NC BL 05/00/2001 Table: Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, Bulletin 3105-64, September 2000 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $19.28 1.8 35.1 $18.65 2.2 35.0 $22.13 2.5 35.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 23.24 2.0 35.7 22.82 2.3 36.0 24.94 3.5 34.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.17 2.2 35.6 27.66 2.6 35.9 29.66 4.5 34.6 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.83 3.5 39.4 30.07 3.9 39.8 28.50 6.7 37.1 Sales............................................................. 15.92 7.2 30.5 15.92 7.3 30.4 15.95 13.6 36.9 Administrative support............................................ 14.34 1.8 35.9 14.27 2.2 36.6 14.63 2.3 33.5 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 15.68 3.0 36.7 15.40 3.3 36.5 18.93 3.3 39.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.88 4.2 39.9 19.76 4.6 39.9 20.88 5.4 39.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.07 3.7 36.8 12.91 3.8 36.7 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 16.25 5.0 36.9 15.86 5.7 36.6 18.85 4.8 39.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.68 7.5 32.3 12.50 8.3 31.9 15.03 6.5 39.7 Service occupations(5).............................................. 11.81 2.8 31.7 9.81 2.9 30.0 17.09 3.1 37.0 Full time........................................................... 20.34 1.9 39.1 19.79 2.3 39.5 22.57 2.6 37.5 Part time........................................................... 11.71 3.9 20.4 11.55 4.1 20.6 13.76 6.9 18.5 Union............................................................... 20.14 2.4 35.2 17.70 4.9 34.1 22.14 2.3 36.1 Nonunion............................................................ 18.93 2.4 35.1 18.82 2.5 35.2 22.08 8.5 33.1 Time................................................................ 19.22 1.8 35.2 18.55 2.2 35.0 22.13 2.5 35.7 Incentive........................................................... 21.73 12.3 33.4 21.73 12.3 33.4 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.88 6.2 32.8 15.82 6.6 32.8 17.00 4.3 32.8 100-499 workers..................................................... 18.27 3.2 35.0 17.48 3.4 35.0 24.78 6.3 34.6 500 workers or more................................................. 21.61 2.6 36.2 21.66 3.5 36.1 21.49 3.6 36.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUS- TRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.28 1.8 $18.65 2.2 $22.13 2.5 All excluding sales............................................... 19.49 1.9 18.85 2.3 22.17 2.5 White collar........................................................ 23.24 2.0 22.82 2.3 24.94 3.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.08 1.9 23.82 2.3 25.03 3.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.17 2.2 27.66 2.6 29.66 4.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 30.43 2.3 30.53 2.6 30.20 4.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.73 3.1 33.03 3.9 - - Civil engineers............................................. 30.71 5.1 € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 36.80 4.8 36.80 4.8 € € Industrial engineers........................................ 27.33 8.3 27.33 8.3 € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 28.85 9.7 28.85 9.7 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 32.67 4.6 34.12 6.6 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.95 4.4 33.65 4.2 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 33.54 4.7 34.17 4.4 € € Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 26.92 6.3 27.83 5.9 € € Natural scientists............................................ 34.40 11.8 34.70 12.0 - - Medical scientists.......................................... 31.80 15.7 32.23 16.0 € € Health related................................................ 26.78 3.9 27.08 4.3 24.74 6.1 Physicians.................................................. 42.25 22.9 46.16 22.1 € € Registered nurses........................................... 24.99 2.2 25.15 2.4 23.67 3.7 Pharmacists................................................. 30.44 4.2 30.44 4.2 € € Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.34 3.7 20.34 3.7 € € Physical therapists......................................... 26.76 11.5 26.76 11.5 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 43.16 5.6 45.37 6.1 33.60 9.0 Art, drama, and music teachers.............................. 29.94 7.6 € € € € Other post-secondary teachers............................... 37.76 7.5 38.70 10.7 € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 30.64 6.1 21.16 10.5 31.74 6.7 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 31.74 20.2 € € € € Elementary school teachers.................................. 32.34 6.4 30.26 7.5 32.42 6.6 Secondary school teachers................................... 31.96 6.7 24.78 3.4 32.80 7.5 Teachers, special education................................. 25.38 9.9 € € 26.34 9.7 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 19.22 21.4 19.08 24.1 € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 31.34 12.3 26.59 10.0 35.27 14.1 Librarians.................................................. 31.34 12.3 26.59 10.0 35.27 14.1 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.48 13.9 26.48 13.9 € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 19.24 5.8 16.64 7.9 21.81 7.0 Social workers.............................................. 19.52 5.8 16.73 7.6 21.81 7.0 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 25.99 10.9 25.99 11.0 - - Designers................................................... 29.43 13.5 29.43 13.5 € € Editors and reporters....................................... 24.64 23.7 24.64 23.7 € € Technical....................................................... 19.87 4.1 19.92 4.3 19.12 12.7 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.82 7.0 16.78 7.1 € € Radiological technicians.................................... $22.35 5.3 $22.35 5.3 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.86 2.3 17.04 2.6 $16.01 4.5 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.27 4.3 15.13 4.0 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 19.78 7.2 19.78 7.2 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 24.27 5.7 24.27 5.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 21.14 5.2 21.14 5.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 26.53 12.5 26.53 12.5 € € Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 21.33 8.6 21.33 8.6 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.83 3.5 30.07 3.9 28.50 6.7 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 35.02 4.5 35.81 5.3 31.58 6.0 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 30.02 8.6 € € 30.02 8.6 Financial managers.......................................... 31.18 7.4 31.23 7.6 € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 36.59 13.4 36.59 13.4 € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 32.55 8.2 33.34 17.3 32.18 8.9 Managers, medicine and health............................... 27.69 11.3 27.72 11.4 € € Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 24.00 16.5 24.00 16.5 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 42.38 8.0 42.46 8.2 € € Management related............................................ 23.17 3.6 23.36 3.8 21.62 6.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.24 4.5 21.56 4.8 € € Other financial officers.................................... 24.25 7.8 24.25 7.8 € € Management analysts......................................... 25.41 16.5 26.57 18.1 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.21 6.9 25.48 7.2 € € Construction inspectors..................................... 22.94 3.0 € € 22.94 3.0 Management related, n.e.c................................... 23.03 8.1 22.77 9.1 € € Sales............................................................. 15.92 7.2 15.92 7.3 15.95 13.6 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 20.09 17.5 20.19 18.0 € € Sales, other business services.............................. 27.26 25.5 27.26 25.5 € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 28.72 18.9 28.72 18.9 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 14.08 14.0 14.08 14.0 € € Cashiers.................................................... 8.17 3.9 7.84 3.2 15.90 16.0 Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 21.36 19.5 21.36 19.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.34 1.8 14.27 2.2 14.63 2.3 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.40 8.6 19.40 8.6 € € Supervisors, financial records processing................... 21.96 7.0 21.96 7.0 € € Secretaries................................................. 16.06 3.1 15.47 3.5 18.11 3.6 Typists..................................................... 14.02 3.4 € € € € Interviewers................................................ 12.36 4.1 12.54 4.3 € € Receptionists............................................... 11.26 6.5 11.33 6.7 € € Order clerks................................................ 13.36 5.5 13.36 5.5 € € Library clerks.............................................. 14.84 7.0 € € 13.96 11.5 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.19 6.5 12.17 6.6 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.85 4.0 12.58 4.0 € € Billing clerks.............................................. 12.37 7.2 12.37 7.2 € € Telephone operators......................................... $9.36 6.5 $9.05 7.5 € € Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 9.32 5.8 9.32 5.8 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.32 5.9 13.32 5.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 16.41 6.9 15.18 5.4 € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 17.51 4.9 17.51 4.9 € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 14.89 7.4 14.89 7.4 € € General office clerks....................................... 14.77 3.7 14.44 6.4 $15.12 4.0 Bank tellers................................................ 11.92 17.5 11.92 17.5 € € Data entry keyers........................................... 12.59 5.1 11.42 13.0 € € Teachers' aides............................................. 11.09 6.8 € € 11.09 6.9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.16 8.5 14.15 8.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 15.68 3.0 15.40 3.3 18.93 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.88 4.2 19.76 4.6 20.88 5.4 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 21.68 8.8 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.86 4.9 16.86 4.9 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.20 8.3 18.66 10.7 € € Carpenters.................................................. 21.89 6.2 € € € € Electricians................................................ 25.86 9.5 € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.40 8.4 € € 14.93 6.8 Supervisors, production..................................... 22.34 6.0 22.34 6.0 € € Machinists.................................................. 20.12 4.3 20.12 4.3 € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.29 5.9 14.29 5.9 € € Butchers and meat cutters................................... 12.75 15.2 12.75 15.2 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.07 3.7 12.91 3.8 - - Printing press operators.................................... 17.03 6.8 17.03 6.8 € € Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.42 7.1 € € € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 22.3 9.60 22.3 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.77 5.9 12.47 5.1 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 16.46 4.0 € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 10.44 11.7 10.44 11.7 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.58 10.4 12.58 10.4 € € Production testers.......................................... 12.83 6.8 12.83 6.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 16.25 5.0 15.86 5.7 18.85 4.8 Truck drivers............................................... 16.45 6.3 16.48 6.5 € € Bus drivers................................................. 15.78 6.9 13.55 6.6 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.19 9.0 12.19 9.0 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.68 7.5 12.50 8.3 15.03 6.5 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 12.79 8.6 12.26 11.9 € € Construction laborers....................................... 21.24 8.1 € € 13.91 8.2 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.71 3.9 9.71 3.9 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.68 12.1 10.68 12.1 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ $12.85 10.8 $12.84 10.8 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.85 7.1 8.85 7.1 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 12.85 8.0 11.42 9.0 $16.87 10.8 Service............................................................. 11.81 2.8 9.81 2.9 17.09 3.1 Protective service............................................ 15.87 8.0 9.65 5.1 19.83 2.9 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 23.67 3.2 € € 23.67 3.2 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 29.01 12.3 € € 29.01 12.3 Firefighting................................................ 18.69 3.8 € € 18.69 3.8 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.23 3.7 € € 19.23 3.7 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.66 5.2 9.56 4.9 € € Food service.................................................. 8.35 5.5 8.11 5.9 11.86 5.8 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.42 13.8 4.42 13.8 € € Bartenders.................................................. 7.39 20.8 7.39 20.8 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.69 12.7 3.69 12.7 € € Other food service........................................... 10.27 4.5 10.10 4.9 11.86 5.8 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.87 10.1 14.86 10.4 € € Cooks....................................................... 11.73 4.8 11.48 6.0 € € Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 8.09 11.8 8.09 12.0 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.90 3.8 7.90 3.8 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.49 4.1 8.44 4.3 € € Health service................................................ 10.93 1.5 10.65 1.9 11.92 1.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.56 3.4 10.57 3.6 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.92 1.5 10.55 2.0 11.96 1.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 11.28 4.8 10.62 5.4 14.13 9.5 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 18.96 17.6 € € € € Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.71 4.8 9.71 4.8 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.01 5.5 10.60 6.7 12.69 3.6 Personal service.............................................. 11.74 14.0 11.49 15.3 - - Welfare service aides....................................... 10.54 9.0 10.54 9.0 € € Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 8.46 12.0 € € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 10.24 6.9 10.16 7.6 € € 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.34 1.9 $19.79 2.3 $22.57 2.6 All excluding sales............................................... 20.36 1.9 19.78 2.3 22.59 2.6 White collar........................................................ 24.06 2.0 23.70 2.3 25.43 3.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.40 2.0 24.09 2.4 25.48 3.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.50 2.4 27.95 2.8 29.93 4.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 30.74 2.5 30.97 2.8 30.31 4.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.73 3.1 33.03 3.9 - - Civil engineers............................................. 30.71 5.1 € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 36.80 4.8 36.80 4.8 € € Industrial engineers........................................ 27.33 8.3 27.33 8.3 € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 28.85 9.7 28.85 9.7 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 32.67 4.6 34.12 6.6 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.95 4.4 33.65 4.2 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 33.54 4.7 34.17 4.4 € € Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 26.92 6.3 27.83 5.9 € € Natural scientists............................................ 34.16 12.0 34.46 12.2 - - Medical scientists.......................................... 31.18 16.1 31.59 16.4 € € Health related................................................ 26.91 4.8 27.38 5.4 24.35 6.4 Physicians.................................................. 41.51 24.5 45.29 23.1 € € Registered nurses........................................... 24.59 2.6 24.79 2.9 23.37 3.8 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.34 3.7 20.34 3.7 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 43.00 5.9 45.17 6.3 - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 37.89 7.5 38.70 10.7 € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 31.00 6.3 21.67 11.4 31.92 6.8 Elementary school teachers.................................. 32.33 6.4 € € 32.42 6.6 Secondary school teachers................................... 32.11 6.8 25.23 4.1 32.80 7.5 Teachers, special education................................. 25.38 9.9 € € 26.34 9.7 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 24.88 10.8 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 31.41 12.3 26.59 10.0 - - Librarians.................................................. 31.41 12.3 26.59 10.0 € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 19.00 6.1 15.89 8.4 21.81 7.0 Social workers.............................................. 19.27 6.1 15.83 7.9 21.81 7.0 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 26.50 11.6 26.50 11.6 € € Designers................................................... 29.43 13.5 29.43 13.5 € € Editors and reporters....................................... 24.64 23.7 24.64 23.7 € € Technical....................................................... 20.09 4.5 20.06 4.7 20.60 13.2 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.88 7.7 16.82 7.8 € € Radiological technicians.................................... 23.81 4.9 23.81 4.9 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.65 2.3 16.83 2.6 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.25 4.7 15.00 4.2 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 19.78 7.2 19.78 7.2 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. $24.27 5.7 $24.27 5.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 21.14 5.2 21.14 5.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 26.53 12.5 26.53 12.5 € € Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 21.33 8.6 21.33 8.6 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.92 3.5 30.13 3.9 $28.73 6.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 35.25 4.6 35.96 5.3 32.02 5.9 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 30.02 8.6 € € 30.02 8.6 Financial managers.......................................... 31.62 7.6 31.68 7.8 € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 36.59 13.4 36.59 13.4 € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 33.38 8.6 34.18 18.2 32.98 9.1 Managers, medicine and health............................... 27.69 11.3 27.72 11.4 € € Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 24.00 16.5 24.00 16.5 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 42.38 8.0 42.46 8.2 € € Management related............................................ 23.11 3.6 23.29 3.9 21.59 6.9 Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.24 4.5 21.56 4.8 € € Other financial officers.................................... 24.25 7.8 24.25 7.8 € € Management analysts......................................... 25.41 16.5 26.57 18.1 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.21 6.9 25.48 7.2 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.75 8.1 22.43 9.2 € € Sales............................................................. 19.97 7.4 20.00 7.6 18.28 9.8 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 20.09 17.5 20.19 18.0 € € Sales, other business services.............................. 27.26 25.5 27.26 25.5 € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 28.72 18.9 28.72 18.9 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 16.29 14.3 16.29 14.3 € € Cashiers.................................................... 10.01 8.2 9.00 4.7 € € Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 21.53 19.5 21.53 19.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.56 1.9 14.50 2.3 14.79 2.7 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.40 8.6 19.40 8.6 € € Supervisors, financial records processing................... 21.96 7.0 21.96 7.0 € € Secretaries................................................. 16.16 3.2 15.54 3.6 18.31 3.5 Typists..................................................... 14.49 1.6 € € € € Interviewers................................................ 12.50 5.9 € € € € Receptionists............................................... 11.34 6.9 11.34 6.9 € € Order clerks................................................ 13.57 5.7 13.57 5.7 € € Library clerks.............................................. 14.95 7.3 € € € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.42 7.4 12.40 7.4 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.94 4.2 12.74 4.2 € € Billing clerks.............................................. 12.24 7.4 12.24 7.4 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.34 6.0 13.34 6.0 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 16.41 6.9 15.18 5.4 € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 17.51 4.9 17.51 4.9 € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 14.71 6.9 14.71 6.9 € € General office clerks....................................... 15.08 3.7 15.03 6.3 15.12 4.0 Bank tellers................................................ $12.07 18.3 $12.07 18.3 € € Teachers' aides............................................. 10.38 3.2 € € $10.37 3.2 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.96 9.1 14.94 9.2 € € Blue collar......................................................... 16.15 3.1 15.89 3.4 19.00 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.87 4.2 19.75 4.7 20.90 5.4 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 21.68 8.8 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.86 4.9 16.86 4.9 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.20 8.3 18.66 10.7 € € Carpenters.................................................. 21.89 6.2 € € € € Electricians................................................ 25.86 9.5 € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.40 8.4 € € 14.93 6.8 Supervisors, production..................................... 22.34 6.0 22.34 6.0 € € Machinists.................................................. 20.12 4.3 20.12 4.3 € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.29 5.9 14.29 5.9 € € Butchers and meat cutters................................... 12.67 15.5 12.67 15.5 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.20 3.7 13.03 3.8 - - Printing press operators.................................... 17.03 6.8 17.03 6.8 € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 22.3 9.60 22.3 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.78 5.9 12.47 5.2 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 16.46 4.0 € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 10.99 11.9 10.99 11.9 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.58 10.4 12.58 10.4 € € Production testers.......................................... 12.83 6.8 12.83 6.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 16.71 5.2 16.35 6.0 19.01 5.1 Truck drivers............................................... 16.60 6.4 16.64 6.5 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.19 9.0 12.19 9.0 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.99 8.0 13.87 8.9 15.15 6.6 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 14.27 3.2 € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 21.24 8.1 € € 13.91 8.2 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.64 3.9 11.64 3.9 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.23 14.6 13.22 14.6 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.21 7.9 9.21 7.9 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 13.32 8.6 11.73 10.0 € € Service............................................................. 13.27 3.1 10.90 3.5 17.54 3.0 Protective service............................................ 17.30 7.6 10.17 7.7 20.23 2.8 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 23.67 3.2 € € 23.67 3.2 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 29.01 12.3 € € 29.01 12.3 Firefighting................................................ 18.70 3.8 € € 18.70 3.8 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.36 3.7 € € 19.36 3.7 Guards and police, except public service.................... 10.13 7.5 9.97 7.1 € € Food service.................................................. $9.99 6.1 $9.74 6.6 $12.62 3.9 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 5.12 22.3 5.12 22.3 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.66 20.7 3.66 20.7 € € Other food service........................................... 11.44 4.6 11.29 5.2 12.62 3.9 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 15.65 9.3 15.66 9.6 € € Cooks....................................................... 12.29 4.3 12.18 5.5 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.08 5.2 9.06 5.3 € € Health service................................................ 11.15 1.7 10.86 2.2 11.97 1.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.98 4.6 10.98 4.6 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 11.09 1.7 10.70 2.3 11.97 1.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 12.21 5.1 11.56 6.1 14.20 10.1 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.30 3.3 9.30 3.3 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.97 5.1 11.74 7.0 12.64 3.7 Personal service.............................................. 15.11 17.0 14.77 18.6 - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 11.24 4.4 € € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 11.57 2.4 11.57 2.4 € € 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 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $11.71 3.9 $11.55 4.1 $13.76 6.9 All excluding sales............................................... 12.45 4.4 12.31 4.7 13.90 7.0 White collar........................................................ 15.79 4.7 15.81 5.2 15.63 6.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.06 4.3 20.75 4.6 15.95 6.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.84 4.0 25.31 4.1 18.50 14.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.09 4.6 27.32 4.7 22.37 16.2 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 26.37 4.0 26.21 4.0 - - Registered nurses........................................... 25.95 3.7 25.88 3.7 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 44.82 14.4 47.24 14.4 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 16.02 15.4 18.35 21.8 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - € € Lawyers and judges............................................ - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 17.99 6.4 18.56 6.6 14.40 16.1 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.31 11.4 € € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.31 5.6 17.40 6.0 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.10 9.2 - - 23.54 1.9 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 21.84 7.0 - - - - Management related............................................ 27.88 13.7 - - - - Sales............................................................. 7.88 2.7 7.87 2.7 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.94 5.5 8.94 5.5 € € Cashiers.................................................... 7.44 2.0 7.42 2.0 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.97 5.0 11.67 5.0 13.00 13.0 Secretaries................................................. 13.67 10.0 14.02 11.7 € € Interviewers................................................ 12.07 3.6 € € € € Telephone operators......................................... 8.88 5.9 8.42 4.5 € € General office clerks....................................... 10.50 10.3 10.41 10.6 € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 10.97 10.7 € € € € Blue collar......................................................... 8.97 5.4 8.86 5.4 14.46 12.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.31 8.4 10.84 8.3 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... $8.30 4.1 $8.30 4.1 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.19 2.4 7.19 2.4 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.79 4.1 € € € € Service............................................................. 7.98 3.2 7.82 3.5 $10.39 7.3 Protective service............................................ 8.93 3.2 8.82 2.7 9.66 9.8 Food service.................................................. 6.06 7.6 5.96 7.8 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.94 15.6 3.94 15.6 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.71 15.6 3.71 15.6 € € Other food service........................................... 7.91 4.0 7.84 4.2 € € Cooks....................................................... 8.23 1.7 € € € € Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 8.26 14.4 € € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.72 4.2 7.59 4.2 € € Health service................................................ 9.94 2.2 9.87 2.4 10.97 5.0 Health aides, except nursing................................ 9.54 3.6 9.37 4.6 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.06 2.9 10.00 3.0 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 9.03 4.0 8.83 3.4 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.76 4.0 8.51 2.9 € € Personal service.............................................. 7.87 5.0 7.66 4.7 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.56 11.2 8.02 12.0 € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $795 1.9 39.1 $782 2.2 39.5 $847 2.9 37.5 All excluding sales............................................... 795 1.9 39.1 781 2.3 39.5 847 2.9 37.5 White collar........................................................ 930 2.0 38.7 934 2.3 39.4 919 3.9 36.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 942 2.0 38.6 949 2.4 39.4 920 3.9 36.1 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,087 2.4 38.1 1,099 2.7 39.3 1,056 4.6 35.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,163 2.6 37.8 1,217 2.7 39.3 1,066 4.8 35.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,294 3.2 39.5 1,329 3.8 40.2 - - - Civil engineers............................................. 1,200 2.7 39.1 € € € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,475 4.5 40.1 1,475 4.5 40.1 € € € Industrial engineers........................................ 1,093 8.3 40.0 1,093 8.3 40.0 € € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 1,154 9.7 40.0 1,154 9.7 40.0 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,274 5.2 39.0 1,365 6.6 40.0 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,294 4.6 39.3 1,326 4.3 39.4 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,321 5.0 39.4 1,350 4.6 39.5 € € € Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 1,044 6.7 38.8 1,087 6.1 39.0 € € € Natural scientists............................................ 1,342 12.4 39.3 1,353 12.6 39.3 - - - Medical scientists.......................................... 1,231 15.7 39.5 1,247 16.0 39.5 € € € Health related................................................ 1,067 4.8 39.7 1,089 5.4 39.8 951 3.7 39.1 Physicians.................................................. 2,008 17.5 48.4 2,087 17.1 46.1 € € € Registered nurses........................................... 963 2.6 39.2 968 2.9 39.1 930 3.7 39.8 Respiratory therapists...................................... 799 4.6 39.3 799 4.6 39.3 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,593 5.7 37.0 1,663 6.1 36.8 - - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 1,375 5.5 36.3 1,369 5.3 35.4 € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,056 5.9 34.1 855 10.5 39.5 1,073 6.3 33.6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,089 5.8 33.7 € € € 1,088 6.0 33.6 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,105 6.6 34.4 1,026 4.8 40.7 1,112 7.2 33.9 Teachers, special education................................. 853 8.1 33.6 € € € 871 8.2 33.1 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 988 11.1 39.7 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 1,139 10.9 36.3 989 7.2 37.2 - - - Librarians.................................................. 1,139 10.9 36.3 989 7.2 37.2 € € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 714 6.4 37.6 601 9.9 37.8 815 7.2 37.3 Social workers.............................................. 729 5.9 37.8 610 8.1 38.5 815 7.2 37.3 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 1,046 10.1 39.5 1,046 10.1 39.5 € € € Designers................................................... 1,166 13.0 39.6 1,166 13.0 39.6 € € € Editors and reporters....................................... 977 19.5 39.7 977 19.5 39.7 € € € Technical....................................................... 790 4.1 39.3 790 4.3 39.4 800 11.9 38.8 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 660 7.5 39.1 658 7.7 39.1 € € € Radiological technicians.................................... $943 5.6 39.6 $943 5.6 39.6 € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 653 2.6 39.2 656 3.0 39.0 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 607 4.5 39.8 599 4.2 40.0 € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 778 6.0 39.3 778 6.0 39.3 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 969 5.7 39.9 969 5.7 39.9 € € € Drafters.................................................... 845 5.2 40.0 845 5.2 40.0 € € € Computer programmers........................................ 1,017 12.1 38.3 1,017 12.1 38.3 € € € Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 853 8.6 40.0 853 8.6 40.0 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,194 3.7 39.9 1,207 4.1 40.1 $1,121 8.5 39.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,425 4.8 40.4 1,460 5.6 40.6 1,269 7.6 39.6 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,124 9.8 37.5 € € € 1,124 9.8 37.5 Financial managers.......................................... 1,286 7.9 40.7 1,293 8.1 40.8 € € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,583 15.6 43.3 1,583 15.6 43.3 € € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,359 10.0 40.7 1,310 19.6 38.3 1,386 10.7 42.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,088 10.1 39.3 1,089 10.2 39.3 € € € Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 955 16.6 39.8 955 16.6 39.8 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,705 8.3 40.2 1,716 8.4 40.4 € € € Management related............................................ 907 3.8 39.2 918 4.0 39.4 814 7.6 37.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 807 5.1 38.0 820 5.6 38.0 € € € Other financial officers.................................... 958 8.4 39.5 958 8.4 39.5 € € € Management analysts......................................... 969 14.4 38.1 1,017 15.5 38.3 € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 1,006 6.7 39.9 1,019 7.1 40.0 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 906 8.2 39.8 899 9.3 40.1 € € € Sales............................................................. 791 7.5 39.6 792 7.7 39.6 731 9.8 40.0 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 826 17.5 41.1 831 17.9 41.2 € € € Sales, other business services.............................. 1,090 25.5 40.0 1,090 25.5 40.0 € € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 1,160 19.0 40.4 1,160 19.0 40.4 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 634 15.0 38.9 634 15.0 38.9 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 384 8.9 38.4 344 5.7 38.2 € € € Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 854 20.0 39.7 854 20.0 39.7 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 559 1.8 38.4 565 2.1 39.0 539 3.2 36.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 771 8.5 39.8 771 8.5 39.8 € € € Supervisors, financial records processing................... 875 5.6 39.8 875 5.6 39.8 € € € Secretaries................................................. 629 3.2 38.9 609 3.7 39.2 697 4.6 38.1 Typists..................................................... 521 4.0 36.0 € € € € € € Interviewers................................................ 485 6.6 38.8 € € € € € € Receptionists............................................... 415 10.6 36.5 415 10.6 36.5 € € € Order clerks................................................ 530 6.4 39.1 530 6.4 39.1 € € € Library clerks.............................................. 509 10.3 34.0 € € € € € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... $496 7.3 39.9 $496 7.4 40.0 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 505 3.9 39.0 499 4.0 39.1 € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 489 7.4 40.0 489 7.4 40.0 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 533 6.0 40.0 533 6.0 40.0 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 631 4.6 38.4 607 5.4 40.0 € € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 665 5.4 38.0 665 5.4 38.0 € € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 570 5.9 38.7 570 5.9 38.7 € € € General office clerks....................................... 562 3.8 37.3 562 6.9 37.4 $562 3.6 37.2 Bank tellers................................................ 468 15.3 38.8 468 15.3 38.8 € € € Teachers' aides............................................. 353 5.1 34.0 € € € 352 5.2 34.0 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 582 7.6 38.9 582 7.7 39.0 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 645 3.1 39.9 635 3.4 39.9 757 3.3 39.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 795 4.2 40.0 790 4.7 40.0 835 5.4 39.9 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 867 8.8 40.0 € € € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 671 4.9 39.8 671 4.9 39.8 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 726 8.3 39.9 747 10.7 40.0 € € € Carpenters.................................................. 875 6.2 40.0 € € € € € € Electricians................................................ 1,034 9.5 40.0 € € € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 576 8.4 40.0 € € € 597 6.8 40.0 Supervisors, production..................................... 904 5.7 40.5 904 5.7 40.5 € € € Machinists.................................................. 805 4.3 40.0 805 4.3 40.0 € € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 571 5.9 40.0 571 5.9 40.0 € € € Butchers and meat cutters................................... 507 15.5 40.0 507 15.5 40.0 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 527 3.7 39.9 521 3.8 39.9 - - - Printing press operators.................................... 677 6.4 39.7 677 6.4 39.7 € € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 382 22.0 39.7 382 22.0 39.7 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 510 5.8 39.9 499 5.2 40.0 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 658 4.0 40.0 € € € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 440 11.9 40.0 440 11.9 40.0 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 501 10.4 39.8 501 10.4 39.8 € € € Production testers.......................................... 513 6.8 40.0 513 6.8 40.0 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 666 5.3 39.9 652 6.0 39.9 761 5.1 40.0 Truck drivers............................................... 658 6.6 39.6 659 6.8 39.6 € € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 488 9.0 40.0 488 9.0 40.0 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 556 8.1 39.8 551 9.0 39.7 606 6.6 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 571 3.2 40.0 € € € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 850 8.1 40.0 € € € 556 8.2 40.0 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. $460 4.0 39.5 $460 4.0 39.5 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 523 14.2 39.5 523 14.2 39.5 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 369 7.9 40.0 369 7.9 40.0 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 532 8.6 39.9 468 10.0 39.9 € € € Service............................................................. 521 3.0 39.2 423 3.2 38.8 $703 3.2 40.1 Protective service............................................ 698 7.7 40.3 405 7.6 39.9 820 2.9 40.5 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 992 3.2 41.9 € € € 992 3.2 41.9 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 1,145 12.7 39.5 € € € 1,145 12.7 39.5 Firefighting................................................ 787 3.8 42.1 € € € 787 3.8 42.1 Police and detectives, public service....................... 770 4.0 39.8 € € € 770 4.0 39.8 Guards and police, except public service.................... 404 7.5 39.9 398 7.1 39.9 € € € Food service.................................................. 389 6.6 39.0 382 7.3 39.2 458 9.8 36.3 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 192 19.3 37.4 192 19.3 37.4 € € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 144 20.8 39.4 144 20.8 39.4 € € € Other food service........................................... 451 6.1 39.5 451 6.8 39.9 458 9.8 36.3 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 740 11.1 47.3 745 11.4 47.6 € € € Cooks....................................................... 477 5.2 38.8 485 5.6 39.8 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 344 6.9 37.9 343 7.0 37.8 € € € Health service................................................ 435 2.1 39.1 421 2.8 38.8 477 1.9 39.8 Health aides, except nursing................................ 435 4.4 39.6 435 4.4 39.6 € € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 432 2.3 39.0 413 3.1 38.6 477 1.9 39.8 Cleaning and building service................................. 478 5.4 39.1 450 6.6 38.9 566 10.1 39.8 Maids and housemen.......................................... 368 3.1 39.5 368 3.1 39.5 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 467 5.6 39.0 455 7.6 38.7 503 3.8 39.8 Personal service.............................................. 531 7.3 35.2 515 8.0 34.8 - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 450 4.4 40.0 € € € € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 452 3.7 39.1 452 3.7 39.1 € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $40,119 1.9 1,972 $40,432 2.2 2,043 $39,038 2.9 1,730 All excluding sales............................................... 40,090 1.9 1,969 40,410 2.3 2,043 39,042 2.9 1,728 White collar........................................................ 46,142 2.0 1,918 48,229 2.3 2,035 39,985 3.9 1,572 White collar excluding sales.................................... 46,560 2.0 1,908 49,006 2.4 2,035 39,995 3.9 1,570 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 51,573 2.4 1,810 56,338 2.7 2,016 42,703 4.6 1,427 Professional specialty.......................................... 53,977 2.6 1,756 62,048 2.7 2,004 42,735 4.8 1,410 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 67,298 3.2 2,056 69,088 3.8 2,092 - - - Civil engineers............................................. 62,380 2.7 2,031 € € € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 76,701 4.5 2,084 76,701 4.5 2,084 € € € Industrial engineers........................................ 56,845 8.3 2,080 56,845 8.3 2,080 € € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 60,006 9.7 2,080 60,006 9.7 2,080 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 66,237 5.2 2,027 70,960 6.6 2,080 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 67,300 4.6 2,043 68,966 4.3 2,050 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 68,682 5.0 2,048 70,184 4.6 2,054 € € € Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 54,291 6.7 2,017 56,499 6.1 2,030 € € € Natural scientists............................................ 69,792 12.4 2,043 70,371 12.6 2,042 - - - Medical scientists.......................................... 64,016 15.7 2,053 64,835 16.0 2,052 € € € Health related................................................ 54,045 4.8 2,009 56,615 5.4 2,068 42,384 3.7 1,740 Physicians.................................................. 104,402 17.5 2,515 108,523 17.1 2,396 € € € Registered nurses........................................... 49,999 2.6 2,033 50,347 2.9 2,031 47,865 3.7 2,048 Respiratory therapists...................................... 41,568 4.6 2,044 41,568 4.6 2,044 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 69,220 5.7 1,610 73,898 6.1 1,636 - - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 55,973 5.5 1,477 57,656 5.3 1,490 € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 39,185 5.9 1,264 37,344 10.5 1,723 39,315 6.3 1,232 Elementary school teachers.................................. 40,047 5.8 1,239 € € € 40,007 6.0 1,234 Secondary school teachers................................... 40,643 6.6 1,266 40,709 4.8 1,614 40,638 7.2 1,239 Teachers, special education................................. 31,495 8.1 1,241 € € € 31,680 8.2 1,203 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 42,131 11.1 1,693 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 50,527 10.9 1,609 50,818 7.2 1,911 - - - Librarians.................................................. 50,527 10.9 1,609 50,818 7.2 1,911 € € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 37,098 6.4 1,952 31,205 9.9 1,964 42,360 7.2 1,942 Social workers.............................................. 37,898 5.9 1,966 31,659 8.1 2,001 42,360 7.2 1,942 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 54,176 10.1 2,045 54,176 10.1 2,045 € € € Designers................................................... 60,621 13.0 2,060 60,621 13.0 2,060 € € € Editors and reporters....................................... 50,810 19.5 2,063 50,810 19.5 2,063 € € € Technical....................................................... 41,089 4.1 2,046 41,063 4.3 2,047 41,579 11.9 2,018 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 34,344 7.5 2,035 34,215 7.7 2,034 € € € Radiological technicians.................................... $49,034 5.6 2,059 $49,034 5.6 2,059 € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 33,954 2.6 2,040 34,124 3.0 2,028 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 31,587 4.5 2,072 31,161 4.2 2,078 € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 40,465 6.0 2,046 40,465 6.0 2,046 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 50,395 5.7 2,077 50,395 5.7 2,077 € € € Drafters.................................................... 43,962 5.2 2,080 43,962 5.2 2,080 € € € Computer programmers........................................ 52,907 12.1 1,994 52,907 12.1 1,994 € € € Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 44,363 8.6 2,080 44,363 8.6 2,080 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 61,761 3.7 2,064 62,736 4.1 2,082 $56,430 8.5 1,964 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 73,432 4.8 2,083 75,895 5.6 2,111 62,943 7.6 1,966 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 58,474 9.8 1,948 € € € 58,474 9.8 1,948 Financial managers.......................................... 66,897 7.9 2,116 67,211 8.1 2,121 € € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 81,850 15.6 2,237 81,850 15.6 2,237 € € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 66,621 10.0 1,996 67,911 19.6 1,987 65,983 10.7 2,001 Managers, medicine and health............................... 56,567 10.1 2,043 56,611 10.2 2,042 € € € Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 49,680 16.6 2,070 49,680 16.6 2,070 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 88,650 8.3 2,092 89,211 8.4 2,101 € € € Management related............................................ 47,143 3.8 2,040 47,737 4.0 2,050 42,338 7.6 1,961 Accountants and auditors.................................... 41,945 5.1 1,975 42,655 5.6 1,978 € € € Other financial officers.................................... 49,811 8.4 2,054 49,811 8.4 2,054 € € € Management analysts......................................... 50,402 14.4 1,984 52,890 15.5 1,991 € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 52,322 6.7 2,076 52,976 7.1 2,079 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 47,094 8.2 2,070 46,724 9.3 2,083 € € € Sales............................................................. 40,763 7.5 2,041 40,815 7.7 2,041 38,029 9.8 2,080 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 39,948 17.5 1,989 40,105 17.9 1,986 € € € Sales, other business services.............................. 56,695 25.5 2,080 56,695 25.5 2,080 € € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 60,328 19.0 2,101 60,328 19.0 2,101 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 32,967 15.0 2,024 32,975 15.0 2,024 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 19,975 8.9 1,995 17,872 5.7 1,986 € € € Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 44,432 20.0 2,063 44,432 20.0 2,063 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 28,570 1.8 1,963 29,367 2.1 2,026 25,815 3.2 1,745 Supervisors, general office................................. 40,098 8.5 2,067 40,098 8.5 2,067 € € € Supervisors, financial records processing................... 45,493 5.6 2,072 45,493 5.6 2,072 € € € Secretaries................................................. 32,730 3.2 2,025 31,675 3.7 2,039 36,236 4.6 1,979 Typists..................................................... 26,371 4.0 1,821 € € € € € € Interviewers................................................ 25,209 6.6 2,016 € € € € € € Receptionists............................................... 21,557 10.6 1,900 21,557 10.6 1,900 € € € Order clerks................................................ 27,561 6.4 2,031 27,561 6.4 2,031 € € € Library clerks.............................................. 24,448 10.3 1,636 € € € € € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... $25,768 7.3 2,075 $25,796 7.4 2,080 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 26,265 3.9 2,030 25,924 4.0 2,035 € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 25,445 7.4 2,079 25,445 7.4 2,079 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 27,741 6.0 2,080 27,741 6.0 2,080 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 32,801 4.6 1,999 31,578 5.4 2,080 € € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 34,557 5.4 1,974 34,557 5.4 1,974 € € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 29,624 5.9 2,014 29,624 5.9 2,014 € € € General office clerks....................................... 29,175 3.8 1,935 29,129 6.9 1,939 $29,218 3.6 1,932 Bank tellers................................................ 24,348 15.3 2,016 24,348 15.3 2,016 € € € Teachers' aides............................................. 13,178 5.1 1,270 € € € 13,115 5.2 1,264 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 30,289 7.6 2,025 30,287 7.7 2,027 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 33,465 3.1 2,072 32,938 3.4 2,072 39,382 3.3 2,072 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 41,349 4.2 2,081 41,106 4.7 2,081 43,399 5.4 2,077 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 45,087 8.8 2,080 € € € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 34,884 4.9 2,069 34,884 4.9 2,069 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 37,733 8.3 2,073 38,822 10.7 2,080 € € € Carpenters.................................................. 45,522 6.2 2,080 € € € € € € Electricians................................................ 53,793 9.5 2,080 € € € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 29,954 8.4 2,080 € € € 31,063 6.8 2,080 Supervisors, production..................................... 47,017 5.7 2,105 47,017 5.7 2,105 € € € Machinists.................................................. 41,843 4.3 2,080 41,843 4.3 2,080 € € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 29,713 5.9 2,080 29,713 5.9 2,080 € € € Butchers and meat cutters................................... 26,357 15.5 2,080 26,357 15.5 2,080 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 27,392 3.7 2,076 27,068 3.8 2,077 - - - Printing press operators.................................... 35,203 6.4 2,067 35,203 6.4 2,067 € € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 19,841 22.0 2,066 19,841 22.0 2,066 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 26,508 5.8 2,075 25,945 5.2 2,080 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 34,239 4.0 2,080 € € € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 22,869 11.9 2,080 22,869 11.9 2,080 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 26,034 10.4 2,069 26,034 10.4 2,069 € € € Production testers.......................................... 26,694 6.8 2,080 26,694 6.8 2,080 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 34,185 5.3 2,046 33,372 6.0 2,041 39,549 5.1 2,080 Truck drivers............................................... 34,206 6.6 2,061 34,279 6.8 2,060 € € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 25,355 9.0 2,080 25,355 9.0 2,080 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 28,924 8.1 2,067 28,666 9.0 2,066 31,492 6.6 2,079 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 29,675 3.2 2,080 € € € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 44,178 8.1 2,080 € € € 28,929 8.2 2,080 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. $23,903 4.0 2,053 $23,903 4.0 2,053 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 27,199 14.2 2,057 27,184 14.2 2,057 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 19,164 7.9 2,080 19,164 7.9 2,080 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 27,668 8.6 2,077 24,341 10.0 2,075 € € € Service............................................................. 26,857 3.0 2,024 21,874 3.2 2,006 $36,101 3.2 2,058 Protective service............................................ 36,287 7.7 2,097 21,076 7.6 2,073 42,639 2.9 2,107 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 51,602 3.2 2,180 € € € 51,602 3.2 2,180 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 59,522 12.7 2,052 € € € 59,522 12.7 2,052 Firefighting................................................ 40,913 3.8 2,188 € € € 40,913 3.8 2,188 Police and detectives, public service....................... 40,055 4.0 2,069 € € € 40,055 4.0 2,069 Guards and police, except public service.................... 21,006 7.5 2,073 20,674 7.1 2,073 € € € Food service.................................................. 19,625 6.6 1,965 19,719 7.3 2,025 18,894 9.8 1,497 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 9,970 19.3 1,947 9,970 19.3 1,947 € € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 7,503 20.8 2,050 7,503 20.8 2,050 € € € Other food service........................................... 22,549 6.1 1,971 23,179 6.8 2,053 18,894 9.8 1,497 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 38,504 11.1 2,461 38,735 11.4 2,474 € € € Cooks....................................................... 23,018 5.2 1,873 25,225 5.6 2,071 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 17,446 6.9 1,921 17,371 7.0 1,918 € € € Health service................................................ 22,515 2.1 2,020 21,747 2.8 2,002 24,783 1.9 2,071 Health aides, except nursing................................ 21,657 4.4 1,972 21,657 4.4 1,972 € € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 22,453 2.3 2,025 21,472 3.1 2,006 24,783 1.9 2,071 Cleaning and building service................................. 24,837 5.4 2,034 23,388 6.6 2,023 29,419 10.1 2,072 Maids and housemen.......................................... 19,117 3.1 2,056 19,117 3.1 2,056 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 24,273 5.6 2,028 23,640 7.6 2,014 26,172 3.8 2,070 Personal service.............................................. 27,151 7.3 1,797 26,277 8.0 1,779 - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 21,974 4.4 1,955 € € € € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 22,636 3.7 1,957 22,636 3.7 1,957 € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 4-1.Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, September 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level