National Compensation Survey:
Occupational Wages in the New England
Census Division, October 2000
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Kathleen P. Utgoff, Commissioner
January 2003
Bulletin 2553-1
Preface
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he National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides
comprehensive measures of occupational earnings,
compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed
benefit provisions. This bulletin focuses on occupational
earnings.
The NCS replaced the Occupational Compensation Survey. The major difference between these two surveys is
that the Occupational Compensation Survey used the same
preselected list of occupations for all localities. The NCS
uses a probability-based sample of establishments and
occupations that is intended to represent more fully the employment patterns and occupational mix of each locality.
This bulletin presents aggregated pay data from the
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan local area surveys conducted in the New England census division. (See Technical Note.) It provides estimates of occupational pay for the
census division, as well as selected data by worker and
establishment characteristics.
NCS bulletins were published for eight census divisions: New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central,
West North Central, South Atlantic, West South Central,
Mountain, and Pacific. Estimates for the East South Central census division did not meet publishability standards.
For additional information regarding this survey, con-
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Contents
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Occupational Wages in the New England Census Division, October 2000 …………....………………………
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Tables:
Table 1. Summary, New England: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected characteristics,
private industry and State and local government …………………………………………………………….
3
Table 2. Summary, New England: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected characteristics,
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas ………………………………………………………………….…
4
Table 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours for full-time and
part-time workers ……………………………………………………………………………………………
5
Table 4. Selected occupations, New England, private industry: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and
part-time workers ……………………………………..………………..………………..…………………..
10
Table 5. Selected occupations, New England, State and local government: Mean hourly earnings and
weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers ……..………………..………………..…………………
14
Table 6. Occupations and levels, New England: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours,
private industry and State and local government …………………………………..…………….………….
16
Technical Note …………………………..…………………..……………………………………………..…..
28
Table A. Number of workers represented by the survey, by occupational group, New England .…………..
30
Table B. Number of establishments studied by industry group and establishment
employment size, New England ……..…………………..…………………………………………………..
31
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Occupational Wages in the New England
Census Division, October 2000
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Table 2 shows that workers in metropolitan areas averaged $17.69 per hour, more than the average pay for workers in nonmetropolitan areas, $15.57. Table 2 also shows
that, for many of the worker and establishment characteristics presented, average pay for metropolitan area workers
was higher than that for their counterparts in nonmetropolitan areas. See the Technical Note for definitions of
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.
Among the census divisions, average earnings generally
were highest in the Middle Atlantic, New England, and
Pacific regions. Average earnings for the census divisions,
and for other characteristics, can be seen in tables 1 and 2.
Full-time, part-time, and combined average pay rates
for occupations in private industry and in State and local
governments in the New England region are shown in
tables 3, 4, and 5. These tables contain wage rates and
mean weekly hours for individual occupations and for major occupational groups. All registered nurses, for example,
averaged $24.33 per hour (table 3). Registered nurses in
private industry averaged $24.30 (table 4), while their
counterparts in State and local government averaged
$24.65 per hour (table 5). Laborers, except construction,
averaged $10.39 in private industry and $14.84 in State and
local governments. Janitors and cleaners, a service occupation, averaged $10.31 in private industry and $12.87 in
State and local government.
Earnings by occupational group and level are shown in
table 6. In determining the work level, the Bureau of Labor Statistics applies an “occupational leveling” technique
to all occupations selected during the collection process,
using 10 criteria to level occupations. Usually, the results
tend to show higher pay at higher levels. In this region,
average hourly earnings of white-collar workers ranged
from $7.12 for work level 1 to $56.74 for level 14. Average earnings of blue-collar workers ranged from $8.87 for
level 2 to $24.95 at level 9; service workers’ average earnings ranged from $7.38 for level 2 to $27.56 for level 10.
The Technical Note has more information on occupational
leveling.
Table A in the Technical Note shows the number of
workers represented by the surveys in the New England
census division by major occupational group, such as professional specialty and technical, sales, and transportation
and material moving. Table B shows the number of establishments studied in the New England census division by
employment size; more establishments were studied in the
group having 100 to 499 workers than in any other size
category.
his bulletin provides October 2000 National Compensation Survey (NCS) estimates of occupational pay in
the New England census division. The bulletin highlights
average (mean) hourly pay for workers by seven characteristics:
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Private industry and State and local government
Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas
Selected occupations and major occupational
groups
Full-time and part-time status
Bargaining status
Size of establishment
Work level
Wages in the New England census division averaged
$17.54 per hour in October 2000. Workers in private
industry in the New England region averaged $16.88 per
hour, while pay of workers in State and local government
averaged $23.06 per hour. The nationwide hourly average
for all workers covered by the survey was $16.23.
Table 1 in this bulletin provides an overview of average pay for workers in private industry and State and local
government by selected worker and establishment characteristics. For example, white-collar workers in private industry averaged $22.39 per hour; blue-collar workers averaged $12.70, and service workers, $8.99. Corresponding
averages in State and local government were $26.10,
$17.79, and $16.81. Generally, average hourly earnings
for private industry workers were lower than those for
State and local government workers. Part of this difference
can be explained by differences in the occupational and industrial mix of the two sectors. For example, professional
specialty and technical occupations are more prevalent in
State and local government than in private industry. Conversely, few State and local government workers are in
goods-producing industries other than construction.
Full-time workers in the New England region averaged
$18.48 per hour, while part-time workers averaged $11.05.
In private industry, full-time workers averaged $17.82 an
hour and part-time workers averaged $10.88. For workers
in State and local government, average hourly pay was
$23.53 and $14.57, respectively. Full-time or part-time
designation is based on the employer’s definition of those
terms.
Workers in the New England region in establishments
with 2,500 workers or more had average hourly pay of
$22.75. Workers in the smallest establishment-size category studied (1 to 99 employees) averaged $14.51.
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TABLE 1. Summary, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry
and State and local government, National Compensation Survey,2 October 2000
Total
Worker and establishment characteristics,
and geographic areas
Total ...........................................................
Private industry
Hourly earnings
State and local government
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error3
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error3
(percent)
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error3
(percent)
$17.54
1.7
35.4
$16.88
2.4
35.4
$23.06
1.6
35.5
22.92
26.17
6.6
2.7
35.7
35.8
22.39
24.69
8.2
3.0
35.9
36.2
26.10
31.52
2.3
3.1
34.8
34.4
32.83
13.43
14.09
12.83
17.22
6.9
6.5
2.8
7.8
6.2
41.7
28.9
35.1
38.2
40.1
33.13
13.42
14.07
12.70
17.12
7.2
6.6
3.4
7.8
6.4
42.3
28.9
35.3
38.1
40.1
30.00
14.91
14.18
17.79
18.93
5.0
11.5
3.0
3.7
5.1
37.3
35.2
34.1
39.3
39.9
Worker characteristics:4
White-collar occupations5 .......................
Professional specialty and technical ...
Executive, administrative, and
managerial ........................................
Sales ...................................................
Administrative support ........................
Blue-collar occupations5 .........................
Precision production, craft, and repair
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .........................................
Transportation and material moving ...
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers ........................
Service occupations5 ..............................
11.43
14.12
4.4
12.4
39.0
36.3
11.39
13.97
4.3
13.0
39.0
36.2
17.68
18.27
8.4
3.6
38.8
38.2
10.11
10.56
5.0
4.6
36.5
28.4
10.03
8.99
4.8
5.1
36.5
26.9
14.32
16.81
4.1
2.0
38.9
36.5
Full time ..................................................
Part time .................................................
18.48
11.05
1.5
8.4
39.9
19.8
17.82
10.88
1.5
8.8
40.3
19.9
23.53
14.57
1.7
8.8
37.4
18.5
Union ......................................................
Nonunion ................................................
20.79
16.91
1.6
2.4
35.6
35.4
17.78
16.80
3.8
2.6
34.7
35.4
23.25
22.07
2.0
8.8
36.3
31.9
Time ........................................................
Incentive .................................................
17.53
17.87
1.5
13.5
35.4
35.5
16.85
17.87
2.3
13.5
35.4
35.5
23.06
–
1.6
–
35.5
–
Goods producing ....................................
Service producing ...................................
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
17.73
16.24
2.1
3.4
40.4
32.3
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
1 to 99 workers7 .....................................
100 to 499 workers .................................
500 to 999 workers .................................
1,000 to 2,499 workers ...........................
2,500 workers or more ............................
14.51
17.63
21.36
22.68
22.75
5.7
1.4
4.2
4.1
3.0
32.6
37.4
36.4
36.2
37.0
14.48
17.21
20.75
22.08
22.01
5.7
2.1
5.4
4.9
3.9
32.6
37.7
36.6
36.8
37.0
16.57
22.24
23.39
25.46
23.84
5.0
3.8
4.2
6.1
3.4
32.9
34.7
35.6
33.8
36.9
Metropolitan ............................................
Nonmetropolitan .....................................
17.69
15.57
1.6
6.9
35.4
34.7
17.04
14.37
2.3
10.0
35.4
34.4
23.53
20.05
1.7
3.2
35.5
36.0
New England ..........................................
Middle Atlantic ........................................
East North Central ..................................
West North Central .................................
South Atlantic .........................................
East South Central .................................
West South Central ................................
Mountain .................................................
Pacific .....................................................
17.54
18.72
16.08
14.99
15.24
–
15.07
14.70
17.64
1.7
3.2
2.5
3.5
2.6
–
3.5
3.6
1.7
35.4
34.7
35.8
35.4
36.5
–
36.9
35.7
35.6
16.88
17.88
15.32
14.14
14.66
–
14.57
13.78
16.52
2.4
3.9
2.6
3.4
3.4
–
4.2
4.1
2.3
35.4
34.5
35.8
35.1
36.2
–
36.6
35.5
35.5
23.06
23.42
21.53
19.49
18.12
–
17.46
20.22
23.70
1.6
1.7
2.2
2.9
1.6
–
1.8
2.8
1.4
35.5
35.4
35.9
37.0
38.1
–
38.3
37.3
35.7
Establishment characteristics:
Geographic areas:8
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses;
and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by
the number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and
January 2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a
sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those
whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers
are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages
are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates,
commissions, and production bonuses.
5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to
cover all workers in the civilian economy. See Technical Note for more information.
6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing
industries applies to private industry only.
7 Estimates include private establishments employing 1 to 99 workers and
State and local government establishments employing 50 to 99 workers.
8 Data are presented for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area divisions as
well as eight census divisions. Average hourly earnings and mean weekly hours for
the East South Central census division did not meet publishability standards. See
Technical Note for a list of States comprising the nine census divisions.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria.
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TABLE 2. Summary, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, metropolitan and
nonmetropolitan areas,2 National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000
Total
Worker and establishment characteristics,
and geographic areas
Total ............................................................
Private Industry .......................................
State and local government ....................
Metropolitan areas
Hourly earnings
Nonmetropolitan areas
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error4
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error4
(percent)
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error4
(percent)
$17.54
16.88
23.06
1.7
2.4
1.6
35.4
35.4
35.5
$17.69
17.04
23.53
1.6
2.3
1.7
35.4
35.4
35.5
$15.57
14.37
20.05
6.9
10.0
3.2
34.7
34.4
36.0
22.92
26.17
6.6
2.7
35.7
35.8
23.13
26.52
7.3
2.9
35.7
36.0
20.32
22.98
5.2
2.3
35.9
33.9
32.83
13.43
14.09
12.83
17.22
6.9
6.5
2.8
7.8
6.2
41.7
28.9
35.1
38.2
40.1
33.19
13.22
14.26
13.00
17.30
7.8
6.5
3.0
8.6
6.2
41.6
28.7
35.1
38.2
40.1
26.70
18.47
12.00
9.80
14.16
15.6
14.4
9.6
8.1
1.8
44.4
33.9
35.5
38.0
40.7
Worker characteristics:5
White-collar occupations6 .......................
Professional specialty and technical ...
Executive, administrative, and
managerial ........................................
Sales ...................................................
Administrative support ........................
Blue-collar occupations6 .........................
Precision production, craft, and repair
Machine operators, assemblers, and
inspectors .........................................
Transportation and material moving ...
Handlers, equipment cleaners,
helpers, and laborers ........................
Service occupations6 ..............................
11.43
14.12
4.4
12.4
39.0
36.3
11.61
14.13
4.9
12.5
39.1
36.3
9.72
–
8.4
–
38.3
–
10.11
10.56
5.0
4.6
36.5
28.4
10.22
10.60
6.2
4.9
36.5
28.5
–
10.17
–
7.6
–
27.7
Full time ..................................................
Part time .................................................
18.48
11.05
1.5
8.4
39.9
19.8
18.64
10.95
1.4
9.1
39.9
19.7
16.24
12.09
9.0
14.2
39.9
20.6
Union ......................................................
Nonunion ................................................
20.79
16.91
1.6
2.4
35.6
35.4
20.77
17.09
1.6
2.4
35.4
35.4
20.96
14.42
5.8
8.7
37.3
34.2
Time ........................................................
Incentive .................................................
17.53
17.87
1.5
13.5
35.4
35.5
17.69
17.64
1.5
13.3
35.4
35.4
15.41
–
5.2
–
34.6
–
Goods producing7 ..................................
Service producing7 .................................
17.73
16.24
2.1
3.4
40.4
32.3
17.99
16.32
1.8
3.5
40.5
32.3
13.46
15.01
29.5
7.1
39.4
31.5
1 to 99 workers8 .....................................
100 to 499 workers .................................
500 to 999 workers .................................
1,000 to 2,499 workers ...........................
2,500 workers or more ............................
14.51
17.63
21.36
22.68
22.75
5.7
1.4
4.2
4.1
3.0
32.6
37.4
36.4
36.2
37.0
14.67
17.84
20.88
22.68
23.17
5.6
1.4
4.8
4.1
2.3
32.6
37.8
36.0
36.2
37.0
11.53
15.14
23.87
–
–
17.9
9.1
1.8
–
–
33.1
34.1
38.6
–
–
17.54
18.72
16.08
14.99
15.24
–
15.07
14.70
17.64
1.7
3.2
2.5
3.5
2.6
–
3.5
3.6
1.7
35.4
34.7
35.8
35.4
36.5
–
36.9
35.7
35.6
17.69
18.77
16.12
15.46
15.46
–
15.12
14.41
17.63
1.6
3.3
2.7
4.0
2.8
–
3.8
3.9
1.7
35.4
34.6
35.8
35.0
36.4
–
36.9
35.6
35.5
15.57
16.63
15.68
12.93
13.34
–
14.45
17.56
–
6.9
6.5
3.1
4.0
4.8
–
3.1
3.4
–
34.7
36.0
36.5
36.9
37.5
–
36.8
36.9
–
Establishment characteristics:
Geographic areas:9
New England ..........................................
Middle Atlantic ........................................
East North Central ..................................
West North Central .................................
South Atlantic .........................................
East South Central .................................
West South Central ................................
Mountain .................................................
Pacific .....................................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses;
and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by
the number of workers, weighted by hours.
2 Metropolitan areas can be a Metropolitan Statistical Area or Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the Office of Management and Budget,
1994. Nonmetropolitan areas are counties that do not fit the definitions above. For
more information, see Technical Note.
3 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and
January 2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a
percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a
sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
5 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those
whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers
are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages
are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates,
commissions, and production bonuses.
6 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to
cover all workers in the civilian economy. See Technical Note for more information.
7 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing
industries applies to private industry only.
8 Estimates include private establishments employing 1 to 99 workers and
State and local government establishments employing 50 to 99 workers.
9 Data are presented for eight census divisions. Average hourly earnings and
mean weekly hours previously published for the East South Central census division
did not meet publishability standards. See Technical Note for a list of States
comprising the nine census divisions.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria.
4
TABLE 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers,2
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All ..........................................................................................
All, excluding sales ........................................................
$17.54
17.83
1.7
1.7
35.4
36.0
$18.48
18.54
1.5
1.5
39.9
39.9
$11.05
12.05
8.4
8.9
19.8
19.9
White collar ......................................................................
White collar, excluding sales .....................................
22.92
24.38
6.6
5.8
35.7
37.1
24.18
24.89
6.2
6.0
40.0
39.9
13.48
18.31
7.7
4.3
20.0
20.4
Professional specialty and technical .........................
Professional specialty ................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....................
Aerospace engineers .........................................
Civil engineers ...................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers ....................
Industrial engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ............................................................
Natural scientists ...................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ...........................
Medical scientists ...............................................
Health related ........................................................
Physicians ..........................................................
Registered nurses ..............................................
Pharmacists .......................................................
Respiratory therapists ........................................
Occupational therapists .....................................
Therapists, n.e.c. ...............................................
Teachers, college and university ...........................
Engineering teachers .........................................
Health specialties teachers ................................
Business, commerce, and marketing teachers ..
Art, drama, and music teachers .........................
Education teachers ............................................
English teachers ................................................
Trade and industrial teachers ............................
Other post-secondary teachers .........................
Teachers, except college and university ................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten .....................
Elementary school teachers ..............................
Secondary school teachers ...............................
Teachers, special education ..............................
Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................
Substitute teachers ............................................
Vocational and educational counselors .............
Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................
Librarians ...........................................................
Social scientists and urban planners .....................
Psychologists .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ...............
Social workers ...................................................
Lawyers and judges ...............................................
Lawyers .............................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. .............................................
Designers ...........................................................
Editors and reporters .........................................
Public relations specialists .................................
Professional, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ...................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians .......................................................
Radiological technicians ....................................
Licensed practical nurses ..................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ......
26.17
27.85
–
36.37
28.89
35.71
27.37
32.45
31.43
31.99
2.7
3.7
–
6.5
5.8
3.9
5.3
3.5
3.7
3.9
35.8
35.8
–
40.0
38.7
40.1
40.0
39.2
39.8
39.9
26.45
28.07
–
36.37
28.89
35.71
27.37
32.45
31.43
31.99
2.8
3.9
–
6.5
5.8
3.9
5.3
3.5
3.7
4.0
39.1
39.0
–
40.0
38.7
40.1
40.0
39.2
39.9
40.0
23.58
25.67
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.9
4.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.1
19.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.93
33.14
34.66
29.60
25.58
41.71
24.33
31.18
20.58
25.09
22.75
41.13
53.12
30.82
53.32
36.65
48.70
44.02
32.79
38.46
27.79
21.05
34.49
32.04
29.17
–
11.54
31.06
28.10
28.31
28.52
27.17
19.08
19.26
35.10
34.28
8.6
9.4
24.6
16.4
3.5
13.3
1.5
3.6
3.3
12.3
12.0
4.4
10.3
10.2
19.3
6.2
11.6
21.9
7.5
4.1
11.0
22.3
2.8
5.4
8.2
–
14.0
9.3
13.7
13.8
7.2
16.4
3.6
3.6
7.9
7.9
39.0
37.6
38.7
36.2
30.7
41.1
28.3
36.4
39.3
34.5
34.0
32.7
30.7
25.9
36.0
36.0
36.5
37.4
37.5
31.2
34.9
36.3
34.5
35.4
35.2
–
14.6
34.3
34.2
35.8
32.8
26.3
36.3
36.3
39.3
39.4
23.93
32.99
34.66
28.95
25.65
39.96
24.37
30.33
20.58
–
–
41.75
–
–
–
37.98
48.70
44.02
–
38.82
27.92
21.08
34.48
32.12
29.02
–
–
30.65
28.48
28.48
27.50
–
19.00
19.17
35.09
34.26
8.6
9.4
24.6
16.9
4.7
15.7
1.8
4.2
3.4
–
–
4.6
–
–
–
5.6
11.6
21.9
–
3.9
11.3
22.5
2.8
5.5
8.3
–
–
13.7
14.1
14.1
9.9
–
3.7
3.7
7.9
7.9
39.0
38.8
38.7
39.6
39.4
45.2
38.7
39.9
39.6
–
–
37.4
–
–
–
37.9
36.5
37.4
–
36.8
36.0
36.4
34.5
35.5
35.4
–
–
37.0
36.4
36.4
37.6
–
37.5
37.5
39.4
39.5
–
–
–
–
25.41
–
24.26
–
–
–
–
34.18
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.67
–
–
–
–
24.86
9.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.0
–
4.3
–
–
–
–
12.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.3
–
–
–
–
23.5
2.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.6
–
20.3
–
–
–
–
13.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.5
–
–
–
–
15.6
10.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.93
25.31
23.64
26.23
31.81
19.04
8.9
9.9
18.5
14.3
10.8
2.7
36.6
39.6
39.6
37.7
39.9
36.0
23.21
25.39
23.64
26.30
31.81
19.37
9.6
10.1
18.5
14.5
10.8
3.2
38.6
39.8
39.6
38.0
39.9
39.4
18.57
–
–
–
–
16.48
22.1
–
–
–
–
3.6
20.4
–
–
–
–
21.5
16.92
22.14
16.44
15.24
5.7
3.6
1.9
3.2
34.6
27.4
29.8
34.8
17.18
23.45
16.70
15.31
6.3
4.9
2.6
3.5
38.9
38.9
38.9
39.5
15.04
19.12
16.10
14.82
8.8
2.4
2.4
9.0
19.2
16.3
22.8
20.4
See footnotes at end of table.
5
TABLE 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers,2
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$19.06
23.09
19.05
27.00
18.32
4.3
5.7
6.8
7.2
9.7
39.8
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.8
$19.06
23.09
19.05
27.00
18.32
4.3
5.7
6.8
7.2
9.7
39.8
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.83
36.31
6.9
4.0
41.7
42.6
32.91
36.37
6.9
3.9
42.0
42.9
$21.56
19.27
9.0
18.0
20.4
14.2
31.95
28.20
10.6
7.6
38.0
40.1
31.95
28.29
10.6
7.7
38.4
40.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
39.89
33.35
8.1
7.8
41.3
38.7
39.89
33.67
8.1
7.9
41.3
40.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.14
21.57
46.06
21.87
19.93
26.56
20.74
26.08
11.0
16.7
9.1
3.2
4.2
11.2
9.3
5.3
46.3
39.4
43.9
39.2
37.7
39.9
40.1
39.4
23.14
21.57
46.06
21.85
19.90
26.56
20.74
26.08
11.0
16.7
9.1
3.2
4.3
11.2
9.3
5.3
46.3
39.4
43.9
39.5
38.2
39.9
40.1
39.4
–
–
–
22.91
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.5
–
–
–
–
23.58
6.8
40.1
23.58
6.8
40.1
–
–
–
27.93
22.23
19.23
9.5
9.8
18.9
41.9
39.8
37.0
27.93
22.23
18.95
9.5
9.8
19.5
41.9
39.8
40.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.56
22.32
3.7
7.6
40.2
39.2
–
22.13
–
7.6
–
39.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
Sales .............................................................................
Supervisors, sales .............................................
Insurance sales ..................................................
Advertising and related sales .............................
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale ..................................................
Sales workers, other commodities .....................
Sales counter clerks ..........................................
Cashiers .............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. ..........................................
13.43
20.28
20.92
32.40
6.5
12.9
10.5
7.6
28.9
41.5
38.9
42.0
17.34
20.30
20.92
32.40
7.7
12.9
10.5
7.6
40.9
41.5
38.9
42.0
6.94
–
–
–
3.1
–
–
–
19.4
–
–
–
26.99
9.93
10.57
7.31
19.07
10.1
13.6
5.3
3.4
19.1
40.9
25.5
28.5
21.4
39.6
26.99
14.32
–
8.50
19.15
10.1
16.0
–
7.4
19.2
40.9
39.1
–
39.3
39.9
–
6.75
–
6.91
–
–
5.3
–
3.3
–
–
20.4
–
18.6
–
Administrative support, including clerical ................
Supervisors, general office ................................
Supervisors, financial records processing .........
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ................................................
Computer operators ...........................................
Secretaries .........................................................
Typists ...............................................................
Interviewers .......................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .....
Receptionists .....................................................
Order clerks .......................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping .....................................................
Library clerks .....................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................
14.09
17.36
21.51
2.8
2.4
5.9
35.1
41.4
39.9
14.29
17.36
21.51
3.0
2.4
5.9
38.8
41.4
39.9
12.60
–
–
3.8
–
–
20.8
–
–
27.81
16.19
15.49
13.81
11.17
16.01
10.77
13.68
2.6
8.7
2.5
2.9
6.0
1.2
3.7
4.7
38.3
37.3
35.1
33.2
32.1
35.9
36.9
38.1
27.81
16.24
15.82
14.30
11.44
16.04
10.82
13.82
2.6
8.7
2.5
1.7
6.6
4.2
3.9
5.0
38.3
39.0
38.5
35.8
37.8
40.0
38.4
39.3
–
–
13.60
–
10.47
–
9.87
–
–
–
1.7
–
5.2
–
4.9
–
–
–
23.5
–
23.1
–
21.5
–
17.03
12.98
11.98
8.1
6.6
4.9
36.3
32.0
37.0
17.38
13.15
12.08
7.8
7.7
5.5
38.9
35.9
39.6
–
11.86
11.13
–
6.2
5.3
–
18.5
23.5
White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
Electrical and electronic technicians ..................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. ..........................
Drafters ..............................................................
Computer programmers .....................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ..............................
Executive, administrative, and managerial ...............
Executives, administrators, and managers ............
Administrators and officials, public
administration ..................................................
Financial managers ...........................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ...........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields ......
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .................................................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................
Management related ..............................................
Accountants and auditors ..................................
Underwriters ......................................................
Other financial officers .......................................
Management analysts ........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists ........................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ...........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ...............
Construction inspectors .....................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction .....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ...............................
See footnotes at end of table.
6
TABLE 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers,2
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$13.45
14.67
11.42
9.51
10.10
9.98
18.99
14.04
15.60
3.8
13.5
6.1
6.0
5.4
8.7
5.6
5.6
4.2
32.2
36.5
39.2
22.7
36.4
39.2
40.0
39.4
39.3
$13.49
16.37
11.37
9.82
–
9.98
18.99
14.05
15.60
3.0
12.9
6.0
9.7
–
8.7
5.6
5.6
4.2
39.3
39.1
40.0
40.0
–
40.0
40.0
39.5
39.3
$13.21
–
–
9.23
–
–
–
–
–
19.7
–
–
6.0
–
–
–
–
–
15.8
–
–
16.2
–
–
–
–
–
18.39
14.17
15.23
12.82
11.26
13.22
13.00
10.75
14.15
7.4
6.9
9.7
3.5
8.1
5.9
6.3
5.7
5.6
38.1
37.6
39.5
31.9
33.9
35.5
30.5
32.9
35.0
18.11
14.07
15.23
13.27
11.96
13.23
–
10.64
14.80
8.1
6.8
9.7
4.3
8.6
8.4
–
5.8
6.6
38.7
39.1
39.5
38.3
37.7
38.7
–
34.5
39.0
–
15.94
–
11.07
–
–
–
12.42
9.66
–
13.1
–
4.7
–
–
–
19.3
11.9
–
22.4
–
19.4
–
–
–
19.5
20.6
Blue collar ........................................................................
12.83
7.8
38.2
12.85
8.3
40.1
12.58
21.8
21.3
Precision production, craft, and repair ......................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ..............
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....
Industrial machinery repairers ...........................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. .........................
Supervisors, construction trades, n.e.c. .............
Carpenters .........................................................
Electricians ........................................................
Electrical power installers and repairers ............
Painters, construction and maintenance ............
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ...............
Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................
Supervisors, production .....................................
Machinists ..........................................................
Butchers and meat cutters .................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................
17.22
16.70
18.28
16.41
15.49
19.95
18.38
23.71
25.62
15.49
21.71
13.33
19.15
19.12
13.08
15.93
6.2
9.2
9.9
3.0
8.3
11.7
5.5
9.8
5.2
4.9
5.0
6.4
5.1
5.3
15.0
7.3
40.1
40.9
40.2
39.9
39.7
41.3
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
41.5
40.0
38.0
39.9
17.22
16.70
18.28
16.41
15.49
19.95
18.38
23.71
25.62
15.49
21.71
13.33
19.15
19.12
12.97
15.94
6.2
9.2
9.9
3.0
8.3
11.7
5.5
9.8
5.2
4.9
5.0
6.4
5.1
5.3
15.3
7.4
40.1
40.9
40.2
39.9
39.7
41.3
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
41.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .....
Lathe and turning machine operators ................
Punching and stamping press operators ...........
Numerical control machine operators ................
Molding and casting machine operators ............
Metal plating machine operators ........................
Heat treating equipment operators ....................
Printing press operators .....................................
Typesetters and compositors .............................
Winding and twisting machine operators ...........
Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine
operators ..........................................................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Extruding and forming machine operators .........
Mixing and blending machine operators ............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators
Slicing and cutting machine operators ...............
Welders and cutters ...........................................
Assemblers ........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners
11.43
17.60
11.61
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
13.46
11.26
4.4
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
10.2
.0
39.0
40.0
39.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
38.1
39.8
11.52
17.60
11.60
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
–
11.26
4.9
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
–
.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
–
39.8
7.66
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.05
8.86
11.58
12.27
13.26
10.78
16.57
10.41
8.89
14.27
2.4
8.4
10.6
10.4
2.9
8.3
3.7
7.7
7.5
7.4
39.6
31.9
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
33.2
40.0
39.9
11.05
9.70
11.58
12.27
13.26
10.78
16.57
10.76
8.89
14.27
2.4
10.2
10.6
10.4
2.9
8.3
3.7
7.8
7.5
7.4
39.6
40.0
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including clerical
–Continued
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ..........................
Billing clerks .......................................................
Telephone operators ..........................................
Mail clerks, except postal service ......................
Dispatchers ........................................................
Production coordinators .....................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .................
Stock and inventory clerks .................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators .....................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ...
Bill and account collectors .................................
General office clerks ..........................................
Bank tellers ........................................................
Data entry keyers ...............................................
Statistical clerks .................................................
Teachers’ aides .................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................
See footnotes at end of table.
7
TABLE 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers,2
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
–Continued
Production testers ..............................................
$12.90
2.9
40.0
$12.90
2.9
40.0
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving .........................
Truck drivers ......................................................
Bus drivers .........................................................
Supervisors, material moving equipment ...........
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators
14.12
13.59
15.57
17.99
13.90
12.4
17.8
4.5
5.3
3.5
36.3
37.1
32.9
43.6
39.6
13.16
11.83
–
17.99
13.92
12.2
15.4
–
5.3
3.5
41.0
41.2
–
43.6
39.8
$18.56
–
–
–
–
17.6
–
–
–
–
23.8
–
–
–
–
10.11
5.0
36.5
–
–
–
8.65
3.7
19.9
18.87
18.79
9.51
9.22
12.65
–
11.13
6.0
10.2
12.8
4.3
5.2
–
5.3
39.3
38.6
35.3
28.4
32.1
–
36.8
18.88
19.50
9.70
10.62
12.84
–
11.36
6.1
8.8
13.6
5.5
6.3
–
7.0
39.6
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.8
–
39.2
–
–
–
7.08
–
6.56
9.53
–
–
–
1.8
–
5.2
10.0
–
–
–
19.8
–
19.4
26.0
10.56
16.11
23.09
26.51
18.83
18.96
18.65
11.99
9.72
8.25
7.51
4.39
3.91
5.44
9.39
12.54
10.36
8.16
7.59
11.60
13.12
10.96
10.61
4.6
4.8
2.6
11.1
4.7
2.8
4.2
6.2
4.1
6.3
8.2
5.2
6.6
10.3
4.0
4.9
4.3
1.6
5.1
5.5
15.1
1.4
3.9
28.4
36.4
42.0
39.6
38.2
41.6
38.6
11.3
33.6
23.7
24.8
22.4
21.0
15.3
26.5
41.5
29.8
27.8
20.7
32.3
30.6
33.0
32.4
12.37
17.34
23.09
26.51
18.83
18.97
18.84
–
10.20
–
9.06
4.84
4.07
–
11.24
12.87
11.21
8.98
9.44
11.92
14.25
11.02
11.73
4.0
4.7
2.6
11.1
4.7
2.8
4.3
–
5.5
–
11.8
11.1
21.3
–
2.1
6.5
4.9
4.0
3.6
6.6
17.3
1.5
4.7
39.3
40.1
42.0
39.6
38.2
42.0
39.7
–
39.9
–
39.4
38.3
38.1
–
40.0
44.8
37.0
39.6
38.1
39.0
39.6
38.8
39.0
7.27
8.95
–
–
–
–
–
11.99
8.76
8.25
5.95
4.01
3.82
5.66
7.30
–
8.45
7.43
6.77
10.51
–
10.74
8.00
3.5
4.2
–
–
–
–
–
6.2
3.1
6.3
3.1
8.0
10.8
10.8
3.9
–
3.6
2.6
3.2
3.0
–
3.9
4.1
18.9
23.6
–
–
–
–
–
11.3
25.6
23.7
18.1
16.6
16.9
13.8
19.2
–
20.7
21.9
17.2
20.3
–
21.0
23.4
19.82
7.93
13.5
5.2
39.2
31.8
21.49
8.45
12.1
7.2
40.0
37.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
Blue collar –Continued
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .......................................................................
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. .................................................
Construction laborers .........................................
Production helpers .............................................
Stock handlers and baggers ..............................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......
Hand packers and packagers ............................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................
Service ..............................................................................
Protective service ..................................................
Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention ......
Supervisors, police and detectives ....................
Supervisors, guards ...........................................
Firefighting .........................................................
Police and detectives, public service .................
Crossing guards .................................................
Guards and police, except public service ..........
Protective service, n.e.c. ....................................
Food service ..........................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................
Waiters and waitresses ......................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .........................
Other food service ...............................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ........
Cooks .................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation .....................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .....................................
Health service ........................................................
Health aides, except nursing .............................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............
Cleaning and building service ................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ............................................................
Maids and housemen ........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
8
TABLE 3. Selected occupations, New England: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and part-time workers,2
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Service –Continued
Cleaning and building service –Continued
Janitors and cleaners .........................................
Personal service ....................................................
Supervisors, personal service ............................
Welfare service aides ........................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..................
Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................
Service, n.e.c. ....................................................
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.83
9.40
13.97
11.10
7.44
9.22
–
3.5
8.6
5.9
6.9
2.7
12.3
–
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, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 Total includes 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 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and January
Part time
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
32.3
21.3
38.4
24.2
32.2
24.8
–
$11.70
11.72
–
12.66
–
11.91
12.15
3.4
12.4
–
.7
–
7.7
7.3
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
39.3
37.2
–
39.6
–
38.1
38.6
$8.27
7.66
–
8.53
–
7.60
–
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
2.9
3.3
–
7.1
–
6.4
–
21.2
16.1
–
14.8
–
20.4
–
2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
4 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all
workers in the civilian economy. For more information, see Technical Note.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the
estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For
more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may
include data for categories not shown separately.
9
TABLE 4. Selected occupations, New England, private industry: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers,2 National
Compensation Survey,3 October 2000
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All ..........................................................................................
All, excluding sales ........................................................
$16.88
17.16
2.4
2.3
35.4
36.0
$17.82
17.85
1.5
1.6
40.3
40.3
$10.88
11.90
8.8
9.5
19.9
20.0
White collar ......................................................................
White collar, excluding sales .....................................
22.39
24.03
8.2
7.3
35.9
37.6
23.76
24.55
7.7
7.6
40.7
40.7
13.24
18.36
8.1
5.0
20.1
20.7
Professional specialty and technical .........................
Professional specialty ................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....................
Aerospace engineers .........................................
Civil engineers ...................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers ....................
Industrial engineers ...........................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ........
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ............................................................
Natural scientists ...................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ...........................
Medical scientists ...............................................
Health related ........................................................
Physicians ..........................................................
Registered nurses ..............................................
Pharmacists .......................................................
Respiratory therapists ........................................
Occupational therapists .....................................
Teachers, college and university ...........................
Art, drama, and music teachers .........................
Other post-secondary teachers .........................
Teachers, except college and university ................
Secondary school teachers ...............................
Teachers, special education ..............................
Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................
Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................
Librarians ...........................................................
Social scientists and urban planners .....................
Psychologists .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ...............
Social workers ...................................................
Lawyers and judges ...............................................
Lawyers .............................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. .............................................
Designers ...........................................................
Editors and reporters .........................................
Public relations specialists .................................
Professional, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ...................................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians .......................................................
Radiological technicians ....................................
Licensed practical nurses ..................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ......
Electrical and electronic technicians ..................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. ..........................
Drafters ..............................................................
Computer programmers .....................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ..............................
24.69
26.39
–
36.37
25.87
35.71
27.37
33.30
31.74
32.27
3.0
4.3
–
6.5
5.5
3.9
5.3
4.5
3.7
3.9
36.2
36.3
–
40.0
41.5
40.1
40.0
40.0
39.9
40.0
24.81
26.45
–
36.37
25.87
35.71
27.37
33.30
31.75
32.28
3.2
4.5
–
6.5
5.5
3.9
5.3
4.5
3.7
3.9
40.2
40.4
–
40.0
41.5
40.1
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.1
23.68
25.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.9
5.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.3
19.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.20
33.64
34.88
29.97
25.46
43.08
24.30
31.18
20.58
22.35
44.34
36.50
40.66
16.86
28.73
16.73
–
26.10
26.65
28.63
25.91
16.15
16.07
37.95
37.95
9.1
10.8
25.3
17.0
3.8
13.5
1.6
3.6
3.3
7.4
4.6
7.9
6.1
14.8
6.4
20.5
–
9.4
9.3
10.6
17.9
4.1
3.9
4.6
4.6
39.1
38.0
38.6
36.0
30.3
40.6
27.9
36.4
39.3
34.6
30.9
35.7
28.6
37.9
35.5
39.8
–
31.4
35.6
31.7
26.5
35.8
35.7
45.9
45.9
24.20
33.47
34.88
29.30
25.52
41.34
24.34
30.33
20.58
–
44.76
36.43
41.32
16.82
29.22
16.73
–
26.77
26.77
–
–
15.86
15.73
37.95
37.95
9.1
10.9
25.3
17.5
5.2
15.8
2.0
4.2
3.4
–
4.5
8.2
5.8
15.0
6.4
20.5
–
9.8
9.8
–
–
4.3
4.1
4.6
4.6
39.1
39.4
38.6
39.6
39.5
44.1
38.8
39.9
39.6
–
36.9
38.4
35.7
38.9
36.6
39.8
–
37.1
37.1
–
–
37.7
37.8
45.9
45.9
–
–
–
–
25.35
–
24.25
–
–
–
40.60
–
–
18.88
–
–
16.51
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.2
–
4.4
–
–
–
13.7
–
–
16.9
–
–
22.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.4
–
20.3
–
–
–
12.6
–
–
16.8
–
–
14.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.29
25.31
23.64
27.94
31.81
19.06
9.8
9.9
18.5
13.8
10.8
2.8
37.5
39.6
39.6
38.0
39.9
36.0
23.39
25.39
23.64
–
31.81
19.38
10.2
10.1
18.5
–
10.8
3.4
38.7
39.8
39.6
–
39.9
39.5
–
–
–
–
–
16.60
–
–
–
–
–
3.7
–
–
–
–
–
21.4
16.98
22.14
16.48
15.07
19.06
23.16
19.05
27.00
18.32
6.1
3.6
2.1
2.9
4.3
6.0
6.8
7.2
9.7
34.7
27.4
29.2
35.7
39.8
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.8
17.24
23.45
16.83
15.06
19.06
23.16
19.05
27.00
18.32
6.7
4.9
2.9
3.2
4.3
6.0
6.8
7.2
9.7
39.0
38.9
38.7
39.6
39.8
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.8
15.06
19.12
16.10
15.14
–
–
–
–
–
9.1
2.4
2.4
9.4
–
–
–
–
–
19.2
16.3
22.8
19.7
–
–
–
–
–
33.13
36.57
27.48
7.2
4.0
8.3
42.3
43.2
40.3
33.20
36.62
27.58
7.1
3.9
8.4
42.5
43.4
40.5
20.91
–
–
10.4
–
–
23.1
–
–
39.89
8.1
41.3
39.89
8.1
41.3
–
–
–
Executive, administrative, and managerial ...............
Executives, administrators, and managers ............
Financial managers ...........................................
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ...........................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
10
TABLE 4. Selected occupations, New England, private industry: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers,2 National
Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$30.35
10.0
38.4
$30.61
10.2
40.0
–
–
–
23.14
21.65
46.35
21.97
19.91
26.56
20.74
26.11
11.0
17.0
9.0
3.2
4.7
11.2
9.3
5.7
46.3
39.4
44.2
39.5
37.7
39.9
40.1
39.5
23.14
21.65
46.35
21.95
19.87
26.56
20.74
26.11
11.0
17.0
9.0
3.3
4.8
11.2
9.3
5.7
46.3
39.4
44.2
39.8
38.2
39.9
40.1
39.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.06
6.3
40.5
24.06
6.3
40.5
–
–
–
27.93
22.23
22.72
9.5
9.8
7.0
41.9
39.8
40.0
27.93
22.23
22.50
9.5
9.8
7.0
41.9
39.8
40.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Sales .............................................................................
Supervisors, sales .............................................
Insurance sales ..................................................
Advertising and related sales .............................
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale ..................................................
Sales workers, other commodities .....................
Sales counter clerks ..........................................
Cashiers .............................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. ..........................................
13.42
20.36
20.92
32.40
6.6
13.3
10.5
7.6
28.9
41.5
38.9
42.0
17.35
20.38
20.92
32.40
7.7
13.3
10.5
7.6
40.9
41.6
38.9
42.0
$6.94
–
–
–
3.1
–
–
–
19.4
–
–
–
26.99
9.93
10.57
7.18
19.07
10.1
13.6
5.3
3.0
19.1
40.9
25.5
28.5
21.3
39.6
26.99
14.32
–
8.06
19.15
10.1
16.0
–
5.3
19.2
40.9
39.1
–
39.3
39.9
–
6.75
–
6.89
–
–
5.3
–
3.3
–
–
20.4
–
18.5
–
Administrative support, including clerical ................
Supervisors, general office ................................
Supervisors, financial records processing .........
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ................................................
Computer operators ...........................................
Secretaries .........................................................
Interviewers .......................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .....
Receptionists .....................................................
Order clerks .......................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping .....................................................
Library clerks .....................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ..........................
Billing clerks .......................................................
Telephone operators ..........................................
Mail clerks, except postal service ......................
Production coordinators .....................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .................
Stock and inventory clerks .................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators .....................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ...
Bill and account collectors .................................
General office clerks ..........................................
Bank tellers ........................................................
Data entry keyers ...............................................
14.07
17.36
21.51
3.4
2.4
5.9
35.3
41.4
39.9
14.28
17.36
21.51
3.6
2.4
5.9
39.3
41.4
39.9
12.70
–
–
4.1
–
–
21.1
–
–
27.81
16.21
15.07
11.27
16.01
10.79
13.68
2.6
8.9
2.3
7.3
1.2
3.9
4.7
38.3
37.3
34.9
32.3
35.9
37.7
38.1
27.81
16.26
15.39
11.45
16.04
10.81
13.82
2.6
8.9
2.4
7.0
4.2
4.0
5.0
38.3
39.0
38.8
37.8
40.0
38.5
39.3
–
–
–
10.79
–
10.42
–
–
–
–
8.4
–
3.7
–
–
–
–
23.4
–
24.5
–
16.93
12.63
11.95
13.26
14.30
11.42
9.26
10.10
18.99
14.04
15.21
9.5
7.7
5.0
4.3
15.9
6.1
7.2
5.4
5.6
5.6
4.7
36.6
36.5
37.5
31.6
36.2
39.2
25.3
36.4
40.0
39.4
39.8
17.32
12.65
12.06
13.30
16.40
11.37
9.79
–
18.99
14.05
15.21
9.3
7.8
5.6
3.4
16.8
6.0
10.0
–
5.6
5.6
4.7
39.6
36.8
39.7
39.6
39.4
40.0
40.0
–
40.0
39.5
39.8
–
–
–
13.06
–
–
8.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.5
–
–
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.2
–
–
16.9
–
–
–
–
18.39
14.17
15.23
12.10
11.26
13.26
7.4
6.9
9.7
4.3
8.1
7.5
38.1
37.6
39.5
30.3
33.9
35.3
18.11
14.07
15.23
12.50
11.96
13.14
8.1
6.8
9.7
5.8
8.6
11.4
38.7
39.1
39.5
38.7
37.7
39.3
–
15.94
–
11.06
–
–
–
13.1
–
4.7
–
–
–
22.4
–
19.4
–
–
White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial
–Continued
Executives, administrators, and managers
–Continued
Administrators, education and related fields ......
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .................................................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................
Management related ..............................................
Accountants and auditors ..................................
Underwriters ......................................................
Other financial officers .......................................
Management analysts ........................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists ........................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ...........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ...............
Management related, n.e.c. ...............................
See footnotes at end of table.
11
TABLE 4. Selected occupations, New England, private industry: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers,2 National
Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Administrative support, including clerical
–Continued
Statistical clerks .................................................
Teachers’ aides .................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................
$13.08
12.59
13.39
6.4
9.9
7.4
30.5
34.5
35.0
–
–
$14.01
–
–
7.5
–
–
39.6
–
–
$9.18
–
–
11.8
–
–
19.6
Blue collar ........................................................................
12.70
7.8
38.1
12.71
8.2
40.1
12.60
22.0
21.3
Precision production, craft, and repair ......................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ..............
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....
Industrial machinery repairers ...........................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. .........................
Supervisors, construction trades, n.e.c. .............
Carpenters .........................................................
Electricians ........................................................
Electrical power installers and repairers ............
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ...............
Supervisors, production .....................................
Machinists ..........................................................
Butchers and meat cutters .................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................
17.12
16.47
18.03
16.41
14.99
20.30
18.19
24.38
25.49
23.70
19.15
19.12
13.08
15.94
6.4
8.9
10.3
3.0
10.3
13.4
5.7
11.0
6.3
4.1
5.1
5.3
15.0
7.4
40.1
40.9
40.2
39.9
39.7
41.5
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
41.5
40.0
38.0
40.0
17.12
16.47
18.03
16.41
14.99
20.30
18.19
24.38
25.49
23.70
19.15
19.12
12.97
15.94
6.4
8.9
10.3
3.0
10.3
13.4
5.7
11.0
6.3
4.1
5.1
5.3
15.3
7.4
40.1
40.9
40.2
39.9
39.7
41.5
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
41.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .....
Lathe and turning machine operators ................
Punching and stamping press operators ...........
Numerical control machine operators ................
Molding and casting machine operators ............
Metal plating machine operators ........................
Heat treating equipment operators ....................
Printing press operators .....................................
Typesetters and compositors .............................
Winding and twisting machine operators ...........
Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine
operators ..........................................................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
Extruding and forming machine operators .........
Mixing and blending machine operators ............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators
Slicing and cutting machine operators ...............
Welders and cutters ...........................................
Assemblers ........................................................
Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners
Production testers ..............................................
11.39
17.60
11.61
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
13.46
11.26
4.3
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
10.2
.0
39.0
40.0
39.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
38.1
39.8
11.48
17.60
11.60
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
–
11.26
4.8
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
–
.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
–
39.8
7.66
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.05
8.60
11.58
12.27
13.26
10.78
16.49
10.41
8.89
14.27
12.90
2.4
8.4
10.6
10.4
2.9
8.3
4.6
7.7
7.5
7.4
2.9
39.6
31.4
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
33.2
40.0
39.9
40.0
11.05
–
11.58
12.27
13.26
10.78
16.49
10.76
8.89
14.27
12.90
2.4
–
10.6
10.4
2.9
8.3
4.6
7.8
7.5
7.4
2.9
39.6
–
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving .........................
Truck drivers ......................................................
Bus drivers .........................................................
Supervisors, material moving equipment ...........
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators
13.97
13.58
14.30
17.99
13.88
13.0
17.9
6.3
5.3
3.5
36.2
37.1
32.0
43.6
39.6
12.92
11.78
–
17.99
13.91
12.6
15.5
–
5.3
3.5
41.0
41.2
–
43.6
39.8
18.64
–
–
–
–
17.7
–
–
–
–
23.8
–
–
–
–
10.03
4.8
36.5
–
–
–
8.65
3.7
19.8
18.87
20.72
9.51
9.22
12.65
–
6.0
9.9
12.8
4.3
5.2
–
39.3
38.0
35.3
28.4
32.1
–
18.88
21.92
9.70
10.62
12.84
–
6.1
7.1
13.6
5.5
6.3
–
39.6
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.8
–
–
–
–
7.08
–
6.56
–
–
–
1.8
–
5.2
–
–
–
19.8
–
19.4
White collar –Continued
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .......................................................................
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. .................................................
Construction laborers .........................................
Production helpers .............................................
Stock handlers and baggers ..............................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......
Hand packers and packagers ............................
See footnotes at end of table.
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TABLE 4. Selected occupations, New England, private industry: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers,2 National
Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Part time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.39
5.3
36.8
$10.48
7.1
39.1
$9.79
11.8
25.7
8.99
9.99
9.50
7.37
4.39
3.91
5.44
9.27
12.49
10.13
8.09
7.43
11.45
13.17
10.57
9.80
5.1
5.9
3.7
8.2
5.2
6.6
10.3
4.1
4.9
4.5
1.6
4.5
6.7
15.7
1.5
3.9
26.9
33.5
33.5
24.6
22.4
21.0
15.3
26.3
41.5
29.2
27.8
20.4
31.7
30.7
32.1
31.5
10.36
10.61
9.90
8.89
4.84
4.07
–
11.14
12.82
10.99
8.98
9.22
11.85
14.32
10.65
10.85
5.3
8.4
5.7
12.1
11.1
21.3
–
2.2
6.5
5.4
4.0
4.0
8.1
17.8
1.9
4.9
39.1
39.9
39.9
39.5
38.3
38.1
–
40.2
44.9
37.1
39.6
38.0
39.0
39.8
38.6
38.7
7.12
8.72
8.75
5.89
4.01
3.82
5.66
7.24
–
8.44
7.22
6.68
10.23
–
10.32
7.92
3.5
3.0
3.2
3.1
8.0
10.8
10.8
4.0
–
3.6
1.8
3.4
1.4
–
2.0
4.0
19.0
25.2
25.6
18.0
16.6
16.9
13.8
19.2
–
20.6
21.6
17.1
20.3
–
21.1
23.7
15.71
7.90
10.31
9.05
10.39
8.61
–
14.1
5.1
4.2
7.6
8.3
11.9
–
37.9
31.7
31.3
21.0
22.1
30.0
–
–
8.40
11.26
11.16
–
10.84
11.25
–
7.3
4.3
15.7
–
5.2
3.8
–
37.3
39.1
37.2
–
40.2
39.2
–
–
8.14
7.60
8.53
–
–
–
–
2.8
3.1
7.1
–
–
–
–
21.5
16.1
14.8
–
–
Blue collar –Continued
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers –Continued
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................
Service ..............................................................................
Protective service ..................................................
Guards and police, except public service ..........
Food service ..........................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................
Waiters and waitresses ......................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .........................
Other food service ...............................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ........
Cooks .................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation .....................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .....................................
Health service ........................................................
Health aides, except nursing .............................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............
Cleaning and building service ................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ............................................................
Maids and housemen ........................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................................
Personal service ....................................................
Welfare service aides ........................................
Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................
Service, n.e.c. ....................................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 Total includes 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 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and January
2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
4 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all
workers in the civilian economy. For more information, see Technical Note.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the
estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For
more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may
include data for categories not shown separately.
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TABLE 5. Selected occupations, New England, State and local government: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and
part-time workers,2 National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Part time
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All ..........................................................................................
All, excluding sales ........................................................
$23.06
23.09
1.6
1.6
35.5
35.5
$23.53
23.55
1.7
1.7
37.4
37.4
$14.57
14.66
8.8
8.8
18.5
18.5
White collar ......................................................................
White collar, excluding sales .....................................
26.10
26.16
2.3
2.3
34.8
34.8
26.51
26.56
2.3
2.3
36.4
36.4
17.50
17.76
9.7
9.7
18.1
17.9
Professional specialty and technical .........................
Professional specialty ................................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...................
Natural scientists ...................................................
Health related ........................................................
Registered nurses ..............................................
Teachers, college and university ...........................
Other post-secondary teachers .........................
Teachers, except college and university ................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten .....................
Elementary school teachers ..............................
Secondary school teachers ...............................
Teachers, special education ..............................
Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................
Substitute teachers ............................................
Vocational and educational counselors .............
Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................
Librarians ...........................................................
Social scientists and urban planners .....................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ...............
Social workers ...................................................
Lawyers and judges ...............................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. .............................................
Technical ...................................................................
Licensed practical nurses ..................................
31.52
32.08
30.73
–
–
26.91
24.65
37.50
37.20
33.56
39.03
35.12
32.44
30.67
37.30
11.54
31.48
29.14
29.14
–
23.27
23.27
33.89
3.1
3.0
3.4
–
–
5.3
4.0
6.6
4.5
3.6
7.4
3.1
6.3
7.7
9.3
14.0
10.2
19.3
19.3
–
5.6
5.6
11.6
34.4
34.4
37.0
–
–
36.5
36.5
35.1
33.0
33.5
33.6
34.2
35.4
34.7
30.8
14.6
34.0
35.9
35.9
–
37.1
37.1
37.1
31.90
32.40
30.73
–
–
26.86
24.61
38.49
–
33.83
39.03
35.12
32.44
30.53
37.64
–
–
29.29
29.29
–
23.27
23.27
–
3.2
3.1
3.4
–
–
6.1
4.2
7.1
–
3.7
7.4
3.1
6.3
7.8
10.9
–
–
19.4
19.4
–
5.6
5.6
–
35.8
35.7
37.0
–
–
38.4
38.3
37.9
–
34.7
33.6
34.2
35.4
34.9
34.4
–
–
36.1
36.1
–
37.1
37.1
–
22.59
23.94
–
–
–
27.24
25.37
22.16
–
24.04
–
–
–
–
–
9.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.3
11.3
–
–
–
4.9
13.0
6.3
–
19.0
–
–
–
–
–
2.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.2
17.6
–
–
–
27.4
20.0
16.4
–
15.1
–
–
–
–
–
10.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.58
16.02
–
12.8
3.3
–
34.9
37.9
–
19.24
16.03
–
13.6
3.7
–
38.3
39.7
–
14.54
–
–
14.9
–
–
22.8
–
Executive, administrative, and managerial ...............
Executives, administrators, and managers ............
Administrators and officials, public
administration ..................................................
Financial managers ...........................................
Administrators, education and related fields ......
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................
Management related ..............................................
Accountants and auditors ..................................
Construction inspectors .....................................
Management related, n.e.c. ...............................
30.00
33.63
5.0
5.6
37.3
37.7
30.09
33.78
5.0
5.6
38.2
38.9
24.28
24.65
3.6
4.5
13.7
13.2
31.95
35.07
35.27
33.16
21.04
20.10
25.65
20.44
10.6
3.2
9.4
6.9
5.4
5.9
9.6
12.2
38.0
38.9
39.0
35.6
36.3
37.7
31.0
36.1
31.95
35.07
35.62
33.16
21.02
20.09
–
20.46
10.6
3.2
9.6
6.9
5.5
5.9
–
12.3
38.4
38.9
40.2
35.6
36.8
37.8
–
36.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Sales .............................................................................
Cashiers .............................................................
14.91
14.70
11.5
15.5
35.2
33.9
16.69
–
10.0
–
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Administrative support, including clerical ................
Secretaries .........................................................
Typists ...............................................................
Library clerks .....................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...
Dispatchers ........................................................
General office clerks ..........................................
Teachers’ aides .................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................
14.18
17.31
14.20
13.66
14.79
16.22
14.81
10.73
17.80
3.0
5.0
1.5
8.5
4.4
6.2
3.5
5.7
4.3
34.1
35.9
34.8
25.9
37.0
36.4
37.4
32.9
35.1
14.37
17.38
14.34
–
14.74
16.38
14.81
10.61
18.59
3.1
5.1
1.7
–
4.8
6.1
3.5
5.8
6.5
36.4
37.7
35.7
–
37.6
39.7
37.5
34.5
36.3
11.62
–
–
11.94
–
–
–
12.43
–
6.4
–
–
6.3
–
–
–
19.4
–
18.2
–
–
18.5
–
–
–
19.6
–
Blue collar ........................................................................
17.79
3.7
39.3
17.96
4.1
39.8
10.85
16.1
25.8
Precision production, craft, and repair ......................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. .........................
Electricians ........................................................
Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................
18.93
17.22
21.47
13.41
5.1
10.2
12.4
9.1
39.9
39.8
40.0
39.9
18.93
17.22
21.47
13.41
5.1
10.2
12.4
9.1
40.0
39.8
40.0
39.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
14
TABLE 5. Selected occupations, New England, State and local government: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for full-time and
part-time workers,2 National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000–Continued
Total
Full time
Hourly earnings
Part time
Hourly earnings
Occupation4
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .....
$17.68
8.4
38.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving .........................
Truck drivers ......................................................
18.27
14.53
3.6
9.6
38.2
36.8
$18.71
–
4.0
–
39.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .......................................................................
Construction laborers .........................................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................
14.32
14.03
14.84
4.1
4.0
8.6
38.9
40.0
37.2
14.66
14.03
15.96
4.4
4.0
8.7
39.9
40.0
39.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Service ..............................................................................
Protective service ..................................................
Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention ......
Supervisors, police and detectives ....................
Firefighting .........................................................
Police and detectives, public service .................
Crossing guards .................................................
Guards and police, except public service ..........
Protective service, n.e.c. ....................................
Food service ..........................................................
Other food service ...............................................
Cooks .................................................................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .....................................
Health service ........................................................
Health aides, except nursing .............................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............
Cleaning and building service ................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................................
Personal service ....................................................
16.81
19.24
23.09
26.51
18.96
18.65
11.99
16.41
8.29
11.56
11.56
12.58
10.00
12.46
12.01
12.49
14.25
12.87
13.68
2.0
2.1
2.6
11.1
2.8
4.2
6.2
8.7
8.1
4.8
4.8
2.7
9.2
3.3
8.3
3.4
7.5
3.8
6.1
36.5
38.0
42.0
39.6
41.6
38.6
11.3
37.6
25.4
30.4
30.4
36.4
25.1
36.0
29.2
36.7
37.4
37.0
25.9
17.36
19.78
23.09
26.51
18.97
18.84
–
–
–
12.58
12.58
12.59
11.45
12.24
–
12.21
14.38
12.95
15.60
1.8
1.8
2.6
11.1
2.8
4.3
–
–
–
2.7
2.7
2.8
9.8
2.5
–
2.7
7.8
4.2
7.0
39.7
40.1
42.0
39.6
42.0
39.7
–
–
–
37.4
37.4
36.5
38.8
39.3
–
39.5
39.7
39.7
37.2
$10.40
9.66
–
–
–
–
11.99
–
8.29
8.99
8.99
–
8.61
14.64
–
15.84
–
–
8.98
7.5
8.6
–
–
–
–
6.2
–
8.1
2.8
2.8
–
2.1
14.2
–
11.0
–
–
8.3
18.7
19.5
–
–
–
–
11.3
–
25.4
20.7
20.7
–
18.7
19.5
–
19.5
–
–
14.9
Blue collar –Continued
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
2 Total includes 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 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and January
2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
4 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all
workers in the civilian economy. For more information, see Technical Note.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the
estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For
more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may
include data for categories not shown separately.
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TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All ..........................................................................................
All, excluding sales ........................................................
$17.54
17.83
1.7
1.7
35.4
36.0
$16.88
17.16
2.4
2.3
35.4
36.0
$23.06
23.09
1.6
1.6
35.5
35.5
White collar ......................................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
13 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
White collar, excluding sales .....................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
13 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
22.92
7.12
8.56
11.16
13.97
14.90
17.55
20.76
24.36
27.45
28.60
30.64
43.23
–
56.74
20.30
24.38
8.07
9.11
12.24
14.23
14.99
17.40
20.86
24.59
27.39
28.80
30.35
43.15
–
56.74
20.15
6.6
3.1
3.7
6.2
4.7
3.3
2.2
3.4
2.1
3.0
2.9
4.6
3.2
–
5.5
11.1
5.8
8.8
6.2
2.7
5.0
2.8
2.2
3.4
2.2
3.0
2.9
4.3
3.3
–
5.5
11.0
35.7
20.3
28.3
30.8
36.0
36.6
37.2
34.7
36.8
39.4
38.3
41.3
38.5
–
40.3
35.3
37.1
30.9
32.0
32.7
37.0
34.6
37.0
34.5
36.6
39.4
38.2
41.3
38.5
–
40.3
35.3
22.39
7.03
8.11
10.90
13.94
14.74
17.33
19.54
23.85
26.02
28.33
30.08
43.64
–
57.71
19.48
24.03
7.73
8.63
12.13
14.22
14.76
17.11
19.59
24.07
25.85
28.55
29.72
43.56
–
57.71
19.27
8.2
2.5
4.5
7.1
5.1
3.4
2.4
2.6
3.7
3.5
2.9
4.5
3.8
–
5.8
11.4
7.3
3.0
8.7
3.3
5.5
2.8
2.3
2.5
3.8
3.5
3.0
4.0
4.0
–
5.8
11.1
35.9
20.2
27.4
30.4
36.1
37.1
37.7
34.6
37.4
40.8
38.0
42.1
38.8
–
39.7
35.6
37.6
32.7
31.9
32.5
37.3
35.0
37.6
34.4
37.1
40.9
37.8
42.1
38.7
–
39.7
35.6
26.10
11.08
10.04
12.94
14.28
16.83
18.83
26.56
27.31
32.57
29.97
33.93
41.24
55.69
–
24.07
26.16
11.16
10.07
12.77
14.30
16.83
18.89
26.59
27.31
32.57
29.97
33.93
41.24
55.69
–
24.07
2.3
6.1
6.0
4.2
2.9
3.8
3.7
8.9
13.4
4.4
7.0
3.0
2.2
7.3
–
10.3
2.3
5.7
6.3
4.1
3.0
3.8
3.6
8.9
13.4
4.4
7.0
3.0
2.2
7.3
–
10.3
34.8
20.7
31.8
33.6
35.0
31.7
34.5
35.0
33.9
35.1
40.0
37.4
37.3
36.0
–
34.1
34.8
20.8
32.0
33.5
35.0
31.7
34.5
35.0
33.9
35.1
40.0
37.4
37.3
36.0
–
34.1
Professional specialty and technical .........................
Professional specialty ................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
13 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Engineers, architects, and surveyors .....................
7 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
13 ...................................................................
Aerospace engineers .........................................
12 ...................................................................
Civil engineers ...................................................
Electrical and electronic engineers ....................
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Industrial engineers ...........................................
9 ...................................................................
Engineers, n.e.c. ................................................
26.17
27.85
–
20.59
23.82
26.07
27.61
28.77
32.90
41.31
51.37
59.26
20.85
–
22.69
31.26
33.28
37.71
47.60
36.37
39.58
28.89
35.71
29.27
36.09
27.37
26.28
32.45
2.7
3.7
–
7.8
5.8
4.0
4.1
4.0
2.6
2.8
3.7
9.0
11.3
–
2.9
5.8
2.4
4.0
4.6
6.5
8.0
5.8
3.9
7.0
3.9
5.3
6.2
3.5
35.8
35.8
–
33.2
30.3
34.5
38.3
37.3
38.0
36.4
36.0
38.0
33.0
–
40.7
40.1
38.7
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
38.7
40.1
40.6
39.6
40.0
40.0
39.2
24.69
26.39
–
19.48
21.42
25.33
24.97
28.42
32.76
41.02
50.39
59.19
18.99
–
22.69
31.26
34.73
37.71
47.60
36.37
39.58
25.87
35.71
29.27
36.09
27.37
26.28
33.30
3.0
4.3
–
10.1
4.0
3.6
2.0
3.2
2.5
3.4
3.1
9.2
12.0
–
2.9
5.8
3.3
4.0
4.6
6.5
8.0
5.5
3.9
7.0
3.9
5.3
6.2
4.5
36.2
36.3
–
34.5
28.9
34.6
40.1
36.9
38.7
36.8
36.0
37.9
32.8
–
40.7
40.1
40.0
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
41.5
40.1
40.6
39.6
40.0
40.0
40.0
31.52
32.08
10.18
24.06
29.56
28.10
33.32
30.68
33.27
42.75
–
–
26.56
30.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.1
3.0
8.9
6.6
9.9
14.8
4.7
12.6
4.0
.9
–
–
12.8
3.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
34.4
34.4
12.3
29.9
34.4
34.4
35.0
39.8
36.4
34.7
–
–
33.3
37.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
16
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$28.85
32.91
31.43
20.96
27.44
32.98
33.01
37.03
31.99
20.87
27.49
32.98
32.94
37.12
5.8
5.3
3.7
8.3
2.9
6.8
2.8
4.4
3.9
8.7
3.1
6.8
2.9
4.9
40.0
38.3
39.8
40.0
39.7
41.4
41.1
37.1
39.9
40.0
40.2
41.4
41.1
36.7
$28.85
–
31.74
20.96
28.04
32.98
33.01
37.03
32.27
20.87
28.09
32.98
32.94
37.12
5.8
–
3.7
8.3
2.7
6.8
2.8
4.4
3.9
8.7
2.5
6.8
2.9
4.9
40.0
–
39.9
40.0
40.0
41.4
41.1
37.1
40.0
40.0
40.6
41.4
41.1
36.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.93
24.97
33.14
49.48
34.66
29.60
25.58
21.11
22.03
26.04
25.31
25.65
29.62
73.38
41.71
73.38
24.33
21.52
23.59
26.25
24.09
28.26
28.72
31.18
20.58
25.09
8.6
6.0
9.4
7.1
24.6
16.4
3.5
7.0
5.0
2.4
2.4
6.4
6.5
6.9
13.3
6.9
1.5
7.8
2.8
2.6
2.2
3.8
4.7
3.6
3.3
12.3
39.0
38.3
37.6
36.6
38.7
36.2
30.7
34.3
26.6
32.5
32.2
40.7
37.8
35.5
41.1
35.5
28.3
34.1
22.4
32.2
31.9
35.7
36.8
36.4
39.3
34.5
24.20
25.53
33.64
49.48
34.88
29.97
25.46
21.33
21.90
26.01
24.86
26.69
29.26
–
43.08
–
24.30
21.79
23.47
26.25
24.07
28.26
29.25
31.18
20.58
22.35
9.1
5.9
10.8
7.1
25.3
17.0
3.8
7.2
5.1
2.7
2.4
5.1
7.3
–
13.5
–
1.6
8.0
3.1
2.7
2.4
3.8
5.1
3.6
3.3
7.4
39.1
38.5
38.0
36.6
38.6
36.0
30.3
34.0
26.4
32.5
31.6
39.4
38.4
–
40.6
–
27.9
33.6
22.1
32.1
31.3
35.7
36.2
36.4
39.3
34.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
$26.91
–
26.50
26.39
27.57
–
–
–
–
–
24.65
–
26.49
26.28
24.22
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.3
–
.7
4.5
7.4
–
–
–
–
–
4.0
–
.8
8.7
4.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.5
–
36.1
33.4
35.7
–
–
–
–
–
36.5
–
35.8
32.9
36.7
–
–
–
–
–
31.34
22.75
41.13
33.55
34.02
36.72
52.69
56.12
53.12
30.82
53.32
36.65
46.73
48.70
44.02
8.3
12.0
4.4
5.0
9.0
4.7
3.5
5.9
10.3
10.2
19.3
6.2
4.9
11.6
21.9
29.1
34.0
32.7
26.5
28.5
34.5
33.6
35.8
30.7
25.9
36.0
36.0
26.0
36.5
37.4
31.34
–
44.34
38.77
30.26
37.30
56.53
53.70
–
–
–
36.50
–
–
–
8.3
–
4.6
11.6
12.3
5.6
3.7
5.5
–
–
–
7.9
–
–
–
29.1
–
30.9
14.2
22.8
33.9
31.9
35.9
–
–
–
35.7
–
–
–
–
–
37.50
32.34
–
36.06
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.6
1.9
–
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.1
33.1
–
35.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Engineers, architects, and surveyors –Continued
Engineers, n.e.c. –Continued
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Mathematical and computer scientists ...................
7 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Computer systems analysts and scientists ........
7 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Operations and systems researchers and
analysts ............................................................
9 ...................................................................
Natural scientists ...................................................
13 ...................................................................
Chemists, except biochemists ...........................
Medical scientists ...............................................
Health related ........................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Physicians ..........................................................
14 ...................................................................
Registered nurses ..............................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Pharmacists .......................................................
Respiratory therapists ........................................
Occupational therapists .....................................
Physical therapists
9 ...................................................................
Therapists, n.e.c. ...............................................
Teachers, college and university ...........................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
13 ...................................................................
Engineering teachers .........................................
Health specialties teachers ................................
Business, commerce, and marketing teachers ..
Art, drama, and music teachers .........................
10 ...................................................................
Education teachers ............................................
English teachers ................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
17
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$32.79
38.46
34.87
36.31
27.79
–
20.78
32.00
34.03
33.72
25.96
21.05
38.77
34.49
34.29
34.58
32.04
31.52
36.59
31.89
29.17
30.22
–
37.47
11.54
9.11
31.06
28.10
34.94
28.31
34.94
28.52
27.17
19.08
16.98
18.96
23.19
19.26
17.06
18.52
23.19
35.10
34.28
7.5
4.1
4.5
8.3
11.0
–
17.4
10.0
9.9
4.9
16.9
22.3
9.6
2.8
9.4
3.4
5.4
10.8
6.4
7.1
8.2
10.0
–
17.2
14.0
2.6
9.3
13.7
12.9
13.8
12.9
7.2
16.4
3.6
5.4
16.0
8.9
3.6
5.9
18.7
8.9
7.9
7.9
37.5
31.2
19.4
34.1
34.9
–
26.8
34.1
33.7
35.0
36.0
36.3
34.3
34.5
33.6
35.0
35.4
34.1
33.0
36.2
35.2
35.0
–
33.3
14.6
10.9
34.3
34.2
35.7
35.8
35.7
32.8
26.3
36.3
36.8
37.9
34.1
36.3
36.6
37.6
34.1
39.3
39.4
–
$40.66
34.87
–
16.86
–
13.66
28.52
25.02
28.59
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.73
–
–
29.52
16.73
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.10
–
26.65
–
28.63
25.91
16.15
14.64
16.76
19.63
16.07
14.44
15.35
19.63
37.95
37.95
–
6.1
4.5
–
14.8
–
7.6
7.2
8.0
7.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.4
–
–
9.5
20.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.4
–
9.3
–
10.6
17.9
4.1
6.7
15.0
7.6
3.9
6.7
15.2
7.6
4.6
4.6
–
28.6
19.4
–
37.9
–
32.1
36.4
30.9
36.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.5
–
–
36.1
39.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.4
–
35.6
–
31.7
26.5
35.8
36.6
40.0
31.7
35.7
36.1
40.0
31.7
45.9
45.9
–
$37.20
–
–
33.56
9.20
–
32.20
35.07
34.40
–
39.03
–
35.12
34.38
35.18
32.44
31.59
–
32.13
30.67
31.08
37.30
37.81
11.54
9.11
31.48
29.14
39.01
29.14
39.01
–
–
23.27
20.61
–
–
23.27
20.61
–
–
33.89
–
–
4.5
–
–
3.6
3.3
–
10.4
9.3
5.7
–
7.4
–
3.1
9.8
4.0
6.3
11.1
–
8.2
7.7
9.5
9.3
17.7
14.0
2.6
10.2
19.3
8.3
19.3
8.3
–
–
5.6
8.0
–
–
5.6
8.0
–
–
11.6
–
–
33.0
–
–
33.5
11.1
–
34.0
34.0
34.8
–
33.6
–
34.2
33.6
34.7
35.4
34.2
–
36.2
34.7
34.8
30.8
34.8
14.6
10.9
34.0
35.9
34.5
35.9
34.5
–
–
37.1
37.2
–
–
37.1
37.2
–
–
37.1
–
22.93
25.36
21.50
39.32
13.97
25.31
23.64
26.23
31.81
19.04
14.56
17.23
17.63
18.96
8.9
12.6
4.7
4.9
8.7
9.9
18.5
14.3
10.8
2.7
3.8
3.3
2.8
3.6
36.6
38.1
38.3
38.0
32.1
39.6
39.6
37.7
39.9
36.0
35.2
32.0
37.2
38.2
23.29
26.63
21.50
39.32
–
25.31
23.64
27.94
31.81
19.06
14.51
17.14
17.63
19.13
9.8
12.0
4.7
4.9
–
9.9
18.5
13.8
10.8
2.8
4.1
3.5
2.8
4.1
37.5
38.3
38.4
38.0
–
39.6
39.6
38.0
39.9
36.0
35.1
31.6
37.2
38.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.58
15.41
18.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.8
1.7
4.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
34.9
36.3
37.5
–
–
White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Professional specialty –Continued
Teachers, college and university –Continued
Trade and industrial teachers ............................
Other post-secondary teachers .........................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Teachers, except college and university ................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Prekindergarten and kindergarten .....................
9 ...................................................................
Elementary school teachers ..............................
7 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Secondary school teachers ...............................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Teachers, special education ..............................
9 ...................................................................
Teachers, n.e.c. .................................................
9 ...................................................................
Substitute teachers ............................................
5 ...................................................................
Vocational and educational counselors .............
Librarians, archivists, and curators ........................
9 ...................................................................
Librarians ...........................................................
9 ...................................................................
Social scientists and urban planners .....................
Psychologists .....................................................
Social, recreation, and religious workers ...............
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Social workers ...................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Lawyers and judges ...............................................
Lawyers .............................................................
Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and
professionals, n.e.c. .............................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Designers ...........................................................
Editors and reporters .........................................
Public relations specialists .................................
Professional, n.e.c. ............................................
Technical ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
18
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$21.20
23.92
37.28
18.53
5.5
2.9
19.3
.3
37.9
39.4
36.2
32.3
$21.25
23.95
41.93
–
5.7
2.9
24.6
–
39.0
39.4
35.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.92
13.10
18.62
22.14
21.30
16.44
16.04
16.96
17.54
15.24
12.53
16.96
18.27
19.06
19.13
18.76
24.82
23.09
24.33
22.70
19.05
19.92
27.00
18.32
5.7
4.6
11.3
3.6
6.0
1.9
2.2
3.4
7.5
3.2
2.5
4.5
2.0
4.3
2.7
4.2
6.1
5.7
5.9
2.2
6.8
8.8
7.2
9.7
34.6
35.7
33.7
27.4
27.0
29.8
33.9
28.8
34.2
34.8
35.1
36.3
36.6
39.8
40.0
40.0
38.4
39.9
40.0
39.6
39.9
40.0
39.0
39.8
16.98
–
18.62
22.14
21.30
16.48
16.13
16.92
17.57
15.07
12.53
16.31
18.27
19.06
19.13
18.76
24.82
23.16
24.49
–
19.05
19.92
27.00
18.32
6.1
–
11.3
3.6
6.0
2.1
2.5
3.8
7.9
2.9
2.5
3.1
2.0
4.3
2.7
4.2
6.1
6.0
6.0
–
6.8
8.8
7.2
9.7
34.7
–
33.7
27.4
27.0
29.2
33.2
28.0
33.9
35.7
35.1
36.0
36.6
39.8
40.0
40.0
38.4
39.9
40.0
–
39.9
40.0
39.0
39.8
–
–
–
–
–
$16.02
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.83
15.77
16.11
18.11
23.66
27.21
27.99
–
44.60
54.24
25.39
36.31
18.49
26.06
28.83
28.82
–
45.65
54.26
25.90
6.9
5.6
4.4
4.2
7.2
5.6
4.2
–
5.1
5.6
17.7
4.0
7.3
9.3
5.0
4.4
–
5.6
5.7
20.3
41.7
38.1
39.5
37.4
39.4
41.9
39.8
–
40.3
42.9
43.1
42.6
36.9
40.6
42.2
40.1
–
40.6
42.9
43.5
33.13
14.76
15.56
17.76
23.70
27.40
27.58
–
45.59
55.99
–
36.57
18.37
26.23
29.10
28.62
–
47.09
56.02
–
7.2
3.2
6.2
4.5
7.6
5.8
5.3
–
6.0
6.0
–
4.0
9.1
9.1
5.0
6.3
–
6.6
6.0
–
42.3
38.3
42.6
37.6
39.7
42.4
39.7
–
40.5
42.0
–
43.2
37.0
40.7
42.8
40.1
–
40.9
42.0
–
30.00
–
–
20.42
22.96
24.48
29.21
35.80
40.10
–
27.67
33.63
19.05
–
24.44
29.21
35.99
40.10
–
28.69
5.0
–
–
10.1
3.8
4.2
3.9
6.4
3.0
–
8.1
5.6
19.1
–
3.2
4.1
6.6
3.0
–
7.3
37.3
–
–
35.8
34.4
35.9
40.1
39.3
39.5
–
32.3
37.7
36.3
–
34.4
40.1
39.3
39.5
–
32.0
31.95
25.33
28.20
19.13
25.55
30.71
37.02
10.6
3.3
7.6
12.6
2.9
4.2
5.5
38.0
36.8
40.1
38.8
39.0
41.8
42.2
–
–
27.48
19.13
25.55
29.89
37.81
–
–
8.3
12.6
2.9
4.2
9.6
–
–
40.3
38.8
39.0
42.4
44.0
31.95
25.33
35.07
–
–
–
–
10.6
3.3
3.2
–
–
–
–
38.0
36.8
38.9
–
–
–
–
White collar –Continued
Professional specialty and technical –Continued
Technical –Continued
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and
technicians .......................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Radiological technicians ....................................
6 ...................................................................
Licensed practical nurses ..................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ......
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Electrical and electronic technicians ..................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Engineering technicians, n.e.c. ..........................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Drafters ..............................................................
5 ...................................................................
Computer programmers .....................................
Technical and related, n.e.c. ..............................
Executive, administrative, and managerial ...............
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Executives, administrators, and managers ............
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Administrators and officials, public
administration ..................................................
9 ...................................................................
Financial managers ...........................................
7 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
19
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$39.89
33.35
22.13
31.61
32.86
43.89
8.1
7.8
3.7
17.2
9.6
7.7
41.3
38.7
32.5
39.3
42.2
39.0
$39.89
30.35
21.89
–
–
40.29
8.1
10.0
5.6
–
–
12.6
41.3
38.4
33.9
–
–
41.4
–
$35.27
–
–
37.21
–
–
9.4
–
–
13.6
–
–
39.0
–
–
42.4
–
34.82
3.5
39.8
35.01
4.5
39.8
–
–
–
23.14
21.57
46.06
27.79
28.03
31.96
34.58
51.06
56.34
21.87
15.85
15.88
17.86
21.93
23.50
25.93
28.78
37.59
20.73
19.93
18.27
22.29
26.56
20.74
24.71
26.08
23.68
11.0
16.7
9.1
8.1
4.7
7.7
4.4
9.5
10.1
3.2
5.7
5.4
4.6
3.0
2.6
6.6
3.3
5.7
12.3
4.2
5.0
5.5
11.2
9.3
3.8
5.3
6.7
46.3
39.4
43.9
40.8
49.7
40.4
39.1
41.2
41.4
39.2
38.0
38.0
37.7
38.5
41.2
39.1
41.1
38.2
39.9
37.7
37.0
38.7
39.9
40.1
37.3
39.4
39.6
23.14
21.65
46.35
27.79
28.05
32.14
33.39
51.06
56.21
21.97
14.83
14.71
17.41
21.78
23.41
25.78
28.74
37.59
21.80
19.91
18.31
22.12
26.56
20.74
24.71
26.11
23.56
11.0
17.0
9.0
8.1
4.7
7.8
6.6
9.5
10.7
3.2
3.2
9.4
4.5
3.2
2.7
6.9
3.4
5.7
13.0
4.7
5.0
5.7
11.2
9.3
3.8
5.7
7.4
46.3
39.4
44.2
40.8
49.9
40.4
41.4
41.2
41.5
39.5
38.3
41.2
38.0
39.0
41.5
39.1
41.2
38.2
40.3
37.7
37.0
38.8
39.9
40.1
37.3
39.5
40.0
–
–
33.16
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.04
–
–
22.02
23.89
24.56
–
–
–
–
20.10
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.4
–
–
7.6
1.3
9.4
–
–
–
–
5.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.3
–
–
35.3
33.3
38.7
–
–
–
–
37.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.58
17.92
6.8
8.8
40.1
40.0
24.06
17.92
6.3
8.8
40.5
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
27.93
22.23
19.23
9.5
9.8
18.9
41.9
39.8
37.0
27.93
22.23
–
9.5
9.8
–
41.9
39.8
–
–
–
25.65
–
–
9.6
–
–
31.0
21.56
22.32
14.51
17.40
19.48
26.19
28.04
3.7
7.6
10.9
6.4
4.4
5.0
6.4
40.2
39.2
36.7
37.8
39.4
40.5
39.1
–
22.72
–
–
18.62
25.98
28.04
–
7.0
–
–
4.1
5.7
6.4
–
40.0
–
–
40.0
40.8
39.1
–
20.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.1
–
–
–
–
–
13.43
6.84
7.37
8.83
6.5
2.9
2.6
14.8
28.9
18.4
22.6
27.4
13.42
6.84
7.35
8.72
6.6
2.9
2.7
14.9
28.9
18.4
22.6
27.3
14.91
–
–
–
11.5
–
–
–
35.2
–
–
–
White collar –Continued
Executive, administrative, and managerial
–Continued
Executives, administrators, and managers
–Continued
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public
relations ...........................................................
Administrators, education and related fields ......
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Managers, medicine and health
11 ...................................................................
Managers, food servicing and lodging
establishments .................................................
Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............
Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
14 ...................................................................
Management related ..............................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
Accountants and auditors ..................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Underwriters ......................................................
Other financial officers .......................................
8 ...................................................................
Management analysts ........................................
9 ...................................................................
Personnel, training, and labor relations
specialists ........................................................
7 ...................................................................
Buyers, wholesale and retail trade, except farm
products ...........................................................
Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c. ...............
Construction inspectors .....................................
Inspectors and compliance officers, except
construction .....................................................
Management related, n.e.c. ...............................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
Sales .............................................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
20
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$12.57
14.67
19.06
18.29
21.48
28.88
25.68
39.06
45.79
20.28
14.53
22.27
20.92
32.40
9.0
8.7
8.8
7.9
6.9
5.3
7.4
17.7
8.1
12.9
2.2
16.1
10.5
7.6
31.4
43.0
39.4
40.0
40.2
40.1
40.6
41.3
40.0
41.5
43.6
41.0
38.9
42.0
$12.57
14.67
19.15
18.32
21.48
28.88
25.68
39.06
45.79
20.36
14.53
22.27
20.92
32.40
9.1
8.7
9.0
8.0
6.9
5.3
7.4
17.7
8.1
13.3
2.2
16.1
10.5
7.6
31.4
43.0
39.4
40.0
40.2
40.1
40.6
41.3
40.0
41.5
43.6
41.0
38.9
42.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.99
9.93
7.22
7.71
7.62
12.02
10.57
7.31
6.68
7.02
8.44
19.07
10.1
13.6
5.6
2.7
14.4
8.9
5.3
3.4
3.8
2.1
8.5
19.1
40.9
25.5
18.9
22.1
25.1
31.4
28.5
21.4
18.0
22.6
32.6
39.6
26.99
9.93
7.22
7.71
7.62
12.02
10.57
7.18
6.68
6.98
8.05
19.07
10.1
13.6
5.6
2.7
14.4
8.9
5.3
3.0
3.8
2.1
6.2
19.1
40.9
25.5
18.9
22.1
25.0
31.4
28.5
21.3
18.0
22.5
32.3
39.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$14.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
33.9
–
–
–
–
14.09
8.07
9.10
12.24
14.19
15.32
16.83
19.29
20.86
26.75
17.36
16.86
21.51
2.8
8.8
6.2
2.8
5.7
2.6
2.3
2.4
2.6
7.4
2.4
2.5
5.9
35.1
30.9
32.0
32.7
37.3
33.9
37.5
39.7
40.0
39.7
41.4
43.8
39.9
14.07
7.73
8.62
12.13
14.18
15.12
16.59
18.93
20.86
26.75
17.36
16.86
21.51
3.4
3.0
8.7
3.3
6.3
2.9
2.7
2.6
2.6
7.4
2.4
2.5
5.9
35.3
32.7
32.0
32.5
37.6
33.6
37.9
40.0
40.0
39.7
41.4
43.8
39.9
14.18
11.16
10.05
12.80
14.24
16.60
18.00
21.74
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
5.7
6.3
4.2
3.1
3.5
3.5
2.5
–
–
–
–
–
34.1
20.8
31.9
33.7
34.9
36.1
35.7
37.2
–
–
–
–
–
27.81
16.19
13.19
18.42
15.49
12.04
14.13
15.18
16.75
20.65
13.81
13.23
11.17
16.01
10.77
9.45
10.65
11.70
2.6
8.7
12.3
6.2
2.5
1.6
2.4
2.7
3.6
4.8
2.9
4.8
6.0
1.2
3.7
3.6
5.7
8.3
38.3
37.3
37.6
38.3
35.1
32.4
37.9
37.8
36.8
38.1
33.2
30.8
32.1
35.9
36.9
35.2
38.6
35.5
27.81
16.21
13.19
18.42
15.07
–
14.06
14.53
16.11
20.34
–
–
11.27
16.01
10.79
9.57
10.61
11.70
2.6
8.9
12.3
6.2
2.3
–
2.0
3.0
2.9
5.7
–
–
7.3
1.2
3.9
3.9
6.1
8.3
38.3
37.3
37.6
38.3
34.9
–
39.0
38.2
36.6
37.8
–
–
32.3
35.9
37.7
38.8
39.1
35.5
–
–
–
–
17.31
–
14.56
16.55
18.68
–
14.20
13.83
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.0
–
10.5
4.2
2.7
–
1.5
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.9
–
32.3
36.9
37.5
–
34.8
32.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
White collar –Continued
Sales –Continued
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
11 ...................................................................
12 ...................................................................
Supervisors, sales .............................................
5 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Insurance sales ..................................................
Advertising and related sales .............................
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing,
and wholesale ..................................................
Sales workers, other commodities .....................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Sales counter clerks ..........................................
Cashiers .............................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Sales support, n.e.c. ..........................................
Administrative support, including clerical ................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Supervisors, general office ................................
7 ...................................................................
Supervisors, financial records processing .........
Supervisors, distribution, scheduling, and
adjusting clerks ................................................
Computer operators ...........................................
4 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Secretaries .........................................................
2 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Typists ...............................................................
3 ...................................................................
Interviewers .......................................................
Transportation ticket and reservation agents .....
Receptionists .....................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
21
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$13.68
11.31
13.11
4.7
3.8
2.9
38.1
34.7
37.8
$13.68
11.31
13.11
4.7
3.8
2.9
38.1
34.7
37.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.03
12.98
11.64
13.33
11.98
10.02
10.33
13.78
13.45
9.84
11.32
13.04
14.04
22.34
14.67
14.65
11.42
12.22
9.51
10.10
9.98
13.27
18.99
14.04
13.46
12.71
13.23
15.60
12.45
15.59
8.1
6.6
4.7
12.3
4.9
6.0
4.1
7.4
3.8
6.6
3.3
3.0
12.2
3.3
13.5
7.9
6.1
7.3
6.0
5.4
8.7
2.1
5.6
5.6
8.0
6.0
7.8
4.2
11.0
7.3
36.3
32.0
18.4
27.6
37.0
34.1
36.8
39.7
32.2
30.1
34.7
37.5
21.4
37.6
36.5
39.1
39.2
40.0
22.7
36.4
39.2
37.3
40.0
39.4
39.9
40.0
40.0
39.3
39.4
39.8
16.93
12.63
–
–
11.95
10.02
10.31
13.78
13.26
9.84
11.32
12.96
13.97
–
14.30
–
11.42
12.22
9.26
10.10
–
–
18.99
14.04
13.46
12.71
13.23
15.21
–
–
9.5
7.7
–
–
5.0
6.0
4.1
7.4
4.3
6.6
3.3
4.0
13.0
–
15.9
–
6.1
7.3
7.2
5.4
–
–
5.6
5.6
8.0
6.0
7.8
4.7
–
–
36.6
36.5
–
–
37.5
34.1
36.9
39.7
31.6
30.1
34.7
37.5
21.0
–
36.2
–
39.2
40.0
25.3
36.4
–
–
40.0
39.4
39.9
40.0
40.0
39.8
–
–
–
$13.66
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.79
–
–
13.38
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.22
14.01
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.4
–
–
3.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.2
4.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.0
–
–
37.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.4
30.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.39
16.31
18.75
14.17
10.53
12.11
15.62
17.61
15.23
12.82
9.85
12.26
13.21
15.05
11.26
13.22
9.06
13.32
13.00
10.75
9.26
11.86
11.57
14.15
7.4
9.5
3.6
6.9
4.2
13.5
7.4
7.1
9.7
3.5
8.3
4.1
3.5
3.9
8.1
5.9
5.7
6.6
6.3
5.7
4.7
9.2
2.6
5.6
38.1
36.8
39.5
37.6
38.3
38.7
36.2
40.0
39.5
31.9
30.5
30.2
33.2
34.2
33.9
35.5
38.9
35.2
30.5
32.9
34.5
32.5
31.8
35.0
18.39
16.31
18.75
14.17
10.53
12.11
15.62
17.61
15.23
12.10
9.20
–
12.47
14.27
11.26
13.26
9.06
–
13.08
12.59
–
–
–
13.39
7.4
9.5
3.6
6.9
4.2
13.5
7.4
7.1
9.7
4.3
7.6
–
4.1
3.5
8.1
7.5
5.7
–
6.4
9.9
–
–
–
7.4
38.1
36.8
39.5
37.6
38.3
38.7
36.2
40.0
39.5
30.3
29.4
–
32.0
33.8
33.9
35.3
38.9
–
30.5
34.5
–
–
–
35.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.81
–
13.86
15.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.73
9.25
11.87
11.38
17.80
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.5
–
2.2
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.7
4.7
9.3
2.7
4.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.4
–
37.3
37.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.9
34.5
32.4
31.5
35.1
White collar –Continued
Administrative support, including clerical
–Continued
Order clerks .......................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Personnel clerks, except payroll and
timekeeping .....................................................
Library clerks .....................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Records clerks, n.e.c. ........................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Payroll and timekeeping clerks ..........................
4 ...................................................................
Billing clerks .......................................................
3 ...................................................................
Telephone operators ..........................................
Mail clerks, except postal service ......................
Dispatchers ........................................................
4 ...................................................................
Production coordinators .....................................
Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks .................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
Stock and inventory clerks .................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Insurance adjusters, examiners, and
investigators .....................................................
4 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Investigators and adjusters, except insurance ...
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Bill and account collectors .................................
General office clerks ..........................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
Bank tellers ........................................................
Data entry keyers ...............................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Statistical clerks .................................................
Teachers’ aides .................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Administrative support, n.e.c. ............................
See footnotes at end of table.
22
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Administrative support, including clerical
–Continued
Administrative support, n.e.c. –Continued
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
$13.71
15.94
5.7
5.8
35.6
38.4
$13.92
–
6.8
–
35.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Blue collar ........................................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Not able to be leveled ....................................
12.83
9.15
8.87
–
12.24
17.01
16.75
20.03
21.10
24.95
13.88
7.8
6.6
12.0
–
7.3
3.2
3.2
2.4
8.0
8.8
5.1
38.2
30.6
37.1
–
40.1
38.7
39.8
39.7
40.1
41.0
40.0
12.70
9.12
8.85
–
12.16
16.96
16.62
19.97
21.03
25.35
–
7.8
6.7
12.1
–
7.3
3.4
3.3
2.6
8.1
9.6
–
38.1
30.6
37.1
–
40.2
38.7
39.8
39.7
40.1
41.0
–
$17.79
11.38
11.04
14.30
15.21
18.04
19.12
20.39
–
–
–
3.7
12.0
3.7
6.0
5.7
5.1
8.7
5.3
–
–
–
39.3
31.7
39.0
39.8
39.3
39.5
39.8
39.8
–
–
–
Precision production, craft, and repair ......................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers ..............
Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics ....
7 ...................................................................
Industrial machinery repairers ...........................
7 ...................................................................
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration
mechanics
7 ...................................................................
Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. .........................
7 ...................................................................
Supervisors, construction trades, n.e.c. .............
Carpenters .........................................................
7 ...................................................................
Electricians ........................................................
7 ...................................................................
Electrical power installers and repairers ............
7 ...................................................................
Painters, construction and maintenance ............
Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters ...............
7 ...................................................................
Construction trades, n.e.c. .................................
Supervisors, production .....................................
7 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
Tool and die makers
7 ...................................................................
Machinists ..........................................................
7 ...................................................................
Butchers and meat cutters .................................
7 ...................................................................
Inspectors, testers, and graders ........................
17.22
12.57
10.58
12.13
17.49
16.59
20.36
23.90
24.72
16.70
18.28
22.31
16.41
17.61
6.2
8.5
7.9
2.0
4.7
4.4
2.7
5.8
9.2
9.2
9.9
7.0
3.0
7.6
40.1
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.1
39.9
40.1
40.2
41.0
40.9
40.2
40.0
39.9
39.7
17.12
12.57
10.70
12.27
17.52
16.47
20.26
23.86
25.13
16.47
18.03
22.40
16.41
17.61
6.4
8.5
8.6
2.2
4.9
4.6
3.0
6.0
9.9
8.9
10.3
8.2
3.0
7.6
40.1
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.1
40.0
40.1
40.3
41.1
40.9
40.2
40.0
39.9
39.7
18.93
–
–
–
16.84
20.09
21.08
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.1
–
–
–
6.9
10.1
5.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
39.9
–
–
–
40.0
39.6
39.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.18
15.49
19.66
19.95
18.38
20.60
23.71
19.87
25.62
25.62
15.49
21.71
22.70
13.33
19.15
20.07
21.67
5.7
8.3
7.0
11.7
5.5
6.2
9.8
5.6
5.2
5.2
4.9
5.0
6.0
6.4
5.1
2.5
14.7
40.0
39.7
39.8
41.3
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
41.5
41.5
42.6
–
14.99
–
20.30
18.19
20.67
24.38
18.81
25.49
25.49
–
23.70
24.63
–
19.15
20.07
21.67
–
10.3
–
13.4
5.7
6.6
11.0
3.2
6.3
6.3
–
4.1
2.5
–
5.1
2.5
14.7
–
39.7
–
41.5
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
–
40.0
40.0
–
41.5
41.5
42.6
–
17.22
–
–
–
–
21.47
21.01
–
–
–
–
–
13.41
–
–
–
–
10.2
–
–
–
–
12.4
11.7
–
–
–
–
–
9.1
–
–
–
–
39.8
–
–
–
–
40.0
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
39.9
–
–
–
18.89
19.12
17.50
13.08
19.56
15.93
2.8
5.3
5.9
15.0
3.1
7.3
40.0
40.0
40.0
38.0
34.1
39.9
18.89
19.12
17.50
13.08
19.56
15.94
2.8
5.3
5.9
15.0
3.1
7.4
40.0
40.0
40.0
38.0
34.1
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .....
1 ...................................................................
11.43
8.47
4.4
5.7
39.0
32.0
11.39
8.47
4.3
5.7
39.0
32.1
17.68
–
8.4
–
38.8
–
White collar –Continued
See footnotes at end of table.
23
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.46
12.91
15.20
15.67
17.80
17.60
11.61
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
18.92
13.46
11.26
11.26
3.7
3.4
2.3
2.0
4.6
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
5.7
10.2
.0
.0
39.9
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.6
40.0
39.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.6
38.1
39.8
39.8
$10.46
12.90
15.20
15.67
17.64
17.60
11.61
13.78
12.02
13.06
14.89
16.51
18.92
13.46
11.26
11.26
3.7
3.4
2.3
2.0
5.1
4.5
3.6
8.6
9.2
6.8
9.1
5.0
5.7
10.2
.0
.0
39.9
39.9
39.9
39.0
39.7
40.0
39.5
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.7
39.6
38.1
39.8
39.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.05
8.86
8.62
11.58
12.63
12.27
13.26
10.78
2.4
8.4
11.1
10.6
8.9
10.4
2.9
8.3
39.6
31.9
30.4
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
11.05
8.60
8.62
11.58
12.63
12.27
13.26
10.78
2.4
8.4
11.1
10.6
8.9
10.4
2.9
8.3
39.6
31.4
30.4
38.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.05
13.44
14.73
16.57
10.41
7.67
10.29
11.79
13.99
8.89
7.96
14.27
12.23
12.90
3.5
2.7
4.6
3.7
7.7
6.4
10.2
6.8
7.2
7.5
9.0
7.4
6.5
2.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
33.2
25.6
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
39.6
40.0
13.05
13.44
14.73
16.49
10.41
7.67
10.29
11.79
13.99
8.89
7.96
14.27
12.23
12.90
3.5
2.7
4.6
4.6
7.7
6.4
10.2
6.8
7.2
7.5
9.0
7.4
6.5
2.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
33.2
25.6
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
39.6
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving .........................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Truck drivers ......................................................
3 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Bus drivers .........................................................
Supervisors, material moving equipment ...........
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators
3 ...................................................................
14.12
11.29
16.73
11.09
18.86
19.58
20.15
13.59
17.65
19.95
20.36
15.57
17.99
13.90
13.09
12.4
3.8
15.9
16.3
6.5
6.9
9.6
17.8
16.8
7.1
8.4
4.5
5.3
3.5
8.1
36.3
32.2
35.1
41.1
32.8
40.0
41.6
37.1
34.2
39.7
40.0
32.9
43.6
39.6
39.6
13.97
11.27
16.75
11.01
18.62
20.00
20.15
13.58
17.67
19.95
20.32
14.30
17.99
13.88
13.09
13.0
3.8
15.9
16.3
7.4
7.7
9.6
17.9
16.8
7.1
8.6
6.3
5.3
3.5
8.1
36.2
32.2
35.0
41.2
32.1
40.0
41.6
37.1
34.1
39.7
40.0
32.0
43.6
39.6
39.6
$18.27
–
–
16.63
–
18.42
–
14.53
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.6
–
–
8.8
–
9.0
–
9.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
38.2
–
–
38.0
–
40.0
–
36.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers .......................................................................
10.11
5.0
36.5
10.03
4.8
36.5
14.32
4.1
38.9
Blue collar –Continued
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors
–Continued
2 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Lathe and turning machine operators ................
Punching and stamping press operators ...........
Numerical control machine operators ................
Molding and casting machine operators ............
Metal plating machine operators ........................
Heat treating equipment operators ....................
Printing press operators .....................................
7 ...................................................................
Typesetters and compositors .............................
Winding and twisting machine operators ...........
3 ...................................................................
Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine
operators ..........................................................
Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators
1 ...................................................................
Extruding and forming machine operators .........
3 ...................................................................
Mixing and blending machine operators ............
Painting and paint spraying machine operators
Slicing and cutting machine operators ...............
Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Welders and cutters ...........................................
Assemblers ........................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c. ...................
1 ...................................................................
Production inspectors, checkers and examiners
3 ...................................................................
Production testers ..............................................
See footnotes at end of table.
24
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$9.21
7.89
–
13.09
13.11
21.21
11.4
12.5
–
4.9
8.7
5.2
30.3
36.1
–
37.9
39.2
34.0
$9.15
7.88
–
12.76
12.92
–
11.8
12.5
–
5.4
9.1
–
30.3
36.1
–
37.6
39.1
–
$11.93
–
15.16
15.04
–
–
11.3
–
7.6
8.6
–
–
34.6
–
39.7
39.7
–
–
18.87
18.79
15.31
9.51
9.22
7.88
8.20
9.50
12.20
12.65
9.39
12.39
15.54
6.0
10.2
8.7
12.8
4.3
5.0
6.2
12.7
6.5
5.2
4.5
5.7
7.9
39.3
38.6
40.0
35.3
28.4
23.5
25.4
36.4
39.3
32.1
30.2
30.8
38.2
18.87
20.72
–
9.51
9.22
7.88
8.20
9.50
12.20
12.65
9.39
12.39
15.54
6.0
9.9
–
12.8
4.3
5.0
6.2
12.7
6.5
5.2
4.5
5.7
7.9
39.3
38.0
–
35.3
28.4
23.5
25.4
36.4
39.3
32.1
30.2
30.8
38.2
–
14.03
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
40.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.75
9.36
11.13
8.95
10.73
14.08
12.31
4.7
7.1
5.3
7.5
2.4
6.6
9.5
28.1
39.9
36.8
34.8
35.8
39.9
38.4
7.75
9.36
10.39
8.34
10.73
–
–
4.7
7.1
5.3
4.5
2.4
–
–
28.1
39.9
36.8
34.9
35.8
–
–
–
–
14.84
11.97
–
–
–
–
–
8.6
11.2
–
–
–
–
–
37.2
34.6
–
–
–
10.56
7.74
7.38
9.77
10.90
15.47
17.27
20.36
19.77
25.51
27.56
16.11
8.22
9.04
9.39
13.49
17.49
19.82
21.78
19.95
24.22
27.56
23.09
26.51
18.83
18.96
18.35
19.54
18.65
4.6
2.3
9.4
4.6
4.5
4.3
4.8
2.4
3.9
6.2
15.2
4.8
3.4
5.9
3.5
4.9
3.1
3.3
1.4
5.2
5.7
15.2
2.6
11.1
4.7
2.8
4.3
5.6
4.2
28.4
23.6
25.9
28.7
30.4
39.6
38.5
40.4
41.8
39.7
40.5
36.4
33.7
27.5
31.4
27.9
39.0
40.2
40.2
40.5
39.5
40.5
42.0
39.6
38.2
41.6
41.9
41.7
38.6
8.99
7.46
6.85
9.47
10.39
12.61
14.91
–
19.87
–
–
9.99
–
–
9.26
13.09
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.1
2.5
9.4
4.5
4.4
7.6
7.9
–
3.2
–
–
5.9
–
–
3.1
6.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.9
23.2
25.0
28.1
30.8
40.3
37.2
–
43.5
–
–
33.5
–
–
31.7
29.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.81
11.08
11.39
12.53
13.92
17.54
19.98
21.87
19.69
25.71
27.56
19.24
–
–
10.62
13.95
17.74
19.93
21.83
19.69
24.22
27.56
23.09
26.51
–
18.96
18.35
19.54
18.65
2.0
6.2
2.9
3.6
4.6
2.9
3.7
1.5
5.6
6.4
15.2
2.1
–
–
10.4
6.2
3.0
3.7
1.5
5.6
5.7
15.2
2.6
11.1
–
2.8
4.3
5.6
4.2
36.5
29.2
34.6
36.1
27.9
39.1
40.1
40.2
40.6
39.7
40.5
38.0
–
–
29.3
26.5
39.2
40.2
40.2
40.6
39.5
40.5
42.0
39.6
–
41.6
41.9
41.7
38.6
Blue collar –Continued
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and
laborers –Continued
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and
laborers, n.e.c. .................................................
Construction laborers .........................................
4 ...................................................................
Production helpers .............................................
Stock handlers and baggers ..............................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Hand packers and packagers
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Service ..............................................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
Protective service ..................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
9 ...................................................................
10 ...................................................................
Supervisors, firefighters and fire prevention ......
Supervisors, police and detectives ....................
Supervisors, guards ...........................................
Firefighting .........................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Police and detectives, public service .................
See footnotes at end of table.
25
TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
Service –Continued
Protective service –Continued
Police and detectives, public service
–Continued
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
Crossing guards .................................................
Guards and police, except public service ..........
1 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Protective service, n.e.c. ....................................
Food service ..........................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Bartenders
3 ...................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ......................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants .........................
1 ...................................................................
Other food service ...............................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
7 ...................................................................
8 ...................................................................
Supervisors, food preparation and service ........
7 ...................................................................
Cooks .................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Food counter, fountain, and related ...................
1 ...................................................................
Kitchen workers, food preparation .....................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
Food preparation, n.e.c. .....................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
Health service ........................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Health aides, except nursing .............................
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$17.23
19.62
21.74
11.99
9.72
8.26
9.42
8.25
7.51
6.61
5.61
7.94
9.44
11.94
12.90
19.42
4.39
4.00
4.43
4.71
5.7
5.4
2.4
6.2
4.1
2.9
3.9
6.3
8.2
3.4
7.6
5.4
8.3
3.1
9.5
2.7
5.2
8.5
7.3
18.6
38.4
39.5
39.9
11.3
33.6
35.1
32.4
23.7
24.8
20.0
23.4
27.2
33.2
45.1
45.5
44.4
22.4
20.5
23.0
22.0
–
–
–
–
$9.50
–
9.27
–
7.37
6.55
5.41
7.84
9.14
11.91
12.74
19.42
4.39
4.00
4.43
4.71
–
–
–
–
3.7
–
3.1
–
8.2
3.5
6.4
5.4
8.4
3.1
9.7
2.7
5.2
8.5
7.3
18.6
–
–
–
–
33.5
–
32.4
–
24.6
20.0
23.2
27.0
33.0
45.1
45.6
44.4
22.4
20.5
23.0
22.0
$17.23
19.62
21.74
11.99
16.41
–
–
8.29
11.56
8.75
11.52
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.7
5.4
2.4
6.2
8.7
–
–
8.1
4.8
1.6
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
38.4
39.5
39.9
11.3
37.6
–
–
25.4
30.4
21.2
32.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.25
3.91
3.74
4.07
3.60
5.44
5.37
9.39
7.57
7.55
9.80
9.95
12.27
12.90
19.42
12.54
12.96
10.36
10.34
10.07
11.56
7.51
7.18
8.16
7.06
8.44
7.59
7.89
7.04
9.68
11.60
9.76
10.36
11.13
10.96
11.80
12.22
13.12
11.1
6.6
10.9
9.9
14.9
10.3
14.1
4.0
2.0
6.6
4.8
8.6
2.1
9.5
2.7
4.9
9.7
4.3
12.4
6.9
4.7
3.8
3.4
1.6
2.6
3.0
5.1
3.4
7.4
8.8
5.5
4.1
2.3
2.5
3.4
8.0
7.4
15.1
24.1
21.0
23.1
20.2
21.6
15.3
12.7
26.5
19.9
24.0
31.4
34.0
47.4
45.5
44.4
41.5
45.7
29.8
27.1
30.5
33.6
23.6
23.7
27.8
21.8
29.0
20.7
17.6
23.2
28.8
32.3
29.4
33.7
30.5
28.6
39.0
35.0
30.6
8.25
3.91
3.74
4.07
3.60
5.44
5.37
9.27
7.52
7.16
9.72
9.67
12.24
12.74
19.42
12.49
–
10.13
–
9.98
11.43
7.50
7.18
8.09
7.06
8.18
7.43
7.82
6.79
9.67
11.45
9.95
9.90
10.80
10.72
10.95
11.74
13.17
11.1
6.6
10.9
9.9
14.9
10.3
14.1
4.1
2.1
4.5
4.9
8.5
2.0
9.7
2.7
4.9
–
4.5
–
7.1
5.4
3.8
3.4
1.6
2.6
2.5
4.5
3.7
5.0
9.2
6.7
3.9
3.1
3.2
2.6
8.9
5.3
15.7
24.1
21.0
23.1
20.2
21.6
15.3
12.7
26.3
19.8
23.4
31.3
33.9
47.5
45.6
44.4
41.5
–
29.2
–
30.3
33.5
23.6
23.6
27.8
21.8
29.5
20.4
17.4
22.9
28.4
31.7
28.7
31.9
29.2
29.1
39.1
35.0
30.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.56
8.75
11.52
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.58
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.00
8.77
11.36
–
12.46
–
11.44
12.47
15.16
–
–
12.01
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.8
1.6
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.2
1.6
6.3
–
3.3
–
1.3
4.3
12.0
–
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.4
21.2
32.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
25.1
21.0
30.6
–
36.0
–
38.9
37.1
22.2
–
–
29.2
See footnotes at end of table.
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TABLE 6. Occupations1 and levels,2 New England: Mean hourly earnings3 and weekly hours, private industry and State and local
government, National Compensation Survey,4 October 2000–Continued
Total
Occupations and levels
Service –Continued
Health service –Continued
Health aides, except nursing –Continued
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
Cleaning and building service ................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
Supervisors, cleaning and building service
workers ............................................................
Maids and housemen ........................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
Janitors and cleaners .........................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
3 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
5 ...................................................................
Personal service ....................................................
1 ...................................................................
2 ...................................................................
4 ...................................................................
6 ...................................................................
Supervisors, personal service ............................
Welfare service aides ........................................
2 ...................................................................
Early childhood teachers’ assistants ..................
Child care workers, n.e.c. ..................................
1 ...................................................................
State and local
government
Private industry
Hourly earnings
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Mean
Relative weekly
error5
hours
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.46
9.63
10.55
11.85
10.96
10.41
11.17
11.04
10.61
8.76
10.58
12.56
14.18
14.15
4.1
5.6
3.1
6.3
1.4
2.5
2.7
3.7
3.9
4.2
4.2
6.2
5.1
6.8
32.8
23.0
26.0
38.8
33.0
34.8
30.9
34.0
32.4
28.9
35.6
39.5
35.5
40.1
$10.46
9.60
10.42
11.53
10.57
9.93
10.82
10.70
9.80
8.28
10.05
12.39
14.08
–
4.1
5.6
3.6
6.5
1.5
3.4
3.3
2.5
3.9
3.2
3.9
7.1
8.9
–
32.8
23.2
26.0
38.6
32.1
33.1
29.4
35.6
31.5
27.8
35.5
39.4
39.3
–
–
–
–
–
$12.49
11.43
12.73
15.16
14.25
11.99
12.55
13.88
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.4
1.3
3.8
12.0
7.5
7.1
7.6
9.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
36.7
39.0
39.8
22.2
37.4
38.3
35.8
40.0
–
–
19.82
7.93
7.39
10.37
10.83
9.47
10.60
12.78
13.18
13.08
9.40
7.04
8.53
9.17
12.99
13.97
11.10
10.61
7.44
9.22
10.79
13.5
5.2
4.0
5.5
3.5
3.3
4.4
6.8
2.5
4.5
8.6
9.3
8.2
15.7
2.3
5.9
6.9
6.9
2.7
12.3
15.0
39.2
31.8
31.5
30.1
32.3
27.6
36.3
40.0
34.3
40.1
21.3
17.4
20.6
30.1
34.0
38.4
24.2
21.9
32.2
24.8
13.1
15.71
7.90
7.38
10.33
10.31
8.85
10.02
12.61
12.51
–
9.05
6.80
8.55
8.01
12.99
–
10.39
10.61
–
8.61
–
14.1
5.1
3.8
6.2
4.2
3.3
4.0
7.8
3.2
–
7.6
7.6
8.3
11.1
2.3
–
8.3
6.9
–
11.9
–
37.9
31.7
31.5
29.2
31.3
25.9
36.5
40.0
39.1
–
21.0
17.6
20.5
32.6
34.0
–
22.1
21.9
–
30.0
–
–
–
–
–
12.87
12.04
12.64
13.95
–
–
13.68
10.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.8
7.2
8.0
9.9
–
–
6.1
14.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
37.0
38.3
35.7
40.0
–
–
25.9
15.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all
workers in the civilian economy. For more information, see Technical Note.
2 Each occupation for which 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 rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the
overall level of the occupation. See the Technical Note for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours.
4 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and January
2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the
estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For
more information about RSEs, see Technical Note.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may
include data for categories not shown separately.
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Technical Note
T
Grafton County, NH
Hartford, CT, MSA
Orange County, VT
Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA, MSA
Springfield, MA, MSA
he data in this bulletin are based on the National Compensation Survey (NCS) conducted by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics throughout the year. The surveys are locality-based and cover establishments in private industry and
State and local governments. Bulletins are issued for individual localities when sufficient data meet publication standards. Agriculture, private households, and the Federal
Government are excluded from the scope of the survey.
In the second stage, the sample of establishments was
drawn by first stratifying the sampling frame by ownership
and industry. 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 the establishment’s chance of selection. Weights were applied to each
establishment when the data were tabulated so that the
establishment represents similar units (by industry and
employment size) in the economy that were not selected
for data collection.
The third stage of sample selection was a probability
sample of occupations within a sampled establishment. In
the New England region, data were collected between
March 2000 and January 2002, with an average reference
period of October 2000.
Survey scope. In the New England census division, the
NCS studied 906 establishments representing approximately 4,616,600 workers within the scope of the survey.
Beginning with the 1999 NCS, private sector establishments with one or more workers are included in the survey.
State and local governments with 50 or more workers also
are included. The number of workers represented by the
survey is shown in table A, and the number of establishments is shown in table B. For purposes of this survey, an
establishment is an economic unit that 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 is usually at a
single physical location. For State and local governments,
an establishment is defined as all locations of a government
entity.
Occupational selection and classification. Identification
of the occupations for which wage data were collected was
a four-step process:
Sampling frame. The list of establishments from which the
survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from the State unemployment insurance reports. The
reference month for the public sector is June 1994. Due to
the volatility of industries within the private sector, sampling frames were developed using the most recent month
of reference available at the time the sample was selected.
The reference month for the private sector varied by area.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Sample design and data collection. The sample for this
survey was selected using a three-stage design. The first
stage consisted of the selection of areas. The nationwide
NCS sample consists of 154 metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas that represent the Nation’s 326 metropolitan
statistical areas and the remaining portions of the 50 States.
Metropolitan areas are designated Metropolitan Statistical
Areas (MSA) or Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSA), as defined in 1994 by the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget. Nonmetropolitan areas are
counties that do not fit the metropolitan area definition.
The NCS areas that contribute to the New England
census division are:
Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs
Classification of jobs into occupations based on the
Census of Population system
Characterization of jobs as full-time vs. part-time,
union vs. nonunion, and time vs. incentive
Determination of the level of work of each job
For each occupation, wage data were collected for those
workers who met all the criteria identified in the last three
steps. Special procedures were developed for jobs for
which a correct classification or level could not be
determined.
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.
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, CMSA
Cheshire County, NH
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indicates the precision with which an estimate from a
particular sample approximates the average of estimates
from all possible samples. The relative standard error
(RSE) is the standard error divided by the estimate. Tables
in this bulletin provide RSE data for indicated series.
The relative standard error can be used to calculate a
“confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, suppose the mean hourly earnings for all workers
were $16.23 per hour, with a relative standard error of 1.0
percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the
confidence interval for this estimate is $15.96 to $16.50
($16.23 x 1.645 x 0.010 = $0.2670, round to $0.27);
($16.23 - .27 = $15.96; $16.23 + .27 = $16.50). 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. Although such errors were not specifically measured, efforts were made to minimize nonsampling errors
through the extensive training of field economists who
gathered survey data by personal visit, computer editing of
the data, and detailed data review.
The second step of the process entailed classifying the
selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. The
NCS 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. For cases in which 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.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen workers 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 or 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 or a nonunion job.
The fourth step in the job classification procedure was
to determine the work level of each of the establishment's
selected jobs, using an “occupational leveling” process.
This process, involving discussions between the BLS field
economist and the respondent, ranks and compares all
selected establishment occupations using 10 leveling factors. For more information on occupational leveling and
an example of how to use the criteria for leveling a job, see
appendixes C and D of any published NCS locality bulletin
or visit http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm on the
World Wide Web. The Web site also has a link to the NCS
job descriptions.
Census area divisions. Data are tabulated by census divisions defined as follows: New England—Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and
Rhode Island; Middle Atlantic—New Jersey, New York,
and Pennsylvania; East North Central—Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; West North Central—
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South
Dakota, and Nebraska; South Atlantic—Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; East
South Central—Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and
Tennessee; West South Central—Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, and Texas; Mountain—Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada;
and Pacific—Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, and
Alaska. Some census divisions include CMSAs and MSAs
that cross State lines.
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
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TABLE A. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, by occupational group,2 New England,
National Compensation Survey,3 October 2000
Occupational group
All industries
Private industry
State and local
government
All .............................................................................................
All, excluding sales ...............................................................
4,616,600
4,250,900
4,065,800
3,701,900
550,900
549,000
White collar .........................................................................
White collar, excluding sales ............................................
2,303,700
1,938,000
1,911,300
1,547,400
392,400
390,500
Professional specialty and technical .................................
Professional specialty occupations ...............................
Technical occupations ..................................................
Executive, administrative, and managerial .......................
Sales .................................................................................
Administrative support, including clerical ..........................
851,100
704,100
146,900
467,300
365,700
619,600
621,100
481,700
139,500
417,000
363,900
509,300
230,000
222,500
7,500
50,300
1,800
110,300
Blue collar ...........................................................................
Precision production, craft, and repair ..............................
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ..............
Transportation and material moving .................................
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......
1,567,300
360,100
532,000
223,100
452,100
1,528,300
339,800
528,600
215,700
444,100
38,900
20,200
3,400
7,400
8,000
Service .................................................................................
745,700
626,200
119,500
1 Number of workers represented by the survey are rounded
to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a
description of size and composition of the labor force included in
the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison
with other statistical series to measure employment trends or
levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the
survey.
2 A classification system including about 480 individual
occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy.
For more information, see Technical Note.
3 In this census division, collection was conducted between
March 2000 and January 2002. The average reference period
was October 2000.
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TABLE B. Number of establishments studied by industry group and establishment employment size, New England, National
Compensation Survey,1 October 2000
Number of establishments studied
Industry division
Total
All ......................................................................................................................
Private Industry ............................................................................................
Goods-producing industries .......................................................................
Mining ....................................................................................................
Construction ...........................................................................................
Manufacturing ........................................................................................
Durable goods ...................................................................................
Nondurable goods .............................................................................
Service-producing industries .....................................................................
Transportation and utilities .....................................................................
Wholesale trade .....................................................................................
Retail trade ............................................................................................
Finance, insurance and real estate ........................................................
Services .................................................................................................
State and local government ........................................................................
906
794
215
1
36
178
126
52
579
42
37
138
79
283
112
1 In this census division, collection was conducted between March 2000 and January
2002. The average reference period was October 2000.
2 Estimates include private establishments employing 1 to 99 workers and State and
local government establishments employing 50 to 99 workers.
1 to 99
workers2
100 to
499
workers
500 to
999
workers
1,000 to
2,499
workers
2,500 to
4,999
workers
5,000 or
more
workers
312
298
78
–
25
53
34
19
220
18
20
66
30
86
14
372
321
90
1
8
81
54
27
231
14
13
64
27
113
51
99
77
28
63
55
15
36
24
2
24
19
2
–
3
25
21
4
49
3
1
4
7
34
22
–
–
–
–
15
13
2
40
5
3
3
4
25
8
–
–
2
2
–
2
2
–
22
2
–
1
7
12
12
17
–
–
–
4
13
5
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups
may include data for categories not shown separately.
31