Reno–Sparks, NV
National Compensation Survey
February 2008
_________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Keith Hall, Commissioner
June 2008
Preface
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Contents
Page
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................
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Tables:
1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours for selected worker
and establishment characteristics..................................................................................................
2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers
by work levels...............................................................................................................................
3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers
by work levels...............................................................................................................................
4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers
by work levels...............................................................................................................................
5. Combined work levels for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time
and part-time workers ...................................................................................................................
6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles...................................................................................
7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles ......................................................................
8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles ....................................................
9. Full-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles ....................................................................
10. Part-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles ....................................................................
11. Full-time civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual
earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................
12. Full-time private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual
earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................
13. Full-time State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual
earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................
14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings of private industry establishments
for major occupational groups......................................................................................................
15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual
earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers ....................
16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual
earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers ....................
17. Union and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups ..................
18. Time and incentive workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups ....................
19. Industry sector: Mean hourly earnings for private industry workers
by major occupational group ........................................................................................................
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Appendixes:
A. Technical Note...............................................................................................................................
Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey ................................................
Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response ........................................................................
B. Standard Occupational Classification System................................................................................
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A–1
A–5
A–6
B–1
Introduction
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About the tables
The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive
pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These
earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations,
holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 800 detailed occupations, listed in Appendix B, are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households).
Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise
concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates.
Table 1 presents an overview of all tables in this bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative standard errors are given for all industries, private industry, and
State and local government for selected worker and establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics include
high-level and intermediate occupational aggregation, fulltime or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time
or incentive pay. Establishment characteristics include
goods producing, service providing, and size of establishment.
Table 2 presents mean hourly earnings data by work
level for occupational major groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for full-time and
part-time workers. Table 3 provides work level data for
private industry workers. Table 4 provides similar data for
State and local government workers. Table 5 simplifies the
work levels by combining them into broader groups within
major and detailed occupations, and for full-time and parttime workers.
Tables 6 through 10 present hourly wage percentiles
that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for individual workers within each published occupation. Data are
provided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles
for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time workers, and
part-time workers.
Table 11 presents mean and median hourly, weekly, and
annual earnings, and the associated hours, for major occupational groups and detailed occupations for full-time
workers. Table 12 provides the same type of information
for private industry workers. Table 13 provides similar
data for State and local government workers.
Table 14 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by high-level occupational aggregations in the private sector. Tables 15 and 16 provide
he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for
the Reno–Sparks, NV, Metropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA). Data were collected between December 2007 and
April 2008; the average reference month is February 2008.
Tabulations provide information on earnings of workers in
a variety of occupations and at different work levels. Also
contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a
technical note describing survey procedures, and an appendix with detailed information on occupational classifications.
Most of the earnings estimates in this bulletin are presented as mean hourly earnings. Mean weekly and annual
earnings, and the corresponding hours, also are provided
for full-time employees in specific occupations. Some occupations, such as teachers and fire fighters, typically have
shorter or longer work schedules than do the majority of
full-time workers. The weekly and annual estimates are
useful for comparing the earnings of occupations having
different work schedules.
NCS products
The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides
comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed plan
provisions. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly
measure of the change in employer costs for wages and
benefits, is derived from the NCS. Employer Costs for
Employee Compensation measures employers’ average
hourly costs for wages and benefits. NCS also measures
the incidence and provisions of benefit plans. This bulletin
is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries.
Changes to the publications
The locality wage publications are undergoing a number of
significant changes. Please see the bulletins published between September 2006 and July 2007 for information on
earlier changes.
The areas covered by the publications are currently being updated to the December 2003 definitions of Combined
Statistical Areas, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, as determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This bulletin includes a new State and local government sample that
reflects the new area definition.
In appendix table 2, the total numbers of establishments
in the sampling frame are now benchmarked to the latest
available establishment counts, adjusted for establishments
that are out of scope for NCS.
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high-level occupational aggregation. Table 19 presents
mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions
within the private sector.
Appendix table 1 presents the number of workers represented by the survey, by high-level occupational aggregation and for all industries, private industry, and State and
local government. Appendix table 2 provides the number
of establishments in the sampling frame and the number of
responding and nonresponding establishments.
mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings data
for full-time employees in private establishments with
fewer than 100 workers, and in private establishments with
100 workers or more.
Table 17 presents mean hourly earnings data for union
and nonunion workers in all, private, and State and local
government establishments by high-level occupational aggregation. Table 18 provides hourly earnings data for time
and incentive workers in all and private establishments by
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Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Reno-Sparks,
NV, February 2008
Civilian
workers
Worker and establishment
characteristics
Private industry
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
$18.31
1.9
Management, professional, and related ...........
Management, business, and financial ..........
Professional and related ...............................
Service ..............................................................
Sales and office ................................................
Sales and related ..........................................
Office and administrative support .................
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance ...................................................
Construction and extraction .........................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ............
Production, transportation, and material
moving ............................................................
Production ....................................................
Transportation and material moving .............
30.48
33.20
29.39
11.10
15.58
18.07
14.59
State and local government
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
37.2
$17.17
2.2
6.8
6.0
9.4
4.2
5.3
12.8
3.0
36.1
40.2
34.7
36.2
37.6
37.6
37.6
28.84
31.85
27.44
10.22
15.44
18.07
14.27
20.17
19.57
21.24
1.8
1.2
5.3
40.3
40.1
40.7
14.09
14.02
14.14
4.9
4.1
7.5
Full time ............................................................
Part time ...........................................................
18.79
12.90
Union ................................................................
Nonunion ..........................................................
Time ..................................................................
Incentive ...........................................................
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
37.3
$27.96
3.8
35.6
8.8
5.4
12.9
3.2
5.8
12.8
3.3
36.6
40.4
35.0
36.5
37.6
37.6
37.6
35.21
39.27
34.17
20.96
17.26
–
17.26
4.9
13.5
4.6
6.8
4.8
–
4.8
34.8
39.2
33.8
33.2
37.4
–
37.4
19.94
19.48
20.79
1.8
1.2
5.3
40.3
40.1
40.8
22.67
–
–
8.3
–
–
40.0
–
–
36.3
39.8
34.4
14.05
13.89
14.14
4.9
4.2
7.5
36.3
39.8
34.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
9.2
39.9
20.9
17.58
12.53
2.5
10.3
40.0
21.3
29.18
15.66
5.2
18.7
39.5
17.9
24.47
17.23
3.3
2.4
37.0
37.2
22.42
16.54
4.0
2.6
37.7
37.3
28.14
27.78
4.5
5.6
36.0
35.3
17.93
29.93
1.8
16.8
37.1
39.2
16.71
29.93
2.1
16.8
37.3
39.2
27.96
–
3.8
–
35.6
–
Goods producing ..............................................
Service providing ..............................................
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
19.14
16.66
2.5
3.0
40.0
36.7
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
1-99 workers .....................................................
100-499 workers ...............................................
500 workers or more .........................................
17.32
17.90
19.99
3.9
5.7
3.7
36.9
38.7
36.5
17.19
17.71
16.66
3.9
6.0
6.4
36.8
38.6
37.1
21.19
21.37
30.27
16.8
8.4
3.1
38.1
39.7
34.6
All workers ..........................................................
Worker characteristics4,5
Establishment characteristics
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium
pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is
computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,
weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 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 appendix A.
3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing
industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$18.31
1.9
$18.79
2.2
$12.90
9.2
Management occupations .................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
35.39
40.27
39.65
40.28
8.2
12.4
5.0
9.6
34.27
40.27
39.65
40.28
8.5
12.4
5.0
9.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
30.03
8.3
30.03
8.3
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
31.29
32.73
11.5
8.8
31.29
32.73
11.5
8.8
–
–
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
Counselors .......................................................................
31.12
32.88
13.8
16.8
31.46
33.05
13.8
16.5
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
33.73
46.75
4.1
6.4
35.96
–
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
23.00
26.6
24.23
26.2
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
32.73
18.45
32.91
31.91
32.78
32.48
30.41
5.1
2.5
3.7
1.8
1.0
1.5
5.5
33.11
19.06
32.89
31.23
34.09
32.06
30.03
6.4
5.7
3.8
1.5
5.3
.5
5.7
30.25
–
–
33.44
30.21
33.26
–
11.1
–
–
3.6
11.2
4.0
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Level 4 .............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Level 4 .............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
13.52
10.24
14.06
14.32
13.52
14.15
13.88
14.31
13.52
5.3
3.6
9.2
3.7
7.8
6.1
6.5
5.5
11.4
13.54
–
–
14.48
13.81
–
14.28
–
–
4.9
–
–
3.2
7.6
–
5.2
–
–
13.35
–
–
–
11.81
–
11.81
–
–
11.3
–
–
–
5.4
–
5.4
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Level 7 .............................................................
14.70
24.41
16.4
4.4
14.72
24.41
16.5
4.4
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
9.48
7.43
6.87
9.61
11.64
14.53
6.0
1.4
4.6
7.0
5.6
6.3
10.23
7.40
7.08
10.23
11.57
14.92
8.4
5.9
5.5
6.7
5.6
6.3
7.84
–
6.58
7.80
–
–
6.5
–
4.5
2.6
–
–
15.58
5.3
16.18
3.7
–
–
15.58
11.55
10.46
11.81
11.92
6.55
6.68
6.20
7.38
6.04
6.17
5.3
1.7
10.5
.8
7.4
2.7
8.1
.5
5.1
.2
.4
16.18
12.34
–
11.81
12.11
6.64
6.80
6.25
7.38
6.11
–
3.7
3.2
–
.8
5.7
3.8
10.0
.2
5.1
1.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.85
–
–
–
5.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
–
–
–
3.1
–
6.86
6.99
8.10
6.3
7.8
6.0
6.90
7.03
10.54
6.8
8.5
10.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$8.10
8.72
6.3
7.3
$11.72
–
4.5
–
–
–
–
–
7.91
.5
–
–
–
–
11.81
9.27
10.08
9.27
13.2
1.8
5.7
1.8
11.87
9.28
10.10
9.28
13.9
1.9
6.2
1.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.22
9.40
9.72
9.16
5.7
2.6
8.0
1.8
10.22
9.40
9.76
9.16
5.7
2.6
9.4
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Recreation and fitness workers ........................................
Recreation workers .......................................................
9.69
7.26
8.36
7.18
16.83
18.80
7.04
7.10
7.80
6.87
7.07
1.1
2.0
4.2
3.8
30.1
26.8
2.3
2.0
5.6
1.9
2.1
10.03
7.25
8.03
7.47
16.83
18.80
7.14
7.16
7.82
6.97
7.14
1.3
1.6
.9
9.0
30.1
26.8
2.5
1.2
5.5
1.9
1.4
$7.70
7.31
–
–
–
–
6.35
–
–
6.29
–
8.5
4.2
–
–
–
–
2.6
–
–
1.8
–
8.20
10.77
10.77
2.4
14.8
14.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.54
10.54
–
16.5
16.5
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Retail salespersons ......................................................
18.07
8.94
11.77
14.15
22.94
30.68
26.65
26.65
13.11
8.94
11.67
13.60
10.53
8.82
11.73
10.70
9.16
12.01
9.75
17.35
12.8
.8
3.7
8.3
19.6
7.1
40.8
40.8
11.6
.8
4.3
7.9
3.7
1.4
5.3
5.0
4.2
5.6
12.2
11.1
19.05
8.69
12.14
14.03
23.04
30.68
26.65
26.65
13.64
8.69
12.10
13.43
10.68
–
12.16
10.93
–
12.62
9.75
17.90
13.3
1.0
6.0
8.2
19.5
7.1
40.8
40.8
12.8
1.0
6.8
7.0
4.6
–
8.4
6.8
–
10.0
12.2
10.0
10.17
9.49
10.28
–
–
–
–
–
10.05
9.49
–
–
9.99
–
10.05
9.99
–
10.05
–
10.34
1.1
2.0
.7
–
–
–
–
–
.1
2.0
–
–
1.1
–
6.3
1.1
–
6.3
–
3.2
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
14.59
11.73
13.40
14.87
16.33
18.69
13.14
13.73
15.82
14.66
3.0
8.2
3.9
6.3
5.7
6.0
7.9
6.2
6.4
6.0
14.68
12.17
13.54
14.85
16.42
18.69
12.96
13.88
15.81
–
3.2
8.6
3.7
6.5
6.3
6.0
8.0
7.0
6.4
–
13.38
–
–
15.05
–
–
–
12.83
–
–
5.7
–
–
8.0
–
–
–
10.4
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations
–Continued
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Dishwashers .....................................................................
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee
shop ............................................................................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
Level 2 .............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
5
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$13.92
16.40
15.69
15.52
10.44
13.42
13.84
16.09
14.13
16.77
15.93
23.42
14.70
13.46
16.59
15.35
17.51
11.1
11.3
10.4
12.5
3.5
11.1
3.6
10.3
11.8
12.9
2.7
15.7
6.4
13.3
4.3
4.2
7.8
$13.90
16.38
15.92
–
10.44
13.42
13.84
16.09
14.15
17.01
15.93
23.42
–
13.46
16.50
15.35
17.76
11.2
11.4
10.8
–
3.5
11.1
3.7
10.3
11.9
13.2
2.7
15.7
–
13.3
5.0
4.2
8.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
19.57
23.58
24.84
1.2
1.4
11.7
19.63
23.58
24.84
1.2
1.4
11.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.18
4.9
22.18
4.9
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
21.24
18.40
20.20
25.04
22.03
23.34
5.3
4.0
7.8
8.8
23.0
21.8
21.24
18.40
20.20
25.04
22.03
23.34
5.3
4.0
7.8
8.8
23.0
21.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.16
20.75
6.9
11.2
21.16
20.75
6.9
11.2
–
–
–
–
17.72
4.9
17.72
4.9
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Level 2 .............................................................
14.02
9.37
10.83
12.10
15.62
16.91
11.67
11.47
10.97
4.1
5.1
2.6
15.2
4.4
3.9
.4
6.9
2.8
14.11
–
10.83
12.10
15.62
16.91
–
11.58
–
4.5
–
2.6
15.2
4.4
3.9
–
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Level 3 .............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
14.14
8.91
11.14
13.25
19.49
13.60
16.44
12.71
24.07
23.31
23.63
15.15
12.71
17.52
11.01
9.01
10.99
7.5
6.7
4.9
6.0
7.5
12.6
9.1
7.0
5.3
7.1
9.4
10.2
7.0
10.0
1.3
7.2
1.9
14.57
8.80
11.17
13.28
19.62
–
16.73
12.71
24.07
23.31
23.63
15.15
12.71
17.60
11.03
8.80
10.68
8.6
9.7
4.8
6.1
7.8
–
9.3
7.0
5.3
7.1
9.4
10.2
7.0
10.4
1.1
9.7
2.0
$11.00
9.16
10.97
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.16
4.3
2.6
12.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.4
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Level 4 .............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Level 4 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Medical secretaries .......................................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
6
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Transportation and material moving occupations
–Continued
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$11.63
11.10
9.79
10.98
2.8
2.2
5.2
11.1
$11.71
–
9.78
–
3.7
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and
complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored
to 24 families of closely related jobs. 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 appendix A for more information.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories
not shown separately
7
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$17.17
2.2
$17.58
2.5
$12.53
10.3
Management occupations .................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
33.67
38.57
34.72
8.8
5.7
10.1
31.91
38.57
34.72
8.0
5.7
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
30.03
8.3
30.03
8.3
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
32.86
32.68
12.5
9.6
32.86
32.68
12.5
9.6
–
–
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
19.42
5.6
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
23.14
27.1
24.23
26.2
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
31.13
18.45
32.91
31.65
32.58
32.19
30.41
4.1
2.5
3.7
1.4
.7
1.4
5.5
31.39
19.06
32.89
31.23
34.09
32.06
30.03
5.6
5.7
3.8
1.5
5.3
.5
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Level 4 .............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Level 4 .............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
13.52
10.24
14.06
14.32
13.52
14.15
13.88
14.31
13.52
5.3
3.6
9.2
3.7
7.8
6.1
6.5
5.5
11.4
13.54
–
–
14.48
13.81
–
14.28
–
–
4.9
–
–
3.2
7.6
–
5.2
–
–
13.35
–
–
–
11.81
–
11.81
–
–
11.3
–
–
–
5.4
–
5.4
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Dishwashers .....................................................................
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee
shop ............................................................................
9.38
7.43
6.87
9.61
11.64
14.92
6.2
1.4
4.6
7.0
5.6
6.3
10.23
7.40
7.08
10.23
11.57
14.92
8.4
5.9
5.5
6.7
5.6
6.3
7.33
–
6.58
7.80
–
–
4.5
–
4.5
2.6
–
–
16.18
3.7
16.18
3.7
–
–
16.18
11.55
10.46
11.81
11.92
6.55
6.68
6.20
7.38
6.04
6.17
3.7
1.7
10.5
.8
7.4
2.7
8.1
.5
5.1
.2
.4
16.18
12.34
–
11.81
12.11
6.64
6.80
6.25
7.38
6.11
–
3.7
3.2
–
.8
5.7
3.8
10.0
.2
5.1
1.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.85
–
–
–
5.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
–
–
–
3.1
–
6.86
6.99
8.10
6.3
7.8
6.0
6.90
7.03
10.54
6.8
8.5
10.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.10
8.72
6.3
7.3
11.72
–
4.5
–
–
–
–
–
7.91
.5
–
–
–
–
11.81
9.27
13.2
1.8
11.87
9.28
13.9
1.9
–
–
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
8
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.08
9.27
5.7
1.8
$10.10
9.28
6.2
1.9
–
–
–
–
10.22
9.40
9.72
9.16
5.7
2.6
8.0
1.8
10.22
9.40
9.76
9.16
5.7
2.6
9.4
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
9.68
7.22
8.01
7.18
16.83
18.80
7.04
7.10
7.80
6.87
7.07
1.0
2.2
1.0
3.8
30.1
26.8
2.3
2.0
5.6
1.9
2.1
10.03
7.25
8.03
7.47
16.83
18.80
7.14
7.16
7.82
6.97
7.14
1.3
1.6
.9
9.0
30.1
26.8
2.5
1.2
5.5
1.9
1.4
$6.91
–
–
–
–
–
6.35
–
–
6.29
–
6.5
–
–
–
–
–
2.6
–
–
1.8
–
8.20
2.4
–
–
–
–
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Retail salespersons ......................................................
18.07
8.94
11.77
14.15
22.94
30.68
26.65
26.65
13.11
8.94
11.67
13.60
10.53
8.82
11.73
10.70
9.16
12.01
9.75
17.35
12.8
.8
3.7
8.3
19.6
7.1
40.8
40.8
11.6
.8
4.3
7.9
3.7
1.4
5.3
5.0
4.2
5.6
12.2
11.1
19.05
8.69
12.14
14.03
23.04
30.68
26.65
26.65
13.64
8.69
12.10
13.43
10.68
–
12.16
10.93
–
12.62
9.75
17.90
13.3
1.0
6.0
8.2
19.5
7.1
40.8
40.8
12.8
1.0
6.8
7.0
4.6
–
8.4
6.8
–
10.0
12.2
10.0
10.17
9.49
10.28
–
–
–
–
–
10.05
9.49
–
–
9.99
–
10.05
9.99
–
10.05
–
10.34
1.1
2.0
.7
–
–
–
–
–
.1
2.0
–
–
1.1
–
6.3
1.1
–
6.3
–
3.2
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Customer service representatives ....................................
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Level 4 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Medical secretaries .......................................................
14.27
11.73
13.45
14.64
16.28
17.36
12.31
13.73
15.94
14.66
13.91
16.36
10.44
13.54
13.84
16.09
14.13
16.85
15.93
23.42
14.70
3.3
8.2
4.1
7.0
6.9
6.4
5.0
6.4
6.6
6.0
11.9
9.8
3.5
11.3
3.6
10.3
11.8
13.7
2.7
15.7
6.4
14.41
12.17
13.60
14.68
16.39
17.36
12.36
13.88
15.93
–
13.90
16.72
10.44
13.54
13.84
16.09
14.15
17.13
15.93
23.42
–
3.5
8.6
3.9
7.0
7.9
6.4
5.6
7.3
6.6
–
12.0
9.7
3.5
11.3
3.7
10.3
11.9
14.0
2.7
15.7
–
12.28
–
–
13.88
–
–
–
12.83
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.8
–
–
6.8
–
–
–
10.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations –Continued
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
Level 2 .............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
9
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$13.08
15.42
15.35
16.67
14.6
5.8
4.2
10.7
$13.08
15.55
15.35
16.96
14.6
5.9
4.2
11.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.48
23.58
25.10
1.2
1.4
12.9
19.48
23.58
25.10
1.2
1.4
12.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.67
5.2
21.67
5.2
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
20.79
18.43
19.15
24.47
22.03
23.34
5.3
4.1
5.5
10.6
23.0
21.8
20.79
18.43
19.15
24.47
22.03
23.34
5.3
4.1
5.5
10.6
23.0
21.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.91
20.01
5.7
11.3
20.91
20.01
5.7
11.3
–
–
–
–
17.72
4.9
17.72
4.9
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
13.89
9.37
10.83
12.10
15.62
16.91
11.67
11.47
4.2
5.1
2.6
15.2
4.4
3.9
.4
6.9
13.98
–
10.83
12.10
15.62
16.91
–
11.58
4.5
–
2.6
15.2
4.4
3.9
–
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
See footnotes at end of table.
10
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Production occupations –Continued
Miscellaneous production workers –Continued
Level 2 .............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Level 3 .............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$10.97
2.8
–
–
–
–
14.14
8.91
11.14
13.25
19.49
13.60
16.44
12.71
24.07
23.31
23.63
15.15
12.71
17.52
11.01
9.01
10.99
7.5
6.7
4.9
6.0
7.5
12.6
9.1
7.0
5.3
7.1
9.4
10.2
7.0
10.0
1.3
7.2
1.9
$14.57
8.80
11.17
13.28
19.62
–
16.73
12.71
24.07
23.31
23.63
15.15
12.71
17.60
11.03
8.80
10.68
8.6
9.7
4.8
6.1
7.8
–
9.3
7.0
5.3
7.1
9.4
10.2
7.0
10.4
1.1
9.7
2.0
$11.00
9.16
10.97
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.16
4.3
2.6
12.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.4
11.63
11.10
9.79
10.98
2.8
2.2
5.2
11.1
11.71
–
9.78
–
3.7
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and
complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored
to 24 families of closely related jobs. 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 appendix A for more information.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories
not shown separately
11
Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work
levels3, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$27.96
3.8
$29.18
5.2
$15.66
18.7
Management occupations .................................................
39.27
13.5
39.27
13.5
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
33.88
4.4
36.04
10.0
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Level 7 .............................................................
23.87
24.41
2.9
4.4
23.87
24.41
2.9
4.4
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
9.96
15.0
–
–
9.96
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
17.26
4.8
16.88
7.0
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and
complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored
to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the
15.0
–
occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the
overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories
not shown separately
12
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$18.31
1.9
$18.79
2.2
$12.90
9.2
Management occupations .................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
35.39
21.49
40.43
8.2
6.2
5.6
34.27
–
–
8.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
30.03
25.56
35.33
8.3
15.4
12.2
30.03
–
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Group III ............................................................
Engineers .........................................................................
Group III ............................................................
31.29
34.65
32.73
33.36
11.5
11.3
8.8
8.9
31.29
–
32.73
–
11.5
–
8.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
Group II .............................................................
Counselors .......................................................................
31.12
15.78
32.88
13.8
12.0
16.8
31.46
–
33.05
13.8
–
16.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Group III ............................................................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
33.73
37.35
46.75
4.1
4.5
6.4
35.96
–
–
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
23.00
26.6
24.23
26.2
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
32.73
25.49
38.27
32.78
33.93
30.41
5.1
11.8
4.4
1.0
2.9
5.5
33.11
–
–
34.09
34.22
30.03
6.4
–
–
5.3
5.6
5.7
30.25
–
–
30.21
33.26
–
11.1
–
–
11.2
4.0
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Group I ..............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Group I ..............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
Group I ..............................................................
13.52
13.52
13.52
13.52
13.88
13.88
13.52
13.52
5.3
5.3
7.8
7.8
6.5
6.5
11.4
11.4
13.54
–
13.81
–
14.28
14.28
–
–
4.9
–
7.6
–
5.2
5.2
–
–
13.35
–
11.81
–
11.81
11.81
–
–
11.3
–
5.4
–
5.4
5.4
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Group II .............................................................
14.70
23.21
16.4
2.7
14.72
–
16.5
–
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Group II .............................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
9.48
8.19
15.16
6.0
2.5
6.6
10.23
–
–
8.4
–
–
7.84
–
–
6.5
–
–
15.58
15.73
5.3
6.3
16.18
–
3.7
–
–
–
–
–
15.58
15.73
11.55
10.99
11.92
11.23
6.55
6.55
7.38
7.38
6.04
6.04
5.3
6.3
1.7
6.6
7.4
4.4
2.7
2.7
5.1
5.1
.2
.2
16.18
–
12.34
–
12.11
11.42
6.64
–
7.38
7.38
6.11
6.11
3.7
–
3.2
–
5.7
2.8
3.8
–
5.1
5.1
1.6
1.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.85
–
–
–
5.78
5.78
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.2
–
–
–
3.1
3.1
6.86
6.86
6.3
6.3
6.90
6.90
6.8
6.8
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
13
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$8.10
8.10
6.0
6.0
$10.54
–
10.3
–
–
–
–
–
8.10
8.10
8.72
8.72
6.3
6.3
7.3
7.3
11.72
11.72
–
–
4.5
4.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.91
7.91
.5
.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.81
10.45
10.08
10.00
13.2
7.3
5.7
5.9
11.87
–
10.10
–
13.9
–
6.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.22
10.10
9.72
9.72
5.7
6.2
8.0
8.0
10.22
10.10
9.76
9.76
5.7
6.2
9.4
9.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Group II .............................................................
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Group II .............................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Recreation and fitness workers ........................................
Recreation workers .......................................................
9.69
7.42
18.41
16.83
18.56
18.80
18.97
7.04
7.04
6.87
6.87
1.1
1.4
13.4
30.1
14.2
26.8
13.5
2.3
2.3
1.9
1.9
10.03
–
–
16.83
–
18.80
18.97
7.14
–
6.97
6.97
1.3
–
–
30.1
–
26.8
13.5
2.5
–
1.9
1.9
$7.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.35
–
6.29
6.29
8.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.6
–
1.8
1.8
8.20
8.20
10.77
10.77
2.4
2.4
14.8
14.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.54
10.54
–
–
16.5
16.5
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Group II .............................................................
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Group I ..............................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
18.07
11.15
24.47
26.65
19.17
26.65
19.17
13.11
10.90
20.55
10.53
10.57
10.70
10.77
9.75
9.75
17.35
12.52
20.55
12.8
3.2
14.3
40.8
18.7
40.8
18.7
11.6
3.3
12.4
3.7
4.0
5.0
5.7
12.2
12.2
11.1
.1
12.4
19.05
–
–
26.65
–
26.65
19.17
13.64
–
–
10.68
–
10.93
11.09
9.75
9.75
17.90
13.13
20.81
13.3
–
–
40.8
–
40.8
18.7
12.8
–
–
4.6
–
6.8
8.4
12.2
12.2
10.0
.6
11.4
10.17
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.05
–
–
9.99
–
9.99
9.99
–
–
10.34
10.24
–
1.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
.1
–
–
1.1
–
1.1
1.1
–
–
3.2
2.5
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
14.59
13.95
18.28
13.73
14.19
3.0
3.4
6.6
6.2
8.8
14.68
–
–
13.88
–
3.2
–
–
7.0
–
13.38
–
–
12.83
–
5.7
–
–
10.4
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations
–Continued
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Dishwashers .....................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee
shop ............................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
Group I ..............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
14
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$15.19
13.92
16.40
15.69
14.87
10.44
10.27
13.42
13.68
13.84
14.13
12.82
16.77
15.22
23.42
14.70
14.70
13.46
15.77
16.59
16.53
18.23
4.4
11.1
11.3
10.4
11.7
3.5
1.2
11.1
12.1
3.6
11.8
5.6
12.9
4.2
15.7
6.4
6.4
13.3
6.0
4.3
5.0
7.4
–
$13.90
16.38
15.92
15.03
10.44
10.27
13.42
13.68
13.84
14.15
–
17.01
–
23.42
–
–
13.46
15.77
16.50
16.65
–
–
11.2
11.4
10.8
12.1
3.5
1.2
11.1
12.1
3.7
11.9
–
13.2
–
15.7
–
–
13.3
6.0
5.0
5.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.57
14.42
23.48
1.2
2.8
1.4
19.63
–
–
1.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.18
22.18
4.9
4.9
22.18
22.18
4.9
4.9
–
–
–
–
21.24
14.89
21.33
22.03
23.34
5.3
6.8
6.3
23.0
21.8
21.24
–
–
22.03
23.34
5.3
–
–
23.0
21.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.16
22.61
20.75
22.25
6.9
6.6
11.2
9.6
21.16
–
20.75
22.25
6.9
–
11.2
9.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.72
4.9
17.72
4.9
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Group I ..............................................................
14.02
11.87
18.54
11.67
11.47
11.47
4.1
1.8
2.9
.4
6.9
6.9
14.11
–
–
–
11.58
–
4.5
–
–
–
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Group I ..............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Group I ..............................................................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Group I ..............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Group I ..............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Group I ..............................................................
14.14
12.93
21.41
16.44
16.18
23.31
23.63
15.15
15.15
17.52
14.95
11.01
10.55
7.5
2.9
5.9
9.1
8.7
7.1
9.4
10.2
10.2
10.0
3.1
1.3
1.7
14.57
–
–
16.73
–
23.31
23.63
15.15
15.15
17.60
15.03
11.03
–
8.6
–
–
9.3
–
7.1
9.4
10.2
10.2
10.4
3.2
1.1
–
$11.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
Financial clerks –Continued
Group II .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Group I ..............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Group I ..............................................................
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
Group I ..............................................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Group I ..............................................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Group I ..............................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Group I ..............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Medical secretaries .......................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Group I ..............................................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
Group II .............................................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Group II .............................................................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
15
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Transportation and material moving occupations
–Continued
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Group I ..............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$11.63
11.20
9.79
9.79
2.8
2.2
5.2
5.2
$11.71
11.19
9.78
9.78
3.7
3.3
8.3
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining
levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II
combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines
levels 13-15.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories
not shown separately
16
Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$8.30
$10.75
$15.32
$22.62
$32.89
Management occupations .................................................
22.78
24.64
36.47
44.83
48.91
Business and financial operations occupations .............
18.79
20.48
26.94
39.88
42.03
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
18.54
28.39
28.39
28.39
28.64
30.03
36.22
36.22
44.35
43.24
Community and social services occupations ..................
Counselors .......................................................................
14.10
14.00
23.23
27.32
32.68
34.96
39.26
43.49
45.70
46.78
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
13.72
32.89
23.20
32.89
32.89
51.64
46.78
51.64
51.64
53.32
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
8.91
13.27
19.54
35.34
36.69
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
17.15
27.36
26.25
24.01
28.34
28.04
31.98
33.28
32.00
36.70
36.70
32.00
52.48
43.09
35.25
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
9.75
10.31
10.99
9.75
12.00
12.23
12.79
10.89
14.11
14.11
14.11
14.26
15.53
15.53
15.53
15.00
15.53
15.53
15.53
17.00
Protective service occupations .........................................
9.45
9.75
11.00
20.20
25.09
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Dishwashers .....................................................................
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee
shop ............................................................................
5.85
6.85
8.00
12.18
15.53
12.61
13.95
16.39
16.39
17.46
12.61
7.00
10.00
5.74
6.33
5.36
13.95
10.77
10.80
5.85
6.33
5.85
16.39
12.00
11.50
6.33
7.00
5.85
16.39
12.91
13.00
6.55
8.10
6.15
17.46
14.21
14.50
8.45
8.96
6.70
5.85
6.65
5.85
7.00
6.49
7.50
7.99
8.00
8.87
10.75
6.55
7.55
7.00
7.90
7.50
8.25
8.00
10.00
11.05
10.85
6.99
7.00
8.32
8.32
8.50
7.97
7.75
8.96
8.77
9.60
9.36
12.88
11.20
19.50
12.88
7.73
7.75
8.77
8.35
9.36
9.23
11.35
11.20
14.15
12.88
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Recreation and fitness workers ........................................
Recreation workers .......................................................
5.85
8.93
9.93
5.85
5.85
6.44
10.60
15.49
6.17
5.99
7.64
16.49
17.00
6.90
6.64
9.93
22.94
24.00
7.57
7.47
17.00
27.58
28.33
8.39
7.84
6.50
7.49
7.49
7.67
7.50
7.50
8.00
8.25
8.25
9.00
13.27
13.27
10.25
16.78
16.78
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
8.50
15.00
15.00
7.76
7.16
7.75
9.76
15.00
15.00
9.10
8.54
8.54
12.85
17.50
17.50
10.70
9.82
9.82
18.18
20.50
20.50
14.29
12.23
12.59
32.69
68.38
68.38
18.50
15.50
15.50
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
See footnotes at end of table.
17
Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Sales and related occupations –Continued
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Retail salespersons ......................................................
$6.38
9.38
$6.67
10.45
$10.42
13.40
$11.00
18.82
$12.85
27.15
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Customer service representatives ....................................
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Medical secretaries .......................................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
10.00
10.12
11.10
11.25
8.75
11.08
11.10
8.57
10.50
15.63
12.00
9.97
12.52
11.50
11.10
11.10
12.02
9.50
11.50
12.19
11.20
12.00
15.63
14.50
10.50
13.47
13.82
13.50
13.50
13.86
10.25
11.50
12.53
13.08
15.63
28.50
15.85
13.95
15.32
16.83
16.77
15.86
20.95
11.50
17.00
15.57
16.00
17.00
28.50
16.27
17.00
20.67
20.67
18.00
20.95
20.95
12.00
17.00
18.24
20.35
28.50
28.50
16.27
17.00
22.07
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
10.00
14.00
19.00
24.57
29.90
16.20
18.50
21.43
26.18
28.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
14.00
14.00
13.35
17.91
17.00
18.00
18.79
18.66
18.66
23.75
18.66
25.00
29.32
41.73
41.73
13.35
13.35
18.54
15.86
20.75
21.84
25.22
25.46
27.10
28.53
14.49
15.60
17.91
18.93
21.32
Production occupations ....................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
9.00
10.00
10.00
10.03
10.00
10.03
12.50
11.50
10.41
17.31
12.50
12.47
20.98
12.90
13.50
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
9.00
10.00
16.92
10.57
13.12
7.45
10.29
10.57
20.41
10.57
15.03
9.50
12.40
14.60
21.80
13.00
16.20
10.80
16.20
20.59
28.64
15.28
22.49
12.00
22.49
28.64
28.99
28.47
22.49
15.00
9.02
6.40
10.00
6.65
11.00
10.45
12.50
11.65
16.15
12.35
Occupation2
1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are
calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are
scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours
are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the
same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth
of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;
nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data
for categories not shown separately
18
Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$8.00
$10.45
$14.69
$20.59
$29.85
Management occupations .................................................
22.78
24.64
30.58
38.53
46.88
Business and financial operations occupations .............
18.79
20.48
26.94
39.88
42.03
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
24.52
28.39
28.39
28.39
30.03
30.03
36.22
36.22
44.35
43.24
Community and social services occupations ..................
12.97
14.10
19.69
23.23
25.00
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
8.91
13.27
19.54
35.34
36.69
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
15.84
27.00
26.25
23.40
28.34
28.04
29.65
33.23
32.00
35.73
36.92
32.00
43.09
43.09
35.25
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
9.75
10.31
10.99
9.75
12.00
12.23
12.79
10.89
14.11
14.11
14.11
14.26
15.53
15.53
15.53
15.00
15.53
15.53
15.53
17.00
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Dishwashers .....................................................................
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee
shop ............................................................................
5.85
6.75
8.00
11.50
15.75
13.95
15.53
16.39
16.39
18.75
13.95
7.00
10.00
5.74
6.33
5.36
15.53
10.77
10.80
5.85
6.33
5.85
16.39
12.00
11.50
6.33
7.00
5.85
16.39
12.91
13.00
6.55
8.10
6.15
18.75
14.21
14.50
8.45
8.96
6.70
5.85
6.65
5.85
7.00
6.49
7.50
7.99
8.00
8.87
10.75
6.55
7.55
7.00
7.90
7.50
8.25
8.00
10.00
11.05
10.85
6.99
7.00
8.32
8.32
8.50
7.97
7.75
8.96
8.77
9.60
9.36
12.88
11.20
19.50
12.88
7.73
7.75
8.77
8.35
9.36
9.23
11.35
11.20
14.15
12.88
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
5.85
8.93
9.93
5.85
5.85
6.42
10.60
15.49
6.17
5.99
7.51
16.49
17.00
6.90
6.64
9.93
22.94
24.00
7.57
7.47
17.00
27.58
28.33
8.39
7.84
6.50
7.67
8.00
9.00
10.25
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Retail salespersons ......................................................
8.50
15.00
15.00
7.76
7.16
7.75
6.38
9.38
9.76
15.00
15.00
9.10
8.54
8.54
6.67
10.45
12.85
17.50
17.50
10.70
9.82
9.82
10.42
13.40
18.18
20.50
20.50
14.29
12.23
12.59
11.00
18.82
32.69
68.38
68.38
18.50
15.50
15.50
12.85
27.15
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Customer service representatives ....................................
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
10.00
10.12
11.10
12.00
8.75
11.50
11.10
11.10
13.02
9.50
13.50
13.50
13.50
14.42
10.25
16.21
16.77
15.86
20.95
11.50
19.25
18.00
20.95
23.70
12.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
See footnotes at end of table.
19
Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$11.08
11.10
8.57
10.50
15.63
12.00
9.50
12.21
$11.50
12.19
11.20
12.00
15.63
14.50
10.50
12.54
$11.50
12.53
13.08
15.63
28.50
15.85
10.50
15.00
$17.00
15.57
16.00
17.00
28.50
16.27
17.00
17.00
$17.00
18.24
20.35
28.50
28.50
16.27
17.00
22.07
10.00
14.00
18.99
24.57
29.90
16.20
18.50
21.25
26.00
28.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
14.00
14.00
13.35
17.91
17.00
18.00
18.79
18.66
18.66
21.84
18.66
25.00
29.24
41.73
41.73
13.35
13.35
18.54
13.35
20.75
21.84
23.74
23.74
26.45
27.10
14.49
15.60
17.91
18.93
21.32
Production occupations ....................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
9.00
10.00
10.00
10.03
10.00
10.03
12.50
11.50
10.41
17.00
12.50
12.47
20.92
12.90
13.50
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
9.00
10.00
16.92
10.57
13.12
7.45
10.29
10.57
20.41
10.57
15.03
9.50
12.40
14.60
21.80
13.00
16.20
10.80
16.20
20.59
28.64
15.28
22.49
12.00
22.49
28.64
28.99
28.47
22.49
15.00
9.02
6.40
10.00
6.65
11.00
10.45
12.50
11.65
16.15
12.35
Occupation2
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Medical secretaries .......................................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are
calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are
scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours
are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the
same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth
of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;
nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data
for categories not shown separately
20
Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$13.72
$16.68
$25.06
$35.90
$48.91
Management occupations .................................................
16.53
33.81
44.46
46.03
49.89
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
13.72
23.20
33.69
46.78
51.64
Protective service occupations .........................................
16.58
22.34
23.84
26.83
29.35
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
7.49
7.50
8.50
11.50
16.00
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
11.25
13.95
16.68
20.48
22.97
1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are
calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are
scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours
are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the
same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth
of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;
nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data
for categories not shown separately
21
Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$8.87
$11.10
$15.39
$23.00
$32.95
Management occupations .................................................
22.78
24.64
35.52
44.46
46.88
Business and financial operations occupations .............
18.79
20.48
26.94
39.88
42.03
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
18.54
28.39
28.39
28.39
28.64
30.03
36.22
36.22
44.35
43.24
Community and social services occupations ..................
Counselors .......................................................................
14.10
14.10
23.23
28.39
33.76
35.90
39.26
43.49
46.78
46.78
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
13.72
24.96
35.84
46.78
51.64
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
11.45
13.27
23.56
35.34
36.69
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Therapists .........................................................................
17.15
28.34
26.25
24.01
28.34
26.74
30.00
33.44
30.00
36.99
37.88
32.00
52.48
43.09
32.00
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
9.75
10.46
11.74
12.41
12.79
14.11
14.11
14.11
14.11
15.53
15.53
15.53
15.53
15.53
15.53
Protective service occupations .........................................
9.45
9.75
11.00
20.26
25.09
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation
and serving workers ...............................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, restaurant .........................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Bartenders ....................................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender
helpers ....................................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
5.85
6.52
9.10
12.91
16.39
13.95
15.53
16.39
16.39
18.75
13.95
10.30
10.00
5.85
6.33
5.68
15.53
10.80
10.80
5.85
6.33
5.85
16.39
12.25
12.00
6.33
7.00
5.85
16.39
13.00
13.00
7.00
8.10
6.15
18.75
14.50
14.75
8.46
8.96
7.30
5.85
8.00
6.15
8.24
6.49
10.70
8.02
11.05
8.87
14.26
10.70
10.70
11.05
14.26
14.26
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners ...............................
7.88
7.75
9.00
8.77
9.60
9.36
12.88
11.20
19.50
12.88
7.73
7.72
8.77
8.35
9.36
9.23
11.35
11.20
14.15
12.88
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers .........
Gaming supervisors ......................................................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
5.85
8.93
9.93
5.85
5.85
6.64
10.60
15.49
6.25
6.25
7.81
16.49
17.00
7.00
6.77
10.03
22.94
24.00
7.84
7.47
17.03
27.58
28.33
8.61
7.84
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers ...........
Retail salespersons ......................................................
8.50
15.00
15.00
8.00
7.16
7.76
6.38
9.35
9.90
15.00
15.00
9.16
8.54
8.54
6.67
10.59
13.55
17.50
17.50
11.20
10.00
9.82
10.42
13.40
20.00
20.50
20.50
15.50
12.59
12.59
11.00
20.08
32.69
68.38
68.38
20.08
15.50
15.50
12.85
28.04
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Customer service representatives ....................................
10.25
10.22
11.10
11.25
11.74
11.10
11.10
12.00
13.83
13.50
13.50
13.93
17.00
15.86
15.86
20.95
20.84
18.00
20.95
23.70
See footnotes at end of table.
22
Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$8.75
11.08
11.10
8.57
10.50
15.63
9.97
12.54
$9.50
11.50
12.19
11.20
12.33
15.63
10.50
13.47
$10.25
11.50
12.53
13.08
15.63
28.50
13.95
15.32
$11.50
17.00
15.57
16.00
17.00
28.50
17.00
20.67
$12.00
17.00
18.24
20.35
28.50
28.50
17.00
22.07
10.00
14.00
19.00
24.57
29.90
16.20
18.50
21.43
26.18
28.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Automotive service technicians and mechanics ...........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
14.00
14.00
13.35
17.91
17.00
18.00
18.79
18.66
18.66
23.75
18.66
25.00
29.32
41.73
41.73
13.35
13.35
18.54
15.86
20.75
21.84
25.22
25.46
27.10
28.53
14.49
15.60
17.91
18.93
21.32
Production occupations ....................................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
9.00
10.00
10.28
10.03
12.50
10.50
17.48
12.47
20.98
13.50
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
9.21
10.00
16.92
10.57
13.29
7.10
10.50
10.57
20.41
10.57
15.03
9.68
13.00
14.60
21.80
13.00
16.20
11.00
16.38
20.59
28.64
15.28
22.49
12.00
22.49
28.64
28.99
28.47
22.49
15.00
9.50
6.40
10.00
6.40
11.00
10.45
12.50
11.70
16.15
12.35
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ...............................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades
and extraction workers ...............................................
1 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.
2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are
calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are
scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours
are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the
same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth
of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;
nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data
for categories not shown separately
23
Table 10. Part-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Part-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$6.65
$7.50
$9.54
$13.16
$27.36
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
15.27
15.27
28.08
28.08
33.28
33.28
35.73
36.21
36.70
36.70
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
10.25
9.97
9.97
10.99
10.99
10.99
12.07
12.07
12.07
15.33
12.07
12.07
19.50
14.14
14.14
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
6.33
5.34
5.34
6.85
5.36
5.36
7.50
5.85
5.36
8.00
6.34
6.15
11.50
6.50
6.37
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Gaming services workers .................................................
Gaming dealers ............................................................
Recreation and fitness workers ........................................
Recreation workers .......................................................
5.85
5.85
5.85
7.49
7.49
5.99
5.85
5.85
7.49
7.49
7.21
5.99
5.99
8.00
8.00
8.00
6.58
6.46
12.50
12.50
10.71
7.28
7.28
17.00
17.00
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
7.75
7.75
7.70
7.70
9.54
8.65
8.40
8.00
8.00
9.76
9.75
9.55
9.10
9.10
10.06
11.00
10.85
10.80
10.80
10.94
12.91
12.80
13.50
13.50
11.28
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Financial clerks .................................................................
9.29
10.12
10.21
10.12
12.24
11.22
15.00
16.77
17.59
16.77
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
7.25
8.50
9.85
13.47
15.62
1 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.
2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are
calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are
scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours
are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the
same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth
of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly
wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.
Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;
nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not
meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data
for categories not shown separately
24
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$615
39.9
$38,464
$32,001
2,047
1,377
1,390
40.2
69,726
72,016
2,035
26.94
1,232
1,077
41.0
64,044
56,025
2,133
31.29
32.73
28.64
30.03
1,265
1,319
1,146
1,201
40.4
40.3
65,787
68,588
59,575
62,469
2,102
2,096
Community and social services
occupations ....................................
Counselors .........................................
31.46
33.05
33.76
35.90
1,235
1,256
1,271
1,349
39.3
38.0
54,362
51,356
56,927
53,900
1,728
1,554
Education, training, and library
occupations ....................................
35.96
35.84
1,356
1,311
37.7
53,318
49,721
1,483
Arts, design, entertainment, sports,
and media occupations ..................
24.23
23.56
965
901
39.8
49,688
40,643
2,050
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Therapists ...........................................
33.11
34.09
30.03
30.00
33.44
30.00
1,314
1,317
1,201
1,200
1,241
1,200
39.7
38.6
40.0
68,351
68,484
62,472
62,400
64,547
62,400
2,065
2,009
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$18.79
$15.39
$750
Management occupations ...................
34.27
35.52
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
30.03
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Healthcare support occupations .........
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health
aides .............................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and
attendants .................................
13.54
14.11
536
565
39.6
27,859
29,355
2,057
13.81
14.11
543
565
39.4
28,256
29,355
2,046
14.28
14.11
564
565
39.5
29,302
29,355
2,052
Protective service occupations ...........
14.72
11.00
591
432
40.1
30,710
22,464
2,086
10.23
9.10
401
358
39.2
20,841
18,628
2,037
16.18
16.39
664
656
41.1
34,550
34,095
2,135
16.18
12.34
12.11
6.64
7.38
6.11
16.39
12.25
12.00
6.33
7.00
5.85
664
480
464
253
291
238
656
490
460
253
280
234
41.1
38.9
38.3
38.1
39.4
38.9
34,550
24,957
24,138
13,165
15,126
12,355
34,095
25,480
23,924
13,166
14,560
12,168
2,135
2,022
1,993
1,982
2,049
2,023
6.90
10.54
6.49
10.70
257
417
256
428
37.3
39.5
13,375
21,676
13,293
22,258
1,939
2,056
11.72
11.05
461
442
39.3
23,959
22,984
2,045
11.87
10.10
9.60
9.36
474
401
384
374
39.9
39.7
24,334
20,875
19,968
19,458
2,049
2,067
10.22
9.76
9.36
9.23
406
389
374
369
39.7
39.8
21,090
20,216
19,458
19,196
2,063
2,071
10.03
7.81
398
307
39.7
20,549
15,954
2,050
16.83
16.49
678
660
40.2
35,232
34,299
2,093
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food
preparation and serving workers ..
First-line supervisors/managers of
food preparation and serving
workers .....................................
Cooks .................................................
Cooks, restaurant ...........................
Food service, tipped ...........................
Bartenders ......................................
Waiters and waitresses ..................
Dining room and cafeteria
attendants and bartender
helpers ......................................
Fast food and counter workers ...........
Combined food preparation and
serving workers, including fast
food ...........................................
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
Janitors and cleaners, except
maids and housekeeping
cleaners ....................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Personal care and service
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
gaming workers ............................
See footnotes at end of table.
25
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Personal care and service
occupations –Continued
Gaming supervisors ........................
Gaming services workers ...................
Gaming dealers ..............................
Sales and related occupations ............
First-line supervisors/managers, sales
workers .........................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
retail sales workers ...................
Retail sales workers ...........................
Cashiers, all workers ......................
Cashiers .....................................
Gaming change persons and
booth cashiers ......................
Retail salespersons ........................
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
Financial clerks ...................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and
auditing clerks ...........................
Customer service representatives ......
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ...
Receptionists and information clerks ..
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
Stock clerks and order fillers ..............
Secretaries and administrative
assistants ......................................
Executive secretaries and
administrative assistants ..........
Secretaries, except legal, medical,
and executive ...........................
Office clerks, general ..........................
Construction and extraction
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
construction trades and extraction
workers .........................................
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$680
269
260
40.4
39.6
39.5
$39,538
14,688
14,310
$35,360
13,978
13,541
2,103
2,057
2,054
774
542
40.7
40,270
28,186
2,114
17.50
1,124
700
42.2
58,458
36,400
2,194
26.65
13.64
10.68
10.93
17.50
11.20
10.00
9.82
1,124
554
424
433
700
440
393
393
42.2
40.6
39.7
39.6
58,458
28,792
22,037
22,525
36,400
22,880
20,417
20,417
2,194
2,111
2,064
2,060
9.75
17.90
10.42
13.40
390
750
417
536
40.0
41.9
20,273
39,026
21,672
27,864
2,080
2,180
14.68
13.88
13.83
13.50
583
538
553
498
39.7
38.7
30,328
27,959
28,771
25,896
2,067
2,014
13.90
15.92
10.44
13.42
13.84
14.15
13.50
13.93
10.25
11.50
12.53
13.08
555
637
415
535
552
566
540
557
410
460
501
523
39.9
40.0
39.8
39.9
39.9
40.0
28,852
33,111
21,576
27,837
28,702
29,435
28,072
28,974
21,320
23,920
26,062
27,211
2,075
2,080
2,067
2,074
2,073
2,080
17.01
15.63
679
625
39.9
35,319
32,500
2,076
23.42
28.50
931
1,140
39.8
48,418
59,280
2,067
13.46
16.50
13.95
15.32
539
660
558
613
40.0
40.0
28,004
34,328
29,022
31,866
2,080
2,080
19.63
19.00
786
760
40.1
40,115
39,520
2,044
22.18
21.43
899
857
40.5
46,752
44,574
2,107
21.24
22.03
18.79
18.66
864
935
752
840
40.7
42.4
44,917
48,627
39,081
43,655
2,115
2,207
23.34
18.66
1,001
840
42.9
52,032
43,655
2,229
21.16
20.75
846
830
40.0
44,013
43,160
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$18.80
7.14
6.97
$17.00
7.00
6.77
$760
282
275
19.05
13.55
26.65
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
Automotive technicians and repairers
Automotive service technicians and
mechanics ................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance workers
Maintenance and repair workers,
general ......................................
Miscellaneous installation,
maintenance, and repair workers
20.75
21.84
830
874
40.0
43,169
45,427
2,080
17.72
17.91
709
716
40.0
36,864
37,253
2,080
Production occupations ......................
Miscellaneous production workers .....
14.11
11.58
12.50
10.50
565
463
500
420
40.0
40.0
29,370
24,095
26,000
21,840
2,082
2,080
14.57
16.73
13.00
14.60
582
669
520
584
39.9
40.0
30,242
34,794
27,040
30,360
2,076
2,080
23.31
21.80
932
872
40.0
48,482
45,344
2,080
15.15
17.60
13.00
16.20
606
704
520
648
40.0
40.0
31,522
36,598
27,040
33,696
2,080
2,080
Transportation and material moving
occupations ....................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Truck drivers, heavy and
tractor-trailer .............................
Truck drivers, light or delivery
services ....................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ..
See footnotes at end of table.
26
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Transportation and material moving
occupations –Continued
Laborers and material movers, hand ..
Laborers and freight, stock, and
material movers, hand ..............
Packers and packagers, hand ........
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$440
40.0
$22,939
$22,880
2,079
440
418
40.0
40.0
24,356
20,322
22,880
21,736
2,079
2,079
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$11.03
$11.00
$441
11.71
9.78
11.00
10.45
468
391
1 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.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B 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, 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. See
appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries
Annual earnings5
paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of
overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries
paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of
overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
27
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$600
40.0
$36,444
$31,200
2,073
1,297
1,223
40.6
67,421
63,600
2,113
26.94
1,232
1,077
41.0
64,044
56,025
2,133
32.86
32.68
30.03
30.03
1,332
1,318
1,201
1,201
40.5
40.3
69,259
68,532
62,469
62,469
2,108
2,097
Arts, design, entertainment, sports,
and media occupations ..................
24.23
23.56
965
901
39.8
49,688
40,643
2,050
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Therapists ...........................................
31.39
34.09
30.03
29.65
33.44
30.00
1,246
1,317
1,201
1,161
1,241
1,200
39.7
38.6
40.0
64,766
68,484
62,472
60,382
64,547
62,400
2,063
2,009
2,080
13.54
14.11
536
565
39.6
27,859
29,355
2,057
13.81
14.11
543
565
39.4
28,256
29,355
2,046
14.28
14.11
564
565
39.5
29,302
29,355
2,052
10.23
9.10
401
358
39.2
20,841
18,628
2,037
16.18
16.39
664
656
41.1
34,550
34,095
2,135
16.18
12.34
12.11
6.64
7.38
6.11
16.39
12.25
12.00
6.33
7.00
5.85
664
480
464
253
291
238
656
490
460
253
280
234
41.1
38.9
38.3
38.1
39.4
38.9
34,550
24,957
24,138
13,165
15,126
12,355
34,095
25,480
23,924
13,166
14,560
12,168
2,135
2,022
1,993
1,982
2,049
2,023
6.90
10.54
6.49
10.70
257
417
256
428
37.3
39.5
13,375
21,676
13,293
22,258
1,939
2,056
11.72
11.05
461
442
39.3
23,959
22,984
2,045
11.87
10.10
9.60
9.36
474
401
384
374
39.9
39.7
24,334
20,875
19,968
19,458
2,049
2,067
10.22
9.76
9.36
9.23
406
389
374
369
39.7
39.8
21,090
20,216
19,458
19,196
2,063
2,071
10.03
7.81
398
307
39.7
20,549
15,954
2,050
16.83
18.80
7.14
6.97
16.49
17.00
7.00
6.77
678
760
282
275
660
680
269
260
40.2
40.4
39.6
39.5
35,232
39,538
14,688
14,310
34,299
35,360
13,978
13,541
2,093
2,103
2,057
2,054
19.05
13.55
774
542
40.7
40,270
28,186
2,114
26.65
17.50
1,124
700
42.2
58,458
36,400
2,194
26.65
17.50
1,124
700
42.2
58,458
36,400
2,194
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$17.58
$15.03
$703
Management occupations ...................
31.91
29.67
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
30.03
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Healthcare support occupations .........
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health
aides .............................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and
attendants .................................
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food
preparation and serving workers ..
First-line supervisors/managers of
food preparation and serving
workers .....................................
Cooks .................................................
Cooks, restaurant ...........................
Food service, tipped ...........................
Bartenders ......................................
Waiters and waitresses ..................
Dining room and cafeteria
attendants and bartender
helpers ......................................
Fast food and counter workers ...........
Combined food preparation and
serving workers, including fast
food ...........................................
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
Janitors and cleaners, except
maids and housekeeping
cleaners ....................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Personal care and service
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
gaming workers ............................
Gaming supervisors ........................
Gaming services workers ...................
Gaming dealers ..............................
Sales and related occupations ............
First-line supervisors/managers, sales
workers .........................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
retail sales workers ...................
See footnotes at end of table.
28
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Sales and related occupations
–Continued
Retail sales workers ...........................
Cashiers, all workers ......................
Cashiers .....................................
Gaming change persons and
booth cashiers ......................
Retail salespersons ........................
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
Financial clerks ...................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and
auditing clerks ...........................
Customer service representatives ......
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ...
Receptionists and information clerks ..
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
Stock clerks and order fillers ..............
Secretaries and administrative
assistants ......................................
Executive secretaries and
administrative assistants ..........
Secretaries, except legal, medical,
and executive ...........................
Office clerks, general ..........................
Construction and extraction
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
construction trades and extraction
workers .........................................
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$440
393
393
40.6
39.7
39.6
$28,792
22,037
22,525
$22,880
20,417
20,417
2,111
2,064
2,060
390
750
417
536
40.0
41.9
20,273
39,026
21,672
27,864
2,080
2,180
13.67
13.50
572
537
544
498
39.7
38.7
29,765
27,930
28,309
25,896
2,065
2,012
13.90
16.72
10.44
13.54
13.84
14.15
13.50
14.68
10.25
11.50
12.53
13.08
555
669
415
540
552
566
540
587
410
460
501
523
39.9
40.0
39.8
39.9
39.9
40.0
28,846
34,770
21,576
28,083
28,702
29,435
28,072
30,534
21,320
23,920
26,062
27,211
2,075
2,080
2,067
2,074
2,073
2,080
17.13
15.63
684
625
39.9
35,545
32,500
2,076
23.42
28.50
931
1,140
39.8
48,418
59,280
2,067
13.08
15.55
10.50
15.00
523
622
420
600
40.0
40.0
27,199
32,343
21,840
31,200
2,080
2,080
19.48
18.99
781
759
40.1
39,764
38,480
2,041
21.67
21.25
880
850
40.6
45,749
44,200
2,111
20.79
22.03
18.79
18.66
847
935
752
840
40.8
42.4
44,046
48,627
39,081
43,655
2,119
2,207
23.34
18.66
1,001
840
42.9
52,032
43,655
2,229
20.91
20.75
836
830
40.0
43,487
43,160
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$13.64
10.68
10.93
$11.20
10.00
9.82
$554
424
433
9.75
17.90
10.42
13.40
14.41
13.88
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
Automotive technicians and repairers
Automotive service technicians and
mechanics ................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance workers
Maintenance and repair workers,
general ......................................
Miscellaneous installation,
maintenance, and repair workers
20.01
21.84
800
874
40.0
41,620
45,427
2,080
17.72
17.91
709
716
40.0
36,864
37,253
2,080
Production occupations ......................
Miscellaneous production workers .....
13.98
11.58
12.50
10.50
560
463
500
420
40.0
40.0
29,097
24,095
26,000
21,840
2,082
2,080
See footnotes at end of table.
29
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Transportation and material moving
occupations ....................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Truck drivers, heavy and
tractor-trailer .............................
Truck drivers, light or delivery
services ....................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ..
Laborers and material movers, hand ..
Laborers and freight, stock, and
material movers, hand ..............
Packers and packagers, hand ........
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$520
584
39.9
40.0
$30,242
34,794
$27,040
30,360
2,076
2,080
932
872
40.0
48,482
45,344
2,080
13.00
16.20
11.00
606
704
441
520
648
440
40.0
40.0
40.0
31,522
36,598
22,939
27,040
33,696
22,880
2,080
2,080
2,079
11.00
10.45
468
391
440
418
40.0
40.0
24,356
20,322
22,880
21,736
2,079
2,079
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$14.57
16.73
$13.00
14.60
$582
669
23.31
21.80
15.15
17.60
11.03
11.71
9.78
1 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.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B 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, 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. See
appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries
paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of
overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries
paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of
overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
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Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings
and mean weekly and annual hours, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
All workers ................................................
$29.18
$25.98
$1,152
$1,039
39.5
$53,943
$49,862
1,848
Management occupations ...................
39.27
44.46
1,541
1,778
39.2
74,075
77,079
1,886
Education, training, and library
occupations ....................................
36.04
35.84
1,359
1,311
37.7
53,399
49,721
1,482
Protective service occupations ...........
23.87
23.84
1,005
1,003
42.1
52,240
52,181
2,188
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
16.88
16.40
675
656
40.0
35,115
34,118
2,080
1 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.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B 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, 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. See
appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries
paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of
overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries
paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of
the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of
overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
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Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments
for major occupational groups, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Occupational group2
Total
1-99
workers
100-499
workers
500
workers
or more
All workers ....................................................................
$17.17
$17.19
$17.71
$16.66
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
28.84
31.85
27.44
10.22
15.44
18.07
14.27
19.94
19.48
20.79
14.05
13.89
14.14
24.87
28.99
23.10
10.14
17.20
22.63
14.46
18.63
18.53
18.83
13.51
14.13
13.17
30.07
31.62
29.35
13.51
14.21
16.39
13.42
22.04
–
27.64
14.52
15.28
13.99
35.53
36.88
34.80
9.60
13.66
9.82
15.50
23.54
–
22.08
14.55
10.51
–
Relative error3 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
2.2
3.9
6.0
6.4
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
8.8
5.4
12.9
3.2
5.8
12.8
3.3
1.8
1.2
5.3
4.9
4.2
7.5
14.2
7.3
22.9
5.0
10.7
18.2
3.9
2.0
1.9
5.3
8.2
6.9
12.6
5.8
10.6
7.4
9.5
6.3
14.2
6.0
12.8
–
18.5
7.0
6.8
9.1
8.0
8.3
9.6
4.9
9.2
3.9
10.6
4.7
–
12.2
4.5
5.3
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries
paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living
adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for
overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers
and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
See appendix A for more information.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See
appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation
Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that
data did not meet publication criteria.
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Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$615
40.2
$36,907
$32,001
2,080
1,159
1,180
40.3
60,245
61,376
2,094
22.62
1,047
962
42.5
54,423
49,999
2,210
31.62
32.00
1,256
1,280
39.7
65,315
66,560
2,066
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ........................................................
13.38
13.95
533
570
39.8
27,733
29,661
2,072
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ........................................................
11.65
9.60
466
384
40.0
24,228
19,968
2,080
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
Cashiers, all workers ..........................................
Cashiers .........................................................
24.39
17.04
12.44
12.44
15.98
14.15
12.00
12.00
1,008
712
498
498
675
566
480
480
41.3
41.8
40.0
40.0
52,404
37,049
25,872
25,872
35,100
29,432
24,960
24,960
2,148
2,174
2,080
2,080
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ..............
Office clerks, general ..............................................
14.71
14.59
16.12
16.72
13.86
13.50
16.27
15.32
588
584
645
669
554
540
651
613
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
30,597
30,346
33,539
34,779
28,829
28,080
33,842
31,866
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
Construction and extraction occupations .............
18.53
16.25
743
650
40.1
37,552
33,696
2,026
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and
maintenance workers .......................................
18.83
18.79
771
752
40.9
40,085
39,081
2,129
19.37
19.00
775
760
40.0
40,284
39,520
2,080
Production occupations ..........................................
14.13
14.38
570
558
40.3
29,622
29,016
2,096
Transportation and material moving occupations
Laborers and material movers, hand ......................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material
movers, hand ................................................
13.56
10.23
11.50
10.50
541
409
460
420
39.9
40.0
28,112
21,281
23,920
21,840
2,073
2,080
11.37
10.80
455
432
40.0
23,647
22,464
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$17.74
$15.39
$714
Management occupations .......................................
28.76
27.77
Business and financial operations occupations ...
24.63
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ........................................................
1 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.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B 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, 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. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to
employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to
employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not
shown separately
33
Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$553
39.8
$36,030
$28,665
2,066
1,443
1,538
41.0
75,039
79,976
2,133
28.22
1,358
1,129
40.0
70,635
58,698
2,080
29.47
30.85
28.39
28.39
1,179
1,234
1,136
1,136
40.0
40.0
61,308
64,172
59,047
59,047
2,080
2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ........................................................
Registered nurses ..................................................
31.28
33.68
28.34
32.71
1,240
1,292
1,134
1,209
39.7
38.4
64,487
67,202
58,943
62,843
2,062
1,995
Healthcare support occupations .............................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ..........
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ............
13.97
14.13
14.28
14.11
14.11
14.11
553
558
564
565
565
565
39.6
39.5
39.5
28,772
29,029
29,302
29,355
29,355
29,355
2,060
2,054
2,052
Protective service occupations ...............................
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ..
Security guards ...................................................
10.95
10.95
10.95
10.50
10.50
10.50
433
433
433
418
418
418
39.5
39.5
39.5
22,528
22,528
22,528
21,736
21,736
21,736
2,057
2,057
2,057
9.01
12.71
12.41
6.66
7.38
6.11
8.00
12.91
12.25
6.33
7.00
5.85
351
491
472
253
291
237
320
490
473
253
280
234
38.9
38.7
38.0
38.1
39.4
38.8
18,228
25,544
24,526
13,176
15,126
12,321
16,640
25,480
24,570
13,166
14,560
12,168
2,023
2,010
1,977
1,980
2,049
2,018
6.90
6.49
257
256
37.3
13,375
13,293
1,939
11.93
9.89
9.65
9.36
476
392
382
374
39.9
39.7
24,361
20,396
20,072
19,458
2,042
2,063
9.68
9.95
9.36
9.30
383
395
374
369
39.6
39.8
19,936
20,564
19,458
19,178
2,059
2,068
Personal care and service occupations .................
First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers
Gaming supervisors ............................................
Gaming services workers .......................................
Gaming dealers ..................................................
10.09
16.83
18.80
7.14
6.97
7.67
16.49
17.00
7.00
6.77
401
678
760
282
275
306
660
680
269
260
39.8
40.2
40.4
39.6
39.5
20,857
35,232
39,538
14,688
14,310
15,891
34,299
35,360
13,978
13,541
2,068
2,093
2,103
2,057
2,054
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
Cashiers, all workers ..........................................
Cashiers .........................................................
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
Retail salespersons ............................................
14.06
11.80
9.76
9.76
9.75
14.22
11.27
10.65
9.65
9.25
10.42
12.50
563
472
386
384
390
576
450
424
378
360
417
500
40.0
40.0
39.5
39.3
40.0
40.5
29,280
24,518
20,063
19,961
20,273
29,947
23,379
22,027
19,656
18,720
21,672
26,000
2,083
2,079
2,056
2,045
2,080
2,106
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ...
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks .......................
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks .....................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ..............
Office clerks, general ..............................................
14.20
13.62
14.00
10.42
14.55
17.50
13.62
12.98
12.00
11.10
9.50
13.35
15.63
12.54
561
521
558
414
578
698
545
519
444
444
380
534
625
501
39.5
38.2
39.9
39.7
39.7
39.9
40.0
29,175
27,082
29,028
21,505
30,049
36,288
28,333
26,998
23,096
23,096
19,760
27,768
32,500
26,077
2,054
1,989
2,074
2,065
2,065
2,074
2,080
Construction and extraction occupations .............
21.89
22.00
876
880
40.0
45,540
45,760
2,080
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and
maintenance workers .......................................
23.94
20.39
968
804
40.4
50,351
41,808
2,103
22.79
23.26
911
930
40.0
47,394
48,381
2,080
Production occupations ..........................................
13.84
12.47
551
499
39.8
28,651
25,938
2,070
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$17.44
$13.83
$693
Management occupations .......................................
35.18
34.67
Business and financial operations occupations ...
33.96
Architecture and engineering occupations ...........
Engineers ...............................................................
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ........................................................
Cooks .....................................................................
Cooks, restaurant ...............................................
Food service, tipped ...............................................
Bartenders ..........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ......................................
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and
bartender helpers .........................................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ........................................................
Building cleaning workers .......................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners .................................
Maids and housekeeping cleaners .....................
See footnotes at end of table.
34
Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Transportation and material moving occupations
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ...................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ...............
Truck drivers, light or delivery services ..............
Laborers and material movers, hand ......................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material
movers, hand ................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ............................
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$560
816
872
584
441
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
$32,597
42,284
48,482
37,130
24,857
$29,120
42,453
45,344
30,360
22,938
2,079
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,078
441
458
40.0
39.9
24,892
24,709
22,938
23,816
2,078
2,076
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$15.68
20.33
23.31
17.85
11.96
$14.00
20.41
21.80
14.60
11.03
$627
813
932
714
478
11.98
11.90
11.03
11.45
479
475
1 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.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B 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, 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. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to
Annual earnings5
employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to
employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not
shown separately
35
Table 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008
Union
Nonunion
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
All workers ....................................................................
$24.47
$22.42
$28.14
$17.23
$16.54
$27.78
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
32.45
–
30.02
17.36
18.33
–
18.33
25.92
25.71
26.49
20.46
19.35
20.74
–
–
–
–
18.27
–
18.27
25.74
25.71
25.87
20.28
18.23
20.74
32.89
–
30.33
20.69
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.11
32.02
29.24
10.59
15.32
18.07
14.07
17.39
15.88
19.58
12.95
13.56
12.51
28.87
31.85
27.46
10.17
15.26
18.07
13.90
17.03
15.22
19.49
12.95
13.56
12.51
38.37
33.43
40.04
21.32
16.38
–
16.38
20.79
–
–
–
–
–
Occupational group3
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
3.3
4.0
4.5
2.4
2.6
5.6
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
6.3
–
2.3
8.8
5.5
–
5.5
6.8
8.7
8.4
3.7
9.0
3.2
–
–
–
–
8.8
–
8.8
7.1
8.7
11.8
3.7
3.8
3.2
6.6
–
2.4
10.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.0
5.6
11.6
4.8
6.0
12.8
3.0
4.4
3.1
5.6
3.5
5.0
4.5
9.0
5.4
13.2
3.3
6.3
12.8
3.1
5.0
1.7
6.0
3.5
5.0
4.5
7.9
24.5
11.9
9.3
7.4
–
7.4
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through
collective bargaining.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and
hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay
of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See
appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
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 appendix
A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet
publication criteria.
36
Table 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational
groups, Reno-Sparks, NV, February 2008
Time
Occupational group3
Incentive
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
All workers ....................................................................
$17.93
$16.71
$29.93
$29.93
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
30.56
33.43
29.46
11.10
14.38
13.55
14.65
19.89
–
20.52
14.05
13.91
14.14
28.87
32.01
27.50
10.22
14.12
13.55
14.33
19.62
19.48
19.91
14.00
13.78
14.14
–
–
–
–
32.17
36.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.17
36.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
1.8
2.1
16.8
16.8
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
7.0
6.4
9.5
4.2
3.3
11.0
3.1
1.7
–
6.1
5.0
4.4
7.5
9.2
6.0
13.2
3.2
3.6
11.0
3.4
1.4
1.2
5.8
5.0
4.5
7.5
–
–
–
–
21.1
19.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.1
19.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 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.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries
paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living
adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for
overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers
and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
See appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See
appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation
Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that
data did not meet publication criteria.
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Table 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group, Reno-Sparks, NV,
February 2008
Goods producing
Occupational group3
All workers ................................................
Management, professional, and related
Management, business, and financial
Professional and related .....................
Service ....................................................
Sales and office ......................................
Sales and related ................................
Office and administrative support .......
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance .....................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ..
Production, transportation, and material
moving ..............................................
Production ..........................................
Transportation and material moving ...
Service providing
Construction
Manufacturing
Trade,
transportation,
and utilities
Information
Financial
activities
Professional and
business
services
Education
and
health
services
Leisure
and
hospitality
Other
services
$19.83
$18.21
$17.81
–
$21.07
–
–
$10.69
$16.36
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
29.16
–
28.49
–
14.94
–
14.33
39.93
36.06
–
15.35
14.92
16.07
14.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.75
–
–
–
22.34
35.44
13.53
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.18
10.80
9.11
11.62
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.22
–
20.22
20.22
22.72
22.12
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
18.82
18.82
–
–
15.21
–
15.21
14.46
14.16
15.32
15.16
16.42
14.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.45
8.36
–
–
–
–
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ................................................
Management, professional, and related
Management, business, and financial
Professional and related .....................
Service ....................................................
Sales and office ......................................
Sales and related ................................
Office and administrative support .......
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance .....................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ..
Production, transportation, and material
moving ..............................................
Production ..........................................
Transportation and material moving ...
1.1
5.3
4.8
–
16.9
–
–
7.1
9.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.9
–
12.6
–
.1
–
6.4
9.5
10.2
–
25.3
8.7
16.4
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19.4
–
–
–
25.9
24.1
5.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.4
3.9
4.0
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
.4
–
1.5
1.5
6.3
9.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
3.0
–
–
32.4
–
32.4
2.9
1.1
1.0
8.4
1.5
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.9
8.9
–
–
–
–
1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS).
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They
include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are
premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The
mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
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 appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication
criteria.
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Appendix A: Technical Note
T
Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample
selection was a probability sample of establishments. The
sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the
sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of
sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each
sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a
probability proportional to its employment. Use of this
technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were
applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated
so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below,
was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled
establishment.
his section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained
in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for
the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing
the data. Although this section answers some questions
commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive
description of all of the steps required to produce the data.
Planning for the survey
The overall design of the National Compensation Survey
(NCS) includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection.
Survey scope
This survey covered establishments employing one worker
or more in private goods-producing industries (mining,
construction, and manufacturing); private service-providing
industries (trade, transportation, and utilities, information,
financial activities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and other
services); State governments; and local governments. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, private households,
and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope
of the survey. 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 agency within
the sampled area.
The statistical area covered by this survey is defined by
the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of
December 2003. The Reno–Sparks, NV, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Storey and Washoe Counties,
NV.
Data collection
The collection of data from survey respondents required
detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data,
working out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Regional Offices and visiting each establishment surveyed.
Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were
used to clarify and update data.
Occupational selection and classification
Identification of the occupations for which wage data were
to be collected was a multistep process:
1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs
2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the
2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system
3. Characterization of jobs as full-time versus parttime, union versus nonunion, and time versus incentive
4. Determination of the level of work of each job
Sampling frame
The list of establishments from which the survey sample
was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State
unemployment insurance reports. 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. Approximately
one-fifth of the sample is reselected each year.
For each occupation, wage data were collected for those
workers whose jobs could be characterized by the criteria
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identified in the last three steps. If a specific work level
could not be determined, wages were still collected.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each
establishment by the BLS field economist. A complete list
of employees was used for sampling, with each selected
worker representing a job within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of
selection.
The number of jobs for which data were collected in
each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size. The number of jobs selected followed this
schedule:
Number
of employees
Number
of selected jobs
1–49
50–249
250 or more
Up to 4
6
8
The second step of the process entailed classifying the
selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. NCS
uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system. A selected job may fall into any one of about 800
occupational classifications, from accountant to zoologist.
When workers could be classified in more than one occupation, they were classified in the occupation that required the
higher skill level. When there was no perceptible difference in skill level, the workers were classified in the occupation that described their primary activity.
Each occupational classification is an element of a
broader classification known as a major group. Occupations can fall into any of 22 major groups. Appendix B
contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the major group to which they belong.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based
on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, the
worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job,
depending on whether any part of pay was directly based
on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely
on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of
terms” section on the following page for more detail.
Occupational leveling
In the last step before wage data were collected, the work
level of each selected job was determined using a “point
factor leveling” process. Point factor leveling matches certain aspects of a job to specific levels of work with assigned point values. Points for each factor are then totaled
to determine the overall work level for the job.
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The NCS program is in the process of converting from a
nine-factor to a four-factor occupational leveling system.
The conversion is being phased in via annual NCS sample
replenishment groups and will require several years for full
implementation. The four occupational leveling factors
are:
•
•
•
•
Knowledge
Job controls and complexity
Contacts (nature and purpose)
Physical environment
Each factor consists of several levels, and each level has
an associated description and assigned points. A knowledge guide for 24 families of closely related occupations
contains short definitions of the point levels of knowledge
expected for the occupations and presents relevant examples. The other three factors use identical descriptions for
all occupational categories and contain a definition of each
point level within each factor.
The description within each factor best matching the job
is chosen. The point levels within each factor are designed
to describe the thresholds of distinct levels of work. When
a job does not meet the full description of a point level, the
next lowest point level is used. Points for the four factors
are totaled to determine the overall work level. NCS publishes data for up to 15 work levels.
Most supervisory occupations are evaluated based on
their duties and responsibilities. A modified approach is
used for professional and administrative supervisors when
they direct professional work and are paid primarily to supervise. Such supervisory occupations are leveled based
on the work level of the highest position reporting to them.
For a complete description of point factor leveling, refer
to the publication “National Compensation Survey: Guide
for Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs and Pay,” available at the
BLS National Compensation Survey Internet site at
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbr0004.pdf.
Combined work levels
This bulletin includes a table which simplifies the presentation of work levels by combining them into four broad
groups. The groups were determined by combinations of
knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, physical
environment, and supervisory duties, and are meant to be
comparable across different occupations. The broad
groups and the combined work levels are:
Group
designation
Levels
combined
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Levels 1–4
Levels 5–8
Levels 9–12
Levels 13–15
Collection period
Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60
metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period.
For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample
units.
Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
solely tied to an hourly rate or salary.
Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time
hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings:
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•
•
•
Incentive pay, including commissions, production
bonuses, and piece rates
Cost-of-living allowances
Hazard pay
Payments of income deferred due to participation
in a salary reduction plan
Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight
or passengers
The following forms of payments were not considered
part of straight-time earnings:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for
working a schedule that varies from the norm, such
as night or weekend work
Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends
Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as
Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses)
Uniform and tool allowances
Free or subsidized room and board
Payments made by third parties (for example, tips)
On-call pay
To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly,
weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per
day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded.
Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried
workers who are exempt from overtime provisions often
work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical
number of hours actually worked was collected.
Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be full time.
Part-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be part time.
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Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage.
•
•
•
A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation
Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations
Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed, mutually binding collective bargaining agreement
Level. A ranking within an occupation based on the requirements of the position.
Processing and analyzing the data
Data were processed and analyzed at the BLS National Office following collection.
Weighting and nonresponse
Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and
occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of
the establishment within the sample universe. Weights
were used to aggregate data for the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of
the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to
supply information. If data were not provided by a sample
member during the initial interview, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells”
were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value of data for the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and
nonresponding establishments were classified into these
cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally defined by major occupation group.
If average hourly earnings data were not provided by a
sample member during the update interview, then missing
average hourly earnings were imputed by multiplying prior
average hourly earnings by the rate of change in the average hourly earnings of respondents. The regression model
that takes into account available establishment characteris-
tics is used to derive the rate of change in the average
hourly earnings.
Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights
changed to zero.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining
the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being
combined, individual wage rates are weighted by the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The sample weight reflects
the inverse of each unit’s probability of selection at each
sample selection stage and four weight adjustment factors.
The first factor adjusts for establishment nonresponse and
the second factor adjusts for occupational nonresponse.
The third factor adjusts for any special situations that may
have occurred during data collection. The fourth factor,
post-stratification, also called benchmarking, is introduced
to adjust estimated employment totals to the current counts
of employment by industry. The latest available employment counts were used to derive average hourly earnings in
this publication.
Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication.
Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make
sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a series
that could have revealed information about a specific establishment.
Estimates of the number of workers represent the total
in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not
the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number
of workers obtained from the sample of establishments
serve to indicate only the relative importance of the occupational groups studied.
Percentiles
The percentiles presented in tables 6 through 10 are computed using earnings reported for individual workers in
sampled establishment jobs and their scheduled hours of
work. Establishments in the survey may report only individual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the calculation of percentile estimates, the individual-worker
hourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest.
The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution within
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each published occupation. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the
rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the
rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours
are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the
75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more
than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow
the same logic.
Data reliability
The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically
selected probability sample. There are two types of errors
possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling
and nonsampling.
Sampling errors occur because observations come only
from a sample and not from an entire population. The
sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible
samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different
samples would differ from each other.
A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible
samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard
error divided by the estimate. RSE data are provided
alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables.
The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example,
suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for all
workers were $17.75, with a relative standard error of 1.0
percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is from $17.46 to $18.04
($17.75 minus and plus $0.29, where $0.29 is the product
of 1.645 times 1.0 percent times $17.75). 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 they were not specifically measured, the
nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the
extensive training of the field economists who gathered the
survey data, computer edits of the data, and detailed data
review.
Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, Reno-Sparks,
NV, February 2008
Civilian
workers
Occupational group2
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
All workers ....................................................................
217,600
190,800
26,800
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
49,500
12,200
37,300
45,500
54,100
15,400
38,700
32,000
20,700
11,300
36,600
13,000
23,600
34,100
9,800
24,400
41,100
49,900
15,400
34,500
29,100
19,100
10,100
36,500
12,900
23,600
15,300
2,400
12,900
4,400
4,200
–
4,200
2,800
–
–
–
–
–
1 The 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 to other statistical series to measure
employment trends or levels.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the
2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system. See appendix B for more information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National
Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria.
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Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Reno-Sparks, NV, February
2008
State and
local
government
Establishments
Total
Private
industry
Total in sampling frame1 ................................................
11,123
10,985
138
Total in sample ...............................................................
Responding ............................................................
Refused or unable to provide data .........................
Out of business or not in survey scope ..................
311
186
66
59
299
174
66
59
12
12
0
0
1 The list of establishments from which the
survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was
developed from State unemployment insurance
reports and is based on the 2002 North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private
industries, an establishment is usually a single
physical location. For State and local governments,
an establishment is defined as all locations of a
government entity.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National
Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or
that data did not meet publication criteria.
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