Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA
National Compensation Survey
December 1997
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U.S. Department of Labor
Alexis M. Herman, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner
Revised March 1999
Bulletin 3090-39
Preface
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his bulletin provides results of a December 1997 survey
of occupational pay in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA).
Data shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new program known as
the National Compensation Survey (NCS).
The survey could not have been conducted without the
cooperation of the many private firms and government jurisdictions that provided pay data included in this bulletin.
The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation.
Survey data were collected and reviewed by Bureau of
Labor Statistics field economists under the direction of
Caryl L. O'Keefe, Assistant Regional Commissioner for
Operations of the San Francisco Regional Office. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the Office of Field Operations and the Office
of Technology and Survey Processing in the BLS National
Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and analyzed the survey results.
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Contents
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Introduction ................................................................................................................................................
Wages in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, CMSA .............................................................................
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Tables:
A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ...........................................
A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and
State and local government...........................................................................................................
A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations,
full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................
B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ...............................................................
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Appendix A:
Technical Note .....................................................................................................................................
Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors......................................................................................
Appendix table 3. Average work levels ...........................................................................................
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Introduction
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broader coverage of occupations and establishments within
the survey area.
Occupations surveyed for this bulletin were selected
using probability techniques from a list of all those present
in each establishment. Previous OCS bulletins were limited to a preselected list of occupations, which represented
a small subset of all occupations in the economy. Information in the new bulletin is published for a variety of occupation-based data. This new approach includes data on
broad occupational classifications such as white-collar
workers, major occupational groups such as sales workers,
and individual occupations such as cashiers.
In tables containing work levels within occupational series, the work levels are derived from generic standards that
apply to all occupational groups. The job levels in the
OCS bulletins were based on narrowly-defined descriptions
that were not comparable across specific occupations.
Occupational data in this bulletin are also tabulated for
other classifications such as industry group, full-time versus part-time workers, union versus nonunion status, time
versus incentive status, and establishment employment size.
Not all of these series were generated by the OCS program.
The establishments surveyed for this bulletin were limited to those with 50 or more employees. Eventually, NCS
will be expanded to cover those now-excluded establishments. Then, virtually all workers in the civilian economy
will be surveyed, excluding only agriculture, private households, and employees of the Federal Government.
his survey of occupational pay was conducted in the
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The CMSA includes
Island, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston
Counties, WA.
This bulletin consists primarily of tables whose data are
analyzed in the initial textual section. Tabulations provide
information on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at a wide range of work levels. Also contained in
this bulletin is information on the program, a technical note
describing survey procedures, and several appendixes with
detailed information on occupational classifications and the
generic leveling methodology.
NCS design and products
The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) new National
Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on
the levels and rates of change of occupational wages and
employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions,
and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be
the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the
change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This
bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These
data are similar to those released under the Occupational
Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued.
NCS more extensive than OCS
The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing
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Wages in the
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
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Survey results show that private industry workers in
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA earned $16.15 per hour,
while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $20.57. Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for
white-collar occupations as $19.15 in private industry and
$22.03 in State and local government. Blue-collar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $14.66 in private
industry and $17.18 in State and local government. Service
occupations within private industry averaged $8.61 per
hour while those found in State and local government averaged $16.81.
traight-time wages in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $17.05 per hour during December 1997. White-collar
workers had an average wage of $19.87 per hour. Bluecollar workers averaged $14.89 per hour, while service
workers had average earnings of $10.37 per hour. (All
comparisons in this analysis cover hourly rates for both
full- and part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.)
Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational
group, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and
State and local government, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, December 1997
Dollars per hour
$ 20
Dollars per hour
$
25
15
20
10
15
5
10
5
0
Whitecollar
Bluecollar
Service
workers
0
White-collar
Within each of these occupational groups, average
hourly wages for individual occupations varied. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at
$23.01 per hour, secretaries at $13.76, and general office
clerks at $12.39. Among occupations in the blue-collar
category, truck drivers averaged $14.61 per hour while
stock handlers and baggers averaged $9.32. Finally, service occupations included nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at $9.19 per hour and maids and housemen at $7.76.
Table A-1 presents earnings data for 140 detailed occupations; data for other detailed occupations surveyed could
not be reported separately due to concerns about the confidentiality of survey respondents and the reliability of the
data.
Private industry
Blue-collar
Service
State and local government
Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the
survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were
$17.84 per hour, compared with an average of $11.11 per
hour for part-time workers.
Data for specific work levels within major occupational
groups are reported in table B-1. Occasionally, wage estimates for lower levels of work within major occupational
groups are greater than estimates for higher levels. This
can occur due to the mix of specific occupations (and in
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sions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly
wages averaged $18.47 in all goods-producing industries,
$19.84 in construction, and $18.33 in manufacturing.
Hourly wages averaged $15.07 in all service-producing industries, $17.34 in transportation and public utilities,
$12.56 in wholesale and retail trade, and $15.61 in services. Data for other industry divisions did not meet publication criteria.
Table C-4 reports that a total of 906,289 workers were
represented by the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA survey.
White-collar occupations included 528,251 workers, or 58
percent; blue-collar occupations included 215,584 workers,
or 24 percent; and service occupations included 162,453
workers, or 18 percent.
dustries) represented by the broad group as well as by the
variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may
not be published because no workers were identified at that
level or because there were not enough data to guarantee
confidentiality and reliability.
Work levels for all major groups span several levels,
with professional specialty occupations and executive, administrative, and managerial occupations typically starting
and ending at higher work levels than the other groups.
Published data for administrative support occupations, including clerical, ranged from level 1 to level 7. As illustrated in Chart 3, the average hourly rate was $7.10 for
level 1, $10.26 for level 3, $13.42 for level 5, and $16.94
for level 7.
Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by
occupational group, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997
Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for
administrative support occupations, including clerical,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Percent
60
Dollars per hour
$20
50
15
40
30
10
20
5
10
0
0
1
3
5
Whitecollar
7
Level
Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of
$18.86, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion
workers averaged $15.99. Time workers, whose wages
were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged
$17.04 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at
least partially based on productivity payments, averaged
$17.41 per hour.
Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divi
Bluecollar
Service
workers
Data are also presented in appendix table 1 on the number of establishments studied by industry group and employment size. The relative standard errors of published
mean hourly earnings for all industries, private industry,
and State and local government are available in appendix
table 2. The average work levels for published occupational groups and selected occupations are presented in appendix table 3.
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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ....................................................................... $17.05
All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 17.29
25
Median
50
$7.20 $10.15 $14.74
7.46 10.36 15.13
75
90
$21.33
21.83
$28.39
28.74
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
19.87
20.71
9.25
10.00
12.28
12.95
17.14
18.25
24.29
25.18
32.13
32.91
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Occupational therapists ........................................
Physical therapists ................................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Urban planners .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .......
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ...........................
Drafters .................................................................
Computer programmers .......................................
Legal assistants ....................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
Purchasing managers ...........................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .............
24.21
25.42
–
29.17
24.38
24.83
14.42
15.14
–
20.56
16.80
17.76
17.31
18.97
–
21.30
19.71
20.07
22.02
23.13
–
28.21
23.29
24.13
27.35
28.75
–
36.93
27.55
28.13
33.51
34.14
–
41.82
32.86
33.65
20.52
24.15
27.84
22.98
39.46
23.01
29.51
21.53
20.78
14.36
32.01
25.34
12.03
28.09
27.79
27.48
26.19
11.67
22.81
23.83
27.07
18.69
25.08
17.26
17.11
29.55
28.83
14.95
19.40
13.46
15.85
15.35
17.55
28.00
14.50
17.50
11.22
20.23
10.67
7.25
18.90
18.21
18.63
17.63
10.67
12.67
18.61
18.12
8.57
21.13
12.02
12.02
19.44
19.44
17.21
20.85
20.54
18.45
17.19
19.74
28.00
14.50
19.93
12.40
25.09
19.73
8.00
23.35
22.46
21.94
21.06
10.67
13.85
18.61
22.68
13.70
21.55
14.82
14.82
23.10
22.79
20.41
22.55
29.31
22.36
18.13
23.50
28.75
20.01
21.81
13.95
32.49
26.60
8.50
28.64
28.72
27.62
26.61
10.67
21.84
20.99
29.00
15.88
25.66
18.90
18.06
27.87
26.54
23.20
23.81
35.35
25.79
60.00
25.79
31.83
28.13
22.03
16.15
37.43
32.67
11.80
33.63
33.51
32.76
32.91
12.53
31.89
30.18
32.91
21.55
27.03
18.97
18.97
36.06
35.26
26.92
30.44
40.36
28.74
90.00
27.49
32.79
31.32
23.11
18.06
45.14
35.66
25.64
35.66
35.66
37.45
36.84
14.00
35.66
33.48
34.55
29.91
30.54
18.97
18.97
40.44
40.44
–
19.27
19.25
17.63
16.78
14.25
15.27
18.68
17.77
16.20
19.86
17.13
18.63
27.40
30.70
25.20
30.14
32.71
–
15.38
12.54
10.40
15.39
12.24
11.80
13.70
13.81
11.60
13.50
14.28
12.74
15.75
17.12
17.29
21.15
26.20
–
16.18
14.50
15.39
15.67
13.25
12.95
15.76
15.14
14.80
16.82
15.00
14.88
19.46
23.36
20.00
25.96
30.55
–
18.75
16.57
19.16
16.33
14.40
14.55
17.32
15.96
15.15
17.31
17.00
18.00
25.24
29.57
23.73
28.85
30.94
–
21.88
20.76
20.96
17.36
15.20
16.05
23.01
21.07
17.00
22.98
18.52
21.63
32.88
36.00
29.44
34.61
33.76
–
24.62
25.09
21.83
19.54
15.96
21.48
25.26
21.27
21.00
27.00
21.00
23.12
40.21
44.22
35.10
36.73
45.67
29.30
32.71
26.21
14.42
18.82
14.97
14.42
30.10
20.65
30.25
34.43
28.39
36.06
37.13
30.82
43.55
40.67
33.40
18.69
18.58
13.46
11.05
13.60
12.98
16.54
18.27
21.63
25.64
23.64
25.64
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and managers
(-Continued)
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. $33.24 $21.87 $25.27 $30.64
Management related occupations ............................ 21.44 15.09 17.19 20.19
Accountants and auditors ..................................... 20.01 13.92 16.41 18.75
Other financial officers .......................................... 22.31 15.27 16.73 19.46
Management analysts .......................................... 22.14 16.66 19.04 22.31
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists ....................................................... 24.00 16.92 18.85 23.36
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products .......................................................... 24.54 20.92 22.57 24.07
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ 20.49 15.10 17.72 20.34
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 20.83 14.60 16.22 18.51
Sales occupations ............................................................ 14.03
6.20
8.35 12.04
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 17.16
9.38 10.85 15.38
Sales occupations, other business services ......... 15.73 10.74 10.74 13.46
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale ................................................. 18.97 12.50 13.24 14.07
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. 17.10
9.73 11.54 15.80
Sales workers, parts ............................................. 16.49 11.72 15.59 16.55
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
9.46
5.30
6.24
8.15
Cashiers ............................................................... 10.69
6.05
6.75 10.55
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.42
8.50 10.00 12.00
Supervisors, general office ................................... 17.37 11.75 13.11 18.92
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ............................................... 17.08 13.26 14.42 17.07
Secretaries ........................................................... 13.76 10.00 11.86 13.22
Stenographers ...................................................... 12.18 10.80 11.25 11.91
Typists .................................................................. 12.33 10.21 11.01 12.28
Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... 12.72
7.47
8.89 11.03
Receptionists ........................................................
9.42
7.00
8.37
9.50
Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... 10.71
7.89
9.13 10.22
Order clerks .......................................................... 11.03
8.50
9.00 10.25
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... 13.97 11.06 12.50 12.87
Library clerks ........................................................ 10.75
7.38
8.60 11.37
File clerks .............................................................
9.20
7.08
7.72
9.00
Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 12.43
9.30 10.53 13.06
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 11.96
8.65
9.94 11.89
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. 14.40 12.50 13.80 14.66
Billing clerks .......................................................... 12.63
9.10 10.22 12.72
Dispatchers ........................................................... 13.43 10.50 12.50 14.04
Production coordinators ........................................ 19.13 13.83 13.83 15.89
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ................... 10.53
7.25
8.32 10.75
Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 14.81
9.56 11.19 14.58
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 15.43
7.12 10.00 15.70
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. 12.48
9.23 11.14 12.63
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 11.90
8.90 10.86 11.54
General office clerks ............................................. 12.39
8.50
9.86 12.06
Data entry keyers ................................................. 10.74
8.10
8.76 10.40
Statistical clerks .................................................... 12.02
8.44 10.20 11.52
Teachers’ aides .................................................... 11.12
9.13
9.81 10.35
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 13.24
9.76 11.02 12.69
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Aircraft engine mechanics ....................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
See footnotes at end of table.
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14.89
17.90
22.21
18.38
19.79
18.80
18.77
7.25
11.76
19.33
13.49
17.80
11.50
13.81
10.30
13.80
19.36
15.54
19.40
14.00
14.98
14.30
17.49
22.12
16.82
19.85
21.99
18.38
75
90
$36.57
24.04
20.94
24.04
25.26
$46.95
28.77
28.65
26.25
27.73
29.81
32.90
26.30
23.20
24.04
15.38
19.76
19.23
27.49
26.54
29.78
20.80
26.32
24.04
20.41
20.19
18.31
11.29
14.30
14.40
19.37
29.04
24.72
21.05
14.58
14.55
16.90
22.02
17.07
15.75
13.00
12.95
17.20
10.29
12.32
12.72
16.44
12.83
10.72
13.17
13.56
15.60
13.60
15.00
19.70
11.50
18.88
21.58
17.79
14.09
14.81
18.22
12.02
13.51
16.11
16.44
13.48
11.57
15.43
14.67
16.77
17.43
15.34
30.97
14.23
21.27
18.94
14.12
12.72
15.16
12.42
14.00
10.94
14.90
22.12
14.60
15.28
15.57
14.00
15.30
12.04
19.44
18.86
21.56
23.04
19.82
20.34
23.32
24.16
23.38
24.50
27.31
23.31
21.35
23.69
24.50
Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations
(-Continued)
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment ....................................... $16.70 $11.85 $11.85 $19.38
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. .......................... 17.75 12.56 15.45 16.58
Carpenters ............................................................ 21.57 16.00 19.88 23.50
Electricians ........................................................... 24.09 19.67 20.90 25.81
Construction trades, N.E.C. .................................. 15.08 11.97 13.73 14.00
Supervisors, production occupations .................... 20.02 13.75 14.80 18.10
Machinists ............................................................. 19.00 14.00 15.85 18.38
Stationary engineers ............................................. 16.78 14.69 15.00 16.98
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 12.78
7.00
8.88 11.55
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators .......................................... 12.83
9.20 11.86 12.23
Molding and casting machine operators ............... 10.68
7.50
8.50 10.48
Printing press operators ....................................... 14.14
9.15 12.00 15.19
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ... 14.89
7.70 13.00 16.00
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food ... 11.58
9.00 10.00 10.75
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ........... 10.96
6.81
8.00 10.75
Welders and cutters .............................................. 14.93 11.22 12.94 15.24
Assemblers ........................................................... 11.99
7.00
8.50 11.52
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. 19.00 10.82 15.10 18.47
Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 15.36
8.00 11.25 15.11
Truck drivers ......................................................... 14.61
9.25 11.25 14.68
Bus drivers ............................................................ 14.56 10.64 12.50 13.79
Parking lot attendants ...........................................
6.69
5.84
5.98
6.00
Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. .............
9.75
5.97
6.58
8.00
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 15.15
8.50
9.80 15.05
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 19.01 12.66 14.25 18.17
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 10.76
5.75
7.00
9.90
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... 11.10
7.35
8.00 10.00
Construction laborers ........................................... 16.53 14.51 14.51 15.05
Production helpers ................................................
9.41
6.50
7.86
8.57
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
9.32
5.50
5.75
7.25
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. ....... 11.42
7.00
8.27 10.80
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
7.18
5.75
6.25
7.00
Hand packers and packagers ............................... 10.42
7.00
7.00 10.30
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 10.11
6.25
6.80
9.85
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
6
75
90
$19.49
19.58
23.50
25.81
16.35
26.35
24.50
18.00
15.54
$20.60
24.50
24.53
28.39
19.66
29.33
24.50
18.28
21.15
12.77
12.35
15.84
17.58
13.36
13.00
16.93
13.93
24.85
18.62
16.70
17.70
7.00
9.58
17.24
19.41
14.68
17.57
19.37
15.50
16.31
18.38
18.01
25.26
21.79
20.86
18.86
7.50
20.03
27.95
23.69
14.28
14.28
20.68
9.57
13.51
15.10
7.25
13.12
13.09
23.69
16.92
16.92
20.68
12.08
14.30
17.41
9.52
17.07
14.35
10.37
14.39
28.06
21.12
22.59
16.76
7.91
10.37
7.82
5.40
5.25
25.31
18.23
17.74
14.13
5.25
7.90
5.15
6.50
6.50
25.88
20.08
21.15
14.82
5.50
9.00
5.50
8.50
14.65
26.97
21.51
23.39
15.24
6.50
9.93
6.93
11.72
21.58
28.92
23.07
24.71
18.55
7.73
10.41
9.44
19.63
23.84
31.66
23.20
25.66
21.92
13.83
15.80
11.54
12.49
5.63
9.40
7.53
8.00
6.02
7.25
9.47
10.51
9.19
9.09
11.79
7.76
9.06
7.50
4.90
6.25
5.40
6.10
5.15
5.25
6.95
8.42
6.75
6.56
8.83
6.08
6.60
8.90
4.90
7.50
6.00
6.50
5.50
5.65
8.22
9.95
8.00
7.58
10.56
6.84
7.58
11.20
5.15
9.27
6.50
7.50
5.58
6.75
9.25
10.66
9.00
8.44
11.37
7.60
8.44
15.00
5.56
11.64
9.37
9.15
6.00
8.13
10.66
10.83
10.15
11.11
12.54
8.24
11.13
21.15
6.76
12.50
9.87
10.50
8.00
10.05
12.00
12.29
11.75
12.18
15.87
9.67
12.18
Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Service occupations (-Continued)
Personal service occupations ................................... $11.39
Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ..
6.97
Early childhood teachers’ assistants .................... 10.28
Child care workers, N.E.C. ................................... 10.26
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
9.61
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid
to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living
adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for
overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and
dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th,
25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the
earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of
the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown,
and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or
less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn
the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th
percentiles follow the same logic.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers.
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$6.11
5.50
7.50
5.85
6.35
$6.75
6.25
8.00
9.10
7.00
$8.75
7.00
9.50
9.96
9.00
$12.14
7.50
11.00
12.52
11.95
$20.24
8.10
14.82
13.11
14.03
Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a
part-time schedule based on the definition used by each
establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week
schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a
40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data
did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
7
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $16.15
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 16.36
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Electrical and electronic engineers .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Operations and systems researchers
and analysts .................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Medical scientists ...............................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Pharmacists ........................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ......
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, special education ...............
Teachers, N.E.C. ................................
Substitute teachers .............................
Vocational and educational
counselors ....................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Librarians ............................................
Social scientists and urban planners ......
Urban planners ...................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Lawyers ..............................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Designers ...........................................
Technical occupations ................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians ....................................
Radiological technicians .....................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Health technologists and technicians,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Electrical and electronic technicians ...
Drafters ...............................................
Computer programmers .....................
Legal assistants ..................................
Technical and related occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Financial managers ............................
Personnel and labor relations
managers ......................................
Managers., marketing, advertising
and public relations .......................
State and local government
$6.93
7.00
25
Median
50
$9.30 $13.85
9.48 14.04
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$20.00
20.49
$26.62
26.98
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$20.57 $11.37 $13.91 $18.97 $24.98 $32.86
20.58 11.41 13.91 18.97 25.00 32.86
19.15
20.17
8.75
9.41
11.54
12.39
15.76
17.12
23.22
24.25
30.60
31.47
22.03
22.06
11.55
11.62
14.82
14.82
20.34
20.36
27.73
27.73
34.45
34.45
23.91
25.02
–
29.17
24.46
13.50
14.42
–
20.56
16.20
16.40
17.67
–
21.30
19.23
21.15
22.28
–
28.21
23.19
25.96
27.16
–
36.93
27.98
31.78
33.03
–
41.82
34.04
24.75
26.05
–
–
23.97
15.96
18.06
–
–
19.19
18.97
20.04
–
–
21.47
23.48
24.73
–
–
24.29
30.18
31.31
–
–
25.22
34.59
35.66
–
–
31.30
25.01
16.83
19.71
23.77
28.74
34.04
23.97
19.19
21.47
24.29
25.22
31.30
20.52
27.75
27.84
22.71
22.49
28.39
13.93
25.90
11.70
8.87
17.07
18.86
–
16.74
–
14.95
13.46
13.46
14.50
17.00
28.00
11.13
18.17
7.00
7.00
10.97
11.07
–
6.25
–
17.21
20.54
20.54
17.77
19.15
28.00
12.40
20.64
8.00
7.75
12.59
12.80
–
8.50
–
20.41
29.31
29.31
22.03
23.11
28.00
13.28
24.05
9.00
8.40
14.42
16.11
–
19.78
–
23.20
30.44
35.35
25.70
25.34
28.75
15.76
32.62
13.44
9.00
19.63
22.68
–
22.00
–
26.92
40.36
40.36
28.00
27.35
31.07
16.68
34.73
20.00
11.00
27.50
29.80
–
25.00
–
–
–
–
23.51
24.27
–
–
–
27.86
–
28.38
28.32
27.48
29.09
11.88
–
–
–
18.02
19.50
–
–
–
18.51
–
19.53
19.00
18.63
20.63
10.67
–
–
–
19.93
21.94
–
–
–
22.98
–
23.70
22.98
21.94
23.69
10.67
–
–
–
23.11
24.24
–
–
–
28.61
–
28.88
29.50
27.62
29.50
10.67
–
–
–
25.79
26.12
–
–
–
33.43
–
33.63
33.51
32.76
34.59
12.53
–
–
–
31.20
28.63
–
–
–
35.66
–
35.66
35.66
37.45
37.45
14.00
12.92
–
–
–
–
13.82
13.82
28.97
28.97
10.00
–
–
–
–
11.55
11.55
19.30
19.30
12.67
–
–
–
–
12.02
12.02
22.56
22.56
12.99
–
–
–
–
13.29
13.29
24.13
24.13
13.85
–
–
–
–
14.69
14.69
36.86
36.86
14.17
–
–
–
–
17.72
17.72
40.44
40.44
–
23.83
27.07
24.86
25.08
18.68
18.52
31.26
28.37
–
18.61
18.12
17.72
21.13
15.58
15.58
21.73
21.28
–
18.61
22.68
21.13
21.55
17.19
17.19
23.52
23.46
–
20.99
29.00
25.08
25.66
18.97
18.97
30.82
27.94
–
30.18
32.91
29.03
27.03
18.97
18.97
34.45
32.89
–
33.48
34.55
34.14
30.54
19.11
18.97
48.56
34.76
–
19.27
20.07
–
15.38
12.30
–
16.18
14.50
–
18.75
17.00
–
21.88
21.27
–
24.62
25.26
–
–
17.00
–
–
13.11
–
–
14.90
–
–
15.96
–
–
19.20
–
–
21.59
–
17.82
14.01
–
15.49
11.85
–
15.94
13.00
–
17.36
14.00
–
19.54
15.00
–
21.99
15.76
18.64
–
14.84
12.79
–
13.21
17.34
–
14.05
20.14
–
15.20
21.53
–
15.20
21.59
–
16.37
16.39
18.68
16.20
19.31
17.19
11.07
13.70
11.60
13.50
14.49
11.61
15.76
14.80
16.82
15.00
13.74
17.32
15.15
17.31
17.00
22.28
23.01
17.00
18.71
18.52
22.28
25.26
21.00
27.00
21.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.69
12.49
13.76
17.00
20.19
23.17
20.29
17.65
18.15
20.33
22.42
23.12
27.18
15.09
19.21
25.24
32.21
39.42
28.19
17.51
20.43
25.70
35.14
42.07
29.84
25.20
16.07
17.29
23.00
20.00
28.85
23.73
34.63
29.44
41.83
35.10
35.11
–
21.46
–
25.98
–
36.76
–
40.29
–
45.03
–
29.24
21.15
25.96
28.85
34.01
36.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.30
14.42
14.42
30.25
36.06
43.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
8
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
Private industry
State and local government
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations (-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and
managers (-Continued)
Administrators, education and related
fields ............................................. $21.71 $13.26 $16.95 $18.82
Managers, medicine and health ......... 26.21 14.97 20.65 28.39
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .............................. 17.40 13.46 13.60 13.90
Managers, service organizations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 18.58 11.05 12.98 18.27
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
33.15 21.87 25.18 30.50
Management related occupations .......... 21.27 14.83 16.56 19.38
Accountants and auditors ................... 20.20 13.50 15.00 18.75
Other financial officers ........................ 22.72 16.15 16.73 19.46
Management analysts ........................ 20.41 15.99 17.42 20.88
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ...................... 22.52 16.92 18.80 21.54
Purchasing agents and buyers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 20.96 15.10 18.03 21.15
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 20.76 13.85 15.75 18.51
Sales occupations .......................................... 14.04
6.20
8.35 12.10
Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 17.16
9.38 10.81 15.38
Sales occupations, other business
services ........................................ 15.73 10.74 10.74 13.46
Sales representatives, mining,
manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 18.97 12.50 13.24 14.07
Sales workers, motor vehicles and
boats ............................................. 17.10
9.73 11.54 15.80
Sales workers, parts ........................... 16.49 11.72 15.59 16.55
Sales workers, other commodities ......
9.46
5.30
6.24
8.15
Cashiers ............................................. 10.72
6.05
6.75 10.64
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ...................................................... 12.27
8.25
9.60 11.71
Supervisors, general office ................. 16.66 11.75 13.11 18.92
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling,
and adjusting clerks ...................... 17.08 13.26 14.42 17.07
Secretaries ......................................... 13.80
9.50 11.04 13.27
Transportation ticket and reservation
agents ........................................... 12.51
7.47
8.89 10.91
Receptionists ......................................
9.29
7.00
8.22
9.17
Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 10.06
7.89
8.94
9.73
Order clerks ........................................ 11.03
8.50
9.00 10.25
Personnel clerks except payroll &
timekeeping .................................. 13.29 10.82 12.50 12.50
Library clerks ...................................... 11.39
8.35
8.60 12.15
File clerks ...........................................
9.08
7.08
7.55
8.67
Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 12.33
9.23 10.53 12.69
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................ 11.69
8.47
9.50 11.64
Billing clerks ........................................ 11.86
9.00
9.66 11.83
Production coordinators ...................... 19.13 13.83 13.83 15.89
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks
10.53
7.25
8.32 10.75
Stock and inventory clerks .................. 14.86
9.30 11.19 14.58
Material recording, scheduling, and
distribution clerks, N.E.C. ............. 15.43
7.12 10.00 15.70
Insurance adjusters, examiners, &
investigators ................................. 12.48
9.23 11.14 12.63
Investigators and adjusters except
insurance ...................................... 11.90
8.90 10.86 11.54
General office clerks ........................... 12.26
8.19
9.58 12.02
Data entry keyers ............................... 10.74
8.10
8.76 10.40
Teachers’ aides ..................................
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
9
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
75
90
$24.95
30.82
$35.43
33.40
21.63
23.64
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.64
36.19
24.04
21.46
24.04
22.40
25.64
48.08
29.09
32.29
26.71
24.66
–
–
21.79
–
–
–
–
–
16.86
–
–
–
–
–
18.72
–
–
–
–
–
21.47
–
–
–
–
–
23.48
–
–
–
–
–
27.89
–
–
–
26.56
29.09
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.56
26.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.20
15.37
19.76
29.78
20.80
26.44
21.01
–
–
16.45
–
–
16.86
–
–
18.63
–
–
28.77
–
–
28.77
–
–
19.23
24.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.41
29.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.19
18.31
11.29
14.30
24.72
21.05
14.58
14.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.42
19.20
16.92
19.37
12.95
–
9.95
–
10.93
–
12.39
–
14.21
–
16.77
–
17.07
15.87
21.58
18.97
–
13.68
–
11.26
–
12.13
–
13.18
–
14.76
–
17.77
16.08
10.29
11.29
12.72
17.70
11.54
12.31
16.11
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.06
13.15
10.72
13.13
16.73
13.15
11.89
14.94
–
10.66
–
12.68
–
7.38
–
9.56
–
8.43
–
10.99
–
11.37
–
13.11
–
12.79
–
13.83
–
13.48
–
15.43
13.01
12.72
19.70
11.50
19.20
14.67
14.40
30.97
14.23
21.27
14.32
–
–
–
14.39
10.60
–
–
–
10.50
13.09
–
–
–
12.36
13.59
–
–
–
13.30
16.90
–
–
–
17.99
18.15
–
–
–
18.18
18.94
22.12
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.12
14.60
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.72
15.16
12.42
–
15.28
15.16
14.00
–
–
12.62
–
11.12
–
10.41
–
9.81
–
12.32
–
10.35
–
14.51
–
10.94
–
16.00
–
12.04
$35.89 $30.10 $33.32 $35.14 $38.63 $41.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.11
–
9.13
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... $12.23
Blue-collar occupations ...................................
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations ..............................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers
Automobile mechanics .......................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine
mechanics ....................................
Aircraft engine mechanics ..................
Industrial machinery repairers ............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Carpenters ..........................................
Supervisors, production occupations ..
Machinists ...........................................
Stationary engineers ...........................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .................................................
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and
polishing machine operators .........
Molding and casting machine
operators ......................................
Printing press operators .....................
Painting and paint spraying machine
operators ......................................
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators,
except food ...................................
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Welders and cutters ............................
Assemblers .........................................
Production inspectors, checkers and
examiners .....................................
Transportation and material moving
occupations ..............................................
Truck drivers .......................................
Bus drivers ..........................................
Parking lot attendants .........................
Motor transportation occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment
operators ......................................
Miscellaneous material moving
equipment operators, N.E.C. ........
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
Groundskeepers and gardeners
except farm ...................................
Production helpers ..............................
Stock handlers and baggers ...............
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Vehicle washers and equipment
cleaners ........................................
Hand packers and packagers .............
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Supervisors, police and detectives .....
Firefighting occupations ......................
State and local government
25
Median
50
$8.91 $10.00 $12.65
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$12.91
$16.28
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$14.84 $11.44 $11.69 $13.32 $18.12 $22.20
14.66
7.00
10.00
13.96
18.77
23.50
17.18
12.71
14.50
17.14
19.49
21.29
17.75
22.12
18.33
11.76
19.33
13.25
13.70
19.36
15.50
17.24
20.90
16.75
21.65
23.00
19.99
24.50
27.31
25.08
19.51
–
–
15.90
–
–
16.58
–
–
19.82
–
–
21.29
–
–
25.48
–
–
19.88
18.80
18.77
18.06
21.79
20.02
19.00
17.10
17.99
11.50
13.81
11.82
16.00
13.75
14.00
15.00
19.40
14.00
14.98
14.40
22.50
14.80
15.85
16.18
19.85
21.99
18.38
17.49
23.50
18.10
18.38
16.98
20.42
23.32
24.16
24.26
23.50
26.35
24.50
18.00
21.99
23.69
24.50
24.50
24.53
29.33
24.50
18.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.78
7.00
8.88
11.55
15.54
21.15
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.83
9.20
11.86
12.23
12.77
19.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.68
14.14
7.50
9.15
8.50
12.00
10.48
15.19
12.35
15.84
14.68
17.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.89
7.70
13.00
16.00
17.58
19.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.58
9.00
10.00
10.75
13.36
15.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.96
14.93
11.99
6.81
11.22
7.00
8.00
12.94
8.50
10.75
15.24
11.52
13.00
16.93
13.93
16.31
18.38
18.01
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.00
10.82
15.10
18.47
24.85
25.26
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.99
14.56
–
6.61
7.50
9.25
–
5.84
10.50
11.25
–
5.98
14.36
14.68
–
6.00
18.32
16.67
–
7.00
22.83
20.86
–
7.50
16.60
–
15.34
–
12.54
–
12.01
–
13.78
–
13.21
–
16.97
–
15.09
–
18.86
–
17.97
–
19.60
–
18.86
–
9.75
5.97
6.58
8.00
9.58
20.03
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.15
8.50
9.80
15.05
17.24
27.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.44
12.66
13.80
18.17
23.69
23.69
17.42
15.56
15.56
16.59
18.97
20.48
10.45
5.75
7.00
9.26
13.12
16.92
14.27
11.02
13.99
14.51
15.05
17.14
9.99
9.41
9.32
6.15
6.50
5.50
7.91
7.86
5.75
9.50
8.57
7.25
10.50
9.57
13.51
16.92
12.08
14.30
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.42
7.00
8.27
10.75
15.10
17.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.18
10.42
10.06
5.75
7.00
6.25
6.25
7.00
6.80
7.00
10.30
9.85
7.25
13.12
13.00
9.52
17.07
14.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.61
8.00
–
–
5.25
5.25
–
–
6.25
5.50
–
–
7.58
6.50
–
–
9.63
8.00
–
–
11.95
13.85
–
–
16.81
20.52
28.06
21.12
9.93
14.34
25.31
18.23
11.94
17.26
25.88
20.08
14.82
21.58
26.97
21.51
21.97
23.61
28.92
23.07
24.71
25.66
31.66
23.20
See footnotes at end of table.
10
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Service occupations (-Continued)
Protective service occupations
(-Continued)
Police and detectives, public service ..
Correctional institution officers ...........
Guards and police except public
service ..........................................
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Waiters and waitresses ......................
Cooks .................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related
occupations ..................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ......
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ..........
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.
Health service occupations .....................
Health aides, except nursing ..............
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Supervisors, cleaning & building
service workers .............................
Maids and housemen .........................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................
Attendants, amusement and
recreation facilities ........................
Child care workers, N.E.C. .................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ..............
State and local government
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.80
7.67
$5.25
5.15
$5.50
5.40
$6.50
6.75
$7.73
8.77
$12.84
11.24
–
10.22
–
8.08
–
8.90
–
10.01
–
10.94
–
13.47
12.43
5.63
9.12
7.10
4.90
6.25
8.65
4.90
7.38
11.20
5.15
8.50
15.00
5.56
11.23
21.15
6.76
12.27
–
–
11.67
–
–
10.23
–
–
10.46
–
–
11.48
–
–
13.47
–
–
13.47
7.35
7.98
6.02
6.96
9.05
10.27
5.40
6.10
5.15
5.25
6.75
8.09
6.00
6.50
5.50
5.50
8.00
9.95
6.45
7.10
5.58
6.50
9.00
10.66
7.90
9.15
6.00
7.68
10.39
10.66
9.60
10.50
8.00
9.10
10.83
11.96
–
8.24
–
9.90
12.40
–
–
6.44
–
8.51
10.00
–
–
7.70
–
8.90
10.93
–
–
8.32
–
9.94
12.86
–
–
9.22
–
10.69
14.13
–
–
9.48
–
10.69
14.47
–
8.73
6.60
8.00
8.75
9.55
10.62
12.56
10.21
11.19
12.86
14.13
14.47
8.43
6.35
7.15
7.70
9.60
11.12
11.62
9.56
11.49
11.85
12.48
12.65
11.64
7.70
8.22
11.33
8.75
6.05
6.29
6.00
10.56
6.79
7.25
6.50
11.37
7.56
7.58
8.40
12.00
8.15
9.54
11.95
15.87
9.53
10.44
21.18
–
–
11.59
11.99
–
–
9.56
9.51
–
–
11.49
10.15
–
–
11.82
11.94
–
–
12.37
14.16
–
–
12.65
14.82
6.97
–
9.61
5.50
–
6.35
6.25
–
7.00
7.00
–
9.00
7.50
–
11.95
8.10
–
14.03
–
11.42
–
–
9.42
–
–
9.75
–
–
11.94
–
–
12.52
–
–
14.41
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in
the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive
the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the
rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less
than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than
the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$22.59 $17.74 $21.15 $23.39 $24.71 $25.66
16.76 14.13 14.82 15.24 18.55 21.92
working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each
establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be
considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
11
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, December 1997
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $17.84
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 18.01
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Electrical and electronic engineers .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Operations and systems researchers
and analysts .................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Medical scientists ...............................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Pharmacists ........................................
Physical therapists ..............................
Therapists, N.E.C. ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ......
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, special education ...............
Teachers, N.E.C. ................................
Substitute teachers .............................
Vocational and educational
counselors ....................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social scientists and urban planners ......
Urban planners ...................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Lawyers ..............................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Designers ...........................................
Technical occupations ................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians ....................................
Radiological technicians .....................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Health technologists and technicians,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Electrical and electronic technicians ...
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. .........
Drafters ...............................................
Computer programmers .....................
Legal assistants ..................................
Technical and related occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Financial managers ............................
Personnel and labor relations
managers ......................................
Part-time
25
Median
50
$8.00 $11.03 $15.50
8.00 11.17 15.87
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$22.03
22.43
$28.86
29.25
10
25
$11.11
11.58
$5.50
5.50
$6.40
6.50
Median
50
75
90
$9.00 $12.62 $20.37
9.48 13.33 21.59
20.54
21.20
10.00
10.38
12.95
13.40
17.77
18.75
25.00
25.66
32.78
33.34
14.02
15.86
6.25
8.00
8.26
9.89
11.08
13.01
18.21
20.01
25.02
25.79
24.53
25.70
–
29.17
24.38
14.63
15.50
–
20.56
16.80
17.53
18.97
–
21.30
19.71
22.19
23.22
–
28.21
23.29
27.66
29.00
–
36.93
27.55
33.64
34.14
–
41.82
32.86
21.16
22.65
–
–
–
12.00
12.59
–
–
–
14.72
17.08
–
–
–
20.01
21.94
–
–
–
25.02
25.70
–
–
–
29.31
32.32
–
–
–
24.83
17.76
20.07
24.13
28.13
33.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.52
24.15
27.84
22.91
22.76
29.72
20.78
14.62
32.21
25.86
11.80
28.12
28.02
27.27
27.32
–
14.95
19.40
13.46
16.15
17.32
28.00
17.50
12.40
20.64
11.64
7.00
18.90
18.41
18.61
18.94
–
17.21
20.85
20.54
18.15
19.15
28.00
19.93
12.74
26.02
20.40
8.00
23.39
22.58
21.67
22.19
–
20.41
22.55
29.31
22.03
23.11
28.75
21.81
15.32
32.49
27.21
8.50
28.64
29.33
27.35
27.83
–
23.20
23.81
35.35
25.61
25.47
31.83
22.03
16.15
37.43
32.91
11.00
33.63
33.51
32.58
33.43
–
26.92
30.44
40.36
28.75
27.49
32.79
23.11
18.06
45.14
35.66
25.64
35.66
35.66
36.70
36.84
–
–
–
–
23.16
23.45
–
–
–
31.31
17.63
–
–
22.58
–
–
11.44
–
–
–
14.50
18.25
–
–
–
19.62
8.50
–
–
17.46
–
–
10.67
–
–
–
19.71
21.21
–
–
–
22.92
10.67
–
–
18.21
–
–
10.67
–
–
–
23.75
24.28
–
–
–
33.51
13.99
–
–
21.28
–
–
10.67
–
–
–
25.79
25.79
–
–
–
39.68
23.57
–
–
26.18
–
–
12.53
–
–
–
27.76
27.59
–
–
–
46.07
29.35
–
–
32.26
–
–
13.97
24.61
22.95
18.28
25.08
17.19
17.00
29.55
28.83
12.67
18.61
8.57
21.13
12.02
12.02
19.44
19.44
15.34
18.61
14.42
21.55
14.69
14.69
23.10
22.79
27.83
19.22
17.00
25.66
18.06
17.91
27.87
26.54
32.97
28.13
21.91
27.03
18.97
18.97
36.06
35.26
35.66
32.91
29.08
30.54
18.97
18.97
40.44
40.44
–
–
–
–
17.55
17.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.76
14.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.42
16.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.90
18.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.90
18.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.21
19.21
–
–
–
19.27
19.66
–
15.38
12.89
–
16.18
14.80
–
18.75
17.00
–
21.88
21.25
–
24.62
25.26
–
–
15.56
–
–
11.30
–
–
13.17
–
–
15.00
–
–
17.00
–
–
20.33
17.66
–
14.46
10.30
–
13.00
15.39
–
13.73
19.16
–
14.63
20.96
–
15.20
21.83
–
15.96
–
16.39
13.86
–
14.40
11.52
–
15.49
12.86
–
15.94
13.64
–
17.46
15.00
–
18.81
15.85
15.33
18.92
17.77
15.37
19.86
17.13
11.39
14.18
13.81
11.30
13.50
14.28
12.95
15.76
15.14
14.80
16.82
15.00
14.50
17.32
15.96
15.15
17.31
17.00
15.36
23.01
21.07
17.00
22.98
18.52
22.28
25.26
21.27
18.10
27.00
21.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.51
12.74
14.60
17.71
21.84
23.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.46
15.75
19.54
25.26
32.90
40.21
22.25
16.05
18.63
24.32
35.00
30.77
25.38
17.29
17.29
23.36
21.61
29.72
23.73
36.01
29.81
44.22
35.10
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.14
21.15
25.96
28.85
34.61
36.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
12
8.68
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Part-time
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations (-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and
managers (-Continued)
Purchasing managers ......................... $32.71 $26.20 $30.55 $30.94
Managers., marketing, advertising
and public relations ....................... 29.30 14.42 14.42 30.25
Administrators, education and related
fields ............................................. 32.71 18.82 30.10 34.43
Managers, medicine and health ......... 26.21 14.97 20.65 28.39
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .............................. 18.69 13.46 13.60 16.54
Managers, service organizations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 18.58 11.05 12.98 18.27
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
33.25 21.87 25.27 30.64
Management related occupations .......... 21.45 15.09 17.19 20.19
Accountants and auditors ................... 19.96 13.89 16.41 18.75
Other financial officers ........................ 22.31 15.27 16.73 19.46
Management analysts ........................ 22.14 16.66 19.04 22.31
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ...................... 24.36 17.07 21.15 23.36
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade,
except farm products .................... 24.54 20.92 22.57 24.07
Purchasing agents and buyers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 20.49 15.10 17.72 20.34
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 20.81 14.55 16.22 18.51
Sales occupations .......................................... 15.45
7.18 10.05 13.76
Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 17.16
9.38 10.85 15.38
Sales occupations, other business
services ........................................ 16.39 10.74 10.74 17.64
Sales representatives, mining,
manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 18.97 12.50 13.24 14.07
Sales workers, motor vehicles and
boats ............................................. 17.10
9.73 11.54 15.80
Sales workers, parts ........................... 16.49 11.72 15.59 16.55
Sales workers, other commodities ...... 10.48
6.05
6.75
9.15
Cashiers ............................................. 12.10
6.75 10.00 14.30
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 12.31
8.75 10.05 13.00
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ...................................................... 12.68
8.83 10.27 12.28
Supervisors, general office ................. 17.46 11.75 13.11 18.92
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling,
and adjusting clerks ...................... 17.08 13.26 14.42 17.07
Secretaries ......................................... 13.96 10.34 12.14 13.50
Transportation ticket and reservation
agents ........................................... 12.15
7.47
8.89 11.03
Receptionists ...................................... 10.10
8.37
9.00
9.94
Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 10.77
7.89
9.00 10.22
Order clerks ........................................ 11.11
8.50
9.00 10.37
Personnel clerks except payroll &
timekeeping .................................. 13.76 10.96 12.50 12.87
Library clerks ......................................
–
–
–
–
File clerks ...........................................
9.06
7.08
7.72
9.00
Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 12.55
9.37 11.11 13.06
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................ 12.06
8.65 10.00 12.02
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ........... 14.41 12.50 13.80 14.66
Billing clerks ........................................ 12.66
9.10 10.22 12.72
Production coordinators ...................... 19.13 13.83 13.83 15.89
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks
10.82
7.50
9.00 11.06
Stock and inventory clerks .................. 14.92
9.56 11.19 14.71
See footnotes at end of table.
13
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
43.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.13
30.82
40.67
33.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.63
23.64
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.64
36.72
24.04
20.94
24.04
25.26
25.64
46.95
28.77
29.50
26.25
27.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.81
32.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.30
27.49
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.20
26.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.04
16.55
19.76
29.78
21.94
26.32
–
$7.26
–
–
$5.15
–
–
$5.75
–
–
$6.50
–
19.57
24.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.41
29.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.19
18.31
13.01
14.30
14.30
24.72
21.05
15.34
14.55
14.67
–
–
6.94
7.21
–
–
–
5.15
5.25
–
–
–
5.25
6.00
–
–
–
6.10
6.50
–
–
–
7.03
8.07
–
–
–
10.47
10.10
–
14.56
19.37
17.07
22.68
10.75
–
7.50
–
8.63
–
10.00
–
12.00
–
14.33
–
17.07
16.00
21.58
17.79
–
12.45
–
9.36
–
10.87
–
12.00
–
13.62
–
17.31
17.20
10.76
12.60
13.00
17.70
12.47
13.51
16.22
15.16
7.57
–
–
7.97
5.50
–
–
8.50
6.00
–
–
11.33
7.50
–
–
18.47
8.95
–
–
28.62
9.96
–
–
16.44
–
10.47
13.33
16.73
–
11.23
15.43
–
9.67
–
–
–
7.20
–
–
–
7.75
–
–
–
9.55
–
–
–
11.37
–
–
–
11.82
–
–
13.56
15.60
13.60
19.70
12.00
18.88
15.00
16.77
17.43
30.97
13.50
21.27
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
75
90
$33.76
$45.67
36.06
–
–
$8.16 $10.34
–
–
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical (-Continued)
Insurance adjusters, examiners, &
investigators ................................. $12.57
Investigators and adjusters except
insurance ...................................... 11.90
General office clerks ........................... 12.75
Data entry keyers ............................... 10.85
Teachers’ aides ..................................
–
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 13.18
Blue-collar occupations ...................................
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations ..............................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers
Automobile mechanics .......................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine
mechanics ....................................
Aircraft engine mechanics ..................
Industrial machinery repairers ............
Electronic repairers, communications
and industrial equipment ..............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Carpenters ..........................................
Electricians .........................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ................
Supervisors, production occupations ..
Machinists ...........................................
Stationary engineers ...........................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .................................................
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and
polishing machine operators .........
Molding and casting machine
operators ......................................
Printing press operators .....................
Painting and paint spraying machine
operators ......................................
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators,
except food ...................................
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Welders and cutters ............................
Assemblers .........................................
Production inspectors, checkers and
examiners .....................................
Transportation and material moving
occupations ..............................................
Truck drivers .......................................
Bus drivers ..........................................
Motor transportation occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment
operators ......................................
Miscellaneous material moving
equipment operators, N.E.C. ........
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
Groundskeepers and gardeners
except farm ...................................
Construction laborers .........................
Part-time
25
Median
50
$9.51 $11.54 $12.72
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$14.14
$14.60
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.90
8.69
8.30
–
10.86
10.24
8.76
–
11.54
12.63
10.50
–
12.72
15.16
12.42
–
15.28
15.93
14.00
–
–
$10.56
–
11.20
–
$8.00
–
9.18
–
$8.94
–
9.81
10.00
11.31
12.69
14.46
16.28
13.55
7.00
7.50
13.79
18.12
19.44
15.39
8.00
11.05
14.89
19.36
23.55
8.70
5.50
6.00
7.25
11.33
13.37
17.94
22.21
18.38
11.85
19.33
13.49
13.90
19.36
15.54
17.50
22.12
16.82
21.56
23.04
19.82
24.50
27.31
23.31
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.79
18.80
18.77
17.80
11.50
13.81
19.40
14.00
14.98
19.85
21.99
18.38
20.34
23.32
24.16
21.35
23.69
24.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.70
17.75
21.57
24.09
15.08
20.02
19.00
16.78
11.85
12.56
16.00
19.67
11.97
13.75
14.00
14.69
11.85
15.45
19.88
20.90
13.73
14.80
15.85
15.00
19.38
16.58
23.50
25.81
14.00
18.10
18.38
16.98
19.49
19.58
23.50
25.81
16.35
26.35
24.50
18.00
20.60
24.50
24.53
28.39
19.66
29.33
24.50
18.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.86
7.00
9.00
11.72
15.84
21.39
8.08
6.00
6.00
7.00
9.15
12.83
9.20
11.86
12.23
12.77
19.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.68
14.25
7.50
9.15
8.50
12.00
10.48
15.19
12.35
15.84
14.68
17.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.89
7.70
13.00
16.00
17.58
19.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.58
9.00
10.00
10.75
13.36
15.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.96
14.93
11.99
6.81
11.22
7.00
8.00
12.94
8.50
10.75
15.24
11.50
13.00
16.93
13.96
16.31
18.38
18.08
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.00
10.82
15.10
18.47
24.85
25.26
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.97
14.70
15.68
8.25
9.25
10.31
11.25
11.25
13.51
16.08
15.00
16.39
18.86
16.89
18.86
22.83
20.86
18.86
11.23
12.33
13.03
5.93
7.50
11.25
7.50
11.25
12.50
12.50
13.22
12.54
13.37
14.27
13.78
14.34
15.49
14.50
10.54
6.58
7.66
8.56
10.11
20.24
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.15
8.50
9.80
15.05
17.24
27.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.15
12.66
14.25
18.18
23.69
23.69
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.85
6.75
8.00
11.90
14.51
17.32
7.02
5.50
5.75
6.50
7.25
9.62
11.46
16.53
7.50
14.51
8.50
14.51
10.00
15.05
15.71
20.68
16.92
20.68
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
14
–
–
–
$9.86 $12.00 $14.00
–
–
–
10.43 11.04 12.11
12.00
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton,
WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers (-Continued)
Production helpers ..............................
Stock handlers and baggers ...............
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Vehicle washers and equipment
cleaners ........................................
Hand packers and packagers .............
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Supervisors, police and detectives .....
Firefighting occupations ......................
Police and detectives, public service ..
Correctional institution officers ...........
Guards and police except public
service ..........................................
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Waiters and waitresses ......................
Cooks .................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related
occupations ..................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ......
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ..........
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.
Health service occupations .....................
Health aides, except nursing ..............
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Supervisors, cleaning & building
service workers .............................
Maids and housemen .........................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................
Attendants, amusement and
recreation facilities ........................
Child care workers, N.E.C. .................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ..............
Part-time
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$9.41
11.48
$6.50
5.75
$7.86
9.70
$8.57
12.59
$9.57
14.30
$12.08
14.30
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.39
8.25
10.80
13.23
15.62
18.46
$8.68
$6.00
$7.00
$8.76
7.65
10.69
10.49
6.00
7.00
6.50
6.50
7.00
6.95
7.00
10.50
10.00
8.00
13.12
13.09
11.78
17.07
14.72
6.38
–
7.03
5.50
–
4.90
5.75
–
5.50
6.25
–
7.00
7.00
–
7.21
7.25
–
11.30
11.17
14.72
28.06
21.12
22.41
16.76
6.00
5.25
25.31
18.23
17.72
14.13
7.00
6.50
25.88
20.08
20.93
14.82
9.15
14.82
26.97
21.51
23.10
15.24
12.53
21.74
28.92
23.07
23.87
18.55
21.24
23.84
31.66
23.20
25.73
21.92
7.75
11.22
–
–
–
–
5.15
6.00
–
–
–
–
5.58
6.50
–
–
–
–
6.75
9.93
–
–
–
–
9.03
12.52
–
–
–
–
10.92
25.00
–
–
–
–
7.91
8.89
5.25
5.15
5.25
6.33
6.50
8.10
7.73
10.50
13.85
12.67
7.86
6.47
6.00
4.90
6.50
5.15
6.50
5.95
8.00
7.10
11.99
9.18
12.71
5.64
9.62
7.50
4.90
6.80
9.62
5.15
7.61
11.20
5.15
9.94
15.00
5.60
11.64
21.15
7.41
12.50
–
5.61
8.01
–
4.90
5.25
–
4.90
6.20
–
5.15
8.00
–
5.15
9.21
–
6.50
11.48
8.06
8.69
–
8.30
9.53
10.70
6.00
6.10
–
6.00
6.75
9.73
6.45
6.60
–
6.90
8.15
10.39
6.83
8.05
–
8.00
9.33
10.66
9.60
10.05
–
9.10
10.66
11.07
13.95
10.50
–
10.69
12.35
12.40
–
7.44
6.09
6.46
9.13
9.14
–
6.25
5.15
5.25
7.70
7.64
–
6.50
5.50
5.35
8.50
8.09
–
7.10
5.58
5.75
9.00
9.00
–
8.27
6.50
7.00
9.77
9.55
–
9.45
8.00
9.04
10.80
11.00
9.20
6.75
8.00
8.98
10.22
12.34
9.13
7.70
8.50
9.00
10.00
10.80
9.12
6.56
7.58
8.40
11.27
12.18
8.74
6.50
7.50
8.75
9.56
11.30
11.88
7.52
9.09
13.14
9.00
5.85
6.84
6.25
10.56
6.64
7.58
7.50
11.62
7.30
8.45
9.97
13.50
8.15
11.26
14.58
15.87
9.10
12.18
28.77
–
–
8.39
8.60
–
–
6.42
6.00
–
–
7.00
6.25
–
–
8.00
8.00
–
–
9.50
9.98
–
–
11.30
12.52
–
–
9.73
–
–
6.35
–
–
8.00
–
–
9.15
–
–
11.95
–
–
14.03
6.76
10.34
8.94
5.50
6.08
6.00
5.50
9.10
6.00
6.50
9.96
6.00
7.75
12.52
10.80
8.00
13.11
12.43
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in
the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive
the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the
rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less
than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than
the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based
$9.79 $11.33
on the definition used by each establishment.
Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the
minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
15
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
All industries
Occupation3
Mean
weekly
hours4
Weekly earnings
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
Annual earnings
Mean
Median
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
39.8
39.8
$710
717
$619
635
2,031
2,029
$36,228
36,546
$31,980
32,760
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
39.8
39.8
817
844
707
748
2,014
2,008
41,365
42,576
36,026
37,794
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Physical therapists ................................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Urban planners .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .......
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ...........................
Drafters .................................................................
Computer programmers .......................................
Legal assistants ....................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
Purchasing managers ...........................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .............
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Management analysts ..........................................
39.6
39.7
–
40.0
40.0
40.0
972
1,020
–
1,167
974
992
885
926
–
1,128
930
960
1,934
1,909
–
2,080
2,078
2,078
47,441
49,062
–
60,678
50,653
51,576
43,883
45,510
–
58,677
48,381
49,920
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.8
38.4
40.0
40.0
39.9
38.4
39.7
38.4
38.2
38.0
37.2
39.0
39.5
39.0
40.0
39.9
39.9
41.1
41.1
821
966
1,114
910
906
1,142
831
585
1,286
993
469
1,081
1,071
1,035
1,016
961
907
713
1,003
686
679
1,214
1,185
816
902
1,172
881
924
1,150
872
613
1,300
1,035
340
1,105
1,123
1,036
1,025
1,084
744
667
1,026
722
716
1,113
1,086
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,042
2,028
1,998
2,080
2,080
1,740
1,499
1,938
1,430
1,433
1,474
1,586
1,547
1,777
1,950
2,080
2,050
2,049
2,136
2,138
42,671
50,229
57,904
46,785
46,151
59,369
43,230
30,417
56,054
38,775
22,874
40,227
40,160
40,198
43,320
38,060
40,776
35,657
52,158
35,234
34,829
63,113
61,635
42,453
46,904
60,965
45,781
46,758
59,800
45,365
31,866
53,446
40,466
18,200
42,150
42,701
39,585
43,942
42,094
38,709
35,360
53,373
37,565
36,858
57,894
56,464
–
40.0
39.4
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.8
38.7
39.5
40.3
40.4
39.9
39.5
40.0
–
771
774
707
578
613
757
711
615
790
663
731
1,106
1,244
1,012
1,192
1,309
–
750
674
766
585
580
693
638
606
692
646
708
1,010
1,202
949
1,154
1,238
–
2,080
2,045
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,068
2,014
2,041
2,091
2,098
2,073
2,056
2,080
–
40,084
40,208
36,743
30,068
31,887
39,347
36,965
31,978
41,061
34,493
37,779
57,417
64,555
52,608
61,963
68,044
–
39,000
35,048
39,853
30,430
30,160
36,026
33,197
31,512
36,005
33,599
36,837
52,499
62,483
49,358
60,008
64,355
40.9
39.9
40.0
1,198
1,305
1,048
1,210
1,377
1,136
2,126
2,014
2,080
62,295
65,859
54,513
62,920
70,803
59,051
42.5
45.5
40.4
40.0
40.0
39.9
40.0
794
845
1,344
858
798
891
885
827
721
1,227
802
750
778
892
2,211
2,366
2,102
2,077
2,080
2,076
2,080
41,312
43,960
69,912
44,554
41,508
46,322
46,043
43,004
37,502
63,794
41,454
39,000
40,477
46,405
See footnotes at end of table.
16
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Management related occupations (-Continued)
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ..........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations ............................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales occupations, other business services .........
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale .................................................
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats .............
Sales workers, parts .............................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .......................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Information clerks, N.E.C. .....................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping ....
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Aircraft engine mechanics ....................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Machinists .............................................................
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Printing press operators .......................................
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Mean
weekly
hours4
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
40.0
$974
$934
2,080
$50,671
$48,589
39.7
40.0
40.1
39.7
40.9
40.0
974
820
835
613
701
656
963
814
740
515
615
706
2,065
2,047
2,087
2,060
2,126
2,080
50,665
41,962
43,423
31,831
36,469
34,097
50,066
41,704
38,501
26,770
31,990
36,691
40.6
41.5
40.3
38.8
38.3
40.0
39.8
39.5
770
709
664
407
463
492
505
690
563
676
662
358
515
520
491
744
2,110
2,156
2,095
2,019
1,977
2,080
2,063
2,054
40,022
36,874
34,544
21,154
23,910
25,606
26,155
35,859
29,266
35,155
34,424
18,616
26,770
27,040
25,272
38,667
40.0
39.6
40.0
39.9
39.9
40.0
40.0
39.6
39.7
39.8
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.6
40.0
39.5
40.0
39.8
39.1
39.9
683
553
486
403
429
444
550
359
498
479
577
506
765
428
597
497
476
508
425
525
683
531
441
398
403
415
515
360
508
483
586
509
636
442
588
503
462
500
416
508
2,080
2,018
2,080
2,074
2,072
2,080
2,080
2,059
2,062
2,067
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,060
2,080
2,056
2,080
2,071
2,035
2,053
35,532
28,175
25,274
20,947
22,313
23,108
28,618
18,652
25,892
24,922
29,980
26,334
39,792
22,275
31,040
25,855
24,747
26,417
22,085
27,056
35,506
27,040
22,942
20,675
20,946
21,570
26,770
18,720
26,395
25,106
30,493
26,458
33,051
23,005
30,597
26,155
24,003
26,000
21,632
26,395
40.0
39.8
41.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
615
714
921
735
792
752
751
600
699
898
673
794
880
735
2,072
2,066
2,156
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
31,899
37,065
47,866
38,225
41,165
39,107
39,047
31,096
36,358
46,675
34,986
41,288
45,739
38,230
40.0
40.1
39.8
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
39.9
668
712
859
964
603
801
760
670
513
775
663
940
1,032
560
724
735
679
469
2,080
2,043
2,071
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,076
2,074
34,734
36,256
44,666
50,114
31,360
41,640
39,511
34,828
26,673
40,310
34,174
48,880
53,685
29,120
37,648
38,230
35,318
24,378
40.0
38.9
40.0
40.0
513
416
570
595
489
410
608
640
2,080
2,025
2,080
2,080
26,688
21,628
29,644
30,966
25,438
21,299
31,595
33,280
See footnotes at end of table.
17
Weekly earnings
Annual earnings
Mean
Median
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food ...
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. .............
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
Mean
weekly
hours4
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.7
41.8
39.6
40.0
40.0
$463
439
597
480
760
650
614
621
421
606
$430
430
610
460
739
650
643
656
342
602
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,102
2,169
1,983
2,080
2,080
$24,076
22,803
31,064
24,949
39,515
33,580
31,881
31,079
21,914
31,502
$22,360
22,360
31,699
23,920
38,418
33,800
33,446
34,091
17,805
31,304
40.0
39.7
40.0
39.7
40.0
38.4
39.9
40.0
40.0
39.9
766
470
458
657
376
441
534
306
428
419
727
476
400
602
343
504
520
280
420
400
2,080
2,049
2,005
1,964
2,080
1,999
2,072
2,080
2,080
2,075
39,824
24,281
22,976
32,474
19,573
22,950
27,750
15,907
22,239
21,772
37,814
24,502
20,800
31,304
17,826
26,187
27,040
14,560
21,840
20,800
39.4
40.6
40.0
46.4
40.0
40.0
40.0
38.8
440
598
1,122
980
896
670
316
345
362
593
1,079
1,020
924
610
260
316
2,028
2,107
2,080
2,412
2,080
2,080
2,071
2,002
22,649
31,019
58,361
50,957
46,614
34,854
16,387
17,802
18,720
30,826
56,098
53,036
48,048
31,699
13,520
16,328
40.6
36.6
39.4
40.0
38.4
38.8
39.5
40.0
39.3
39.8
40.0
39.1
39.9
36.2
40.0
517
207
379
322
334
322
376
428
362
363
475
294
363
476
389
481
206
366
273
320
316
363
426
350
330
465
292
338
408
366
2,113
1,905
2,015
2,075
1,996
2,015
2,053
2,080
2,044
2,053
2,080
2,035
2,053
1,798
2,010
26,860
10,751
19,380
16,722
17,348
16,723
19,564
22,254
18,813
18,717
24,720
15,300
18,673
23,624
19,555
25,002
10,712
18,200
14,206
16,640
16,432
18,866
22,173
18,200
17,165
24,170
15,184
17,514
20,280
18,720
1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are
premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips.
The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours.
The median designates
position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half
receive the same as or less than the rate shown.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
Weekly earnings
Annual earnings
Mean
Median
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used
to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified
into one of nine major occupational groups.
4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a
week, exclusive of overtime.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere
classified."
18
Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997
All workers 4
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$17.05
17.29
$16.15
16.36
$20.57
20.58
$17.84
18.01
$11.11
11.58
White-collar occupations ...................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
19.87
7.06
9.01
9.78
12.32
14.04
15.47
17.38
21.27
23.61
25.04
27.97
33.82
45.99
48.16
–
20.71
7.10
9.68
10.27
12.33
13.93
15.65
17.34
21.42
23.54
24.78
27.94
33.86
41.48
48.16
–
19.15
7.04
8.97
9.48
12.24
14.22
15.36
17.16
20.47
22.87
24.70
28.56
33.81
48.27
52.25
–
20.17
6.93
9.66
9.98
12.22
14.11
15.54
17.07
20.58
22.73
24.19
28.58
33.85
41.60
52.25
–
22.03
–
9.90
11.12
12.83
13.54
16.27
18.19
23.52
24.66
25.54
26.84
33.91
41.24
43.39
–
22.06
–
9.90
11.13
12.83
13.50
16.27
18.19
23.52
24.66
25.54
26.84
33.91
41.24
43.39
–
20.54
8.07
9.67
10.01
12.48
14.11
15.40
17.45
21.25
23.74
24.83
27.95
33.67
45.60
48.74
–
21.20
–
10.09
10.35
12.43
13.98
15.60
17.42
21.41
23.67
24.52
27.93
33.70
40.92
48.74
–
14.02
6.20
7.49
9.19
11.04
13.22
16.22
15.65
21.48
22.07
27.34
–
–
–
–
15.02
15.86
6.72
8.41
10.00
11.60
13.41
16.17
15.65
21.48
22.07
27.34
–
–
–
–
15.18
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Level 9 ..............................................................
24.21
25.42
15.02
15.87
19.30
22.51
23.97
24.44
26.62
33.22
38.23
42.14
95.41
–
24.38
20.90
23.80
24.66
25.75
31.41
24.15
22.98
16.38
22.49
22.43
21.28
29.74
32.01
24.20
23.91
25.02
15.11
15.95
18.72
20.97
22.76
23.24
26.69
34.26
37.83
–
–
–
24.46
21.32
–
24.85
27.08
–
27.75
22.71
16.11
22.38
22.06
23.40
–
25.90
–
24.75
26.05
–
–
20.96
25.70
25.20
25.23
26.51
–
–
–
–
–
23.97
–
–
22.57
–
–
–
23.51
–
–
23.02
–
–
–
–
24.53
25.70
15.47
16.15
19.80
22.58
24.20
23.98
26.58
32.68
37.07
42.40
100.21
–
24.38
20.90
23.80
24.66
25.75
31.41
24.15
22.91
17.30
22.14
22.10
20.48
–
32.21
–
21.16
22.65
9.96
13.69
14.45
21.99
22.07
27.85
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.16
–
23.07
23.40
–
–
31.31
–
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
19
Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Teachers, college and university (-Continued)
Level 11 ............................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Social, religious, and recreation workers ..................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Management related occupations ............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
20
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$26.80
25.34
8.95
12.57
24.20
27.37
27.88
23.83
18.69
17.66
20.73
17.26
16.17
29.55
$26.80
11.70
8.58
12.39
16.81
14.17
21.61
–
–
–
–
13.82
–
28.97
–
$27.86
–
–
–
28.06
28.02
23.83
24.86
–
–
18.68
–
31.26
$26.90
25.86
–
–
24.20
28.00
28.07
22.95
18.28
18.50
20.73
17.19
–
29.55
–
$17.63
9.51
12.71
–
–
22.85
–
–
–
–
17.55
–
–
–
20.92
19.98
19.25
12.93
14.84
16.78
16.40
21.37
22.68
27.40
11.42
14.71
16.50
18.73
22.46
27.49
27.32
33.95
41.48
55.22
30.70
14.69
15.42
19.03
24.12
27.62
29.21
34.12
41.48
55.30
21.44
13.68
14.72
17.02
18.44
20.55
25.18
14.03
7.05
6.11
8.56
12.29
14.86
14.61
17.66
19.59
–
20.92
–
20.07
12.88
14.94
17.19
16.40
21.33
23.29
27.18
11.42
14.71
15.90
18.88
22.64
27.17
27.36
33.49
41.30
56.13
29.84
14.69
15.42
19.03
24.25
27.62
28.30
33.65
41.30
56.52
21.27
13.68
14.72
16.22
18.61
20.62
25.60
14.04
7.07
6.11
8.54
12.29
14.81
14.61
17.66
19.59
–
–
–
17.00
–
14.59
–
16.40
–
–
28.19
–
–
19.20
18.20
21.82
–
27.25
37.96
–
–
35.11
–
–
–
23.60
–
32.06
37.96
–
–
21.79
–
–
19.20
18.20
20.33
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.92
19.98
19.66
12.75
15.10
16.46
16.40
21.44
22.75
27.46
11.25
14.71
16.47
18.71
22.45
27.42
27.32
33.95
41.24
55.22
30.77
14.69
15.42
18.99
24.12
27.53
29.21
34.12
41.24
55.30
21.45
13.68
14.72
16.99
18.44
20.52
25.18
15.45
–
–
8.90
12.62
15.05
14.55
17.66
19.59
–
–
–
15.56
13.27
13.07
17.70
–
–
–
22.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.26
6.05
5.81
8.03
7.92
–
–
–
–
Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers 4
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Sales occupations (-Continued)
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
$28.99
28.39
12.42
7.10
9.68
10.26
12.42
13.42
15.29
16.94
10.55
$28.99
28.39
12.27
6.93
9.66
9.97
12.32
13.52
15.01
16.99
–
–
–
$12.95
–
9.90
11.09
12.81
13.26
16.84
16.72
–
$28.99
28.39
12.68
–
10.09
10.33
12.54
13.29
15.25
16.93
–
–
–
$10.75
6.72
8.41
10.00
11.43
15.19
–
–
–
Blue-collar occupations .........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
14.89
7.57
8.99
12.50
13.50
14.49
17.32
20.23
23.34
24.53
12.30
17.90
11.84
13.88
13.49
17.84
20.12
23.21
23.78
12.78
8.43
8.89
11.16
12.84
12.57
14.32
20.44
15.36
7.66
14.39
13.15
16.51
19.12
21.18
10.76
6.89
8.57
12.12
13.95
14.03
14.66
7.57
8.97
12.31
13.31
13.96
17.15
20.18
23.34
24.46
12.67
17.75
11.34
13.88
13.11
17.80
20.04
23.21
23.78
12.78
8.43
8.89
11.16
12.84
12.57
14.32
20.44
14.99
7.66
14.63
12.53
16.22
19.17
21.15
10.45
6.89
8.51
11.71
13.62
13.91
17.18
–
–
14.01
14.87
16.90
18.46
20.74
–
–
–
19.51
–
–
–
18.10
20.84
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.60
–
12.83
14.65
16.98
–
–
14.27
–
–
13.91
–
–
15.39
8.32
9.37
12.73
13.61
14.50
17.32
20.23
23.34
24.53
–
17.94
11.84
13.88
13.49
17.84
20.12
23.21
23.78
12.86
8.44
8.97
11.33
12.84
12.59
14.32
20.44
15.97
8.39
14.74
13.39
16.73
19.12
21.18
11.85
7.83
9.00
12.52
14.06
14.10
8.70
6.09
7.13
10.10
12.08
14.33
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.08
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.23
–
11.72
12.29
14.69
–
–
7.02
6.10
7.40
8.99
–
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
10.37
7.23
7.27
8.34
9.74
14.24
15.28
20.71
24.13
8.61
6.92
7.08
7.88
9.53
13.41
12.21
–
–
16.81
11.25
10.82
10.79
11.76
15.33
17.68
21.82
–
11.17
7.80
7.45
8.83
9.93
14.97
15.75
20.51
24.13
7.75
6.03
6.81
7.26
8.81
10.29
–
–
–
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
21
Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and levels2, all industries, private industry,
State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level
Service occupations (-Continued)
Level 9 ..............................................................
Protective service occupations ...............................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Food service occupations ........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Health service occupations .....................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations ............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Personal service occupations .................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 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 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an
establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,
complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the
occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to
determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for
more information.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$24.38
14.39
9.16
15.33
19.45
22.04
26.71
7.82
6.00
6.96
6.77
9.40
10.30
9.47
7.83
8.99
10.42
11.46
9.09
8.14
8.08
10.11
11.31
11.39
5.66
6.69
8.44
11.82
17.87
–
$8.00
8.82
–
–
–
–
7.67
5.99
6.85
6.52
9.32
10.00
9.05
7.47
8.95
10.12
9.62
8.43
7.68
7.75
9.27
10.81
11.33
5.66
6.68
8.16
11.89
17.87
$27.98
20.52
–
15.71
–
22.04
27.98
10.22
–
9.43
9.26
–
–
12.40
–
–
–
–
11.62
11.35
–
11.49
11.97
11.99
–
–
–
–
–
$24.38
14.72
–
16.32
19.45
21.87
26.71
8.89
6.43
7.13
7.20
10.21
10.48
9.53
7.91
8.97
10.41
11.59
9.12
8.14
8.04
10.26
11.32
13.14
–
–
–
14.12
–
–
$11.22
–
–
–
–
–
6.47
5.80
6.81
6.34
7.29
–
9.13
–
9.07
10.44
–
8.74
8.09
8.75
8.97
–
8.60
–
6.44
8.49
–
9.45
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees
are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time
schedule.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
22
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations:
Professional specialty and technical occupations:
Professional specialty occupations:
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Occupational therapists ........................................
Physical therapists ................................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians ..............................................................
Urban planners .....................................................
Social workers ......................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Designers .............................................................
Technical occupations:
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .......
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ...........................
Drafters .................................................................
Computer programmers .......................................
Legal assistants ....................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Level 8 ..............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
Financial managers ..............................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
Purchasing managers ...........................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Level 11 ............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
23
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$29.17
24.83
21.26
23.80
24.90
25.75
31.41
$29.17
25.01
21.92
–
–
27.08
–
–
$23.97
–
–
22.57
–
–
$29.17
24.83
21.26
23.80
24.90
25.75
31.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.52
27.84
39.46
23.01
17.95
23.07
23.37
29.51
21.53
20.78
14.36
15.85
12.03
28.09
24.40
26.89
28.42
27.79
28.71
27.90
27.48
26.41
26.19
28.37
11.67
12.56
22.81
27.07
25.08
17.11
15.64
28.83
19.27
20.52
27.84
–
22.49
–
23.06
22.80
28.39
–
–
13.93
–
8.87
17.07
–
–
–
18.86
–
–
–
–
16.74
–
–
–
12.92
–
–
13.82
–
28.97
19.27
–
–
–
24.27
–
–
24.33
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.38
–
–
28.40
28.32
29.42
27.91
27.48
26.41
29.09
28.95
11.88
–
–
27.07
25.08
18.52
–
28.37
–
20.52
27.84
–
22.76
–
23.10
23.01
29.72
–
20.78
14.62
–
11.80
28.12
24.40
26.89
28.46
28.02
28.71
28.18
27.27
26.41
27.32
28.75
–
–
24.61
–
25.08
17.00
–
28.83
19.27
–
–
–
$23.45
–
23.02
23.99
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.58
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.44
12.56
–
–
–
17.55
–
–
–
17.63
16.78
14.25
13.89
15.27
18.68
17.77
16.20
19.86
17.13
18.63
20.47
–
17.82
14.01
13.66
16.39
18.68
–
16.20
19.31
17.19
17.69
–
18.64
–
14.84
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.29
–
17.66
–
14.46
14.24
15.33
18.92
17.77
15.37
19.86
17.13
18.51
–
–
16.39
13.86
13.01
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.20
30.14
32.71
25.20
29.24
–
29.30
32.71
33.65
29.30
21.71
–
–
–
–
–
35.89
34.24
25.38
30.14
32.71
–
–
–
29.30
32.71
33.65
–
–
–
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
(-Continued)
Administrators, education and related fields
(-Continued)
Level 12 ............................................................
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .............
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ..........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Sales occupations:
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Sales occupations, other business services .........
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale .................................................
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats .............
Level 7 ..............................................................
Sales workers, parts .............................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .......................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Level 4 ..............................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
24
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$37.04
26.21
–
$26.21
$37.50
–
$37.04
26.21
–
–
18.69
18.58
33.24
19.02
25.63
28.97
29.35
34.34
47.74
57.90
20.01
16.02
19.53
22.31
20.23
22.14
17.40
18.58
33.15
19.02
25.59
28.97
29.35
34.10
47.74
57.90
20.20
–
19.51
22.72
20.23
20.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.69
18.58
33.25
19.02
25.63
–
29.35
34.34
47.74
57.90
19.96
16.02
19.41
22.31
20.23
22.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.00
22.52
–
24.36
–
24.54
20.49
20.83
15.90
16.92
–
20.96
20.76
15.38
–
24.54
20.49
20.81
15.67
16.92
–
–
–
–
–
17.16
10.24
15.73
17.16
10.24
15.73
–
–
–
17.16
10.24
16.39
–
–
–
18.97
17.10
17.13
16.49
9.46
8.37
8.99
10.69
6.17
8.60
13.76
–
18.97
17.10
17.13
16.49
9.46
8.37
8.99
10.72
6.17
8.55
13.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.97
17.10
17.13
16.49
10.48
8.70
9.41
12.10
–
8.87
13.81
12.31
17.37
16.66
–
17.46
17.08
13.76
9.98
12.87
12.88
17.09
16.67
12.18
12.33
12.72
11.96
9.42
9.58
17.08
13.80
–
12.78
12.61
16.52
17.03
–
–
12.51
11.48
9.29
9.56
–
–
21.01
–
–
–
13.68
–
13.01
13.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.08
13.96
–
13.08
12.81
17.06
16.57
–
–
12.15
–
10.10
9.62
–
–
–
–
$6.94
–
–
7.21
–
8.48
–
–
–
–
12.45
–
11.21
–
–
–
–
–
15.16
–
7.57
–
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
(-Continued)
Receptionists (-Continued)
Level 4 ..............................................................
Information clerks, N.E.C. .....................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping ....
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. ..................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
Level 4 ..............................................................
General office clerks .............................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Blue-collar occupations:
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Level 7 ..............................................................
Aircraft engine mechanics ....................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
See footnotes at end of table.
25
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$10.79
10.71
11.03
8.68
11.45
13.29
13.97
10.75
9.20
12.43
11.86
11.96
9.56
11.99
14.14
14.40
12.63
11.64
13.43
19.13
10.53
9.95
12.44
14.81
13.20
13.78
$10.45
10.06
11.03
8.68
11.45
13.29
13.29
11.39
9.08
12.33
–
11.69
9.56
11.82
13.46
–
11.86
11.64
–
19.13
10.53
9.95
12.44
14.86
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$10.66
–
12.68
–
14.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.39
–
–
$10.79
10.77
11.11
–
11.45
13.29
13.76
–
9.06
12.55
11.89
12.06
9.59
11.99
14.14
14.41
12.66
–
–
19.13
10.82
9.95
–
14.92
13.20
14.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$9.67
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.43
12.48
11.90
11.21
12.39
8.35
10.79
13.11
13.47
10.74
10.14
11.53
12.02
11.12
10.08
10.43
13.24
12.15
14.03
15.43
12.48
11.90
11.21
12.26
8.08
11.36
12.95
12.08
10.74
10.14
11.53
–
–
–
–
12.23
11.25
–
–
–
–
–
12.62
–
10.46
13.69
14.35
–
–
–
–
11.12
10.08
10.43
14.84
–
–
–
12.57
11.90
11.21
12.75
–
11.38
13.44
13.01
10.85
10.14
–
–
–
–
–
13.18
11.60
–
–
–
–
–
10.56
8.93
9.39
10.75
–
–
–
–
–
11.20
10.12
10.47
13.55
–
–
22.21
23.43
18.38
16.95
19.79
19.90
18.80
18.95
18.77
21.18
22.12
23.43
18.33
16.81
19.88
20.03
18.80
18.95
18.77
21.18
16.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.21
23.43
18.38
16.95
19.79
19.90
18.80
18.95
18.77
21.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.70
–
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:
(-Continued)
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Machinists .............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Printing press operators .......................................
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food ...
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Transportation and material moving occupations:
Truck drivers .........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Parking lot attendants ...........................................
Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. .............
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Level 5 ..............................................................
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers:
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
26
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$17.75
13.91
19.40
21.57
22.77
24.09
15.08
20.02
16.81
19.00
19.11
16.78
$18.06
13.91
19.93
21.79
22.77
–
–
20.02
16.81
19.00
19.11
17.10
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$17.75
13.91
19.40
21.57
22.77
24.09
15.08
20.02
16.81
19.00
19.11
16.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.83
10.68
14.14
14.89
11.58
10.96
8.54
8.66
12.38
14.93
11.99
10.17
13.14
13.00
19.00
12.83
10.68
14.14
14.89
11.58
10.96
8.54
8.66
12.38
14.93
11.99
10.17
13.14
13.00
19.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.83
10.68
14.25
14.89
11.58
10.96
8.54
8.66
12.38
14.93
11.99
10.18
13.14
13.00
19.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.61
14.63
12.82
14.81
18.60
14.56
11.41
13.23
16.51
6.69
9.75
15.15
17.49
14.56
–
12.63
14.81
18.62
–
–
–
–
6.61
9.75
15.15
17.49
–
–
–
–
–
$15.34
12.74
14.06
16.51
–
–
–
–
14.70
14.63
12.80
14.83
18.60
15.68
–
–
–
–
10.54
15.15
17.49
$12.33
–
–
–
–
13.03
–
–
14.76
–
–
–
–
19.01
19.44
17.42
19.15
–
11.10
16.53
9.41
9.32
5.71
9.21
10.81
13.79
11.42
8.15
11.60
14.48
7.18
6.40
6.97
9.99
–
9.41
9.32
5.71
9.21
10.81
13.79
11.42
8.15
11.60
14.68
7.18
6.40
6.97
11.46
16.53
9.41
11.48
–
10.51
–
13.79
13.39
–
–
15.43
7.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.68
7.93
–
–
6.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers:
(-Continued)
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Service occupations:
Protective service occupations:
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Level 3 ..............................................................
Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................
Food service occupations:
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Level 2 ..............................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
See footnotes at end of table.
27
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$10.42
10.11
7.98
7.75
$10.42
10.06
7.99
7.75
–
–
–
–
$10.69
10.49
–
7.66
–
$7.03
6.43
–
28.06
21.12
22.59
22.62
16.76
16.57
7.91
9.47
10.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.80
–
–
$28.06
21.12
22.59
22.62
16.76
16.57
–
–
–
28.06
21.12
22.41
22.40
16.76
16.57
7.91
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.86
–
–
12.49
5.63
5.86
5.23
9.40
7.68
9.32
7.53
6.63
8.00
7.05
8.88
6.02
5.60
7.25
12.43
5.63
5.86
5.23
9.12
7.68
9.15
7.35
6.49
7.98
6.99
9.02
6.02
5.60
6.96
–
–
–
–
11.67
–
–
–
–
8.24
–
–
–
–
9.90
12.71
5.64
–
5.26
9.62
–
9.54
8.06
–
8.69
–
–
–
–
8.30
–
5.61
–
5.20
8.01
–
–
–
–
7.44
–
8.05
6.09
–
6.46
Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings1 for selected occupations and levels2, all industries, private
industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
December 1997 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Service occupations: (-Continued)
Food service occupations: (-Continued)
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.
(-Continued)
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Health service occupations:
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations:
Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Personal service occupations:
Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ..
Level 3 ..............................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, N.E.C. ...................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an
establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge,
complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the
occupation’s ranking within each factor. The points are summed to
determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for
more information.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
All industries
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
$6.02
7.87
7.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$8.01
8.64
10.51
10.84
11.75
9.19
7.83
8.94
10.05
10.27
–
–
8.73
7.47
8.88
9.62
–
–
–
$12.56
–
–
–
$10.70
10.88
–
9.20
7.91
8.85
–
9.14
–
–
9.13
–
9.21
–
11.79
7.76
7.56
9.06
8.25
8.27
10.22
11.55
11.64
7.70
–
8.22
–
7.90
9.09
–
–
–
–
11.59
–
–
11.49
11.97
11.88
7.52
–
9.09
8.27
8.23
10.28
11.55
–
–
–
8.39
–
8.75
–
–
6.97
7.19
10.28
10.26
9.61
6.97
7.19
–
–
9.61
–
–
–
11.42
–
–
–
–
–
9.73
6.76
–
–
10.34
8.94
All industries
Private
industry
$6.02
8.06
8.40
Part-time
workers
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees
are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time
schedule.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
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Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Occupational group2
Full-time
workers3
Part-time
workers3
Union4
Nonunion4
Time5
Incentive5
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$17.84
18.01
$11.11
11.58
$18.86
19.19
$15.99
16.12
$17.04
17.31
$17.41
15.94
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
20.54
21.20
14.02
15.86
21.57
22.58
19.12
19.84
19.87
20.67
19.86
29.09
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
24.53
25.70
19.66
27.46
15.45
12.68
21.16
22.65
15.56
22.25
7.26
10.75
26.50
27.62
21.57
21.35
12.01
13.97
22.21
23.44
17.40
27.83
14.64
11.85
24.21
25.42
19.25
27.31
12.60
12.41
–
–
–
–
18.73
–
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
15.39
17.94
12.86
15.97
11.85
8.70
–
8.08
11.23
7.02
17.20
18.60
17.28
18.21
11.81
12.38
16.76
10.29
11.51
9.84
14.84
17.74
12.89
15.39
10.66
16.26
22.48
–
–
13.92
Service occupations ...........................................................
11.17
7.75
14.39
8.11
10.40
–
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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is
used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are
classified into one of nine major occupational groups.
3 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.
4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through
collective bargaining.
5 Time workers’ wages are based solely on an 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.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not
elsewhere classified."
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Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Goods-producing industries4
Occupational group3
All private
industries
Total
Mining
Construction
Manufacturing
Service-producing industries5
Total
TransWholeportsale
ation
and
and
retail
public
trade
utilities
Services
–
–
$15.61
15.75
All occupations ...........................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ................................................
$16.15
16.36
$18.47
18.46
–
–
White-collar occupations .......................................................
White-collar excluding sales .................................................
19.15
20.17
21.90
22.05
–
–
20.97
21.16
21.94
22.09
18.18
19.38
18.26
18.65
14.94
18.52
–
–
19.90
20.47
Professional specialty and technical occupations ................
Professional specialty occupations ...................................
Technical occupations ......................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .......
Sales occupations ................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .........
23.91
25.02
20.07
27.18
14.04
12.27
–
–
19.61
29.23
19.23
14.13
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.29
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.75
28.94
19.18
14.14
24.17
25.44
20.28
26.33
13.56
11.75
35.20
–
–
22.56
–
13.35
20.26
23.72
–
32.82
12.55
11.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.87
25.72
16.52
26.11
12.21
11.15
Blue-collar occupations .........................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..............
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..................
Transportation and material moving occupations .................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .........
14.66
17.75
12.78
14.99
10.45
15.63
18.51
13.18
16.58
11.97
–
–
–
–
–
19.62
20.96
–
–
17.62
14.93
17.79
13.18
16.24
10.40
13.29
16.42
7.91
14.29
9.86
15.61
15.46
–
16.67
12.86
12.14
16.75
–
11.00
9.35
–
–
–
–
–
12.59
16.81
8.03
15.10
9.30
Service occupations ...............................................................
8.61
14.65
–
–
14.65
8.48
–
7.83
–
8.10
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. 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.
$19.84 $18.33 $15.07 $17.34 $12.56
19.85 18.31 15.29 17.49 12.57
Finance,
insurance,
and
real
estate
3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing.
5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale
and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
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Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private
industry, all workers2, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
100 workers or more
All private
industry
workers
50 - 99
workers
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$16.15
16.36
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
Occupational group3
Total
100 - 499
workers
500
workers or
more
$13.64
13.94
$16.82
16.96
$14.74
14.70
$19.51
19.61
19.15
20.17
15.76
17.58
19.90
20.61
18.56
19.60
21.17
21.38
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .....
23.91
25.02
20.07
27.18
14.04
12.27
21.53
22.13
20.31
25.67
12.03
11.82
24.14
25.26
20.04
27.48
15.16
12.38
23.57
26.84
16.28
27.30
15.04
11.74
24.48
24.47
24.54
27.62
15.83
12.98
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
14.66
17.75
12.78
14.99
10.45
13.88
18.47
9.97
13.41
10.02
14.91
17.52
13.55
15.56
10.61
12.99
16.43
11.59
12.90
10.29
18.45
–
17.57
21.18
12.94
Service occupations ...........................................................
8.61
8.12
8.78
7.86
10.99
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. Employees
are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in
another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time
schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did
not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and
occupational levels may include data for categories not shown
separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
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Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group,
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
All workers
Occupational group2
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local government
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
906,289
838,335
702,638
635,203
203,651
203,132
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
528,251
460,297
381,711
314,277
146,540
146,021
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
219,805
180,288
39,517
80,971
67,954
159,521
132,836
103,775
29,061
62,938
67,435
118,502
86,969
76,513
10,456
18,033
–
41,019
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
215,584
76,879
46,938
47,100
44,668
193,237
70,674
46,938
34,400
41,224
22,348
6,204
–
12,700
3,444
Service occupations ...........................................................
162,453
127,690
34,763
1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in
the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the
minimum full-time schedule.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian
economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of
nine major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that
data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational
groups and occupational levels may include data for
categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not
elsewhere classified."
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Appendix A: Technical Note
els, industry classification, and other information were
updated.
This section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained in
this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for the
survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing the
data. While this section answers some questions commonly
asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive description
of all the steps required to produce the data.
Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a
two stage stratified design with probability proportional to
employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of
sample selection was a probability sample of establishments. The sample of establishments was drawn by first
stratifying the sampling frame by industry and ownership.
The number of sample establishments allocated to each
stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each sampled establishment is selected within a
stratum with a probability proportional to its employment.
Use of this technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection.
Weights were applied to each establishment when the data
were tabulated so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy which were not
selected for collection. See appendix table 1 for a count of
establishments in the survey by employment size. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled establishment.
Planning for the survey
The overall design of the survey, which was based on
the type of data to be produced, had to be developed before
data collection could begin.
Survey scope
This survey of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA,
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in goodsproducing industries (mining, construction and manufacturing); service-producing industries (transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale
trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and
services industries); and State and local governments. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal Government
were excluded from the scope of the survey. For purposes
of this survey an establishment was an economic unit which
produces goods or services, a central administrative office,
or an auxiliary unit providing support services to a company. For private industries in this survey, the establishment was usually at a single physical location. For State
and local governments, an establishment was defined as all
locations of a government entity.
The Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, CMSA includes
Island, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston
Counties, WA.
Data collection
The collection of data from survey respondents required
detailed procedures. Collection was the responsibility of
the field economists, working out of the Regional Office,
who visited each establishment surveyed.
Occupational selection and classification
Identification of the occupations for which wage data
were to be collected was a multi-step process:
Sampling frame
The list of establishments from which the survey sample
was selected (sampling frame) was developed from the
State unemployment insurance reports for the SeattleTacoma-Bremerton, WA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. The reference month for the public sector is
June 1994. Due to the volatility of industries within the
private sector, sampling frames were developed using the
most recent month of reference available at the time the
sample was selected. The reference month for the private
sector is March 1996. The sampling frame was reviewed
prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing establishments were added, out-of-business and out-of-scope establishments were removed, and addresses, employment lev-
1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs.
2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the
Census of Population system.
3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time,
union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive.
4. Determination of the level of work of each job.
For each occupation, wage data were collected for those
workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three
steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for
which a correct classification or level could not be determined.
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depending on whether any part of pay was directly based
on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely
on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as
being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition
of Terms” section on the following page for more detail.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each
establishment by the BLS field economist during a personal
visit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling,
with each selected worker representing a job within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people
working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance
of selection.
The number of jobs collected in each establishment was
based on an establishment’s employment size as shown in
the following schedule:
Number of employees
50-99
100-249
250-999
1000-2,499
2,500+
Generic leveling through point factor analysis
In the last step before wage data were collected, the
work level of each selected job was determined using a
“generic leveling” process. Generic leveling ranks and
compares all occupations randomly selected in an establishment using the same criteria. This is a major departure
from the method used in the past in the Bureau’s Occupational Compensation Surveys which studied specifically defined occupations with leveling definitions unique to each
occupation.
For this survey, the level of each occupation in an establishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10
leveling factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the
U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management’s Factor Evaluation System, which is the underlying structure for
evaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. The
tenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for the
effect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental.
The 10 factors are:
Number of selected jobs
8
10
12
16
20
The second step of the process entailed classifying the
selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The
National Compensation Survey occupational classification
system is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A selected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupational
classifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator. In
cases where a job’s duties overlapped two or more census
classification codes, the duties used to set the wage level
were used to classify the job. Classification by primary
duties was the fallback.
Each occupational classification is an element of a
broader classification known as a major occupational group
(MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the following
MOG’s:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Professional specialty and technical
Executive, administrative, and managerial
Sales
Administrative support including clerical
Precision production, craft, and repair
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
Transportation and material moving
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
Service occupations
Knowledge
Supervision received
Guidelines
Complexity
Scope and effect
Personal contacts
Purpose of contacts
Physical demands
Work environment
Supervisory duties
Each factor contains a number of levels and each level
has an associated written description and point value. The
number and range of points differ among the factors. For
each factor, an occupation was assigned a level based on
which written description best matched the job. Within
each occupation, the points for 9 factors (supervisory duties
was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The total determines the overall level of the occupation. Appendix table 3
presents average work levels for published occupational
groups and selected occupations. A description of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C.
Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in the
survey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar General Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels are
shown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a leveled job and a guide to help data users evaluate jobs in their
firm.
Wage data collected in prior surveys using the new generic leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchers
A complete list of all individual occupations, classified
by the MOG to which they belong, is contained in appendix
B.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based
on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then the
worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job,
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In order to calculate earnings for various time periods
(hourly, weekly, and annual), data on work schedules were
also collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours
worked per day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were
recorded. Annual weeks worked were determined. Because
salaried workers, exempt from overtime provisions, often
work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical
number of hours actually worked was collected.
using regression techniques. For each of the major occupational groups, wages were compared to the 10 generic
level factors (and levels within those factors). The analysis
showed that several of the generic level factors, most notably knowledge and supervision received, had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as the levels within a
given factor increased, the wages also increased. Detailed
research continues in the area. The results of this research
will be published by BLS in the future.
Definition of terms
Collection period
The survey was collected from October 1997 through
March 1998. The average payroll reference month was
December 1997. For each establishment in the survey, the
data reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of collection.
Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be full time.
Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the
employer to the employee as compensation for straighttime hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The
following components were included as part of earnings:
•
•
•
•
•
Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the requirements of the position. (See the description in the technical
note and the example for more details on the leveling process.)
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below).
Incentive pay, including commissions, production
bonuses, and piece rates
Cost-of-living allowances
Hazard pay
Payments of income deferred due to participation
in a salary reduction plan
Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight
or passengers
Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer considers to be part-time.
Straight-time. Time worked at the standard rate of pay for
the job.
Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
tied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level of
production.
The following forms of payments were not considered
part of straight-time earnings:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for
working a schedule that varies from the norm, such
as night or weekend work
Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends
Bonuses not directly tied to production (e.g.,
Christmas bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses)
Uniform and tool allowances
Free room and board
Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses
given by manufacturers to department store salespeople, referral incentives in real estate)
On-call pay
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•
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A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining
agent for all workers in the occupation.
Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations.
Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed mutually binding collective bargaining
agreement.
among establishments differ, estimates of the number of
workers obtained from the sample of establishments serve
only to indicate the relative importance of the occupational
groups studied.
Processing and analyzing the data
Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s National Office following collection.
Data reliability
The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of
errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey,
sampling and nonsampling.
Sampling errors occur because observations come only
from a sample and not from an entire population. The
sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible
samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different
samples would differ from each other.
A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all
possible samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the
standard error divided by the estimate. Appendix table 2
contains RSE data for selected series in this bulletin. RSE
data for all series in this bulletin are available on the Internet web site and by request to the BLS National Office.
The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example,
suppose table A-1 shows that mean hourly earnings for all
workers was $12.79 per hour, and appendix table 2 shows a
relative standard error of 3.6 percent for this estimate. At
the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 ($12.79 plus and minus 1.645
times 3.6 percent times $12.79). If all possible samples
were selected to estimate the population value, the interval
from each sample would include the true population value
approximately 90 percent of the time.
Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They
can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey
definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct
information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data
obtained. A Technical Reinterview Program done in all
survey areas will be used in the development of a formal
quality assessment process to help compute nonsampling
error. Although they were not specifically measured, the
nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the
extensive training of the field economists who gathered the
survey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data,
and detailed data review.
Weighting and nonresponse
Sample weights were calculated for each establishment/occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the
relative size of the occupation within the establishment and
of the establishment within the sample universe. Weights
were used to aggregate the individual establishment/occupations into the various data series. Of the establishments surveyed, 25 percent (representing 184,003
employees) refused to supply information. If data were not
provided by a sample member, the weights of responding
sample members in the same or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of the nonrespondents equals the
mean value of the respondents at some detailed “cell” level.
Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells according to industry and employment
size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells which
were additionally defined by major occupation group and
job level.
Establishments which were determined to be out of
business or outside the scope of the survey (4.3 percent of
the total sample) had their weights changed to zero. If only
partial data were given by a sample establishment or occupation, or data were missing, the response was treated as a
refusal.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining the wages for individual establishment/occupations.
Before being combined, individual wage rates are weighted
by: number of workers; the sample weight adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation work schedule, varying depending on whether
hourly, weekly, or annual rates are being calculated.
Not all series that were calculated met the criteria for
publication. Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented publishing a series that could have revealed information about a
specific establishment.
The number of workers estimates represent the total in
all establishments within the scope of the study and not the
number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures
36
Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size,
and number of establishments represented, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
Number of establishments studied
Industry
All industries .........................................................
Private industry .................................................
Goods-producing industries ..........................
Mining .......................................................
Construction .............................................
Manufacturing ...........................................
Service-producing industries ........................
Tranportation and public utilities ...............
Wholesale and retail trade ........................
Finance, insurance and real estate ..........
Services ....................................................
State and local government ..............................
Number of
establishments represented
100 workers or more
Total studied
4,416
4,107
802
5
184
612
3,305
294
1,490
280
1,241
310
372
314
82
1
9
72
232
25
70
15
122
58
50 - 99
workers
100
98
21
1
4
16
77
8
36
4
29
2
Total
272
216
61
–
5
56
155
17
34
11
93
56
100 - 499
workers
164
151
41
–
5
36
110
7
31
6
66
13
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
37
500 workers
or more
108
65
20
–
–
20
45
10
3
5
27
43
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
(in percent)
Occupation3
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
2.1
2.1
2.6
2.7
1.9
1.9
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
2.6
2.7
3.5
3.8
2.3
2.3
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Occupational therapists ........................................
Physical therapists ................................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Librarians ..............................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Urban planners .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .......
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ...........................
Drafters .................................................................
Computer programmers .......................................
Legal assistants ....................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Financial managers ..............................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
Purchasing managers ...........................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations ..........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................
4.4
5.1
–
9.8
3.0
3.3
6.8
8.3
–
9.8
3.5
3.9
1.9
1.9
–
–
4.1
4.1
5.0
4.9
6.4
2.5
31.9
1.5
3.1
11.3
1.2
4.7
5.1
4.5
17.1
1.7
1.4
2.9
5.5
4.9
11.9
9.8
5.7
12.7
4.2
3.5
3.6
7.1
6.7
5.0
6.0
6.4
3.3
–
1.9
1.6
–
–
4.2
4.1
11.9
3.1
9.5
7.9
–
17.6
–
4.2
–
–
–
–
6.3
6.3
8.7
8.7
–
–
–
3.7
–
1.6
–
–
–
–
–
1.4
–
1.7
1.3
2.9
1.8
5.5
–
9.8
5.7
7.7
4.2
2.1
1.7
6.8
4.4
–
5.0
3.7
5.0
3.3
1.5
4.9
4.6
7.6
9.3
12.1
3.4
6.4
2.7
3.3
5.2
4.7
7.3
–
5.0
4.7
–
4.0
1.8
10.2
4.6
–
9.3
12.7
3.8
8.9
2.8
3.5
5.2
4.7
–
–
–
3.7
5.9
–
1.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.4
7.0
9.1
–
–
–
14.3
3.8
7.4
14.3
13.0
7.4
–
2.6
–
10.7
9.4
–
See footnotes at end of table.
38
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and managers
(-Continued)
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .............
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ..........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Sales occupations ............................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Sales occupations, other business services .........
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale .................................................
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats .............
Sales workers, parts .............................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Stenographers ......................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Receptionists ........................................................
Information clerks, N.E.C. .....................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping ....
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. ..................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
General office clerks .............................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Aircraft engine mechanics ....................................
See footnotes at end of table.
39
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
14.5
3.8
2.6
7.0
9.3
4.5
14.5
3.9
3.5
9.3
9.8
2.8
–
–
3.8
–
–
–
6.2
7.3
–
3.0
3.3
6.5
7.0
8.7
9.8
–
3.1
8.2
7.0
8.8
9.8
–
–
9.8
–
–
–
15.7
5.1
4.0
9.7
5.0
1.3
5.3
15.7
5.1
4.0
9.7
5.1
1.6
6.0
–
–
–
–
–
1.7
–
5.2
2.7
3.7
3.5
6.1
3.3
4.7
4.6
4.9
6.4
5.0
3.7
3.0
3.8
5.4
4.5
15.3
5.2
6.5
5.2
3.7
–
–
6.1
3.4
3.6
4.6
5.2
6.9
5.3
4.8
3.2
–
5.6
–
15.3
5.2
7.2
–
3.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
–
5.1
5.0
–
–
–
–
–
8.3
10.3
2.3
5.3
3.0
5.8
6.9
4.2
5.1
10.3
2.3
5.3
3.9
5.8
–
–
6.7
–
–
–
4.8
–
–
4.2
6.2
1.9
2.8
5.8
6.3
1.8
5.3
2.1
3.0
6.2
6.5
2.0
5.3
2.1
2.8
–
–
–
–
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations
(-Continued)
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Machinists .............................................................
Stationary engineers .............................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Printing press operators .......................................
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food ...
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Parking lot attendants ...........................................
Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. .............
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
Health service occupations .......................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers
See footnotes at end of table.
40
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
8.1
8.1
–
12.2
6.4
4.3
5.9
4.2
9.3
7.0
3.1
3.9
–
7.9
4.2
–
–
9.3
7.0
3.5
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.5
4.9
6.5
7.9
10.7
10.0
5.1
4.9
8.3
3.9
4.9
4.2
5.2
14.6
12.1
6.5
4.9
6.5
7.9
10.7
10.0
5.1
4.9
8.3
5.0
5.1
–
5.0
14.6
12.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.9
–
3.6
–
–
–
8.2
2.9
7.6
5.8
10.4
5.2
6.5
4.2
12.3
7.2
9.8
3.2
9.4
–
10.4
5.2
6.6
4.2
12.3
7.4
4.4
2.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.4
12.9
2.8
2.9
2.1
6.7
14.6
7.1
3.4
3.1
13.7
–
–
–
–
14.6
–
3.6
3.6
4.1
2.8
2.9
2.1
6.7
–
–
3.8
10.9
4.6
5.0
8.7
5.2
4.5
7.2
3.0
2.9
3.5
2.7
8.7
11.4
4.6
5.3
9.3
5.6
4.5
7.0
3.0
3.0
3.3
2.2
9.4
–
–
6.0
–
3.7
–
2.0
3.3
–
3.6
1.8
–
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
Service occupations (-Continued)
Cleaning and building service occupations
(-Continued)
Maids and housemen ...........................................
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ..
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Child care workers, N.E.C. ...................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
1 The relative standard error is the standard error
expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly
earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables
A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could
not be determined for all occupations.
2 All workers include full-time and part-time
workers. Employees are classified as working either a
full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition
used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with
a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a
full-time employee in one establishment, but classified
as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
3.2
3.3
6.6
3.6
12.0
12.8
6.5
3.3
2.3
7.2
3.6
–
–
6.5
–
1.8
4.9
–
–
6.5
–
the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480
individual occupations is used to cover all workers in
the civilian economy. Individual occupations are
classified into one of nine major occupational groups.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall
occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
41
Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
All occupations .................................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ......................................................
6
6
6
6
4
4
White-collar occupations .............................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales ...................................
7
7
7
8
5
6
Professional specialty and technical occupations ......................
Professional specialty occupations .........................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...............................
Computer systems analysts and scientists .....................
Operations and systems researchers and analysts ........
Natural scientists ................................................................
Medical scientists ...........................................................
Health related occupations .................................................
Physicians ......................................................................
Registered nurses ..........................................................
Pharmacists ....................................................................
Occupational therapists ..................................................
Physical therapists ..........................................................
Therapists, N.E.C. ..........................................................
Teachers, college and university ........................................
Teachers, except college and university ............................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ..................................
Elementary school teachers ...........................................
Secondary school teachers ............................................
Teachers, special education ...........................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................
Substitute teachers .........................................................
Vocational and educational counselors ..........................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .....................................
Librarians ........................................................................
Social scientists and urban planners ..................................
Urban planners ...............................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................
Social workers ................................................................
Lawyers and judges ............................................................
Lawyers ..........................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals,
N.E.C. ...........................................................................
Designers .......................................................................
Technical occupations ............................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ...........
Radiological technicians .................................................
Licensed practical nurses ...............................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .................
Electrical and electronic technicians ...............................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. .....................................
Drafters ...........................................................................
Computer programmers .................................................
Legal assistants ..............................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ....................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............
Executives, administrators, and managers .........................
Financial managers ........................................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ........................
Purchasing managers .....................................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public relations
Administrators, education and related fields ...................
Managers, medicine and health .....................................
Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments ...
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .......................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................
Management related occupations ......................................
Accountants and auditors ...............................................
Other financial officers ....................................................
Management analysts ....................................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists ........
9
9
–
10
9
9
7
10
11
9
12
9
10
9
9
8
11
8
6
9
8
9
7
6
8
9
9
8
10
8
8
12
11
9
9
–
10
9
9
7
10
11
9
–
9
10
–
9
8
12
8
6
9
8
9
8
–
8
9
–
9
10
8
8
12
11
8
8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9
–
9
–
–
–
–
10
6
–
–
8
–
–
6
–
–
–
–
–
8
8
–
–
–
7
7
7
6
5
5
7
7
7
8
7
7
10
11
10
11
11
10
11
11
8
9
11
9
9
9
9
9
–
7
7
8
–
5
5
8
7
7
8
7
7
10
11
10
11
11
10
11
11
8
9
11
9
9
9
9
9
–
–
6
–
6
5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
42
Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
— Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Management related occupations (-Continued)
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ....................................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ..........................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ......................
Sales occupations ......................................................................
Supervisors, sales occupations ......................................
Sales occupations, other business services ...................
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and
wholesale ..................................................................
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats .......................
Sales workers, parts .......................................................
Sales workers, other commodities ..................................
Cashiers .........................................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...............
Supervisors, general office .............................................
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting
clerks ........................................................................
Secretaries .....................................................................
Stenographers ................................................................
Typists ............................................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .................
Receptionists ..................................................................
Information clerks, N.E.C. ...............................................
Order clerks ....................................................................
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping ..............
Library clerks ..................................................................
File clerks .......................................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. ...................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .......................................
Billing clerks ....................................................................
Dispatchers .....................................................................
Production coordinators ..................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .............................
Stock and inventory clerks ..............................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks,
N.E.C. .......................................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ............
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................
General office clerks .......................................................
Data entry keyers ...........................................................
Statistical clerks ..............................................................
Teachers’ aides ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ...................
Blue-collar occupations ...............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ....................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ...........................
Automobile mechanics ...................................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .................
Aircraft engine mechanics ..............................................
Industrial machinery repairers ........................................
Electronic repairers, communications and industrial
equipment .................................................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ....................................
Carpenters ......................................................................
Electricians .....................................................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ............................................
Supervisors, production occupations ..............................
Machinists .......................................................................
Stationary engineers .......................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................
See footnotes at end of table.
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10
9
8
5
7
6
10
9
8
5
7
6
–
–
–
3
–
–
7
6
5
3
3
–
4
7
7
6
5
4
4
5
4
7
–
–
–
3
2
–
3
–
7
5
4
5
4
3
4
4
5
4
3
4
4
6
4
5
5
4
4
7
5
–
–
4
3
4
4
5
–
3
4
4
6
4
–
5
4
4
–
4
–
–
4
2
–
–
–
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5
4
5
4
3
4
4
5
–
4
5
4
3
–
–
5
–
–
–
3
–
–
4
4
5
6
8
6
7
7
6
5
6
8
6
7
7
6
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
6
7
7
7
6
8
7
7
4
6
7
7
7
6
8
7
7
4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA, December 1997
— Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors (-Continued)
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine
operators ..................................................................
Molding and casting machine operators .........................
Printing press operators .................................................
Painting and paint spraying machine operators .............
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food .............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. .....................
Welders and cutters ........................................................
Assemblers .....................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............
Transportation and material moving occupations .......................
Truck drivers ...................................................................
Bus drivers ......................................................................
Parking lot attendants .....................................................
Motor transportation occupations, N.E.C. .......................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ............
Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators,
N.E.C. .......................................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .................
Construction laborers .....................................................
Production helpers ..........................................................
Stock handlers and baggers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .................
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ......................
Hand packers and packagers .........................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. .............................
Service occupations .....................................................................
Protective service occupations ...........................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .................................
Firefighting occupations ..................................................
Police and detectives, public service ..............................
Correctional institution officers .......................................
Guards and police except public service ........................
Protective service occupations, N.E.C. ..........................
Food service occupations ...................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations
Waiters and waitresses ..................................................
Cooks .............................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations ...........
Kitchen workers, food preparation ..................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ......................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. ...........................
Health service occupations .................................................
Health aides, except nursing ..........................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service occupations ........................
Supervisors, cleaning & building service workers ..........
Maids and housemen .....................................................
Janitors and cleaners .....................................................
Personal service occupations .............................................
Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ............
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..............................
Child care workers, N.E.C. .............................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ..........................................
1 A classification system including about 480
individual occupations is used to cover all workers in
the civilian economy. Individual occupations are
classified into one of nine major occupational groups.
The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors,
painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and
legislators cannot be assigned a work level.
3
4
6
6
4
4
6
4
6
4
5
4
2
3
4
3
4
6
6
4
4
6
4
6
5
5
4
–
3
4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4
4
4
–
–
–
5
3
3
4
2
2
3
2
2
3
5
3
4
4
2
3
3
2
2
3
–
2
–
–
–
–
2
2
–
1
4
5
8
7
7
5
4
5
3
6
3
4
2
2
2
2
3
4
3
2
4
2
2
4
3
4
5
3
4
5
8
7
7
5
4
–
4
6
3
4
3
3
–
2
3
4
3
2
5
2
2
4
–
–
–
3
3
5
–
–
–
–
3
–
2
–
3
4
–
2
2
2
3
4
3
2
–
–
2
4
3
–
5
3
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall
occupational groups and occupational levels may
include data for categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
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