Corpus Christi, TX
National Compensation Survey
June 1998
________________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Alexis M. Herman, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner
August 1999
Bulletin 3095-31
Corpus Christi, TX
Metropolitan Statistical Area
San Patricio
Corpus Christi
Nueces
This bulletin supersedes Bulletin 3080-37.
Preface
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For additional information regarding this survey, please
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his bulletin provides results of a June 1998 survey of
occupational pay in the Corpus Christi, TX, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). 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 Hal
Corley, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations of
the Dallas 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 Corpus Christi, TX, MSA.....................................................................................................
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Tables:
A-1. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, all industries ...........................................
A-2. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, all workers, private industry and
State and local government...........................................................................................................
A-3. Hourly earnings for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
A-4. Weekly and annual earnings and hours for selected occupations,
full-time workers only, all industries ............................................................................................
B-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
B-2. Mean hourly earnings for selected occupations and levels, all industries,
private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers ............................
C-1. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and selected characteristics,
all industries .................................................................................................................................
C-2. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and industry division,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-3. Mean hourly earnings by occupational group and establishment employment size,
private industry, all workers .........................................................................................................
C-4. Number of workers represented by occupational group ...............................................................
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Appendixes:
A. Technical Note.................................................................................................................................
Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied and represented............................................
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors......................................................................................
Appendix table 3. Average work levels ...........................................................................................
B. Occupational Classifications............................................................................................................
C. Generic Leveling Criteria.................................................................................................................
D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs ...........................................................................................................
E. A Guide for Users of Prior BLS Wage Surveys...............................................................................
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Introduction
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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
Corpus Christi, TX, Metropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA). The MSA includes Nueces and San Patricio
Counties.
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 Statistics’ (BLS) new National Compensation Survey (NCS) is designed to provide data on the
levels and rates of change of occupational wages and employee benefits for localities, broad geographic regions,
and the nation as a whole. One output of the NCS will be
the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the
change in employer costs for wages and benefits. This
bulletin is limited to data on wages and salaries. These
data are similar to those released under the Occupational
Compensation Survey (OCS), which has been discontinued.
NCS more extensive than OCS
The wage data in this bulletin differ from those in previous
Occupational Compensation Surveys by providing broader
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Wages in the
Corpus Christi, TX
Metropolitan Statistical Area
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State and local government workers averaged $14.15.
Table A-2 reports the average hourly rate for whitecollar occupations as $16.97 in private industry and $16.50
in State and local government. Blue-collar occupations
showed an average hourly rate of $13.48 in private industry
and $11.33 in State and local government. Service occupations within private industry averaged $6.05 per hour
while those found in State and local government averaged
$9.90.
traight-time wages in the Corpus Christi, TX, Metropolitan Statistical Area averaged $13.63 per hour during June 1998. White-collar workers had an average wage
of $16.80 per hour. Blue-collar workers averaged $13.23
per hour, while service workers had average earnings of
$7.35 per hour. (All hourly rates in this summary cover
both full- and part-time workers, unless otherwise noted.)
Chart 1. Average hourly wage rates by occupational
group, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
Chart 2. Average hourly rates for private industry and
State and local government, Corpus Christi, TX, June
1998
Dollars per hour
$ 20
Dollars per hour
$
20
15
15
10
10
5
5
0
Whitecollar
Bluecollar
0
Service
workers
White-collar
Private industry
Within each of these occupational groups, average
hourly wages for individual occupations were estimated.
For example, white-collar occupations included registered
nurses at $18.40 per hour, secretaries at $10.30, and general office clerks at $9.63. Among occupations in the bluecollar category, truck drivers averaged $9.86 per hour
while construction laborers averaged $6.80. Finally, service occupations included janitors and cleaners at $7.03 per
hour and nursing aides, orderlies and attendants at $6.34.
Table A-1 presents earnings data for 39 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.
Survey results show that private industry workers in
Corpus Christi, TX earned $13.42 per hour, while surveyed
Blue-collar
Service
State and local government
Table A-3 presents data for workers considered by the
survey respondents to be either full-time or part-time. Average wages for full-time workers, all occupations, were
$14.15 per hour, compared with an average of $5.72 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
not be published because no workers were identified at that
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$11.61 in construction, and $18.63 in manufacturing.
Hourly wages averaged $11.78 in all service-producing industries, $17.11 in transportation and public utilities,
$17.16 in finance, insurance, and real estate, and $11.47 in
services. Data for other industry divisions did not meet
publication criteria.
Table C-4 reports that a total of 65,721 workers were
represented by the Corpus Christi, TX survey. Whitecollar occupations included 32,283 workers, or 49 percent;
blue-collar occupations included 17,867 workers, or 27
percent; and service occupations included 15,572 workers,
or 24 percent.
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 2 to level 6. As illustrated in chart 3, the average hourly rate was $7.55 for level
2, $8.06 for level 3, $9.07 for level 4, and $11.65 for level
5.
Chart 3. Average hourly rates by work level for
administrative support occupations, including clerical,
Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
Chart 4. Distribution of workers represented by
occupational group, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
Dollars per hour
$15
Percent
50
40
10
30
5
20
10
0
2
3
4
5
0
Level
Surveyed union workers had an average hourly rate of
$15.06, as reported in table C-1. Wages for nonunion
workers averaged $13.57. Time workers, whose wages
were based solely on an hourly rate or a salary, averaged
$13.60 per hour. Incentive workers, whose wages were at
least partially based on productivity payments, averaged
$15.44 per hour.
Table C-2 shows wage data for specific industry divisions within private industry. In the private sector, hourly
wages averaged $16.99 in all goods-producing industries,
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, Corpus
Christi, TX, June 1998
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ....................................................................... $13.63
All occupations excluding sales ............................................ 13.76
$5.65
5.67
25
Median
50
$7.47 $11.36
7.50 11.53
75
90
$17.47
17.70
$24.22
24.46
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
16.80
17.54
7.12
7.69
9.32
10.00
14.82
16.10
21.25
22.00
29.00
29.64
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
21.08
22.31
33.06
26.38
26.78
–
20.93
18.40
–
23.08
22.85
23.59
20.98
–
11.84
12.24
–
11.61
12.27
26.57
11.62
11.62
–
14.98
14.85
–
16.83
17.36
17.34
13.55
–
9.81
10.47
–
15.33
16.45
26.57
24.00
25.50
–
16.30
16.45
–
18.74
18.32
19.99
15.79
–
10.47
11.53
–
19.28
20.82
32.30
29.00
29.00
–
17.72
17.44
–
23.08
23.18
23.08
20.70
–
11.87
11.87
–
26.35
26.96
35.18
29.00
29.00
–
21.48
19.90
–
26.75
25.79
27.25
25.68
–
12.27
12.27
–
30.83
32.30
44.21
35.95
35.95
–
27.36
21.77
–
29.83
28.32
30.02
29.93
–
14.36
14.36
–
–
16.13
14.79
12.16
24.17
28.01
23.20
34.61
17.76
11.68
13.45
7.23
9.56
10.30
8.84
7.98
9.63
8.91
8.69
–
8.46
8.46
10.19
13.50
15.28
14.36
18.57
11.53
5.15
7.00
5.25
6.54
8.27
6.82
7.00
6.00
7.82
6.70
–
11.85
11.85
10.84
17.16
17.37
17.79
21.75
16.35
6.50
8.27
5.75
7.58
8.94
8.10
7.09
7.66
8.73
7.27
–
16.25
16.34
11.34
19.35
22.79
18.75
36.78
18.47
9.45
17.56
7.25
8.89
9.83
8.25
7.53
8.29
8.99
8.89
–
18.51
17.00
12.83
26.47
36.78
29.76
45.52
19.35
16.56
17.56
8.11
10.47
10.41
10.34
8.25
11.25
9.39
10.00
–
22.90
17.00
13.49
36.78
47.01
29.76
52.17
20.43
19.71
21.96
10.20
13.29
13.03
10.40
10.45
14.00
10.08
11.50
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ..................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Miscellaneous plant and system operators,
N.E.C. .............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
13.23
16.47
15.64
20.01
16.23
15.34
12.88
20.90
6.50
9.65
9.65
16.22
9.10
12.00
7.00
10.50
8.52
12.00
11.25
16.22
10.18
13.50
7.20
12.50
12.50
16.10
15.11
22.88
16.75
14.28
14.00
24.76
16.38
22.18
20.51
22.88
22.88
16.00
15.81
24.76
22.88
22.88
22.18
22.88
23.00
22.54
23.29
32.19
21.15
11.62
6.01
15.27
10.04
9.86
9.04
11.03
6.80
10.08
8.12
17.45
5.51
5.18
7.00
7.26
7.15
5.75
7.72
6.25
6.11
5.75
20.88
7.00
5.31
8.85
8.50
8.80
6.50
9.00
6.75
8.00
6.25
22.43
11.91
5.67
14.58
9.25
9.26
8.50
10.30
6.75
9.70
7.47
22.88
14.27
6.66
22.54
12.50
10.00
10.95
15.40
6.80
13.27
11.61
22.88
22.54
7.45
23.29
13.45
13.78
13.27
15.40
7.20
13.27
11.61
Service occupations ...........................................................
7.35
4.25
5.25
6.37
8.70
11.10
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-1. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, all industries, Corpus
Christi, TX, June 1998 — Continued
All industries
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Service occupations (-Continued)
Protective service occupations ................................. $10.31
Food service occupations .........................................
6.09
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations .................................................... 12.58
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
2.30
Cooks ...................................................................
7.18
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
6.94
Health service occupations .......................................
6.82
Health aides, except nursing ................................
8.14
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
6.34
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
7.20
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
7.03
Personal service occupations ...................................
6.81
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 considered a full-time employee in one
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$5.50
2.13
$6.02
2.23
$9.36
5.40
$13.11
7.88
$20.52
10.04
8.75
2.13
5.25
5.15
5.17
7.05
5.15
5.25
5.36
5.15
8.75
2.13
5.75
5.30
5.65
7.47
5.34
5.79
5.93
5.15
12.98
2.13
7.00
6.00
6.98
7.82
5.95
6.79
6.84
6.07
16.75
2.13
8.75
8.30
7.63
9.12
7.43
8.25
8.25
8.07
18.14
2.41
9.28
10.20
8.50
9.60
7.82
9.55
8.87
9.78
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected.
This
procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote
level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean
wages for the occupation.
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Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Corpus
Christi, TX, June 1998
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $13.42
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 13.58
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, N.E.C. ................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Lawyers and judges ................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Technical occupations ................................
Radiological technicians .....................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
Management related occupations ..........
Sales occupations ..........................................
Sales workers, other commodities ......
Cashiers .............................................
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ......................................................
Secretaries .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing
clerks ............................................
General office clerks ...........................
Teachers’ aides ..................................
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Blue-collar occupations ...................................
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations ..............................................
Heavy equipment mechanics .............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters
Construction trades, N.E.C. ................
Supervisors, production occupations ..
Miscellaneous plant and system
operators, N.E.C. ..........................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .................................................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine
operators ......................................
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Transportation and material moving
occupations ..............................................
Truck drivers .......................................
State and local government
$5.30
5.30
25
Median
50
$6.89 $11.50
6.90 11.61
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
10
$17.16
17.26
$22.88
23.00
$14.15
14.15
$7.26
7.26
25
Median
50
75
90
$8.52 $11.25 $18.78 $25.75
8.52 11.25 18.78 25.75
16.97
18.30
6.54
7.27
8.83
10.06
15.13
16.43
20.43
21.75
30.00
32.30
16.50
16.50
8.02
8.02
9.51
9.51
14.36
14.36
22.79
22.79
27.19
27.19
21.36
23.19
33.18
28.92
10.72
11.87
26.57
24.00
14.98
15.78
26.57
25.67
18.27
19.70
32.30
29.00
26.75
28.85
35.18
29.00
33.58
35.95
44.21
35.95
20.75
21.50
–
–
11.89
12.27
–
–
15.85
16.95
–
–
20.43
21.93
–
–
25.97
26.29
–
–
29.00
29.64
–
–
29.94
–
21.07
18.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.67
–
14.90
14.85
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.00
–
16.57
16.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.00
–
17.86
17.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.41
–
21.48
19.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.95
–
27.80
21.77
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.22
22.85
23.59
22.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.97
17.36
17.34
16.11
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.83
18.32
19.99
17.83
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.08
23.18
23.08
23.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.85
25.79
27.25
26.51
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.83
28.32
30.02
30.78
–
–
–
–
16.95
14.79
–
8.05
8.46
–
12.83
11.85
–
16.80
16.34
–
20.97
17.00
–
26.80
17.00
–
12.97
–
–
10.19
–
–
10.84
–
–
12.44
–
–
14.08
–
–
16.33
–
26.38
16.83
18.16
20.43
29.76
44.23
18.79
11.00
13.24
17.79
22.79
27.92
31.74
34.85
19.12
11.68
13.45
7.23
17.16
21.00
16.83
5.15
7.00
5.25
18.75
21.75
18.16
6.50
8.27
5.75
29.76
36.78
18.67
9.45
17.56
7.25
36.78
45.52
20.41
16.56
17.56
8.11
52.17
52.17
24.46
19.71
21.96
10.20
21.02
–
–
–
–
–
13.50
–
–
–
–
–
15.80
–
–
–
–
–
18.17
–
–
–
–
–
24.27
–
–
–
–
–
30.32
–
–
–
–
–
9.99
–
6.00
–
7.27
–
9.43
–
12.00
–
16.10
–
8.95
9.96
7.09
8.49
7.78
8.92
8.89
9.06
9.88
10.98
10.98
13.03
8.35
11.50
–
7.00
6.00
–
7.53
8.25
–
7.85
11.60
–
8.50
14.00
–
10.45
16.64
–
–
8.18
8.91
–
7.05
7.82
–
7.66
8.73
–
7.78
8.99
–
8.78
9.39
–
10.51
10.08
8.27
6.54
6.87
7.40
9.62
11.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.48
6.50
8.50
12.75
16.75
22.88
11.33
7.43
8.71
9.75
11.79
14.57
16.49
15.64
16.23
15.43
12.88
18.37
9.65
9.65
9.10
12.50
7.00
10.25
12.00
11.25
10.18
13.50
7.20
10.50
16.22
15.11
16.75
14.28
14.00
12.50
22.18
20.51
22.88
16.00
15.81
29.70
22.88
22.18
23.00
22.54
23.29
32.42
16.20
–
–
–
–
–
10.99
–
–
–
–
–
11.36
–
–
–
–
–
12.46
–
–
–
–
–
24.76
–
–
–
–
–
24.76
–
–
–
–
–
21.15
17.45
20.88
22.43
22.88
22.88
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.73
5.38
7.00
12.50
14.28
22.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.97
5.18
5.31
5.38
6.67
7.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.27
7.00
8.85
14.58
22.54
23.29
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.76
10.48
7.15
7.15
8.50
9.25
10.00
10.00
12.85
12.00
14.29
14.79
8.74
–
7.26
–
7.50
–
8.80
–
9.03
–
9.67
–
See footnotes at end of table.
6
Table A-2. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, all workers2, private industry and State and local government, Corpus
Christi, TX, June 1998 — Continued
Private industry
Percentiles
Occupation3
Mean
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ......
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Food service occupations .......................
Waiters and waitresses ......................
Cooks .................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related
occupations ..................................
Health service occupations .....................
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................
State and local government
Percentiles
Mean
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$8.94
11.09
$5.75
7.02
$6.50
9.00
$8.01
9.43
$10.76
15.40
$13.27
15.40
10.08
8.12
6.11
5.75
8.00
6.25
9.70
7.47
13.27
11.61
6.05
–
5.65
2.30
6.86
2.13
–
2.13
2.13
5.25
5.15
–
2.13
2.13
5.75
5.65
–
5.30
2.13
6.35
6.94
6.41
5.15
( 4)
5.30
(4)
6.10
(4)
6.95
6.71
5.60
5.25
5.25
5.15
Median
50
10
25
$10.00
–
$8.28
–
$8.71
–
13.27
11.61
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.00
–
7.50
2.13
7.95
9.06
–
9.28
2.41
9.00
9.90
13.32
9.61
–
–
6.11
8.52
6.43
–
–
7.43
10.20
7.40
–
–
8.50
13.01
7.76
–
–
11.03
13.82
10.83
–
–
16.75
20.71
16.75
–
–
6.00
(4)
8.30
(4)
10.20
(4)
–
7.60
–
7.05
–
7.43
–
7.47
–
7.82
–
8.07
(4)
(4)
(4)
(4)
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.25
5.40
5.15
6.00
6.00
5.15
8.25
8.25
6.00
9.81
8.25
7.00
7.55
7.29
8.16
5.84
5.84
6.07
6.24
6.24
6.07
7.27
7.15
8.16
8.21
7.99
9.25
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
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.
75
90
$9.75 $11.32 $12.78
–
–
–
9.32
9.26
11.03
4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were
below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages
for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to
go below the minimum wage.
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 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS
SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.
7
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Corpus Christi, TX, June
1998
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
All occupations ..................................................... $14.15
All occupations excluding sales .......................... 14.13
White-collar occupations .................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .......
Professional specialty and technical
occupations ..............................................
Professional specialty occupations .............
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....
Mathematical and computer scientists ...
Computer systems analysts and
scientists .......................................
Natural scientists ....................................
Health related occupations .....................
Registered nurses ..............................
Teachers, college and university ............
Teachers, except college and university
Elementary school teachers ...............
Secondary school teachers ................
Teachers, N.E.C. ................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .........
Social, recreation, and religious workers
Social workers ....................................
Lawyers and judges ................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes,
and professionals, N.E.C. .................
Technical occupations ................................
Radiological technicians .....................
Licensed practical nurses ...................
Executive, administrative, and managerial
occupations ..............................................
Executives, administrators, and
managers ..........................................
Managers, medicine and health .........
Managers and administrators, N.E.C.
Management related occupations ..........
Sales occupations ..........................................
Cashiers .............................................
Administrative support occupations, including
clerical ......................................................
Secretaries .........................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .......................
General office clerks ...........................
Teachers’ aides ..................................
Administrative support occupations,
N.E.C. ...........................................
Blue-collar occupations ...................................
Precision production, craft, and repair
occupations ..............................................
Heavy equipment mechanics .............
Industrial machinery repairers ............
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ........
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters
Construction trades, N.E.C. ................
Supervisors, production occupations ..
Miscellaneous plant and system
operators, N.E.C. ..........................
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .................................................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine
operators ......................................
Part-time
$6.00
6.00
25
Median
50
$7.95 $11.89
7.82 11.87
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$18.13
18.14
$24.50
24.76
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$5.72
5.57
$2.13
2.13
$5.15
5.15
$5.40
5.35
$6.35
6.24
$8.00
8.25
8.00
15.33
17.37
17.66
7.78
7.78
10.05
10.08
16.04
16.19
21.75
22.03
29.00
29.76
6.37
7.71
5.15
5.50
5.15
5.90
5.75
6.00
7.00
7.30
21.09
22.33
33.06
26.38
11.62
12.27
26.57
11.62
15.34
16.46
26.57
24.00
19.34
20.86
32.30
29.00
26.37
26.98
35.18
29.00
30.83
32.30
44.21
35.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.78
–
20.97
18.39
–
23.09
22.85
23.59
20.98
–
11.84
12.24
–
11.62
–
14.98
14.85
–
16.83
17.36
17.34
13.55
–
9.81
10.47
–
25.50
–
16.30
16.45
–
18.74
18.32
19.99
15.79
–
10.47
11.53
–
29.00
–
17.71
17.44
–
23.08
23.18
23.08
20.70
–
11.87
11.87
–
29.00
–
21.48
19.90
–
26.75
25.79
27.25
25.68
–
12.27
12.27
–
35.95
–
27.36
21.84
–
29.83
28.32
30.02
29.93
–
14.36
14.36
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.13
14.79
12.16
–
8.46
8.46
10.19
–
11.85
11.85
10.84
–
16.25
16.34
11.34
–
18.51
17.00
12.83
–
22.90
17.00
13.49
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.17
13.50
17.16
19.35
26.47
36.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.01
23.20
34.61
17.76
14.43
–
15.28
14.36
18.57
11.53
7.80
–
17.37
17.79
21.75
16.35
9.40
–
22.79
18.75
36.78
18.47
12.24
–
36.78
29.76
45.52
19.35
17.56
–
47.01
29.76
52.17
20.43
20.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.29
–
–
–
–
–
5.25
–
–
–
–
–
5.50
–
–
–
–
–
5.75
–
–
–
–
–
7.25
–
–
–
–
–
7.75
9.64
10.36
8.88
9.61
8.91
6.54
8.29
6.82
6.00
7.82
7.72
8.94
8.10
7.66
8.73
8.94
9.83
8.25
8.29
8.99
10.47
10.41
10.34
11.25
9.39
13.50
13.03
10.40
14.00
10.08
6.80
–
–
–
–
5.47
–
–
–
–
5.89
–
–
–
–
6.00
–
–
–
–
7.00
–
–
–
–
8.28
–
–
–
–
8.70
6.70
7.27
8.89
10.00
11.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.37
6.67
8.75
12.50
16.45
22.88
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.47
15.64
20.01
16.23
15.34
12.88
20.90
9.65
9.65
16.22
9.10
12.00
7.00
10.50
12.00
11.25
16.22
10.18
13.50
7.20
12.50
16.10
15.11
22.88
16.75
14.28
14.00
24.76
22.18
20.51
22.88
22.88
16.00
15.81
24.76
22.88
22.18
22.88
23.00
22.54
23.29
32.19
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.15
17.45
20.88
22.43
22.88
22.88
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.62
5.51
7.00
11.91
14.27
22.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.01
5.18
5.31
5.67
6.66
7.45
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
8
Table A-3. Hourly earnings1 for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers2, all industries, Corpus Christi, TX, June
1998 — Continued
All industries
Full-time
Occupation3
Percentiles
Mean
10
Blue-collar occupations (-Continued)
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors (-Continued)
Miscellaneous machine operators,
N.E.C. ........................................... $15.27
Transportation and material moving
occupations .............................................. 10.07
Truck drivers .......................................
9.86
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .....................................................
9.31
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ...... 11.12
Construction laborers .........................
6.80
Freight, stock, and material handlers,
N.E.C. ........................................... 10.36
Laborers except construction, N.E.C.
8.26
Service occupations .........................................
Protective service occupations ...............
Food service occupations .......................
Supervisors, food preparation and
service occupations ......................
Cooks .................................................
Health service occupations .....................
Health aides, except nursing ..............
Nursing aides, orderlies and
attendants .....................................
Cleaning and building service
occupations ......................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................
Personal service occupations .................
Part-time
$7.00
25
Median
50
$8.85 $14.58
Percentiles
Mean
75
90
$22.54
$23.29
10
25
Median
50
75
90
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.26
7.15
8.50
8.80
9.25
9.26
12.50
10.00
13.45
13.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.11
7.72
6.25
7.00
9.00
6.75
8.50
10.30
6.75
11.61
15.40
6.80
13.27
15.40
7.20
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.11
5.75
7.93
6.50
10.70
7.47
13.27
11.61
13.27
11.61
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.71
10.34
6.64
( 4)
5.50
2.13
(4)
6.02
4.25
(4)
9.36
5.75
(4)
13.11
8.75
(4)
20.52
10.99
$5.10
–
4.23
$2.13
–
2.13
$4.75
–
2.13
$5.15
–
5.15
$6.00
–
5.40
$7.78
–
6.35
12.58
7.72
6.69
8.00
8.75
5.75
5.17
7.05
8.75
5.75
5.65
7.47
12.98
7.75
6.77
7.82
16.75
8.75
7.47
8.70
18.14
9.28
8.24
9.32
–
–
8.24
–
–
–
6.89
–
–
–
6.98
–
–
–
8.50
–
–
–
8.50
–
–
–
11.00
–
6.21
( 4)
(4)
(4)
(4)
(4)
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.28
7.12
7.53
5.25
5.51
5.36
5.84
5.99
6.07
6.96
6.96
7.00
8.25
8.25
9.18
–
–
5.18
–
–
5.15
–
–
5.15
–
–
5.15
–
–
5.15
–
–
5.15
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
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
9.38
8.78
11.03
all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine
major occupational groups.
4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were
below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages
for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to
go below the minimum wage.
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.
9
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Corpus Christi, TX, June 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
39.7
$561
561
$475
472
1,964
1,961
$27,785
27,721
$24,294
24,170
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
39.7
39.8
689
702
632
644
1,906
1,895
33,103
33,465
29,217
29,416
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
39.9
39.7
43.0
43.2
43.8
–
40.2
40.3
–
38.1
38.0
37.7
38.9
–
40.0
40.0
–
841
887
1,421
1,141
1,174
–
843
741
–
880
869
890
815
–
474
490
–
765
808
1,378
1,178
1,438
–
716
699
–
850
826
835
798
–
475
475
–
1,817
1,759
2,235
2,249
2,280
–
2,090
2,094
–
1,421
1,410
1,402
1,524
–
2,080
2,080
–
38,323
39,274
73,904
59,323
61,050
–
43,827
38,523
–
32,804
32,226
33,056
31,987
–
24,629
25,463
–
34,199
34,725
71,635
61,246
74,776
–
37,255
36,356
–
31,536
30,568
30,897
30,861
–
24,690
24,690
–
–
40.4
40.0
39.0
39.9
39.8
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.0
39.6
39.8
40.0
40.0
37.0
40.0
–
652
592
474
964
1,114
928
1,385
711
562
382
412
355
385
330
348
–
650
654
480
774
870
750
1,471
739
490
351
393
330
332
331
356
–
2,093
2,080
2,027
2,049
2,030
2,080
2,071
2,080
2,026
1,958
2,035
1,947
1,998
1,362
2,080
–
33,766
30,773
24,644
49,527
56,879
48,246
71,684
36,947
29,220
18,874
21,086
17,283
19,211
12,136
18,103
–
33,800
33,987
24,960
39,395
45,240
39,000
76,502
38,418
25,459
17,243
20,446
16,848
17,160
12,131
18,491
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ..................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Miscellaneous plant and system operators,
N.E.C. .............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.9
534
658
626
800
649
614
515
854
500
644
604
915
670
571
560
990
2,057
2,078
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,126
27,490
34,218
32,541
41,622
33,757
31,909
26,794
44,433
26,000
33,488
31,420
47,590
34,840
29,702
29,120
51,501
39.6
39.9
40.0
40.4
40.2
40.0
39.6
40.0
40.0
37.5
40.0
837
464
240
617
404
395
369
445
272
389
330
850
476
227
583
370
370
340
412
270
330
299
2,059
2,060
2,080
2,100
1,974
1,946
2,060
2,080
2,080
1,951
2,080
43,545
23,941
12,502
32,071
19,868
19,189
19,185
23,126
14,141
20,221
17,180
44,200
23,816
11,801
30,326
18,720
19,240
17,680
21,424
14,040
17,152
15,538
39.1
41.4
37.5
301
428
249
258
375
206
1,975
2,152
1,843
15,224
22,258
12,239
12,948
19,510
10,166
39.9
502
519
1,930
24,267
23,986
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
10
Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings1 and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only2, all industries,
Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998 — Continued
All industries
Occupation3
Service occupations (-Continued)
Food service occupations (-Continued)
Cooks ...................................................................
Health service occupations .......................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
Mean
weekly
hours4
36.6
38.6
39.0
38.4
39.4
39.2
39.3
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
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.
Weekly earnings
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$283
258
313
239
287
279
296
$280
261
299
223
270
271
280
1,743
2,007
2,030
1,998
2,050
2,040
1,809
Annual earnings
Mean
$13,466
13,428
16,252
12,410
14,922
14,522
13,624
Median
$13,217
13,572
15,529
11,572
14,040
14,096
12,626
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey.
A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages
were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the
quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the
prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.
11
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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 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 ............................................
$13.63
13.76
$13.42
13.58
$14.15
14.15
$14.15
14.13
$5.72
5.57
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 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
16.80
6.44
7.55
7.93
10.05
12.56
13.42
19.45
16.91
23.70
25.77
29.98
44.95
24.93
17.54
7.52
7.99
9.36
12.06
13.55
19.58
16.64
23.44
25.77
29.98
44.95
24.93
16.97
6.45
6.85
7.67
10.54
13.09
14.73
16.80
17.64
25.84
26.27
30.04
46.85
25.23
18.30
6.77
7.76
9.63
12.58
15.07
16.60
17.36
25.24
26.27
30.04
46.85
25.23
16.50
–
8.57
8.19
8.92
11.11
11.51
21.63
14.01
22.43
24.49
–
–
–
16.50
8.57
8.19
8.92
11.11
11.51
21.63
14.01
22.43
24.49
–
–
–
17.37
–
7.65
7.95
10.06
12.56
13.42
19.46
16.91
23.70
25.77
29.98
44.95
25.04
17.66
7.65
8.02
9.36
12.06
13.55
19.59
16.63
23.44
25.77
29.98
44.95
25.04
6.37
–
6.82
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.71
6.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social, religious, and recreation workers ..................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Level 8 ..............................................................
Level 9 ..............................................................
Level 10 ............................................................
Management related occupations ............................
21.08
22.31
20.87
22.88
24.79
29.89
33.06
26.38
–
20.93
21.06
–
23.08
23.46
22.82
–
11.84
–
21.36
23.19
14.11
22.48
25.03
30.04
33.18
28.92
–
21.07
21.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.75
21.50
22.80
23.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.22
23.78
22.82
–
–
–
21.09
22.33
20.87
22.88
24.79
29.89
33.06
26.38
–
20.97
21.06
–
23.09
23.46
22.82
–
11.84
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.13
12.79
15.76
18.96
24.17
17.85
16.41
26.07
26.58
28.01
16.53
29.11
26.58
17.76
–
16.95
–
15.78
20.23
26.38
18.98
–
26.89
–
31.74
–
–
–
19.12
–
12.97
–
–
–
18.79
–
–
–
–
21.02
–
–
–
–
–
16.13
12.79
15.76
18.96
24.17
17.85
16.41
26.07
26.58
28.01
16.53
29.11
26.58
17.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
12
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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 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)
Management related occupations (-Continued)
Level 7 ..............................................................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
$17.90
11.68
6.49
12.91
14.14
9.56
7.55
8.06
9.07
11.65
12.87
–
$11.68
6.49
12.91
14.14
9.99
6.76
7.85
9.22
12.09
–
–
–
–
–
–
$8.95
8.57
8.20
8.84
–
–
$17.90
14.43
–
12.93
14.14
9.64
7.69
8.09
9.08
11.65
12.87
–
–
–
–
–
$6.80
6.37
–
–
–
–
Blue-collar occupations .........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 6 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Level 8 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .....
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
13.23
6.53
7.98
8.98
10.22
13.21
14.03
17.99
19.84
16.47
7.89
11.03
13.33
13.75
18.87
19.84
11.62
6.42
6.33
15.97
10.04
9.64
9.13
9.26
9.04
6.60
7.61
9.56
10.41
13.42
13.48
6.53
7.83
8.99
10.62
13.57
14.03
18.21
20.40
16.49
7.87
11.00
13.67
13.75
18.87
20.40
11.73
6.42
6.33
16.68
10.76
10.92
9.25
–
8.94
6.59
7.58
9.62
–
14.41
11.33
–
–
8.88
8.98
–
–
–
–
16.20
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.74
–
–
–
10.00
–
–
–
–
–
13.37
6.64
8.01
8.98
10.33
13.21
14.03
17.99
19.84
16.47
7.89
11.03
13.33
13.75
18.87
19.84
11.62
6.42
6.33
15.97
10.07
9.66
9.13
9.26
9.31
6.80
7.66
9.56
–
13.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Protective service occupations ...............................
Food service occupations ........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Health service occupations .....................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations ............
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Personal service occupations .................................
7.35
5.57
5.55
6.92
9.36
9.22
10.94
10.31
6.09
4.95
4.00
5.92
6.82
6.39
6.87
7.20
6.33
8.04
6.81
6.05
5.38
4.93
6.16
–
–
–
–
5.65
4.74
3.25
5.68
6.41
6.07
6.54
6.95
6.08
–
5.60
9.90
6.74
7.27
8.12
10.47
–
10.94
13.32
9.61
–
–
–
7.60
–
–
7.55
–
–
8.16
7.71
5.68
5.92
6.98
9.43
9.22
–
10.34
6.64
4.96
4.68
6.05
6.69
6.32
6.59
7.28
6.40
8.13
7.53
5.10
5.17
3.52
6.55
–
–
–
–
4.23
4.91
–
–
8.24
–
–
–
–
–
5.18
Occupational group3 and level
See footnotes at end of table.
13
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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998 —
Continued
All workers 4
Occupational group3 and level
Service occupations (-Continued)
Personal service occupations (-Continued)
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.
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
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$5.32
$5.32
–
–
–
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 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR
PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET
THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.
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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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
White-collar occupations:
Professional specialty and technical occupations:
Professional specialty occupations:
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Registered nurses ................................................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Social workers ......................................................
Technical occupations:
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations:
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Sales occupations:
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical:
Secretaries ...........................................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
General office clerks .............................................
Level 4 ..............................................................
Level 5 ..............................................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
Blue-collar occupations:
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations:
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ..................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Miscellaneous plant and system operators,
N.E.C. .............................................................
Level 7 ..............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors:
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Transportation and material moving occupations:
Truck drivers .........................................................
Level 2 ..............................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers:
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
Service occupations:
Food service occupations:
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
See footnotes at end of table.
15
All industries
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$26.78
18.40
22.85
23.63
23.59
23.82
20.98
12.24
$29.94
18.40
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$22.85
23.63
23.59
23.82
22.76
–
$26.78
18.39
22.85
23.63
23.59
23.82
20.98
12.24
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.79
12.16
14.79
–
–
–
14.79
12.16
–
–
23.20
34.61
–
34.85
–
–
23.20
34.61
–
–
13.45
7.23
6.87
13.45
7.23
6.87
–
–
–
10.30
9.67
8.84
7.98
9.63
8.88
12.44
8.91
9.25
8.69
–
–
–
8.35
11.50
–
–
–
–
8.27
9.96
–
–
–
8.18
–
–
8.91
9.25
–
10.36
9.67
8.88
–
9.61
8.88
12.44
8.91
9.25
8.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.64
20.01
16.23
15.34
16.08
12.88
20.90
15.64
–
16.23
15.43
16.08
12.88
18.37
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.64
20.01
16.23
15.34
16.08
12.88
20.90
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.15
22.29
21.15
22.29
–
–
21.15
22.29
–
–
6.01
15.27
5.97
15.27
–
–
6.01
15.27
–
–
9.86
9.81
10.48
10.92
–
–
9.86
9.81
–
–
11.03
6.80
10.08
8.12
11.09
–
10.08
8.12
–
–
–
–
11.12
6.80
10.36
8.26
–
–
–
–
12.58
2.30
7.18
6.43
6.94
–
2.30
6.86
6.40
6.94
–
–
–
–
–
12.58
–
7.72
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$6.29
6.17
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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
— Continued
All workers4
Occupation3 and level
Service occupations: (-Continued)
Food service occupations: (-Continued)
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
(-Continued)
Level 1 ..............................................................
Health service occupations:
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Level 2 ..............................................................
Cleaning and building service occupations:
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 ..............................................................
Level 3 ..............................................................
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.
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
All industries
State and
local
government
Full-time
workers
Part-time
workers
$6.49
–
–
–
8.14
6.34
6.29
–
6.10
5.91
–
–
–
7.03
6.42
8.04
6.71
6.20
–
All industries
Private
industry
$6.49
$7.29
–
–
$8.00
6.21
6.23
–
–
–
7.12
6.52
8.13
–
–
–
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 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR
PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET
THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.
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Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Corpus
Christi, TX, June 1998
Occupational group2
Full-time
workers3
Part-time
workers3
Union4
Nonunion4
Time5
Incentive5
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$14.15
14.13
$5.72
5.57
$15.06
15.06
$13.57
13.70
$13.60
13.76
$15.44
12.91
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
17.37
17.66
6.37
7.71
–
–
16.84
17.60
16.79
17.56
17.22
–
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
21.09
22.33
16.13
24.17
14.43
9.64
–
–
–
–
–
6.80
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.08
22.31
16.01
24.17
11.68
9.57
21.08
22.31
16.13
24.17
10.76
9.55
–
–
–
–
17.91
–
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 .....
13.37
16.47
11.62
10.07
9.31
–
–
–
–
–
14.42
–
10.66
–
–
13.13
16.30
11.78
10.02
8.76
13.23
16.51
11.62
9.50
9.04
13.23
–
–
13.34
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
7.71
–
6.83
7.35
–
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;
5.10
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update
survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics
where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality
survey data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior survey.
Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in
mean wages for the occupation.
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Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers2, Corpus Christi, TX,
June 1998
Goods-producing industries4
Occupational group3
All private
industries
Total
Mining
Construction
Manufacturing
Service-producing industries5
Total
TransWholeportsale
ation
and
and
retail
public
trade
utilities
–
–
Services
All occupations ...........................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ................................................
$13.42
13.58
$16.99
17.07
–
–
White-collar occupations .......................................................
White-collar excluding sales .................................................
16.97
18.30
24.00
24.66
–
–
13.94
13.94
24.47
25.20
15.30
16.43
18.54
17.60
–
–
–
–
14.84
14.86
Professional specialty and technical occupations ................
Professional specialty occupations ...................................
Technical occupations ......................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .......
Sales occupations ................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .........
21.36
23.19
16.95
26.38
11.68
9.99
28.10
32.68
22.16
28.01
–
12.12
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.06
32.65
22.16
28.47
–
12.45
18.81
20.53
13.34
25.76
11.72
9.65
20.31
20.46
–
–
–
13.04
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.53
20.51
12.54
22.87
14.31
8.56
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 .........
13.48
16.49
11.73
10.76
8.94
14.59
17.02
13.91
9.93
9.27
–
–
–
–
–
11.48
13.04
–
–
–
15.95
18.56
13.73
10.14
10.44
11.54
15.17
8.27
12.15
8.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.86
13.08
7.88
–
9.74
Service occupations ...............................................................
6.05
–
–
–
–
6.03
–
–
–
6.49
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.
$11.61 $18.63 $11.78 $17.11
11.61 18.76 11.79 16.65
Finance,
insurance,
and
real
estate
$17.16 $11.47
18.04 11.39
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A
procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with
the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.
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Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group and establishment employment size, private
industry, all workers2, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
100 workers or more
All private
industry
workers
50 - 99
workers
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
$13.42
13.58
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
Occupational group3
Total
100 - 499
workers
500
workers or
more
$10.34
10.65
$14.83
14.85
$13.59
13.49
$16.37
16.37
16.97
18.30
15.06
18.22
17.77
18.33
16.36
17.02
19.45
19.56
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support, including clerical occupations .....
21.36
23.19
16.95
26.38
11.68
9.99
22.46
31.13
13.77
–
–
9.44
21.10
21.95
18.48
25.60
14.65
10.24
20.52
21.72
15.59
23.63
14.42
9.96
21.34
22.05
19.34
–
–
–
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 .....
13.48
16.49
11.73
10.76
8.94
10.06
14.11
6.42
11.74
7.21
14.16
16.75
13.32
10.21
9.29
13.58
15.87
14.22
10.11
8.71
14.74
17.57
12.35
–
10.05
Service occupations ...........................................................
6.05
5.81
6.43
6.30
6.86
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."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this
update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the
positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure
compares current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior
survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the
occupation.
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Table C-4. Number of workers1 represented by occupational group, Corpus Christi, TX,
June 1998
All workers
Occupational group2
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local government
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
65,721
61,198
45,229
40,706
20,492
20,492
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar excluding sales .............................................
32,283
27,759
19,098
14,575
13,184
13,184
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Sales occupations ............................................................
Administrative support including clerical occupations ......
14,613
12,102
2,510
3,738
4,524
9,408
6,713
4,735
1,979
2,612
4,524
5,250
7,900
7,368
532
1,126
–
4,159
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 .....
17,867
8,375
3,286
2,439
3,766
15,671
7,794
3,012
1,451
3,414
2,196
–
–
988
–
Service occupations ...........................................................
15,572
10,461
5,112
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.
categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means not
elsewhere classified. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS
FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD
INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION
IN MIND.
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in
this update survey. A procedure was put into place to
"move" the positional statistics where averages were
collected. This procedure compares current locality survey
data–at the quote level–with the same quote from the prior
survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by
the average change in mean wages for the occupation.
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
20
Appendix A. Technical Note
month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to the
volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling
frames were developed using the most recent month of
reference available at the time the sample was selected.
The reference month for the private sector is March 1995.
The sampling frame was reviewed prior to the survey and,
when necessary, missing establishments were added, outof-business and out-of-scope establishments were
removed, and addresses, employment 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.
Planning for the survey
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 where the strata are
determined by industry and whether the establishment is
private, State government or local government. 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 the sample units within each stratum
represent all the units within the stratum, both sampled and
nonsampled. 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.
The overall design of the survey is based on the type of
data to be produced. Establishments that participate in the
NCS are studied for several collection cycles. This allows
changes in wages within these establishments to be
observed over time. Individual wage data are collected for
selected jobs during each establishment’s initial cycle and
updated during subsequent cycles. When data are not
available during a collection cycle, efforts are made to
collect the data during subsequent cycles and include it in
later tabulations. Beginning in the year 2001, the current
NCS sample will be replenished on a rotating basis.
Survey scope
This survey of the Corpus Christi, TX, 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 Corpus Christi, TX MSA includes Nueces and San
Patricio Counties.
Data collection
Detailed procedures are followed when collecting data
from survey respondents. For the initial data collection,
field economists, working out of the Regional Office,
visited each establishment surveyed. The field economists
- through mail, phone, or personal visit - completed update
collection, which involved obtaining current pay data. The
following procedures are used for schedules initiated for
the first time or reinitiated during an update.
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 Corpus
Christi, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. The reference
Occupational selection and classification
Identification of the occupations for which wage data
were to be collected was a multi-step process:
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·
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.
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, 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.
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.
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:
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
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
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
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·
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 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.
·
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.
Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be full time.
Collection period
The survey was collected from April 1998 through
August 1998. The average payroll reference month was
June 1998. For each establishment in the survey, the data
reflect the establishment’s practices on the day of
collection.
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.
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.)
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:
·
·
·
·
·
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage (see below).
Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer
considers to be part-time.
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
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.
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
The following forms of payments were not considered
part of straight-time earnings:
·
·
·
·
·
Payments made by third parties (e.g., tips, bonuses
given by manufacturers to department store
salespeople, referral incentives in real estate)
On-call pay
·
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
·
·
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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.
As a result of the use of sampling weights, the number
of workers estimates represent the total in all
establishments within the scope of the study not the actual
number of workers surveyed.
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 also were not
specifically measured, efforts were made to minimize
nonsampling errors by the extensive training of field
economists who gathered survey data, computer editing 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, 21.6 percent (representing 22,020
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 (6.8 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. The respondent has the
option of giving mean data instead of individual wages in
the years following the initiation.
In 1998, the publication criteria were changed to allow
more data to publish. 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.
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Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size,
and number of establishments represented, Corpus Christi, TX, June 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
436
385
64
7
21
36
322
29
148
21
125
50
106
83
27
1
10
16
56
7
16
3
30
23
50 - 99
workers
42
38
8
1
4
3
30
4
9
1
16
4
Total
100 - 499
workers
64
45
19
–
46
34
12
–
6
13
26
3
7
2
14
19
18
11
7
–
5
7
22
2
7
2
11
12
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.
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500 workers
or more
1
6
4
1
–
–
3
7
Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
(in percent)
Occupation3
All industries
Private
industry
State and
local
government
All occupations .......................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ............................................
2.9
3.0
3.9
4.0
3.5
3.5
White-collar occupations ...................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales .........................
3.3
2.8
4.8
4.0
3.8
3.8
Professional specialty and technical occupations ............
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .......................
Mathematical and computer scientists .....................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ...........
Natural scientists ......................................................
Health related occupations .......................................
Registered nurses ................................................
Teachers, college and university ..............................
Teachers, except college and university ..................
Elementary school teachers .................................
Secondary school teachers ..................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ..................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ...........................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ..................
Social workers ......................................................
Lawyers and judges ..................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, N.E.C. ..........................................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Radiological technicians .......................................
Licensed practical nurses .....................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations ...
Executives, administrators, and managers ...............
Managers, medicine and health ...........................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ..................
Management related occupations ............................
Sales occupations ............................................................
Sales workers, other commodities ........................
Cashiers ...............................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical .....
Secretaries ...........................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. .........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ......
General office clerks .............................................
Teachers’ aides ....................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. .........
3.0
3.7
5.7
9.9
11.1
–
9.2
3.3
–
2.2
3.2
1.8
9.7
–
4.2
3.7
–
4.8
6.6
5.8
5.3
5.0
–
9.4
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.3
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
3.2
1.8
6.3
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
6.2
5.3
6.5
9.8
12.3
10.6
5.1
16.9
18.1
9.1
3.5
5.5
4.8
5.4
8.3
2.7
7.3
–
8.1
6.2
–
6.5
11.0
–
11.1
3.3
16.9
18.1
9.1
5.3
–
–
6.6
10.9
–
10.0
–
5.8
–
–
9.5
9.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.7
4.9
–
–
4.8
2.7
–
3.5
3.5
11.7
6.9
10.6
6.7
21.5
13.5
3.6
3.4
11.7
–
10.6
6.8
21.5
20.1
12.5
21.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.4
8.8
4.9
21.1
4.3
5.6
5.6
14.2
1.3
12.5
12.5
2.4
9.4
5.5
21.1
5.2
6.6
6.2
15.4
–
12.5
12.5
–
–
–
–
2.7
–
6.1
–
–
–
–
Blue-collar occupations .....................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ..........
Heavy equipment mechanics ...............................
Industrial machinery repairers ..............................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ..........................
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ..................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ..................................
Supervisors, production occupations ....................
Miscellaneous plant and system operators,
N.E.C. .............................................................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. ...........
Transportation and material moving occupations .............
Truck drivers .........................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ........................
Construction laborers ...........................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .......
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. ...................
See footnotes at end of table.
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Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings1 for selected
occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all
workers2, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998 — Continued
(in percent)
Occupation3
Service occupations ...........................................................
Protective service occupations .................................
Food service occupations .........................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service
occupations ....................................................
Waiters and waitresses ........................................
Cooks ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations
Health service occupations .......................................
Health aides, except nursing ................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ...............
Cleaning and building service occupations ..............
Janitors and cleaners ...........................................
Personal service occupations ...................................
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
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
State and
local
government
5.2
12.9
7.3
3.7
–
6.8
7.6
9.9
12.8
13.7
6.4
8.2
9.3
4.0
4.1
3.6
4.8
4.4
7.1
–
6.4
8.4
9.3
4.7
–
3.5
7.1
7.3
5.8
–
–
–
–
2.5
–
–
5.7
4.7
10.0
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 STATE AND
LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND.
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were
collected in this update survey. A procedure was put
into place to "move" the positional statistics where
averages were collected. This procedure compares
current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average
change in mean wages for the occupation.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
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Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers,
full-time and part-time workers, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
All occupations .................................................................................
All occupations excluding sales ......................................................
5
5
5
5
2
2
White-collar occupations .............................................................
White-collar occupations excluding sales ...................................
6
7
7
7
2
3
Professional specialty and technical occupations ......................
Professional specialty occupations .........................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...............................
Computer systems analysts and scientists .....................
Natural scientists ................................................................
Health related occupations .................................................
Registered nurses ..........................................................
Teachers, college and university ........................................
Teachers, except college and university ............................
Elementary school teachers ...........................................
Secondary school teachers ............................................
Teachers, N.E.C. ............................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators .....................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ............................
Social workers ................................................................
Lawyers and judges ............................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals,
N.E.C. ...........................................................................
Technical occupations ............................................................
Radiological technicians .................................................
Licensed practical nurses ...............................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations .............
Executives, administrators, and managers .........................
Managers, medicine and health .....................................
Managers and administrators, N.E.C. ............................
Management related occupations ......................................
Sales occupations ......................................................................
Sales workers, other commodities ..................................
Cashiers .........................................................................
Administrative support occupations, including clerical ...............
Secretaries .....................................................................
Records clerks, N.E.C. ...................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ................
General office clerks .......................................................
Teachers’ aides ..............................................................
Administrative support occupations, N.E.C. ...................
8
8
11
11
11
–
9
8
–
8
8
8
7
–
7
7
–
8
8
11
11
11
–
9
8
–
8
8
8
7
–
7
7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6
7
6
9
9
9
10
7
3
3
2
4
4
3
3
4
3
4
–
6
7
6
9
9
9
10
7
5
–
–
4
4
3
–
4
3
4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1
2
–
–
–
–
–
–
Blue-collar occupations ...............................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations ....................
Heavy equipment mechanics .........................................
Industrial machinery repairers ........................................
Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C. ....................................
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ............................
Construction trades, N.E.C. ............................................
Supervisors, production occupations ..............................
Miscellaneous plant and system operators, N.E.C. ........
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators ...........
Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C. .....................
Transportation and material moving occupations .......................
Truck drivers ...................................................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ................
Helpers, mechanics and repairers ..................................
Construction laborers .....................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C. .................
Laborers except construction, N.E.C. .............................
5
6
7
7
6
7
5
8
7
5
2
5
3
3
3
4
2
3
2
5
6
7
7
6
7
5
8
7
5
2
5
4
3
3
4
2
4
2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Service occupations .....................................................................
Protective service occupations ...........................................
Food service occupations ...................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations
Waiters and waitresses ..................................................
Cooks .............................................................................
3
5
2
6
2
3
3
5
3
6
–
3
2
–
2
–
–
–
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, Corpus Christi, TX, June 1998 — Continued
All
Full-time Part-time
workers workers workers
Occupation1
Service occupations (-Continued)
Food service occupations (-Continued)
Food counter, fountain, and related occupations ...........
Health service occupations .................................................
Health aides, except nursing ..........................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants .........................
Cleaning and building service occupations ........................
Janitors and cleaners .....................................................
Personal service occupations .............................................
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.
1
3
3
2
2
2
2
–
3
3
2
3
2
2
–
3
–
–
–
–
1
include data for categories not shown separately.
N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified."
NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were
collected in this update survey. A procedure was put
into place to "move" the positional statistics where
averages were collected. This procedure compares
current locality survey data–at the quote level–with the
same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates
from the prior survey are moved by the average
change in mean wages for the occupation.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall
occupational groups and occupational levels may
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