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Highlights of Johnstown
National Compensation Survey – July 2010 (PDF)

Workers in the Johnstown metropolitan area earned an average of $16.75 per hour in July 2010, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $24.57 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $14.90 for sales and related occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $13.14. The NCS data available for the Johnstown area include earnings for 18 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within most of those groups. (See table 1.)

Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupations group, earned $27.93 per hour, and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses averaged $14.48. Within the sales and related occupations group, first-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers recorded an average hourly wage of $18.58 and cashiers, $8.04. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, earned $14.80 per hour and office clerks, general, earned $13.57 per hour.

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $17.97 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $10.88.  Union workers earned $18.70 and non-union workers, $16.28. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.82 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $16.74, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $19.71.

The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are:  knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/. 

The NCS data reported here covered 157 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 53,700 workers in the Johnstown, PA, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which consists of Cambria County in Pennsylvania.

Survey Availability

Complete survey results are contained in the Johnstown, PA National Compensation Survey July 2010 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm. 

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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Johnstown, PA, July 2010
Occupation(3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

 $16.75 4.3 $17.97 4.2 $10.88 7.4

Management occupations

 37.25 21.7 38.09 22.5 – –

Business and financial operations occupations

 21.59 8.5 21.59 8.5 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations

 25.33 10.4 25.33 10.4 – –

Community and social services occupations

 14.69 10.6 14.69 10.6 – –

Education, training, and library occupations

 32.59 5.4 33.50 5.5 14.53 7.4

Postsecondary teachers

 33.45 6.6 34.96 8.4 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

 37.10 6.5 37.10 6.5 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers

 36.33 2.3 36.33 2.3 – –

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

 11.70 13.8 – – – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 24.57 4.7 27.61 1.3 19.87 8.4

Registered nurses

 27.93 4.5 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

 14.48 2.6 14.24 4.8 – –

Healthcare support occupations

 12.69 8.8 13.17 9.2 11.05 7.6

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

 11.07 1.6 11.32 1.3 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

 11.32 1.3 11.32 1.3 – –

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations

 15.76 7.0 16.89 2.1 – –

Protective service occupations

 19.96 16.4 20.63 15.1 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations

 7.22 7.4 6.77 23.4 7.42 1.4

Cooks

 8.52 5.3 – – – –

Food service, tipped

 5.69 21.2 – – 6.68 11.8

Fast food and counter workers

 7.75 2.1 – – 7.84 2.0

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 10.53 7.5 11.15 7.7 – –

Building cleaning workers

 9.55 6.5 9.95 6.8 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

 9.57 8.2 10.11 8.5 – –

Personal care and service occupations

 10.43 4.6 10.55 5.3 9.73 5.3

Sales and related occupations

 14.90 9.9 18.03 8.3 8.14 0.9

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

 18.58 7.1 18.58 7.1 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers

 18.58 7.1 18.58 7.1 – –

Retail sales workers

 10.94 1.3 13.59 9.4 8.09 0.6

Cashiers, all workers

 8.04 0.9 – – 7.61 0.8

Cashiers

 8.04 0.9 – – 7.61 0.8

Retail salespersons

 13.13 16.2 14.34 19.2 – –

Office and administrative support occupations

 13.14 2.6 13.49 2.9 10.09 4.5

Financial clerks

 13.27 4.8 13.61 4.7 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

 14.80 5.9 14.80 5.9 – –

Receptionists and information clerks

 9.97 4.5 – – – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

 11.46 5.1 12.12 5.4 – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.14 3.6 14.24 3.8 – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.76 8.1 14.97 8.6 – –

Office clerks, general

 13.57 4.7 13.71 4.7 – –

Construction and extraction occupations

 16.34 6.9 16.34 6.9 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 17.28 10.5 17.28 10.5 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

 16.28 9.9 16.28 9.9 – –

Production occupations

 14.21 1.4 14.21 1.4 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

 12.42 13.4 12.42 13.4 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

 15.55 5.9 15.55 5.9 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

 15.55 5.9 15.55 5.9 – –

Miscellaneous production workers

 12.47 1.5 12.47 1.5 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations

 15.48 14.3 16.51 13.9 8.74 9.4

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

 14.70 13.7 15.46 12.4 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

 16.88 10.0 16.88 10.0 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand

 11.70 7.7 12.32 8.5 – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

 12.59 7.9 13.32 9.5 – –

Footnotes:
(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.
(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) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
(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.

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.

Last Modified Date: April 5, 2011