NC BL 06/00/2002 Table: Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, Bulletin 3110-77, October 2001 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, October 2001 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................................................................. $20.61 2.1 34.8 $19.65 2.4 34.6 $24.71 3.2 35.9 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 24.83 2.3 35.3 23.94 2.7 35.5 28.25 3.7 34.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.47 2.5 35.2 27.95 3.1 35.2 34.18 3.3 35.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.08 3.8 39.4 33.75 4.1 39.9 35.35 8.7 37.8 Sales............................................................. 17.98 9.5 30.4 17.95 9.9 30.3 18.93 5.6 36.4 Administrative support............................................ 15.44 2.3 35.7 15.37 2.9 36.6 15.68 2.4 33.1 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 16.64 4.2 37.4 16.35 4.6 37.2 19.97 3.3 39.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.29 5.6 40.0 21.15 6.3 40.0 22.59 4.5 39.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.63 3.5 37.0 13.45 3.6 36.9 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 17.56 5.5 36.9 17.24 6.5 36.5 19.48 4.9 39.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.81 6.7 34.5 12.54 7.4 34.1 15.85 6.9 39.7 Service occupations(5).............................................. 12.75 3.3 30.6 10.58 4.5 28.6 18.35 2.8 37.1 Full time........................................................... 21.80 2.1 39.1 20.87 2.5 39.4 25.34 3.4 37.7 Part time........................................................... 12.80 4.4 20.4 12.73 4.8 20.4 13.64 7.5 19.5 Union............................................................... 22.09 2.9 35.6 19.45 5.7 34.9 24.34 2.7 36.3 Nonunion............................................................ 19.98 2.7 34.5 19.68 2.7 34.5 26.63 9.7 33.6 Time................................................................ 20.59 2.1 34.8 19.59 2.5 34.5 24.71 3.2 35.9 Incentive........................................................... 21.06 9.8 36.1 21.06 9.8 36.1 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.68 5.4 32.6 15.61 5.6 32.5 18.01 1.8 34.0 100-499 workers..................................................... 19.56 4.4 34.2 18.34 4.4 34.1 27.53 8.5 34.7 500 workers or more................................................. 23.63 2.6 36.5 23.55 3.4 36.5 23.82 3.8 36.4 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, 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. 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, October 2001 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................................................................... $20.61 2.1 $19.65 2.4 $24.71 3.2 All excluding sales............................................... 20.79 2.1 19.79 2.5 24.77 3.2 White collar........................................................ 24.83 2.3 23.94 2.7 28.25 3.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.71 2.2 24.90 2.6 28.42 3.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.47 2.5 27.95 3.1 34.18 3.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.24 2.4 31.16 3.0 34.75 3.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.02 3.2 34.29 4.0 - - Civil engineers............................................. 34.21 3.4 € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.87 4.3 37.87 4.3 € € Industrial engineers........................................ 28.30 7.7 28.30 7.7 € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 29.38 6.5 29.38 6.5 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 32.41 5.1 32.88 8.6 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 35.09 5.8 36.39 5.3 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.18 5.9 37.35 5.3 € € Natural scientists............................................ 29.54 15.7 29.55 15.8 - - Medical scientists.......................................... 28.52 25.6 28.52 25.6 € € Health related................................................ 28.29 3.5 28.77 3.4 23.59 16.1 Physicians.................................................. 40.61 29.7 € € € € Registered nurses........................................... 27.23 2.2 27.27 2.3 26.73 5.7 Pharmacists................................................. 33.41 3.1 33.41 3.1 € € Physical therapists......................................... 29.01 10.5 29.01 10.5 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 48.00 6.7 52.48 4.9 - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 33.01 7.9 € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 37.62 3.0 21.80 11.1 40.07 2.1 Elementary school teachers.................................. 38.60 2.2 € € 38.97 2.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 41.09 2.7 27.84 5.8 42.42 2.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 36.97 11.3 18.46 29.5 39.44 7.5 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 29.37 7.7 - - 32.00 14.6 Librarians.................................................. 29.55 8.4 € € 32.00 14.6 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.27 10.1 14.67 11.6 22.93 8.1 Social workers.............................................. 18.55 11.1 14.35 12.5 23.19 8.3 Lawyers and judges............................................ 38.81 15.6 - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 25.14 11.6 25.58 12.0 - - Editors and reporters....................................... 24.05 25.2 24.05 25.2 € € Technical....................................................... 19.86 4.6 19.76 4.8 21.76 12.7 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.48 8.3 17.44 8.4 € € Radiological technicians.................................... 23.58 5.2 23.58 5.2 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 18.44 2.3 18.66 2.3 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.75 6.3 15.72 6.5 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.69 4.9 22.69 4.9 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 3.8 25.19 3.8 € € Drafters.................................................... 21.92 8.5 21.92 8.5 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $34.08 3.8 $33.75 4.1 $35.35 8.7 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 38.12 4.4 37.26 5.3 41.19 5.6 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 32.17 8.0 € € 32.17 8.0 Financial managers.......................................... 32.38 6.3 32.17 6.5 € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 45.04 5.0 45.04 5.0 € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 43.30 5.2 42.24 21.5 43.41 5.2 Managers, medicine and health............................... 31.39 9.1 31.45 9.2 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 7.6 40.94 8.0 € € Management related............................................ 27.05 8.1 27.98 8.9 22.77 5.5 Accountants and auditors.................................... 22.50 5.7 23.06 7.1 € € Other financial officers.................................... 34.46 23.1 € € € € Management analysts......................................... 28.61 14.5 € € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.45 4.9 32.19 4.0 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.77 6.9 22.77 6.9 € € Construction inspectors..................................... 25.34 2.7 € € 25.34 2.7 Management related, n.e.c................................... 27.44 7.1 28.63 9.0 24.87 5.8 Sales............................................................. 17.98 9.5 17.95 9.9 18.93 5.6 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 17.99 7.9 17.72 8.3 € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 36.45 18.6 36.45 18.6 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 14.88 19.4 14.88 19.4 € € Cashiers.................................................... 9.24 3.6 8.42 3.0 18.65 6.3 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.44 2.3 15.37 2.9 15.68 2.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.03 6.3 19.04 6.6 € € Secretaries................................................. 17.05 2.8 16.41 3.0 19.23 4.3 Typists..................................................... 14.50 5.2 € € € € Receptionists............................................... 12.10 4.5 12.19 4.8 € € Order clerks................................................ 14.57 7.1 14.57 7.1 € € Library clerks.............................................. 16.03 5.0 € € 15.99 6.2 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.12 10.2 13.09 10.5 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.86 3.6 14.35 3.9 € € Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.22 10.2 € € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 12.12 6.4 12.12 6.4 € € Telephone operators......................................... 9.43 4.5 9.40 5.1 € € Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 10.35 5.6 € € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 14.63 4.9 14.63 4.9 € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 18.10 3.6 18.10 3.6 € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 17.11 15.7 17.11 15.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 15.64 3.9 15.46 6.6 15.85 3.7 Teachers' aides............................................. 13.46 6.3 € € 13.47 6.3 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.47 8.9 17.56 9.2 € € Blue collar......................................................... 16.64 4.2 16.35 4.6 19.97 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $21.29 5.6 $21.15 6.3 $22.59 4.5 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 23.18 9.7 22.95 11.0 € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 5.2 15.88 5.2 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.44 7.4 16.17 6.8 € € Carpenters.................................................. 21.59 5.8 € € € € Electricians................................................ € € € € 26.97 7.8 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 20.62 10.8 € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 15.07 7.6 € € 14.90 8.9 Supervisors, production..................................... 20.62 6.4 20.62 6.4 € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 15.90 4.1 15.90 4.1 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.63 3.5 13.45 3.6 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 14.04 5.3 14.04 5.3 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.30 5.1 12.89 4.2 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 17.94 4.0 € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 11.80 10.9 11.80 10.9 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.51 7.8 13.51 7.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 17.56 5.5 17.24 6.5 19.48 4.9 Truck drivers............................................... 18.17 7.2 18.23 7.3 € € Bus drivers................................................. 15.33 8.7 € € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.81 6.7 12.54 7.4 15.85 6.9 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 13.09 8.1 12.20 11.6 € € Construction laborers....................................... 20.83 11.6 € € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.88 3.8 9.88 3.8 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 15.10 7.9 15.10 8.0 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.40 8.0 9.40 8.0 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 13.97 20.4 12.53 29.1 17.49 10.3 Service............................................................. 12.75 3.3 10.58 4.5 18.35 2.8 Protective service............................................ 17.80 7.5 10.85 12.2 20.59 2.7 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 23.55 1.1 € € 23.55 1.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 31.24 10.1 € € 31.24 10.1 Firefighting................................................ 19.77 2.4 € € 19.77 2.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 20.32 2.9 € € 20.32 2.9 Guards and police, except public service.................... 10.84 12.2 10.70 12.1 € € Food service.................................................. 8.15 6.8 8.02 7.1 11.75 5.1 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.06 12.0 4.06 12.0 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.64 13.1 3.64 13.1 € € Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.29 12.1 6.29 12.1 € € Other food service........................................... 10.76 6.0 10.70 6.4 11.75 5.1 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 15.89 16.5 15.89 16.5 € € Cooks....................................................... 11.87 5.7 11.77 6.3 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 9.66 12.4 9.66 12.4 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... $8.23 2.9 $8.18 3.0 € € Health service................................................ 11.90 3.0 11.73 3.9 $12.76 1.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.60 2.4 10.57 2.5 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 11.93 3.3 11.74 4.3 12.80 1.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 12.79 8.5 11.96 11.3 15.84 8.4 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.33 1.6 9.33 1.6 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.85 9.3 12.40 12.4 14.49 4.0 Personal service.............................................. 13.17 15.6 13.06 17.3 14.12 16.5 Welfare service aides....................................... 11.87 10.2 11.87 10.2 € € Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 10.84 3.5 10.84 3.9 € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 9.26 4.7 9.07 5.1 € € 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. 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, October 2001 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................................................................... $21.80 2.1 $20.87 2.5 $25.34 3.4 All excluding sales............................................... 21.75 2.2 20.75 2.6 25.39 3.4 White collar........................................................ 25.82 2.3 24.94 2.7 28.89 4.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 26.11 2.3 25.20 2.7 29.01 4.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.75 2.7 28.08 3.4 34.39 3.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.57 2.5 31.47 3.3 34.84 3.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.02 3.2 34.29 4.0 - - Civil engineers............................................. 34.21 3.4 € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.87 4.3 37.87 4.3 € € Industrial engineers........................................ 28.30 7.7 28.30 7.7 € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 29.38 6.5 29.38 6.5 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 32.41 5.1 32.88 8.6 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 35.09 5.8 36.39 5.3 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.18 5.9 37.35 5.3 € € Natural scientists............................................ 29.40 16.3 29.41 16.3 - - Health related................................................ 28.02 4.7 28.80 4.6 22.27 16.6 Registered nurses........................................... 26.63 2.7 26.62 2.9 26.75 5.9 Teachers, college and university.............................. 47.89 7.1 52.68 5.0 - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 33.01 7.9 € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 38.26 2.7 22.37 11.5 40.19 2.0 Elementary school teachers.................................. 38.63 2.2 € € 38.97 2.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 41.26 2.7 27.14 6.0 42.42 2.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 39.29 7.5 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 29.41 7.7 - - - - Librarians.................................................. 29.59 8.4 € € € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.33 10.1 14.17 11.2 23.19 8.3 Social workers.............................................. 18.59 10.7 14.01 11.6 23.19 8.3 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 25.13 11.6 25.57 12.1 - - Editors and reporters....................................... 24.05 25.2 24.05 25.2 € € Technical....................................................... 19.90 5.1 19.74 5.3 23.22 12.0 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.54 9.0 17.48 9.1 € € Radiological technicians.................................... 23.75 4.9 23.75 4.9 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 18.67 2.6 19.05 2.5 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.57 6.7 15.43 6.7 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.69 4.9 22.69 4.9 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 3.8 25.19 3.8 € € Drafters.................................................... 21.92 8.5 21.92 8.5 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.32 3.9 33.99 4.2 35.60 8.7 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 38.46 4.5 37.66 5.4 41.19 5.6 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 31.99 8.0 € € 31.99 8.0 Financial managers.......................................... $32.76 7.4 $32.52 7.6 € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 45.04 5.0 45.04 5.0 € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 43.30 5.2 42.24 21.5 $43.41 5.2 Managers, medicine and health............................... 33.04 8.8 33.12 8.9 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 7.6 40.94 8.0 € € Management related............................................ 27.19 8.2 28.08 9.0 22.92 5.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 22.50 5.7 23.06 7.1 € € Other financial officers.................................... 34.46 23.1 € € € € Management analysts......................................... 28.61 14.5 € € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.45 4.9 32.19 4.0 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.77 6.9 22.77 6.9 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 27.54 7.2 28.80 9.3 24.92 5.8 Sales............................................................. 22.67 9.6 22.75 9.9 20.37 4.8 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 17.99 7.9 17.72 8.3 € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 36.45 18.6 36.45 18.6 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 17.37 18.7 17.37 18.7 € € Cashiers.................................................... 11.54 9.0 9.57 5.3 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.84 2.3 15.78 2.9 16.05 2.3 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.03 6.3 19.04 6.6 € € Secretaries................................................. 17.25 2.9 16.58 3.1 19.39 4.3 Typists..................................................... 15.11 3.1 € € € € Receptionists............................................... 12.30 4.9 12.26 5.1 € € Order clerks................................................ 14.99 7.5 14.99 7.5 € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.43 11.4 13.41 11.8 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.99 3.6 14.56 3.6 € € Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.22 10.2 € € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 12.12 6.4 12.12 6.4 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 14.67 5.0 14.67 5.0 € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 18.10 3.6 18.10 3.6 € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 17.11 15.7 17.11 15.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 16.11 3.7 16.30 5.9 15.90 4.1 Teachers' aides............................................. 14.09 6.4 € € 14.11 6.4 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 18.66 6.9 18.70 7.0 € € Blue collar......................................................... 17.01 4.2 16.74 4.7 20.06 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.30 5.6 21.15 6.3 22.61 4.5 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 23.18 9.7 22.95 11.0 € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 5.2 15.88 5.2 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.44 7.4 16.17 6.8 € € Carpenters.................................................. 21.59 5.8 € € € € Electricians................................................ € € € € 26.97 7.8 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 20.62 10.8 € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 15.07 7.6 € € 14.90 8.9 Supervisors, production..................................... $20.62 6.4 $20.62 6.4 € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 15.90 4.1 15.90 4.1 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.74 3.5 13.56 3.6 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 14.04 5.3 14.04 5.3 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.30 5.1 12.89 4.2 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 17.94 4.0 € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 12.62 9.4 12.62 9.4 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.51 7.8 13.51 7.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 18.16 5.2 17.90 6.2 $19.65 5.1 Truck drivers............................................... 18.19 7.2 18.26 7.4 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.58 7.6 13.33 8.4 15.97 7.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 14.59 2.7 € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 20.83 11.6 € € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.42 4.6 11.42 4.6 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 15.38 9.6 15.37 9.7 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.45 8.0 9.45 8.0 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.04 20.7 € € € € Service............................................................. 14.55 3.1 11.90 4.8 19.04 2.6 Protective service............................................ 19.88 4.7 13.14 15.1 21.24 2.3 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 23.55 1.1 € € 23.55 1.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 31.24 10.1 € € 31.24 10.1 Firefighting................................................ 19.79 2.4 € € 19.79 2.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 20.50 2.8 € € 20.50 2.8 Guards and police, except public service.................... 13.10 15.1 12.88 15.3 € € Food service.................................................. 10.03 7.2 9.93 7.4 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.93 17.2 3.93 17.2 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.53 20.5 3.53 20.5 € € Other food service........................................... 11.99 6.5 11.94 6.8 € € Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 17.29 17.4 17.29 17.4 € € Cooks....................................................... 12.17 5.5 12.10 6.1 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 10.16 14.4 10.16 14.4 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.63 4.2 8.60 4.2 € € Health service................................................ 11.65 1.7 11.31 2.1 12.80 1.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.15 2.5 11.15 2.5 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 11.56 1.4 11.15 1.8 12.80 1.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 14.13 7.3 13.44 10.5 16.02 8.7 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.39 1.8 9.39 1.8 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 14.25 7.4 14.12 10.2 14.58 4.3 Personal service.............................................. 16.29 18.3 16.04 19.9 - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 11.28 2.2 11.17 2.3 € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 10.20 7.7 € € € € 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 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. 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, October 2001 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................................................................... $12.80 4.4 $12.73 4.8 $13.64 7.5 All excluding sales............................................... 13.63 5.0 13.63 5.4 13.59 7.8 White collar........................................................ 17.06 4.8 17.19 5.1 15.76 11.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.37 4.6 22.15 4.8 15.87 12.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.92 4.2 27.03 4.3 24.81 21.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.23 4.7 29.21 4.8 29.62 18.6 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 28.95 3.7 28.69 3.7 - - Registered nurses........................................... 28.53 3.7 28.55 3.7 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 49.00 14.9 50.95 14.3 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 21.14 23.8 19.81 27.0 - - Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 18.83 34.1 15.10 29.1 € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 17.51 15.9 - - - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 19.45 6.1 19.90 6.0 - - Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.78 10.7 16.88 11.2 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.92 3.5 17.92 3.6 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 17.23 13.3 18.56 12.4 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 25.78 9.4 26.37 9.4 21.76 18.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - - - Management related............................................ 21.46 7.8 - - - - Sales............................................................. 8.57 2.4 8.43 2.4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.45 4.4 9.45 4.4 € € Cashiers.................................................... 8.21 2.2 7.99 2.0 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.44 4.0 11.20 4.2 12.19 8.3 Secretaries................................................. 14.15 8.8 14.29 9.5 € € Receptionists............................................... 10.05 8.6 € € € € Telephone operators......................................... 9.03 2.3 8.96 2.4 € € General office clerks....................................... 12.07 12.4 10.53 11.0 € € Blue collar......................................................... 9.39 5.5 9.24 5.5 14.79 12.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... $8.67 4.5 $8.67 4.6 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.74 2.2 7.74 2.2 € € Service............................................................. 8.71 8.7 8.56 9.7 $10.63 4.8 Protective service............................................ 9.03 6.2 8.79 6.1 9.93 4.6 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.79 6.1 8.79 6.1 € € Food service.................................................. 5.88 9.2 5.71 9.6 10.41 3.6 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.12 15.9 4.12 15.9 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.70 16.7 3.70 16.7 € € Other food service........................................... 8.18 3.6 7.97 3.4 10.41 3.6 Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.83 3.0 7.72 3.0 € € Health service................................................ 12.50 6.6 12.51 6.6 - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 9.61 3.9 9.40 4.7 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 12.80 5.9 12.80 5.9 € € Cleaning and building service................................. $9.02 5.6 $8.73 4.1 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.95 6.3 € € € € Personal service.............................................. 8.37 6.5 8.11 7.0 - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 9.36 8.0 € € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.32 6.0 € € € € 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. 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, October 2001 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................................................................... $852 2.2 39.1 $823 2.5 39.4 $955 3.7 37.7 All excluding sales............................................... 849 2.2 39.0 818 2.6 39.4 956 3.7 37.7 White collar........................................................ 997 2.4 38.6 981 2.8 39.4 1,047 4.7 36.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 1,005 2.4 38.5 990 2.8 39.3 1,050 4.7 36.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,131 2.5 38.0 1,097 3.3 39.1 1,215 2.5 35.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,226 2.3 37.6 1,225 3.3 38.9 1,227 2.5 35.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,343 3.3 39.5 1,373 3.9 40.0 - - - Civil engineers............................................. 1,310 3.4 38.3 € € € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,520 4.1 40.1 1,520 4.1 40.1 € € € Industrial engineers........................................ 1,132 7.7 40.0 1,132 7.7 40.0 € € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 1,196 7.7 40.7 1,196 7.7 40.7 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,262 5.3 38.9 1,315 8.6 40.0 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,396 6.0 39.8 1,458 5.2 40.1 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,443 6.1 39.9 1,500 5.2 40.1 € € € Natural scientists............................................ 1,128 17.1 38.4 1,128 17.2 38.4 - - - Health related................................................ 1,119 4.4 40.0 1,135 4.8 39.4 991 6.4 44.5 Registered nurses........................................... 1,033 2.9 38.8 1,031 3.2 38.7 1,048 4.7 39.2 Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,771 6.8 37.0 1,934 4.6 36.7 - - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 1,187 6.2 36.0 € € € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,286 2.4 33.6 844 11.8 37.7 1,334 2.0 33.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,311 .5 33.9 € € € 1,318 .6 33.8 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,412 3.2 34.2 1,087 7.9 40.1 1,434 3.1 33.8 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 1,230 3.5 31.3 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 1,074 6.4 36.5 - - - - - - Librarians.................................................. 1,086 6.9 36.7 € € € € € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 692 9.6 37.7 539 10.8 38.1 866 8.5 37.3 Social workers.............................................. 708 9.8 38.1 544 10.6 38.8 866 8.5 37.3 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 965 10.5 38.4 983 10.9 38.4 - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 945 21.3 39.3 945 21.3 39.3 € € € Technical....................................................... 784 4.7 39.4 779 4.9 39.4 899 10.8 38.7 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 690 8.8 39.4 688 8.9 39.3 € € € Radiological technicians.................................... 938 5.3 39.5 938 5.3 39.5 € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 747 2.6 40.0 762 2.5 40.0 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 614 6.4 39.4 609 6.5 39.5 € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 908 4.9 40.0 908 4.9 40.0 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 1,007 3.8 40.0 1,007 3.8 40.0 € € € Drafters.................................................... 877 8.5 40.0 877 8.5 40.0 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $1,385 4.4 40.3 $1,379 4.2 40.6 $1,406 13.4 39.5 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,568 5.1 40.8 1,540 5.2 40.9 1,661 12.0 40.3 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,190 8.7 37.2 € € € 1,190 8.7 37.2 Financial managers.......................................... 1,406 6.6 42.9 1,401 6.8 43.1 € € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,925 9.3 42.7 1,925 9.3 42.7 € € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,826 13.7 42.2 1,706 21.1 40.4 1,840 14.7 42.4 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,283 8.3 38.8 1,286 8.4 38.8 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,647 7.4 39.6 1,627 7.9 39.7 € € € Management related............................................ 1,078 8.4 39.6 1,125 9.0 40.0 865 6.4 37.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 869 5.8 38.6 899 6.4 39.0 € € € Other financial officers.................................... 1,378 24.8 40.0 € € € € € € Management analysts......................................... 1,096 12.9 38.3 € € € € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 1,224 5.2 38.9 1,255 4.1 39.0 € € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 908 6.9 39.9 908 6.9 39.9 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 1,107 8.3 40.2 1,190 10.2 41.3 948 7.8 38.1 Sales............................................................. 905 9.9 40.0 909 10.2 39.9 815 4.8 40.0 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 739 9.1 41.1 730 9.7 41.2 € € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 1,472 18.8 40.4 1,472 18.8 40.4 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 678 19.8 39.0 678 19.8 39.0 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 444 9.6 38.4 365 6.5 38.1 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 604 2.1 38.1 612 2.6 38.8 578 2.4 36.0 Supervisors, general office................................. 752 6.3 39.5 754 6.6 39.6 € € € Secretaries................................................. 664 3.1 38.5 642 3.3 38.7 733 5.4 37.8 Typists..................................................... 551 5.1 36.5 € € € € € € Receptionists............................................... 460 7.3 37.4 458 7.6 37.4 € € € Order clerks................................................ 578 7.8 38.6 578 7.8 38.6 € € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 534 11.3 39.8 536 11.8 40.0 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 589 3.7 39.3 574 3.9 39.4 € € € Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 631 9.1 38.9 € € € € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 484 6.3 39.9 484 6.3 39.9 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 582 5.0 39.7 582 5.0 39.7 € € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 673 4.9 37.2 673 4.9 37.2 € € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 664 14.1 38.8 664 14.1 38.8 € € € General office clerks....................................... 600 3.4 37.2 607 5.3 37.2 592 3.8 37.2 Teachers' aides............................................. 454 4.9 32.2 € € € 454 4.9 32.2 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 714 5.3 38.3 716 5.3 38.3 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 680 4.2 40.0 669 4.7 40.0 799 3.2 39.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $853 5.6 40.1 $848 6.3 40.1 $903 4.5 39.9 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 927 9.7 40.0 918 11.0 40.0 € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 632 5.0 39.8 632 5.0 39.8 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 695 7.4 39.9 647 6.8 40.0 € € € Carpenters.................................................. 863 5.8 40.0 € € € € € € Electricians................................................ € € € € € € 1,079 7.8 40.0 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 825 10.8 40.0 € € € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 603 7.6 40.0 € € € 596 8.9 40.0 Supervisors, production..................................... 844 6.4 40.9 844 6.4 40.9 € € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 636 4.1 40.0 636 4.1 40.0 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 548 3.5 39.9 541 3.6 39.9 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 562 5.3 40.0 562 5.3 40.0 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 528 4.9 39.7 514 4.3 39.9 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 718 4.0 40.0 € € € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 505 9.4 40.0 505 9.4 40.0 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 536 7.8 39.7 536 7.8 39.7 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 733 5.6 40.4 724 6.6 40.4 786 5.1 40.0 Truck drivers............................................... 739 8.3 40.6 742 8.4 40.6 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 539 7.6 39.7 529 8.4 39.7 638 7.0 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 579 2.7 39.7 € € € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 833 11.6 40.0 € € € € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 447 5.0 39.1 447 5.0 39.1 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 608 8.7 39.6 608 8.8 39.6 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 378 8.0 40.0 378 8.0 40.0 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 560 20.6 39.9 € € € € € € Service............................................................. 572 3.2 39.3 458 4.6 38.5 774 2.8 40.6 Protective service............................................ 812 4.9 40.8 525 15.1 39.9 871 2.4 41.0 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 988 1.1 42.0 € € € 988 1.1 42.0 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 1,235 10.2 39.6 € € € 1,235 10.2 39.6 Firefighting................................................ 863 4.1 43.6 € € € 863 4.1 43.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... 817 2.8 39.8 € € € 817 2.8 39.8 Guards and police, except public service.................... 523 15.0 39.9 514 15.2 39.9 € € € Food service.................................................. 396 7.7 39.5 392 8.0 39.4 - - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 147 16.8 37.4 147 16.8 37.4 € € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 134 20.8 38.0 134 20.8 38.0 € € € Other food service........................................... 482 7.3 40.2 480 7.7 40.2 € € € Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 825 19.2 47.7 825 19.2 47.7 € € € Cooks....................................................... $472 6.3 38.8 $468 6.8 38.7 € € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 390 15.9 38.4 390 15.9 38.4 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 335 4.9 38.9 334 5.0 38.9 € € € Health service................................................ 456 2.1 39.2 441 2.6 39.0 $511 1.9 39.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 441 2.7 39.5 441 2.7 39.5 € € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 452 1.9 39.1 433 2.4 38.9 511 1.9 39.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 552 7.9 39.0 521 11.5 38.8 638 8.8 39.8 Maids and housemen.......................................... 350 6.6 37.3 350 6.6 37.3 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 559 8.0 39.2 551 11.2 39.0 580 4.4 39.8 Personal service.............................................. 534 8.4 32.7 518 9.1 32.3 - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 445 3.6 39.4 440 3.9 39.4 € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 394 5.8 38.7 € € € € € € 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. 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, October 2001 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................................................................... $43,023 2.2 1,974 $42,556 2.5 2,039 $44,570 3.7 1,759 All excluding sales............................................... 42,838 2.2 1,969 42,280 2.6 2,037 44,586 3.7 1,756 White collar........................................................ 49,496 2.4 1,917 50,622 2.8 2,030 46,381 4.7 1,605 White collar excluding sales.................................... 49,736 2.4 1,905 51,059 2.8 2,026 46,424 4.7 1,600 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 54,064 2.5 1,817 56,096 3.3 1,998 49,968 2.5 1,453 Professional specialty.......................................... 57,327 2.3 1,760 62,200 3.3 1,977 50,061 2.5 1,437 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 69,835 3.3 2,053 71,377 3.9 2,082 - - - Civil engineers............................................. 68,135 3.4 1,992 € € € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 79,040 4.1 2,087 79,040 4.1 2,087 € € € Industrial engineers........................................ 58,872 7.7 2,080 58,872 7.7 2,080 € € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 62,207 7.7 2,118 62,207 7.7 2,118 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 65,601 5.3 2,024 68,394 8.6 2,080 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 72,578 6.0 2,068 75,812 5.2 2,084 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 75,034 6.1 2,074 77,978 5.2 2,088 € € € Natural scientists............................................ 58,653 17.1 1,995 58,663 17.2 1,994 - - - Health related................................................ 58,212 4.4 2,078 59,022 4.8 2,049 51,519 6.4 2,313 Registered nurses........................................... 53,712 2.9 2,017 53,609 3.2 2,014 54,513 4.7 2,038 Teachers, college and university.............................. 75,515 6.8 1,577 83,983 4.6 1,594 - - - Other post-secondary teachers............................... 46,458 6.2 1,407 € € € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... 47,946 2.4 1,253 35,949 11.8 1,607 49,053 2.0 1,220 Elementary school teachers.................................. 48,243 .5 1,249 € € € 48,522 .6 1,245 Secondary school teachers................................... 52,026 3.2 1,261 41,844 7.9 1,542 52,700 3.1 1,242 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 45,324 3.5 1,154 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 52,476 6.4 1,785 - - - - - - Librarians.................................................. 52,684 6.9 1,781 € € € € € € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 35,948 9.6 1,961 28,022 10.8 1,977 45,028 8.5 1,942 Social workers.............................................. 36,774 9.8 1,978 28,230 10.6 2,015 45,028 8.5 1,942 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 50,184 10.5 1,997 51,130 10.9 1,999 - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 49,155 21.3 2,044 49,155 21.3 2,044 € € € Technical....................................................... 40,780 4.7 2,049 40,486 4.9 2,051 46,747 10.8 2,013 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 35,896 8.8 2,046 35,767 8.9 2,046 € € € Radiological technicians.................................... 48,780 5.3 2,054 48,780 5.3 2,054 € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 38,828 2.6 2,080 39,620 2.5 2,080 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 31,925 6.4 2,050 31,668 6.5 2,052 € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 47,193 4.9 2,080 47,193 4.9 2,080 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 52,388 3.8 2,080 52,388 3.8 2,080 € € € Drafters.................................................... 45,591 8.5 2,080 45,591 8.5 2,080 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $71,356 4.4 2,079 $71,688 4.2 2,109 $70,168 13.4 1,971 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 80,368 5.1 2,090 80,067 5.2 2,126 81,321 12.0 1,974 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 61,873 8.7 1,934 € € € 61,873 8.7 1,934 Financial managers.......................................... 73,108 6.6 2,232 72,855 6.8 2,240 € € € Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 99,240 9.3 2,204 99,240 9.3 2,204 € € € Administrators, education and related fields................ 87,382 13.7 2,018 88,700 21.1 2,100 87,247 14.7 2,010 Managers, medicine and health............................... 66,721 8.3 2,019 66,862 8.4 2,019 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 85,339 7.4 2,054 84,579 7.9 2,066 € € € Management related............................................ 56,041 8.4 2,061 58,481 9.0 2,082 44,988 6.4 1,963 Accountants and auditors.................................... 45,164 5.8 2,007 46,768 6.4 2,028 € € € Other financial officers.................................... 71,656 24.8 2,079 € € € € € € Management analysts......................................... 56,984 12.9 1,992 € € € € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 63,670 5.2 2,025 65,273 4.1 2,028 € € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 47,240 6.9 2,075 47,240 6.9 2,075 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 57,583 8.3 2,091 61,881 10.2 2,149 49,320 7.8 1,979 Sales............................................................. 46,718 9.9 2,061 46,877 10.2 2,060 42,373 4.8 2,080 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 34,700 9.1 1,929 33,968 9.7 1,917 € € € Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 76,542 18.8 2,100 76,542 18.8 2,100 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 35,268 19.8 2,030 35,277 19.8 2,030 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 23,064 9.6 1,999 18,964 6.5 1,981 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 30,754 2.1 1,942 31,832 2.6 2,017 27,561 2.4 1,717 Supervisors, general office................................. 39,099 6.3 2,054 39,198 6.6 2,058 € € € Secretaries................................................. 34,522 3.1 2,002 33,373 3.3 2,013 38,110 5.4 1,966 Typists..................................................... 27,990 5.1 1,853 € € € € € € Receptionists............................................... 23,901 7.3 1,943 23,819 7.6 1,943 € € € Order clerks................................................ 30,056 7.8 2,006 30,056 7.8 2,006 € € € Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 27,792 11.3 2,070 27,892 11.8 2,080 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 30,613 3.7 2,042 29,822 3.9 2,048 € € € Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 32,830 9.1 2,024 € € € € € € Billing clerks.............................................. 25,168 6.3 2,076 25,168 6.3 2,076 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 30,267 5.0 2,063 30,267 5.0 2,063 € € € Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 34,999 4.9 1,934 34,999 4.9 1,934 € € € Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 34,508 14.1 2,017 34,508 14.1 2,017 € € € General office clerks....................................... 31,143 3.4 1,933 31,480 5.3 1,932 30,768 3.8 1,936 Teachers' aides............................................. 17,589 4.9 1,248 € € € 17,563 4.9 1,244 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 37,121 5.3 1,989 37,232 5.3 1,991 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 35,288 4.2 2,074 34,716 4.7 2,074 41,566 3.2 2,072 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $44,369 5.6 2,083 $44,081 6.3 2,084 $46,955 4.5 2,077 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 48,209 9.7 2,080 47,740 11.0 2,080 € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 32,885 5.0 2,071 32,885 5.0 2,071 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 36,133 7.4 2,072 33,638 6.8 2,080 € € € Carpenters.................................................. 44,900 5.8 2,080 € € € € € € Electricians................................................ € € € € € € 56,106 7.8 2,080 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 42,885 10.8 2,080 € € € € € € Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 31,356 7.6 2,080 € € € 30,997 8.9 2,080 Supervisors, production..................................... 43,909 6.4 2,129 43,909 6.4 2,129 € € € Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 33,073 4.1 2,080 33,073 4.1 2,080 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 28,474 3.5 2,072 28,124 3.6 2,074 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 29,213 5.3 2,080 29,213 5.3 2,080 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 27,479 4.9 2,066 26,725 4.3 2,073 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 37,314 4.0 2,080 € € € € € € Assemblers.................................................. 26,259 9.4 2,080 26,259 9.4 2,080 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 27,848 7.8 2,062 27,848 7.8 2,062 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 37,517 5.6 2,066 36,937 6.6 2,064 40,863 5.1 2,080 Truck drivers............................................... 38,409 8.3 2,111 38,563 8.4 2,112 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 28,027 7.6 2,064 27,496 8.4 2,062 33,196 7.0 2,079 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 30,101 2.7 2,063 € € € € € € Construction laborers....................................... 43,335 11.6 2,080 € € € € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 23,235 5.0 2,035 23,235 5.0 2,035 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 31,625 8.7 2,057 31,618 8.8 2,057 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 19,661 8.0 2,080 19,661 8.0 2,080 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 29,132 20.6 2,075 € € € € € € Service............................................................. 29,566 3.2 2,032 23,670 4.6 1,989 40,142 2.8 2,108 Protective service............................................ 42,203 4.9 2,123 27,274 15.1 2,076 45,299 2.4 2,133 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 51,389 1.1 2,182 € € € 51,389 1.1 2,182 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 64,240 10.2 2,057 € € € 64,240 10.2 2,057 Firefighting................................................ 44,871 4.1 2,267 € € € 44,871 4.1 2,267 Police and detectives, public service....................... 42,473 2.8 2,072 € € € 42,473 2.8 2,072 Guards and police, except public service.................... 27,201 15.0 2,076 26,735 15.2 2,076 € € € Food service.................................................. 20,319 7.7 2,026 20,186 8.0 2,033 - - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 7,647 16.8 1,944 7,647 16.8 1,944 € € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 6,975 20.8 1,978 6,975 20.8 1,978 € € € Other food service........................................... 24,622 7.3 2,054 24,665 7.7 2,065 € € € Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 42,888 19.2 2,481 42,888 19.2 2,481 € € € Cooks....................................................... $24,249 6.3 1,992 $24,337 6.8 2,012 € € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 20,284 15.9 1,996 20,284 15.9 1,996 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 16,736 4.9 1,940 16,680 5.0 1,939 € € € Health service................................................ 23,587 2.1 2,025 22,755 2.6 2,011 $26,564 1.9 2,075 Health aides, except nursing................................ 21,338 2.7 1,914 21,338 2.7 1,914 € € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 23,530 1.9 2,035 22,539 2.4 2,022 26,564 1.9 2,075 Cleaning and building service................................. 28,686 7.9 2,030 27,097 11.5 2,016 33,154 8.8 2,069 Maids and housemen.......................................... 18,202 6.6 1,938 18,202 6.6 1,938 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 29,065 8.0 2,040 28,673 11.2 2,030 30,139 4.4 2,068 Personal service.............................................. 27,196 8.4 1,669 26,375 9.1 1,644 - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 22,031 3.6 1,953 21,663 3.9 1,939 € € € Service, n.e.c.............................................. 19,451 5.8 1,908 € € € € € € 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. 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, October 2001 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.61 2.1 $19.65 2.4 $24.71 3.2 All excluding sales............................................... 20.79 2.1 19.79 2.5 24.77 3.2 White collar........................................................ 24.83 2.3 23.94 2.7 28.25 3.7 1....................................................... 8.35 2.7 8.34 2.7 € € 2....................................................... 10.24 3.9 9.97 4.9 11.19 4.4 3....................................................... 12.84 3.8 12.27 5.0 14.51 2.2 4....................................................... 14.68 2.2 14.15 2.3 16.79 3.6 5....................................................... 17.05 4.2 16.77 4.9 18.80 2.8 6....................................................... 17.52 3.4 17.31 3.9 18.75 4.9 7....................................................... 23.54 6.2 21.14 2.1 32.27 11.0 8....................................................... 24.93 3.0 25.25 3.3 21.59 4.1 9....................................................... 30.18 3.7 25.74 3.4 37.85 3.7 10........................................................ 29.93 5.6 31.00 4.7 17.41 34.2 11........................................................ 35.40 3.2 35.61 4.3 34.90 3.5 12........................................................ 45.85 5.7 45.90 5.9 44.42 3.9 13........................................................ 53.29 3.1 52.92 3.3 € € 14........................................................ 49.92 5.1 52.96 6.7 € € Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.46 6.3 26.79 7.5 24.98 6.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.71 2.2 24.90 2.6 28.42 3.7 1....................................................... 9.89 4.4 9.96 4.8 € € 2....................................................... 11.16 4.4 11.10 6.1 11.29 4.5 3....................................................... 13.34 3.4 13.15 4.8 13.79 2.1 4....................................................... 14.96 2.4 14.39 2.6 16.85 3.6 5....................................................... 16.98 4.5 16.67 5.4 18.67 2.9 6....................................................... 17.77 3.4 17.58 4.0 18.75 4.9 7....................................................... 23.55 6.2 21.14 2.1 32.40 11.0 8....................................................... 24.91 3.1 25.25 3.4 21.59 4.1 9....................................................... 30.20 3.8 25.22 3.4 37.85 3.7 10........................................................ 29.74 6.1 30.89 5.0 17.41 34.2 11........................................................ 35.08 2.8 35.18 3.9 34.90 3.5 12........................................................ 45.86 5.8 45.91 6.0 44.42 3.9 13........................................................ 54.30 3.1 53.97 3.4 € € 14........................................................ 49.92 5.1 52.96 6.7 € € Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.23 5.7 26.54 6.8 24.98 6.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.47 2.5 27.95 3.1 34.18 3.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.24 2.4 31.16 3.0 34.75 3.4 5....................................................... 13.32 11.6 13.02 13.4 € € 6....................................................... 17.17 15.8 16.07 17.8 € € 7....................................................... 27.45 9.5 22.51 3.3 34.97 9.4 8....................................................... 27.60 2.6 27.95 2.7 20.21 5.1 9....................................................... 32.14 4.2 25.19 3.4 38.80 3.7 10........................................................ 27.79 8.5 29.93 5.7 € € 11........................................................ 34.79 2.7 36.07 3.6 32.73 2.3 12........................................................ 44.73 6.0 44.71 6.1 € € 13........................................................ $53.39 3.4 $53.28 3.5 € € Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.76 7.6 27.91 10.2 € € Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.02 3.2 34.29 4.0 - - 7....................................................... 25.67 4.1 25.67 4.1 € € 9....................................................... 27.54 4.2 27.54 4.2 € € 10........................................................ 32.24 9.5 32.24 9.5 € € 11........................................................ 34.93 3.3 38.10 6.3 € € 12........................................................ 40.33 6.0 40.33 6.0 € € Civil engineers............................................. 34.21 3.4 € € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.87 4.3 37.87 4.3 € € Industrial engineers........................................ 28.30 7.7 28.30 7.7 € € Mechanical engineers........................................ 29.38 6.5 29.38 6.5 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 32.41 5.1 32.88 8.6 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 35.09 5.8 36.39 5.3 - - 9....................................................... 27.48 4.7 29.20 4.1 € € 11........................................................ 36.73 5.4 36.73 5.4 € € 12........................................................ 42.00 3.5 42.00 3.5 € € Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.18 5.9 37.35 5.3 € € 9....................................................... 28.18 5.9 29.98 4.9 € € 11........................................................ 36.61 5.7 36.61 5.7 € € 12........................................................ 42.00 3.5 42.00 3.5 € € Natural scientists............................................ 29.54 15.7 29.55 15.8 - - Medical scientists.......................................... 28.52 25.6 28.52 25.6 € € Health related................................................ 28.29 3.5 28.77 3.4 $23.59 16.1 7....................................................... 23.19 1.8 23.16 1.8 € € 8....................................................... 29.13 2.3 29.17 2.3 € € 9....................................................... 24.95 5.0 24.88 5.7 € € 11........................................................ 32.58 3.8 32.41 4.1 33.04 9.2 Physicians.................................................. 40.61 29.7 € € € € Registered nurses........................................... 27.23 2.2 27.27 2.3 26.73 5.7 7....................................................... 23.71 1.9 23.68 1.9 € € 8....................................................... 29.38 2.3 29.43 2.3 € € 9....................................................... 23.86 5.0 23.58 5.8 € € 11........................................................ 31.62 4.4 32.04 5.3 € € Pharmacists................................................. 33.41 3.1 33.41 3.1 € € Physical therapists......................................... 29.01 10.5 29.01 10.5 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 48.00 6.7 52.48 4.9 - - 10........................................................ 36.17 8.1 38.52 6.6 € € 11........................................................ 38.34 10.0 € € € €