Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson, SC
National Compensation Survey
September 2006
_________________________________________________________________________________________
U.S. Department of Labor
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Philip L. Rones, Deputy Commissioner
July 2007
Bulletin 3135–68
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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4
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21
23
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36
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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.
Table 14 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by high-level occupational ag-
he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for
the Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson, SC, metropolitan area. Data were collected between March 2006 and
April 2007; the average reference month is September
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
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high-level occupational aggregation. Table 19 presents
mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions
within the private sector.
Appendix table 1 presents the number of workers represented by the survey, by high-level occupational aggregation and for all industries, private industry, and State and
local government. Appendix table 2 provides the number
of establishments in the sampling frame and the number of
responding and nonresponding establishments.
gregations 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
and incentive workers in all and private establishments by
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Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Civilian
workers
Worker and establishment
characteristics
Private industry
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
$15.67
4.7
Management, professional, and related ...........
Management, business, and financial ..........
Professional and related ...............................
Service ..............................................................
Sales and office ................................................
Sales and related ..........................................
Office and administrative support .................
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance ...................................................
Construction and extraction .........................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ............
Production, transportation, and material
moving ............................................................
Production ....................................................
Transportation and material moving .............
28.71
37.33
24.51
9.60
12.40
10.26
13.38
State and local government
workers
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
36.9
$15.12
5.3
7.0
11.2
2.3
7.4
4.8
3.6
4.1
38.0
41.6
36.5
33.9
35.5
33.1
36.8
29.68
37.84
23.98
8.63
12.36
10.26
13.45
13.47
12.00
15.51
10.9
20.7
7.1
39.3
40.0
38.3
14.52
15.81
12.90
3.1
3.1
4.5
Full time ............................................................
Part time ...........................................................
16.14
9.80
Union ................................................................
Nonunion ..........................................................
Time ..................................................................
Incentive ...........................................................
Hourly earnings
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
weekly
hours3
Mean
Relative
error2
(percent)
37.0
$19.72
1.8
36.5
9.7
12.7
3.7
3.8
5.1
3.6
4.5
38.8
42.0
36.8
33.4
35.4
33.1
36.7
26.60
34.18
25.31
13.57
12.81
–
12.81
2.4
7.9
2.1
10.3
3.1
–
3.1
36.4
39.4
36.0
36.0
38.1
–
38.1
13.46
12.01
15.56
11.5
21.4
7.8
39.3
40.0
38.2
13.72
–
14.96
9.4
–
2.1
39.5
–
39.6
38.3
39.4
37.0
14.57
15.82
12.96
3.1
3.1
4.6
38.4
39.5
37.2
12.14
–
11.14
10.1
–
6.2
32.1
–
31.6
4.4
7.9
39.6
20.0
15.60
9.60
5.0
7.8
39.8
20.3
19.95
13.07
2.0
12.6
38.2
16.1
16.84
15.66
9.1
4.8
40.0
36.9
16.84
15.10
9.1
5.4
40.0
36.9
–
19.72
–
1.8
–
36.5
15.20
22.05
4.1
27.3
36.8
38.1
14.53
22.05
4.5
27.3
36.9
38.1
19.72
–
1.8
–
36.5
–
Goods producing ..............................................
Service providing ..............................................
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
18.78
13.25
6.0
6.8
40.3
35.5
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
1-99 workers .....................................................
100-499 workers ...............................................
500 workers or more .........................................
13.28
15.86
19.28
11.2
5.8
3.2
36.1
37.8
37.5
13.28
15.76
18.72
11.2
6.3
4.6
36.1
37.9
38.0
–
16.94
20.34
–
14.5
3.3
–
36.7
36.4
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,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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 ..............................................................................
$15.67
4.7
$16.14
4.4
$9.80
7.9
Management occupations .................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Level 11 ............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
41.56
28.26
36.70
40.42
66.79
38.48
11.7
9.5
14.4
6.7
13.2
12.6
41.56
28.26
36.70
40.42
66.79
38.48
11.7
9.5
14.4
6.7
13.2
12.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Level 7 .............................................................
26.22
26.39
13.7
22.0
26.26
–
13.7
–
–
–
–
–
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
25.87
2.1
25.87
2.1
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
26.22
27.98
21.11
5.0
8.8
7.3
26.22
27.98
21.11
5.0
8.8
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
22.86
12.2
22.86
12.2
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
14.32
.9
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
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 ..........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
29.75
25.63
30.92
35.10
3.6
12.4
1.8
5.8
30.32
–
30.92
35.10
4.0
–
1.8
5.8
9.53
–
–
–
6.5
–
–
–
30.82
30.92
30.80
30.69
1.6
1.8
1.5
1.9
30.82
30.92
30.80
30.69
1.6
1.8
1.5
1.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.69
30.69
31.81
31.81
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.8
30.69
30.69
31.81
31.81
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.81
31.81
29.94
30.46
11.27
1.8
1.8
1.6
.8
2.2
31.81
31.81
29.94
30.46
–
1.8
1.8
1.6
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .............
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
Level 4 .............................................................
22.48
16.16
17.02
24.32
27.37
28.47
24.75
27.14
21.61
16.04
16.45
3.8
4.8
5.0
2.0
3.4
6.2
.6
3.8
7.1
3.1
4.2
22.33
16.27
17.11
24.29
27.50
29.16
24.65
27.28
–
16.06
–
4.6
5.0
5.4
3.2
3.2
8.9
1.6
3.8
–
3.5
–
23.45
–
–
24.42
–
24.98
–
–
–
–
–
4.9
–
–
3.4
–
2.3
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Level 2 .............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
10.61
9.07
10.65
9.52
10.03
9.01
10.14
10.03
10.98
5.2
8.8
10.4
6.3
5.0
8.8
5.0
5.0
8.5
11.15
10.20
–
9.69
10.11
–
10.27
10.11
11.69
4.2
4.2
–
6.5
5.6
–
5.0
5.6
6.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
12.72
19.8
12.84
20.4
10.64
8.2
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,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............
Security guards .............................................................
$8.19
8.19
1.1
1.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, institution and cafeteria ....................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
8.43
7.59
7.88
10.71
10.71
8.13
7.62
3.2
7.6
6.8
10.2
10.2
11.9
6.7
$8.56
7.52
–
–
–
–
–
2.8
8.9
–
–
–
–
–
$7.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
8.49
8.17
8.30
8.11
5.2
5.3
5.2
6.2
8.69
8.45
8.50
8.46
4.6
3.1
4.7
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.24
7.97
9.63
9.63
5.4
6.4
3.0
3.0
8.45
8.34
–
–
4.9
4.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
9.32
14.0
–
–
9.95
22.6
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
10.26
8.06
9.73
10.89
12.41
12.41
9.23
8.06
9.64
8.33
8.33
9.91
3.6
6.1
7.2
.0
2.4
2.4
1.4
6.1
9.7
2.2
2.2
3.2
10.94
–
9.95
11.74
12.41
12.41
9.82
–
–
8.55
8.55
11.20
5.1
–
9.1
.0
2.4
2.4
3.9
–
–
.7
.7
2.2
7.97
–
–
–
–
–
7.97
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
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 4 .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Level 4 .............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Level 4 .............................................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
13.38
9.44
12.36
13.17
15.74
17.79
25.08
4.1
8.6
5.3
2.5
2.7
4.2
4.4
13.58
9.49
12.83
13.25
15.78
18.24
25.08
4.4
9.0
5.5
2.4
2.7
4.1
4.4
10.36
–
10.38
–
–
–
–
6.9
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
25.69
13.13
12.43
12.99
11.33
14.35
11.42
13.53
12.38
14.04
13.04
15.40
17.23
13.79
13.52
12.89
13.09
3.7
7.1
7.8
9.4
4.0
5.8
4.8
4.3
6.5
4.3
7.8
4.0
8.6
8.7
10.3
4.1
3.6
25.69
13.18
12.44
12.99
11.33
14.74
–
13.29
13.27
14.33
13.50
15.40
17.23
14.45
14.21
12.90
13.09
3.7
7.2
7.9
9.4
4.1
5.6
–
4.3
8.8
3.4
7.0
4.0
8.6
7.0
8.5
4.1
3.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 6 .............................................................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
12.00
16.60
9.10
20.7
10.6
26.2
12.00
16.60
9.10
20.7
10.6
26.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
5
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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 .........
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Level 5 .............................................................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
$15.51
12.08
14.87
18.79
21.20
7.1
5.8
11.6
6.7
8.7
$15.51
12.08
14.80
18.79
21.20
7.3
5.8
13.0
6.7
8.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.21
17.11
18.72
16.37
17.00
8.6
4.3
15.7
9.6
6.5
17.21
17.11
18.72
16.37
17.00
8.6
4.3
15.7
9.6
6.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.26
4.9
11.26
4.9
–
–
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 .......................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Level 2 .............................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Level 2 .............................................................
15.81
10.60
11.87
13.14
18.59
17.73
20.58
22.15
3.1
6.9
4.5
6.4
1.8
5.0
.5
5.5
15.93
11.08
11.92
13.19
18.59
17.73
20.58
22.15
3.3
5.8
4.9
6.4
1.8
5.0
.5
5.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.21
21.10
17.38
11.57
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
12.04
11.75
5.2
10.9
7.6
5.1
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
2.3
.3
21.21
21.10
18.73
–
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
12.04
11.75
5.2
10.9
4.4
–
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
2.3
.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.63
5.4
12.63
5.4
–
–
11.70
12.17
5.9
20.6
11.70
12.17
5.9
20.6
–
–
–
–
16.91
3.7
16.91
3.7
–
–
18.69
14.72
13.62
13.08
10.22
12.6
5.9
3.2
7.4
15.8
–
14.72
13.62
13.26
10.22
–
5.9
3.2
7.4
15.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.90
8.32
11.30
11.31
16.10
15.89
15.10
15.96
15.51
12.07
12.50
11.69
11.03
8.28
10.94
12.26
4.5
6.0
5.0
2.6
3.8
8.2
7.4
3.3
14.1
8.1
13.6
8.2
6.7
6.5
6.0
11.9
13.44
8.71
11.73
11.44
16.10
15.89
15.58
15.96
15.51
12.52
14.11
11.60
11.59
8.68
11.06
12.26
6.0
9.3
6.3
2.8
3.8
8.2
8.1
3.3
14.1
7.1
8.6
8.9
8.4
9.9
6.2
11.9
$9.07
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.09
8.0
13.28
8.9
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Level 4 .............................................................
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer .........................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
See footnotes at end of table.
6
Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
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)
$10.06
8.85
8.24
8.5
9.4
9.3
$10.06
9.57
–
8.5
13.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and
complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored
to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the
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.
7
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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 ..............................................................................
$15.12
5.3
$15.60
5.0
$9.60
7.8
Management occupations .................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Not able to be leveled .......................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
42.71
27.23
41.20
38.48
13.4
11.4
5.6
12.6
42.71
27.23
41.20
38.48
13.4
11.4
5.6
12.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
26.68
13.8
26.72
13.8
–
–
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
25.87
2.1
25.87
2.1
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
26.21
27.99
21.11
5.0
8.9
7.3
26.21
27.99
21.11
5.0
8.9
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
28.21
12.7
29.59
10.5
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Level 9 .............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
24.18
16.83
23.46
27.43
30.46
24.26
27.20
15.99
5.0
2.2
4.1
3.6
7.3
2.2
4.1
3.8
24.29
17.01
23.28
27.56
32.07
–
27.34
16.02
6.9
1.5
4.7
3.3
12.1
–
4.1
4.1
23.63
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
10.18
10.09
8.74
9.27
10.51
6.1
14.3
3.6
3.4
9.6
10.81
–
8.83
–
–
5.4
–
3.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
8.27
2.6
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, institution and cafeteria ....................................
8.34
7.39
7.88
10.71
10.71
2.7
6.2
6.8
10.2
10.2
8.46
7.26
–
–
–
2.5
7.5
–
–
–
7.72
–
–
–
–
3.6
–
–
–
–
8.34
7.80
8.06
7.58
6.0
6.0
5.6
6.4
8.57
8.17
8.30
–
5.4
3.5
5.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.97
9.63
9.63
5.7
3.0
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
9.27
15.3
–
–
9.93
24.7
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ...............
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
Retail sales workers .........................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Cashiers, all workers ....................................................
Cashiers ...................................................................
Retail salespersons ......................................................
10.26
8.06
9.73
10.89
12.41
12.41
9.23
8.06
9.64
8.33
8.33
9.91
3.6
6.1
7.2
.0
2.4
2.4
1.4
6.1
9.7
2.2
2.2
3.2
10.94
–
9.95
11.74
12.41
12.41
9.82
–
–
8.55
8.55
11.20
5.1
–
9.1
.0
2.4
2.4
3.9
–
–
.7
.7
2.2
7.97
–
–
–
–
–
7.97
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
13.45
4.5
13.67
4.9
10.39
7.1
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Grounds maintenance workers .........................................
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers ..................
See footnotes at end of table.
8
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$9.44
12.31
13.27
16.06
17.79
25.08
9.1
6.0
2.8
3.0
4.2
4.4
$9.49
12.84
13.36
16.06
18.24
25.08
9.5
6.4
2.7
3.0
4.1
4.4
–
$10.38
–
–
–
–
–
8.3
–
–
–
–
25.69
13.10
12.43
12.99
11.33
14.35
11.42
13.53
12.38
13.97
12.88
17.91
13.47
13.25
3.7
7.2
7.8
9.4
4.0
5.8
4.8
4.3
6.5
5.1
8.9
10.3
10.4
11.3
25.69
13.15
12.44
12.99
11.33
14.74
–
13.29
13.27
14.33
13.42
17.91
14.25
14.00
3.7
7.2
7.9
9.4
4.1
5.6
–
4.3
8.8
3.8
8.0
10.3
8.8
9.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Level 6 .............................................................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
12.01
16.60
9.04
21.4
10.6
27.5
12.01
16.60
9.04
21.4
10.6
27.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Level 5 .............................................................
Level 6 .............................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
15.56
14.55
19.27
21.88
7.8
13.6
7.5
10.2
15.56
14.41
19.27
21.88
8.0
15.4
7.5
10.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.70
17.40
18.72
16.96
9.9
5.3
15.7
12.1
17.70
17.40
18.72
16.96
9.9
5.3
15.7
12.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.26
4.9
11.26
4.9
–
–
15.82
10.60
11.87
13.19
18.59
17.72
20.58
22.58
3.1
6.9
4.5
6.4
1.8
5.1
.5
5.6
15.93
11.08
11.92
13.19
18.59
17.72
20.58
22.58
3.3
5.8
4.9
6.4
1.8
5.1
.5
5.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.18
21.03
17.38
11.57
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
12.04
11.75
5.2
11.1
7.6
5.1
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
2.3
.3
21.18
21.03
18.73
–
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
12.04
11.75
5.2
11.1
4.4
–
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
2.3
.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.63
5.4
12.63
5.4
–
–
11.70
12.17
5.9
20.6
11.70
12.17
5.9
20.6
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations
–Continued
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 4 .............................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks .............
Level 4 .............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Level 4 .............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Level 4 .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Level 4 .............................................................
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 .......................................................
Level 7 .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Level 2 .............................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
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,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Level 2 .............................................................
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 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Laborers and material movers, hand ................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Level 2 .............................................................
Level 3 .............................................................
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,
hand ........................................................................
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)
$16.91
14.72
13.62
13.08
10.22
3.7
5.9
3.2
7.4
15.8
$16.91
14.72
13.62
13.26
10.22
3.7
5.9
3.2
7.4
15.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.96
8.32
11.40
11.31
16.10
15.10
15.96
15.49
12.07
12.50
11.69
11.03
8.28
10.94
12.26
4.6
6.0
5.7
2.6
3.8
7.5
3.3
14.2
8.1
13.6
8.2
6.7
6.5
6.0
11.9
13.50
8.71
11.91
11.44
16.10
15.57
15.96
15.49
12.52
14.11
11.60
11.59
8.68
11.06
12.26
6.2
9.3
7.2
2.8
3.8
8.2
3.3
14.2
7.1
8.6
8.9
8.4
9.9
6.2
11.9
$9.01
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.09
10.06
8.85
8.24
8.0
8.5
9.4
9.3
13.28
10.06
9.57
–
8.9
8.5
13.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a
worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where
a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is
evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and
complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored
to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the
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.
10
Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work
levels3, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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 ..............................................................................
$19.72
1.8
$19.95
2.0
$13.07
12.6
Management occupations .................................................
36.06
3.1
36.06
3.1
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Level 9 .............................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
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 ..........................................
Level 9 .............................................................
29.95
31.02
3.8
1.8
30.41
31.02
4.3
1.8
–
–
–
–
30.95
31.02
30.90
30.80
1.5
1.8
1.5
1.9
30.95
31.02
30.90
30.80
1.5
1.8
1.5
1.9
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.80
30.80
31.81
31.81
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.8
30.80
30.80
31.81
31.81
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.81
31.81
29.94
30.46
1.8
1.8
1.6
.8
31.81
31.81
29.94
30.46
1.8
1.8
1.6
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
19.62
25.14
1.1
.8
19.38
24.92
2.1
1.5
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
11.89
10.95
10.95
6.2
6.3
6.3
12.04
–
–
5.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
16.21
9.6
16.32
9.7
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
10.36
6.6
–
–
–
–
9.19
9.02
9.19
9.02
2.2
.6
2.2
.6
9.22
9.03
9.22
9.03
2.5
.8
2.5
.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
9.19
9.02
2.2
.6
9.22
9.03
2.5
.8
–
–
–
–
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Level 4 .............................................................
Level 5 .............................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
12.81
12.46
15.15
14.35
3.1
4.3
5.9
6.1
12.86
12.46
–
14.35
3.2
4.3
–
6.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
14.96
2.1
14.96
2.1
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
11.14
6.2
–
–
–
–
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ..................................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Building cleaning workers .................................................
Level 1 .............................................................
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and
housekeeping cleaners ...........................................
Level 1 .............................................................
1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and
tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. 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.
11
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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 ..............................................................................
$15.67
4.7
$16.14
4.4
$9.80
7.9
Management occupations .................................................
Group III ............................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
41.56
34.86
66.79
38.48
11.7
7.5
13.2
12.6
41.56
–
66.79
38.48
11.7
–
13.2
12.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Business and financial operations occupations .............
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
26.22
23.74
28.47
13.7
15.6
24.6
26.26
–
–
13.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
Group II .............................................................
25.87
25.56
2.1
2.0
25.87
–
2.1
–
–
–
–
–
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Engineers .........................................................................
Group III ............................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
Group II .............................................................
26.22
21.86
34.14
27.98
34.24
21.11
19.36
5.0
3.8
2.0
8.8
2.0
7.3
8.6
26.22
–
–
27.98
–
21.11
–
5.0
–
–
8.8
–
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
22.86
12.2
22.86
12.2
–
–
Community and social services occupations ..................
14.32
.9
–
–
–
–
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Postsecondary teachers ...................................................
Primary, secondary, and special education school
teachers ......................................................................
Group III ............................................................
Elementary and middle school teachers .......................
Group III ............................................................
Elementary school teachers, except special
education ............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Secondary school teachers ..........................................
Group III ............................................................
Secondary school teachers, except special and
vocational education ...........................................
Group III ............................................................
Special education teachers ..........................................
Group III ............................................................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
29.75
10.98
25.09
30.71
35.10
3.6
3.0
14.7
1.8
5.8
30.32
–
–
–
35.10
4.0
–
–
–
5.8
9.53
–
–
–
–
6.5
–
–
–
–
30.82
30.92
30.80
30.69
1.6
1.8
1.5
1.9
30.82
–
30.80
–
1.6
–
1.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
30.69
30.69
31.81
31.81
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.8
30.69
30.69
31.81
–
1.9
1.9
1.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
31.81
31.81
29.94
30.46
11.27
11.27
1.8
1.8
1.6
.8
2.2
2.2
31.81
31.81
29.94
–
–
–
1.8
1.8
1.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Registered nurses ............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Group III ............................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .............
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
22.48
15.08
20.90
31.62
28.47
24.75
33.41
21.61
16.04
16.45
15.66
3.8
7.1
4.6
13.1
6.2
.6
14.6
7.1
3.1
4.2
2.2
22.33
–
–
–
29.16
24.65
33.78
–
16.06
–
–
4.6
–
–
–
8.9
1.6
14.8
–
3.5
–
–
23.45
–
–
–
24.98
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.9
–
–
–
2.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Group I ..............................................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Group I ..............................................................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
10.61
10.36
9.52
9.44
10.14
5.2
5.1
6.3
6.2
5.0
11.15
–
9.69
–
10.27
4.2
–
6.5
–
5.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
12
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants –Continued
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
Group I ..............................................................
$10.03
10.98
10.88
5.2
8.5
8.5
$10.15
11.69
–
5.2
6.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Protective service occupations .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............
Group I ..............................................................
Security guards .............................................................
Group I ..............................................................
12.72
8.66
16.55
8.19
8.19
8.19
8.19
19.8
6.9
9.5
1.1
1.1
1.1
1.1
12.84
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
$10.64
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Group I ..............................................................
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, institution and cafeteria ....................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
Group I ..............................................................
8.43
7.85
10.71
10.71
8.13
8.13
7.62
7.62
3.2
3.7
10.2
10.2
11.9
11.9
6.7
6.7
8.56
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
2.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.76
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.1
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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 ..............................................................
8.49
8.20
8.30
7.89
5.2
5.4
5.2
4.3
8.69
–
8.50
–
4.6
–
4.7
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.24
7.79
9.63
9.63
9.63
9.63
5.4
4.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
8.45
7.98
–
–
–
–
4.9
3.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
9.32
14.0
–
–
9.95
22.6
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Group I ..............................................................
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 ..............................................................
10.26
9.42
12.41
12.41
9.23
9.22
8.33
8.21
8.33
8.21
9.91
9.95
3.6
1.8
2.4
2.4
1.4
1.6
2.2
4.0
2.2
4.0
3.2
3.4
10.94
–
12.41
12.41
9.82
–
8.55
–
8.55
8.42
11.20
–
5.1
–
2.4
2.4
3.9
–
.7
–
.7
2.5
2.2
–
7.97
–
–
–
7.97
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
3.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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 ..............................................................
Customer service representatives ....................................
Group I ..............................................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Group I ..............................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Group I ..............................................................
13.38
12.17
19.16
4.1
4.0
4.7
13.58
–
–
4.4
–
–
10.36
–
–
6.9
–
–
25.69
25.69
13.13
12.26
12.99
11.55
14.35
12.66
12.38
12.30
14.04
13.30
3.7
3.7
7.1
6.6
9.4
4.6
5.8
4.0
6.5
6.9
4.3
5.3
25.69
25.69
13.18
–
12.99
11.55
14.74
12.89
13.27
–
14.33
–
3.7
3.7
7.2
–
9.4
4.6
5.6
2.1
8.8
–
3.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
13
Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Secretaries and administrative assistants –Continued
Group II .............................................................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Group II .............................................................
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Group I ..............................................................
Office clerks, general ........................................................
Group I ..............................................................
$16.96
17.23
17.89
13.79
13.45
12.89
13.09
5.7
8.6
8.1
8.7
10.1
4.1
3.2
–
$17.23
17.89
14.45
14.21
12.90
13.10
–
8.6
8.1
7.0
8.5
4.1
3.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
Group I ..............................................................
12.00
9.39
16.82
9.10
9.10
20.7
21.6
7.4
26.2
26.2
12.00
–
–
9.10
–
20.7
–
–
26.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Group II .............................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Group II .............................................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Group II .............................................................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
15.51
10.63
17.84
7.1
7.3
7.7
15.51
–
–
7.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
17.21
19.01
18.72
19.73
16.37
18.90
8.6
6.4
15.7
11.9
9.6
6.8
17.21
–
18.72
19.73
16.37
18.90
8.6
–
15.7
11.9
9.6
6.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
11.26
4.9
11.26
4.9
–
–
15.81
14.36
20.39
3.1
4.6
2.3
15.93
–
–
3.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
21.21
21.02
17.38
17.38
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
11.75
5.2
5.6
7.6
7.6
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
2.3
21.21
21.02
18.73
–
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
–
5.2
5.6
4.4
–
6.9
8.5
10.0
9.3
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
12.63
12.27
5.4
1.9
12.63
12.27
5.4
1.9
–
–
–
–
11.70
11.26
12.17
12.17
5.9
3.8
20.6
20.6
11.70
11.26
12.17
–
5.9
3.8
20.6
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Production occupations ....................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Group II .............................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Group I ..............................................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Group I ..............................................................
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Group I ..............................................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
Group I ..............................................................
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Group I ..............................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Group I ..............................................................
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Group I ..............................................................
Miscellaneous production workers ...................................
Group I ..............................................................
16.91
16.91
3.7
3.7
16.91
–
3.7
–
–
–
–
–
18.69
14.72
12.99
13.62
13.62
13.08
13.20
12.6
5.9
7.3
3.2
3.2
7.4
12.0
–
14.72
12.99
13.62
13.62
13.26
–
–
5.9
7.3
3.2
3.2
7.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
Group I ..............................................................
Group II .............................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers .............................
Group I ..............................................................
12.90
11.84
16.68
15.10
13.87
4.5
4.5
9.9
7.4
9.1
13.44
–
–
15.58
–
6.0
–
–
8.1
–
$9.07
–
–
–
–
7.9
–
–
–
–
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Total
Occupation4 and level
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers –Continued
Group II .............................................................
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 ......................................
Group I ..............................................................
Full-time workers
Part-time workers
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
Mean
Relative
error5
(percent)
$16.58
15.51
13.83
12.07
12.07
11.03
10.18
10.9
14.1
17.6
8.1
8.1
6.7
6.8
–
$15.51
13.83
12.52
12.52
11.59
–
–
14.1
17.6
7.1
7.1
8.4
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
13.09
11.80
10.06
10.06
8.85
8.85
8.0
13.3
8.5
8.5
9.4
9.4
13.28
12.00
10.06
10.06
9.57
9.57
8.9
15.3
8.5
8.5
13.0
13.0
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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.
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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$7.50
$9.57
$13.13
$18.50
$26.44
Management occupations .................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
24.59
24.59
22.05
26.44
25.34
29.27
35.39
79.01
35.39
48.07
98.01
42.16
79.01
98.01
56.73
Business and financial operations occupations .............
17.75
17.75
20.23
35.90
38.56
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
20.30
21.89
26.44
27.62
33.34
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
17.20
22.83
16.18
22.83
22.83
16.77
24.63
24.74
18.92
31.44
31.44
25.13
37.50
38.50
26.23
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
13.86
16.10
21.68
26.51
35.12
Community and social services occupations ..................
13.27
13.75
13.75
15.07
15.48
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 ..........................................
Teacher assistants ...........................................................
19.51
23.52
25.04
27.59
31.19
30.10
33.33
42.13
39.30
51.38
22.39
22.39
27.61
27.61
31.57
31.33
33.30
32.74
37.06
37.21
22.39
23.56
27.18
29.53
31.33
32.43
32.55
33.60
37.06
37.06
23.56
21.79
10.18
29.53
26.38
10.87
32.43
30.81
10.98
33.60
32.73
11.96
37.06
37.06
11.98
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians .............
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
13.23
21.06
15.97
14.23
15.95
22.82
18.46
14.95
20.87
25.32
18.93
15.41
25.72
30.06
24.10
17.25
31.09
32.77
31.09
19.34
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
7.75
7.88
8.00
7.00
8.75
8.19
8.64
10.00
10.25
8.93
9.56
10.95
12.48
10.68
11.32
13.26
13.61
12.54
12.54
13.61
Protective service occupations .........................................
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............
Security guards .............................................................
6.00
6.00
6.00
8.00
6.00
6.00
12.32
8.00
8.00
15.70
9.00
9.00
20.70
10.50
10.50
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, institution and cafeteria ....................................
Food preparation workers .................................................
Fast food and counter workers .........................................
6.12
7.75
7.75
6.50
6.18
7.25
9.08
9.08
6.75
7.25
8.00
9.19
9.19
9.00
7.25
9.00
14.28
14.28
9.00
7.64
10.00
15.13
15.13
9.00
9.56
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 ..................
6.75
6.75
7.49
7.49
7.86
7.50
10.07
9.90
10.20
10.07
6.50
6.75
6.75
7.49
7.00
7.00
7.49
8.80
8.80
9.90
10.90
10.90
10.07
15.45
15.45
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
6.00
7.44
8.00
10.14
17.02
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 ......................................................
7.00
6.50
8.33
11.27
9.59
11.54
11.70
12.94
14.87
17.51
6.50
7.00
6.50
6.50
7.00
11.27
8.00
7.00
7.00
8.33
11.54
8.71
8.49
8.49
9.00
12.94
9.74
9.66
9.66
10.82
17.51
12.14
9.78
9.78
14.42
See footnotes at end of table.
16
Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
— Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
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 ....................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
$9.00
$10.36
$12.76
$15.28
$18.14
18.17
10.00
10.00
11.51
8.50
10.00
12.16
9.00
10.41
18.17
11.16
11.00
12.10
10.47
11.36
14.10
10.25
11.63
27.39
12.61
12.00
13.87
12.00
13.37
16.77
13.75
13.38
27.74
15.25
15.25
16.88
13.80
16.62
20.18
16.59
13.78
35.49
17.13
18.00
17.39
16.24
19.23
23.82
19.72
14.93
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
5.62
5.62
7.00
5.62
12.00
7.50
16.00
12.00
19.00
17.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
8.75
10.28
14.61
19.69
25.27
10.50
10.52
9.38
13.41
14.56
11.16
17.45
19.95
16.51
21.19
22.20
19.75
25.27
25.27
25.59
9.00
10.00
10.28
10.50
14.22
9.79
12.04
14.12
18.98
24.90
12.94
10.60
13.63
15.50
11.50
9.79
17.60
11.74
16.00
16.50
13.30
11.07
21.18
13.43
24.72
24.72
14.25
12.09
25.56
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.60
13.60
26.44
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.67
15.00
10.82
12.09
12.22
13.60
15.00
9.34
8.67
10.42
8.90
11.94
10.20
13.04
12.74
13.96
20.67
11.50
14.23
14.23
22.29
22.65
10.57
9.75
9.46
8.26
14.80
11.18
13.70
8.84
20.67
13.84
14.00
12.16
22.12
15.90
14.54
15.97
22.34
22.81
15.99
20.41
7.91
9.80
10.00
9.00
7.00
9.80
11.54
11.94
9.50
8.14
12.68
14.24
14.65
10.65
10.06
15.16
19.68
20.20
13.60
14.36
19.95
20.20
21.00
19.06
15.59
9.64
8.39
7.00
10.00
8.67
7.00
14.36
9.62
7.75
15.59
11.56
10.25
15.59
14.03
12.40
Occupation2
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Miscellaneous 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 ......................................
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.
17
Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC,
September 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$7.40
$9.15
$12.91
$17.74
$25.00
Management occupations .................................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
24.59
22.05
26.44
29.27
35.39
35.39
48.07
42.16
79.01
56.73
Business and financial operations occupations .............
17.75
17.75
20.91
35.90
38.56
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
20.30
21.89
26.44
27.62
33.34
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
17.20
22.83
16.18
22.83
22.83
16.77
24.63
24.74
18.92
31.44
31.44
25.13
37.50
38.50
26.23
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
16.26
26.25
28.77
31.22
40.60
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
14.95
21.24
14.31
16.49
23.45
14.95
21.63
26.66
15.00
27.36
30.78
16.69
31.45
59.83
19.75
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
7.50
7.75
7.88
7.00
8.35
8.00
8.35
9.50
10.00
8.40
9.05
10.25
11.25
9.11
9.45
11.85
13.26
10.42
11.02
13.26
Protective service occupations .........................................
6.00
6.00
8.00
9.00
10.70
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
Cooks ...............................................................................
Cooks, institution and cafeteria ....................................
6.12
7.75
7.75
7.25
9.08
9.08
8.00
9.19
9.19
8.49
14.28
14.28
9.19
15.13
15.13
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 ..................
6.50
6.00
7.33
7.49
7.49
7.49
10.07
9.00
10.07
10.07
6.00
6.75
6.75
7.33
7.00
7.00
7.49
8.80
8.80
9.50
10.90
10.90
10.07
15.45
15.45
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
6.00
7.44
8.00
8.00
17.71
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 ......................................................
7.00
6.50
8.33
11.27
9.59
11.54
11.70
12.94
14.87
17.51
6.50
7.00
6.50
6.50
7.00
11.27
8.00
7.00
7.00
8.33
11.54
8.71
8.49
8.49
9.00
12.94
9.74
9.66
9.66
10.82
17.51
12.14
9.78
9.78
14.42
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 ....................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
9.00
10.25
12.82
15.57
18.17
18.17
10.00
10.00
11.51
8.50
10.00
12.10
9.00
18.17
11.02
11.00
12.10
10.47
11.03
14.54
10.25
27.39
12.61
12.00
13.87
12.00
13.16
16.98
13.16
27.74
15.25
15.25
16.88
13.80
16.62
23.82
15.44
35.49
17.10
18.00
17.39
16.24
19.72
24.04
19.72
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
5.62
5.62
7.00
5.62
12.00
5.62
16.00
12.00
19.00
17.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
8.75
10.28
14.56
19.69
25.27
10.50
10.52
10.50
13.64
14.56
12.00
18.00
19.95
17.45
21.37
22.20
19.75
25.27
25.27
25.68
See footnotes at end of table.
18
Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC,
September 2006 — Continued
10
25
Median
50
75
90
$9.00
$10.00
$10.28
$10.50
$14.22
9.79
12.04
14.12
18.98
24.90
12.94
10.60
13.63
15.50
11.50
9.79
17.60
11.74
16.00
16.50
13.30
11.07
21.00
13.43
24.72
24.72
14.25
12.09
25.56
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.60
13.60
26.44
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.67
15.00
10.82
12.09
12.22
13.60
15.00
9.34
8.67
10.42
8.90
11.94
10.20
13.04
12.74
13.96
20.67
11.50
9.75
9.46
8.26
14.23
11.18
13.70
8.84
14.23
13.84
14.00
12.16
22.29
15.90
14.54
15.97
22.65
22.81
15.99
20.41
7.75
9.80
10.00
9.00
7.00
9.80
11.50
11.89
9.50
8.14
12.68
14.24
14.65
10.65
10.06
15.31
19.68
20.20
13.60
14.36
19.95
20.20
20.88
19.06
15.59
9.64
8.39
7.00
10.00
8.67
7.00
14.36
9.62
7.75
15.59
11.56
10.25
15.59
14.03
12.40
Occupation2
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Miscellaneous 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 ......................................
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.
19
Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson,
SC, September 2006
Occupation2
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$9.71
$12.01
$15.84
$26.00
$33.30
Management occupations .................................................
23.56
27.13
34.99
43.34
48.02
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 ..........................................
19.52
24.73
31.33
33.38
39.30
22.85
22.56
27.65
27.61
31.66
31.33
33.30
32.74
37.06
37.24
22.92
23.56
27.61
29.53
31.33
32.43
32.55
33.60
37.06
37.06
23.56
21.79
29.53
26.38
32.43
30.81
33.60
32.73
37.06
37.06
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
10.84
20.96
13.23
21.46
20.20
24.09
23.57
27.87
28.59
32.43
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
9.10
8.25
8.25
10.00
9.56
9.56
11.77
10.86
10.86
13.67
12.54
12.54
15.69
13.15
13.15
Protective service occupations .........................................
12.19
12.81
15.13
19.01
21.56
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
8.41
9.14
10.00
10.54
15.43
7.49
7.49
7.91
7.91
9.38
9.38
9.90
9.90
10.31
10.31
7.49
7.91
9.38
9.90
10.31
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
10.00
11.00
11.01
12.66
12.35
14.22
14.29
15.94
16.12
17.07
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
9.38
13.24
15.04
17.35
18.59
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
8.98
9.62
10.69
11.95
13.64
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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC,
September 2006
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$7.86
$10.00
$13.60
$19.17
$26.90
Management occupations .................................................
General and operations managers ...................................
Financial managers ..........................................................
24.59
24.59
22.05
26.44
25.34
29.27
35.39
79.01
35.39
48.07
98.01
42.16
79.01
98.01
56.73
Business and financial operations occupations .............
17.75
17.75
20.23
35.90
38.56
Computer and mathematical science occupations .........
20.30
21.89
26.44
27.62
33.34
Architecture and engineering occupations .....................
Engineers .........................................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ..........................
17.20
22.83
16.18
22.83
22.83
16.77
24.63
24.74
18.92
31.44
31.44
25.13
37.50
38.50
26.23
Life, physical, and social science occupations ...............
13.86
16.10
21.68
26.51
35.12
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 ..........................................
21.06
23.52
25.69
27.59
31.19
30.10
33.45
42.13
39.30
51.38
22.39
22.39
27.61
27.61
31.57
31.33
33.30
32.74
37.06
37.21
22.39
23.56
27.18
29.53
31.33
32.43
32.55
33.60
37.06
37.06
23.56
21.79
29.53
26.38
32.43
30.81
33.60
32.73
37.06
37.06
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ...........
12.50
21.06
14.31
15.00
22.65
14.95
20.46
25.98
15.00
25.71
30.64
17.64
31.09
34.31
19.75
Healthcare support occupations .......................................
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides ....................
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ......................
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................
8.25
7.88
8.00
9.88
9.50
8.22
8.64
10.00
10.63
8.96
9.94
11.00
12.90
10.88
11.67
13.26
13.78
12.54
12.54
14.08
Protective service occupations .........................................
6.00
8.00
12.59
16.19
20.72
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
6.00
7.25
8.00
9.06
10.55
7.00
7.20
7.49
7.49
8.09
7.90
10.07
10.00
10.30
10.07
7.05
7.49
7.50
10.07
10.07
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 ......................................................
7.30
6.50
8.49
11.27
9.98
11.54
12.47
12.94
14.87
17.51
6.50
7.30
6.90
6.90
8.33
11.27
8.33
8.00
8.00
8.34
11.54
9.40
8.49
8.49
10.41
12.94
10.61
9.68
9.68
13.43
17.51
13.43
9.68
9.68
15.65
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 ....................................
Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants ....
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........
Office clerks, general ........................................................
9.00
10.46
12.93
15.75
18.17
18.17
10.00
10.00
11.67
10.47
10.25
12.16
10.25
10.41
18.17
11.33
11.00
12.35
10.47
11.49
14.10
11.50
11.67
27.39
12.79
12.00
13.88
13.80
13.52
16.77
14.97
13.38
27.74
15.25
15.25
16.88
16.24
16.66
20.18
16.62
13.78
35.49
17.43
18.00
18.93
16.24
19.72
23.82
19.72
14.93
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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC,
September 2006 — Continued
Full-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
Construction and extraction occupations .......................
Helpers, construction trades .............................................
$5.62
5.62
$7.00
5.62
$12.00
7.50
$16.00
12.00
$19.00
17.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .........
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance
workers .......................................................................
Industrial machinery mechanics ...................................
Maintenance and repair workers, general ....................
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair
workers .......................................................................
8.75
10.28
14.50
19.69
25.27
10.50
10.52
9.38
13.41
14.56
11.16
17.45
19.95
16.51
21.19
22.20
19.75
25.27
25.27
25.59
9.00
10.00
10.28
10.50
14.22
10.10
12.09
14.23
19.05
24.90
12.94
11.41
13.63
15.50
11.50
9.79
17.60
12.54
16.00
16.50
13.30
11.07
21.18
24.90
24.72
24.72
14.25
12.09
25.56
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.60
13.60
26.44
24.90
24.90
24.90
18.67
15.00
10.82
12.09
12.22
13.60
15.00
9.34
8.67
10.42
8.90
11.94
10.20
13.04
12.74
13.96
20.67
11.50
9.75
9.46
8.26
14.23
11.18
13.70
9.00
14.23
13.84
14.00
13.79
22.29
15.90
14.54
15.97
22.65
22.81
15.99
20.41
9.00
10.23
10.00
9.25
7.00
10.23
12.98
11.94
9.61
8.90
13.15
15.16
14.65
12.55
10.47
15.59
19.68
20.20
13.63
14.36
19.95
20.20
21.00
20.20
15.59
9.64
8.39
7.00
10.25
8.67
7.00
14.36
9.62
9.19
15.59
11.56
10.25
15.84
14.03
13.65
Production occupations ....................................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .......................................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .......................
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ..........................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ......................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers .............
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ..............
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders ...........................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine
setters, operators, and tenders ...............................
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers ..
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending
workers .......................................................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .......
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders ......
Miscellaneous 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 ......................................
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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC,
September 2006
Part-time workers
Occupation3
10
25
Median
50
75
90
All workers ..............................................................................
$6.50
$7.50
$8.40
$10.00
$15.30
Education, training, and library occupations ..................
8.50
8.71
9.29
10.00
13.47
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........
Registered nurses ............................................................
16.16
20.28
17.68
23.45
23.88
24.28
25.79
27.00
31.13
30.58
Protective service occupations .........................................
7.75
8.25
9.74
12.00
15.45
Food preparation and serving related occupations ........
6.12
6.76
8.00
8.00
8.50
Personal care and service occupations ...........................
6.00
6.00
7.44
14.00
17.71
Sales and related occupations ..........................................
Retail sales workers .........................................................
6.00
6.00
7.00
7.00
7.75
7.75
9.00
9.00
10.06
10.06
Office and administrative support occupations ..............
7.91
8.00
9.36
12.00
13.04
Transportation and material moving occupations ..........
7.50
7.75
8.75
10.00
11.04
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.
23
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$530
39.6
$32,590
$27,560
2,020
1,759
3,068
1,623
1,404
3,950
1,686
42.3
45.9
42.2
90,949
159,540
84,401
73,002
205,413
87,693
2,188
2,389
2,193
20.23
1,048
865
39.9
54,485
45,000
2,075
25.87
26.44
1,053
1,034
40.7
54,771
53,768
2,117
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$16.14
$13.60
$639
Management occupations ...................
General and operations managers .....
Financial managers ............................
41.56
66.79
38.48
35.39
79.01
35.39
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
26.26
Computer and mathematical science
occupations ....................................
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Engineering technicians, except
drafters .........................................
26.22
27.98
24.63
24.74
1,123
1,236
1,028
1,028
42.8
44.2
58,379
64,252
53,432
53,432
2,227
2,296
21.11
18.92
845
757
40.0
43,918
39,354
2,080
Life, physical, and social science
occupations ....................................
22.86
21.68
908
867
39.7
47,190
45,090
2,065
30.32
35.10
31.19
30.10
1,141
1,434
1,175
1,322
37.6
40.9
44,418
58,081
45,032
53,999
1,465
1,655
30.82
31.57
1,129
1,175
36.6
43,047
44,650
1,397
30.80
31.33
1,113
1,175
36.2
42,291
44,650
1,373
30.69
31.81
31.33
32.43
1,107
1,184
1,170
1,216
36.1
37.2
42,052
45,009
44,451
46,206
1,370
1,415
31.81
29.94
32.43
30.81
1,184
1,135
1,216
1,157
37.2
37.9
45,009
43,931
46,206
43,963
1,415
1,467
22.33
29.16
20.46
25.98
874
1,150
808
1,013
39.1
39.4
45,104
58,770
41,766
51,251
2,020
2,015
16.06
15.00
606
578
37.7
31,520
30,050
1,962
11.15
10.63
433
423
38.8
22,349
21,320
2,004
9.69
8.96
370
335
38.2
18,887
17,468
1,949
10.27
9.94
396
377
38.5
20,014
20,046
1,949
11.69
11.00
457
440
39.1
23,756
22,880
2,032
Protective service occupations ...........
12.84
12.59
483
509
37.6
25,104
26,454
1,955
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
8.56
8.00
317
320
37.0
16,070
16,640
1,878
8.69
8.50
8.09
7.90
346
338
315
314
39.8
39.7
17,881
17,445
16,380
16,182
2,057
2,052
8.45
7.50
336
300
39.7
17,326
15,579
2,050
10.94
9.98
430
392
39.3
22,346
20,384
2,043
12.41
11.54
504
444
40.6
26,195
23,090
2,110
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 ............
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 ..................................
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 .........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
24
Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
First-line supervisors/managers of
retail sales workers ...................
Retail sales workers ...........................
Cashiers, all workers ......................
Cashiers .....................................
Retail salespersons ........................
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 ......
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 ....................................
Helpers, construction trades ...............
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance
workers .........................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .....
Maintenance and repair workers,
general ......................................
Miscellaneous installation,
maintenance, and repair
workers .........................................
Production occupations ......................
First-line supervisors/managers of
production and operating
workers .........................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and
fabricators .....................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing
workers .........................................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and
brazers ......................................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and
plastic workers ..............................
Textile machine setters, operators,
and tenders ...................................
Textile knitting and weaving
machine setters, operators, and
tenders ......................................
Textile winding, twisting, and
drawing out machine setters,
operators, and tenders .............
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers .......................
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing,
and blending workers ...................
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$444
376
340
340
416
40.6
39.7
39.4
39.4
40.0
$26,195
20,253
17,505
17,505
23,289
$23,090
19,531
17,659
17,659
21,644
2,110
2,063
2,046
2,046
2,080
531
500
39.1
27,523
25,938
2,027
27.39
12.79
1,028
525
1,096
516
40.0
39.8
53,435
27,286
56,980
26,811
2,080
2,070
12.99
14.74
13.27
12.00
13.88
13.80
516
577
531
480
580
552
39.7
39.2
40.0
26,830
30,019
27,596
24,960
30,183
28,704
2,065
2,037
2,080
14.33
13.52
548
526
38.2
28,263
27,369
1,972
17.23
16.77
676
654
39.2
35,149
34,000
2,040
14.45
12.90
14.97
13.38
567
508
585
535
39.3
39.3
28,960
26,394
28,600
27,830
2,005
2,046
12.00
9.10
12.00
7.50
480
364
480
300
40.0
40.0
24,022
18,937
20,488
15,600
2,002
2,080
15.51
14.50
615
580
39.7
31,994
30,160
2,063
17.21
18.72
17.45
19.95
682
734
700
763
39.6
39.2
35,472
38,154
36,400
39,668
2,061
2,038
16.37
16.51
655
660
40.0
34,044
34,330
2,080
11.26
10.28
450
411
40.0
23,417
21,384
2,080
15.93
14.23
637
569
40.0
33,142
29,590
2,080
21.21
21.18
873
828
41.2
45,413
43,056
2,141
18.73
24.90
749
996
40.0
38,968
51,792
2,080
20.46
24.72
818
989
40.0
42,549
51,422
2,080
21.13
24.72
845
989
40.0
43,958
51,422
2,080
15.53
14.25
621
570
40.0
32,302
29,640
2,080
12.59
12.09
503
484
40.0
26,180
25,147
2,080
12.63
12.22
505
489
40.0
26,280
25,418
2,080
11.70
11.94
468
478
40.0
24,342
24,835
2,080
12.17
10.20
487
408
40.0
25,314
21,216
2,080
16.91
14.23
676
569
40.0
35,173
29,590
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$12.41
9.82
8.55
8.55
11.20
$11.54
9.40
8.49
8.49
10.41
$504
389
337
337
448
13.58
12.93
25.69
13.18
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and
annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ................................
Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders ..................
Miscellaneous 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
$554
40.0
$30,618
$28,787
2,080
525
530
493
552
38.6
40.0
27,305
27,581
25,646
28,683
2,005
2,080
13.15
549
526
40.8
28,355
27,358
2,110
15.58
15.16
666
640
42.7
34,628
33,292
2,222
15.51
12.52
11.59
14.65
12.55
10.47
681
501
464
640
502
419
43.9
40.0
40.0
35,424
26,044
24,107
33,292
26,104
21,786
2,285
2,080
2,080
13.28
10.06
9.57
14.36
9.62
9.19
531
402
383
574
385
368
40.0
40.0
40.0
27,614
20,920
19,912
29,869
20,010
19,115
2,080
2,080
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$14.72
$13.84
$589
13.62
13.26
14.00
13.79
13.44
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.
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 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$520
39.8
$32,105
$26,978
2,059
1,836
1,623
1,442
1,686
43.0
42.2
95,481
84,401
74,984
87,693
2,236
2,193
21.39
1,066
971
39.9
55,431
50,487
2,075
25.87
26.44
1,053
1,034
40.7
54,771
53,768
2,117
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$15.60
$13.26
$620
Management occupations ...................
Financial managers ............................
42.71
38.48
35.39
35.39
Business and financial operations
occupations ....................................
26.72
Computer and mathematical science
occupations ....................................
Architecture and engineering
occupations ....................................
Engineers ...........................................
Engineering technicians, except
drafters .........................................
26.21
27.99
24.63
24.74
1,123
1,238
1,028
1,028
42.9
44.2
58,410
64,354
53,432
53,432
2,228
2,300
21.11
18.92
845
757
40.0
43,918
39,354
2,080
Education, training, and library
occupations ....................................
29.59
28.87
1,215
1,269
41.1
50,647
53,999
1,711
24.29
32.07
21.20
27.36
942
1,265
803
1,041
38.8
39.5
48,972
65,788
41,766
54,151
2,016
2,051
16.02
15.00
600
576
37.4
31,186
29,939
1,947
10.81
10.25
416
410
38.5
21,651
21,320
2,003
8.83
8.42
334
318
37.8
17,344
16,536
1,964
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ....................................
8.46
8.00
316
320
37.4
16,448
16,640
1,945
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations .............
Building cleaning workers ...................
8.57
8.30
7.50
7.49
342
331
300
300
39.9
39.9
17,782
17,195
15,579
15,579
2,074
2,072
10.94
9.98
430
392
39.3
22,346
20,384
2,043
12.41
11.54
504
444
40.6
26,195
23,090
2,110
12.41
9.82
8.55
8.55
11.20
11.54
9.40
8.49
8.49
10.41
504
389
337
337
448
444
376
340
340
416
40.6
39.7
39.4
39.4
40.0
26,195
20,253
17,505
17,505
23,289
23,090
19,531
17,659
17,659
21,644
2,110
2,063
2,046
2,046
2,080
13.67
13.10
534
505
39.1
27,794
26,250
2,034
25.69
13.15
27.39
12.79
1,028
524
1,096
511
40.0
39.8
53,435
27,223
56,980
26,595
2,080
2,070
12.99
14.74
13.27
12.00
13.88
13.80
516
577
531
480
580
552
39.7
39.2
40.0
26,830
30,019
27,596
24,960
30,183
28,704
2,065
2,037
2,080
14.33
13.37
545
517
38.1
28,361
26,894
1,979
17.91
16.98
716
679
40.0
37,251
35,318
2,080
14.25
15.00
563
585
39.5
29,266
30,420
2,053
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
Licensed practical and licensed
vocational nurses ..........................
Healthcare support occupations .........
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health
aides .............................................
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 ........................
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 ......
Stock clerks and order fillers ..............
Secretaries and administrative
assistants ......................................
Executive secretaries and
administrative assistants ..........
Secretaries, except legal, medical,
and executive ...........................
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Construction and extraction
occupations ....................................
Helpers, construction trades ...............
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
Industrial machinery installation,
repair, and maintenance
workers .........................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .....
Maintenance and repair workers,
general ......................................
Miscellaneous installation,
maintenance, and repair
workers .........................................
Production occupations ......................
First-line supervisors/managers of
production and operating
workers .........................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and
fabricators .....................................
Welding, soldering, and brazing
workers .........................................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and
brazers ......................................
Miscellaneous metalworkers and
plastic workers ..............................
Textile machine setters, operators,
and tenders ...................................
Textile knitting and weaving
machine setters, operators, and
tenders ......................................
Textile winding, twisting, and
drawing out machine setters,
operators, and tenders .............
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and
furnishings workers .......................
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing,
and blending workers ...................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,
and weighers ................................
Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders ..................
Miscellaneous production workers .....
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$480
225
40.0
40.0
$24,028
18,812
$20,488
11,694
2,000
2,080
617
572
39.7
32,100
29,723
2,063
18.00
19.95
702
734
730
763
39.7
39.2
36,505
38,154
37,960
39,668
2,063
2,038
16.96
17.45
678
698
40.0
35,280
36,296
2,080
11.26
10.28
450
411
40.0
23,417
21,384
2,080
15.93
14.23
637
569
40.0
33,140
29,590
2,080
21.18
21.00
873
828
41.2
45,384
43,056
2,143
18.73
24.90
749
996
40.0
38,968
51,792
2,080
20.46
24.72
818
989
40.0
42,549
51,422
2,080
21.13
24.72
845
989
40.0
43,958
51,422
2,080
15.53
14.25
621
570
40.0
32,302
29,640
2,080
12.59
12.09
503
484
40.0
26,180
25,147
2,080
12.63
12.22
505
489
40.0
26,280
25,418
2,080
11.70
11.94
468
478
40.0
24,342
24,835
2,080
12.17
10.20
487
408
40.0
25,314
21,216
2,080
16.91
14.23
676
569
40.0
35,173
29,590
2,080
14.72
13.84
589
554
40.0
30,618
28,787
2,080
13.62
13.26
14.00
13.79
525
530
493
552
38.6
40.0
27,305
27,581
25,646
28,683
2,005
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$12.01
9.04
$12.00
5.62
$481
362
15.56
14.50
17.70
18.72
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 — Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
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
$526
41.0
$28,802
$27,358
2,133
666
640
42.8
34,623
33,292
2,223
14.65
12.55
10.47
681
501
464
640
502
419
44.0
40.0
40.0
35,419
26,044
24,107
33,292
26,104
21,786
2,287
2,080
2,080
14.36
9.62
9.19
531
402
383
574
385
368
40.0
40.0
40.0
27,614
20,920
19,912
29,869
20,010
19,115
2,080
2,080
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$13.50
$13.15
$554
15.57
15.16
15.49
12.52
11.59
13.28
10.06
9.57
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.
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.
29
Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings
and mean weekly and annual hours, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$634
38.2
$35,550
$32,411
1,782
1,418
1,399
39.3
71,606
72,773
1,986
31.33
1,132
1,174
37.2
43,747
44,650
1,438
30.95
31.66
1,136
1,175
36.7
43,303
44,650
1,399
30.90
31.33
1,117
1,175
36.2
42,460
44,650
1,374
30.80
31.81
31.33
32.43
1,111
1,184
1,173
1,216
36.1
37.2
42,229
45,009
44,587
46,206
1,371
1,415
31.81
29.94
32.43
30.81
1,184
1,135
1,216
1,157
37.2
37.9
45,009
43,931
46,206
43,963
1,415
1,467
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ....................................
Registered nurses ..............................
19.38
24.92
20.20
23.79
769
981
808
913
39.7
39.4
39,230
48,954
41,766
46,706
2,025
1,965
Healthcare support occupations .........
12.04
12.21
476
484
39.6
24,155
22,984
2,006
Protective service occupations ...........
16.32
15.18
625
613
38.3
32,507
31,870
1,992
9.22
9.22
9.38
9.38
363
363
375
375
39.4
39.4
18,296
18,296
19,460
19,460
1,985
1,985
9.22
9.38
363
375
39.4
18,296
19,460
1,985
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ................................................
$19.95
$15.97
$763
Management occupations ...................
36.06
34.99
30.41
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 ............
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 ......................................
12.86
12.41
498
480
38.7
25,336
24,960
1,971
14.35
14.22
557
553
38.8
27,889
27,723
1,943
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ....................................
14.96
15.04
592
602
39.6
30,777
31,287
2,057
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.
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.
30
Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments
for major occupational groups, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Occupational group2
Total
1-99
workers
100-499
workers
500
workers
or more
All workers ....................................................................
$15.12
$13.28
$15.76
$18.72
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 .......................
29.68
37.84
23.98
8.63
12.36
10.26
13.45
13.46
12.01
15.56
14.57
15.82
12.96
30.29
40.23
20.95
8.44
11.68
9.68
12.79
11.37
10.09
13.69
13.21
12.05
13.60
28.81
33.55
25.20
9.50
14.06
11.46
16.24
16.63
–
17.24
13.08
14.35
11.06
29.55
37.65
26.16
9.33
13.02
–
12.94
18.31
–
18.31
17.78
18.68
–
Relative error3 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
5.3
11.2
6.3
4.6
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
9.7
12.7
3.7
3.8
5.1
3.6
4.5
11.5
21.4
7.8
3.1
3.1
4.6
17.7
21.8
9.2
3.2
7.3
5.9
7.5
15.1
21.0
11.5
9.4
7.6
10.8
6.2
10.2
6.5
16.5
11.5
3.1
9.4
5.5
–
12.8
4.8
3.8
5.4
4.6
6.4
3.7
4.4
2.5
–
2.4
3.3
–
3.3
1.3
1.9
–
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.
31
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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$420
39.2
$27,910
$21,320
2,024
1,980
1,058
42.4
102,971
54,995
2,204
19.91
1,045
796
39.4
54,360
41,402
2,049
26.07
22.83
1,171
1,028
44.9
60,884
53,432
2,335
Healthcare support occupations .............................
10.73
10.25
410
410
38.2
21,343
21,320
1,989
Food preparation and serving related
occupations ........................................................
8.47
8.00
316
320
37.3
16,439
16,640
1,942
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
10.42
9.27
9.74
8.49
410
366
389
340
39.4
39.5
21,340
19,036
20,251
17,659
2,047
2,054
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ..............
12.97
13.55
14.19
12.79
13.94
13.16
501
537
526
460
558
468
38.6
39.7
37.1
26,065
27,945
27,373
23,941
28,999
24,333
2,010
2,063
1,929
Construction and extraction occupations .............
10.09
10.00
403
400
40.0
19,839
19,200
1,967
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$13.79
$11.40
$541
Management occupations .......................................
46.73
33.63
Business and financial operations occupations ...
26.52
Architecture and engineering occupations ...........
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ........................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and
maintenance workers .......................................
13.69
13.00
540
520
39.5
28,083
27,040
2,051
15.63
16.25
615
670
39.3
31,979
34,840
2,046
Production occupations ..........................................
12.05
12.94
473
493
39.2
24,589
25,646
2,040
Transportation and material moving
occupations ........................................................
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ...................
Laborers and material movers, hand ......................
14.03
15.09
11.18
13.34
14.20
10.25
572
624
447
532
560
410
40.8
41.4
40.0
29,758
32,473
23,250
27,643
29,120
21,320
2,121
2,152
2,080
1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule
based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a
35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one
establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is
the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are
premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The
mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of
workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to
employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to
employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are
paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an
employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime.
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.
32
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, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Annual earnings5
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
$600
40.4
$36,542
$31,200
2,095
1,694
1,442
43.6
88,084
74,984
2,267
24.83
1,090
993
40.4
56,659
51,646
2,103
26.82
27.19
1,096
1,105
40.9
57,007
57,452
2,126
Architecture and engineering occupations ...........
Engineers ...............................................................
Engineering technicians, except drafters ................
26.36
31.78
20.13
24.74
31.08
17.56
1,077
1,323
805
990
1,243
702
40.9
41.6
40.0
55,999
68,774
41,864
51,465
64,640
36,525
2,124
2,164
2,080
Healthcare practitioner and technical
occupations ........................................................
Registered nurses ..................................................
26.37
32.07
24.41
27.36
1,044
1,265
964
1,041
39.6
39.5
54,270
65,788
50,128
54,151
2,058
2,051
Healthcare support occupations .............................
11.15
10.88
443
435
39.8
23,052
22,630
2,068
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
occupations ........................................................
9.26
10.00
371
400
40.0
19,270
20,800
2,080
Sales and related occupations ................................
Retail sales workers ...............................................
11.97
10.80
11.17
10.11
468
432
424
404
39.1
40.0
24,334
22,469
22,069
21,029
2,034
2,080
Office and administrative support occupations ....
Financial clerks .......................................................
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ...
Customer service representatives ..........................
Secretaries and administrative assistants ..............
14.92
12.60
11.87
14.30
14.59
13.80
12.52
11.75
12.52
13.94
597
504
475
572
583
552
501
470
501
558
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
39.9
31,029
26,214
24,696
29,746
30,309
28,704
26,042
24,440
26,033
28,995
2,079
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,077
18.20
19.05
728
762
40.0
37,853
39,618
2,080
19.88
18.10
19.95
18.73
795
724
798
749
40.0
40.0
41,343
37,640
41,496
38,958
2,080
2,080
16.39
14.75
657
590
40.1
34,187
30,680
2,085
22.20
18.73
20.46
21.13
15.53
12.59
21.71
24.90
24.72
24.72
14.25
12.09
919
749
818
845
621
503
867
996
989
989
570
484
41.4
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
47,764
38,968
42,549
43,958
32,302
26,180
45,101
51,792
51,422
51,422
29,640
25,147
2,151
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
12.63
12.22
505
489
40.0
26,280
25,418
2,080
11.70
11.94
468
478
40.0
24,342
24,835
2,080
12.17
10.20
487
408
40.0
25,314
21,216
2,080
16.14
14.38
14.55
14.00
646
575
582
560
40.0
40.0
33,572
29,904
30,264
29,120
2,080
2,080
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
All workers ....................................................................
$17.44
$15.00
$704
Management occupations .......................................
38.85
35.39
Business and financial operations occupations ...
26.94
Computer and mathematical science
occupations ........................................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair
occupations ........................................................
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and
maintenance workers .......................................
Industrial machinery mechanics .........................
Production occupations ..........................................
First-line supervisors/managers of production and
operating workers .............................................
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators .............
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers ................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ............
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers ...
Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders ....
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters,
operators, and tenders .................................
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out
machine setters, operators, and tenders ......
Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings
workers .............................................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and
weighers ...........................................................
Miscellaneous production workers .........................
See footnotes at end of table.
33
Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean
weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006 —
Continued
Hourly earnings3
Weekly earnings4
Occupation2
Transportation and material moving
occupations ........................................................
Industrial truck and tractor operators ......................
Laborers and material movers, hand ......................
Machine feeders and offbearers .........................
Packers and packagers, hand ............................
Mean
Median
Mean
Median
$13.14
13.03
11.72
10.06
9.40
$12.73
12.55
11.96
9.62
8.45
$541
521
469
402
376
$509
502
478
385
338
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
Mean
weekly
hours
Mean
Median
Mean
annual
hours
41.2
40.0
40.0
40.0
40.0
$28,127
27,111
24,371
20,920
19,557
$26,478
26,104
24,877
20,010
17,576
2,141
2,080
2,080
2,080
2,080
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.
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 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Union
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 ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
Nonunion
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
$16.84
$16.84
–
$15.66
$15.10
$19.72
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.71
37.33
24.51
9.60
12.36
10.26
13.34
13.40
12.00
15.39
14.48
15.80
12.89
29.68
37.84
23.98
8.63
12.32
10.26
13.40
13.39
12.01
15.42
14.53
15.81
12.94
26.60
34.18
25.31
13.57
12.81
–
12.81
13.72
–
14.96
12.14
–
11.14
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 ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
9.1
9.1
–
4.8
5.4
1.8
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
7.0
11.2
2.3
7.4
4.8
3.6
4.1
11.0
20.7
7.1
3.1
3.0
4.5
9.7
12.7
3.7
3.8
5.1
3.6
4.6
11.6
21.4
7.7
3.1
3.0
4.6
2.4
7.9
2.1
10.3
3.1
–
3.1
9.4
–
2.1
10.1
–
6.2
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.
35
Table 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational
groups, Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Time
Occupational group3
Incentive
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
Civilian
workers
Private
industry
workers
All workers ....................................................................
$15.20
$14.53
$22.05
$22.05
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 .......................
26.62
32.03
24.43
9.60
12.46
10.13
13.31
13.41
–
15.43
14.33
15.89
12.13
26.63
31.59
23.83
8.63
12.43
10.13
13.38
13.40
12.01
15.47
14.37
15.91
12.17
57.50
61.76
–
–
11.93
10.68
14.60
–
–
–
16.20
–
–
57.50
61.76
–
–
11.93
10.68
14.60
–
–
–
16.20
–
–
Relative error4 (percent)
All workers ....................................................................
4.1
4.5
27.3
27.3
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 .......................
2.3
5.3
2.4
7.4
4.6
4.6
3.9
11.1
–
7.7
3.3
3.4
4.0
3.3
6.1
3.9
3.8
5.0
4.6
4.4
11.8
21.4
8.4
3.3
3.4
4.1
28.3
23.1
–
–
9.4
5.3
13.5
–
–
–
2.8
–
–
28.3
23.1
–
–
9.4
5.3
13.5
–
–
–
2.8
–
–
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.
36
Table 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 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
–
$19.86
$13.03
–
$21.86
–
$16.82
–
$12.04
–
37.27
–
–
35.17
–
23.54
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
48.65
26.88
–
18.85
–
18.85
–
–
–
11.08
10.35
12.44
–
–
–
–
–
–
35.18
–
–
15.05
–
16.09
–
–
–
–
–
–
28.07
22.44
10.55
12.38
–
12.32
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
20.42
20.47
16.39
16.88
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
15.59
16.15
12.68
13.76
–
13.66
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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 ...
–
6.8
7.4
–
24.7
–
5.5
–
0.0
–
18.8
–
–
8.3
–
5.5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
14.0
6.0
–
3.9
–
3.9
–
–
–
7.9
2.0
5.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
8.8
–
–
12.6
–
11.2
–
–
–
–
–
–
10.4
6.9
5.0
8.9
–
9.2
–
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–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
5.6
6.0
9.5
7.0
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–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4.4
3.4
7.0
3.9
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4.6
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–
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–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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–
–
–
–
–
–
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
Sample design
The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample
selection was a probability sample of establishments. The
sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the
sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of
sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each
sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a
probability proportional to its employment. Use of this
technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were
applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated
so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below,
was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled
establishment.
his section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained
in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for
the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing
the data. Although this section answers some questions
commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive
description of all of the steps required to produce the data.
Planning for the survey
The overall design of the National Compensation Survey
(NCS) includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection.
Survey scope
This survey covered establishments employing one worker
or more in private goods-producing industries (mining,
construction, and manufacturing); private service-providing
industries (trade, transportation, and utilities, information,
financial activities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and other
services); State governments; and local governments 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 Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson, SC, Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Anderson, Cherokee,
Greenville, Pickens, and Spartanburg 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
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identified in the last three steps. If a specific work level
could not be determined, wages were still collected.
In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each
establishment by the BLS field economist. A complete list
of employees was used for sampling, with each selected
worker representing a job within the establishment.
As with the selection of establishments, the selection of
a job was based on probability proportional to its size in
the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of
selection.
The number of jobs for which data were collected in
each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size. The number of jobs selected followed this
schedule:
Number
of employees
Number
of selected jobs
1–49
50–249
250 or more
Up to 4
6
8
The second step of the process entailed classifying the
selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. NCS
uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system. A selected job may fall into any one of about 800
occupational classifications, from accountant to zoologist.
When workers could be classified in more than one occupation, they were classified in the occupation that required the
higher skill level. When there was no perceptible difference in skill level, the workers were classified in the occupation that described their primary activity.
Each occupational classification is an element of a
broader classification known as a major group. Occupations can fall into any of 22 major groups. Appendix B
contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the major group to which they belong.
In step three, certain other job characteristics of the
chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based
on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, the
worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job,
depending on whether any part of pay was directly based
on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely
on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of
terms” section on the following page for more detail.
Occupational leveling
In the last step before wage data were collected, the work
level of each selected job was determined using a “point
factor leveling” process. Point factor leveling matches certain aspects of a job to specific levels of work with assigned point values. Points for each factor are then totaled
to determine the overall work level for the job.
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The NCS program is in the process of converting from a
nine-factor to a four-factor occupational leveling system.
The conversion is being phased in via annual NCS sample
replenishment groups and will require several years for full
implementation. The four occupational leveling factors
are:
•
•
•
•
Knowledge
Job controls and complexity
Contacts (nature and purpose)
Physical environment
Each factor consists of several levels, and each level has
an associated description and assigned points. A knowledge guide for 24 families of closely related occupations
contains short definitions of the point levels of knowledge
expected for the occupations and presents relevant examples. The other three factors use identical descriptions for
all occupational categories and contain a definition of each
point level within each factor.
The description within each factor best matching the job
is chosen. The point levels within each factor are designed
to describe the thresholds of distinct levels of work. When
a job does not meet the full description of a point level, the
next lowest point level is used. Points for the four factors
are totaled to determine the overall work level. NCS publishes data for up to 15 work levels.
Most supervisory occupations are evaluated based on
their duties and responsibilities. A modified approach is
used for professional and administrative supervisors when
they direct professional work and are paid primarily to supervise. Such supervisory occupations are leveled based
on the work level of the highest position reporting to them.
For a complete description of point factor leveling, refer
to the publication “National Compensation Survey: Guide
for Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs and Pay,” available at the
BLS National Compensation Survey Internet site at
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbr0004.pdf.
Combined work levels
This bulletin includes a table which simplifies the presentation of work levels by combining them into four broad
groups. The groups were determined by combinations of
knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, physical
environment, and supervisory duties, and are meant to be
comparable across different occupations. The broad
groups and the combined work levels are:
Group
designation
Levels
combined
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Levels 1–4
Levels 5–8
Levels 9–12
Levels 13–15
Collection period
Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60
metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period.
For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample
units.
Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are
solely tied to an hourly rate or salary.
Earnings
Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time
hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings:
Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation
when all of the following conditions are met:
•
•
•
•
•
Incentive pay, including commissions, production
bonuses, and piece rates
Cost-of-living allowances
Hazard pay
Payments of income deferred due to participation
in a salary reduction plan
Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight
or passengers
The following forms of payments were not considered
part of straight-time earnings:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for
working a schedule that varies from the norm, such
as night or weekend work
Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends
Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as
Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses)
Uniform and tool allowances
Free or subsidized room and board
Payments made by third parties (for example, tips)
On-call pay
To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly,
weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per
day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded.
Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried
workers who are exempt from overtime provisions often
work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical
number of hours actually worked was collected.
Definition of terms
Full-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be full time.
Part-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be part time.
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Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,
at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.
Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not
meeting the conditions for union coverage.
•
•
•
A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation
Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations
Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed, mutually binding collective bargaining agreement
Level. A ranking within an occupation based on the requirements of the position.
Processing and analyzing the data
Data were processed and analyzed at the BLS National Office following collection.
Weighting and nonresponse
Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and
occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of
the establishment within the sample universe. Weights
were used to aggregate data for the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of
the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to
supply information. If data were not provided by a sample
member during the initial interview, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells”
were adjusted to account for the missing data. This technique assumes that the mean value of data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value of data for the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and
nonresponding establishments were classified into these
cells according to industry and employment size. Responding and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally defined by major occupation group.
If average hourly earnings data were not provided by a
sample member during the update interview, then missing
average hourly earnings were imputed by multiplying prior
average hourly earnings by the rate of change in the average hourly earnings of respondents. The regression model
that takes into account available establishment characteris-
tics is used to derive the rate of change in the average
hourly earnings.
Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights
changed to zero.
Estimation
The wage series in the tables are computed by combining
the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being
combined, individual wage rates are weighted by the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The sample weight reflects
the inverse of each unit’s probability of selection at each
sample selection stage and four weight adjustment factors.
The first factor adjusts for establishment nonresponse and
the second factor adjusts for occupational nonresponse.
The third factor adjusts for any special situations that may
have occurred during data collection. The fourth factor,
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 $17.46 to $18.04
($17.75 minus and plus $0.29, where $0.29 is the product
of 1.645 times 1.0 percent times $17.75). If all possible
samples were selected to estimate the population value, the
interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time.
Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They
can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey
definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct
information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. Although they were not specifically measured, the
nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the
extensive training of the field economists who gathered the
survey data, computer edits of the data, and detailed data
review.
Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
Civilian
workers
Occupational group2
Private
industry
workers
State and
local
government
workers
All workers ....................................................................
449,800
390,000
59,800
Management, professional, and related .....................
Management, business, and financial ....................
Professional and related .........................................
Service ........................................................................
Sales and office ..........................................................
Sales and related ....................................................
Office and administrative support ...........................
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance ....
Construction and extraction ...................................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ......................
Production, transportation, and material moving ........
Production ..............................................................
Transportation and material moving .......................
83,800
23,600
60,200
82,100
104,800
35,600
69,200
59,100
34,300
24,800
119,900
64,600
55,300
53,300
20,100
33,200
66,100
97,900
35,600
62,300
56,100
33,200
22,900
116,700
63,900
52,800
30,600
3,600
27,000
16,000
6,900
–
6,900
3,000
–
1,900
3,300
–
2,500
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,
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC, September 2006
State and
local
government
Establishments
Total
Private
industry
Total in sampling frame1 ................................................
18,539
18,465
75
Total in sample ...............................................................
Responding ............................................................
Refused or unable to provide data .........................
Out of business or not in survey scope ..................
241
157
52
32
222
140
50
32
19
17
2
0
1 The list of establishments from which the
survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was
developed from State unemployment insurance
reports and is based on the 2002 North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private
industries, an establishment is usually a single
physical location. For State and local governments,
an establishment is defined as all locations of a
government entity.
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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