Rockford, IL
National Compensation Survey
April 2006
_________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Philip L. Rones, Acting Commissioner
January 2007
Bulletin 3135–38
Preface
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Contents
Page
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................
1
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
T
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.
he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for
the Rockford, IL, metropolitan area. Data were collected between September 2005 and October 2006; the average reference month is April 2006. 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 have undergone a number of
significant changes. Beginning with the 3135 bulletin series, the releases employ:
1. The 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system and the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
2. An expanded scope of establishments, lowering the minimum establishment size for private industry from 50 workers to 1 worker
3. Imputation for temporary non-response situations
4. Benchmarking of estimated employment
5. Redesigned tables, to reflect the new classification system and to emphasize work levels
1
and incentive workers in all and private establishments by
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.
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
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
2
Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Rockford, IL,
April 2006
Civilian
workers
Worker and establishment
characteristics
Private industry
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
$18.30
3.1
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 .............
30.39
28.23
31.21
10.47
14.23
15.03
13.78
State and local government
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
34.7
$17.73
3.4
3.8
5.3
4.7
5.9
3.7
8.4
2.9
35.8
42.4
33.8
30.1
32.7
29.3
35.0
29.71
27.76
30.57
9.32
14.15
15.05
13.60
21.72
24.23
20.27
6.9
7.0
9.9
39.3
39.0
39.4
14.29
15.25
12.56
3.7
3.2
6.7
Full time ............................................................
Part time ...........................................................
19.49
11.26
Union ................................................................
Nonunion ..........................................................
Time ..................................................................
Incentive ...........................................................
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
34.8
$24.79
3.9
33.5
4.5
5.8
5.7
5.2
4.0
8.4
3.2
36.5
43.1
34.2
29.7
32.4
29.3
34.7
33.83
34.26
33.77
17.20
15.66
–
15.78
5.8
3.8
6.7
6.6
3.4
–
3.5
32.7
35.4
32.4
32.5
37.2
–
38.2
21.81
24.75
20.20
7.2
7.4
10.1
39.2
39.0
39.4
19.47
17.69
24.56
13.9
15.8
7.4
39.8
39.6
40.4
36.3
38.7
32.7
14.26
15.23
12.46
3.7
3.2
7.0
36.4
38.7
32.9
15.71
–
14.74
3.9
–
2.3
30.9
–
29.9
2.9
14.5
39.5
20.1
18.85
11.26
3.1
15.4
39.7
20.2
26.44
11.33
4.9
6.3
37.4
17.9
23.29
17.10
2.9
3.5
36.8
34.2
21.66
17.04
3.9
3.6
37.0
34.4
27.27
19.02
6.0
2.5
36.3
28.3
17.93
26.81
3.1
14.2
34.5
38.2
17.31
26.81
3.4
14.2
34.6
38.2
24.79
–
3.9
–
33.5
–
Goods producing ..............................................
Service providing ..............................................
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
20.91
16.01
4.9
4.4
39.5
32.7
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
1-99 workers .....................................................
100-499 workers ...............................................
500 workers or more .........................................
16.88
16.95
23.70
7.3
3.8
3.7
32.8
36.5
35.8
16.86
16.26
23.19
7.3
4.1
4.4
32.8
36.7
36.6
20.56
24.18
25.40
15.6
1.3
7.4
28.7
34.4
33.1
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, Rockford, IL,
April 2006
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$18.30
3.1
$19.49
2.9
$11.26
14.5
Management occupations .................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Level 12 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
33.29
28.36
31.77
49.00
35.52
29.07
30.27
30.08
6.7
7.6
6.7
10.3
10.3
5.6
6.1
18.9
33.36
28.36
31.77
49.00
35.82
29.10
30.27
30.08
6.7
7.6
6.7
10.3
10.3
5.6
6.1
18.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
21.87
20.22
25.09
4.5
3.1
9.7
21.87
20.22
25.09
4.5
3.1
9.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineers .........................................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
32.27
24.87
31.09
34.22
33.52
31.09
34.22
31.73
30.70
23.13
3.9
5.8
5.1
6.6
3.7
5.1
6.6
5.6
5.2
7.3
32.27
24.87
31.09
34.22
33.52
–
–
31.73
30.70
23.13
3.9
5.8
5.1
6.6
3.7
–
–
5.6
5.2
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
41.82
18.1
41.82
18.1
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
15.94
12.7
15.98
12.8
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 8 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Level 8 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Level 9 .............................................................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
33.76
10.08
25.01
32.91
41.18
32.94
7.7
1.1
8.9
10.3
.6
2.2
34.96
–
–
32.91
41.50
–
6.2
–
–
10.3
.8
–
13.18
–
–
–
–
–
9.0
–
–
–
–
–
36.93
28.52
42.18
37.60
43.36
6.7
5.6
.8
8.4
1.2
38.31
–
–
39.26
43.36
5.5
–
–
6.9
1.2
11.90
–
–
–
–
6.8
–
–
–
–
37.68
43.75
34.64
36.45
8.8
1.2
.2
2.1
39.40
43.75
34.97
36.45
7.3
1.2
.4
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
34.64
36.45
32.84
.2
2.1
6.5
34.97
36.45
32.84
.4
2.1
6.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.96
11.52
10.08
8.5
9.6
1.1
32.96
11.46
–
8.5
9.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
16.36
15.29
13.3
13.3
16.32
–
13.6
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
31.52
20.55
26.41
–
25.00
33.39
10.1
4.1
9.7
–
25.4
16.6
30.88
21.67
26.79
31.02
25.00
30.51
8.4
5.8
12.5
16.2
25.4
16.2
33.55
–
–
–
–
–
17.6
–
–
–
–
–
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, Rockford, IL,
April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Registered nurses –Continued
Level 9 .............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
Level 5 .............................................................
–
$19.41
19.49
–
4.0
4.7
$31.23
19.55
–
17.2
5.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
11.94
10.85
13.33
12.25
10.49
10.40
14.05
6.5
8.3
8.0
9.6
4.1
3.8
7.3
12.01
10.76
13.67
12.24
10.35
10.24
14.18
7.4
7.7
10.3
9.7
3.9
3.3
7.1
$11.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
20.37
25.86
9.8
2.1
21.81
25.86
10.5
2.1
11.37
–
33.2
–
29.64
22.00
22.00
.6
4.7
4.7
29.64
22.00
22.00
.6
4.7
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.05
7.12
6.74
7.67
4.8
2.0
7.9
3.0
9.66
–
6.72
–
8.5
–
11.1
–
6.85
6.94
6.76
6.83
6.3
2.7
6.5
16.0
14.54
9.71
8.03
5.26
4.59
7.16
7.00
7.19
7.7
3.5
3.1
24.2
10.2
1.9
4.2
3.3
14.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.69
4.87
7.02
7.00
6.85
–
–
–
23.5
11.6
1.1
4.2
2.2
7.16
7.01
7.19
1.9
4.4
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.03
7.01
6.85
1.1
4.4
2.2
10.69
8.47
13.75
11.07
8.73
6.6
6.6
28.0
7.3
6.3
12.07
9.31
–
12.28
9.32
9.6
5.1
–
10.6
5.1
7.54
7.38
–
7.49
7.58
2.4
4.2
–
3.0
5.3
13.04
8.84
7.11
7.11
8.1
8.2
4.4
4.4
13.54
9.04
–
–
10.3
8.7
–
–
8.31
8.31
7.06
7.06
12.3
12.3
4.3
4.3
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Amusement and recreation attendants .........................
9.33
7.89
8.98
10.6
13.7
8.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.88
7.89
7.89
10.2
13.7
9.1
7.24
7.24
10.0
10.0
–
–
–
–
7.24
7.24
10.0
10.0
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
15.03
7.30
7.98
9.35
13.86
21.20
16.47
9.27
7.30
8.4
5.2
8.3
3.0
3.6
9.3
3.8
11.8
5.2
17.47
–
–
–
–
21.72
–
11.20
–
7.8
–
–
–
–
10.5
–
9.9
–
10.51
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.66
–
24.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.7
–
See footnotes at end of table.
5
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL,
April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Retail sales workers –Continued
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing,
except technical and scientific products .................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$7.98
9.51
7.82
7.30
8.56
7.82
7.30
8.56
9.90
9.13
27.57
8.3
3.0
6.3
5.3
.8
6.3
5.3
.8
14.5
1.8
25.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$12.54
–
24.13
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.8
–
26.1
–
–
$7.31
–
–
7.31
–
–
7.94
–
–
–
–
4.3
–
–
4.3
–
–
9.7
–
–
18.46
18.7
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of office and
administrative support workers ...................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Level 4 .............................................................
Tellers ...........................................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 5 .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
13.78
8.89
10.84
11.34
13.36
16.94
19.33
20.13
2.9
7.9
3.7
5.2
3.4
5.9
7.1
4.8
14.17
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.41
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.71
13.09
11.61
11.66
13.42
12.33
10.60
14.82
11.38
11.77
10.16
16.78
17.63
18.92
14.78
13.02
15.80
6.0
7.7
7.4
6.7
9.8
4.5
1.4
7.2
5.3
9.2
6.4
7.4
4.8
6.0
12.6
6.4
6.2
21.71
13.38
–
–
13.93
12.46
–
14.82
11.42
11.52
10.41
16.76
17.66
18.92
14.78
13.44
15.80
6.0
7.7
–
–
9.9
4.3
–
7.2
2.8
4.6
4.8
7.7
5.2
6.0
12.6
7.6
6.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.3
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 7 .............................................................
24.23
28.42
7.0
.6
24.23
28.42
7.1
.6
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
20.27
25.33
9.9
9.4
20.37
–
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
31.92
13.69
10.5
23.1
34.75
13.69
5.4
23.1
–
–
–
–
22.42
25.71
23.80
25.99
20.28
5.4
3.5
4.5
3.4
7.7
22.42
25.71
23.80
25.99
20.28
5.4
3.5
4.5
3.4
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
6
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL,
April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Production occupations ....................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Painting workers ...............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Helpers--production workers ........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
$15.25
10.22
10.20
17.20
16.22
16.01
18.33
21.20
3.2
4.5
2.1
12.2
4.7
2.1
3.8
2.6
$15.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$10.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
24.19
15.5
24.19
15.5
–
–
12.48
11.38
12.37
17.86
10.83
21.89
16.97
3.9
.6
6.4
11.1
14.1
18.2
11.8
12.48
11.38
12.37
17.79
10.83
21.89
16.97
3.9
.6
6.4
11.5
14.1
18.2
11.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.97
11.8
16.97
11.8
–
–
13.76
15.2
13.76
15.2
–
–
16.53
7.4
16.53
7.4
–
–
13.42
11.44
15.15
5.6
10.4
10.1
13.42
11.44
15.15
5.6
10.4
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.73
11.6
11.73
11.6
–
–
11.16
7.0
11.16
7.0
–
–
16.50
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
15.68
10.74
7.6
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
14.3
2.9
16.50
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
15.68
10.74
7.6
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
14.3
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.74
12.37
9.99
11.05
9.71
2.9
11.6
3.0
6.5
5.3
10.74
12.94
10.51
11.74
–
2.9
12.5
2.2
6.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
12.56
9.68
12.93
15.29
18.37
15.75
14.12
15.31
14.12
14.78
18.65
16.02
12.94
12.39
10.77
8.99
15.70
11.99
6.7
5.8
11.8
18.1
12.9
5.1
5.0
5.0
5.0
8.0
17.0
9.9
3.6
2.5
8.1
4.7
24.9
7.9
13.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.85
18.65
16.02
12.94
12.39
11.58
9.18
16.11
11.99
8.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
17.0
9.9
3.6
2.5
11.4
8.7
26.1
7.9
9.45
–
–
–
–
14.35
14.15
14.35
14.15
–
–
–
–
–
8.74
8.70
–
–
2.1
–
–
–
–
8.4
5.8
8.4
5.8
–
–
–
–
–
1.7
1.8
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
7
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Rockford, IL,
April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$11.72
9.59
10.99
9.51
7.73
11.4
4.9
10.3
9.2
6.3
$14.92
11.51
10.99
9.51
7.73
16.8
10.6
10.3
9.2
6.3
$8.83
8.75
–
–
–
1.0
1.3
–
–
–
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
8
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$17.73
3.4
$18.85
3.1
$11.26
15.4
Management occupations .................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
33.16
28.26
31.11
35.78
30.27
7.6
9.0
7.3
10.5
6.1
33.16
28.26
31.11
35.78
30.27
7.6
9.0
7.3
10.5
6.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
21.81
20.22
25.09
4.5
3.1
9.7
21.81
20.22
25.09
4.5
3.1
9.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineers .........................................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
32.27
24.87
31.09
34.22
33.52
31.09
34.22
31.73
30.70
23.13
3.9
5.8
5.1
6.6
3.7
5.1
6.6
5.6
5.2
7.3
32.27
24.87
31.09
34.22
33.52
31.09
34.22
31.73
30.70
23.13
3.9
5.8
5.1
6.6
3.7
5.1
6.6
5.6
5.2
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
15.50
15.29
13.6
13.3
15.43
–
14.0
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
Level 5 .............................................................
31.59
20.56
26.62
–
25.00
33.54
–
19.41
19.49
10.1
4.1
10.2
–
25.4
16.6
–
4.0
4.8
30.96
–
27.05
31.02
25.00
30.69
31.22
–
–
8.4
–
13.2
16.3
25.4
16.4
17.2
–
–
33.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
11.97
10.85
13.29
12.23
10.43
10.43
14.05
6.8
8.3
8.2
9.6
4.1
4.1
7.3
12.05
10.76
–
–
10.26
10.26
14.18
7.7
7.7
–
–
3.8
3.8
7.1
11.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
8.00
7.06
6.74
7.47
5.26
4.59
7.15
6.99
7.19
4.9
2.1
7.8
2.0
24.2
10.2
1.9
4.2
3.3
9.72
–
6.70
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.7
–
10.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
6.85
6.92
6.76
6.83
5.69
4.87
7.02
6.99
6.85
6.4
2.8
6.5
16.0
23.5
11.6
1.1
4.2
2.2
7.16
7.19
1.9
3.3
–
–
–
–
7.02
6.85
1.1
2.2
9.85
8.34
10.09
8.54
7.7
7.3
8.8
6.7
11.10
9.17
11.23
9.17
12.3
5.4
13.8
5.4
7.12
–
–
–
.6
–
–
–
11.97
11.5
12.45
15.6
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
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,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
$9.26
12.8
–
–
$7.62
13.4
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing,
except technical and scientific products .................
15.05
7.98
9.35
13.86
21.20
16.47
9.27
7.98
9.51
7.81
8.56
7.81
8.56
9.90
9.13
27.57
8.4
8.3
3.0
3.6
9.3
3.8
11.9
8.3
3.0
6.4
.8
6.4
.8
14.5
1.8
25.1
$17.47
–
10.28
14.13
21.72
–
11.20
–
10.85
–
–
–
–
12.54
–
24.13
7.8
–
2.6
3.8
10.5
–
9.9
–
3.2
–
–
–
–
13.8
–
26.1
10.52
7.29
–
–
–
–
7.65
7.29
–
7.28
–
7.28
–
7.94
–
–
24.3
6.5
–
–
–
–
7.7
6.5
–
4.4
–
4.4
–
9.7
–
–
18.46
18.7
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Level 4 .............................................................
Tellers ...........................................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 5 .............................................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
13.60
8.89
10.86
11.15
13.04
17.03
19.10
12.97
11.66
13.23
12.33
10.60
14.82
11.39
11.78
10.16
16.97
17.28
12.43
15.49
3.2
7.9
3.7
5.7
3.7
6.1
8.3
8.0
6.7
10.3
4.5
1.4
7.2
5.5
9.9
6.4
8.6
6.0
5.3
8.9
13.98
9.18
11.00
11.05
13.18
17.35
19.10
13.25
11.73
13.74
12.46
–
14.82
11.42
–
10.41
16.96
–
12.82
15.49
3.3
8.1
4.2
7.0
3.3
6.0
8.3
8.1
6.7
10.4
4.3
–
7.2
2.9
–
4.8
9.0
–
7.0
8.9
10.42
–
10.07
11.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.50
–
6.9
–
7.7
9.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.3
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 7 .............................................................
24.75
28.47
7.4
.6
24.75
28.47
7.4
.6
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Level 7 .............................................................
20.20
25.30
10.1
9.7
20.30
25.30
10.2
9.7
–
–
–
–
31.99
13.69
10.8
23.1
–
13.69
–
23.1
–
–
–
–
22.31
25.57
23.79
26.01
5.6
3.9
4.5
3.4
22.31
25.57
23.79
26.01
5.6
3.9
4.5
3.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
15.23
10.22
10.20
17.20
16.17
15.97
18.29
21.17
3.2
4.5
2.1
12.2
4.9
2.1
3.8
2.6
15.41
10.54
10.18
17.13
16.17
16.28
18.29
21.17
3.8
4.5
2.4
13.2
4.9
1.1
3.8
2.6
10.87
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Painting workers ...............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$24.19
15.5
$24.19
15.5
–
–
12.48
11.38
12.37
17.86
10.83
21.89
16.97
3.9
.6
6.4
11.1
14.1
18.2
11.8
12.48
11.38
12.37
17.79
10.83
21.89
16.97
3.9
.6
6.4
11.5
14.1
18.2
11.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.97
11.8
16.97
11.8
–
–
13.76
15.2
13.76
15.2
–
–
16.53
7.4
16.53
7.4
–
–
13.42
11.44
15.15
5.6
10.4
10.1
13.42
11.44
15.15
5.6
10.4
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.73
11.6
11.73
11.6
–
–
11.16
7.0
11.16
7.0
–
–
16.50
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
15.68
10.74
7.6
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
14.3
2.9
16.50
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
15.68
10.74
7.6
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
14.3
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.74
12.37
2.9
11.6
10.74
12.94
2.9
12.5
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
11
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Miscellaneous production workers –Continued
Level 1 .............................................................
Helpers--production workers ........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$9.99
11.05
9.71
3.0
6.5
5.3
$10.51
11.74
–
2.2
6.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.46
9.69
12.97
15.51
18.37
14.74
18.65
15.97
12.94
12.39
10.80
8.99
16.01
11.99
7.0
5.8
12.0
21.3
12.9
8.0
17.0
10.0
3.6
2.5
8.2
4.7
25.4
7.9
13.33
10.08
13.21
15.51
18.37
15.81
18.65
15.97
12.94
12.39
11.58
9.18
16.11
11.99
8.5
10.9
11.7
21.3
12.9
7.2
17.0
10.0
3.6
2.5
11.4
8.7
26.1
7.9
$9.16
9.14
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.78
8.71
–
–
0.4
.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1.6
1.8
–
–
11.72
9.60
10.99
9.51
7.73
11.4
4.9
10.3
9.2
6.3
14.92
11.51
10.99
9.51
7.73
16.8
10.6
10.3
9.2
6.3
8.83
8.75
–
–
–
1.0
1.3
–
–
–
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
12
Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work
levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$24.79
3.9
$26.44
4.9
$11.33
6.3
Management occupations .................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
34.19
38.12
38.86
3.9
6.5
8.3
34.73
38.12
38.86
5.6
6.5
8.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
19.25
6.3
19.25
6.3
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 8 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Level 8 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Level 9 .............................................................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
35.40
10.08
28.27
32.91
41.70
7.9
1.1
8.9
10.3
.7
36.55
–
–
32.91
41.71
5.7
–
–
10.3
.7
12.59
–
–
–
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
39.22
28.52
42.18
40.60
43.36
4.2
5.6
.8
5.2
1.2
40.66
28.52
42.19
42.42
43.36
.7
5.6
.8
.6
1.2
12.29
–
–
–
–
10.4
–
–
–
–
40.82
43.75
34.64
36.45
5.5
1.2
.2
2.1
42.74
43.75
34.97
36.45
.7
1.2
.4
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
34.64
36.45
32.84
.2
2.1
6.5
34.97
36.45
32.84
.4
2.1
6.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.96
11.52
10.08
8.5
9.6
1.1
32.96
11.46
–
8.5
9.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Level 7 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
Miscellaneous protective service workers ........................
23.99
25.86
7.7
2.1
24.39
25.86
8.7
2.1
18.50
–
21.4
–
29.64
22.00
22.00
8.25
.6
4.7
4.7
9.7
29.64
22.00
22.00
–
.6
4.7
4.7
–
–
–
–
8.25
–
–
–
9.7
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
8.99
8.00
4.0
.9
9.11
–
5.2
–
7.93
7.93
3.2
3.2
13.71
9.40
15.02
10.82
8.8
10.4
9.3
4.8
15.39
–
15.59
–
7.5
–
7.4
–
9.27
8.56
–
–
4.8
8.7
–
–
15.02
10.82
9.3
4.8
15.59
–
7.4
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Level 3 .............................................................
9.65
9.73
11.8
14.2
–
–
–
–
8.49
7.86
9.5
9.5
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
15.78
13.36
15.73
16.13
15.65
15.56
3.5
11.7
2.4
19.8
12.0
12.8
16.07
13.67
15.90
16.13
15.65
15.56
3.1
12.8
2.5
19.8
12.0
12.8
10.25
–
–
–
–
–
4.6
–
–
–
–
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
17.69
15.8
17.65
16.1
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
24.56
7.4
24.56
7.4
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
13
Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work
levels3, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
–Continued
Level 7 .............................................................
$26.46
6.8
$26.46
6.8
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 3 .............................................................
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
14.74
14.23
15.75
14.12
15.31
14.12
2.3
5.7
5.1
5.0
5.0
5.0
16.05
–
–
–
–
–
7.2
–
–
–
–
–
$12.84
14.15
14.35
14.15
14.35
14.15
9.8
5.8
8.4
5.8
8.4
5.8
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
14
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
All workers ..............................................................................
$18.30
3.1
$19.49
2.9
$11.26
14.5
Management occupations .................................................
Group III ............................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
Group III ............................................................
33.29
33.19
29.07
30.27
30.08
29.56
6.7
6.8
5.6
6.1
18.9
19.2
33.36
–
29.10
30.27
30.08
–
6.7
–
5.6
6.1
18.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
21.87
18.71
25.58
4.5
4.5
9.9
21.87
–
–
4.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Engineers .........................................................................
Group III ............................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Group III ............................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
Group II .............................................................
32.27
24.15
33.39
33.52
33.39
31.73
31.91
23.13
23.13
3.9
2.5
3.1
3.7
3.1
5.6
5.2
7.3
7.3
32.27
–
–
33.52
–
31.73
31.91
23.13
–
3.9
–
–
3.7
–
5.6
5.2
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
41.82
18.1
41.82
18.1
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
Group II .............................................................
15.94
15.82
12.7
14.8
15.98
–
12.8
–
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Group III ............................................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Group III ............................................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
33.76
11.52
24.06
40.78
32.94
7.7
9.6
5.4
.6
2.2
34.96
–
–
–
–
6.2
–
–
–
–
13.18
–
–
–
–
9.0
–
–
–
–
36.93
23.60
42.18
37.60
21.91
43.36
6.7
4.5
.8
8.4
2.0
1.2
38.31
–
–
39.26
–
–
5.5
–
–
6.9
–
–
11.90
–
–
–
–
–
6.8
–
–
–
–
–
37.68
21.91
43.75
34.64
36.45
8.8
2.0
1.2
.2
2.1
39.40
–
43.75
34.97
–
7.3
–
1.2
.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
34.64
36.45
32.84
.2
2.1
6.5
34.97
36.45
32.84
.4
2.1
6.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
32.96
11.52
11.52
8.5
9.6
9.6
32.96
11.46
11.46
8.5
9.1
9.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
16.36
13.3
16.32
13.6
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Group II .............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
Group II .............................................................
31.52
23.52
33.39
23.92
–
19.41
19.62
10.1
4.0
16.6
7.7
–
4.0
4.5
30.88
–
30.51
–
30.80
19.55
–
8.4
–
16.2
–
16.9
5.7
–
33.55
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
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,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Group I ..............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
Group I ..............................................................
$11.94
11.89
12.25
10.49
10.47
10.40
10.40
14.05
14.48
6.5
6.9
9.6
4.1
4.0
3.8
3.8
7.3
8.2
$12.01
–
–
10.35
–
10.24
10.24
14.18
–
7.4
–
–
3.9
–
3.3
3.3
7.1
–
$11.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
Group II .............................................................
20.37
9.31
24.08
9.8
10.6
8.7
21.81
–
–
10.5
–
–
11.37
–
–
33.2
–
–
29.64
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
.6
4.7
4.7
4.7
4.7
29.64
22.00
–
22.00
22.00
.6
4.7
–
4.7
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.05
7.12
14.56
4.8
4.4
7.8
9.66
–
–
8.5
–
–
6.85
–
–
6.3
–
–
14.54
14.56
9.71
9.71
8.03
8.03
5.26
5.26
4.59
4.59
7.16
7.16
7.7
7.8
3.5
3.5
3.1
3.1
24.2
24.2
10.2
10.2
1.9
1.9
14.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.69
–
4.87
4.87
7.02
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
23.5
–
11.6
11.6
1.1
–
7.16
7.16
1.9
1.9
–
–
–
–
7.03
7.03
1.1
1.1
10.69
10.69
11.07
11.07
6.6
7.0
7.3
7.3
12.07
–
12.28
–
9.6
–
10.6
–
7.54
–
7.49
–
2.4
–
3.0
–
13.04
13.04
7.11
7.11
7.11
7.11
8.1
8.1
4.4
4.4
4.4
4.4
13.54
13.54
–
–
–
–
10.3
10.3
–
–
–
–
8.31
8.31
7.06
–
7.06
7.06
12.3
12.3
4.3
–
4.3
4.3
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
Group II .............................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
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 ..............................................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
Group I ..............................................................
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Amusement and recreation attendants .........................
Group I ..............................................................
9.33
8.25
10.6
7.4
–
–
–
–
7.88
–
10.2
–
7.24
7.24
7.24
7.24
10.0
10.0
10.0
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.24
–
7.24
7.24
10.0
–
10.0
10.0
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
15.03
8.82
17.62
39.54
8.4
8.2
10.8
6.7
17.47
–
–
–
7.8
–
–
–
10.51
–
–
–
24.2
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
16
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing,
except technical and scientific products .................
$21.20
16.47
9.27
8.86
7.82
7.82
7.82
7.82
9.90
9.17
27.57
9.3
3.8
11.8
9.0
6.3
6.3
6.3
6.3
14.5
10.2
25.1
$21.72
–
11.20
–
–
–
–
–
12.54
12.00
24.13
10.5
–
9.9
–
–
–
–
–
13.8
18.8
26.1
–
–
$7.66
–
7.31
–
7.31
7.31
7.94
7.94
–
–
–
7.7
–
4.3
–
4.3
4.3
9.7
9.7
–
18.46
18.7
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of office and
administrative support workers ...................................
Group II .............................................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Group I ..............................................................
Tellers ...........................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Group II .............................................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Group I ..............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Group I ..............................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Group I ..............................................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
13.78
11.81
18.13
2.9
2.0
4.2
14.17
–
–
2.9
–
–
10.41
–
–
6.6
–
–
21.71
21.68
13.09
11.56
13.42
12.33
10.60
10.60
14.82
16.45
11.38
11.38
10.16
10.16
16.78
13.03
19.02
18.92
14.78
13.06
13.02
12.52
6.0
6.2
7.7
1.7
9.8
2.6
1.4
1.4
7.2
7.8
5.3
5.3
6.4
6.4
7.4
12.1
4.1
6.0
12.6
12.2
6.4
6.8
21.71
21.68
13.38
–
13.93
12.42
–
–
14.82
16.45
11.42
11.42
10.41
10.41
16.76
–
–
18.92
14.78
13.06
13.44
12.88
6.0
6.2
7.7
–
9.9
2.6
–
–
7.2
7.8
2.8
2.8
4.8
4.8
7.7
–
–
6.0
12.6
12.2
7.6
8.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.21
11.21
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.50
10.50
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.4
17.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.3
7.3
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
24.23
13.67
28.11
7.0
8.7
1.8
24.23
–
–
7.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Group II .............................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
20.27
10.61
22.39
9.9
8.7
8.3
20.37
–
–
10.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.92
13.69
10.5
23.1
34.75
13.69
5.4
23.1
–
–
–
–
22.42
22.27
23.80
23.95
20.28
5.4
7.0
4.5
5.3
7.7
22.42
–
23.80
23.95
20.28
5.4
–
4.5
5.3
7.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.25
14.17
18.02
3.2
5.3
1.9
15.44
–
–
3.8
–
–
10.87
–
–
12.8
–
–
24.19
21.93
15.5
12.3
24.19
21.93
15.5
12.3
–
–
–
–
12.48
3.9
12.48
3.9
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Group II .............................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
17
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers –Continued
Group I ..............................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Group II .............................................................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Group I ..............................................................
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Group I ..............................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Painting workers ...............................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Group I ..............................................................
Helpers--production workers ........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Group I ..............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Group I ..............................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Group I ..............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Group I ..............................................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Group I ..............................................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$12.12
12.37
12.37
17.86
16.97
17.37
4.4
6.4
6.4
11.1
11.8
11.8
–
$12.37
12.37
17.79
16.97
–
–
6.4
6.4
11.5
11.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.97
17.37
11.8
11.8
16.97
17.37
11.8
11.8
–
–
–
–
13.76
15.2
13.76
15.2
–
–
16.53
7.4
16.53
7.4
–
–
13.42
12.78
15.27
5.6
8.9
9.4
13.42
–
–
5.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.73
10.86
11.6
7.0
11.73
10.86
11.6
7.0
–
–
–
–
11.16
11.16
7.0
7.0
11.16
11.16
7.0
7.0
–
–
–
–
16.50
18.32
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
12.34
20.20
15.68
10.74
10.74
7.6
2.1
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
1.7
5.6
14.3
2.9
2.9
16.50
18.32
18.32
16.08
14.93
14.56
12.34
20.20
15.68
10.74
–
7.6
2.1
2.1
7.3
4.2
4.2
1.7
5.6
14.3
2.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.74
10.74
12.37
12.16
11.05
11.05
2.9
2.9
11.6
11.8
6.5
6.5
10.74
10.74
12.94
–
11.74
11.74
2.9
2.9
12.5
–
6.1
6.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.56
12.32
16.20
15.75
14.34
15.31
14.34
14.78
14.78
16.02
16.02
12.94
12.94
10.77
10.67
6.7
7.2
4.4
5.1
5.9
5.0
5.9
8.0
8.0
9.9
9.9
3.6
4.6
8.1
9.2
13.42
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.85
–
16.02
16.02
12.94
12.94
11.58
–
8.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.1
–
9.9
9.9
3.6
4.6
11.4
–
$9.45
–
–
14.35
–
14.35
14.35
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.74
–
2.1
–
–
8.4
–
8.4
8.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
1.7
–
11.72
11.60
10.99
10.81
9.51
11.4
13.1
10.3
10.6
9.2
14.92
14.94
10.99
10.81
9.51
16.8
18.2
10.3
10.6
9.2
8.83
8.83
–
–
–
1.0
1.0
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
18
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Packers and packagers, hand –Continued
Group I ..............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$9.51
9.2
$9.51
9.2
–
–
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
19
Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$7.50
$10.06
$15.04
$23.00
$32.61
Management occupations .................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
21.78
28.10
25.00
9.62
28.10
28.10
29.24
25.00
31.44
28.10
30.25
28.12
40.02
31.44
30.25
36.00
43.85
31.44
30.25
46.73
Business and financial operations occupations .............
16.67
18.34
19.44
22.23
30.29
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
22.89
24.25
26.34
15.79
26.87
29.43
29.45
22.25
30.10
30.10
30.58
24.38
35.67
37.50
34.47
26.44
46.66
47.59
37.03
27.33
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
20.20
23.63
41.78
57.88
57.88
Community and social services occupations ..................
9.50
11.48
14.25
19.97
20.41
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
13.21
18.45
22.98
26.97
32.61
33.61
43.59
40.37
53.48
42.07
20.60
20.12
25.89
25.59
35.66
36.81
45.39
46.34
57.79
60.66
20.12
24.08
25.47
27.98
37.41
34.53
46.69
40.33
63.53
45.39
24.08
24.12
27.98
27.15
34.53
30.10
40.33
37.71
45.39
46.21
23.60
8.32
26.61
9.23
30.30
10.69
38.02
13.67
46.21
15.25
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
10.50
10.80
14.05
19.63
24.35
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
15.60
20.86
17.00
20.10
23.74
17.25
27.04
30.63
19.06
43.00
43.00
21.21
45.00
45.00
22.18
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
9.38
9.00
9.00
11.04
9.81
9.50
9.50
13.25
11.26
9.97
9.95
13.70
13.50
11.47
11.30
14.82
15.84
12.53
12.43
18.00
Protective service occupations .........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
8.25
14.11
23.00
26.45
29.69
23.48
17.94
17.94
27.14
17.94
17.94
29.21
20.42
20.42
34.71
26.16
26.16
36.05
28.38
28.38
3.90
6.50
7.30
8.91
12.00
10.55
8.00
6.65
3.30
3.30
6.07
10.55
8.00
7.00
3.90
3.90
6.50
13.00
9.00
7.30
3.90
3.90
6.75
21.25
11.00
9.38
7.00
3.90
7.93
21.67
13.00
10.05
9.00
7.00
8.31
6.07
6.50
6.75
7.93
8.31
6.68
7.00
7.58
7.58
9.39
9.41
12.00
12.64
18.82
20.10
7.58
6.50
6.50
9.39
6.50
6.50
11.35
6.68
6.68
16.11
8.00
8.00
20.10
8.14
8.14
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
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 ...........................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Amusement and recreation attendants .........................
$6.50
$6.65
$8.25
$11.75
$14.08
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.83
6.83
10.64
10.64
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 ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing,
except technical and scientific products .................
6.78
14.00
8.09
16.75
11.00
16.75
16.75
20.19
31.26
46.31
11.00
6.78
6.78
6.78
6.50
11.00
16.75
7.25
6.78
6.78
7.48
15.66
16.75
8.66
7.38
7.38
9.00
30.30
16.75
10.19
8.09
8.09
12.24
46.16
20.19
13.65
9.25
9.25
14.00
46.25
9.56
12.61
15.66
16.06
33.85
Occupation2
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
First-line supervisors/managers of office and
administrative support workers ...................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Tellers ...........................................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
8.50
10.50
12.71
16.58
20.22
16.26
9.06
9.06
9.02
10.00
8.80
7.05
10.06
15.80
9.60
7.49
20.22
10.50
11.00
9.86
12.60
10.11
7.90
13.26
15.80
11.02
9.87
21.83
11.26
12.99
10.70
15.00
11.49
10.00
18.41
18.75
13.21
12.47
23.21
14.29
14.50
11.02
15.74
12.08
12.00
20.82
20.82
18.68
16.23
28.81
20.19
20.19
12.03
17.17
13.25
14.40
21.64
21.64
20.12
18.27
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
13.77
17.50
26.29
28.50
32.70
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
11.12
14.90
19.05
23.97
32.49
10.50
7.50
31.14
9.30
36.06
11.25
36.06
19.05
40.33
19.05
14.50
17.15
15.10
19.23
20.94
16.50
22.31
23.94
20.47
24.00
24.12
20.78
31.14
32.49
30.16
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
8.75
10.81
14.00
18.50
24.61
15.04
15.56
25.00
27.18
39.68
9.41
9.41
9.00
10.38
10.90
10.90
10.50
14.00
11.99
12.40
15.00
17.25
14.00
14.00
27.82
19.00
16.57
15.26
27.82
21.57
10.38
14.00
17.25
19.00
21.57
8.45
8.45
13.97
18.86
21.77
8.87
14.12
16.85
19.10
21.77
8.25
10.16
12.19
17.33
17.72
7.50
10.90
11.99
13.86
15.25
8.00
9.50
10.43
12.04
15.89
11.00
14.70
12.63
12.62
9.80
12.02
14.93
16.22
13.75
13.26
10.71
12.36
16.25
18.08
15.49
14.50
13.35
14.48
17.72
20.47
18.50
16.25
17.11
20.22
20.58
22.55
20.30
18.05
23.90
20.70
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Painting workers ...............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Helpers--production workers ........................................
$8.24
$10.30
$10.42
$10.81
$12.75
8.24
8.00
7.50
10.30
9.55
9.55
10.42
11.72
11.59
10.81
13.43
12.50
12.75
19.31
13.43
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
7.00
11.31
10.64
7.00
13.11
10.00
7.00
8.50
12.39
12.03
13.11
13.11
11.35
7.76
11.44
15.41
14.65
14.80
14.80
12.30
9.20
14.77
19.16
16.64
16.20
16.20
14.50
12.35
20.60
20.11
20.59
26.06
23.56
16.55
15.26
7.65
7.73
6.50
8.40
8.75
7.00
9.25
11.48
8.40
14.66
12.82
10.68
19.47
14.00
14.47
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$7.50
$10.00
$14.50
$21.78
$31.14
Management occupations .................................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
21.78
25.00
28.10
29.24
31.44
30.25
41.14
30.25
43.82
30.25
Business and financial operations occupations .............
16.67
18.34
19.44
22.23
28.90
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
22.89
24.25
26.34
15.79
26.87
29.43
29.45
22.25
30.10
30.10
30.58
24.38
35.67
37.50
34.47
26.44
46.66
47.59
37.03
27.33
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
10.40
10.80
14.05
16.08
29.71
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
15.60
20.86
17.00
20.20
24.00
17.25
27.04
30.63
19.00
43.00
45.00
21.21
45.00
45.00
22.18
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
9.38
8.95
8.95
11.04
9.82
9.50
9.50
13.25
11.33
9.98
9.98
13.70
13.56
11.47
11.47
14.82
15.82
12.50
12.50
18.00
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
3.90
3.30
3.30
6.07
6.50
3.90
3.90
6.50
7.00
3.90
3.90
6.75
8.91
7.00
3.90
7.93
12.00
9.00
7.00
8.31
6.07
6.50
6.75
7.93
8.31
6.56
6.85
7.25
7.58
8.93
8.93
10.39
10.68
16.00
16.00
7.58
7.58
9.50
16.00
20.10
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
6.50
6.65
8.20
9.42
14.08
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 ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing,
except technical and scientific products .................
6.78
14.00
8.09
16.75
11.00
16.75
16.75
20.19
31.26
46.31
11.00
6.78
6.78
6.78
6.50
11.00
16.75
7.25
6.78
6.78
7.48
15.66
16.75
8.66
7.35
7.35
9.00
30.30
16.75
10.19
8.09
8.09
12.24
46.16
20.19
13.65
9.25
9.25
14.00
46.25
9.56
12.61
15.66
16.06
33.85
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Tellers ...........................................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
8.50
9.06
9.06
9.02
10.00
8.80
7.05
10.19
7.49
10.33
10.50
11.00
9.86
12.60
10.15
7.90
14.57
8.25
12.32
11.26
12.99
10.70
15.00
11.49
10.00
18.75
11.70
15.89
13.65
14.50
11.02
15.74
12.08
12.00
20.82
14.90
20.19
20.19
20.19
12.03
17.17
13.25
14.40
21.64
18.27
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
13.77
22.83
26.53
28.50
32.70
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
10.50
14.50
19.05
23.94
32.49
10.50
7.50
31.14
9.30
36.06
11.25
36.06
19.05
41.28
19.05
14.50
17.15
19.23
20.94
21.67
23.94
24.00
24.00
31.14
32.49
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Painting workers ...............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Helpers--production workers ........................................
$8.75
$10.80
$14.00
$18.38
$24.34
15.04
15.56
25.00
27.18
39.68
9.41
9.41
9.00
10.38
10.90
10.90
10.50
14.00
11.99
12.40
15.00
17.25
14.00
14.00
27.82
19.00
16.57
15.26
27.82
21.57
10.38
14.00
17.25
19.00
21.57
8.45
8.45
13.97
18.86
21.77
8.87
14.12
16.85
19.10
21.77
8.25
10.16
12.19
17.33
17.72
7.50
10.90
11.99
13.86
15.25
8.00
9.50
10.43
12.04
15.89
11.00
14.70
12.63
12.62
9.80
12.02
8.24
14.93
16.22
13.75
13.26
10.71
12.36
10.30
16.25
18.08
15.49
14.50
13.35
14.48
10.42
17.72
20.47
18.50
16.25
17.11
20.22
10.81
20.58
22.55
20.30
18.05
23.90
20.70
12.75
8.24
8.00
7.50
10.30
9.55
9.55
10.42
11.72
11.59
10.81
13.43
12.50
12.75
19.31
13.43
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
7.00
7.00
13.11
10.00
7.00
8.40
13.11
13.11
11.35
7.76
11.34
14.80
14.80
12.30
9.25
14.77
16.20
16.20
14.50
12.50
20.60
26.06
23.56
16.55
15.26
7.65
7.73
6.50
8.40
8.75
7.00
9.25
11.48
8.40
14.66
12.82
10.68
19.47
14.00
14.47
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$9.91
$13.73
$22.51
$32.72
$45.01
Management occupations .................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
28.12
28.12
29.48
28.12
33.80
38.19
36.57
46.51
45.67
55.29
Community and social services occupations ..................
13.73
13.73
14.91
22.76
30.90
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
12.25
24.93
35.48
45.01
56.35
23.37
23.37
29.13
30.35
39.14
40.76
46.69
48.41
59.22
64.97
23.37
24.08
30.50
27.98
41.31
34.53
49.17
40.33
64.97
45.39
24.08
24.12
27.98
27.15
34.53
30.10
40.33
37.71
45.39
46.21
23.60
8.32
26.61
9.23
30.30
10.69
38.02
13.67
46.21
15.25
Protective service occupations .........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
Miscellaneous protective service workers ........................
16.76
19.29
24.37
27.60
30.24
23.48
17.94
17.94
7.35
27.14
17.94
17.94
7.47
29.21
20.42
20.42
7.70
34.71
26.16
26.16
8.30
36.05
28.38
28.38
10.50
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
6.60
7.78
8.24
9.58
11.88
8.14
10.45
10.33
11.35
12.64
15.92
17.55
18.82
20.17
20.17
10.45
11.35
15.92
18.82
20.17
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
6.77
6.84
9.95
12.10
14.05
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
10.97
9.57
9.48
12.62
12.04
11.88
15.35
15.11
15.11
18.52
18.74
18.85
20.82
20.12
23.45
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
10.69
12.73
16.43
24.09
25.66
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
15.68
20.49
24.97
30.16
30.16
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
9.93
11.31
10.64
12.03
12.39
12.03
13.94
15.41
14.65
18.24
19.16
16.64
20.11
20.11
20.59
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$8.91
$11.49
$16.67
$24.44
$33.00
Management occupations .................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
Education administrators ..................................................
21.78
28.10
25.00
9.62
28.10
28.10
29.24
25.00
31.44
28.10
30.25
28.12
40.15
31.44
30.25
36.00
43.85
31.44
30.25
46.73
Business and financial operations occupations .............
16.67
18.34
19.44
22.23
30.29
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Mechanical engineers ...................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
22.89
24.25
26.34
15.79
26.87
29.43
29.45
22.25
30.10
30.10
30.58
24.38
35.67
37.50
34.47
26.44
46.66
47.59
37.03
27.33
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
20.20
23.63
41.78
57.88
57.88
Community and social services occupations ..................
9.50
11.48
14.25
19.97
20.41
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Special education teachers, preschool,
kindergarten, and elementary school .................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
17.21
24.79
33.78
44.86
54.36
22.68
22.50
27.51
27.62
37.38
38.77
46.29
47.73
59.22
63.53
22.50
24.46
27.62
27.98
39.11
34.53
47.73
40.33
64.97
45.39
24.46
24.12
27.98
27.15
34.53
30.10
40.33
37.71
45.39
46.21
23.60
8.32
26.61
9.23
30.30
10.63
38.02
13.37
46.21
15.25
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
occupations ..................................................................
10.80
10.80
14.05
19.63
24.35
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
15.04
20.86
16.60
19.87
22.50
17.25
25.12
26.50
19.78
34.27
43.00
21.46
57.84
45.00
22.93
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
9.38
8.95
8.95
11.04
9.82
9.50
9.50
13.25
11.07
9.91
9.91
13.70
13.70
10.94
10.87
15.73
16.53
12.26
12.10
18.00
Protective service occupations .........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement
workers .......................................................................
Police officers ...................................................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers .................................
10.00
17.13
23.60
27.27
29.69
23.48
17.94
17.94
27.14
17.94
17.94
29.21
20.42
20.42
34.71
26.16
26.16
36.05
28.38
28.38
4.57
7.50
8.50
10.55
13.15
10.55
10.55
13.00
21.25
21.67
7.89
7.58
9.00
8.93
10.28
10.68
16.00
16.00
20.10
20.10
7.58
9.50
12.00
17.92
20.10
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ......
8.19
14.00
8.00
8.72
12.61
10.19
16.75
9.00
10.08
15.66
14.46
16.75
10.20
12.68
16.06
17.64
20.19
12.75
14.00
31.50
33.85
46.31
14.90
15.00
42.18
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
9.32
10.97
13.25
16.83
20.82
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and
serving workers ..........................................................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
First-line supervisors/managers of office and
administrative support workers ...................................
Financial clerks .................................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Customer service representatives ....................................
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
$16.26
9.69
10.50
10.00
10.00
7.05
10.06
15.80
9.60
7.49
$20.22
10.70
11.00
12.60
10.75
7.95
13.21
15.80
11.02
9.00
$21.83
11.56
12.99
15.00
11.49
10.00
18.10
18.75
13.21
13.10
$23.21
14.33
14.50
15.74
12.08
12.00
20.82
20.82
18.68
17.07
$28.81
20.19
20.19
17.17
13.00
14.40
21.64
21.64
20.12
18.31
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
13.77
17.50
26.29
28.50
32.70
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,
and repairers ..............................................................
Automotive technicians and repairers ..............................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
11.25
15.50
19.05
23.97
32.49
30.24
7.50
31.14
9.30
36.06
11.25
36.06
19.05
43.46
19.05
14.50
17.15
15.10
19.23
20.94
16.50
22.31
23.94
20.47
24.00
24.12
20.78
31.14
32.49
30.16
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .................................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ..........
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Computer control programmers and operators ................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ..............................................................
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ..................................................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .....................................................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .........................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..............
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .......................................
Machinists .........................................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Painting workers ...............................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
9.00
11.00
14.14
18.52
25.00
15.04
15.56
25.00
27.18
39.68
9.41
9.41
9.00
10.38
10.90
10.90
10.41
14.00
11.99
12.40
14.00
17.25
14.00
14.00
27.82
19.00
16.57
15.26
27.82
21.57
10.38
14.00
17.25
19.00
21.57
8.45
8.45
13.97
18.86
21.77
8.87
14.12
16.85
19.10
21.77
8.25
10.16
12.19
17.33
17.72
7.50
10.90
11.99
13.86
15.25
8.00
9.50
10.43
12.04
15.89
11.00
14.70
12.63
12.62
9.80
12.02
8.24
14.93
16.22
13.75
13.26
10.71
12.36
10.30
16.25
18.08
15.49
14.50
13.35
14.48
10.42
17.72
20.47
18.50
16.25
17.11
20.22
10.81
20.58
22.55
20.30
18.05
23.90
20.70
12.75
8.24
8.50
10.30
10.14
10.42
12.03
10.81
13.89
12.75
20.35
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Helpers--production workers ........................................
$9.55
$10.14
$11.83
$13.43
$13.89
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers ...................................
Packers and packagers, hand ......................................
7.00
7.25
13.11
10.00
7.00
9.00
13.11
13.11
11.35
8.00
12.46
14.80
14.80
12.30
10.00
15.35
16.20
16.20
14.50
14.00
20.70
26.06
23.56
16.55
18.52
8.50
7.73
6.50
9.50
8.75
7.00
14.66
11.48
8.40
18.09
12.82
10.68
27.43
14.00
14.47
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 10. Part-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Part-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$6.50
$6.78
$8.02
$10.64
$19.16
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
9.29
10.94
10.94
14.23
17.63
9.29
10.94
10.94
13.21
13.21
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
18.50
21.21
43.00
45.00
45.00
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
9.50
9.70
11.64
13.50
13.50
Protective service occupations .........................................
6.70
7.00
7.59
23.00
23.00
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Food service, tipped .........................................................
Waiters and waitresses ................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food ...................................................
3.90
3.30
3.30
6.07
6.50
3.90
3.30
6.50
6.50
3.90
3.90
6.50
7.50
7.50
6.00
7.35
8.86
9.63
8.00
8.18
6.07
6.50
6.50
7.35
8.18
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.66
7.20
7.20
8.14
8.40
8.40
8.40
7.25
6.50
6.50
7.25
6.50
6.50
7.25
6.68
6.68
9.00
7.22
7.22
11.27
8.14
8.14
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related
workers .......................................................................
Amusement and recreation attendants .........................
6.50
6.50
6.77
8.99
12.10
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.50
6.83
6.83
10.64
10.64
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
6.76
6.75
6.78
6.78
6.50
6.78
6.78
6.78
6.78
7.00
7.50
7.25
7.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
8.60
7.50
7.50
9.00
11.40
9.00
8.33
8.33
9.00
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Receptionists and information clerks ................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
7.40
7.60
8.22
8.10
8.00
10.00
10.00
10.20
10.00
11.27
17.00
12.00
14.50
17.00
13.00
Production occupations ....................................................
6.50
7.50
10.75
11.59
20.00
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Bus drivers ........................................................................
Bus drivers, school .......................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
7.25
10.64
10.64
7.35
7.65
11.68
11.68
7.65
8.50
13.53
13.53
8.40
9.60
16.64
16.64
9.25
13.53
20.11
20.11
9.60
7.40
7.79
8.40
9.25
9.60
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.
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
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$656
39.5
$39,051
$33,696
2,004
1,470
1,420
1,347
1,203
1,462
1,405
1,462
1,125
44.1
48.8
44.5
40.0
76,122
73,825
70,040
59,947
73,237
73,060
75,999
58,481
2,282
2,537
2,314
1,993
19.44
907
837
41.5
47,173
43,499
2,157
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$19.49
$16.67
$770
Management occupations ...................
General and operations managers .....
Financial managers ............................
Education administrators ....................
33.36
29.10
30.27
30.08
31.44
28.10
30.25
28.12
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
21.87
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Mechanical engineers .....................
Engineering technicians, except
drafters .........................................
32.27
33.52
31.73
30.10
30.10
30.58
1,304
1,356
1,276
1,204
1,238
1,238
40.4
40.5
40.2
67,796
70,529
66,328
62,608
64,376
64,376
2,101
2,104
2,091
23.13
24.38
925
975
40.0
48,104
50,710
2,080
Life, physical, and social science
occupations ....................................
41.82
41.78
1,511
1,852
36.1
75,727
71,147
1,811
Community and social services
occupations ....................................
15.98
14.25
636
570
39.8
32,891
29,702
2,059
34.96
33.78
1,201
1,211
34.4
44,383
44,057
1,270
38.31
37.38
1,293
1,292
33.8
47,574
46,896
1,242
39.26
38.77
1,303
1,303
33.2
48,038
47,205
1,224
39.40
34.97
39.11
34.53
1,304
1,271
1,303
1,253
33.1
36.3
48,099
46,329
47,898
45,643
1,221
1,325
34.97
32.84
34.53
30.10
1,271
1,216
1,253
1,131
36.3
37.0
46,329
44,009
45,643
40,723
1,325
1,340
32.96
11.46
30.30
10.63
1,224
382
1,134
345
37.1
33.3
44,232
13,817
41,067
12,571
1,342
1,206
16.32
14.05
619
450
37.9
32,185
23,384
1,972
30.88
30.51
25.12
26.50
1,204
1,174
1,005
1,060
39.0
38.5
62,583
61,041
52,250
55,120
2,027
2,001
19.55
19.78
766
761
39.2
39,845
39,579
2,038
12.01
11.07
469
432
39.0
24,373
22,464
2,029
10.35
9.91
408
393
39.4
21,228
20,426
2,051
10.24
9.91
404
393
39.5
21,010
20,426
2,052
14.18
13.70
544
530
38.4
28,293
27,560
1,995
21.81
23.60
933
986
42.8
48,492
51,280
2,224
29.64
22.00
22.00
29.21
20.42
20.42
1,208
902
902
1,168
817
817
40.7
41.0
41.0
62,793
46,916
46,916
60,757
42,474
42,474
2,118
2,133
2,133
Education, training, and library
occupations ....................................
Primary, secondary, and special
education school teachers ............
Elementary and middle school
teachers ....................................
Elementary school teachers,
except special education ......
Secondary school teachers ............
Secondary school teachers,
except special and vocational
education ..............................
Special education teachers ............
Special education teachers,
preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school ................
Teacher assistants .............................
Arts, design, entertainment, sports,
and media occupations ..................
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Licensed practical and licensed
vocational nurses ..........................
Healthcare support occupations .........
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health
aides .............................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and
attendants .................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support
occupations ..................................
Protective service occupations ...........
First-line supervisors/managers, law
enforcement workers ....................
Police officers .....................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ...
See footnotes at end of table.
30
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers, food
preparation and serving workers ..
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
Janitors and cleaners, except
maids and housekeeping
cleaners ....................................
Sales and related occupations ............
First-line supervisors/managers, sales
workers .........................................
Retail sales workers ...........................
Retail salespersons ........................
Sales representatives, wholesale and
manufacturing ...............................
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
office and administrative support
workers .........................................
Financial clerks ...................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and
auditing clerks ...........................
Customer service representatives ......
Receptionists and information 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 ....................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
First-line supervisors/managers of
mechanics, installers, and
repairers .......................................
Automotive technicians and
repairers .......................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance
workers .........................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .....
Maintenance and repair workers,
general ......................................
Production occupations ......................
First-line supervisors/managers of
production and operating
workers .........................................
Electrical, electronics, and
electromechanical assemblers .....
Electrical and electronic equipment
assemblers ...............................
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$298
38.0
$18,120
$14,560
1,875
608
520
41.8
31,309
27,040
2,154
10.28
10.68
491
490
427
427
40.6
40.0
25,508
25,505
22,214
22,214
2,113
2,077
13.54
12.00
542
480
40.0
28,173
24,960
2,080
17.47
14.46
685
596
39.2
35,609
30,992
2,038
21.72
11.20
12.54
16.75
10.20
12.68
887
419
475
670
403
465
40.8
37.4
37.9
46,124
21,797
24,694
34,840
20,958
24,190
2,123
1,947
1,969
24.13
16.06
965
642
40.0
50,182
33,407
2,080
14.17
13.25
553
520
39.0
28,675
27,019
2,024
21.71
13.38
21.83
11.56
867
530
870
462
39.9
39.6
45,095
27,582
45,240
24,045
2,077
2,061
13.93
14.82
11.42
10.41
12.99
15.00
11.49
10.00
557
592
440
328
520
600
453
390
40.0
39.9
38.5
31.5
28,982
30,768
22,621
17,073
27,019
31,200
23,546
20,280
2,080
2,075
1,980
1,640
16.76
18.10
665
715
39.7
34,474
36,239
2,057
18.92
18.75
755
750
39.9
39,264
39,000
2,076
14.78
13.44
13.21
13.10
587
536
528
524
39.7
39.9
29,904
27,874
27,477
27,248
2,024
2,074
24.23
26.29
947
1,052
39.1
46,230
49,600
1,908
20.37
19.05
815
762
40.0
42,369
39,624
2,080
34.75
36.06
1,393
1,442
40.1
72,422
75,005
2,084
13.69
11.25
548
450
40.0
28,478
23,400
2,080
22.42
23.80
22.31
23.94
897
952
892
958
40.0
40.0
46,637
49,500
46,405
49,791
2,080
2,080
20.28
20.47
811
819
40.0
42,172
42,578
2,080
15.44
14.14
616
565
39.9
32,053
29,370
2,076
24.19
25.00
976
1,000
40.4
50,765
52,021
2,098
12.48
11.99
499
480
40.0
25,957
24,939
2,080
12.37
12.40
495
496
40.0
25,740
25,788
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$9.66
$8.50
$367
14.54
13.00
12.07
12.28
See footnotes at end of table.
31
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Miscellaneous assemblers and
fabricators .....................................
Computer control programmers and
operators ......................................
Computer-controlled machine tool
operators, metal and plastic .....
Forming machine setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic ......
Forging machine setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Machine tool cutting setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic ...........................................
Cutting, punching, and press
machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .........
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and
buffing machine tool setters,
operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ................................
Lathe and turning machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .......................
Machinists ...........................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing
workers .........................................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and
brazers ......................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ................................
Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders ..................
Painting workers .................................
Coating, painting, and spraying
machine setters, operators, and
tenders ......................................
Miscellaneous production workers .....
Helpers--production workers ..........
Transportation and material moving
occupations ....................................
Driver/sales workers and truck
drivers ...........................................
Truck drivers, heavy and
tractor-trailer .............................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ..
Laborers and material movers, hand ..
Laborers and freight, stock, and
material movers, hand ..............
Machine feeders and offbearers .....
Packers and packagers, hand ........
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$560
39.8
$36,812
$29,120
2,069
679
690
40.0
35,297
35,880
2,080
17.25
679
690
40.0
35,297
35,880
2,080
13.76
13.97
551
559
40.0
28,627
29,058
2,080
16.53
16.85
661
674
40.0
34,391
35,048
2,080
13.42
12.19
536
488
40.0
27,891
25,355
2,079
11.73
11.99
469
480
40.0
24,404
24,939
2,080
11.16
10.43
446
417
39.9
23,169
21,694
2,076
16.50
18.32
16.25
18.08
660
733
650
723
40.0
40.0
34,314
38,105
33,800
37,606
2,080
2,080
16.08
15.49
643
620
40.0
33,450
32,219
2,080
14.93
14.50
597
580
40.0
31,047
30,160
2,080
14.56
13.35
582
534
40.0
30,276
27,768
2,080
15.68
10.74
14.48
10.42
627
430
579
417
40.0
40.0
32,613
22,346
30,118
21,674
2,080
2,080
10.74
12.94
11.74
10.42
12.03
11.83
430
515
465
417
481
468
40.0
39.8
39.6
22,346
26,776
24,167
21,674
25,029
24,336
2,080
2,070
2,058
13.42
12.46
526
479
39.2
27,027
24,361
2,015
15.85
14.80
624
555
39.4
31,378
28,640
1,980
16.02
12.94
11.58
14.80
12.30
10.00
628
514
452
555
479
382
39.2
39.7
39.0
31,263
26,736
23,485
28,860
24,882
19,854
1,951
2,066
2,028
14.92
10.99
9.51
14.66
11.48
8.40
588
432
365
586
440
327
39.4
39.3
38.4
30,589
22,464
19,003
30,493
22,864
17,014
2,050
2,043
1,997
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$17.79
$14.00
$708
16.97
17.25
16.97
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
32
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$632
39.7
$38,631
$32,735
2,049
1,479
1,347
1,513
1,462
44.6
44.5
76,897
70,040
78,658
75,999
2,319
2,314
19.44
905
837
41.5
47,071
43,499
2,158
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$18.85
$16.15
$749
Management occupations ...................
Financial managers ............................
33.16
30.27
31.44
30.25
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
21.81
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Mechanical engineers .....................
Engineering technicians, except
drafters .........................................
32.27
33.52
31.73
30.10
30.10
30.58
1,304
1,356
1,276
1,204
1,238
1,238
40.4
40.5
40.2
67,796
70,529
66,328
62,608
64,376
64,376
2,101
2,104
2,091
23.13
24.38
925
975
40.0
48,104
50,710
2,080
Arts, design, entertainment, sports,
and media occupations ..................
15.43
14.05
582
450
37.7
30,246
23,384
1,961
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
30.96
30.69
25.12
26.50
1,207
1,182
1,005
1,066
39.0
38.5
62,768
61,439
52,250
55,411
2,027
2,002
12.05
11.23
471
435
39.1
24,478
22,610
2,032
10.26
9.95
407
394
39.6
21,155
20,488
2,061
Healthcare support occupations .........
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health
aides .............................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and
attendants .................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support
occupations ..................................
10.26
9.95
407
394
39.6
21,155
20,488
2,061
14.18
13.70
544
530
38.4
28,293
27,560
1,995
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
9.72
8.50
372
292
38.3
18,807
15,184
1,936
11.10
11.23
9.50
9.41
453
449
380
376
40.8
39.9
23,561
23,326
19,760
19,573
2,122
2,077
12.45
10.68
498
427
40.0
25,897
22,214
2,080
17.47
14.46
685
596
39.2
35,609
30,992
2,038
21.72
11.20
12.54
16.75
10.20
12.68
887
419
475
670
403
465
40.8
37.4
37.9
46,124
21,797
24,694
34,840
20,958
24,190
2,123
1,947
1,969
24.13
16.06
965
642
40.0
50,182
33,407
2,080
13.98
13.25
12.99
11.26
544
525
513
450
38.9
39.6
28,312
27,324
26,660
23,421
2,025
2,061
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
Janitors and cleaners, except
maids and housekeeping
cleaners ....................................
Sales and related occupations ............
First-line supervisors/managers, sales
workers .........................................
Retail sales workers ...........................
Retail salespersons ........................
Sales representatives, wholesale and
manufacturing ...............................
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
Financial clerks ...................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and
auditing clerks ...........................
Customer service representatives ......
Receptionists and information clerks ..
Stock clerks and order fillers ..............
Secretaries and administrative
assistants ......................................
Office clerks, general ..........................
13.74
14.82
11.42
10.41
12.99
15.00
11.49
10.00
550
592
440
328
520
600
453
390
40.0
39.9
38.5
31.5
28,581
30,768
22,888
17,073
27,019
31,200
23,546
20,280
2,080
2,075
2,004
1,640
16.96
12.82
18.75
12.00
673
511
744
480
39.7
39.9
35,016
26,581
38,700
24,960
2,065
2,074
Construction and extraction
occupations ....................................
24.75
26.53
965
1,052
39.0
46,898
49,600
1,895
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
20.30
19.05
812
762
40.0
42,221
39,624
2,080
See footnotes at end of table.
33
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Automotive technicians and
repairers .......................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance
workers .........................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .....
Production occupations ......................
First-line supervisors/managers of
production and operating
workers .........................................
Electrical, electronics, and
electromechanical assemblers .....
Electrical and electronic equipment
assemblers ...............................
Miscellaneous assemblers and
fabricators .....................................
Computer control programmers and
operators ......................................
Computer-controlled machine tool
operators, metal and plastic .....
Forming machine setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic ......
Forging machine setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic ..
Machine tool cutting setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic ...........................................
Cutting, punching, and press
machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .........
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and
buffing machine tool setters,
operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic ................................
Lathe and turning machine tool
setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic .......................
Machinists ...........................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing
workers .........................................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and
brazers ......................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ................................
Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders ..................
Painting workers .................................
Coating, painting, and spraying
machine setters, operators, and
tenders ......................................
Miscellaneous production workers .....
Helpers--production workers ..........
Transportation and material moving
occupations ....................................
Driver/sales workers and truck
drivers ...........................................
Truck drivers, heavy and
tractor-trailer .............................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ..
Laborers and material movers, hand ..
Laborers and freight, stock, and
material movers, hand ..............
Machine feeders and offbearers .....
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$450
40.0
$28,478
$23,400
2,080
892
952
867
958
40.0
40.0
46,407
49,489
45,074
49,791
2,080
2,080
14.09
615
561
39.9
32,002
29,182
2,076
24.19
25.00
976
1,000
40.4
50,765
52,021
2,098
12.48
11.99
499
480
40.0
25,957
24,939
2,080
12.37
12.40
495
496
40.0
25,740
25,788
2,080
17.79
14.00
708
560
39.8
36,812
29,120
2,069
16.97
17.25
679
690
40.0
35,297
35,880
2,080
16.97
17.25
679
690
40.0
35,297
35,880
2,080
13.76
13.97
551
559
40.0
28,627
29,058
2,080
16.53
16.85
661
674
40.0
34,391
35,048
2,080
13.42
12.19
536
488
40.0
27,891
25,355
2,079
11.73
11.99
469
480
40.0
24,404
24,939
2,080
11.16
10.43
446
417
39.9
23,169
21,694
2,076
16.50
18.32
16.25
18.08
660
733
650
723
40.0
40.0
34,314
38,105
33,800
37,606
2,080
2,080
16.08
15.49
643
620
40.0
33,450
32,219
2,080
14.93
14.50
597
580
40.0
31,047
30,160
2,080
14.56
13.35
582
534
40.0
30,276
27,768
2,080
15.68
10.74
14.48
10.42
627
430
579
417
40.0
40.0
32,613
22,346
30,118
21,674
2,080
2,080
10.74
12.94
11.74
10.42
12.03
11.83
430
515
465
417
481
468
40.0
39.8
39.6
22,346
26,776
24,167
21,674
25,029
24,336
2,080
2,070
2,058
13.33
12.08
525
472
39.3
27,114
24,361
2,034
15.81
14.80
623
555
39.4
31,290
27,265
1,979
15.97
12.94
11.58
14.80
12.30
10.00
627
514
452
555
479
382
39.2
39.7
39.0
31,149
26,736
23,485
28,640
24,882
19,854
1,950
2,066
2,028
14.92
10.99
14.66
11.48
588
432
586
440
39.4
39.3
30,589
22,464
30,493
22,864
2,050
2,043
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$13.69
$11.25
$548
22.31
23.79
21.67
23.94
15.41
See footnotes at end of table.
34
Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Packers and packagers, hand ........
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$9.51
$8.40
$365
$327
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
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
38.4
$19,003
$17,014
1,997
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
35
Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings
and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$954
37.4
$42,694
$41,600
1,615
1,410
1,554
1,352
1,528
40.6
40.0
71,181
73,926
70,310
63,498
2,050
1,903
14.91
759
596
39.4
38,684
31,013
2,009
36.55
36.81
1,242
1,274
34.0
45,325
46,896
1,240
40.66
40.33
1,365
1,357
33.6
49,502
49,792
1,218
42.42
42.31
1,394
1,389
32.9
50,504
49,998
1,191
42.74
34.97
43.03
34.53
1,399
1,271
1,389
1,253
32.7
36.3
50,676
46,329
49,998
45,643
1,186
1,325
34.97
32.84
34.53
30.10
1,271
1,216
1,253
1,131
36.3
37.0
46,329
44,009
45,643
40,723
1,325
1,340
32.96
11.46
30.30
10.63
1,224
382
1,134
345
37.1
33.3
44,232
13,817
41,067
12,571
1,342
1,206
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$26.44
$23.99
$990
Management occupations ...................
Education administrators ....................
34.73
38.86
33.80
38.19
Community and social services
occupations ....................................
19.25
Education, training, and library
occupations ....................................
Primary, secondary, and special
education school teachers ............
Elementary and middle school
teachers ....................................
Elementary school teachers,
except special education ......
Secondary school teachers ............
Secondary school teachers,
except special and vocational
education ..............................
Special education teachers ............
Special education teachers,
preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school ................
Teacher assistants .............................
Annual earnings5
Protective service occupations ...........
First-line supervisors/managers, law
enforcement workers ....................
Police officers .....................................
Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ...
24.39
24.55
1,060
1,099
43.5
55,115
57,158
2,260
29.64
22.00
22.00
29.21
20.42
20.42
1,208
902
902
1,168
817
817
40.7
41.0
41.0
62,793
46,916
46,916
60,757
42,474
42,474
2,118
2,133
2,133
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
9.11
8.24
324
309
35.5
12,932
12,463
1,420
15.39
15.59
15.92
16.11
616
624
637
644
40.0
40.0
32,013
32,423
33,114
33,505
2,080
2,080
15.59
16.11
624
644
40.0
32,423
33,505
2,080
16.07
15.80
638
632
39.7
32,408
32,671
2,017
15.65
15.11
621
638
39.7
31,521
31,429
2,014
15.56
15.11
617
604
39.7
31,295
31,429
2,011
Construction and extraction
occupations ....................................
17.65
15.80
709
632
40.2
36,880
32,864
2,089
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
24.56
24.97
991
999
40.4
51,548
51,938
2,099
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
Janitors and cleaners, except
maids and housekeeping
cleaners ....................................
Office and administrative support
occupations ....................................
Secretaries and administrative
assistants ......................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical,
and executive ...........................
See footnotes at end of table.
36
Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings
and mean weekly and annual hours, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Transportation and material moving
occupations ....................................
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$16.05
$15.44
$567
$536
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
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
35.3
$24,938
$25,106
1,553
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
37
Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments
for major occupational groups, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Occupational group2
Total
1-99
workers
100-499
workers
500
workers
or more
All workers ....................................................................
$17.73
$16.86
$16.26
$23.19
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 .......................
29.71
27.76
30.57
9.32
14.15
15.05
13.60
21.81
24.75
20.20
14.26
15.23
12.46
28.13
23.44
31.59
8.76
14.45
15.01
13.96
21.38
27.53
17.28
13.56
14.89
11.37
27.25
30.22
26.40
9.93
14.03
16.08
13.22
21.34
–
23.54
12.97
13.69
11.31
34.49
37.77
33.58
11.67
12.55
–
13.40
25.99
–
27.59
18.28
20.35
15.58
Relative error3 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
3.4
7.3
4.1
4.4
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 .......................
4.5
5.8
5.7
5.2
4.0
8.4
3.2
7.2
7.4
10.1
3.7
3.2
7.0
11.7
8.7
16.1
6.4
7.9
13.5
4.5
11.5
.6
8.7
6.2
4.6
16.8
2.8
4.3
3.5
6.7
3.5
14.0
3.3
11.2
–
9.8
4.6
5.8
9.0
3.9
8.8
5.4
1.7
12.1
–
12.2
3.0
–
15.6
5.7
3.0
13.6
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.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that
data did not meet publication criteria.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation
Survey.
38
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, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$670
39.5
$37,112
$33,696
2,023
1,368
1,405
47.4
71,157
73,060
2,465
19.39
799
822
42.4
41,555
42,744
2,204
35.30
34.27
1,304
1,360
37.0
67,827
70,720
1,922
Healthcare support occupations .............................
12.98
13.50
492
466
37.9
25,600
24,222
1,973
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ........................................................
9.72
8.50
372
292
38.3
18,810
15,106
1,936
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
17.07
10.22
15.66
9.00
665
369
626
360
39.0
36.1
34,568
19,172
32,575
18,720
2,026
1,876
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Customer service representatives ..........................
14.49
12.34
14.10
14.00
10.97
15.42
556
484
564
543
439
617
38.4
39.2
40.0
28,909
25,170
29,325
28,210
22,820
32,063
1,995
2,040
2,080
Construction and extraction occupations .............
27.53
28.23
1,059
1,129
38.5
49,895
55,182
1,812
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ........................................................
17.28
18.00
691
720
40.0
35,936
37,440
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$18.34
$16.75
$725
Management occupations .......................................
28.87
29.24
Business and financial operations occupations ...
18.86
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ........................................................
Production occupations ..........................................
Computer control programmers and operators ......
Computer-controlled machine tool operators,
metal and plastic ...........................................
Miscellaneous production workers .........................
15.52
16.66
15.50
16.40
621
666
620
656
40.0
40.0
32,284
34,648
32,240
34,112
2,080
2,080
16.66
11.29
16.40
11.55
666
452
656
462
40.0
40.0
34,648
23,491
34,112
24,024
2,080
2,080
Transportation and material moving
occupations ........................................................
12.85
13.11
500
524
38.9
25,377
27,265
1,975
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
39
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, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$610
39.8
$39,819
$31,741
2,069
1,582
1,557
41.9
82,277
80,976
2,181
26.09
1,108
1,044
39.8
57,614
54,267
2,070
32.96
34.68
31.72
23.13
30.95
33.44
30.68
24.38
1,325
1,396
1,269
925
1,238
1,342
1,227
975
40.2
40.2
40.0
40.0
68,923
72,581
65,969
48,104
64,376
69,805
63,804
50,710
2,091
2,093
2,080
2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ........................................................
Registered nurses ..................................................
29.31
24.01
22.36
23.00
1,167
956
890
922
39.8
39.8
60,691
49,726
46,259
47,965
2,071
2,071
Healthcare support occupations .............................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ......
11.33
13.29
10.64
13.60
453
531
426
544
40.0
40.0
23,561
27,638
22,131
28,288
2,080
2,080
11.25
11.25
9.44
9.44
449
449
378
378
39.9
39.9
23,361
23,361
19,635
19,635
2,077
2,077
12.45
10.68
498
427
40.0
25,897
22,214
2,080
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
18.37
12.57
12.75
12.68
730
497
509
465
39.8
39.5
37,965
25,830
26,458
24,190
2,067
2,055
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ...
Customer service representatives ..........................
Receptionists and information clerks ......................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ..............
Office clerks, general ..............................................
13.53
14.04
12.74
15.58
11.39
12.96
13.81
12.32
12.99
12.99
14.67
11.49
13.15
12.99
534
561
510
620
441
517
549
487
520
520
587
459
493
520
39.5
40.0
40.0
39.8
38.7
39.9
39.8
27,774
29,195
26,498
32,263
22,949
26,880
28,572
25,314
27,019
27,019
30,514
23,889
25,646
27,019
2,052
2,080
2,080
2,071
2,015
2,073
2,068
Construction and extraction occupations .............
19.32
13.97
773
559
40.0
40,179
29,058
2,080
24.48
23.50
979
940
40.0
50,925
48,880
2,080
22.49
24.53
21.48
23.37
900
981
859
935
40.0
40.0
46,787
51,014
44,678
48,610
2,080
2,080
15.38
13.53
614
540
39.9
31,915
28,080
2,075
12.55
11.72
502
469
40.0
26,111
24,378
2,080
12.49
17.88
12.40
14.25
499
712
496
570
40.0
39.8
25,972
37,004
25,788
29,640
2,080
2,069
13.12
8.87
525
355
40.0
27,285
18,439
2,080
16.42
19.10
657
764
40.0
34,157
39,734
2,080
12.61
11.99
504
480
40.0
26,200
24,939
2,078
11.73
11.99
469
480
40.0
24,404
24,939
2,080
11.35
18.03
16.08
14.93
10.83
17.57
15.49
14.50
453
721
643
597
433
703
620
580
39.9
40.0
40.0
40.0
23,553
37,506
33,450
31,047
22,526
36,546
32,219
30,160
2,075
2,080
2,080
2,080
14.54
12.63
582
505
40.0
30,242
26,270
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$19.24
$15.33
$767
Management occupations .......................................
37.72
38.93
Business and financial operations occupations ...
27.83
Architecture and engineering occupations ...........
Engineers ...............................................................
Mechanical engineers .........................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ................
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ........................................................
Building cleaning workers .......................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners .................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ........................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and
maintenance workers .......................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .........................
Production occupations ..........................................
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical
assemblers .......................................................
Electrical and electronic equipment
assemblers ...................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .............
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic ...............................................
Forging machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .............................
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ....
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing
machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic .............................
Machinists ...............................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ............
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and
weighers ...........................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
40
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, Rockford, IL, April 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Packaging and filling machine operators and
tenders ..............................................................
Miscellaneous production workers .........................
Transportation and material moving
occupations ........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ......................
Laborers and material movers, hand ......................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material
movers, hand ................................................
Machine feeders and offbearers .........................
Packers and packagers, hand ............................
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$579
486
40.0
39.7
$32,613
28,185
$30,118
25,293
2,080
2,065
533
519
466
464
479
420
39.5
39.6
38.9
27,705
26,975
24,210
24,128
24,882
21,840
2,054
2,061
2,023
588
489
370
586
509
335
39.4
38.9
38.4
30,589
25,405
19,238
30,493
26,481
17,410
2,050
2,023
1,994
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$15.68
13.65
$14.48
12.23
$627
542
13.49
13.09
11.97
11.71
12.07
10.68
14.92
12.56
9.65
14.66
12.82
8.45
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
41
Table 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Rockford, IL,
April 2006
Union
Nonunion
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
All workers ....................................................................
$23.29
$21.66
$27.27
$17.10
$17.04
$19.02
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 .......................
35.98
–
35.98
17.18
15.47
–
15.82
25.60
–
27.65
18.79
20.14
16.95
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
26.08
25.47
27.76
18.93
20.10
17.16
36.37
–
36.37
19.12
15.84
–
15.84
18.90
17.06
25.63
16.03
–
15.26
29.54
28.23
30.15
9.60
14.16
15.08
13.60
18.19
–
18.37
12.75
13.80
10.67
29.72
27.76
30.60
9.27
14.13
15.09
13.53
18.14
–
18.35
12.73
13.79
10.64
25.74
34.26
17.12
14.33
15.40
–
15.70
22.63
–
–
14.77
–
12.78
Occupational group3
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
2.9
3.9
6.0
3.5
3.6
2.5
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 .......................
5.1
–
5.1
11.7
11.1
–
9.5
3.2
–
7.7
7.2
2.9
13.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.4
7.4
8.3
7.4
3.0
14.4
5.2
–
5.2
13.1
4.5
–
4.5
14.9
17.6
5.5
6.8
–
6.4
4.4
5.3
5.7
5.6
4.1
8.5
3.2
7.9
–
8.6
2.7
1.9
7.5
4.6
5.8
5.8
5.2
4.1
8.5
3.4
7.9
–
8.6
2.7
1.9
7.6
7.4
3.8
11.7
8.3
4.5
–
4.0
8.1
–
–
17.5
–
18.6
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.
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 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational
groups, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Time
Occupational group3
Incentive
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
All workers ....................................................................
$17.93
$17.31
$26.81
$26.81
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 .......................
29.92
28.31
30.50
10.47
12.99
11.47
13.68
21.62
–
20.09
14.24
15.31
12.38
29.10
27.81
29.64
9.32
12.82
11.48
13.48
21.70
24.75
20.02
14.22
15.29
12.28
41.48
–
–
–
24.56
27.05
–
–
–
–
15.74
13.85
–
41.48
–
–
–
24.56
27.05
–
–
–
–
15.74
13.85
–
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
3.1
3.4
14.2
14.2
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 .......................
3.0
5.8
3.7
5.9
2.3
2.4
2.7
6.7
–
9.5
3.6
2.9
7.3
3.5
6.4
4.4
5.2
2.5
2.4
3.0
7.0
7.4
9.7
3.6
2.9
7.7
21.7
–
–
–
14.2
18.2
–
–
–
–
14.5
13.3
–
21.7
–
–
–
14.2
18.2
–
–
–
–
14.5
13.3
–
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.
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 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group, Rockford, IL, April
2006
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
–
$20.05
$14.34
$22.59
$17.63
$16.80
$18.59
$8.42
$21.54
–
30.73
29.82
–
21.51
–
27.57
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.58
30.37
–
19.63
30.10
15.46
33.33
24.11
7.68
11.45
10.77
13.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.81
–
–
14.62
–
14.36
–
–
–
12.45
–
12.61
26.86
27.67
10.73
11.74
–
11.83
–
–
8.00
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22.04
23.92
17.56
17.05
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
16.65
16.84
15.87
12.30
15.10
11.79
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.43
10.16
7.80
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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 ...
–
5.8
2.5
5.5
7.1
19.5
7.3
3.4
24.4
–
4.9
14.4
–
10.4
–
4.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.0
1.6
–
5.9
20.9
4.7
22.3
33.8
6.5
1.9
3.3
3.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.4
–
–
10.1
–
9.9
–
–
–
4.9
–
5.8
9.6
4.9
6.6
4.9
–
5.6
–
–
5.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.2
7.9
11.5
10.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.2
3.8
11.7
5.7
19.9
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.3
.1
6.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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.
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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Appendix A: Technical Note
T
ployment 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 employing 50 or more workers. 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 Rockford, IL, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Boone, Ogle, and Winnebago Counties.
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 or part-time,
union or nonunion, and time or 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
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.
Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to em-
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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.
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:
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•
•
•
•
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 collec-
tion. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample
units.
Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time
hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings:
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage.
•
•
•
•
•
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.
Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
solely tied to an hourly rate or salary.
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Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•
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,
postratification, 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 $16.46 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, Rockford, IL,
April 2006
Civilian
workers
Occupational group2
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
All workers ....................................................................
158,700
142,300
16,400
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 .......................
35,900
7,800
28,200
28,800
33,800
13,700
20,200
17,900
7,100
10,700
42,200
25,100
17,100
27,800
7,100
20,700
24,000
32,200
13,600
18,600
17,300
6,600
10,500
41,100
25,100
16,000
8,200
700
7,500
4,800
1,700
–
1,600
600
500
200
1,100
–
1,100
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.
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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Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Rockford, IL, April 2006
Establishments
Total
Private
industry
State and
local
government
Total in sampling frame1 ................................................
8,639
8,264
376
Total in sample ...............................................................
Responding ............................................................
Refused or unable to provide data .........................
Out of business or not in survey scope ..................
308
227
40
41
265
189
36
40
43
38
4
1
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.
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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