NC BL 05/00/2004 Table: Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, Bulletin 3120-58, September 2003 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 2003 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................................................................. $23.46 2.0 35.0 $23.04 2.5 34.8 $25.50 3.4 36.1 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 27.52 2.1 35.7 27.22 2.3 35.9 29.04 5.4 34.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 32.14 3.1 35.9 31.30 3.8 36.2 35.60 3.9 34.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 35.11 4.0 39.1 35.29 4.3 39.6 33.72 12.4 35.5 Sales............................................................. 21.04 13.6 29.8 21.07 13.9 29.7 19.70 2.0 36.0 Administrative support............................................ 16.48 2.2 35.8 16.46 2.7 36.2 16.56 1.3 34.6 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 17.84 1.7 36.0 17.56 1.9 35.7 20.71 1.9 39.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 23.91 2.6 40.1 24.03 2.9 40.1 22.93 5.3 39.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.72 4.1 35.9 13.39 4.0 35.7 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.96 4.8 33.7 17.59 6.1 32.9 20.03 8.4 39.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 11.90 3.8 32.0 11.53 4.0 31.5 16.61 7.1 39.7 Service occupations(5).............................................. 13.64 1.9 31.2 10.95 1.6 28.9 19.44 1.2 37.8 Full time........................................................... 24.83 2.0 39.1 24.61 2.4 39.4 25.77 3.4 37.6 Part time........................................................... 13.51 3.3 20.0 13.15 3.7 20.0 19.30 4.3 18.8 Union............................................................... 23.73 1.9 35.5 21.87 3.4 34.3 25.28 2.2 36.5 Nonunion............................................................ 23.36 2.6 34.9 23.24 2.7 34.9 26.96 10.2 33.4 Time................................................................ 23.23 2.0 35.0 22.74 2.4 34.8 25.50 3.4 36.1 Incentive........................................................... 30.97 17.5 35.9 30.97 17.5 35.9 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 25.65 2.1 40.0 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 18.70 5.2 32.6 18.67 5.4 32.5 19.74 1.2 34.4 100-499 workers..................................................... 22.65 4.1 34.8 21.78 4.5 34.7 27.88 8.1 35.0 500 workers or more................................................. 26.34 2.2 36.5 27.00 2.8 36.4 24.54 .6 36.7 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, 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, September 2003 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................................................................... $23.46 2.0 $23.04 2.5 $25.50 3.4 All excluding sales............................................... 23.63 1.9 23.20 2.2 25.57 3.4 White collar........................................................ 27.52 2.1 27.22 2.3 29.04 5.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 28.25 1.9 28.04 1.9 29.21 5.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 32.14 3.1 31.30 3.8 35.60 3.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 34.50 2.7 34.04 3.3 36.05 4.0 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 36.11 1.6 36.31 1.8 – – Civil engineers............................................. 33.91 5.0 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 39.85 2.8 39.85 2.8 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 30.04 3.9 30.04 3.9 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.36 5.6 37.88 7.3 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 38.83 6.8 39.30 6.8 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.86 3.9 37.21 3.8 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 47.16 18.5 – – – – Natural scientists............................................ 23.68 7.1 23.66 7.1 – – Health related................................................ 30.00 3.2 30.04 3.6 29.66 4.7 Physicians.................................................. 31.18 23.0 32.83 23.8 – – Registered nurses........................................... 30.31 3.2 30.34 3.5 29.95 3.8 Physical therapists......................................... 25.85 5.0 25.85 5.0 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 46.95 5.4 49.43 5.6 – – Medical science teachers.................................... 44.59 11.2 44.59 11.2 – – Art, drama, and music teachers.............................. 44.00 32.3 44.00 32.3 – – Other post-secondary teachers............................... 39.28 14.0 43.74 18.0 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 37.32 6.0 21.79 6.4 39.73 6.0 Elementary school teachers.................................. 40.91 3.6 – – 41.12 3.5 Secondary school teachers................................... 39.19 5.2 28.19 5.5 41.15 4.6 Teachers, special education................................. 27.55 20.3 – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 33.27 1.6 29.69 8.8 – – Vocational and educational counselors....................... 33.74 11.4 – – 39.82 7.0 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 30.06 8.0 30.15 10.7 29.83 8.9 Librarians.................................................. 30.29 11.3 – – 29.83 8.9 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.39 11.0 26.39 11.0 – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 22.06 5.6 19.92 4.6 23.97 9.4 Social workers.............................................. 22.05 5.6 18.85 1.7 – – Lawyers and judges............................................ 42.95 12.1 – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 26.36 4.5 26.83 4.9 – – Athletes.................................................... 19.96 5.7 19.96 5.7 – – Technical....................................................... 20.69 8.5 20.50 9.0 24.74 9.5 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.50 6.0 17.47 6.0 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 27.74 6.6 27.74 6.6 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 20.12 2.8 20.37 3.3 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.81 14.2 15.68 14.5 – – Drafters.................................................... 24.31 5.5 24.31 5.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ $27.00 12.9 $26.78 14.2 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 23.45 9.0 23.45 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 35.11 4.0 35.29 4.3 $33.72 12.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 40.60 5.0 40.64 5.6 40.31 10.5 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.27 10.5 – – 33.27 10.5 Financial managers.......................................... 39.24 7.0 39.14 7.1 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 44.55 5.1 44.55 5.1 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 40.31 11.0 37.57 13.9 46.22 10.8 Managers, medicine and health............................... 38.77 17.4 38.77 17.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 26.06 7.3 26.06 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 44.31 5.5 44.21 6.0 – – Management related............................................ 27.18 5.7 27.62 6.2 23.76 6.1 Accountants and auditors.................................... 22.82 4.8 22.78 5.5 – – Other financial officers.................................... 37.53 11.0 38.32 10.1 – – Management analysts......................................... 32.36 14.9 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 27.73 7.9 27.91 8.1 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 30.09 10.9 30.09 10.9 – – Construction inspectors..................................... 23.87 7.3 – – 27.08 5.5 Management related, n.e.c................................... 23.20 12.6 22.72 16.4 24.76 9.5 Sales............................................................. 21.04 13.6 21.07 13.9 19.70 2.0 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 16.48 10.7 16.46 11.0 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 21.68 4.5 21.68 4.5 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 41.89 9.8 41.89 9.8 – – Sales workers, apparel...................................... 8.73 4.4 8.73 4.4 – – Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 12.01 5.2 12.01 5.2 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 13.83 11.4 13.83 11.4 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.66 3.6 8.77 3.5 19.89 1.5 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 16.48 2.2 16.46 2.7 16.56 1.3 Supervisors, general office................................. 20.59 19.5 20.58 19.9 – – Supervisors, financial records processing................... 25.61 8.5 25.61 8.5 – – Secretaries................................................. 18.18 2.5 17.44 2.6 20.92 4.4 Typists..................................................... 15.28 4.1 – – – – Interviewers................................................ 13.14 1.9 – – – – Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 14.86 6.2 14.86 6.2 – – Receptionists............................................... 12.36 4.1 12.31 4.3 – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 13.15 .8 13.11 .5 – – Order clerks................................................ 15.46 7.8 15.46 7.8 – – Library clerks.............................................. 15.70 10.9 – – 15.46 11.3 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 14.97 3.2 14.97 3.3 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 16.88 7.8 16.29 10.5 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.71 7.1 – – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 13.43 8.4 13.43 8.4 – – Telephone operators......................................... 11.41 .6 11.41 .6 – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... $12.21 12.1 $11.85 13.8 – – Dispatchers................................................. 15.08 7.0 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 17.22 6.7 17.22 6.7 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 13.73 12.6 12.57 11.8 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 20.76 7.7 20.76 7.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 17.41 17.8 17.41 17.8 – – General office clerks....................................... 16.18 2.7 16.19 3.8 $16.17 4.3 Data entry keyers........................................... 12.76 2.8 11.69 2.9 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 12.99 1.0 – – 12.99 1.0 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.89 4.9 17.97 5.0 – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.84 1.7 17.56 1.9 20.71 1.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 23.91 2.6 24.03 2.9 22.93 5.3 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.12 2.8 19.12 2.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.59 6.2 20.25 8.3 – – Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 33.93 7.8 – – – – Carpenters.................................................. 26.52 8.9 – – – – Electricians................................................ 32.23 7.3 32.50 7.7 – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.87 6.7 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 16.15 8.7 – – 16.36 10.6 Supervisors, production..................................... 21.52 1.6 21.52 1.6 – – Machinists.................................................. 22.39 5.0 22.39 5.0 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 17.13 3.4 17.13 3.4 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.72 4.1 13.39 4.0 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.71 11.4 10.71 11.4 – – Printing press operators.................................... 20.40 9.6 20.40 9.6 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 11.80 18.7 11.80 18.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.23 6.5 12.40 2.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.24 12.5 13.24 12.5 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.81 5.5 13.81 5.5 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.96 4.8 17.59 6.1 20.03 8.4 Truck drivers............................................... 19.16 6.7 19.29 6.8 – – Bus drivers................................................. 16.51 12.9 13.22 4.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.90 3.8 11.53 4.0 16.61 7.1 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 14.25 7.7 – – – – Construction laborers....................................... 19.45 13.0 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.34 3.7 10.34 3.7 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.47 17.0 13.46 17.1 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.96 4.9 9.96 4.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 13.08 14.2 9.95 3.0 18.74 10.9 Service............................................................. 13.64 1.9 10.95 1.6 19.44 1.2 Protective service............................................ $19.51 5.0 $12.02 6.3 $22.23 0.9 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 24.56 1.6 – – 24.56 1.6 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 30.95 11.7 – – 31.05 11.9 Firefighting................................................ 21.32 2.1 – – 21.32 2.1 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.78 7.2 – – 21.78 7.2 Guards and police, except public service.................... 11.88 5.9 11.73 5.8 – – Protective service, n.e.c................................... 9.15 4.8 – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.41 5.7 8.24 6.1 14.05 4.1 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.89 7.5 3.89 7.5 – – Bartenders.................................................. 5.80 17.2 5.80 17.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.24 11.9 3.24 11.9 – – Other food service........................................... 10.48 4.8 10.33 5.2 14.05 4.1 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.14 9.2 – – – – Cooks....................................................... 12.37 2.1 12.09 2.0 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 10.25 23.5 10.25 23.5 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.86 2.5 8.85 2.5 – – Health service................................................ 11.98 3.1 11.77 3.5 12.95 1.6 Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.09 2.6 11.08 2.8 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 11.98 3.1 11.74 3.6 12.99 1.4 Cleaning and building service................................. 12.88 3.6 11.47 3.3 15.76 5.7 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 13.09 3.8 11.56 3.7 15.77 5.7 Personal service.............................................. 14.41 6.9 14.32 7.1 15.34 20.8 Public transportation attendants............................ 28.20 12.2 28.51 13.6 – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 10.23 13.3 10.03 14.5 – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 10.77 7.8 10.69 9.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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, September 2003 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................................................................... $24.83 2.0 $24.61 2.4 $25.77 3.4 All excluding sales............................................... 24.68 1.8 24.41 2.2 25.81 3.5 White collar........................................................ 28.59 2.2 28.45 2.4 29.23 5.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 28.66 2.0 28.50 2.1 29.34 5.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 32.50 3.5 31.67 4.3 35.71 3.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 34.79 3.0 34.39 3.8 36.06 3.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 36.11 1.6 36.31 1.8 – – Civil engineers............................................. 33.91 5.0 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 39.85 2.8 39.85 2.8 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 30.04 3.9 30.04 3.9 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.36 5.6 37.88 7.3 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 38.85 6.8 39.32 6.8 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.88 3.9 37.23 3.8 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 47.16 18.5 – – – – Natural scientists............................................ 23.48 6.6 23.46 6.5 – – Health related................................................ 29.65 5.5 29.74 6.3 29.13 5.4 Physicians.................................................. 29.61 24.9 31.48 25.1 – – Registered nurses........................................... 29.66 5.1 29.67 5.8 29.63 4.6 Teachers, college and university.............................. 47.37 4.7 50.14 5.0 – – Other post-secondary teachers............................... 39.53 14.6 44.25 19.0 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 37.45 5.8 21.15 6.8 39.82 5.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 40.91 3.6 – – 41.12 3.5 Secondary school teachers................................... 39.38 5.1 28.01 5.7 41.15 4.6 Teachers, special education................................. 27.55 20.3 – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 32.94 .6 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 30.14 7.9 30.15 10.7 – – Librarians.................................................. 30.42 11.3 – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.31 11.3 26.31 11.3 – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 22.24 5.5 19.55 5.6 – – Social workers.............................................. 21.94 5.9 18.34 1.7 – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 27.13 5.9 27.67 6.5 – – Technical....................................................... 20.62 9.8 20.35 10.4 26.19 7.6 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.98 6.2 16.94 6.2 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 20.44 4.1 – – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.31 14.6 15.11 14.5 – – Drafters.................................................... 24.31 5.5 24.31 5.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ 27.16 13.0 26.95 14.2 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 23.45 9.0 23.45 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 35.25 4.0 35.38 4.3 34.16 12.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 40.67 5.0 40.64 5.6 40.92 8.9 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.13 11.0 – – 33.13 11.0 Financial managers.......................................... $39.24 7.0 $39.14 7.1 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 44.55 5.1 44.55 5.1 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 41.05 11.0 37.57 13.9 $49.85 3.9 Managers, medicine and health............................... 38.77 17.4 38.77 17.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 26.06 7.3 26.06 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 44.31 5.5 44.21 6.0 – – Management related............................................ 27.29 5.8 27.71 6.2 23.84 5.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 22.82 4.8 22.78 5.5 – – Other financial officers.................................... 37.53 11.0 38.32 10.1 – – Management analysts......................................... 32.36 14.9 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 27.83 8.1 28.02 8.3 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 30.09 10.9 30.09 10.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 23.16 12.8 22.63 16.9 24.80 9.5 Sales............................................................. 27.71 14.2 27.92 14.5 21.22 .0 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 17.15 9.4 17.14 9.6 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 21.68 4.5 21.68 4.5 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 41.89 9.8 41.89 9.8 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 15.12 15.5 15.12 15.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 13.36 6.5 10.30 5.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 16.80 2.1 16.85 2.6 16.62 1.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 20.59 19.5 20.58 19.9 – – Supervisors, financial records processing................... 25.61 8.5 25.61 8.5 – – Secretaries................................................. 18.40 3.2 17.64 3.3 21.11 5.1 Receptionists............................................... 12.44 4.4 12.39 4.5 – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 13.54 1.4 13.50 1.4 – – Order clerks................................................ 15.67 8.6 15.67 8.6 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 15.15 3.3 15.14 3.4 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 17.21 8.0 16.66 10.7 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.02 5.5 – – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 13.43 8.4 13.43 8.4 – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 12.28 12.7 – – – – Dispatchers................................................. 15.08 7.0 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 17.67 6.8 17.67 6.8 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 14.79 10.7 13.62 9.7 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 20.76 7.7 20.76 7.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 18.34 17.4 18.34 17.4 – – General office clerks....................................... 16.32 2.8 16.43 4.2 16.19 4.3 Data entry keyers........................................... 12.98 2.1 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 12.98 1.2 – – 12.98 1.2 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 18.97 3.9 19.00 4.0 – – Blue collar......................................................... 18.55 1.8 18.30 2.1 20.79 1.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 23.92 2.6 24.03 2.9 22.94 5.3 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. $19.12 2.8 $19.12 2.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.59 6.2 20.25 8.3 – – Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 33.93 7.8 – – – – Carpenters.................................................. 26.52 8.9 – – – – Electricians................................................ 32.23 7.3 32.50 7.7 – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.87 6.7 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 16.15 8.7 – – $16.36 10.6 Supervisors, production..................................... 21.52 1.6 21.52 1.6 – – Machinists.................................................. 22.39 5.0 22.39 5.0 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 17.13 3.4 17.13 3.4 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.89 4.0 13.56 3.9 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.71 11.4 10.71 11.4 – – Printing press operators.................................... 20.40 9.6 20.40 9.6 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 11.80 18.7 11.80 18.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.24 6.6 12.40 2.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 14.19 8.4 14.19 8.4 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.81 5.5 13.81 5.5 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.73 5.6 18.44 6.9 20.16 9.0 Truck drivers............................................... 19.50 6.4 19.64 6.4 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.81 5.0 12.40 5.3 16.76 7.7 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 14.28 7.7 – – – – Construction laborers....................................... 19.45 13.0 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 12.74 6.5 12.74 6.5 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.32 18.9 13.31 19.0 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.15 19.3 – – – – Service............................................................. 15.48 2.0 12.38 2.1 19.90 1.2 Protective service............................................ 20.83 4.1 13.15 9.3 22.66 1.0 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 24.56 1.6 – – 24.56 1.6 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 30.95 11.7 – – 31.05 11.9 Firefighting................................................ 21.33 2.0 – – 21.33 2.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.88 6.9 – – 21.88 6.9 Guards and police, except public service.................... 12.82 8.1 12.60 7.7 – – Food service.................................................. 10.96 4.0 10.76 4.6 – – Other food service........................................... 11.73 3.7 11.55 4.3 – – Cooks....................................................... 12.50 2.9 12.18 2.6 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 13.04 17.8 13.04 17.8 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.92 4.5 8.89 4.4 – – Health service................................................ 12.14 3.6 11.91 4.3 12.99 1.4 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 12.17 3.1 11.91 3.9 12.99 1.4 Cleaning and building service................................. 13.35 4.2 11.88 3.8 15.91 5.4 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 13.56 4.5 12.01 4.5 15.93 5.4 Personal service.............................................. 18.37 10.8 18.17 11.4 – – 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. 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 2003 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................................................................... $13.51 3.3 $13.15 3.7 $19.30 4.3 All excluding sales............................................... 14.57 3.6 14.21 4.0 19.58 4.8 White collar........................................................ 17.54 3.7 17.05 4.1 24.47 8.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.58 3.8 22.26 4.1 25.70 10.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.18 4.2 27.81 4.3 32.48 15.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 30.77 5.8 30.29 6.1 35.53 12.5 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.00 6.1 30.81 6.1 – – Registered nurses........................................... 31.86 2.9 31.79 2.9 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 40.99 24.6 41.04 24.7 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.53 11.1 27.76 5.9 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35.65 10.9 27.03 6.7 – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 20.12 11.4 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 14.66 11.2 14.66 11.2 – – Technical....................................................... 21.19 4.0 21.50 4.0 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 22.10 6.2 22.34 6.0 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 19.85 1.4 19.85 1.4 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 19.42 7.6 20.42 4.2 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 23.40 4.3 – – 24.59 5.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ 22.35 6.6 – – – – Sales............................................................. 9.09 2.4 8.94 2.5 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.70 2.9 10.70 2.9 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.68 2.6 8.46 2.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.94 8.1 12.79 8.8 14.72 4.6 Secretaries................................................. 13.88 5.3 13.89 6.2 – – Receptionists............................................... 11.29 5.6 – – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 14.36 19.8 14.36 19.8 – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.45 14.3 14.41 15.8 – – Blue collar......................................................... 10.09 5.4 9.98 5.5 15.84 4.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ $13.76 5.0 $13.51 3.7 – – Bus drivers................................................. 13.59 7.3 13.27 5.5 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.10 2.8 9.10 2.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.55 3.4 8.55 3.4 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.39 5.7 – – – – Service............................................................. 8.78 2.9 8.57 3.2 $11.73 7.8 Protective service............................................ 10.09 3.8 10.10 4.5 10.06 6.0 Guards and police, except public service.................... 10.22 5.6 10.22 5.6 – – Food service.................................................. 6.27 5.6 6.26 5.6 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.63 4.2 3.63 4.2 – – Bartenders.................................................. 5.80 17.2 5.80 17.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.90 5.3 2.90 5.3 – – Other food service........................................... 8.71 1.7 8.71 1.7 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.82 3.1 7.82 3.1 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.81 2.8 8.80 2.8 – – Health service................................................ 11.40 2.5 11.37 2.6 12.14 6.2 Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.50 8.9 11.52 10.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 11.25 3.3 11.21 3.3 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.72 6.0 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.77 6.8 – – – – Personal service.............................................. 9.72 6.3 9.55 7.1 – – 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 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, September 2003 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................................................................... $970 2.1 39.1 $970 2.4 39.4 $968 4.3 37.6 All excluding sales............................................... 962 1.9 39.0 961 2.2 39.4 969 4.4 37.5 White collar........................................................ 1,110 2.4 38.8 1,123 2.5 39.5 1,052 6.4 36.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 1,109 2.2 38.7 1,122 2.2 39.4 1,055 6.4 36.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,252 3.4 38.5 1,248 4.2 39.4 1,266 4.7 35.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,336 3.2 38.4 1,357 3.9 39.5 1,274 4.9 35.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,483 1.2 41.1 1,511 1.5 41.6 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 1,329 2.1 39.2 – – – – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,697 4.6 42.6 1,697 4.6 42.6 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 1,212 4.3 40.3 1,212 4.3 40.3 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,428 6.3 39.3 1,523 7.5 40.2 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,544 6.8 39.7 1,566 6.8 39.8 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,474 4.5 40.0 1,492 4.4 40.1 – – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 1,830 20.4 38.8 – – – – – – Natural scientists............................................ 920 6.6 39.2 919 6.6 39.2 – – – Health related................................................ 1,137 7.1 38.3 1,132 8.2 38.1 1,165 2.8 40.0 Physicians.................................................. 1,321 24.1 44.6 1,340 25.0 42.6 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 1,108 7.4 37.4 1,100 8.4 37.1 1,171 4.3 39.5 Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,828 3.1 38.6 1,941 2.3 38.7 – – – Other post-secondary teachers............................... 1,482 12.5 37.5 1,658 15.5 37.5 – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,294 6.9 34.6 865 11.0 40.9 1,345 7.2 33.8 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,388 4.3 33.9 – – – 1,391 4.3 33.8 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,378 8.7 35.0 1,363 12.3 48.7 1,379 9.6 33.5 Teachers, special education................................. 1,001 14.4 36.3 – – – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 1,156 .7 35.1 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 1,096 6.6 36.3 1,092 9.0 36.2 – – – Librarians.................................................. 1,125 8.9 37.0 – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 985 12.7 37.4 985 12.7 37.4 – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 855 5.3 38.5 778 5.7 39.8 – – – Social workers.............................................. 842 5.6 38.4 730 2.0 39.8 – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 1,028 7.2 37.9 1,049 7.9 37.9 – – – Technical....................................................... 809 9.4 39.2 799 10.0 39.3 1,008 6.9 38.5 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 655 5.9 38.6 653 5.8 38.6 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 817 4.1 40.0 – – – – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 606 14.1 39.6 599 14.1 39.7 – – – Drafters.................................................... 966 5.7 39.8 966 5.7 39.8 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 1,067 14.3 39.3 1,062 15.5 39.4 – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 894 12.4 38.1 894 12.4 38.1 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $1,396 4.3 39.6 $1,408 4.5 39.8 $1,302 14.6 38.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,613 5.4 39.7 1,619 6.0 39.8 1,571 13.0 38.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,241 13.4 37.5 – – – 1,241 13.4 37.5 Financial managers.......................................... 1,696 6.6 43.2 1,697 6.7 43.4 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,818 4.4 40.8 1,818 4.4 40.8 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,509 11.1 36.8 1,342 10.7 35.7 1,980 12.2 39.7 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,514 17.6 39.1 1,514 17.6 39.1 – – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 1,027 8.0 39.4 1,027 8.0 39.4 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,746 5.7 39.4 1,744 6.2 39.5 – – – Management related............................................ 1,078 5.9 39.5 1,101 6.2 39.7 899 6.0 37.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 871 4.5 38.2 872 5.1 38.3 – – – Other financial officers.................................... 1,480 11.0 39.4 1,514 10.0 39.5 – – – Management analysts......................................... 1,251 15.1 38.7 – – – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 1,120 7.5 40.2 1,128 7.7 40.3 – – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 1,238 13.2 41.1 1,238 13.2 41.1 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 918 14.1 39.6 909 18.9 40.2 944 9.5 38.1 Sales............................................................. 1,124 14.4 40.6 1,133 14.7 40.6 849 .0 40.0 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 686 10.2 40.0 686 10.4 40.0 – – – Sales, other business services.............................. 884 5.0 40.8 884 5.0 40.8 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 1,750 10.7 41.8 1,750 10.7 41.8 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 577 13.6 38.1 577 13.6 38.1 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 519 7.1 38.8 395 8.1 38.4 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 642 2.0 38.2 655 2.4 38.9 598 1.5 36.0 Supervisors, general office................................. 803 17.9 39.0 804 18.3 39.1 – – – Supervisors, financial records processing................... 1,017 7.9 39.7 1,017 7.9 39.7 – – – Secretaries................................................. 699 3.3 38.0 672 3.3 38.1 790 6.6 37.4 Receptionists............................................... 487 4.2 39.2 486 4.4 39.2 – – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 526 1.4 38.9 524 1.4 38.8 – – – Order clerks................................................ 619 8.3 39.5 619 8.3 39.5 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 604 3.3 39.9 606 3.4 40.0 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 672 8.0 39.1 656 10.5 39.4 – – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 632 4.1 39.4 – – – – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 537 8.4 40.0 537 8.4 40.0 – – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 471 15.5 38.4 – – – – – – Dispatchers................................................. 603 7.0 40.0 – – – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 702 7.1 39.7 702 7.1 39.7 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 578 9.3 39.1 545 9.7 40.0 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 769 7.6 37.1 769 7.6 37.1 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 718 15.8 39.2 718 15.8 39.2 – – – General office clerks....................................... $616 2.4 37.7 $632 3.7 38.5 $598 3.3 36.9 Data entry keyers........................................... 506 1.8 39.0 – – – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 411 4.4 31.7 – – – 411 4.4 31.7 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 740 3.6 39.0 742 3.7 39.0 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 741 1.8 40.0 732 2.1 40.0 829 1.6 39.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 958 2.6 40.1 963 2.9 40.1 918 5.3 40.0 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 762 2.9 39.8 762 2.9 39.8 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 824 6.2 40.0 810 8.3 40.0 – – – Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 1,357 7.8 40.0 – – – – – – Carpenters.................................................. 1,061 8.9 40.0 – – – – – – Electricians................................................ 1,289 7.3 40.0 1,300 7.7 40.0 – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 875 6.7 40.0 – – – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 646 8.7 40.0 – – – 654 10.6 40.0 Supervisors, production..................................... 865 1.5 40.2 865 1.5 40.2 – – – Machinists.................................................. 896 5.0 40.0 896 5.0 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 685 3.4 40.0 685 3.4 40.0 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 552 3.9 39.8 539 3.9 39.8 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 428 11.4 40.0 428 11.4 40.0 – – – Printing press operators.................................... 809 9.3 39.7 809 9.3 39.7 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 468 19.2 39.7 468 19.2 39.7 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 521 6.1 39.3 490 2.9 39.5 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 568 8.4 40.0 568 8.4 40.0 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 544 5.4 39.4 544 5.4 39.4 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 756 5.2 40.4 745 6.4 40.4 807 9.0 40.0 Truck drivers............................................... 791 7.8 40.6 797 7.9 40.6 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 511 5.0 39.9 494 5.3 39.9 670 7.7 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 571 7.7 40.0 – – – – – – Construction laborers....................................... 778 13.0 40.0 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 506 6.8 39.7 506 6.8 39.7 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 533 18.9 40.0 532 19.0 40.0 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 566 19.3 40.0 – – – – – – Service............................................................. 602 1.8 38.9 468 1.8 37.8 808 1.2 40.6 Protective service............................................ 852 4.2 40.9 525 9.3 39.9 932 1.4 41.1 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 1,031 1.8 42.0 – – – 1,031 1.8 42.0 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 1,236 11.7 39.9 – – – 1,240 12.0 39.9 Firefighting................................................ 930 2.4 43.6 – – – 930 2.4 43.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... $874 6.9 39.9 – – – $874 6.9 39.9 Guards and police, except public service.................... 512 8.1 39.9 $503 7.7 39.9 – – – Food service.................................................. 415 5.1 37.9 409 5.9 38.1 – – – Other food service........................................... 452 5.1 38.6 449 5.8 38.9 – – – Cooks....................................................... 471 2.5 37.7 468 2.2 38.4 – – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 517 18.8 39.7 517 18.8 39.7 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 339 5.0 38.0 338 4.9 38.0 – – – Health service................................................ 474 3.9 39.1 463 4.6 38.9 518 1.5 39.9 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 474 3.6 39.0 461 4.5 38.7 518 1.5 39.9 Cleaning and building service................................. 521 4.7 39.0 458 4.8 38.6 634 5.5 39.9 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 533 4.7 39.3 468 4.8 38.9 635 5.5 39.9 Personal service.............................................. 573 8.4 31.2 558 8.7 30.7 – – – 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, September 2003 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................................................................... $49,018 2.1 1,975 $50,150 2.4 2,038 $44,837 4.3 1,740 All excluding sales............................................... 48,596 1.9 1,969 49,665 2.2 2,035 44,841 4.4 1,737 White collar........................................................ 55,395 2.4 1,938 57,945 2.5 2,037 46,096 6.4 1,577 White collar excluding sales.................................... 55,211 2.2 1,927 57,901 2.2 2,031 46,116 6.4 1,572 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 60,533 3.4 1,863 63,936 4.2 2,019 51,216 4.7 1,434 Professional specialty.......................................... 63,769 3.2 1,833 69,317 3.9 2,015 51,185 4.9 1,419 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 77,136 1.2 2,136 78,566 1.5 2,164 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 69,105 2.1 2,038 – – – – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 88,239 4.6 2,214 88,239 4.6 2,214 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 63,000 4.3 2,097 63,000 4.3 2,097 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 74,246 6.3 2,042 79,203 7.5 2,091 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 80,281 6.8 2,066 81,433 6.8 2,071 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 76,669 4.5 2,079 77,580 4.4 2,084 – – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 95,145 20.4 2,017 – – – – – – Natural scientists............................................ 47,850 6.6 2,038 47,811 6.6 2,038 – – – Health related................................................ 58,078 7.1 1,959 58,871 8.2 1,980 53,605 2.8 1,840 Physicians.................................................. 68,668 24.1 2,319 69,681 25.0 2,213 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 57,559 7.4 1,941 57,190 8.4 1,928 60,215 4.3 2,032 Teachers, college and university.............................. 77,503 3.1 1,636 83,499 2.3 1,665 – – – Other post-secondary teachers............................... 58,698 12.5 1,485 66,340 15.5 1,499 – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 48,236 6.9 1,288 37,662 11.0 1,781 49,307 7.2 1,238 Elementary school teachers.................................. 51,130 4.3 1,250 – – – 51,187 4.3 1,245 Secondary school teachers................................... 50,650 8.7 1,286 53,727 12.3 1,918 50,344 9.6 1,223 Teachers, special education................................. 40,419 14.4 1,467 – – – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 42,243 .7 1,283 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 54,417 6.6 1,805 56,484 9.0 1,873 – – – Librarians.................................................. 54,709 8.9 1,799 – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 51,133 12.7 1,944 51,133 12.7 1,944 – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 44,456 5.3 1,999 40,414 5.7 2,067 – – – Social workers.............................................. 43,730 5.6 1,993 37,882 2.0 2,065 – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 53,439 7.2 1,970 54,534 7.9 1,971 – – – Technical....................................................... 41,913 9.4 2,033 41,399 10.0 2,034 52,412 6.9 2,001 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 34,054 5.9 2,006 33,966 5.8 2,005 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 42,506 4.1 2,080 – – – – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 31,406 14.1 2,051 31,032 14.1 2,053 – – – Drafters.................................................... 50,245 5.7 2,067 50,245 5.7 2,067 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 55,506 14.3 2,044 55,231 15.5 2,050 – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 43,507 12.4 1,855 43,507 12.4 1,855 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $72,240 4.3 2,050 $73,134 4.5 2,067 $65,625 14.6 1,921 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 83,245 5.4 2,047 84,034 6.0 2,068 77,596 13.0 1,896 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 64,516 13.4 1,948 – – – 64,516 13.4 1,948 Financial managers.......................................... 88,200 6.6 2,248 88,235 6.7 2,254 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 94,518 4.4 2,121 94,518 4.4 2,121 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 74,106 11.1 1,805 68,235 10.7 1,816 88,607 12.2 1,777 Managers, medicine and health............................... 78,733 17.6 2,031 78,733 17.6 2,031 – – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 53,415 8.0 2,050 53,415 8.0 2,050 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 90,416 5.7 2,040 90,701 6.2 2,052 – – – Management related............................................ 56,045 5.9 2,054 57,244 6.2 2,066 46,742 6.0 1,961 Accountants and auditors.................................... 45,295 4.5 1,985 45,338 5.1 1,990 – – – Other financial officers.................................... 76,936 11.0 2,050 78,722 10.0 2,054 – – – Management analysts......................................... 65,050 15.1 2,010 – – – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 58,217 7.5 2,092 58,673 7.7 2,094 – – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 64,378 13.2 2,139 64,378 13.2 2,139 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 47,722 14.1 2,061 47,267 18.9 2,088 49,086 9.5 1,979 Sales............................................................. 57,973 14.4 2,092 58,439 14.7 2,093 44,142 .0 2,080 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 33,503 10.2 1,954 33,432 10.4 1,951 – – – Sales, other business services.............................. 45,944 5.0 2,119 45,944 5.0 2,119 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 90,976 10.7 2,172 90,976 10.7 2,172 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 29,992 13.6 1,984 29,996 13.6 1,984 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 26,969 7.1 2,019 20,565 8.1 1,997 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 32,747 2.0 1,949 34,072 2.4 2,022 28,550 1.5 1,718 Supervisors, general office................................. 41,781 17.9 2,029 41,804 18.3 2,031 – – – Supervisors, financial records processing................... 52,895 7.9 2,065 52,895 7.9 2,065 – – – Secretaries................................................. 36,326 3.3 1,974 34,967 3.3 1,982 41,084 6.6 1,946 Receptionists............................................... 25,339 4.2 2,036 25,268 4.4 2,039 – – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 27,361 1.4 2,021 27,258 1.4 2,019 – – – Order clerks................................................ 32,170 8.3 2,053 32,170 8.3 2,053 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 31,394 3.3 2,073 31,495 3.4 2,080 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 34,955 8.0 2,031 34,104 10.5 2,046 – – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 32,865 4.1 2,051 – – – – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 27,900 8.4 2,078 27,900 8.4 2,078 – – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 24,513 15.5 1,997 – – – – – – Dispatchers................................................. 31,358 7.0 2,080 – – – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 36,508 7.1 2,066 36,508 7.1 2,066 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 30,075 9.3 2,034 28,326 9.7 2,080 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 39,989 7.6 1,927 39,989 7.6 1,927 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 37,361 15.8 2,037 37,361 15.8 2,037 – – – General office clerks....................................... $31,982 2.4 1,960 $32,773 3.7 1,995 $31,102 3.3 1,921 Data entry keyers........................................... 26,325 1.8 2,029 – – – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 15,178 4.4 1,170 – – – 15,178 4.4 1,170 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 38,477 3.6 2,029 38,578 3.7 2,030 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 38,547 1.8 2,078 38,053 2.1 2,079 43,119 1.6 2,074 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 49,817 2.6 2,083 50,065 2.9 2,083 47,723 5.3 2,080 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 39,601 2.9 2,071 39,601 2.9 2,071 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 42,824 6.2 2,080 42,113 8.3 2,080 – – – Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 70,574 7.8 2,080 – – – – – – Carpenters.................................................. 55,164 8.9 2,080 – – – – – – Electricians................................................ 67,036 7.3 2,080 67,607 7.7 2,080 – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 45,493 6.7 2,080 – – – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 33,600 8.7 2,080 – – – 34,034 10.6 2,080 Supervisors, production..................................... 44,973 1.5 2,090 44,973 1.5 2,090 – – – Machinists.................................................. 46,575 5.0 2,080 46,575 5.0 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 35,626 3.4 2,080 35,626 3.4 2,080 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 28,707 3.9 2,067 28,051 3.9 2,069 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 22,278 11.4 2,080 22,278 11.4 2,080 – – – Printing press operators.................................... 42,085 9.3 2,063 42,085 9.3 2,063 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 24,348 19.2 2,064 24,348 19.2 2,064 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 27,066 6.1 2,044 25,480 2.9 2,054 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 29,511 8.4 2,080 29,511 8.4 2,080 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 28,299 5.4 2,049 28,299 5.4 2,049 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 39,263 5.2 2,096 38,707 6.4 2,099 41,939 9.0 2,080 Truck drivers............................................... 41,087 7.8 2,108 41,406 7.9 2,108 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 26,555 5.0 2,073 25,696 5.3 2,072 34,848 7.7 2,079 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 29,701 7.7 2,080 – – – – – – Construction laborers....................................... 40,458 13.0 2,080 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 26,333 6.8 2,066 26,333 6.8 2,066 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 27,704 18.9 2,080 27,675 19.0 2,080 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 29,432 19.3 2,080 – – – – – – Service............................................................. 31,044 1.8 2,006 24,106 1.8 1,947 41,715 1.2 2,096 Protective service............................................ 44,284 4.2 2,126 27,233 9.3 2,072 48,467 1.4 2,139 Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention............... 53,603 1.8 2,182 – – – 53,603 1.8 2,182 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 63,813 11.7 2,062 – – – 64,470 12.0 2,077 Firefighting................................................ 48,337 2.4 2,266 – – – 48,337 2.4 2,266 Police and detectives, public service....................... $45,441 6.9 2,077 – – – $45,441 6.9 2,077 Guards and police, except public service.................... 26,610 8.1 2,076 $26,153 7.7 2,075 – – – Food service.................................................. 20,997 5.1 1,915 21,094 5.9 1,961 – – – Other food service........................................... 22,792 5.1 1,944 23,096 5.8 2,000 – – – Cooks....................................................... 23,156 2.5 1,853 24,321 2.2 1,997 – – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 26,886 18.8 2,062 26,886 18.8 2,062 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 17,022 5.0 1,909 16,960 4.9 1,907 – – – Health service................................................ 24,576 3.9 2,024 23,952 4.6 2,011 26,920 1.5 2,073 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 24,668 3.6 2,027 23,980 4.5 2,013 26,920 1.5 2,073 Cleaning and building service................................. 27,054 4.7 2,027 23,786 4.8 2,002 32,986 5.5 2,073 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 27,677 4.7 2,041 24,256 4.8 2,020 33,015 5.5 2,073 Personal service.............................................. 28,556 8.4 1,554 27,766 8.7 1,528 – – – 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, September 2003 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................................................................... $23.46 2.0 $23.04 2.5 $25.50 3.4 All excluding sales............................................... 23.63 1.9 23.20 2.2 25.57 3.4 White collar........................................................ 27.52 2.1 27.22 2.3 29.04 5.4 1....................................................... 8.49 1.9 8.49 1.9 – – 2....................................................... 10.65 3.6 10.24 4.0 12.80 1.5 3....................................................... 13.79 1.9 12.92 2.7 15.51 1.9 4....................................................... 15.29 2.1 14.79 2.3 18.13 3.6 5....................................................... 17.28 5.1 16.95 5.7 19.88 3.2 6....................................................... 20.79 4.1 20.55 4.7 22.32 8.2 7....................................................... 25.58 9.2 23.09 1.8 34.38 19.8 8....................................................... 26.51 4.7 26.51 5.0 26.59 13.2 9....................................................... 33.28 3.6 31.82 5.4 36.34 1.9 10........................................................ 34.85 2.8 35.23 2.7 23.93 24.2 11........................................................ 37.50 3.7 37.68 4.5 36.78 2.9 12........................................................ 48.48 2.6 48.60 2.7 44.84 1.9 13........................................................ 55.50 3.5 55.95 3.8 – – 14........................................................ 62.46 12.9 65.30 14.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.59 6.6 30.80 6.8 26.06 1.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 28.25 1.9 28.04 1.9 29.21 5.5 1....................................................... 9.19 12.3 9.26 13.2 – – 2....................................................... 11.79 2.2 11.38 2.8 12.94 1.4 3....................................................... 13.73 2.0 13.17 3.0 14.78 1.2 4....................................................... 15.60 2.4 15.06 2.7 18.23 3.4 5....................................................... 17.33 5.7 16.96 6.4 19.88 3.2 6....................................................... 20.15 2.1 19.78 1.9 22.32 8.2 7....................................................... 25.42 10.2 22.57 2.5 34.52 19.7 8....................................................... 26.41 4.7 26.39 5.0 26.59 13.2 9....................................................... 32.02 1.8 29.70 1.8 36.34 1.9 10........................................................ 34.73 2.8 35.12 2.6 23.93 24.2 11........................................................ 37.11 3.7 37.20 4.6 36.78 2.9 12........................................................ 48.48 2.6 48.60 2.7 44.84 1.9 13........................................................ 56.95 3.7 57.66 3.8 – – 14........................................................ 62.46 12.9 65.30 14.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.84 6.4 31.07 6.5 26.06 1.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 32.14 3.1 31.30 3.8 35.60 3.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 34.50 2.7 34.04 3.3 36.05 4.0 6....................................................... 23.35 8.5 19.73 6.7 29.24 11.6 7....................................................... 28.60 14.1 23.76 3.3 38.40 15.7 8....................................................... 29.95 4.5 29.75 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 32.95 1.8 29.89 1.4 37.10 2.6 10........................................................ 36.17 3.0 36.99 2.2 – – 11........................................................ 35.87 5.8 36.32 7.7 34.51 3.3 12........................................................ 44.04 5.5 44.02 5.6 – – 13........................................................ 55.59 5.4 55.53 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... $33.98 5.4 $34.28 5.5 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 36.11 1.6 36.31 1.8 – – 7....................................................... 25.49 2.6 25.49 2.6 – – 9....................................................... 33.01 4.0 33.01 4.0 – – 10........................................................ 39.97 1.5 39.97 1.5 – – 11........................................................ 36.23 5.9 38.08 12.4 – – 12........................................................ 43.49 2.9 43.49 2.9 – – Civil engineers............................................. 33.91 5.0 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 39.85 2.8 39.85 2.8 – – 10........................................................ 40.29 2.8 40.29 2.8 – – 11........................................................ 40.32 15.5 40.32 15.5 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 30.04 3.9 30.04 3.9 – – 9....................................................... 31.05 9.8 31.05 9.8 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.36 5.6 37.88 7.3 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 38.83 6.8 39.30 6.8 – – 9....................................................... 30.75 5.0 32.19 5.2 – – 10........................................................ 40.07 5.0 40.07 5.0 – – 11.........