5 - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.72 5.1 - - $19.88 5.3% 19.22 5.4 $21.21 5.2% Level 9................................................... 19.97 6.2 - - 20.47 7.2 19.42 7.3 - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 19.73 1.4 - - 19.73 1.4 19.73 1.4 - - Secondary school teachers................................... 19.27 3.0 - - 19.27 3.0 19.27 3.0 - - Social workers.............................................. 13.81 5.6 - - 14.74 5.9 13.81 5.6 - - Level 8................................................... 16.02 4.4 - - - - 16.02 4.4 - - Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 15.16 7.7 - - - - 15.16 7.7 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 20.60 10.0 20.60 10.0 - - 20.60 10.0 - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.72 6.8 17.72 6.8 - - 17.72 6.8 - - Computer programmers........................................ 22.25 5.2 20.68 4.6 - - 22.25 5.2 - - Technical and related occupations, N.E.C.................... 12.44 13.9 14.82 14.6 - - 12.44 13.9 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.38 11.1 - - 23.38 11.1 23.38 11.1 - - Financial managers.......................................... 32.27 5.0 32.74 8.2 - - 32.27 5.0 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 32.22 7.6 - - - - 32.22 7.6 - - Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations...... 40.83 8.3 40.83 8.3 - - 40.83 8.3 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 23.92 7.8 - - - - 23.92 7.8 - - Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 22.62 18.5 - - - - 22.62 18.5 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 36.28 8.9 36.49 9.2 - - 36.28 8.9 - - Level 9................................................... 25.15 7.4 - - - - 25.15 7.4 - - Level 11.................................................. 25.66 5.9 25.66 5.9 - - 25.66 5.9 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 26.46 2.8 27.38 2.5 - - 26.53 2.8 - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.70 8.5 18.05 10.6 - - 17.66 9.2 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.77 4.8 18.81 7.6 - - 18.77 4.8 - - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 19.42 8.6 - - - - 19.42 8.6 - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 17.66 4.7 - - - - 17.66 4.7 - - Sales occupations: Advertising and related sales occupations................... 30.61 6.4 30.61 6.4 - - 30.61 6.4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.78 30.5 12.78 30.5 - - 14.04 32.9 - - Level 4................................................... 9.08 8.6 9.08 8.6 - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... $7.38 4.1% $7.23 3.5% - - $8.31 9.1% $6.30 1.0% Level 2................................................... 6.59 1.7 6.58 1.7 - - - - 6.33 0.9 Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, general office................................. 17.57 11.4 - - - - 17.57 11.4 - - Secretaries................................................. 12.76 2.7 13.01 2.8 $12.29 4.8% 12.80 2.7 - - Level 4................................................... 11.45 2.5 11.58 4.3 - - 11.46 2.5 - - Level 5................................................... 13.91 1.7 13.96 1.7 - - 13.91 1.7 - - Order clerks................................................ 12.09 17.7 12.09 17.7 - - 13.90 10.6 - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 11.80 5.9 10.86 6.8 - - 12.02 5.6 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.43 4.0 10.30 4.3 11.85 5.7 10.45 4.1 - - Level 4................................................... 9.72 2.9 9.67 3.1 - - 9.73 3.1 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.03 7.2 10.03 7.2 - - 10.03 7.2 - - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 11.30 4.2 11.30 4.2 - - 11.30 4.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.78 2.9 11.14 6.3 10.66 3.2 10.85 2.9 - - Level 3................................................... 9.88 2.4 10.05 3.6 9.84 2.9 9.88 2.4 - - Level 4................................................... 10.98 2.6 - - 11.17 1.7 11.21 1.6 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 9.88 3.0 - - - - 9.88 3.0 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 9.87 1.3 - - 9.87 1.3 9.87 1.3 - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.11 5.9 13.13 6.1 - - 13.21 5.8 - - Professional occupations, N.E.C............................. 22.20 9.8 22.20 9.8 - - 22.20 9.8 - - Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 14.26 7.4 14.39 7.8 - - 14.26 7.4 - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.97 9.8 17.97 9.8 - - 17.97 9.8 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.28 4.8 8.28 4.8 - - 8.28 4.8 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.96 3.7 10.96 3.7 - - 10.96 3.7 - - Level 2................................................... 9.81 3.0 9.81 3.0 - - 9.81 3.0 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.15 9.9 12.15 9.9 - - 12.15 9.9 - - Level 2................................................... 9.50 8.0 9.50 8.0 - - 9.50 8.0 - - Assemblers.................................................. 9.80 8.0 9.80 8.0 - - 9.80 8.0 - - Level 4................................................... 10.87 10.5 10.87 10.5 - - 10.87 10.5 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.54 13.6 10.54 13.6 - - 10.54 13.6 - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Bus drivers................................................. 7.84 5.7 - - 8.87 2.8 - - 8.65 1.7 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.49 4.3 8.48 4.6 - - 8.92 4.7 6.17 1.8 Level 1................................................... 6.23 2.8 6.23 2.8 - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.03 8.0 11.03 8.0 - - 10.86 8.0 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.33 8.0 8.33 8.0 - - 8.33 8.0 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 7.60 2.8 7.59 2.9 - - 7.60 2.8 - - Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... $21.22 4.8% - - $21.22 4.8% $21.22 4.8% - - Firefighting occupations.................................... 15.86 19.8 - - 15.86 19.8 15.86 19.8 - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 14.75 7.1 - - 14.75 7.1 14.75 7.1 - - Level 6................................................... 13.13 2.4 - - 13.13 2.4 13.13 2.4 - - Guards and police except public service..................... 8.59 9.3 $7.96 7.6% - - 8.72 10.9 $8.20 12.2% Food service occupations: Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.49 16.8 3.49 16.8 - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.52 7.1 7.50 7.2 - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 7.14 8.4 7.42 9.4 - - 7.65 9.6 - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.71 10.3 7.71 10.3 - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.96 5.3 7.69 7.1 8.54 4.2 8.30 3.9 - - Level 1................................................... 7.18 5.5 - - - - 7.55 5.9 - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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 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." Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998