NC BL 06/00/2008 Table: Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, Bulletin, September 2007 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $20.49 4.4 36.5 $19.92 4.9 36.2 $25.61 3.9 38.9 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 29.76 5.0 38.3 29.77 6.4 38.1 29.70 4.7 39.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 32.55 5.0 40.4 32.36 5.5 40.4 34.12 12.2 40.0 Professional and related.......................................... 28.67 6.8 37.5 28.54 9.3 37.0 29.01 4.0 38.8 Service............................................................. 11.51 3.7 31.0 11.09 3.1 30.6 17.11 3.5 37.3 Sales and office.................................................... 17.28 5.6 36.8 17.27 6.0 36.6 17.37 5.6 39.5 Sales and related................................................. 18.79 16.5 36.5 18.82 17.2 36.4 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 16.51 3.3 36.9 16.45 3.5 36.7 17.22 5.4 39.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 27.23 2.6 39.9 27.30 2.7 39.9 25.67 2.3 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 28.50 3.0 40.0 28.52 3.1 40.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.26 8.3 39.6 23.15 9.1 39.5 – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.54 5.1 37.6 15.32 5.2 37.6 23.53 15.9 38.0 Production........................................................ 16.25 2.9 39.1 16.20 2.9 39.1 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.86 10.7 36.3 14.43 11.4 36.2 23.41 18.1 37.8 Full time........................................................... 21.36 4.1 39.6 20.81 4.6 39.6 25.96 4.5 39.6 Part time........................................................... 12.99 8.5 21.7 12.72 9.0 21.5 18.64 16.0 28.4 Union............................................................... 24.24 2.7 36.7 23.66 3.4 35.9 25.47 3.0 38.5 Nonunion............................................................ 19.25 6.0 36.4 19.04 6.2 36.3 26.13 13.4 40.3 Time................................................................ 20.31 4.3 36.4 19.69 4.8 36.2 25.61 3.9 38.9 Incentive........................................................... 26.08 21.5 37.7 26.08 21.5 37.7 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 17.50 6.0 35.7 17.49 6.1 35.6 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 21.35 7.7 36.5 21.18 8.0 36.4 26.12 21.4 39.6 500 workers or more................................................. 25.39 5.5 38.1 24.95 8.3 37.9 26.23 3.6 38.4 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. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.49 4.4 $21.36 4.1 $12.99 8.5 Management occupations.............................................. 35.54 8.4 35.54 8.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.43 10.0 28.43 10.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 35.19 5.0 35.19 5.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 28.29 13.8 28.29 13.8 – – Level 12.................................................. 47.14 4.7 47.14 4.7 – – Level 13.................................................. 51.14 7.5 51.14 7.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 50.89 2.4 50.89 2.4 – – General and operations managers................................... 31.94 15.3 31.94 15.3 – – Financial managers................................................ 42.94 25.6 42.94 25.6 – – Education administrators.......................................... 33.17 12.5 33.17 12.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.74 6.1 29.74 6.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.98 4.7 18.98 4.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.89 5.4 20.89 5.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.00 4.8 31.00 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.07 2.4 31.07 2.4 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.20 9.5 24.20 9.5 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.27 8.2 25.27 8.2 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 28.92 13.0 29.16 13.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.85 2.0 33.85 2.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.85 6.9 41.85 6.9 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 38.67 7.2 38.67 7.2 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 16.74 26.6 16.64 28.6 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 33.77 2.6 33.77 2.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.26 2.5 32.26 2.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.21 6.7 25.21 6.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.93 5.7 31.93 5.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 43.06 4.6 43.06 4.6 – – Engineers......................................................... 39.92 1.7 39.92 1.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.82 9.6 34.82 9.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.41 2.6 44.41 2.6 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 39.15 4.2 39.15 4.2 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 39.31 5.1 39.31 5.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.89 4.8 23.89 4.8 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 29.98 6.2 29.98 6.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.28 9.6 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.53 8.8 18.51 8.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 14.78 1.7 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 16.90 9.4 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.19 8.1 30.06 8.2 – – Counselors........................................................ 25.81 13.3 26.60 14.6 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.83 13.4 26.60 14.6 – – Social workers.................................................... 18.66 9.8 18.66 9.8 – – Legal occupations................................................... 56.47 10.6 56.47 10.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 27.70 8.8 28.21 9.3 19.23 10.2 Level 8 .................................................. 33.46 10.7 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.39 5.2 32.06 3.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 37.55 18.4 37.55 18.4 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 37.49 17.0 39.02 18.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 37.55 18.4 37.55 18.4 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 35.44 20.6 37.06 22.2 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.25 9.2 29.70 9.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.38 5.2 32.06 3.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 31.78 6.2 32.95 3.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.28 6.7 32.53 3.5 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.46 10.0 32.22 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.85 10.1 31.71 5.9 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.08 1.5 34.08 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.74 3.3 33.74 3.3 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.31 5.3 34.31 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.78 4.8 33.78 4.8 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.31 5.3 34.31 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.78 4.8 33.78 4.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 12.52 11.4 12.34 12.0 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.71 24.6 16.59 24.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.17 4.6 29.27 4.9 28.17 6.5 Level 4 .................................................. 14.44 8.4 13.81 9.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.57 11.5 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.86 3.4 22.90 3.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 32.13 5.8 26.81 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.77 5.3 36.00 5.6 33.52 3.9 Level 10.................................................. 43.08 10.1 43.08 10.1 – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.24 2.7 48.24 2.7 – – Registered nurses................................................. 35.34 3.1 35.38 3.1 35.11 3.1 Level 9 .................................................. 34.82 3.3 34.82 3.3 34.83 4.2 Therapists........................................................ 28.59 3.9 28.05 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.63 4.7 28.01 7.3 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.67 3.3 18.87 3.7 – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.05 2.7 18.11 3.1 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 29.68 16.7 29.68 16.7 – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 29.68 16.7 29.68 16.7 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.51 2.3 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.05 9.6 14.23 9.0 10.83 10.1 Level 3 .................................................. 12.33 9.9 12.39 12.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.03 6.7 16.08 7.8 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.11 7.1 11.94 6.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.10 3.7 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.21 8.2 12.36 6.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.42 5.8 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.60 4.1 17.55 5.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.65 6.0 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 14.92 2.2 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.21 5.2 11.33 6.2 8.13 .5 Level 1 .................................................. 8.26 1.8 – – 7.99 .4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.60 6.0 10.22 2.9 8.27 1.7 Level 3 .................................................. 11.05 2.5 11.67 1.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.86 5.2 12.86 5.2 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.99 .6 – – 7.94 .8 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 7.94 .3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.25 1.0 – – 8.11 .7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.03 .6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.72 2.1 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.19 .7 – – 8.11 .7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.03 .6 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.06 4.6 12.55 5.0 10.57 6.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 7.7 9.65 6.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.82 6.1 12.01 7.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.36 7.9 13.54 8.2 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.96 4.6 12.50 5.3 10.57 6.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 7.7 9.65 6.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.82 6.1 12.01 7.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.50 8.3 14.88 8.6 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.27 5.0 12.74 5.6 10.26 6.6 Level 1 .................................................. 10.59 4.8 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. – – 11.60 6.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.50 8.3 14.88 8.6 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.31 8.0 11.73 8.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.98 9.9 11.36 12.5 9.33 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.86 1.4 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.79 16.5 19.83 15.9 9.74 4.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.47 10.1 10.77 11.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.88 8.4 14.46 10.5 11.68 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 14.20 12.3 14.35 12.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 25.32 10.0 25.32 10.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.02 19.8 18.02 19.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.10 10.5 18.10 10.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.37 6.0 19.37 6.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.10 10.5 18.10 10.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.37 6.0 19.37 6.0 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.28 11.8 13.62 12.5 10.65 2.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.52 9.9 10.77 11.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.16 8.3 14.63 10.6 12.06 2.8 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.04 10.1 11.29 10.5 9.43 13.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 13.4 11.02 14.5 – – Cashiers...................................................... 11.04 10.1 11.29 10.5 9.43 13.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 13.4 11.02 14.5 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 14.59 14.2 14.88 14.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.99 8.6 15.79 10.9 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.51 3.3 16.39 3.4 17.33 11.5 Level 2 .................................................. 11.84 10.2 11.54 10.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.18 5.3 13.26 5.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.71 3.5 15.77 3.3 14.63 10.5 Level 5 .................................................. 19.59 3.3 18.64 3.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.55 7.6 20.55 7.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.49 7.0 24.49 7.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.30 13.1 16.89 16.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.86 8.3 22.86 8.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.82 5.7 15.82 5.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.32 3.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.99 3.6 15.00 3.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.40 3.8 19.78 3.3 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.05 2.8 17.04 3.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.41 1.9 15.41 1.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.23 4.8 19.66 4.4 – – Tellers......................................................... 12.25 2.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.70 6.8 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.55 10.4 16.79 9.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.09 15.2 17.57 13.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.86 4.7 19.86 4.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.09 6.3 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.85 8.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.30 3.6 19.33 7.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.81 5.1 15.83 5.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. – – 18.82 7.5 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.80 10.7 20.80 10.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.24 1.1 18.24 1.1 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.67 3.5 15.67 3.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.44 5.0 15.80 5.4 12.46 8.2 Level 3 .................................................. 13.25 8.0 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.38 7.2 16.53 6.5 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.50 3.0 28.50 3.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 29.85 3.7 29.85 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.70 1.4 31.70 1.4 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.36 19.8 20.36 19.8 – – Electricians...................................................... 30.97 7.8 30.97 7.8 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 30.79 9.2 30.79 9.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.28 6.4 31.28 6.4 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 30.60 8.3 30.60 8.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.26 8.3 23.01 9.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.51 3.6 18.51 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.57 2.7 23.92 1.6 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.88 7.2 21.57 5.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.00 6.2 22.43 3.6 – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 21.90 3.9 21.90 3.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.25 2.9 16.32 3.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.00 4.0 11.01 4.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.72 9.3 12.83 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.33 4.0 15.33 4.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 4.4 18.21 4.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.45 2.8 18.45 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.07 9.2 23.07 9.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.40 4.2 27.40 4.2 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.91 10.3 15.91 10.3 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Printers.......................................................... 18.06 14.7 18.06 14.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 14.75 8.5 14.75 8.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.93 4.9 14.44 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.32 10.6 12.32 10.6 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.86 10.7 15.35 11.3 10.82 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.09 5.4 8.94 6.8 9.60 5.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.15 16.2 11.35 16.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.29 4.5 13.30 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.44 6.5 19.44 6.5 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.04 7.7 16.94 8.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 22.35 4.9 22.35 4.9 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.33 4.6 20.29 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.49 6.8 20.49 6.8 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.22 24.3 15.22 24.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.46 11.5 13.46 11.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.04 3.7 15.04 3.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.54 8.0 12.00 9.7 10.07 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.75 4.3 9.53 2.9 10.15 10.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.40 12.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.85 8.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.46 5.3 13.02 7.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.12 2.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.16 6.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.85 8.8 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $19.92 4.9 $20.81 4.6 $12.72 9.0 Management occupations.............................................. 34.91 9.6 34.91 9.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 35.19 5.0 35.19 5.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 27.60 14.3 27.60 14.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.14 2.2 51.14 2.2 – – Financial managers................................................ 42.94 25.6 42.94 25.6 – – Education administrators.......................................... 29.59 11.1 29.59 11.1 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 30.15 6.4 30.15 6.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.88 4.7 18.88 4.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.12 5.8 21.12 5.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.21 4.9 31.21 4.9 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.20 9.5 24.20 9.5 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.43 9.7 25.43 9.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 28.84 14.7 29.02 14.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.85 6.9 41.85 6.9 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 39.12 7.7 39.12 7.7 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 16.44 28.8 16.36 30.4 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.98 1.2 35.98 1.2 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.95 3.7 32.95 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.47 11.1 24.47 11.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.93 5.7 31.93 5.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 43.50 5.0 43.50 5.0 – – Engineers......................................................... 39.97 1.7 39.97 1.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.82 9.6 34.82 9.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.04 2.4 45.04 2.4 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 39.15 4.2 39.15 4.2 – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 39.31 5.1 39.31 5.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.69 5.9 23.69 5.9 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.23 8.1 32.23 8.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 16.05 9.8 15.96 10.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 20.58 16.9 20.49 18.1 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 34.43 26.3 34.18 26.7 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 34.43 26.3 34.18 26.7 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 15.96 16.8 15.70 18.8 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.16 26.6 16.02 26.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.94 5.5 30.21 5.9 27.68 7.4 Level 4 .................................................. 14.44 8.4 13.81 9.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.09 2.6 24.21 2.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 32.70 5.2 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.65 6.0 36.80 6.4 34.83 4.2 Level 10.................................................. 46.81 8.7 46.81 8.7 – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.24 2.7 48.24 2.7 – – Registered nurses................................................. 35.25 3.6 35.27 3.8 35.11 3.1 Level 9 .................................................. 34.59 4.0 34.55 4.2 34.83 4.2 Therapists........................................................ 29.99 1.9 29.99 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.41 3.5 30.41 3.5 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. – – 18.83 5.1 – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... – – 16.89 3.3 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.93 10.0 14.13 9.6 10.76 10.1 Level 3 .................................................. 12.28 10.1 12.39 12.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.93 7.7 16.13 9.1 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.00 7.0 11.85 6.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.01 3.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.09 8.0 12.26 6.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.30 5.6 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.60 4.4 17.64 5.9 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.20 5.4 11.33 6.2 8.08 .2 Level 1 .................................................. 8.26 1.8 – – 7.99 .4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.53 6.7 10.20 3.2 8.08 1.7 Level 3 .................................................. 11.05 2.5 11.67 1.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 12.92 5.0 12.92 5.0 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.99 .6 – – 7.94 .8 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 7.94 .3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.21 1.3 – – 8.04 .3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.03 .6 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.15 1.0 – – 8.04 .3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.03 .6 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.58 4.5 11.99 5.3 10.57 6.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 7.7 9.65 6.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.82 6.1 12.01 7.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.06 12.7 13.33 13.2 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.48 4.5 11.91 5.6 10.57 6.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.73 7.7 9.65 6.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.82 6.1 12.01 7.2 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.58 5.0 11.99 6.1 10.26 6.6 Level 1 .................................................. 10.59 4.8 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. – – 11.60 6.4 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.31 8.0 11.73 8.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.05 10.5 11.36 12.5 9.38 6.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.86 1.4 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.82 17.2 19.92 16.6 9.74 4.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.47 10.1 10.77 11.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.94 9.5 14.65 12.2 11.68 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 14.20 12.3 14.35 12.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 25.61 10.5 25.61 10.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.02 19.8 18.02 19.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.35 11.4 17.35 11.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.14 7.2 19.14 7.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.35 11.4 17.35 11.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.14 7.2 19.14 7.2 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.27 12.4 13.63 13.2 10.65 2.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.52 9.9 10.77 11.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.27 9.4 14.86 12.4 12.06 2.8 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.76 11.0 10.99 11.6 9.43 13.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 13.4 11.02 14.5 – – Cashiers...................................................... 10.76 11.0 10.99 11.6 9.43 13.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 13.4 11.02 14.5 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 14.59 14.2 14.88 14.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.99 8.6 15.79 10.9 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.45 3.5 16.31 3.7 17.30 12.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.84 10.2 11.54 10.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.25 6.0 13.34 6.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 3.7 15.67 3.5 13.59 11.1 Level 5 .................................................. 19.63 3.8 18.51 3.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.43 8.7 20.43 8.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.45 7.3 24.45 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.30 13.1 16.89 16.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.86 8.3 22.86 8.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.45 6.2 15.42 6.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.32 3.8 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.99 3.6 15.00 3.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.44 5.1 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.00 3.0 16.99 3.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.41 1.9 15.41 1.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.44 5.1 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 12.25 2.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.70 6.8 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.55 10.4 16.79 9.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.09 15.2 17.57 13.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.86 4.7 19.86 4.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.09 6.3 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.85 8.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.48 4.2 19.47 9.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.79 6.0 15.81 6.4 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.74 16.0 21.74 16.0 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.63 3.9 15.63 3.9 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.21 5.5 15.61 6.0 12.46 8.2 Level 3 .................................................. 13.53 9.4 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.12 8.3 16.29 7.3 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.52 3.1 28.52 3.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 29.90 3.8 29.90 3.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.87 1.7 31.87 1.7 – – Electricians...................................................... 30.97 7.8 30.97 7.8 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 30.79 9.2 30.79 9.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.28 6.4 31.28 6.4 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 30.60 8.3 30.60 8.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.15 9.1 22.88 10.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.51 3.6 18.51 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.50 3.0 23.78 1.8 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.57 7.9 21.02 5.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.74 7.2 21.79 2.8 – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 21.90 3.9 21.90 3.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.20 2.9 16.27 3.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.00 4.0 11.01 4.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.72 9.3 12.83 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.33 4.0 15.33 4.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 4.4 18.21 4.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.16 2.0 18.16 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.07 9.2 23.07 9.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.40 4.2 27.40 4.2 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.91 10.3 15.91 10.3 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Printers.......................................................... 18.06 14.7 18.06 14.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 14.75 8.5 14.75 8.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.93 4.9 14.44 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.32 10.6 12.32 10.6 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.43 11.4 14.90 11.9 10.47 6.0 Level 1 .................................................. 9.09 5.4 8.94 6.8 9.60 5.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.05 17.0 11.24 17.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.22 4.9 13.30 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.09 7.5 19.09 7.5 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.04 7.7 16.94 8.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 22.35 4.9 22.35 4.9 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.33 4.6 20.29 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.49 6.8 20.49 6.8 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.22 24.3 15.22 24.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.46 11.5 13.46 11.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.04 3.7 15.04 3.7 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.54 8.0 12.00 9.7 10.07 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.75 4.3 9.53 2.9 10.15 10.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.40 12.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.85 8.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.46 5.3 13.02 7.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.12 2.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.16 6.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.85 8.8 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $25.61 3.9 $25.96 4.5 $18.64 16.0 Management occupations.............................................. 39.56 13.5 39.56 13.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.67 4.3 24.67 4.3 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.57 8.7 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 26.37 11.5 26.37 11.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 28.07 10.0 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 24.39 10.6 24.39 10.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.44 4.7 33.20 5.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.79 1.8 33.79 1.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.49 2.9 49.49 2.9 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 42.75 13.6 49.49 2.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.49 2.9 49.49 2.9 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.98 2.7 33.98 2.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.79 1.8 33.79 1.8 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.09 .8 34.09 .8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.74 .3 33.74 .3 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 34.10 2.6 34.10 2.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.74 2.0 33.74 2.0 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.08 1.5 34.08 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.74 3.3 33.74 3.3 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.74 4.7 34.74 4.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.24 4.2 34.24 4.2 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.74 4.7 34.74 4.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.24 4.2 34.24 4.2 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.56 6.3 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.74 5.9 26.48 5.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.90 4.9 33.18 4.9 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 22.04 5.5 22.04 5.5 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 15.05 6.3 15.05 6.3 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.91 7.7 14.91 7.7 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.91 7.7 14.91 7.7 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.22 5.4 17.17 5.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.34 6.2 17.20 7.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.24 3.0 19.24 3.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 20.16 6.1 20.16 6.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 16.80 13.4 16.80 13.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 23.41 18.1 – – – – 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. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.49 4.4 $21.36 4.1 $12.99 8.5 Management occupations.............................................. 35.54 8.4 35.54 8.4 – – Group II.................................................. 22.08 6.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.38 7.4 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 54.20 8.8 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 31.94 15.3 31.94 15.3 – – Financial managers................................................ 42.94 25.6 42.94 25.6 – – Education administrators.......................................... 33.17 12.5 33.17 12.5 – – Group III................................................. 32.03 13.0 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.74 6.1 29.74 6.1 – – Group II.................................................. 23.39 5.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.08 11.1 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.20 9.5 24.20 9.5 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.27 8.2 25.27 8.2 – – Group II.................................................. 21.56 5.0 21.56 5.0 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 28.92 13.0 29.16 13.1 – – Group II.................................................. 19.38 19.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.42 5.0 – – – – Computer software engineers....................................... 38.67 7.2 38.67 7.2 – – Group III................................................. 38.90 8.0 – – – – Computer support specialists...................................... 16.74 26.6 16.64 28.6 – – Group II.................................................. 16.74 26.6 16.64 28.6 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 33.77 2.6 33.77 2.6 – – Group III................................................. 33.97 2.8 33.97 2.8 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.26 2.5 32.26 2.5 – – Group II.................................................. 24.67 2.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.01 4.7 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 39.92 1.7 39.92 1.7 – – Group II.................................................. 31.27 .7 – – – – Group III................................................. 41.37 2.2 – – – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 39.15 4.2 39.15 4.2 – – Group III................................................. 39.64 5.4 – – – – Industrial engineers.......................................... 39.31 5.1 39.31 5.1 – – Group III................................................. 39.93 6.9 39.93 6.9 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.89 4.8 23.89 4.8 – – Group II.................................................. 22.82 4.3 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 29.98 6.2 29.98 6.4 – – Group III................................................. 31.38 8.5 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.53 8.8 18.51 8.9 – – Group II.................................................. 16.11 6.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 30.20 8.1 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 25.81 13.3 26.60 14.6 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.83 13.4 26.60 14.6 – – Social workers.................................................... 18.66 9.8 18.66 9.8 – – Legal occupations................................................... 56.47 10.6 56.47 10.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 27.70 8.8 28.21 9.3 19.23 10.2 Group I................................................... 12.52 11.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.24 26.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.74 5.4 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 37.49 17.0 39.02 18.1 – – Group III................................................. 37.55 15.4 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 35.44 20.6 37.06 22.2 – – Group III................................................. 34.51 19.3 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.25 9.2 29.70 9.0 – – Group III................................................. 31.38 5.2 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 31.78 6.2 32.95 3.2 – – Group III................................................. 31.28 6.7 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.46 10.0 32.22 6.1 – – Group III................................................. 29.85 10.1 31.71 5.9 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.08 1.5 34.08 1.5 – – Group III................................................. 33.74 3.3 33.74 3.3 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.31 5.3 34.31 5.3 – – Group III................................................. 33.78 4.8 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 34.31 5.3 34.31 5.3 – – Group III................................................. 33.78 4.8 33.78 4.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 12.52 11.4 12.34 12.0 – – Group I................................................... 12.52 11.4 12.34 12.0 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.71 24.6 16.59 24.8 – – Group II.................................................. 18.76 19.8 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.17 4.6 29.27 4.9 28.17 6.5 Group I................................................... 14.82 9.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.53 9.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.79 5.2 – – – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.24 2.7 48.24 2.7 – – Group III................................................. 48.63 3.3 48.63 3.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 35.34 3.1 35.38 3.1 35.11 3.1 Group III................................................. 35.33 3.1 35.38 3.1 34.83 4.2 Therapists........................................................ 28.59 3.9 28.05 6.1 – – Group III................................................. 28.91 4.7 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.67 3.3 18.87 3.7 – – Group II.................................................. 19.55 6.7 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.05 2.7 18.11 3.1 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 29.68 16.7 29.68 16.7 – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 29.68 16.7 29.68 16.7 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.51 2.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.51 2.3 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.05 9.6 14.23 9.0 10.83 10.1 Group I................................................... 12.63 9.1 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.11 7.1 11.94 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 10.92 6.8 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.21 8.2 12.36 6.3 – – Group I................................................... 10.99 7.8 12.04 6.1 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.60 4.1 17.55 5.5 – – Group I................................................... 16.13 4.6 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 14.92 2.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.92 2.2 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.21 5.2 11.33 6.2 8.13 .5 Group I................................................... 9.68 5.7 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 12.86 5.2 12.86 5.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.81 5.6 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.99 .6 – – 7.94 .8 Group I................................................... 7.99 .6 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 7.94 .3 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.94 .3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.25 1.0 – – 8.11 .7 Group I................................................... 8.25 1.0 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.19 .7 – – 8.11 .7 Group I................................................... 8.19 .7 – – 8.11 .7 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.06 4.6 12.55 5.0 10.57 6.3 Group I................................................... 11.86 4.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.96 4.6 12.50 5.3 10.57 6.3 Group I................................................... 11.88 4.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.27 5.0 12.74 5.6 10.26 6.6 Group I................................................... 12.16 4.8 12.61 5.3 10.26 6.6 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.31 8.0 11.73 8.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.31 8.0 11.73 8.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.98 9.9 11.36 12.5 9.33 4.8 Group I................................................... 10.54 12.5 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.79 16.5 19.83 15.9 9.74 4.5 Group I................................................... 12.36 8.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.35 7.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.10 10.5 18.10 10.5 – – Group II.................................................. 18.85 6.7 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.10 10.5 18.10 10.5 – – Group II.................................................. 18.85 6.7 18.85 6.7 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.28 11.8 13.62 12.5 10.65 2.2 Group I................................................... 12.49 8.0 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.04 10.1 11.29 10.5 9.43 13.6 Group I................................................... 11.04 10.1 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 11.04 10.1 11.29 10.5 9.43 13.6 Group I................................................... 11.04 10.1 11.29 10.5 9.43 13.6 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.59 14.2 14.88 14.0 – – Group I................................................... 13.15 8.3 13.32 9.3 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.51 3.3 16.39 3.4 17.33 11.5 Group I................................................... 14.39 3.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.63 2.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 22.86 8.3 22.86 8.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.82 5.7 15.82 5.9 – – Group I................................................... 14.07 5.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.28 3.7 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.05 2.8 17.04 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 15.41 1.9 15.41 1.9 – – Group II.................................................. 18.85 4.6 19.11 4.7 – – Tellers......................................................... 12.25 2.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.25 2.7 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.55 10.4 16.79 9.7 – – Group I................................................... 15.74 11.5 16.03 10.8 – – Group II.................................................. 18.96 11.4 18.96 11.4 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.09 6.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.64 7.1 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.85 8.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.85 8.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.30 3.6 19.33 7.8 – – Group I................................................... 15.59 3.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.71 4.6 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.80 10.7 20.80 10.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.83 10.9 21.83 10.9 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.67 3.5 15.67 3.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.44 5.0 15.80 5.4 12.46 8.2 Group I................................................... 15.35 5.7 15.65 6.3 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.50 3.0 28.50 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 19.71 23.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 30.51 4.6 – – – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.36 19.8 20.36 19.8 – – Electricians...................................................... 30.97 7.8 30.97 7.8 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 30.79 9.2 30.79 9.2 – – Group II.................................................. 30.98 10.0 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 30.60 8.3 30.60 8.3 – – Group II.................................................. 30.81 9.4 30.81 9.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.26 8.3 23.01 9.8 – – Group II.................................................. 24.27 9.9 – – – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.40 5.1 18.40 5.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.88 7.2 21.57 5.8 – – Group II.................................................. 24.12 5.1 – – – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 21.90 3.9 21.90 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 21.90 3.9 21.90 3.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.25 2.9 16.32 3.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.96 2.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.12 3.4 – – – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 14.15 3.0 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 15.82 5.4 15.82 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 14.15 3.0 14.15 3.0 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.91 10.3 15.91 10.3 – – Group I................................................... 15.78 13.3 – – – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Group II.................................................. 25.23 14.9 – – – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 23.34 15.5 23.34 15.5 – – Group II.................................................. 25.23 14.9 25.23 14.9 – – Printers.......................................................... 18.06 14.7 18.06 14.7 – – Group II.................................................. 20.19 4.5 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 14.75 8.5 14.75 8.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.93 4.9 14.44 3.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.84 8.0 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.86 10.7 15.35 11.3 10.82 5.9 Group I................................................... 12.83 9.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.81 7.5 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.04 7.7 16.94 8.0 – – Group I................................................... 16.40 9.8 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.33 4.6 20.29 4.7 – – Group I................................................... 19.89 6.6 19.89 6.6 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 15.22 24.3 15.22 24.3 – – Group I................................................... 15.22 24.3 15.22 24.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.46 11.5 13.46 11.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.13 11.8 13.13 11.8 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.54 8.0 12.00 9.7 10.07 4.9 Group I................................................... 11.19 6.4 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.46 5.3 13.02 7.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.06 4.6 12.50 7.2 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA, September 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.00 $11.33 $17.40 $25.96 $35.83 Management occupations.............................................. 20.25 21.55 33.98 46.12 57.25 General and operations managers................................... 19.23 19.23 34.63 40.04 42.93 Financial managers................................................ 20.84 20.84 40.82 67.24 67.24 Education administrators.......................................... 23.26 23.65 33.98 40.41 47.87 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.50 21.63 30.67 32.39 45.01 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 19.68 19.68 23.62 28.99 28.99 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 18.50 19.59 23.64 31.25 34.49 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 10.75 20.21 31.20 36.57 44.14 Computer software engineers....................................... 31.20 31.82 38.92 44.80 49.40 Computer support specialists...................................... 10.50 10.75 16.21 23.61 24.80 Computer systems analysts......................................... 30.04 30.68 34.55 36.90 37.13 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.03 23.94 31.70 38.89 47.12 Engineers......................................................... 31.70 33.60 38.62 46.17 49.05 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 28.67 33.66 42.81 43.14 47.78 Industrial engineers.......................................... 28.67 28.98 43.14 43.14 48.65 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.94 20.15 22.56 27.31 32.51 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.01 26.37 27.24 33.80 44.05 Community and social services occupations........................... 13.10 13.96 16.09 19.68 25.13 Counselors........................................................ 11.89 15.79 25.11 38.90 41.99 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 11.89 15.79 25.11 38.90 41.99 Social workers.................................................... 14.29 14.29 19.68 21.19 23.70 Legal occupations................................................... 20.97 40.87 51.61 60.10 96.15 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.46 16.85 26.07 36.49 44.72 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 22.50 25.93 32.27 47.47 58.39 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 22.50 25.93 31.22 44.32 57.87 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 13.76 21.60 30.09 37.47 42.15 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 19.29 24.45 33.33 37.99 43.02 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 17.54 22.81 31.75 37.30 41.99 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.25 28.09 33.89 39.76 45.16 Secondary school teachers....................................... 24.19 27.87 33.77 40.63 45.54 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.19 27.87 33.77 40.63 45.54 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.46 10.46 10.46 14.61 17.59 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 9.13 9.68 16.83 23.43 26.85 Healthcare practitione