Los Angeles—Riverside—
Orange County, CA
National Compensation Survey
March 1998
________________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Alexis M. Herman, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner
November 1998
Bulletin 3095-07
Preface
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his bulletin provides results of a March 1998 survey of
occupational pay in the Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA, 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
Page
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................
Wages in the Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA, CMSA ......................................................
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2
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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9
14
19
23
28
36
37
38
39
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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NCS more extensive than OCS
The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing
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
Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The
CMSA includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San
Bernardino, and Ventura Counties, CA.
This area was last surveyed in March 1997. Data from
the 1997 sample units were updated to reflect March 1998
wage data. Please see Appendix A: Technical Note for
details on updating estimates. 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.
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Wages in the
Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
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Survey results show that private industry workers in Los
Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA, earned $16.74
per hour, while surveyed State and local government workers averaged $22.20. Table A-2 reports the average hourly
rate for white-collar occupations as $21.70 in private industry and $23.18 in State and local government. Bluecollar occupations showed an average hourly rate of $12.35
in private industry and $20.02 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged
$8.06 per hour while those found in State and local government averaged $19.67.
traight-time wages in the Los Angeles—Riverside—
Orange County, CA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $17.69 per hour during March 1998.
White-collar workers had an average wage of $22.02 per
hour. Blue-collar workers averaged $12.80 per hour, while
service workers had average earnings of $10.46 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, Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA,
March 1998
Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and
State and local government, Los Angeles—Riverside—
Orange County, CA, March 1998
Dollars per hour
$ 20
Dollars per hour
$
25
15
Private
industry
State and
local
government
20
10
15
5
10
0
Whitecollar
Bluecollar
Service
workers
5
Within each of these occupational groups, average
hourly wages for individual occupations varied. For example, white-collar occupations included registered nurses at
$24.56 per hour, secretaries at $15.52, and general office
clerks at $11.69. Among occupations in the blue-collar
category, truck drivers averaged $11.72 per hour while
stock handlers and baggers averaged $10.30. Finally,
service occupations included janitors and cleaners at $7.49
per hour and nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at
$8.67 per hour. Table A-1 presents earnings data for 187
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.
0
White-collar
Blue-collar
Service
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
$18.59 per hour, compared with an average of $9.81 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 industries) represented by the broad group as well as by the
variability of the estimate. Some levels within a group may
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hourly wages averaged $17.43 in all goods-producing industries, $23.75 in mining, $18.94 in construction, and
$17.26 in manufacturing. Hourly wages averaged $13.46
in wholesale and retail trade and $20.89 in finance, insurance and real estate. Data for other industry divisions did
not meet publication criteria.
Table C-4 reports that a total of 3,303,573 workers were
represented by the Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange
County, CA survey. White-collar occupations included
1,923,407 workers, or 58 percent, blue-collar occupations
included 784,497 workers, or 23 percent; and service occupations included 595,669 workers, or 18 percent.
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 9. As illustrated in Chart 3, the average hourly rate was $7.04 for
level 1, $10.49 for level 3, $15.25 for level 6, and $24.72
for level 9.
Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by
occupational group, Los Angeles—Riverside—
Orange County, CA, March 1998
Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for
administrative support occupations, including clerical,
Los Angeles—Riverside—Orange County, CA, March
1998
Percent
60
Dollars per hour
$25
50
20
40
15
30
10
20
5
10
0
0
1
3
6
9
Level
Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of
$18.44, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion
workers averaged $17.40. Time workers, whose wages
were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged
$17.55 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at
least partially based on productivity payments, averaged
$21.15 per hour.
Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry
divisions within private industry. In the private sector,
Whitecollar
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, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ....................................................................... $17.69
All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 17.68
$6.19
6.22
25
Median
50
$8.80 $13.96
8.95 14.08
75
90
$22.56
22.76
$33.12
33.08
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
22.02
22.60
9.00
9.89
12.31
13.00
17.91
18.75
27.60
28.53
38.90
39.21
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Aerospace engineers ............................................
Civil engineers ......................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, N.E.C. .................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ....................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Business, commerce and marketing teachers ......
Education teachers ...............................................
English teachers ...................................................
Foreign language teachers ...................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified ..
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .........................
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 ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Recreation workers ...............................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Actors and directors ..............................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .........................
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. ...........................
Science technicians, N.E.C. .................................
28.17
30.28
32.36
32.94
30.61
33.96
25.31
29.46
31.63
31.26
32.18
14.68
17.44
22.95
21.60
24.95
24.62
21.22
13.00
21.73
19.22
18.98
19.76
22.26
26.02
26.40
26.95
26.69
23.40
27.38
27.37
23.51
23.52
26.00
28.08
30.54
32.07
28.59
30.77
24.58
31.20
31.35
29.17
29.46
33.90
36.57
37.30
38.60
29.81
39.30
27.53
34.02
36.03
34.35
35.75
43.61
45.14
45.91
46.13
42.37
47.73
29.54
35.00
41.51
51.26
53.00
24.87
27.44
27.35
29.62
23.07
25.72
42.06
24.56
32.66
17.74
19.12
34.70
47.32
47.17
33.31
30.95
34.87
34.49
30.93
13.10
33.63
34.00
30.32
26.93
17.30
28.84
21.23
30.22
28.70
19.32
20.09
12.89
38.94
38.94
19.39
17.73
21.73
25.22
17.73
17.91
12.98
18.54
19.38
12.20
16.03
22.39
32.53
24.13
26.64
21.87
17.45
24.89
15.87
11.45
22.18
23.13
18.74
12.98
12.14
12.78
16.55
16.83
15.29
11.55
11.55
6.67
26.90
26.90
19.70
23.58
24.96
25.96
17.73
20.07
16.97
20.80
29.46
15.43
18.18
27.35
33.15
28.31
28.60
22.02
26.75
28.44
22.60
11.45
25.64
27.23
24.35
18.33
16.67
18.15
20.12
20.67
16.83
13.12
14.39
9.80
31.14
31.14
22.75
26.28
24.96
30.22
23.58
23.41
42.54
23.55
35.74
19.03
18.91
33.97
37.50
28.31
31.71
25.89
35.25
34.66
30.83
12.38
32.80
34.94
29.31
24.85
17.22
27.91
22.56
31.35
20.83
19.00
19.91
10.11
38.24
38.24
29.95
33.03
31.53
33.03
26.28
27.56
65.00
26.56
38.00
20.00
20.60
40.19
45.16
39.38
38.60
38.60
39.89
40.04
39.05
14.86
40.95
39.68
36.14
34.44
18.83
41.40
22.60
33.89
44.36
25.83
26.72
18.63
44.17
44.17
33.54
35.89
35.89
33.57
27.27
38.00
67.28
31.13
39.77
20.31
21.44
46.50
107.21
99.34
40.94
44.75
49.17
45.64
44.81
17.27
45.12
44.81
41.26
40.66
20.68
46.29
22.60
45.63
47.33
27.27
27.27
19.00
54.62
54.62
35.92
30.82
73.93
42.37
26.56
20.46
18.93
18.89
15.45
15.16
20.54
21.51
15.90
9.70
15.16
33.90
15.75
14.96
12.05
11.12
16.50
12.00
10.48
13.78
13.24
13.25
17.50
17.50
62.50
21.67
20.00
14.56
12.84
17.50
12.94
12.63
16.79
16.82
13.33
31.73
31.73
62.50
37.88
27.03
18.52
20.19
18.00
14.47
15.09
19.89
20.67
14.68
42.34
39.57
112.50
71.17
32.26
22.75
24.06
20.91
16.79
16.61
23.28
22.85
17.24
71.17
43.99
112.50
71.17
37.50
29.74
25.98
21.74
21.72
20.56
28.57
32.65
20.50
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Professional specialty and technical occupations
(-Continued)
Technical occupations (-Continued)
Airplane pilots and navigators .............................. $60.31 $19.85 $20.63 $44.02 $101.36 $145.48
Computer programmers ....................................... 24.74 15.43 21.53 26.68
30.00
30.90
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. .......... 22.67 15.00 17.87 20.41
25.64
31.90
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ... 31.01 16.44 20.00 26.80
37.18
46.48
Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 36.38 17.68 24.01 33.55
42.82
52.03
Administrators and officials, public administration
37.95 27.17 34.40 41.29
44.16
45.08
Financial managers .............................................. 34.04 20.55 24.04 30.92
37.69
48.85
Personnel and labor relations managers .............. 34.96 22.09 29.03 37.14
41.16
44.64
Purchasing managers ........................................... 28.96 22.84 27.89 30.50
30.82
30.82
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations .......................................................... 37.51 19.23 27.50 34.86
47.04
54.75
Administrators, education and related fields ......... 35.50 24.90 27.40 37.18
40.20
46.21
Managers, medicine and health ........................... 32.64 21.68 25.44 34.15
37.50
44.45
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................ 20.64 14.70 15.55 16.35
25.00
31.35
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. ............. 27.58 16.80 18.06 23.42
32.01
44.72
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. .................. 39.74 18.03 24.71 34.25
44.28
61.54
Management related occupations ............................ 22.75 15.50 17.70 21.63
26.42
31.35
Accountants and auditors ..................................... 21.73 16.31 17.74 21.94
25.15
26.80
Other financial officers .......................................... 23.33 15.38 17.31 18.67
27.00
33.19
Management analysts .......................................... 25.75 17.73 21.66 27.50
29.19
31.35
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists ....................................................... 20.22 12.95 15.05 18.84
22.83
29.05
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................ 21.47 17.80 18.41 20.88
23.42
25.03
Construction inspectors ........................................ 25.57 18.76 25.20 26.42
27.74
28.07
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction .................................................... 23.14 16.64 19.79 23.88
23.88
33.41
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............ 22.79 14.91 18.40 21.63
26.99
31.43
Sales occupations ............................................................ 17.76
6.00
7.62 12.30
18.50
37.02
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................ 29.50 12.50 16.42 18.19
26.51
79.75
Sales occupations, other business services ......... 26.68
8.00 12.30 14.66
37.07
58.13
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale ................................................. 27.36 14.92 19.88 25.54
31.73
37.02
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats ............. 19.67
8.58 10.82 15.42
26.61
35.39
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
7.36
5.30
5.72
6.10
8.56
9.90
Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........
8.23
5.90
6.75
8.25
9.00
10.15
Sales workers, parts ............................................. 13.72
6.25 10.00 13.10
17.14
21.00
Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 11.67
5.90
6.50
8.36
11.82
21.48
Cashiers ............................................................... 10.13
5.75
6.48
9.05
15.49
15.75
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ....................... 14.32
8.50 11.18 14.18
16.98
19.85
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ..... 12.98
8.20 10.12 12.66
15.32
18.21
Supervisors, general office ................................... 16.81 12.14 14.26 17.01
18.12
21.15
Supervisors, financial records processing ............ 19.32 15.21 15.63 16.17
22.48
28.58
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ............................................... 18.81 11.00 14.87 17.00
24.17
26.82
Computer operators .............................................. 17.81 14.36 16.32 17.09
18.87
21.89
Secretaries ........................................................... 15.52 11.45 13.42 15.28
17.55
19.42
Typists .................................................................. 13.35 11.50 11.50 12.99
14.29
15.23
Interviewers .......................................................... 10.85
8.08
9.22 11.05
12.55
13.12
Hotel clerks ........................................................... 10.88
5.86
6.62
9.44
16.35
16.63
Transportation ticket and reservation agents ....... 13.05
8.59
9.90 12.73
15.32
19.61
Receptionists ........................................................
9.76
7.00
8.30
9.44
11.03
13.00
Information clerks, N.E.C. ..................................... 10.86
8.50
9.42 10.38
12.09
13.56
Order clerks .......................................................... 11.62
7.33
9.15 10.50
12.50
19.42
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping .... 12.89
9.00 11.00 12.04
15.25
16.69
Library clerks ........................................................ 13.69 11.15 11.15 14.07
15.53
16.48
File clerks .............................................................
7.85
6.50
7.00
7.19
8.50
10.16
Records clerks, N.E.C. ......................................... 13.37 10.10 11.21 11.96
15.36
19.28
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 13.56 10.50 11.58 13.20
15.00
17.41
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ............................. 13.05 10.00 12.02 12.37
15.06
15.75
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical
(-Continued)
Billing clerks .......................................................... $10.35
Telephone operators ............................................ 10.54
Mail clerks except postal service ..........................
9.89
Dispatchers ........................................................... 16.74
Production coordinators ........................................ 15.99
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
9.78
Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 11.35
Meter readers ....................................................... 16.47
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. .................................................. 11.22
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators .. 17.57
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ...... 13.77
Eligibility clerks, social welfare ............................. 13.31
Bill and account collectors .................................... 12.14
General office clerks ............................................. 11.69
Data entry keyers ................................................. 12.58
Statistical clerks .................................................... 14.70
Teachers’ aides .................................................... 11.19
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ......... 13.44
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Aircraft mechanics except engine .........................
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Machinery maintenance occupations ...................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ..............
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Tool and die makers .............................................
Machinists .............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Miscellaneous precision workers, N.E.C. .............
Butchers and meat cutters ....................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ...........................
Water and sewer treatment plant operators .........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Sawing machine operators ...................................
Printing press operators .......................................
Textile cutting machine operators .........................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Mixing and blending machine operators ...............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Photographic process machine operators ............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
See footnotes at end of table.
6
25
Median
50
75
90
$11.50
12.53
11.07
18.93
19.64
12.13
15.00
20.12
$12.48
16.09
12.82
22.05
22.70
13.16
16.53
23.78
$7.63
6.75
6.87
9.19
11.12
6.22
7.35
11.77
$8.72 $10.87
7.50
9.82
8.36
9.81
14.67 18.56
12.69 15.23
7.92
9.58
8.61 10.73
12.50 13.75
7.98
9.92
9.10
12.00
8.68
7.50
8.95
7.44
7.65
8.76
8.10
12.24
10.66
13.39
11.08
9.24
10.50
13.50
9.00
10.82
10.47
16.69
12.94
13.39
12.15
11.62
13.26
17.09
11.14
13.26
12.02
21.53
16.86
13.39
13.65
13.50
13.94
17.09
11.98
16.14
24.04
26.56
19.43
14.42
15.10
16.16
16.55
18.08
16.74
18.75
12.80
18.28
23.62
17.03
16.39
21.64
23.57
17.72
12.81
5.85
9.00
17.77
12.34
11.90
19.86
18.33
13.09
8.67
7.37
13.17
20.77
15.00
14.00
20.70
23.99
14.21
9.00
10.73
18.13
22.16
15.00
17.63
21.81
23.99
16.30
12.00
16.99
22.59
25.32
18.25
17.63
21.81
25.89
20.65
13.50
22.77
25.89
33.19
24.00
19.70
25.64
25.89
25.74
21.90
20.98
15.71
19.04
21.31
12.83
19.13
23.19
17.74
19.33
9.09
16.99
10.70
16.65
21.07
9.96
9.38
17.52
8.61
15.42
16.00
5.75
14.75
12.95
11.16
14.58
5.75
10.81
5.85
11.31
17.07
5.66
6.44
19.73
11.78
17.29
16.72
5.75
16.06
17.00
15.34
17.20
6.48
12.65
6.57
11.54
20.06
6.67
6.65
20.34
15.37
19.53
20.00
12.12
17.37
19.23
16.72
18.64
8.46
16.83
10.13
14.85
21.34
9.00
9.06
22.14
18.77
21.52
25.25
19.79
22.81
32.07
21.48
23.25
10.46
19.85
15.18
21.72
22.05
11.76
10.72
27.68
23.85
22.30
28.63
19.79
24.71
40.36
22.57
23.25
13.38
28.13
17.03
22.23
24.46
15.05
13.78
8.80
10.62
7.20
7.01
14.86
9.85
8.05
10.15
9.70
10.61
9.84
9.25
16.26
9.44
7.79
5.29
6.17
5.20
5.80
7.55
7.67
5.23
6.39
5.31
5.40
6.97
5.44
7.72
5.67
6.59
6.67
7.19
5.45
6.03
8.86
8.66
6.27
6.86
7.25
5.60
8.10
6.25
9.71
6.33
6.59
7.71
8.34
6.79
6.14
11.83
10.50
7.90
9.92
9.09
12.08
9.44
8.00
14.44
9.89
7.47
12.25
15.00
8.26
7.57
20.71
11.00
9.54
12.93
10.15
14.76
11.85
10.00
24.10
11.76
8.71
12.25
18.56
10.53
9.68
26.09
11.00
11.38
15.28
12.65
14.77
13.50
14.80
25.00
12.63
9.03
Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$7.00
8.14
6.50
6.11
8.10
6.50
$8.57
10.10
8.63
8.06
8.60
7.63
$9.53
11.22
11.92
10.75
9.20
10.72
$11.08
14.00
17.54
14.76
12.13
12.96
$13.71
17.50
25.84
18.63
15.05
17.14
9.96
5.75
5.75
10.47
6.20
7.83
10.74
8.03
11.50
13.62
10.73
15.69
25.63
14.88
16.74
9.35
5.87
6.17
5.32
5.18
5.50
5.75
5.95
5.50
6.10
9.35
6.33
8.00
6.11
6.50
5.99
5.75
6.00
5.87
6.65
15.65
9.01
8.51
8.04
9.39
7.63
7.44
7.33
7.23
8.60
16.00
12.58
9.86
9.47
13.96
12.77
9.97
8.04
9.11
12.95
20.00
14.98
13.61
10.16
18.06
12.77
13.12
10.96
10.59
15.90
10.46
16.88
32.17
14.43
24.07
5.37
5.75
26.63
5.75
18.72
5.88
7.08
28.79
6.35
20.33
7.56
18.00
32.09
18.81
22.93
12.12
24.11
33.08
21.67
26.81
21.21
29.44
41.15
23.50
31.47
21.49
18.26
7.53
7.43
16.31
12.96
5.15
5.15
19.76
14.27
6.00
5.73
24.11
18.21
6.82
6.19
24.11
22.13
8.39
8.59
24.11
22.13
10.83
11.51
13.23
7.19
5.53
9.48
6.37
7.85
5.72
6.90
6.42
5.15
5.15
5.75
5.15
5.36
5.15
5.50
10.05
5.75
5.15
7.05
5.21
6.50
5.25
5.75
13.46
7.29
5.73
9.39
5.75
7.65
5.75
6.19
16.00
8.76
5.75
11.92
7.35
9.22
5.75
7.68
17.98
8.95
5.75
12.55
9.84
10.83
6.50
9.41
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners .. $10.03
Production testers ................................................. 11.96
Transportation and material moving occupations ............. 14.36
Truck drivers ......................................................... 11.72
Bus drivers ............................................................ 10.41
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 10.89
Miscellaneous material moving equipment
operators, N.E.C. ............................................ 13.73
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
9.18
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm ....... 11.72
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, N.E.C. .............................................. 14.19
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................ 10.07
Construction laborers ...........................................
9.15
Production helpers ................................................
7.93
Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 10.30
Machine feeders and offbearers ...........................
9.09
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
8.39
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
7.65
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
7.81
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ................... 10.10
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Bartenders ............................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
See footnotes at end of table.
7
Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Service occupations (-Continued)
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 ..
Public transportation attendants ...........................
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. 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.
$9.23
11.43
8.67
7.95
13.16
7.22
7.49
10.65
7.46
24.30
9.13
9.93
8.81
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$6.33
8.28
6.08
5.25
6.10
5.70
5.15
5.75
5.75
10.30
7.43
6.35
5.64
$6.89
9.53
6.71
5.75
11.88
6.01
5.55
5.99
5.75
14.25
8.41
7.00
5.88
$8.71
11.12
8.08
7.25
13.00
6.50
7.06
8.41
6.50
18.77
8.41
9.45
6.47
$11.12
14.05
9.95
9.25
15.73
7.86
8.50
11.88
8.77
33.60
9.48
11.41
8.94
$13.83
14.45
12.35
12.57
19.03
10.04
10.58
16.68
10.67
49.18
11.15
14.58
16.21
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."
8
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $16.74
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 16.64
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Aerospace engineers ..........................
Civil engineers ....................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .....
Industrial engineers ............................
Mechanical engineers .........................
Engineers, N.E.C. ...............................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Operations and systems researchers
and analysts .................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Chemists, except biochemists ............
Health related occupations .....................
Physicians ..........................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Pharmacists ........................................
Respiratory therapists .........................
Teachers, college and university ............
Business, commerce and marketing
teachers ........................................
Education teachers .............................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not
specified .......................................
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .......
Teachers, except college and university
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, N.E.C. ................................
Substitute teachers .............................
Vocational and educational
counselors ....................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social scientists and urban planners ......
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Designers ...........................................
Actors and directors ............................
Editors and reporters ..........................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .......
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. .........
Science technicians, N.E.C. ...............
Airplane pilots and navigators ............
Computer programmers .....................
State and local government
$6.00
6.00
25
Median
50
$8.04 $12.74
8.09 12.77
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$21.00
21.14
$31.67
31.44
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$22.20 $11.26 $13.62 $19.79 $27.76 $37.95
22.22 11.26 13.62 19.79 27.77 37.98
21.70
22.41
8.50
9.32
11.79
12.50
17.31
18.30
27.01
27.96
38.46
38.60
23.18
23.20
11.51
11.53
13.62
13.62
19.83
19.91
30.22
30.22
40.51
40.51
27.41
29.88
32.49
32.94
31.93
34.06
25.31
28.94
31.64
32.26
13.78
16.61
22.71
21.60
24.48
24.62
21.22
13.00
21.73
19.22
18.75
21.67
25.91
26.40
24.95
26.63
23.40
27.14
27.37
23.67
25.06
27.46
30.87
32.07
26.17
31.05
24.45
31.20
31.36
29.81
32.36
34.84
37.74
38.60
41.14
39.30
27.65
34.87
36.03
35.50
42.27
45.65
46.13
46.13
45.18
48.25
29.54
35.00
41.51
53.00
29.71
30.93
29.97
–
29.42
–
–
–
–
23.88
16.83
18.63
27.32
–
27.32
–
–
–
–
18.98
21.86
23.36
28.59
–
28.59
–
–
–
–
21.59
27.65
29.31
28.59
–
28.59
–
–
–
–
23.52
37.51
38.24
30.77
–
28.59
–
–
–
–
23.52
44.42
44.81
33.37
–
37.38
–
–
–
–
31.20
33.48
19.15
25.56
31.14
38.90
53.03
23.88
18.98
21.59
23.52
23.52
31.20
24.87
28.09
28.35
26.06
46.46
24.86
32.66
19.08
35.57
19.39
17.73
20.69
17.97
15.02
18.44
19.38
16.02
20.70
19.70
23.22
23.49
20.00
16.97
20.67
21.37
18.18
26.06
22.75
28.72
31.53
24.03
57.35
24.21
35.74
18.76
31.45
29.95
33.03
32.39
27.91
66.06
27.08
38.00
20.60
40.36
33.54
35.89
35.89
38.00
81.89
31.13
39.77
21.44
47.96
–
25.91
–
23.72
–
22.83
–
–
34.41
–
21.17
–
17.29
–
19.13
–
–
22.61
–
23.58
–
20.68
–
21.55
–
–
27.65
–
24.96
–
21.94
–
22.12
–
–
34.55
–
26.28
–
23.41
–
23.41
–
–
40.09
–
30.22
–
26.40
–
26.40
–
–
45.85
47.48
47.17
32.53
24.13
33.15
28.31
37.36
28.31
45.21
39.38
107.21
99.34
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.88
17.71
21.87
18.11
–
–
–
10.49
13.33
15.63
10.00
–
–
–
12.00
13.73
17.67
12.98
–
–
–
15.00
15.87
20.80
15.57
–
–
–
20.78
19.91
24.96
22.04
–
–
–
26.41
26.08
30.07
26.51
–
35.58
34.91
33.38
34.58
34.71
31.35
17.47
16.42
24.89
20.40
23.44
25.32
18.33
12.14
30.00
28.94
25.64
26.88
28.42
21.76
16.67
36.23
34.89
33.15
33.49
35.47
31.83
17.22
39.89
40.16
40.49
41.17
39.69
37.84
18.83
53.33
46.30
45.51
45.12
45.78
46.85
20.68
–
–
30.06
19.20
21.65
–
–
–
20.67
10.02
15.64
–
–
–
26.76
13.60
17.10
–
–
–
31.64
18.10
19.79
–
–
–
33.17
25.96
27.49
–
–
–
33.89
27.52
28.71
–
33.01
–
30.47
19.36
19.68
–
19.06
–
14.76
11.55
11.55
–
19.91
–
16.83
12.21
12.90
–
35.20
–
30.65
19.00
19.91
–
44.52
–
44.68
25.83
25.83
–
47.17
–
47.60
27.27
27.27
–
36.41
30.82
73.93
42.37
26.95
20.85
9.68
15.16
33.90
15.75
14.24
12.00
17.58
17.50
62.50
21.67
22.23
14.37
31.88
31.73
62.50
37.88
27.77
18.85
44.03
39.57
112.50
71.17
32.26
23.28
71.17
43.99
112.50
71.17
37.50
30.00
–
–
–
–
–
18.18
–
–
–
–
–
13.10
–
–
–
–
–
15.29
–
–
–
–
–
17.22
–
–
–
–
–
21.84
–
–
–
–
–
25.23
19.16
18.89
15.46
11.10
16.50
11.99
13.76
17.50
12.91
20.19
18.00
14.24
24.06
20.91
16.82
26.02
21.74
21.72
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.69
20.31
21.70
–
69.44
25.14
9.50
13.74
10.15
–
16.42
11.55
11.50
16.59
16.04
–
21.32
21.73
14.56
19.59
20.67
–
49.50
27.31
16.61
23.28
25.35
–
121.06
30.09
20.56
27.75
35.05
–
155.82
30.90
–
26.59
–
15.38
–
–
–
21.92
–
13.21
–
–
–
24.63
–
13.33
–
–
–
28.57
–
14.52
–
–
–
28.57
–
17.11
–
–
–
28.57
–
18.86
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
9
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
Private industry
State and local government
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
25
Median
50
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
75
90
$26.50
$33.63
37.69
48.08
25.94
15.55
18.03
23.75
33.98
41.03
43.79
54.28
29.82
15.55
18.03
30.82
37.87
42.19
–
37.69
–
47.14
36.82
40.18
27.17
28.35
34.40
32.45
41.29
35.60
41.83
48.85
45.08
48.85
40.40
44.64
–
–
–
–
–
–
48.66
59.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.40
37.50
33.38
44.45
39.90
–
36.19
–
37.18
–
37.56
–
44.29
–
46.48
–
29.86
33.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
33.93
46.48
27.00
25.60
27.00
29.19
52.00
63.42
32.46
27.00
33.19
31.35
–
26.35
20.91
21.95
–
–
–
18.03
16.27
16.84
–
–
–
18.03
18.18
18.18
–
–
–
22.51
20.37
25.08
–
–
–
33.98
25.08
25.08
–
–
–
37.87
25.15
25.15
–
–
23.14
32.46
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.42
–
25.03
–
–
25.11
–
18.76
–
25.07
–
26.42
–
26.42
–
27.74
27.93
18.50
26.51
32.50
37.02
79.75
20.01
–
–
18.00
–
–
20.03
–
–
20.37
–
–
20.37
–
–
20.37
–
–
37.07
58.13
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.73
37.02
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.61
8.56
35.39
9.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.00
17.14
11.82
15.75
16.98
10.15
21.00
21.48
15.75
19.85
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.15
18.25
18.24
21.71
13.91
17.80
10.34
14.26
11.54
15.89
13.39
17.77
15.75
18.12
18.12
18.93
21.69
24.82
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.00
18.87
17.31
12.55
16.35
24.17
21.89
19.43
13.23
16.63
–
–
16.31
–
–
–
–
13.47
–
–
–
–
13.86
–
–
–
–
15.94
–
–
–
–
18.08
–
–
–
–
18.56
–
–
15.32
19.61
–
–
–
–
–
–
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Professional specialty and technical
occupations (-Continued)
Technical occupations (-Continued)
Technical and related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... $23.39 $14.94 $17.11 $21.50
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations .............................................. 31.87 16.73 20.56 27.21
Executives, administrators, and
managers .......................................... 37.40 18.75 24.74 33.82
Administrators and officials, public
administration ...............................
–
–
–
–
Financial managers ............................ 33.85 20.55 24.04 29.90
Personnel and labor relations
managers ...................................... 33.84 22.09 29.03 31.13
Managers., marketing, advertising
and public relations ....................... 38.29 22.77 27.50 37.01
Administrators, education and related
fields ............................................. 25.82 17.68 23.64 25.60
Managers, medicine and health ......... 33.13 21.68 28.00 34.15
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .............................. 23.92 16.35 17.30 20.48
Managers, service organizations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 27.98 16.80 16.82 23.83
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
41.45 18.75 25.74 35.65
Management related occupations .......... 23.10 15.38 17.55 21.94
Accountants and auditors ................... 21.67 16.20 17.55 21.78
Other financial officers ........................ 23.33 15.38 17.31 18.67
Management analysts ........................ 25.91 17.73 21.70 27.50
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ...................... 21.92 12.82 18.84 21.53
Purchasing agents and buyers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 21.47 17.80 18.41 20.88
Construction inspectors ......................
–
–
–
–
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 23.29 14.78 17.86 23.24
Sales occupations .......................................... 17.78
6.00
7.60 12.31
Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 29.50 12.50 16.42 18.19
Sales occupations, other business
services ........................................ 26.68
8.00 12.30 14.66
Sales representatives, mining,
manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 27.36 14.92 19.88 25.54
Sales workers, motor vehicles and
boats ............................................. 19.67
8.58 10.82 15.42
Sales workers, apparel .......................
7.36
5.30
5.72
6.10
Sales workers, furniture & home
furnishings ....................................
8.23
5.90
6.75
8.25
Sales workers, parts ........................... 13.72
6.25 10.00 13.10
Sales workers, other commodities ...... 11.67
5.90
6.50
8.36
Cashiers ............................................. 10.12
5.75
6.44
9.05
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 14.32
8.50 11.18 14.18
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ...................................................... 12.71
8.00
9.67 12.23
Supervisors, general office ................. 16.02 11.00 12.98 14.42
Supervisors, financial records
processing .................................... 18.97 15.21 15.63 16.17
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling,
and adjusting clerks ...................... 17.64 11.00 11.00 17.00
Computer operators ............................ 17.81 14.36 16.32 17.09
Secretaries ......................................... 15.35 11.08 13.06 14.98
Interviewers ........................................ 10.85
8.08
9.22 11.05
Hotel clerks ......................................... 10.88
5.86
6.62
9.44
Transportation ticket and reservation
agents ........................................... 13.05
8.59
9.90 12.73
See footnotes at end of table.
10
$19.39 $17.07 $17.87 $18.94 $20.41 $22.88
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical (-Continued)
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 ........................................
Telephone operators ..........................
Mail clerks except postal service ........
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 ......................................
Eligibility clerks, social welfare ...........
Bill and account collectors ..................
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 .......................
Aircraft mechanics except engine .......
Industrial machinery repairers ............
Machinery maintenance occupations
Electronic repairers, communications
and industrial equipment ..............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Carpenters ..........................................
Electricians .........................................
Painters, construction and
maintenance .................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ................
Supervisors, production occupations ..
Tool and die makers ...........................
Machinists ...........................................
Electrical and electronic equipment
assemblers ...................................
Miscellaneous precision workers,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Butchers and meat cutters ..................
Inspectors, testers, and graders .........
Water and sewer treatment plant
operators ......................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .................................................
State and local government
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$9.72
10.85
11.04
$7.00
8.50
7.21
$8.30
9.42
9.15
$9.44
10.33
10.39
$11.03
12.09
12.50
$12.95
13.64
15.15
12.89
13.78
7.85
14.37
9.00
7.36
6.50
9.54
11.00
12.89
7.00
10.73
12.04
15.21
7.19
13.71
15.25
16.25
8.50
17.09
16.69
16.48
10.16
21.08
13.38
13.40
10.35
8.22
10.08
13.50
16.00
9.78
11.17
10.50
10.00
7.63
6.75
6.30
8.77
11.12
6.22
7.35
11.54
12.37
8.72
7.38
8.65
9.03
12.69
7.92
8.47
13.06
12.37
10.87
8.24
9.82
11.84
15.23
9.58
10.47
14.66
15.38
11.50
9.82
11.30
17.12
19.64
12.13
13.00
17.05
16.70
12.48
10.21
12.82
20.39
22.70
13.16
15.86
15.13
–
–
–
–
18.64
–
–
–
11.52
–
–
–
–
15.75
–
–
–
13.37
–
–
–
–
17.75
–
–
–
15.70
–
–
–
–
18.93
–
–
–
17.89
–
–
–
–
18.93
–
–
–
18.68
–
–
–
–
22.05
–
–
–
11.22
7.98
8.10
10.47
12.02
24.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.57
9.92
12.24
16.69
21.53
26.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.46
–
11.95
10.87
12.32
14.70
9.65
9.10
–
8.68
6.25
8.21
7.44
6.86
10.66
–
10.98
8.32
9.35
13.50
7.65
12.70
–
11.94
10.24
11.77
17.09
7.65
16.06
–
13.43
12.86
15.15
17.09
9.33
19.43
–
14.79
16.03
17.04
18.08
18.09
–
13.41
–
12.89
–
–
11.31
–
12.72
–
10.05
–
–
8.28
–
13.39
–
11.21
–
–
9.09
–
13.39
–
12.67
–
–
11.20
–
13.39
–
14.12
–
–
12.00
–
14.05
–
16.38
–
–
16.74
12.94
8.50
10.51
12.30
15.00
18.75
15.95
12.98
14.37
16.26
17.61
20.08
12.35
5.79
7.23
10.24
16.00
22.30
20.02
13.26
15.69
19.79
24.46
28.52
17.75
23.18
16.85
21.64
16.74
12.81
8.61
17.16
12.13
19.86
13.09
8.67
12.73
19.73
15.00
20.70
14.21
9.00
17.64
22.16
15.00
21.81
16.30
12.00
22.30
25.32
18.25
21.81
20.65
13.50
25.36
29.23
24.00
25.64
21.04
21.90
22.50
–
–
–
–
–
16.15
–
–
–
–
–
19.70
–
–
–
–
–
21.35
–
–
–
–
–
27.59
–
–
–
–
–
28.52
–
–
–
–
–
20.85
15.16
18.37
20.70
17.52
8.07
13.50
16.00
17.91
11.54
16.77
16.00
20.34
14.36
18.09
19.52
21.08
18.48
21.44
24.10
27.68
22.90
21.98
30.22
–
18.03
–
–
–
12.07
–
–
–
14.40
–
–
–
18.13
–
–
–
20.41
–
–
–
27.59
–
–
9.92
–
22.73
17.74
19.33
5.75
–
12.95
11.16
14.58
5.75
–
16.13
15.34
17.20
9.00
–
19.23
16.72
18.64
14.00
–
30.25
21.48
23.25
16.58
–
40.36
22.57
23.25
–
16.85
–
–
–
–
14.73
–
–
–
–
15.52
–
–
–
–
16.15
–
–
–
–
17.37
–
–
–
–
21.18
–
–
–
9.09
5.75
6.48
8.46
10.46
13.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.99
10.70
16.42
10.81
5.85
11.31
12.65
6.57
11.54
16.83
10.13
14.85
19.85
15.18
21.57
28.13
17.03
22.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.12
17.07
21.34
21.34
22.05
24.46
9.89
5.66
6.66
9.00
11.76
14.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
11
–
–
–
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$13.66 $11.15 $11.15 $13.07 $15.44 $15.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.08 11.21 11.21 11.21 12.47 14.37
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors (-Continued)
Punching and stamping press
operators ......................................
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and
polishing machine operators .........
Fabricating machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Molding and casting machine
operators ......................................
Sawing machine operators .................
Printing press operators .....................
Textile cutting machine operators .......
Textile sewing machine operators ......
Packaging and filling machine
operators ......................................
Mixing and blending machine
operators ......................................
Painting and paint spraying machine
operators ......................................
Photographic process machine
operators ......................................
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Welders and cutters ............................
Assemblers .........................................
Miscellaneous hand working
occupations, N.E.C. ......................
Production inspectors, checkers and
examiners .....................................
Production testers ...............................
Transportation and material moving
occupations ..............................................
Truck drivers .......................................
Bus drivers ..........................................
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 ...................................
Supervisors, handlers, equipment
cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. .....
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ......
Construction laborers .........................
Production helpers ..............................
Stock handlers and baggers ...............
Machine feeders and offbearers .........
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 ..
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law
enforcement officers .....................
State and local government
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$9.38
$6.44
$6.65
$9.06
$10.72
$13.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.80
5.29
6.67
7.71
12.25
12.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.62
6.17
7.19
8.34
15.00
18.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.20
7.01
14.86
9.85
8.05
5.20
5.80
7.55
7.67
5.23
5.45
6.03
8.86
8.66
6.27
6.79
6.14
11.83
10.50
7.90
8.26
7.57
20.71
11.00
9.54
10.53
9.68
26.09
11.00
11.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.15
6.39
6.86
9.92
12.93
15.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.70
5.31
7.25
9.09
10.15
12.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.61
5.40
5.60
12.08
14.76
14.77
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.84
6.97
8.10
9.44
11.85
13.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.89
15.69
9.44
5.41
7.66
5.67
6.25
9.16
6.33
7.95
13.40
9.89
9.88
24.00
11.76
13.50
25.00
12.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.79
6.59
6.59
7.47
8.71
9.03
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.03
11.96
7.00
8.14
8.57
10.10
9.53
11.22
11.08
14.00
13.71
17.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.04
11.12
8.98
6.50
6.11
8.00
8.39
7.79
8.35
10.82
10.23
8.95
16.97
13.94
9.20
25.84
18.63
10.11
10.89
6.50
7.63
10.72
12.96
17.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.15
9.96
9.98
10.74
11.88
13.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.91
5.71
6.16
7.87
10.30
13.96
15.00
10.00
13.12
14.63
16.74
19.49
9.21
5.25
6.00
11.50
12.15
12.15
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.19
8.66
9.01
7.93
10.30
9.09
9.35
5.87
6.17
5.32
5.18
5.50
9.35
6.25
7.89
6.11
6.50
5.99
15.65
8.11
8.51
8.04
9.39
7.63
16.00
10.50
9.23
9.47
13.96
12.77
20.00
12.58
13.01
10.16
18.06
12.77
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.39
5.75
5.75
7.44
9.97
13.12
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.65
7.81
9.50
5.95
5.50
5.89
6.00
5.87
6.50
7.33
7.23
7.87
8.04
9.11
10.45
10.96
10.59
15.44
–
–
14.58
–
–
10.00
–
–
13.12
–
–
14.63
–
–
15.53
–
–
21.79
8.06
7.98
–
–
–
5.21
5.15
–
–
–
5.75
6.00
–
–
–
6.95
6.89
–
–
–
9.05
8.62
–
–
–
12.40
11.75
–
–
–
19.67
22.79
32.17
14.43
24.07
9.25
13.59
26.63
5.75
18.72
12.57
18.91
28.79
6.35
20.33
19.91
22.56
32.09
18.81
22.93
25.19
26.63
33.08
21.67
26.81
29.77
32.09
41.15
23.50
31.47
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.49
16.31
19.76
24.11
24.11
24.11
See footnotes at end of table.
12
$17.73 $12.71 $14.48 $16.71 $21.34 $25.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Service occupations (-Continued)
Protective service occupations
(-Continued)
Correctional institution officers ...........
Guards and police except public
service ..........................................
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Bartenders ..........................................
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 ........................
Public transportation attendants .........
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..
Child care workers, N.E.C. .................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ..............
State and local government
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.36
7.26
$5.15
5.15
$5.87
5.70
$6.82
6.03
$8.00
8.04
$10.45
11.12
–
10.19
13.74
7.19
5.53
9.44
6.42
5.15
5.15
5.75
10.72
5.75
5.15
7.00
15.00
7.29
5.73
9.22
17.67
8.76
5.75
12.02
17.98
8.95
5.75
12.55
–
–
–
–
6.37
7.51
5.72
6.58
8.99
10.92
5.15
5.36
5.15
5.50
6.25
8.21
5.21
6.50
5.25
5.75
6.80
9.00
5.75
7.37
5.75
6.07
8.46
10.42
7.35
8.55
5.75
7.40
10.46
12.90
9.84
9.38
6.50
8.65
12.88
14.05
–
–
–
9.37
12.11
–
8.58
6.07
6.66
7.97
9.73
12.35
7.59
5.15
5.70
6.95
8.40
12.77
7.22
7.12
10.43
6.10
5.70
5.15
5.74
10.38
6.01
5.55
5.88
12.86
6.50
6.60
7.90
7.43
24.30
–
10.12
7.66
5.75
10.30
–
6.04
5.62
5.75
14.25
–
6.71
5.75
6.50
18.77
–
8.53
6.17
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
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
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$18.26 $12.96 $14.27 $18.21 $22.13 $22.13
–
7.87
–
8.85
–
10.05
–
11.51
–
12.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.60
8.93
–
–
–
–
8.45
10.66
–
–
–
–
9.00
12.39
–
–
–
–
10.94
14.29
–
–
–
–
11.17
14.46
–
10.59
8.93
8.93
10.59
11.69
12.40
10.99
12.27
9.27
10.58
12.23
13.30
14.98
14.81
7.86
7.84
11.76
20.39
10.04
9.97
16.55
–
–
11.69
12.21
–
–
8.95
7.43
–
–
10.36
8.61
–
–
12.09
9.64
–
–
13.16
12.46
–
–
13.68
19.43
8.77
33.60
–
11.60
7.49
10.67
49.18
–
15.01
14.10
–
–
9.57
9.50
–
–
–
7.43
8.45
–
–
–
8.17
9.00
–
–
–
8.74
9.64
–
–
–
11.03
10.49
–
–
–
13.74
11.04
–
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
13
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $18.59
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 18.44
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Aerospace engineers ..........................
Civil engineers ....................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .....
Industrial engineers ............................
Mechanical engineers .........................
Engineers, N.E.C. ...............................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Operations and systems researchers
and analysts .................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Chemists, except biochemists ............
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ..................
Medical scientists ...............................
Health related occupations .....................
Physicians ..........................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Dietitians .............................................
Respiratory therapists .........................
Teachers, college and university ............
Business, commerce and marketing
teachers ........................................
English teachers .................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not
specified .......................................
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .......
Teachers, except college and university
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 ......
Psychologists ......................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Lawyers ..............................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Designers ...........................................
Editors and reporters ..........................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .......
Technical occupations ................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians ....................................
Radiological technicians .....................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Health technologists and technicians,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Part-time
25
Median
50
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$23.60
23.58
$34.15
33.75
10
25
$9.81
10.17
$5.48
5.40
$5.83
5.78
Median
50
75
90
$6.58
6.55
$9.78 $15.00
9.75 15.00
22.99
23.21
10.12
10.50
13.17
13.39
18.80
19.37
28.76
29.23
40.10
40.00
12.27
14.38
5.90
7.44
7.20
8.24
9.02
10.64
14.56
16.97
21.51
27.25
28.65
30.83
32.41
32.94
30.61
34.24
25.31
29.46
31.63
31.26
15.10
18.00
22.97
21.60
24.95
24.85
21.22
13.00
21.73
19.22
20.26
22.89
26.02
26.40
26.95
26.85
23.40
27.38
27.37
23.51
26.28
28.59
30.59
32.07
28.59
30.77
24.58
31.20
31.35
29.17
34.40
36.95
37.33
38.60
29.81
39.30
27.53
34.02
36.03
34.35
44.15
45.67
45.91
46.13
42.37
47.83
29.54
35.00
41.51
51.26
21.18
22.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.02
9.29
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.90
16.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.83
20.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.55
28.53
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.03
37.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.18
18.98
23.52
29.46
35.75
53.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.87
27.44
27.35
29.62
23.07
25.95
41.80
24.80
17.74
19.35
35.80
19.39
17.73
21.73
25.22
17.73
17.91
12.98
18.54
12.20
16.88
22.61
19.70
23.58
24.96
25.96
17.73
20.34
16.97
21.24
15.43
18.76
28.02
22.75
26.28
24.96
30.22
23.58
23.41
42.54
23.69
19.03
19.63
34.45
29.95
33.03
31.53
33.03
26.28
27.52
65.00
26.61
20.00
20.60
40.87
33.54
35.89
35.89
33.57
27.27
38.00
67.28
31.13
20.31
21.49
49.09
–
–
–
–
–
24.27
–
23.18
–
–
31.31
–
–
–
–
–
18.18
–
18.71
–
–
19.38
–
–
–
–
–
19.02
–
19.40
–
–
24.90
–
–
–
–
–
23.14
–
22.84
–
–
31.37
–
–
–
–
–
27.91
–
26.25
–
–
37.50
–
–
–
–
–
32.92
–
28.53
–
–
41.93
47.48
32.93
32.53
26.64
33.15
28.60
37.36
31.71
45.21
38.60
107.21
40.94
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
38.95
35.98
31.51
33.69
34.10
30.32
26.28
–
26.40
25.45
16.92
22.18
23.44
18.74
13.26
–
32.04
30.32
23.67
25.64
27.38
24.35
18.33
–
37.47
35.79
31.52
32.90
35.00
29.31
23.20
–
40.05
41.41
39.68
41.05
39.68
36.14
31.83
–
53.33
48.94
45.12
45.12
44.81
41.26
44.87
–
–
31.43
22.71
–
–
–
29.51
17.30
–
22.77
12.14
–
–
–
11.08
12.14
–
24.89
16.67
–
–
–
20.00
16.67
–
32.82
18.83
–
–
–
36.03
17.22
–
37.49
31.50
–
–
–
37.84
18.83
–
41.93
37.84
–
–
–
38.37
20.68
28.91
21.23
30.02
28.18
19.53
20.12
38.94
38.94
12.78
16.55
16.83
15.29
11.55
11.55
26.90
26.90
18.15
20.12
20.83
16.83
13.60
14.39
31.14
31.14
28.65
22.56
31.35
20.83
19.00
19.96
38.24
38.24
41.44
22.60
33.41
43.34
25.96
27.27
44.17
44.17
46.29
22.60
44.68
46.33
27.27
27.27
54.62
54.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
40.68
30.82
42.37
25.94
20.83
16.00
15.16
15.75
14.96
12.23
23.87
17.50
21.67
19.68
15.00
35.00
31.73
37.88
25.88
19.00
45.67
39.57
71.17
30.43
23.17
71.17
43.99
71.17
37.50
30.00
15.21
–
–
–
13.43
6.00
–
–
–
9.02
8.31
–
–
–
11.55
9.68
–
–
–
14.00
19.55
–
–
–
15.00
37.40
–
–
–
17.50
19.03
18.89
15.73
11.12
16.50
12.16
12.78
18.00
12.99
20.19
18.00
14.50
24.06
20.70
17.71
25.98
22.04
21.72
–
–
14.04
–
–
11.99
–
–
12.27
–
–
14.40
–
–
15.00
–
–
16.03
15.26
10.48
12.68
15.13
16.81
20.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
14
$7.50 $10.47 $16.67
7.73 10.66 18.06
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Part-time
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
75
90
$23.28
23.50
16.59
101.36
30.00
$28.57
33.10
21.04
145.48
30.90
25.64
31.90
37.01
46.15
42.19
51.95
41.96
10.00
41.36
50.09
52.00
53.66
44.16
37.69
45.08
47.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
41.16
30.82
44.64
30.82
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
47.04
54.75
–
–
–
–
–
–
39.65
37.50
44.93
44.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.00
31.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.50
44.28
26.44
25.15
27.00
29.19
44.72
61.54
31.35
26.80
33.19
31.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.83
29.05
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.42
27.74
25.03
28.07
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.88
33.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.03
23.97
26.51
31.43
43.33
79.75
–
7.98
–
–
5.64
–
–
6.00
–
–
6.74
–
–
8.57
–
43.02
60.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.73
37.79
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.61
35.39
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.14
14.48
15.49
17.61
–
21.00
25.94
15.75
19.85
7.31
–
7.04
9.85
–
5.75
–
5.75
5.75
–
6.20
–
6.00
5.89
–
7.31
–
6.53
8.38
–
8.39
–
7.54
15.75
–
9.00
–
8.97
15.75
–
15.63
18.12
18.61
21.15
9.99
–
7.18
–
8.00
–
9.00
–
11.36
–
14.98
–
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Professional specialty and technical
occupations (-Continued)
Technical occupations (-Continued)
Electrical and electronic technicians ... $20.54 $13.78 $16.79 $19.89
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ......... 21.82 10.15 17.09 20.81
Science technicians, N.E.C. ............... 15.80 13.21 13.33 14.56
Airplane pilots and navigators ............ 60.31 19.85 20.63 44.02
Computer programmers ..................... 26.10 20.50 22.32 26.68
Technical and related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 22.67 15.00 17.87 20.41
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations .............................................. 30.95 16.46 20.00 26.75
Executives, administrators, and
managers .......................................... 36.32 18.00 24.01 33.04
Administrators and officials, public
administration ............................... 39.61 27.17 34.40 41.83
Financial managers ............................ 33.91 20.55 24.04 30.48
Personnel and labor relations
managers ...................................... 34.96 22.09 29.03 37.14
Purchasing managers ......................... 28.96 22.84 27.89 30.50
Managers., marketing, advertising
and public relations ....................... 37.51 19.23 27.50 34.86
Administrators, education and related
fields ............................................. 34.78 24.90 27.28 37.18
Managers, medicine and health ......... 32.64 21.68 25.44 34.15
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .............................. 20.64 14.70 15.55 16.35
Managers, service organizations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 24.93 16.80 16.82 22.28
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
39.74 18.03 24.71 34.25
Management related occupations .......... 22.75 15.50 17.73 21.63
Accountants and auditors ................... 21.73 16.31 17.74 21.94
Other financial officers ........................ 23.33 15.38 17.31 18.67
Management analysts ........................ 25.75 17.73 21.66 27.50
Personnel, training, and labor
relations specialists ...................... 20.22 12.95 15.05 18.84
Purchasing agents and buyers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 21.47 17.80 18.41 20.88
Construction inspectors ...................... 25.57 18.76 25.20 26.42
Inspectors and compliance officers,
except construction ....................... 23.14 16.64 19.79 23.88
Management related occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 22.80 14.91 18.42 21.63
Sales occupations .......................................... 20.97
7.15 10.26 14.99
Supervisors, sales occupations .......... 30.04 12.98 16.67 18.41
Sales occupations, other business
services ........................................ 28.94 11.07 12.31 15.00
Sales representatives, mining,
manufacturing, and wholesale ...... 27.74 14.42 20.68 25.98
Sales workers, motor vehicles and
boats ............................................. 19.67
8.58 10.82 15.42
Sales workers, furniture & home
furnishings ....................................
–
–
–
–
Sales workers, parts ........................... 15.19 10.00 13.10 14.48
Sales workers, other commodities ...... 13.64
6.00
7.28 10.50
Cashiers ............................................. 10.33
5.85
6.64
9.30
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. ..... 15.18 10.72 11.71 14.87
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ...................................................... 13.35
8.68 10.70 13.00
Supervisors, general office ................. 16.83 12.14 14.26 17.01
See footnotes at end of table.
15
$41.07 $10.00 $15.76 $50.00 $52.00 $53.66
–
12.05
–
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical (-Continued)
Supervisors, financial records
processing .................................... $19.32 $15.21 $15.63 $16.17
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling,
and adjusting clerks ...................... 18.81 11.00 14.87 17.00
Computer operators ............................ 17.81 14.36 16.32 17.09
Secretaries ......................................... 15.71 11.59 13.47 15.36
Typists ................................................ 13.35 11.50 11.50 12.99
Interviewers ........................................ 10.85
8.08
9.22 11.05
Hotel clerks ......................................... 10.95
5.86
6.62
9.49
Transportation ticket and reservation
agents ........................................... 13.19
8.52
9.92 12.83
Receptionists ......................................
9.93
7.43
8.56
9.50
Information clerks, N.E.C. ................... 11.54
9.83 10.23 10.96
Order clerks ........................................ 11.81
7.70
9.34 10.82
Personnel clerks except payroll &
timekeeping .................................. 12.89
9.00 11.00 12.04
Library clerks ...................................... 13.80 11.15 11.15 14.63
File clerks ...........................................
7.89
6.50
7.00
7.20
Records clerks, N.E.C. ....................... 13.26 10.10 11.21 11.75
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................ 13.59 10.50 11.62 13.22
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ........... 13.05 10.00 12.02 12.37
Telephone operators .......................... 10.54
6.75
7.50
9.82
Mail clerks except postal service ........
9.94
6.87
8.36
9.81
Dispatchers ......................................... 17.06
9.03 15.75 18.93
Production coordinators ...................... 15.99 11.12 12.69 15.23
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks
9.84
6.22
8.00
9.58
Stock and inventory clerks .................. 11.40
7.35
8.24 10.69
Meter readers ..................................... 17.06 12.07 12.55 17.15
Insurance adjusters, examiners, &
investigators ................................. 17.57
9.92 12.24 16.69
Investigators and adjusters except
insurance ...................................... 13.91
9.10 10.82 13.09
Eligibility clerks, social welfare ........... 13.31 12.00 13.39 13.39
Bill and account collectors .................. 12.21
8.68 11.09 12.18
General office clerks ........................... 11.95
8.00
9.80 11.89
Data entry keyers ............................... 12.60
8.95 11.06 13.26
Statistical clerks .................................. 14.82
9.75 13.50 17.09
Teachers’ aides .................................. 11.07
8.00 10.00 11.86
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ........................................... 13.84
9.77 11.20 13.39
Blue-collar occupations ...................................
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations ..............................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers
Automobile mechanics .......................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine
mechanics ....................................
Aircraft mechanics except engine .......
Heavy equipment mechanics .............
Industrial machinery repairers ............
Machinery maintenance occupations
Electronic repairers, communications
and industrial equipment ..............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Carpenters ..........................................
Electricians .........................................
Painters, construction and
maintenance .................................
Part-time
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
75
90
$22.48
$28.58
–
24.17
18.87
17.93
14.29
12.55
16.35
26.82
21.89
19.42
15.23
13.12
16.63
–
–
$12.10
–
–
–
15.51
11.33
12.91
12.63
19.61
13.00
13.87
19.42
–
7.77
–
–
–
5.69
–
–
–
5.73
–
–
–
6.33
–
–
–
8.50
–
–
15.25
15.78
8.50
14.39
16.69
16.62
10.16
19.99
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.00
15.06
12.53
11.07
18.93
19.64
12.32
15.00
20.12
17.41
15.75
16.09
12.82
22.35
22.70
13.16
16.53
23.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.53
26.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.01
13.39
13.65
13.60
13.94
17.09
11.86
19.43
14.42
15.10
16.24
16.51
18.08
11.98
–
–
–
9.57
–
–
11.24
–
–
–
5.73
–
–
7.57
–
–
–
6.75
–
–
8.59
–
–
–
8.67
–
–
10.67
–
–
–
11.37
–
–
12.78
–
–
–
14.51
–
–
16.74
16.30
18.75
7.00
5.75
5.75
6.22
7.62
8.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.30 $10.49 $12.93 $13.84 $14.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.00
–
–
13.03
5.86
7.50
11.00
17.25
22.81
8.55
5.65
6.14
7.27
10.00
13.96
18.33
23.62
17.05
9.00
17.77
12.34
13.20
20.77
15.00
18.18
22.16
15.00
22.75
25.32
18.25
25.89
33.19
24.00
12.49
–
–
7.72
–
–
8.99
–
–
10.52
–
–
15.18
–
–
18.07
–
–
16.39
21.64
23.57
17.72
12.81
11.90
19.86
18.33
13.09
8.67
14.00
20.70
23.99
14.21
9.00
17.63
21.81
23.99
16.30
12.00
17.63
21.81
25.89
20.65
13.50
19.70
25.64
25.89
25.74
21.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.98
15.84
19.04
21.31
17.52
9.32
15.42
16.00
19.73
11.91
17.29
16.72
20.34
15.37
19.53
20.00
22.14
18.77
21.52
25.25
27.68
23.86
22.30
28.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.83
5.75
5.75
12.12
19.79
19.79
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
16
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Part-time
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations (-Continued)
Construction trades, N.E.C. ................ $19.13 $14.75 $16.06 $17.37
Supervisors, production occupations .. 23.19 12.95 17.00 19.23
Tool and die makers ........................... 17.74 11.16 15.34 16.72
Machinists ........................................... 19.33 14.58 17.20 18.64
Electrical and electronic equipment
assemblers ...................................
9.09
5.75
6.48
8.46
Miscellaneous precision workers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 16.99 10.81 12.65 16.83
Butchers and meat cutters .................. 10.14
5.85
6.56
7.98
Inspectors, testers, and graders ......... 16.82 11.37 11.54 15.90
Water and sewer treatment plant
operators ...................................... 21.07 17.07 20.06 21.34
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors ................................................. 10.00
5.67
6.71
9.01
Punching and stamping press
operators ......................................
9.38
6.44
6.65
9.06
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and
polishing machine operators .........
8.80
5.29
6.67
7.71
Fabricating machine operators,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.62
6.17
7.19
8.34
Molding and casting machine
operators ......................................
7.33
5.20
5.45
6.95
Sawing machine operators .................
7.01
5.80
6.03
6.14
Printing press operators ..................... 14.86
7.55
8.86 11.83
Textile cutting machine operators .......
9.85
7.67
8.66 10.50
Textile sewing machine operators ......
8.08
5.13
6.26
8.00
Packaging and filling machine
operators ...................................... 10.33
6.67
7.11
9.92
Mixing and blending machine
operators ......................................
9.70
5.31
7.25
9.09
Painting and paint spraying machine
operators ...................................... 10.61
5.40
5.60 12.08
Photographic process machine
operators ......................................
9.84
6.97
8.10
9.44
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
9.28
5.44
6.25
8.10
Welders and cutters ............................ 16.26
7.72
9.71 14.44
Assemblers .........................................
9.45
5.67
6.38
9.89
Miscellaneous hand working
occupations, N.E.C. ......................
7.79
6.59
6.59
7.47
Production inspectors, checkers and
examiners ..................................... 10.06
7.00
8.57
9.53
Production testers ............................... 11.96
8.14 10.10 11.22
Transportation and material moving
occupations .............................................. 14.77
6.55
8.95 12.35
Truck drivers ....................................... 11.74
6.11
8.00 10.67
Bus drivers .......................................... 10.81
8.50
8.95
9.20
Industrial truck and tractor equipment
operators ...................................... 11.12
6.50
8.03 10.72
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
9.33
5.75
6.21
8.24
Groundskeepers and gardeners
except farm ................................... 13.04
9.55 11.50 12.15
Supervisors, handlers, equipment
cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C. ..... 14.19
9.35
9.35 15.65
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ...... 10.07
5.87
6.33
9.01
Construction laborers .........................
9.15
6.17
8.00
8.51
Production helpers ..............................
7.93
5.32
6.11
8.16
Stock handlers and baggers ............... 10.62
5.15
6.99
9.85
Machine feeders and offbearers .........
9.09
5.50
5.99
7.63
See footnotes at end of table.
17
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.85
14.69
21.72
28.13
17.03
22.23
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.05
24.46
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.76
15.08
$6.48
$5.15
$5.61
$6.00
$7.35
$8.36
10.72
13.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.25
12.25
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.00
18.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.60
7.57
20.71
11.00
9.64
10.53
9.68
26.09
11.00
11.48
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.93
15.28
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.15
12.65
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.76
14.77
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.85
13.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.00
24.10
11.76
14.80
25.00
12.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.71
9.03
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.69
14.00
14.00
17.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.21
15.20
12.71
25.84
18.63
15.88
9.79
11.46
–
6.26
6.14
–
7.63
9.32
–
8.81
12.76
–
12.02
13.92
–
13.92
16.40
–
13.47
17.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.05
15.29
8.16
5.50
6.00
7.00
8.72
15.69
16.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.00
12.58
9.86
9.47
13.62
12.77
20.00
14.98
13.61
10.16
18.06
12.77
–
–
–
–
9.70
–
–
–
–
–
5.80
–
–
–
–
–
6.34
–
–
–
–
–
7.00
–
–
–
–
–
13.96
–
–
–
–
–
18.06
–
75
90
$22.81
32.07
21.48
23.25
$24.71
40.36
22.57
23.25
10.46
13.96
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers (-Continued)
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 .....
Police and detectives, public service ..
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law
enforcement officers .....................
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 .................
Public transportation attendants .........
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..
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
$8.36
$5.75
$5.75
$7.40
$9.77
$13.12
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.71
7.90
10.99
5.95
5.50
6.19
6.00
5.87
6.87
7.50
7.23
9.82
8.04
9.11
14.12
10.96
11.05
17.75
–
$7.16
7.17
–
$5.50
5.75
–
$6.00
6.53
–
$6.94
7.16
11.50
17.67
32.17
24.24
5.50
6.00
26.63
19.12
6.40
7.77
28.79
20.33
8.50
18.87
32.09
22.93
13.46
24.11
33.08
26.82
22.68
29.77
41.15
31.54
6.81
7.15
–
–
5.15
5.61
–
–
5.61
5.75
–
–
5.82
6.35
–
–
7.35
6.63
–
–
21.73
18.26
16.31
12.96
19.76
14.27
24.11
18.21
24.11
22.13
24.11
22.13
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.63
8.11
5.15
5.15
6.00
5.75
7.00
7.19
8.50
9.52
10.97
12.50
–
6.26
–
5.15
–
5.62
–
5.75
–
6.22
–
7.87
14.44
5.45
9.66
10.05
5.15
5.75
12.08
5.15
7.44
15.00
5.32
9.71
17.67
5.75
12.11
17.98
6.03
12.55
–
5.57
–
–
5.15
–
–
5.19
–
–
5.75
–
–
5.75
–
–
5.75
–
5.59
7.74
5.67
7.26
9.32
11.68
5.15
5.36
5.15
5.60
6.33
8.57
5.15
6.50
5.15
6.00
6.91
9.74
5.22
7.65
5.75
6.78
8.80
11.30
5.85
9.22
5.75
8.25
11.58
14.05
6.52
10.77
6.55
9.52
13.89
14.46
7.00
–
5.77
6.35
8.54
10.27
5.15
–
5.15
5.50
5.67
6.63
5.30
–
5.75
5.75
6.63
8.28
6.15
–
5.75
5.78
8.13
10.15
7.82
–
5.75
6.36
9.50
12.90
9.84
–
6.50
8.45
12.54
13.90
8.77
6.28
6.74
8.19
10.23
12.35
7.79
5.56
6.23
7.97
9.14
9.50
8.41
5.40
6.00
7.37
10.08
13.00
6.15
5.15
5.15
5.64
6.55
8.40
13.16
7.35
7.92
12.05
23.96
–
–
9.18
6.10
5.70
5.40
5.75
10.20
–
–
5.42
11.88
6.17
6.00
6.50
14.09
–
–
5.75
13.00
6.82
7.25
9.09
18.77
–
–
7.47
15.73
7.95
9.25
14.10
31.89
–
–
11.00
19.03
10.32
11.85
19.43
49.15
–
–
19.43
–
–
6.16
8.30
–
9.31
8.09
8.25
–
–
5.15
5.75
–
5.75
5.77
5.75
–
–
5.15
5.88
–
7.79
6.67
5.88
–
–
5.55
7.01
–
8.74
8.45
5.88
–
–
6.60
9.00
–
10.58
9.45
7.35
–
–
8.40
11.09
–
13.08
10.49
12.63
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
–
–
$7.63 $10.47
7.77
8.47
9.42
10.24
–
–
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 A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
All industries
Occupation3
Mean
weekly
hours4
Weekly earnings
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
Annual earnings
Mean
Median
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
39.6
39.6
$736
730
$599
600
2,010
2,006
$37,364
36,986
$30,888
30,867
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
39.6
39.5
910
917
755
774
1,986
1,975
45,650
45,845
38,064
39,042
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Aerospace engineers ............................................
Civil engineers ......................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, N.E.C. .................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ....................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Business, commerce and marketing teachers ......
English teachers ...................................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified ..
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .........................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
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 ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .........................
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. ...........................
Science technicians, N.E.C. .................................
Airplane pilots and navigators ..............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
Financial managers ..............................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
38.6
38.5
40.1
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.8
41.1
40.0
40.0
40.0
1,107
1,188
1,301
1,317
1,224
1,370
1,006
1,210
1,265
1,249
1,286
1,033
1,100
1,222
1,283
1,144
1,231
977
1,248
1,254
1,162
1,178
1,842
1,797
2,088
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,067
2,135
2,080
2,078
2,078
52,751
55,399
67,664
68,506
63,666
71,226
52,329
62,898
65,789
64,958
66,855
48,597
50,690
63,523
66,705
59,474
64,002
50,801
64,896
65,208
60,424
61,235
40.0
39.9
39.8
40.0
40.0
39.1
40.0
38.9
40.0
39.4
38.3
36.2
40.0
40.0
37.9
35.0
34.0
34.6
36.9
37.2
36.5
42.7
39.2
38.5
40.0
40.0
42.7
42.7
995
1,096
1,089
1,185
923
1,015
1,672
964
709
763
1,373
1,721
1,317
1,558
1,363
1,102
1,144
1,179
1,118
978
1,054
907
1,178
1,085
781
805
1,662
1,662
910
1,051
998
1,209
943
912
1,702
920
761
757
1,348
1,577
1,268
1,499
1,388
1,118
1,129
1,211
1,038
916
1,169
902
1,254
833
760
798
1,530
1,530
2,080
2,077
2,071
2,080
2,080
2,027
2,080
2,013
2,080
2,051
1,551
1,275
1,660
1,646
1,516
1,345
1,253
1,291
1,575
1,531
1,559
2,182
1,870
1,695
2,080
2,080
2,220
2,220
51,727
56,992
56,643
61,600
47,996
52,604
86,944
49,932
36,892
39,683
55,541
60,527
54,665
64,126
54,533
42,391
42,218
44,006
47,769
40,218
45,078
46,309
56,144
47,760
40,632
41,849
86,450
86,450
47,320
54,662
51,915
62,858
49,046
47,335
88,483
47,819
39,582
39,338
54,937
58,651
51,084
58,161
56,278
42,638
42,015
44,819
47,837
39,765
48,617
46,925
59,165
43,324
39,520
41,506
79,539
79,539
42.3
44.2
43.0
40.0
39.0
39.4
39.7
38.9
39.8
39.9
40.0
36.7
24.6
40.0
40.0
40.4
40.6
40.0
39.9
39.9
1,720
1,362
1,824
1,038
812
749
750
612
607
820
873
580
1,483
1,044
907
1,249
1,475
1,584
1,353
1,396
1,400
1,269
1,487
1,035
759
778
720
561
604
792
832
571
1,246
1,067
816
1,070
1,347
1,673
1,219
1,486
2,197
2,293
2,238
2,080
2,021
2,048
2,065
2,023
2,068
2,077
2,080
1,676
1,279
2,080
2,080
2,084
2,087
2,080
2,075
2,077
89,380
70,663
94,853
53,964
42,089
38,968
39,019
31,820
31,568
42,660
45,390
26,480
77,127
54,298
47,151
64,496
75,818
82,381
70,343
72,604
72,800
65,998
77,334
53,830
39,395
40,480
37,440
29,191
31,408
41,168
43,285
27,934
64,803
55,494
42,453
55,616
68,349
87,006
63,398
77,251
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and managers
(-Continued)
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 .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Construction inspectors ........................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
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, financial records processing ............
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Hotel clerks ...........................................................
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 .............................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks except postal service ..........................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Meter readers .......................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
Mean
weekly
hours4
Median
Mean
annual
hours
Mean
Mean
40.0
$1,159
$1,220
2,080
$60,245
$63,440
40.8
40.9
39.6
1,532
1,423
1,294
1,538
1,487
1,366
2,123
1,909
2,061
79,655
66,388
67,282
79,997
67,536
71,032
41.6
41.3
40.9
40.0
39.8
40.7
39.7
858
1,030
1,625
910
865
951
1,023
654
891
1,370
866
881
752
1,100
1,856
2,148
2,124
2,079
2,069
2,119
2,066
38,312
53,541
84,411
47,294
44,960
49,440
53,203
34,008
46,349
71,240
45,053
45,793
39,105
57,200
40.3
39.7
39.7
815
853
1,016
729
803
1,057
2,096
2,067
2,066
42,372
44,368
52,820
37,918
41,766
54,953
40.0
39.7
40.2
42.2
40.1
926
906
844
1,269
1,159
955
846
599
769
607
2,080
2,065
2,087
2,197
2,083
48,137
47,098
43,783
65,993
60,280
49,670
43,992
31,089
39,978
31,554
40.0
42.8
40.4
39.3
39.5
39.8
39.8
40.6
39.8
1,109
843
613
536
408
604
531
684
768
1,039
651
579
420
372
583
520
680
647
2,080
2,227
2,099
2,016
2,055
2,069
2,048
2,113
2,068
57,690
43,815
31,886
27,510
21,226
31,408
27,338
35,557
39,947
54,038
33,846
30,118
21,606
19,344
30,303
26,862
35,381
33,642
41.3
39.8
40.0
40.0
39.4
39.3
40.0
39.3
40.0
40.0
39.2
40.0
39.9
39.9
39.8
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.6
40.0
39.9
39.9
40.0
39.4
39.9
40.0
39.4
777
709
629
533
428
430
528
391
461
473
505
551
315
529
542
522
422
394
676
640
393
455
682
692
555
532
481
850
684
613
520
442
380
513
378
438
433
482
585
288
470
528
495
393
392
757
609
383
400
686
661
521
536
478
2,148
2,069
2,069
2,078
2,050
2,044
2,080
2,038
2,076
2,080
1,970
2,021
2,073
2,021
2,072
2,080
2,080
2,065
2,061
2,080
2,076
2,074
2,080
2,048
2,075
2,080
2,048
40,398
36,852
32,507
27,738
22,239
22,374
27,443
20,248
23,958
24,574
25,395
27,881
16,370
26,802
28,160
27,151
21,930
20,514
35,167
33,258
20,425
23,655
35,488
35,985
28,865
27,677
25,017
44,200
35,547
31,791
27,019
22,984
19,742
26,688
19,635
22,797
22,506
25,043
30,430
14,981
23,732
27,453
25,730
20,426
20,405
39,374
31,684
19,924
20,800
35,672
34,385
27,109
27,851
24,832
See footnotes at end of table.
20
Weekly earnings
Annual earnings
Median
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical
(-Continued)
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 mechanics except engine .........................
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Machinery maintenance occupations ...................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ..............
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Tool and die makers .............................................
Machinists .............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Miscellaneous precision workers, N.E.C. .............
Butchers and meat cutters ....................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ...........................
Water and sewer treatment plant operators .........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Sawing machine operators ...................................
Printing press operators .......................................
Textile cutting machine operators .........................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Mixing and blending machine operators ...............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Photographic process machine operators ............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Production testers .................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators ..
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm .......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, N.E.C. ..............................................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...........................
Mean
weekly
hours4
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
39.6
39.8
40.0
36.5
40.1
$473
501
593
404
554
$474
530
684
454
545
2,025
2,068
2,080
1,412
2,038
$24,191
26,064
30,828
15,628
28,192
$23,934
27,581
35,547
17,273
27,851
39.9
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.8
38.8
520
732
946
682
656
866
943
704
497
440
725
886
600
705
872
960
652
396
2,058
2,074
2,082
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,067
2,019
26,818
38,028
49,176
35,472
34,087
45,010
49,035
36,626
25,850
22,790
37,707
46,093
31,200
36,670
45,366
49,899
33,904
20,592
39.6
39.6
39.5
40.0
40.0
39.6
40.2
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.8
40.0
830
628
753
852
513
758
931
710
773
363
674
406
673
843
398
375
814
599
792
800
485
695
774
669
746
338
660
319
636
854
360
362
2,059
2,032
2,056
2,080
2,080
2,061
2,088
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,064
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,063
2,080
43,184
32,193
39,140
44,319
26,692
39,431
48,426
36,909
40,202
18,900
35,052
21,093
34,985
43,831
20,630
19,517
42,307
30,888
41,163
41,600
25,210
36,130
40,227
34,770
38,771
17,591
34,320
16,590
33,072
44,387
18,720
18,844
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.0
40.0
39.5
39.8
40.1
40.0
38.7
39.5
40.0
39.9
40.0
39.6
40.0
40.3
40.0
45.1
39.8
39.8
40.0
352
425
293
280
579
394
319
411
389
424
381
367
649
377
312
398
478
596
470
488
443
371
522
309
334
278
246
473
420
320
397
364
483
371
318
577
396
299
380
449
496
427
460
428
329
486
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,026
2,080
2,055
2,069
2,086
2,080
2,013
2,056
2,078
2,067
2,080
2,058
2,080
2,071
2,077
2,249
1,969
2,027
2,080
18,301
22,086
15,253
14,578
30,110
20,482
16,610
21,372
20,229
22,061
19,809
19,089
33,770
19,544
16,205
20,701
24,876
30,588
24,382
24,311
21,886
18,911
27,131
16,042
17,355
14,456
12,770
24,606
21,840
16,631
20,641
18,912
25,124
19,310
16,521
30,024
20,571
15,542
19,760
23,338
25,242
22,196
23,654
21,450
17,096
25,272
40.0
39.2
40.0
39.7
39.9
39.4
568
394
366
315
423
358
626
360
340
326
394
314
2,080
2,036
2,080
2,064
2,074
1,968
29,525
20,500
19,022
16,367
22,020
17,882
32,552
18,742
17,695
16,951
20,483
15,681
See footnotes at end of table.
21
Weekly earnings
Annual earnings
Mean
Median
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
(-Continued)
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 .......................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
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 ...................................
Public transportation attendants ...........................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
Mean
weekly
hours4
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
39.9
40.0
39.8
39.9
$334
308
314
438
$298
300
289
396
1,928
2,020
2,068
2,073
$16,127
15,568
16,333
22,779
$13,411
15,252
15,038
20,572
39.2
40.4
40.1
39.8
450
714
1,289
965
336
755
1,284
917
2,021
2,099
2,084
2,071
23,245
37,076
67,037
50,198
17,415
39,250
66,747
47,695
40.0
39.8
39.8
39.0
869
727
304
316
964
728
276
277
2,080
2,071
2,061
1,981
45,193
37,818
15,724
16,070
50,149
37,877
14,353
14,040
40.0
36.5
40.7
37.2
39.5
38.3
38.7
38.9
40.0
38.7
39.8
40.0
39.2
39.9
34.3
23.4
37.3
578
199
393
208
306
217
281
363
467
339
335
526
288
316
413
562
343
600
206
381
203
306
229
261
343
452
314
294
520
266
290
373
526
299
2,006
1,900
2,076
1,935
2,019
1,845
1,951
2,025
2,080
2,013
2,061
2,080
2,039
2,062
1,762
1,219
1,902
28,961
10,354
20,063
10,825
15,630
10,466
14,154
18,876
24,288
17,654
17,344
27,369
14,983
16,323
21,234
29,208
17,459
29,994
10,712
19,530
10,556
15,902
10,712
13,420
17,826
23,504
16,302
15,211
27,040
13,839
15,080
19,074
27,358
15,529
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."
22
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA,
March 1998
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 ............................................
$17.69
17.68
$16.74
16.64
$22.20
22.22
$18.59
18.44
$9.81
10.17
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 ............................................................
Level 15 ............................................................
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 ............................................................
Level 15 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
22.02
6.77
8.69
10.19
12.05
14.85
17.45
19.55
23.03
28.60
28.80
33.96
37.11
46.39
57.37
90.06
44.29
22.60
7.04
8.94
10.44
12.59
14.35
16.73
19.57
23.00
27.57
27.58
33.06
37.23
46.39
57.37
90.06
44.86
21.70
6.76
8.60
9.89
11.88
14.99
17.01
19.87
22.21
27.06
29.06
33.45
36.71
46.24
57.59
90.06
47.11
22.41
7.03
8.88
10.08
12.51
14.40
15.88
19.92
22.01
25.10
27.50
32.20
36.83
46.24
57.59
90.06
47.81
23.18
–
9.24
11.75
12.90
14.18
18.45
18.52
25.62
30.97
27.85
35.74
40.42
–
–
–
23.92
23.20
–
9.24
11.78
12.90
14.18
18.45
18.52
25.62
30.97
27.85
35.74
40.42
–
–
–
23.92
22.99
7.14
8.82
10.90
12.27
14.90
17.51
19.59
23.11
28.69
28.67
33.97
37.08
46.18
57.37
90.06
51.74
23.21
7.31
8.94
10.80
12.62
14.37
16.75
19.61
23.10
27.59
27.41
33.05
37.20
46.18
57.37
90.06
51.74
12.27
6.26
8.41
8.66
10.40
13.44
16.30
18.19
21.03
26.46
36.69
33.47
40.87
–
–
–
13.96
14.38
6.49
8.93
9.26
12.24
13.69
16.39
18.19
21.03
26.92
36.69
33.47
40.87
–
–
–
14.43
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 .......................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
28.17
30.28
13.77
22.66
22.15
24.85
29.20
27.69
33.34
39.53
44.58
50.03
41.28
32.36
25.76
25.88
27.20
27.61
31.72
37.59
44.22
47.85
31.26
24.98
21.42
24.30
26.94
27.41
29.88
15.11
15.30
22.18
23.31
24.74
27.64
31.95
39.33
44.01
49.40
43.12
32.49
25.76
25.88
27.01
27.43
31.75
37.70
44.22
47.85
32.26
–
21.42
24.71
27.95
29.71
30.93
12.55
27.74
21.99
27.53
32.28
27.80
35.51
41.26
–
–
–
29.97
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.88
–
–
–
–
28.65
30.83
14.06
23.24
22.25
25.15
29.35
27.41
33.34
39.53
44.50
50.03
50.35
32.41
25.76
25.88
27.20
27.61
31.72
37.59
44.22
47.85
31.26
24.98
21.42
24.30
26.94
21.18
22.73
12.22
18.20
20.82
21.46
27.01
36.69
33.47
39.66
–
–
14.51
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
23
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA,
March 1998 — Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Mathematical and computer scientists (-Continued)
Level 11 ............................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social scientists and urban planners ........................
Social, religious, and recreation workers ..................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
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 ............................................................
Level 15 ............................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
24
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$31.92
27.44
24.83
25.72
18.09
21.17
24.34
23.82
25.75
29.93
39.40
34.70
18.96
22.81
28.62
33.81
34.25
44.31
34.91
30.93
15.11
25.60
19.55
27.28
34.58
33.29
41.30
21.23
30.22
19.32
17.98
25.24
38.94
$32.37
28.09
–
26.06
18.57
21.52
24.43
24.28
26.53
30.99
36.51
35.57
19.80
–
30.78
34.84
26.80
54.30
–
16.88
15.94
–
–
19.05
18.50
–
–
–
30.06
19.20
17.35
–
–
–
$25.91
–
23.72
–
–
–
22.36
–
–
–
34.41
–
–
27.86
33.49
35.32
41.81
–
33.38
–
29.44
26.77
28.37
35.21
–
–
–
30.47
19.36
–
–
–
$31.92
27.44
24.83
25.95
18.86
21.41
24.41
23.68
25.41
29.15
39.41
35.80
16.80
–
27.40
33.13
34.94
45.17
34.91
31.51
–
26.70
19.47
27.84
34.76
33.44
41.30
21.23
30.02
19.53
17.85
25.24
38.94
–
–
–
$24.27
–
20.33
23.93
24.81
–
32.03
–
31.31
–
–
29.31
35.75
–
39.72
–
22.71
12.40
–
–
–
31.20
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.92
24.50
22.67
32.51
44.49
20.46
12.69
14.50
18.47
20.53
22.24
33.77
25.92
31.01
15.83
15.97
17.95
20.11
24.27
27.67
32.62
35.10
45.96
61.58
90.06
36.38
18.09
19.94
36.41
24.50
22.39
32.51
44.49
20.85
12.71
14.50
18.64
21.35
22.36
37.12
–
31.87
–
15.98
17.94
19.84
24.15
27.45
32.13
34.50
45.84
61.71
90.06
37.40
18.52
19.90
–
–
–
–
–
18.18
–
–
17.38
17.51
21.35
–
–
25.94
–
–
17.98
21.15
24.86
–
36.52
39.71
–
–
–
29.82
–
–
40.68
24.50
24.11
32.51
59.02
20.83
12.67
14.50
18.71
20.86
22.36
33.77
25.92
30.95
15.83
15.97
17.98
20.11
24.28
27.67
32.62
35.07
45.65
61.58
90.06
36.32
18.19
19.94
15.21
–
–
–
14.40
13.43
–
–
15.65
14.33
–
–
–
41.07
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
41.96
–
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA,
March 1998 — Continued
All workers 4
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and managers
(-Continued)
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Level 15 ............................................................
Management related occupations ............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
$25.74
27.76
33.74
36.14
46.13
62.10
90.06
22.75
15.83
17.28
17.87
20.21
23.21
27.52
29.01
29.26
17.76
6.16
9.43
10.29
17.16
26.28
19.01
23.25
47.57
43.74
12.98
7.04
8.94
10.49
12.58
14.35
15.25
18.14
21.18
24.72
$25.16
27.29
33.26
35.57
46.02
62.26
90.06
23.10
–
17.25
17.74
19.80
23.34
27.73
29.01
29.26
17.78
6.16
9.42
10.29
17.16
26.28
19.01
23.25
47.57
43.74
12.71
7.03
8.88
10.11
12.49
14.30
15.33
18.29
21.02
–
$29.81
–
36.52
39.71
–
–
–
20.91
–
–
18.49
–
22.68
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.91
–
9.24
11.93
12.91
14.53
15.09
17.81
–
–
$25.74
27.76
33.74
36.10
45.83
62.10
90.06
22.75
15.83
17.28
17.87
20.21
23.22
27.52
29.01
29.26
20.97
–
11.41
10.91
17.30
27.30
19.01
23.25
47.57
43.74
13.35
7.31
8.94
10.84
12.62
14.35
15.26
18.14
21.18
24.72
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.98
6.00
7.91
8.12
12.05
–
–
–
–
–
9.99
6.49
8.93
9.30
12.24
14.57
–
–
–
–
Blue-collar occupations .........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Level 2 ..............................................................
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 ..............................................................
12.80
7.03
8.28
9.78
12.24
13.58
16.85
19.98
22.00
30.44
18.28
7.11
9.93
15.22
14.95
19.07
19.85
22.30
29.56
9.96
6.79
8.11
8.88
10.62
12.35
7.02
8.16
9.69
11.96
13.36
16.97
19.29
21.75
30.26
17.75
7.11
9.92
15.20
14.75
19.30
19.08
22.05
29.24
9.89
6.77
8.11
8.88
10.62
20.02
–
–
13.61
16.42
16.92
15.69
23.61
24.15
32.51
22.50
–
–
–
17.75
–
23.41
24.15
32.51
–
–
–
–
–
13.03
7.09
8.28
9.72
12.36
13.58
16.86
20.02
22.00
30.44
18.33
7.01
9.93
15.40
14.96
19.07
19.89
22.30
29.56
10.00
6.80
8.13
8.88
10.62
8.55
6.56
8.25
10.46
9.56
–
–
–
–
–
12.49
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.48
–
–
–
–
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
25
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA,
March 1998 — Continued
All workers 4
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Level 1 ..............................................................
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 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
$11.24
15.20
18.11
14.36
7.49
8.16
10.31
14.32
15.13
13.73
26.90
9.18
7.12
8.88
10.26
10.44
13.22
14.92
14.98
$11.24
15.20
17.51
14.04
7.49
8.16
10.21
13.94
14.99
13.85
–
8.91
7.12
8.56
10.12
10.20
12.39
14.25
14.98
–
–
–
$17.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$11.24
15.20
18.11
14.77
7.31
8.18
10.51
14.70
15.21
13.63
26.93
9.33
7.26
8.94
10.16
10.52
13.22
14.92
14.98
–
–
–
$9.79
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.16
6.41
8.40
10.86
–
–
–
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Protective service occupations ...............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Food service occupations ........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
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 ..............................................................
10.46
6.71
7.41
8.73
10.66
11.37
15.33
20.87
21.30
24.17
29.05
16.88
6.07
7.92
10.83
11.06
20.88
22.37
24.36
29.32
7.43
6.21
6.94
8.16
9.89
10.95
13.33
9.23
7.98
7.67
9.84
12.73
7.95
7.07
7.86
10.92
12.26
10.65
6.52
7.16
9.87
8.06
6.56
7.27
8.50
10.42
11.36
14.17
20.81
–
–
–
7.98
6.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.26
6.17
6.75
7.92
9.66
11.18
13.33
8.99
7.92
7.63
9.44
12.64
7.59
6.87
6.85
10.78
11.99
10.43
6.20
7.14
9.48
19.67
10.20
9.90
10.20
12.35
11.39
16.43
20.91
22.37
24.39
29.32
22.79
–
–
–
–
21.26
22.37
24.39
29.32
10.19
–
9.44
–
–
–
–
12.11
–
–
–
–
12.27
11.47
–
11.69
–
12.21
8.04
–
10.81
11.50
6.98
7.71
8.92
10.84
11.83
15.33
20.86
21.32
24.17
29.05
17.67
–
–
10.90
12.56
20.88
22.37
24.36
29.32
8.11
6.41
7.31
9.04
10.41
10.95
13.33
9.32
8.09
7.64
9.83
13.15
8.41
7.39
7.87
11.06
12.26
12.05
–
–
8.39
6.81
6.10
6.94
8.04
8.05
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.15
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.26
5.88
6.66
6.65
–
–
–
8.54
–
7.84
–
–
6.15
6.08
–
–
–
8.30
6.60
7.49
11.24
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
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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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA,
March 1998 — Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level
Service occupations (-Continued)
Personal service occupations (-Continued)
Level 4 ..............................................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
2 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.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$11.39
$11.39
–
$11.70
–
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS
WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
27
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations:
Professional specialty and technical occupations:
Professional specialty occupations:
Aerospace engineers ............................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Civil engineers ......................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, N.E.C. .................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ....................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Business, commerce and marketing teachers ......
Education teachers ...............................................
English teachers ...................................................
Foreign language teachers ...................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified ..
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .........................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten ........................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Teachers, special education .................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Substitute teachers ...............................................
Vocational and educational counselors ................
Psychologists ........................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
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All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$32.94
23.73
30.20
35.86
30.61
33.96
34.25
38.34
25.31
29.46
31.63
26.32
28.88
32.16
36.22
32.18
21.08
24.86
27.30
31.85
$32.94
23.73
30.20
35.86
31.93
34.06
–
38.34
25.31
28.94
31.64
26.35
28.88
32.16
36.22
33.48
21.08
25.55
28.51
32.41
–
–
–
–
$29.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.88
–
–
–
–
$32.94
23.73
30.20
35.86
30.61
34.24
34.25
38.34
25.31
29.46
31.63
26.32
28.88
32.16
36.22
32.18
21.08
24.86
27.30
31.85
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.87
27.35
29.62
23.07
42.06
24.56
22.07
25.49
23.83
27.45
27.08
32.66
17.74
19.12
47.32
47.17
33.31
30.95
34.87
34.49
22.94
33.72
33.15
40.69
13.10
33.63
31.47
23.23
29.91
34.86
34.00
29.15
35.56
30.32
26.93
12.83
25.00
38.13
17.30
28.84
28.70
24.87
28.35
–
–
46.46
24.86
22.18
25.59
24.09
27.88
–
32.66
–
19.08
47.48
47.17
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.71
–
–
–
–
21.87
21.24
–
–
18.11
13.04
–
22.97
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.83
–
–
22.93
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.58
34.91
–
33.60
34.05
40.69
–
34.58
–
–
–
35.91
34.71
–
35.56
–
31.35
–
–
–
17.47
33.01
–
24.87
27.35
29.62
23.07
41.80
24.80
–
25.62
23.66
27.45
–
–
17.74
19.35
47.48
–
32.93
–
38.95
35.98
–
–
33.88
–
–
33.69
31.58
23.50
29.91
34.92
34.10
29.21
35.56
30.32
26.28
–
–
–
–
28.91
28.18
–
–
–
–
–
$23.18
–
24.48
24.84
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.43
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.51
11.16
–
34.75
17.30
–
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Professional specialty and technical occupations:
(-Continued)
Professional specialty occupations: (-Continued)
Social workers ......................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Recreation workers ...............................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Designers .............................................................
Actors and directors ..............................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Technical occupations:
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Level 8 ..............................................................
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C. .......
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Electrical and electronic technicians .....................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Engineering technicians, N.E.C. ...........................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Science technicians, N.E.C. .................................
Airplane pilots and navigators ..............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
Administrators and officials, public administration
Level 12 ............................................................
Financial managers ..............................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Personnel and labor relations managers ..............
Level 12 ............................................................
Purchasing managers ...........................................
Managers., marketing, advertising and public
relations ..........................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Administrators, education and related fields .........
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments ................................................
Managers, service organizations, N.E.C. .............
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
29
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$20.09
17.64
25.24
12.89
38.94
30.82
73.93
73.93
42.37
$21.65
–
–
–
–
30.82
73.93
73.93
42.37
$19.68
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$20.12
–
25.24
–
38.94
30.82
–
–
42.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.93
21.63
18.89
15.45
13.85
18.47
13.58
15.16
14.40
15.93
20.54
15.30
21.73
23.21
21.51
18.93
15.90
60.31
24.74
22.67
17.80
24.49
19.16
–
18.89
15.46
13.85
18.51
13.42
14.69
14.40
–
20.31
15.30
21.73
22.79
21.70
–
–
69.44
25.14
23.39
–
24.58
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.59
–
–
–
–
–
15.38
–
–
19.39
–
–
19.03
21.63
18.89
15.73
13.62
18.67
13.61
15.26
–
15.93
20.54
15.30
21.73
23.21
21.82
18.93
15.80
60.31
26.10
22.67
17.80
24.49
–
–
–
$14.04
–
–
13.51
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.95
42.41
34.04
23.83
27.17
32.89
30.05
44.12
65.65
34.96
37.47
28.96
–
–
33.85
23.83
27.17
32.89
30.03
43.41
65.65
33.84
37.47
–
36.82
42.41
40.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
39.61
42.41
33.91
23.83
27.17
32.89
30.05
43.58
65.65
34.96
37.47
28.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.51
35.79
52.07
35.50
37.14
37.59
32.64
22.80
39.20
38.29
35.79
52.07
25.82
27.07
–
33.13
–
–
–
–
–
39.90
–
–
–
–
–
37.51
35.79
52.07
34.78
37.14
37.11
32.64
22.80
39.20
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.64
27.58
39.74
23.43
27.05
23.92
27.98
41.45
23.98
26.76
–
–
26.35
–
–
20.64
24.93
39.74
23.43
27.05
–
–
–
–
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
(-Continued)
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
(-Continued)
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Level 13 ............................................................
Level 14 ............................................................
Level 15 ............................................................
Accountants and auditors .....................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Other financial officers ..........................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Management analysts ..........................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Construction inspectors ........................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
Management related occupations, N.E.C. ............
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Sales occupations:
Supervisors, sales occupations ............................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Sales occupations, other business services .........
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale .................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats .............
Level 5 ..............................................................
Sales workers, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........
Level 3 ..............................................................
Sales workers, parts .............................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .......................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
30
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$26.05
36.21
36.98
45.54
63.92
99.74
21.73
17.57
20.40
23.13
23.33
19.26
25.75
27.02
$26.00
36.30
36.88
45.54
63.92
99.74
21.67
17.22
20.40
22.44
23.33
19.26
25.91
27.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
$21.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$26.05
36.21
36.98
45.54
63.92
99.74
21.73
17.57
20.40
23.13
23.33
19.26
25.75
27.02
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.22
21.47
25.57
21.92
21.47
–
–
–
25.11
20.22
21.47
25.57
–
–
–
23.14
22.79
17.71
19.74
23.60
29.32
–
23.29
17.56
19.09
23.73
29.32
–
20.01
–
–
–
–
23.14
22.80
17.71
19.74
23.67
29.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.50
16.32
17.36
31.77
26.68
29.50
16.32
17.36
31.77
26.68
–
–
–
–
–
30.04
16.32
17.36
31.77
28.94
–
–
–
–
–
27.36
28.01
19.67
21.03
7.36
8.23
7.71
13.72
11.67
–
19.31
10.13
8.01
9.67
11.18
14.32
27.36
28.01
19.67
21.03
7.36
8.23
7.71
13.72
11.67
–
19.31
10.12
8.01
9.63
11.18
14.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.74
28.01
19.67
21.03
–
–
–
15.19
13.64
8.89
20.57
10.33
–
9.08
11.28
15.18
16.81
17.11
16.73
19.32
16.02
–
–
18.97
17.80
–
–
–
16.83
17.11
16.73
19.32
18.81
17.81
15.52
11.79
13.14
14.66
17.64
17.81
15.35
11.34
12.94
14.58
–
–
16.31
–
–
15.40
18.81
17.81
15.71
12.31
13.26
14.72
–
–
–
–
–
$7.31
7.71
–
7.04
–
–
9.85
–
10.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.10
–
12.37
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
(-Continued)
Secretaries (-Continued)
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Hotel clerks ...........................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .......
Level 4 ..............................................................
Receptionists ........................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Information clerks, N.E.C. .....................................
Order clerks ..........................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Personnel clerks except payroll & timekeeping ....
Library clerks ........................................................
File clerks .............................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks except postal service ..........................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Meter readers .......................................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. ..................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
General office clerks .............................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Data entry keyers .................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
31
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$16.14
18.31
13.35
10.85
10.88
13.05
10.87
9.76
8.14
10.32
10.95
10.86
11.62
9.80
12.34
12.89
13.69
7.85
13.37
12.78
12.94
13.56
10.29
12.48
13.78
15.49
15.08
13.05
12.74
10.35
10.54
9.89
9.52
16.74
15.99
20.30
9.78
6.93
9.17
10.90
11.35
12.35
16.47
$16.12
18.47
–
10.85
10.88
13.05
10.87
9.72
8.14
10.32
10.76
10.85
11.04
9.80
11.80
12.89
13.78
7.85
14.37
–
13.25
13.38
10.43
12.47
13.40
15.25
15.18
13.40
–
10.35
8.22
10.08
9.45
13.50
16.00
20.30
9.78
6.93
9.17
10.90
11.17
12.28
–
–
$17.94
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.66
–
12.08
–
–
15.13
–
–
15.53
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.64
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$16.17
18.31
13.35
10.85
10.95
13.19
–
9.93
8.35
10.33
10.76
11.54
11.81
9.80
12.73
12.89
13.80
7.89
13.26
12.50
12.94
13.59
10.43
12.50
13.78
15.49
15.08
13.05
12.74
–
10.54
9.94
–
17.06
15.99
20.30
9.84
–
9.20
10.90
11.40
12.35
17.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$7.77
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.22
9.77
17.57
13.77
12.47
15.39
13.31
12.14
11.69
6.52
8.81
11.84
12.10
13.38
15.58
17.19
12.58
11.22
9.77
17.57
13.46
12.11
15.39
–
11.95
10.87
6.52
8.64
11.69
11.73
13.54
–
–
12.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.41
–
12.89
–
–
11.97
12.67
13.10
15.51
–
–
–
–
17.57
13.91
13.14
15.46
13.31
12.21
11.95
6.86
8.77
11.98
12.11
13.38
15.58
17.19
12.60
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.57
5.85
9.12
11.05
11.99
–
–
–
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
(-Continued)
Data entry keyers (-Continued)
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Statistical clerks ....................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .........................
Blue-collar occupations:
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers .................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Automobile mechanics .........................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics .......
Aircraft mechanics except engine .........................
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Machinery maintenance occupations ...................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Carpenters ............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ..............
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Tool and die makers .............................................
Machinists .............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Miscellaneous precision workers, N.E.C. .............
Butchers and meat cutters ....................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ...........................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Water and sewer treatment plant operators .........
Level 7 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Sawing machine operators ...................................
Printing press operators .......................................
See footnotes at end of table.
32
All industries
Private
industry
$9.21
10.29
14.06
14.70
11.19
9.20
11.12
12.32
13.44
10.39
12.33
15.20
14.42
18.52
26.56
$9.21
10.29
15.08
14.70
9.65
–
–
–
12.94
10.01
12.33
14.97
–
18.63
26.95
23.62
22.53
17.03
16.79
16.39
21.64
23.57
17.72
18.03
12.81
23.18
22.70
16.85
–
–
21.64
–
16.74
16.99
12.81
20.98
20.02
15.71
18.41
19.04
18.98
21.31
19.19
12.83
19.13
23.19
14.25
19.50
30.41
17.74
19.33
19.27
9.09
16.99
10.70
16.65
17.30
21.07
22.18
20.85
–
15.16
17.30
18.37
17.98
20.70
18.90
9.92
–
22.73
14.25
19.50
30.08
17.74
19.33
19.27
9.09
16.99
10.70
16.42
16.66
–
–
9.38
9.38
8.80
10.62
7.20
7.01
14.86
8.80
10.62
7.20
7.01
14.86
All industries
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
–
–
–
–
$11.31
9.20
11.29
12.38
15.95
–
–
–
–
18.29
–
$9.21
10.47
13.95
14.82
11.07
–
11.06
–
13.84
10.75
12.33
15.19
14.46
18.52
25.94
–
–
–
–
$11.24
8.97
11.24
12.38
7.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.62
22.53
17.05
16.79
16.39
21.64
23.57
17.72
18.03
12.81
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.98
20.02
15.84
18.41
19.04
18.98
21.31
19.19
12.83
19.13
23.19
14.25
19.50
30.41
17.74
19.33
19.27
9.09
16.99
10.14
16.82
17.30
21.07
22.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.80
10.62
7.33
7.01
14.86
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.03
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.85
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.12
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Blue-collar occupations: (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:
(-Continued)
Textile cutting machine operators .........................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Mixing and blending machine operators ...............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Photographic process machine operators ............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Production testers .................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations:
Truck drivers .........................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
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 .......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, N.E.C. ..............................................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...........................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Hand packers and packagers ...............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
33
All industries
State and
local
government
All industries
Private
industry
Full-time
workers
$9.85
8.05
7.69
10.15
9.70
10.61
9.84
9.25
6.56
7.46
9.73
16.26
21.99
9.44
6.33
7.78
9.78
10.33
7.79
10.03
11.96
$9.85
8.05
7.69
10.15
9.70
10.61
9.84
8.89
6.56
7.46
9.73
15.69
21.55
9.44
6.33
7.78
9.78
10.33
7.79
10.03
11.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$9.85
8.08
7.72
10.33
9.70
10.61
9.84
9.28
6.58
7.46
9.73
16.26
21.99
9.45
6.33
7.81
9.78
10.33
7.79
10.06
11.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.72
8.79
10.27
11.57
15.64
10.41
10.89
11.12
8.79
10.27
10.05
15.53
8.98
10.89
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.74
8.79
–
11.53
15.81
10.81
11.12
$11.46
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.73
11.15
–
11.72
9.21
–
13.04
–
14.19
10.07
9.15
7.93
7.79
8.29
10.30
6.08
8.71
12.55
9.09
6.62
8.39
6.63
9.28
10.54
7.65
7.86
7.81
6.89
7.13
8.73
10.10
7.57
10.93
8.25
14.19
8.66
9.01
7.93
7.79
8.29
10.30
6.08
8.71
12.55
9.09
6.62
8.39
6.63
9.28
10.54
7.65
7.86
7.81
6.89
7.13
8.73
9.50
7.51
9.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$14.58
–
–
–
14.19
10.07
9.15
7.93
7.79
8.29
10.62
–
8.48
11.75
9.09
6.62
8.36
6.59
9.25
9.98
7.71
7.98
7.90
6.96
7.22
8.60
10.99
8.52
10.95
8.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.70
6.11
8.96
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.16
–
–
–
7.17
6.32
–
–
–
Part-time
workers
–
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Service occupations:
Protective service occupations:
Supervisors, police and detectives .......................
Firefighting occupations ........................................
Police and detectives, public service ....................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Level 3 ..............................................................
Food service occupations:
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Bartenders ............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Level 1 ..............................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
See footnotes at end of table.
34
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$32.17
14.43
24.07
24.71
–
–
–
–
$32.17
14.43
24.07
24.71
$32.17
–
24.24
24.71
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.49
18.26
7.53
7.99
–
–
$7.36
–
21.49
18.26
–
–
21.73
18.26
7.63
–
13.23
7.19
7.02
5.53
5.46
5.66
9.48
9.69
10.40
6.37
5.46
7.85
7.36
8.48
5.72
5.67
6.90
13.74
7.19
7.02
5.53
5.46
5.66
9.44
9.69
10.40
6.37
5.46
7.51
7.36
8.16
5.72
5.67
6.58
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.37
14.44
–
–
5.45
–
–
9.66
10.02
10.40
5.59
–
7.74
7.36
8.16
5.67
5.67
7.26
–
–
–
$5.57
–
5.61
–
–
–
7.00
–
–
–
–
5.77
5.67
6.35
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, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Service occupations: (-Continued)
Food service occupations: (-Continued)
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C.
(-Continued)
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Health service occupations:
Health aides, except nursing ................................
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 ..............................................................
Personal service occupations:
Attendants, amusement and recreation facilities ..
Public transportation attendants ...........................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ....................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Child care workers, N.E.C. ...................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed
by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours.
2 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.
Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major
occupational groups.
All industries
Private
industry
$6.56
7.95
$6.46
7.64
11.43
12.23
8.67
7.84
7.41
9.51
All industries
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
–
–
$6.77
–
$6.24
–
10.92
11.86
8.58
7.77
7.35
9.36
–
–
$10.59
–
–
–
11.68
12.88
8.77
7.95
7.33
9.50
10.27
–
7.79
–
7.84
–
13.16
7.22
6.88
7.49
7.09
7.83
10.55
12.77
7.22
6.88
7.12
6.87
6.58
10.01
–
–
–
11.69
11.47
–
11.69
13.16
7.35
6.98
7.92
7.46
7.83
10.80
–
–
–
6.16
6.08
–
–
7.46
24.30
9.13
8.01
9.93
7.30
8.81
6.19
7.43
24.30
–
–
10.12
–
7.66
6.15
–
–
9.57
–
9.50
–
–
–
–
23.96
–
–
–
–
9.18
–
–
–
9.31
8.01
8.09
7.30
8.25
–
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS
WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
35
Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
Occupational group2
Full-time
workers3
Part-time
workers3
Union4
Nonunion4
Time5
Incentive5
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$18.59
18.44
$9.81
10.17
$18.44
18.56
$17.40
17.33
$17.55
17.79
$21.15
12.58
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
22.99
23.21
12.27
14.38
21.88
22.33
22.06
22.69
21.78
22.62
27.86
20.09
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
28.65
30.83
20.83
30.95
20.97
13.35
21.18
22.73
13.43
41.07
7.98
9.99
29.45
30.41
22.48
22.70
14.17
14.18
27.54
30.20
20.00
31.85
18.18
12.57
28.17
30.28
20.46
31.00
13.22
13.01
–
–
–
–
28.92
–
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 .....
13.03
18.33
10.00
14.77
9.33
8.55
12.49
6.48
9.79
8.16
17.28
21.32
13.58
19.97
11.81
11.00
16.44
9.31
10.31
8.17
12.88
18.34
9.98
14.36
9.19
11.44
16.55
9.82
14.40
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
11.50
6.81
13.29
8.40
10.47
–
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, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
Goods-producing industries4
Occupational group3
All private
industries
Total
Mining
Construction
All occupations ...........................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ................................................
$16.74
16.64
White-collar occupations .......................................................
White-collar excluding sales .................................................
21.70
22.41
25.65
25.79
38.32
38.66
25.81
26.00
Professional specialty and technical occupations ................
Professional specialty occupations ...................................
Technical occupations ......................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .......
Sales occupations ................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .........
27.41
29.88
20.85
31.87
17.78
12.71
28.79
31.25
19.30
33.32
23.39
14.08
31.42
37.08
25.90
54.60
–
15.50
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 .........
12.35
17.75
9.89
14.04
8.91
12.37
18.91
9.94
14.75
8.66
Service occupations ...............................................................
8.06
9.52
Manufacturing
$17.43 $23.75 $18.94 $17.26
17.29 23.74 18.94 17.11
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
Service-producing industries5
Total
TransWholeportsale
ation
and
and
retail
public
trade
utilities
Finance,
insurance,
and
real
estate
$13.46 $20.89
12.99 19.83
Services
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.54
25.68
–
–
–
–
16.85
19.13
21.30
20.25
–
–
–
–
–
32.67
–
–
28.78
31.23
19.23
33.08
23.45
14.19
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.71
27.52
–
30.94
14.75
11.36
26.69
29.42
–
31.90
29.49
12.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.37
16.94
–
–
–
17.41
19.24
–
–
10.03
11.81
18.88
9.90
10.95
8.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.29
14.03
8.18
12.26
9.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.43
–
–
7.63
10.13
–
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR
SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
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Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private
industry, all workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
100 workers or more
All private
industry
workers
50 - 99
workers
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$16.74
16.64
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
Occupational group3
Total
100 - 499
workers
500
workers or
more
$16.02
16.04
$16.89
16.76
$16.08
15.52
$17.80
18.09
21.70
22.41
22.42
24.92
21.56
22.01
21.10
21.03
21.98
22.80
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .....
27.41
29.88
20.85
31.87
17.78
12.71
36.08
40.97
16.96
34.59
15.89
12.41
26.42
28.48
21.17
31.33
18.55
12.76
24.13
26.28
20.65
33.08
21.42
12.63
28.00
29.67
21.81
30.01
11.57
12.90
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 .....
12.35
17.75
9.89
14.04
8.91
10.82
15.46
8.46
8.24
7.94
12.66
18.35
10.23
14.58
9.07
11.96
17.64
10.04
12.44
8.70
14.25
19.78
10.84
18.16
9.83
Service occupations ...........................................................
8.06
6.91
8.35
8.21
8.45
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS
WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
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Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Los
Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
All workers
Occupational group2
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local government
All occupations ....................................................................... 3,303,573
All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 3,050,476
2,635,620
2,383,922
667,953
666,554
White-collar occupations ................................................... 1,923,407
White-collar excluding sales ............................................. 1,670,310
1,430,480
1,178,782
492,927
491,528
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
663,252
541,561
121,691
331,120
253,097
675,938
392,986
289,696
103,291
279,248
251,698
506,548
270,265
251,865
18,400
51,872
–
169,391
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 .....
784,497
235,463
224,824
88,581
235,630
739,172
208,976
223,271
80,761
226,164
45,324
26,486
–
7,820
9,465
Service occupations ...........................................................
595,669
465,967
129,702
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED
REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION.
ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE
RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
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Appendix A: Technical Note
ployment levels, 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 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange
County, CA, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
covered establishments employing 50 workers or more in
goods-producing 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 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA,
CMSA includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San
Bernadino, and Ventura Counties, CA.
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 Los AngelesRiverside-Orange County, CA, 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 December 1994. The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and, when necessary, missing
establishments were added, out-of-business and out-ofscope establishments were removed, and addresses, em-
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 December 1997 through
May 1998. The average payroll reference month was
March 1998. 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, 24.9 percent (representing 857,005
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 (10.3 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
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Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size,
and number of establishments represented, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
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
15,428
14,950
3,620
32
516
3,071
11,331
843
5,102
907
4,479
478
554
492
136
13
11
112
356
30
108
24
194
62
50 - 99
workers
144
141
25
3
5
17
116
6
53
5
52
3
Total
410
351
111
10
6
95
240
24
55
19
142
59
100 - 499
workers
219
212
76
8
6
62
136
15
42
8
71
7
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
44
500 workers
or more
191
139
35
2
–
33
104
9
13
11
71
52
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998
(in percent)
Occupation3
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
2.5
2.5
3.1
3.2
2.1
2.1
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
2.2
2.2
2.8
2.9
2.4
2.4
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Aerospace engineers ............................................
Civil engineers ......................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .......................
Industrial engineers ..............................................
Mechanical engineers ...........................................
Engineers, N.E.C. .................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ..........................................................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ..............................
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ....................................
Medical scientists .................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Physicians ............................................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Pharmacists ..........................................................
Dietitians ...............................................................
Respiratory therapists ...........................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Business, commerce and marketing teachers ......
Education teachers ...............................................
English teachers ...................................................
Foreign language teachers ...................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified ..
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. .........................
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 ........................
Psychologists ........................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Recreation workers ...............................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Lawyers ................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Designers .............................................................
Actors and directors ..............................................
Editors and reporters ............................................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. .........................
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. ...........................
2.3
2.3
2.2
4.9
6.7
4.3
4.2
7.2
3.3
10.7
11.2
3.3
3.5
2.3
4.9
11.4
4.4
4.2
8.1
3.3
11.0
11.2
2.5
2.6
3.3
–
3.3
–
–
–
–
6.1
6.1
7.3
5.4
7.4
7.0
7.5
3.4
21.1
3.0
6.7
8.3
2.4
4.1
23.3
36.4
4.1
9.5
12.7
2.6
3.6
3.4
3.9
2.7
8.7
12.4
4.3
19.3
5.1
8.6
17.1
11.6
12.4
16.1
8.2
8.2
7.3
6.7
9.3
–
–
3.7
22.2
3.4
6.7
–
2.4
11.7
23.9
36.4
–
–
–
–
7.8
–
9.6
4.0
–
10.7
–
–
–
6.8
–
10.5
7.7
–
–
–
–
4.5
–
–
–
7.3
–
2.9
–
–
–
3.8
–
–
–
–
14.0
2.6
2.8
–
3.6
2.5
–
15.1
4.2
17.7
–
19.4
–
14.8
15.7
–
–
–
14.0
14.7
15.3
21.3
10.0
4.2
7.2
3.1
7.3
5.3
5.1
10.8
14.2
14.7
15.3
21.3
10.5
4.8
7.5
3.1
7.6
6.4
5.2
12.8
–
–
–
–
–
5.4
–
–
–
–
5.7
–
See footnotes at end of table.
45
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
6.2
31.2
8.9
8.0
3.8
5.0
8.4
6.1
6.5
5.2
–
36.1
11.1
9.4
4.1
5.4
–
6.3
7.8
–
5.7
–
–
4.3
5.5
8.8
9.8
11.0
–
–
8.3
4.3
7.2
8.2
4.8
7.5
–
3.4
–
14.2
13.0
8.9
2.8
2.9
10.5
5.9
11.9
13.3
9.2
3.2
3.0
10.5
6.4
–
–
15.0
4.2
7.9
–
–
8.0
3.3
4.6
8.9
3.3
–
–
–
5.9
6.4
3.1
11.6
21.4
33.5
–
3.4
11.6
21.4
33.5
–
2.1
–
–
–
7.4
9.7
10.7
8.7
12.2
10.7
5.9
9.6
1.7
5.9
7.7
7.4
9.7
10.7
8.7
12.2
10.7
6.0
9.6
2.1
9.0
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
5.7
–
11.1
6.1
2.2
4.9
7.5
22.1
6.3
4.1
3.9
6.0
6.3
7.0
5.9
6.6
13.9
6.1
2.4
–
8.2
22.1
6.3
4.1
4.0
5.4
6.3
11.0
5.9
8.3
–
–
4.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.3
–
5.0
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Professional specialty and technical occupations
(-Continued)
Technical occupations (-Continued)
Science technicians, N.E.C. .................................
Airplane pilots and navigators ..............................
Computer programmers .......................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Administrators and officials, public administration
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 .......................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ................
Construction inspectors ........................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction ....................................................
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, apparel .........................................
Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ........
Sales workers, parts .............................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .......................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Supervisors, general office ...................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ............
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ...............................................
Computer operators ..............................................
Secretaries ...........................................................
Typists ..................................................................
Interviewers ..........................................................
Hotel clerks ...........................................................
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. .........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
46
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical
(-Continued)
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
Payroll and timekeeping clerks .............................
Billing clerks ..........................................................
Telephone operators ............................................
Mail clerks except postal service ..........................
Dispatchers ...........................................................
Production coordinators ........................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks ...................
Stock and inventory clerks ....................................
Meter readers .......................................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution
clerks, N.E.C. ..................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ..
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ......
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .............................
Bill and account collectors ....................................
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 mechanics except engine .........................
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Machinery maintenance occupations ...................
Electronic repairers, communications and
industrial equipment .......................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Carpenters ............................................................
Electricians ...........................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ..............
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Tool and die makers .............................................
Machinists .............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..
Miscellaneous precision workers, N.E.C. .............
Butchers and meat cutters ....................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ...........................
Water and sewer treatment plant operators .........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Punching and stamping press operators ..............
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing
machine operators ..........................................
Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ................
Molding and casting machine operators ...............
Sawing machine operators ...................................
Printing press operators .......................................
Textile cutting machine operators .........................
Textile sewing machine operators ........................
Packaging and filling machine operators ..............
Mixing and blending machine operators ...............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators ...
Photographic process machine operators ............
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
See footnotes at end of table.
47
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
1.9
4.7
6.4
13.1
7.9
6.8
6.6
6.4
9.3
9.7
2.0
5.7
6.4
5.1
8.6
11.1
6.7
6.4
9.4
–
5.0
–
–
–
–
2.6
–
–
–
–
13.0
15.4
8.4
1.1
4.6
2.7
4.0
9.1
6.0
3.5
13.0
15.4
8.9
–
5.1
3.7
5.7
9.1
18.1
3.8
–
–
–
0.9
–
3.2
–
–
6.2
4.5
3.9
4.1
6.1
6.6
8.1
2.7
5.0
7.1
12.8
4.2
4.7
6.3
6.6
–
2.7
–
6.3
12.8
4.8
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.0
6.9
4.7
7.3
24.0
6.2
12.9
10.1
5.4
11.3
13.9
16.2
10.4
5.3
4.0
10.0
5.6
7.6
5.2
9.0
21.4
–
13.9
10.1
5.4
11.3
13.9
16.2
10.7
–
4.0
10.0
–
14.4
–
–
–
5.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.4
–
–
14.5
17.7
8.7
7.1
15.2
5.5
9.4
13.8
11.1
21.7
7.6
8.2
14.5
17.7
8.7
7.1
15.2
5.5
9.4
13.8
11.1
21.7
7.6
7.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
(-Continued)
Welders and cutters ..............................................
Assemblers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C.
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ..
Production testers .................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Bus drivers ............................................................
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 .......
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, N.E.C. ..............................................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Production helpers ................................................
Stock handlers and baggers .................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...........................
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 ....................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement
officers ............................................................
Correctional institution officers .............................
Guards and police except public service ..............
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Bartenders ............................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................
Food preparation occupations, N.E.C. .................
See footnotes at end of table.
48
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
17.1
7.4
5.7
4.9
10.0
11.5
8.5
8.7
8.0
18.1
7.4
5.7
4.9
10.0
13.0
8.8
2.3
8.0
–
–
–
–
–
8.1
–
–
–
17.5
3.2
12.3
3.9
3.3
18.5
–
5.9
–
11.3
12.1
9.1
6.5
11.4
12.1
7.4
7.4
5.8
7.6
11.3
9.9
9.1
6.5
11.4
12.1
7.4
7.4
5.8
8.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.7
5.2
8.9
6.4
33.4
4.3
2.8
8.3
–
–
–
4.5
4.9
6.4
33.4
4.3
5.5
8.4
6.2
2.9
–
–
6.0
3.1
5.5
8.4
–
3.8
9.4
7.3
1.3
5.6
6.9
6.1
1.7
3.5
10.4
7.3
1.3
5.8
6.9
5.8
1.7
3.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.9
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March 1998 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
Service occupations (-Continued)
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 ..
Public transportation attendants ...........................
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
the minimum full-time schedule.
3 A classification system including about 480
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
3.4
4.4
3.6
3.9
8.0
4.4
4.8
9.8
6.9
24.2
3.5
11.0
13.9
3.6
5.0
3.8
2.8
9.1
4.4
3.4
11.1
7.3
24.2
–
15.1
12.6
5.2
–
5.5
4.7
–
–
3.0
14.3
–
–
7.1
4.8
–
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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS
WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
49
Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March
1998
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
All occupations .................................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ......................................................
6
6
6
6
3
4
White-collar occupations .............................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales ...................................
7
7
7
8
5
5
Professional specialty and technical occupations ......................
Professional specialty occupations .........................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .................................
Aerospace engineers ......................................................
Civil engineers ................................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers .................................
Industrial engineers ........................................................
Mechanical engineers .....................................................
Engineers, N.E.C. ...........................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...............................
Computer systems analysts and scientists .....................
Operations and systems researchers and analysts ........
Natural scientists ................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ........................................
Physical scientists, N.E.C. ..............................................
Medical scientists ...........................................................
Health related occupations .................................................
Physicians ......................................................................
Registered nurses ..........................................................
Pharmacists ....................................................................
Dietitians .........................................................................
Respiratory therapists .....................................................
Teachers, college and university ........................................
Business, commerce and marketing teachers ................
Education teachers .........................................................
English teachers .............................................................
Foreign language teachers .............................................
Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified ............
Teachers, post secondary N.E.C. ...................................
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 ..................................
Psychologists ..................................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................
Social workers ................................................................
Recreation workers .........................................................
Lawyers and judges ............................................................
Lawyers ..........................................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals,
N.E.C. ...........................................................................
Designers .......................................................................
Actors and directors ........................................................
Editors and reporters ......................................................
Professional occupations, N.E.C. ...................................
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. .....................................
Science technicians, N.E.C. ...........................................
Airplane pilots and navigators ........................................
Computer programmers .................................................
Technical and related occupations, N.E.C. ....................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............
9
9
11
11
10
11
10
10
10
10
10
9
10
10
10
10
9
12
8
11
8
7
11
12
10
10
9
10
11
8
8
8
9
9
8
6
10
8
10
9
7
8
6
13
13
9
9
11
11
10
11
10
10
10
10
10
9
10
10
10
10
9
12
9
–
8
7
11
12
–
10
–
11
11
8
–
8
9
9
8
–
10
8
10
9
8
8
–
13
13
8
8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8
–
8
–
–
–
10
–
–
–
–
–
11
8
–
–
–
–
8
6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9
10
–
9
10
7
7
6
6
6
7
8
7
9
9
8
10
9
10
–
9
10
7
7
6
6
6
7
8
6
9
9
8
10
9
–
–
–
–
6
–
–
7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12
See footnotes at end of table.
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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March
1998 — Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations
(-Continued)
Executives, administrators, and managers .........................
Administrators and officials, public administration ..........
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 ........
Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C. ..........................
Construction inspectors ..................................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction
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, apparel ...................................................
Sales workers, furniture & home furnishings ..................
Sales workers, parts .......................................................
Sales workers, other commodities ..................................
Cashiers .........................................................................
Sales support occupations, N.E.C. .................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...............
Supervisors, general office .............................................
Supervisors, financial records processing ......................
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and adjusting
clerks ........................................................................
Computer operators ........................................................
Secretaries .....................................................................
Typists ............................................................................
Interviewers ....................................................................
Hotel clerks .....................................................................
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 ....................................................................
Telephone operators ......................................................
Mail clerks except postal service ....................................
Dispatchers .....................................................................
Production coordinators ..................................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .............................
Stock and inventory clerks ..............................................
Meter readers .................................................................
Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks,
N.E.C. .......................................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, & investigators ............
Investigators and adjusters except insurance ................
Eligibility clerks, social welfare .......................................
See footnotes at end of table.
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11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
8
11
11
9
8
9
9
8
8
8
8
9
5
8
7
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
8
10
11
9
8
9
9
8
8
8
8
9
6
8
8
12
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3
–
–
8
5
2
3
4
4
3
5
4
6
7
8
5
–
–
4
5
4
6
5
6
7
–
–
–
3
–
4
3
–
3
–
–
7
5
5
5
3
4
5
3
4
4
5
4
2
5
5
4
4
3
2
6
6
3
3
4
7
5
6
5
3
5
5
3
4
4
5
4
3
5
5
4
–
3
2
6
6
3
4
4
–
–
4
–
–
–
–
2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4
6
4
6
–
6
4
6
–
–
–
–
Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March
1998 — Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
White-collar occupations (-Continued)
Administrative support occupations, including clerical
(-Continued)
Bill and account collectors ..............................................
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 mechanics except engine ...................................
Heavy equipment mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ........................................
Machinery maintenance occupations .............................
Electronic repairers, communications and industrial
equipment .................................................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ....................................
Carpenters ......................................................................
Electricians .....................................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ........................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ............................................
Supervisors, production occupations ..............................
Tool and die makers .......................................................
Machinists .......................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ............
Miscellaneous precision workers, N.E.C. .......................
Butchers and meat cutters ..............................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders .....................................
Water and sewer treatment plant operators ...................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................
Punching and stamping press operators ........................
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine
operators ..................................................................
Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C. ..........................
Molding and casting machine operators .........................
Sawing machine operators .............................................
Printing press operators .................................................
Textile cutting machine operators ...................................
Textile sewing machine operators ..................................
Packaging and filling machine operators ........................
Mixing and blending machine operators .........................
Painting and paint spraying machine operators .............
Photographic process machine operators ......................
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. .....................
Welders and cutters ........................................................
Assemblers .....................................................................
Miscellaneous hand working occupations, N.E.C. ..........
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners ............
Production testers ...........................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .......................
Truck drivers ...................................................................
Bus drivers ......................................................................
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 .................
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, N.E.C. ........................................................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ..................................
Construction laborers .....................................................
Production helpers ..........................................................
Stock handlers and baggers ...........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
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5
4
4
4
3
5
5
4
4
4
3
5
–
3
–
–
3
2
4
6
8
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
6
8
6
6
7
7
7
5
2
4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7
6
7
7
4
5
8
7
7
3
6
4
6
7
3
3
7
6
7
7
4
5
8
7
7
3
6
4
6
7
3
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2
–
3
4
2
3
5
3
2
2
3
3
4
3
6
3
2
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
4
2
3
5
3
2
2
3
3
4
3
6
3
2
4
4
4
4
4
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3
3
–
–
4
2
4
–
3
5
–
2
–
6
3
2
2
2
6
3
2
2
3
–
–
–
–
2
Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA, March
1998 — Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
(-Continued)
Machine feeders and offbearers .....................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .................
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners ......................
Hand packers and packagers .........................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. .............................
2
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
3
–
–
–
2
2
Service occupations .....................................................................
Protective service occupations ...........................................
Supervisors, police and detectives .................................
Firefighting occupations ..................................................
Police and detectives, public service ..............................
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers ......
Correctional institution officers .......................................
Guards and police except public service ........................
Food service occupations ...................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations
Bartenders ......................................................................
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 ............
Public transportation attendants .....................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..............................
Child care workers, N.E.C. .............................................
Service occupations, N.E.C.. ..........................................
3
6
10
4
8
8
7
2
2
6
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
3
4
3
2
4
1
2
3
3
6
3
3
2
4
6
10
–
8
8
7
2
3
6
–
2
3
1
2
1
2
4
4
3
2
4
1
2
4
–
6
–
–
2
2
3
–
–
–
–
–
–
2
–
–
2
–
2
–
2
1
3
4
3
1
–
–
1
2
–
–
2
2
2
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.
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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