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17-519-CHI
Friday, June 23, 2017

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island — May 2016

Workers in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $21.56 in May 2016, about 10 percent below the nationwide average of $23.86, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Charlene Peiffer noted that, after testing for statistical significance, wages in the local area were lower than their respective national averages in 16 of the 22 major occupational groups, including management; arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media; and computer and mathematical.

When compared to the nationwide distribution, local employment was more highly concentrated in 3 of the 22 occupational groups: production; installation, maintenance, and repair; and management. Conversely, eight groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including personal care and service; sales and related; and computer and mathematical. (See table A and box note at end of release.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2016
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage
United StatesDavenportUnited StatesDavenportPercent difference (1)

Total, all occupations

100.0100.0$23.86$21.56*-10

Management

5.15.6*56.7444.66*-21

Business and financial operations

5.24.8*36.0932.35*-10

Computer and mathematical

3.02.4*42.2535.94*-15

Architecture and engineering

1.81.940.5337.87*-7

Life, physical, and social science

0.80.6*35.0630.73*-12

Community and social service

1.41.322.6922.09-3

Legal

0.80.5*50.9544.85*-12

Education, training, and library

6.25.926.2125.77-2

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.41.1*28.0719.17*-32

Healthcare practitioners and technical

5.95.438.0635.55*-7

Healthcare support

2.92.914.6513.84*-6

Protective service

2.42.1*22.0321.76-1

Food preparation and serving related

9.29.311.4710.19*-11

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

3.22.913.4712.74*-5

Personal care and service

3.22.4*12.7411.87*-7

Sales and related

10.49.7*19.5017.20*-12

Office and administrative support

15.714.917.9116.25*-9

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.30.313.3714.55*9

Construction and extraction

4.03.823.5123.932

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.94.7*22.4521.52*-4

Production

6.510.5*17.8818.101

Transportation and material moving

6.97.017.3416.52*-5

Footnotes:
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
* The percent share of employment or mean hourly wage for this area is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level.
 

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island had 18,990 jobs in production, accounting for 10.5 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.5-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $18.10, compared to the national wage of $17.88.

Some of the largest detailed occupations within the production group included team assemblers (1,390), packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (1,100), and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (1,080). Among the higher paying jobs were stationary engineers and boiler operators with mean hourly wages of $36.23 and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, $29.58. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($10.11) and woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ($10.60). (Detailed occupational data for production are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/2016/may/oes_19340.htm .)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Davenport were employed at 3.7 times the national rate, and lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, at 2.9 times the U.S. average. On the other hand, team assemblers in Davenport had a location quotient of 1.0, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

These statistics are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, a federal-state cooperative program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Iowa Department of Workforce Development and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

Note

A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.


Technical Note

The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a semiannual mail survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OES data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 650 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), metropolitan divisions, nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-, 4-, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels, and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.

OES estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.2 million establishments. Each year, two semiannual panels of approximately 200,000 sampled establishments are contacted, one panel in May and the other in November. Responses are obtained by mail, Internet or other electronic means, email, telephone, or personal visit. The May 2016 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels collected over a 3-year period: May 2016, November 2015, May 2015, November 2014, May 2014, and November 2013. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 73 percent based on establishments and 69 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The unweighted employment of sampled establishments across all six semiannual panels represents approximately 58 percent of total national employment. The sample in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,590 establishments with a response rate of 75 percent. For more information about OES concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.tn.htm.

The May 2016 OES estimates are based on the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system and the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Information about the 2010 SOC is available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/soc and information about the 2012 NAICS is available at www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm.

Metropolitan area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

The Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill. Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Scott County of Iowa and Henry, Mercer, and Rock Island Counties of Illinois.

Additional information

OES data are available on our regional web page at www.bls.gov/regions/midwest. Answers to frequently asked questions about the OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed technical information about the OES survey is available in our Survey Methods and Reliability Statement on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/oes/current/methods_statement.pdf.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request . Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.

Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2016
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Production occupations

18,9901.6$18.10$37,660

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

1,0801.429.5861,530

Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers

1000.315.5832,410

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

(5)(5)19.5640,690

Team assemblers

1,3901.015.3031,830

Assemblers and fabricators, all other

4201.413.6328,360

Bakers

1300.513.0127,070

Butchers and meat cutters

4502.613.2227,500

Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers

7103.714.1129,350

Food batchmakers

1200.713.6728,440

Food cooking machine operators and tenders

501.114.5830,340

Food processing workers, all other

1001.813.4928,050

Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic

4802.618.4738,430

Computer numerically controlled machine tool programmers, metal and plastic

902.725.7853,620

Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

(5)(5)16.8134,970

Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

2000.815.9333,140

Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

(5)(5)15.9333,140

Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

1501.516.1233,520

Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

1302.915.1531,510

Machinists

9902.021.7345,200

Foundry mold and coremakers

603.718.2137,880

Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

2501.317.0935,550

Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

(5)(5)17.0435,440

Tool and die makers

1701.826.8355,800

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

7501.519.3840,320

Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

602.218.6038,690

Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

1002.214.4029,960

Metal workers and plastic workers, all other

(5)(5)19.8041,180

Prepress technicians and workers

300.716.2133,720

Printing press operators

1100.517.5036,400

Print binding and finishing workers

600.912.2525,490

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

2801.110.1121,020

Sewing machine operators

1000.612.9326,900

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters

700.615.8733,010

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

1101.110.6022,050

Stationary engineers and boiler operators

601.536.2375,350

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

1901.322.9347,700

Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders

300.916.2233,730

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

700.415.9833,240

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders

400.518.7839,070

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

5500.819.0639,640

Dental laboratory technicians

1202.517.1835,730

Ophthalmic laboratory technicians

501.414.7430,650

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

1,1002.213.4628,000

Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders

1000.915.6832,620

Painters, transportation equipment

1001.423.8649,620

Etchers and engravers

(5)(5)13.2027,460

Helpers--production workers

1,0201.813.0727,190

Production workers, all other

3,60011.119.4540,460

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_19340.htm.
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.
(3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
(5) Estimate not released.
 

 

Last Modified Date: Friday, June 23, 2017