Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA National Compensation Survey (NCS) Bulletin
NNC BL 09/00/2009 Table: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA, Bulletin, March 2009
Table 1. Sumary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
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........................................................... $19.78 3.3 34.5 $18.97 3.5 34.5 $27.87 7.4 34.5
Worker characteristics(4)(5)
Management, professional, and related............................... 30.94 3.4 34.9 29.84 3.7 34.9 37.02 7.4 35.0
Management, business, and financial............................... 32.29 5.1 40.0 32.04 5.4 40.2 37.60 8.7 36.9
Professional and related.......................................... 30.34 3.9 33.0 28.66 4.4 32.6 36.96 7.7 34.8
Service............................................................. 10.32 3.6 30.6 9.71 3.5 30.4 19.16 8.5 33.2
Sales and office.................................................... 14.66 2.6 34.2 14.46 2.3 34.3 17.42 15.0 32.4
Sales and related................................................. 14.44 4.3 32.2 14.44 4.3 32.2 – – –
Office and administrative support................................. 14.79 3.1 35.6 14.48 2.3 36.0 17.42 15.0 32.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.53 4.8 39.2 18.59 5.1 39.3 17.86 10.5 38.7
Construction and extraction...................................... 18.45 3.9 38.9 18.79 3.6 39.0 16.16 13.4 38.1
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.59 6.2 39.5 18.46 6.5 39.5 21.11 6.4 40.0
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.51 7.1 36.5 17.57 7.4 36.6 16.21 12.6 34.7
Production........................................................ 17.33 4.3 38.4 17.25 4.4 38.4 – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 17.65 11.9 35.2 17.83 12.7 35.3 15.13 9.8 33.8
Full time........................................................... 21.50 3.3 39.4 20.61 3.6 39.6 29.65 6.8 37.7
Part time........................................................... 10.81 3.3 20.9 10.79 3.5 21.0 11.23 9.0 19.2
Union............................................................... 21.49 4.0 36.6 18.71 5.1 36.4 27.95 4.2 37.1
Nonunion............................................................ 19.30 4.2 33.9 19.02 4.1 34.1 27.65 26.3 29.1
Time................................................................ 19.80 3.4 34.3 18.95 3.8 34.2 27.87 7.4 34.5
Incentive........................................................... 19.34 7.6 39.6 19.34 7.6 39.6 – – –
Establishment characteristics
Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.96 3.8 39.0 (6) (6) (6)
Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.97 4.2 33.7 (6) (6) (6)
1-99 workers........................................................ 16.66 4.9 33.2 16.60 5.0 33.2 18.22 21.6 31.8
100-499 workers..................................................... 19.53 8.9 34.9 18.18 9.0 35.1 33.77 16.3 32.7
500 workers or more................................................. 25.44 3.3 36.6 24.73 4.0 36.6 28.40 3.8 36.4
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 Estimates for goods-producing and service-providing industries are published for private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2007 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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
CSA, March 2009
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........................................................... $19.78 3.3 $21.50 3.3 $10.81 3.3
Management occupations.............................................. 38.49 7.0 38.42 7.0 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.25 6.5 27.25 6.5 – –
Level 11.................................................. 40.32 10.1 40.08 10.9 – –
Level 12.................................................. 51.60 6.6 51.60 6.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.46 11.9 46.46 11.9 – –
General and operations managers................................... 31.10 7.3 31.10 7.3 – –
Financial managers................................................ 35.35 11.7 35.35 11.7 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 33.18 13.5 33.18 13.5 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.31 3.1 26.36 2.9 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.70 7.3 23.16 7.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 23.23 5.7 23.23 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 25.79 3.5 25.79 3.5 – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.40 8.5 27.40 8.5 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.98 7.9 25.04 7.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.97 9.2 – – – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.68 9.1 25.43 10.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 23.33 5.2 23.33 5.2 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 22.07 3.1 22.07 3.1 – –
Loan officers................................................... 21.89 3.3 21.89 3.3 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.86 6.2 32.87 6.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 17.25 13.1 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.49 6.0 30.58 6.2 – –
Level 10.................................................. 37.32 1.0 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.23 11.7 30.23 11.7 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 35.76 17.0 35.76 17.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 17.4 24.80 17.4 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.31 2.9 31.31 2.9 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.88 3.3 31.88 3.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.47 2.2 35.47 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.46 9.6 33.46 9.6 – –
Engineers......................................................... 36.26 2.8 36.26 2.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.47 2.2 35.47 2.2 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 20.41 9.6 20.41 9.6 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.47 10.8 20.47 10.8 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.73 5.6 15.73 5.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 14.08 3.1 14.08 3.1 – –
Social workers.................................................... 15.98 9.4 15.98 9.4 – –
Legal occupations................................................... 56.60 9.1 56.60 9.1 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.15 6.2 38.26 6.7 13.55 12.2
Level 6 .................................................. 11.96 3.3 – – 11.59 2.8
Level 7 .................................................. 15.65 11.4 17.30 9.6 13.25 20.3
Level 8 .................................................. 19.85 20.8 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 41.91 1.1 41.99 1.1 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.59 2.0 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ – – 59.15 10.9 – –
Level 11.................................................. 41.59 2.0 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.25 3.1 39.17 4.7 10.67 11.3
Level 9 .................................................. 41.84 1.9 41.84 1.9 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 39.68 1.3 41.56 1.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 42.47 .6 42.47 .6 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.46 2.1 42.07 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.40 1.0 43.40 1.0 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.94 4.1 38.94 4.1 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.94 4.1 38.94 4.1 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 45.15 8.3 45.15 8.3 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.15 8.3 45.15 8.3 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 11.99 10.0 12.26 10.3 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.73 9.0 27.05 4.4 13.02 26.8
Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.54 19.1 27.26 13.2 14.54 33.8
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.34 6.9 26.90 9.4 24.35 4.3
Level 4 .................................................. 13.76 9.2 14.18 4.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.34 3.2 17.27 3.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.81 8.6 17.06 8.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.57 3.8 23.38 1.7 17.82 15.1
Level 8 .................................................. 26.76 5.2 26.60 2.6 26.97 13.5
Level 9 .................................................. 31.44 4.0 30.67 3.4 35.57 12.5
Level 10.................................................. 38.88 7.1 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.11 3.5 – – 46.19 3.6
Registered nurses................................................. 28.75 5.7 29.70 4.5 26.13 7.8
Level 7 .................................................. 24.01 5.8 24.37 5.5 22.47 7.0
Level 8 .................................................. 25.15 5.9 27.10 2.1 22.81 9.4
Level 9 .................................................. 29.84 4.5 29.78 4.8 30.14 7.6
Level 10.................................................. 38.05 8.5 – – – –
Therapists........................................................ 26.57 12.0 27.05 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 18.96 6.8 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.36 .7 – – – –
Physical therapists............................................. 33.17 1.1 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.81 10.4 21.66 8.4 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 2.3 23.88 2.3 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 14.6 20.30 14.6 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 7.2 24.03 7.2 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.13 2.6 17.09 2.7 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.77 3.1 11.99 3.2 9.87 5.9
Level 2 .................................................. 10.89 3.0 11.02 4.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.20 3.6 11.56 1.7 9.09 5.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.59 3.3 12.57 3.7 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.41 2.3 11.54 2.7 9.92 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 11.04 4.1 11.26 6.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.46 2.4 11.54 1.7 – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.79 4.0 11.85 3.6 10.87 8.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.80 6.2 11.78 6.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.65 3.8 11.75 3.1 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.45 9.8 12.94 10.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.62 4.1 12.60 5.0 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 16.52 19.1 17.07 19.5 11.77 20.5
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Security guards................................................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.08 6.1 8.85 9.9 7.07 2.0
Level 1 .................................................. 6.27 4.4 5.56 5.8 6.79 5.5
Level 2 .................................................. 6.44 3.7 5.48 7.3 7.29 4.3
Level 3 .................................................. 8.24 8.1 9.18 8.2 6.45 3.9
Level 4 .................................................. 11.66 4.9 – – 10.87 14.9
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.15 5.0 10.34 6.5 9.79 9.4
Level 3 .................................................. 9.43 4.3 9.74 5.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.59 3.7 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.46 7.1 10.89 8.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 9.75 6.5 – – – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.04 9.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.63 2.2 – – 8.68 4.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 4.3 – – 8.68 4.3
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.23 5.3 3.77 9.2 4.79 9.7
Level 1 .................................................. 4.82 8.8 4.25 11.8 5.41 11.5
Level 2 .................................................. 3.24 5.4 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 3.79 8.0 – – 3.61 7.9
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.26 6.3 3.17 4.0 3.40 8.5
Level 1 .................................................. 3.32 7.8 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.36 4.5 – – 8.47 5.3
Level 1 .................................................. 8.28 4.8 – – 8.36 5.9
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.03 2.8 8.95 10.2 7.50 1.2
Level 1 .................................................. 7.61 2.2 – – 7.45 1.1
Level 2 .................................................. 7.85 4.5 – – 7.55 2.9
Level 3 .................................................. 9.25 13.4 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.08 3.1 8.95 10.2 7.52 1.2
Level 1 .................................................. 7.64 1.8 – – 7.46 1.2
Level 2 .................................................. 7.88 4.7 – – 7.57 3.1
Level 3 .................................................. 9.25 13.4 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.05 6.4 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.18 7.4 12.60 5.9 10.38 13.8
Level 1 .................................................. 9.98 7.3 10.86 9.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.53 9.9 11.69 8.1 10.91 17.3
Level 3 .................................................. 14.49 9.5 14.68 10.3 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.67 8.0 12.04 6.5 10.23 14.4
Level 1 .................................................. 10.00 7.3 10.86 9.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.62 10.1 11.81 8.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.49 9.5 14.68 10.3 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.83 9.8 12.40 11.2 8.21 4.0
Level 1 .................................................. 10.66 10.3 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.44 11.7 11.88 14.0 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 15.48 10.6 15.82 11.7 – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.50 9.0 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.66 10.9 11.27 8.0 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 8.13 13.7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 10.87 2.8 10.36 .9 – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.22 10.3 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.44 4.3 17.01 5.9 8.30 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 7.43 .6 – – 7.43 .6
Level 2 .................................................. 8.62 2.5 10.00 1.9 7.76 2.4
Level 3 .................................................. 9.01 5.5 – – 8.17 4.8
Level 4 .................................................. 15.84 4.5 16.10 4.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.06 12.7 18.06 12.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 28.18 13.2 28.18 13.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.46 26.9 15.46 26.9 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.72 24.3 12.72 24.3 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.56 4.4 17.06 4.0 8.06 1.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.43 .6 – – 7.43 .6
Level 2 .................................................. 8.84 1.0 10.14 1.7 7.91 1.7
Level 3 .................................................. 8.86 6.4 – – 8.21 5.1
Level 4 .................................................. 15.33 6.9 16.35 5.1 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.42 5.4 – – 7.57 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.93 6.0 – – 8.93 6.0
Cashiers...................................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.42 5.4 – – 7.57 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.93 6.0 – – 8.93 6.0
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.25 16.2 15.31 13.8 – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 11.0 16.34 11.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 14.63 5.6 20.15 .6 8.10 2.5
Level 2 .................................................. 9.73 .7 – – 8.73 3.0
Level 4 .................................................. 15.59 9.8 – – – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 14.7 21.27 14.7 – –
Telemarketers..................................................... 13.76 30.9 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.79 3.1 15.54 3.3 10.35 3.7
Level 1 .................................................. 8.19 2.8 – – 8.10 2.1
Level 2 .................................................. 10.99 4.1 11.60 5.5 10.20 5.9
Level 3 .................................................. 12.44 3.0 12.66 3.2 10.92 5.4
Level 4 .................................................. 15.53 2.8 15.54 2.9 14.86 4.5
Level 5 .................................................. 15.46 4.6 15.47 4.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.18 7.5 20.18 7.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 20.62 6.2 20.90 6.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.65 9.0 15.02 8.0 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.99 5.9 17.99 5.9 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 14.54 3.9 14.57 3.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.66 2.6 11.69 3.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.68 6.7 15.70 6.8 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.05 5.9 13.38 5.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.21 2.9 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.08 5.5 15.08 5.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.42 10.0 17.42 10.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.57 5.6 15.95 4.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.90 8.3 – – – –
File clerks....................................................... 11.90 7.6 12.62 5.9 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.22 3.8 – – – –
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 10.23 19.5 – – – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.84 5.3 12.90 6.3 9.91 4.5
Level 2 .................................................. 11.71 9.8 – – 9.43 5.8
Level 3 .................................................. 11.91 6.6 – – – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.33 11.4 12.51 11.2 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.21 8.0 13.48 11.0 9.09 6.9
Level 1 .................................................. 8.10 1.4 – – 8.10 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 10.53 5.7 – – – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.27 4.2 17.52 4.5 14.68 3.8
Level 3 .................................................. 13.13 2.4 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.46 5.5 15.49 5.7 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 14.83 5.5 – – – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.54 5.3 18.54 5.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.08 5.6 23.08 5.6 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.10 4.6 19.41 4.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 17.75 6.5 17.75 6.5 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.07 13.6 17.63 14.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.11 6.5 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.44 3.7 15.46 4.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.48 6.7 15.53 6.6 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.81 2.1 13.83 2.1 – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.70 2.2 13.70 2.2 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.37 7.2 14.32 7.6 10.48 4.0
Level 2 .................................................. 10.53 4.3 – – 10.53 4.3
Level 3 .................................................. 11.49 10.3 11.49 10.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.98 5.3 14.98 5.3 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.45 3.9 18.67 3.9 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 13.03 1.7 13.03 1.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.25 13.0 18.25 13.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 22.58 13.9 22.58 13.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 19.70 5.5 19.70 5.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.92 4.5 21.92 4.5 – –
Carpenters........................................................ 19.96 9.6 19.96 9.6 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 15.26 39.5 – – – –
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.59 6.2 18.72 6.2 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.70 10.6 14.26 9.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.68 4.5 19.68 4.5 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.04 4.5 21.04 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.55 6.3 25.55 6.3 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.43 5.6 18.24 5.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.65 9.4 17.65 9.4 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.70 4.3 18.41 3.3 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.99 4.9 19.01 4.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.62 2.6 17.62 2.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.94 7.4 21.94 7.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.66 1.5 21.66 1.5 – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 3.9 18.81 3.9 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.90 10.7 17.95 10.7 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.14 3.5 11.26 3.2 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.33 4.3 18.09 4.0 9.96 16.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.91 9.3 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.10 3.9 11.57 4.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.91 1.4 13.74 1.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.61 10.1 18.61 10.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.76 3.1 17.76 3.1 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.24 5.6 21.24 5.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.31 10.3 22.31 10.3 – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 10.2 18.92 10.2 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.14 19.0 14.99 22.3 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.31 8.7 17.31 8.7 – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.38 1.5 15.38 1.5 – –
Machinists........................................................ 20.52 9.4 20.52 9.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.22 12.4 21.22 12.4 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.18 24.8 17.18 24.8 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.96 6.3 20.96 6.3 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.65 11.9 19.94 14.0 10.52 9.7
Level 1 .................................................. 9.05 2.3 9.63 6.5 8.72 4.7
Level 2 .................................................. 14.80 7.3 15.44 5.9 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.74 3.2 15.48 1.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.23 6.6 17.25 8.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.25 8.7 19.25 8.7 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.41 5.0 16.27 6.1 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.29 5.2 15.18 1.4 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 7.8 15.83 7.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 12.9 18.21 12.9 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.74 5.8 16.80 5.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.06 6.8 16.06 6.8 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.28 8.5 14.64 7.9 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.65 13.7 15.31 13.6 – –
Crane and tower operators......................................... 22.70 4.9 22.70 4.9 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.97 2.8 14.85 .9 10.47 11.6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.88 3.2 – – 8.94 5.7
Level 3 .................................................. 15.26 4.0 15.26 4.0 – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.82 6.3 14.88 6.1 10.85 11.5
Level 1 .................................................. 9.08 3.3 – – 9.19 5.1
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
Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
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........................................................... $18.97 3.5 $20.61 3.6 $10.79 3.5
Management occupations.............................................. 38.28 7.5 38.21 7.6 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 27.31 6.7 27.31 6.7 – –
Level 11.................................................. 39.39 10.8 39.07 11.9 – –
Level 12.................................................. 55.03 5.5 55.03 5.5 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.46 11.9 46.46 11.9 – –
General and operations managers................................... 31.68 7.8 31.68 7.8 – –
Financial managers................................................ 34.27 11.7 34.27 11.7 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.37 3.1 26.42 2.9 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 23.70 7.3 23.16 7.5 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 23.23 5.7 23.23 5.7 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 26.02 3.7 26.02 3.7 – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.40 8.5 27.40 8.5 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.98 7.9 25.04 7.6 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.97 9.2 – – – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.78 9.4 25.52 10.5 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 21.89 3.3 21.89 3.3 – –
Loan officers................................................... 21.89 3.3 21.89 3.3 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.24 6.4 33.26 6.5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 30.84 7.3 30.96 7.7 – –
Level 10.................................................. 37.32 1.0 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.23 11.7 30.23 11.7 – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 35.76 17.0 35.76 17.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 17.4 24.80 17.4 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.75 2.5 31.75 2.5 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.88 3.3 31.88 3.3 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.47 2.2 35.47 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.46 9.6 33.46 9.6 – –
Engineers......................................................... 36.26 2.8 36.26 2.8 – –
Level 8 .................................................. 35.47 2.2 35.47 2.2 – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 20.41 9.6 20.41 9.6 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 18.63 3.9 18.63 3.9 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 14.61 6.1 14.61 6.1 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 13.75 2.0 13.75 2.0 – –
Social workers.................................................... 14.60 7.1 14.60 7.1 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.23 16.5 41.73 19.7 15.45 15.8
Level 8 .................................................. 27.34 16.5 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 31.01 16.3 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 18.63 16.6 20.96 21.2 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.73 9.0 27.05 4.4 12.94 26.9
Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.52 19.2 27.26 13.2 14.45 34.1
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 19.97 14.1 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.97 14.1 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 19.97 14.1 – – – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.97 14.1 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.18 7.0 26.71 9.7 24.35 4.3
Level 4 .................................................. 13.76 9.2 14.18 4.4 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.34 3.2 17.27 3.6 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.68 9.0 16.76 9.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.57 3.8 23.38 1.7 17.82 15.1
Level 8 .................................................. 26.76 5.2 26.60 2.6 26.97 13.5
Level 9 .................................................. 30.93 3.3 30.01 1.9 35.57 12.5
Level 10.................................................. 38.88 7.1 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.11 3.5 – – 46.19 3.6
Registered nurses................................................. 28.33 5.7 29.17 4.4 26.13 7.8
Level 7 .................................................. 24.01 5.8 24.37 5.5 22.47 7.0
Level 8 .................................................. 25.15 5.9 27.10 2.1 22.81 9.4
Level 9 .................................................. 28.89 2.5 28.60 1.8 30.14 7.6
Level 10.................................................. 38.05 8.5 – – – –
Therapists........................................................ 26.57 12.0 27.05 4.5 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 18.96 6.8 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 33.36 .7 – – – –
Physical therapists............................................. 33.17 1.1 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.81 10.4 21.66 8.4 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 2.3 23.88 2.3 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 14.6 20.30 14.6 – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 7.2 24.03 7.2 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.72 2.6 16.67 2.7 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.67 3.3 11.88 3.5 9.87 5.9
Level 2 .................................................. 10.89 3.0 11.02 4.2 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 10.84 4.4 11.18 2.8 9.09 5.5
Level 4 .................................................. 12.59 3.3 12.57 3.7 – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.21 2.7 11.34 3.1 9.92 1.4
Level 2 .................................................. 11.04 4.1 11.26 6.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.08 3.4 11.14 2.9 – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.56 4.7 11.61 4.3 10.87 8.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.80 6.2 11.78 6.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.26 5.1 11.34 4.5 – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.45 9.8 12.94 10.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 12.62 4.1 12.60 5.0 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 10.74 5.2 11.02 5.9 – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Security guards................................................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.05 6.2 8.82 10.1 7.04 2.0
Level 1 .................................................. 6.27 4.4 5.56 5.8 6.79 5.5
Level 2 .................................................. 6.26 4.2 5.22 6.7 7.18 4.9
Level 3 .................................................. 8.24 8.1 9.18 8.2 6.45 3.9
Level 4 .................................................. 11.66 4.9 – – 10.87 14.9
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.15 5.0 10.34 6.5 9.79 9.4
Level 3 .................................................. 9.43 4.3 9.74 5.7 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 13.59 3.7 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.46 7.1 10.89 8.6 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 9.75 6.5 – – – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.04 9.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.63 2.2 – – 8.68 4.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 4.3 – – 8.68 4.3
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.18 5.3 3.77 9.2 4.70 9.6
Level 1 .................................................. 4.82 8.8 4.25 11.8 5.41 11.5
Level 3 .................................................. 3.79 8.0 – – 3.61 7.9
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.26 6.3 3.17 4.0 3.40 8.5
Level 1 .................................................. 3.32 7.8 – – – –
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.28 4.8 – – 8.36 5.9
Level 1 .................................................. 8.28 4.8 – – 8.36 5.9
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.93 2.7 8.78 9.9 7.45 1.0
Level 1 .................................................. 7.61 2.2 – – 7.45 1.1
Level 2 .................................................. 7.56 1.4 – – 7.42 3.0
Level 3 .................................................. 9.25 13.4 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.97 2.9 8.78 9.9 7.46 1.0
Level 1 .................................................. 7.64 1.8 – – 7.46 1.2
Level 2 .................................................. 7.57 1.4 – – – –
Level 3 .................................................. 9.25 13.4 – – – –
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.05 6.4 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.73 8.5 12.05 7.1 10.46 14.3
Level 1 .................................................. 9.98 7.3 10.86 9.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.22 11.3 11.26 9.7 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.86 4.8 12.02 6.3 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.10 9.5 11.32 8.1 10.31 15.0
Level 1 .................................................. 10.00 7.3 10.86 9.0 – –
Level 2 .................................................. 11.31 11.6 11.37 10.0 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.86 4.8 12.02 6.3 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.65 9.2 11.08 10.7 – –
Level 1 .................................................. 10.66 10.3 – – – –
Level 2 .................................................. 10.56 11.8 – – – –
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.50 9.0 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.26 10.8 10.59 8.4 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 8.13 13.7 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 10.87 2.8 10.36 .9 – –
Child care workers................................................ 8.97 3.0 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.44 4.3 17.01 5.9 8.30 4.4
Level 1 .................................................. 7.43 .6 – – 7.43 .6
Level 2 .................................................. 8.62 2.5 10.00 1.9 7.76 2.4
Level 3 .................................................. 9.01 5.5 – – 8.17 4.8
Level 4 .................................................. 15.84 4.5 16.10 4.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.06 12.7 18.06 12.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 28.18 13.2 28.18 13.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.46 26.9 15.46 26.9 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.72 24.3 12.72 24.3 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.56 4.4 17.06 4.0 8.06 1.6
Level 1 .................................................. 7.43 .6 – – 7.43 .6
Level 2 .................................................. 8.84 1.0 10.14 1.7 7.91 1.7
Level 3 .................................................. 8.86 6.4 – – 8.21 5.1
Level 4 .................................................. 15.33 6.9 16.35 5.1 – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.42 5.4 – – 7.57 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.93 6.0 – – 8.93 6.0
Cashiers...................................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Level 2 .................................................. 8.42 5.4 – – 7.57 2.6
Level 3 .................................................. 8.93 6.0 – – 8.93 6.0
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.25 16.2 15.31 13.8 – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 11.0 16.34 11.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 14.63 5.6 20.15 .6 8.10 2.5
Level 2 .................................................. 9.73 .7 – – 8.73 3.0
Level 4 .................................................. 15.59 9.8 – – – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 14.7 21.27 14.7 – –
Telemarketers..................................................... 13.76 30.9 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.48 2.3 15.14 2.6 10.23 2.8
Level 1 .................................................. 8.19 2.8 – – 8.10 2.1
Level 2 .................................................. 10.76 5.0 11.40 5.8 9.65 4.6
Level 3 .................................................. 12.46 3.1 12.60 3.4 11.48 3.2
Level 4 .................................................. 15.63 3.0 15.65 3.1 14.86 4.5
Level 5 .................................................. 15.44 4.8 15.45 4.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.66 3.6 18.66 3.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 19.90 6.1 20.19 6.7 – –
Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.66 9.2 15.05 8.2 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.61 5.7 17.61 5.7 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 14.52 3.9 14.56 3.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 11.66 2.6 11.69 3.0 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.68 6.7 15.70 6.8 – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.05 5.9 13.38 5.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.21 2.9 – – – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.06 5.6 15.06 5.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 17.42 10.0 17.42 10.0 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.57 5.6 15.95 4.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.90 8.3 – – – –
File clerks....................................................... 11.82 8.9 – – – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.22 3.8 – – – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.84 5.3 12.90 6.3 9.91 4.5
Level 2 .................................................. 11.71 9.8 – – 9.43 5.8
Level 3 .................................................. 11.91 6.6 – – – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.33 11.4 12.51 11.2 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.40 8.4 – – 8.30 2.9
Level 1 .................................................. 8.10 1.4 – – 8.10 1.4
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.34 4.4 17.57 4.6 14.15 2.9
Level 3 .................................................. 13.13 2.4 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.74 5.7 15.80 5.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 18.83 5.2 18.83 5.2 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.31 6.6 22.31 6.6 – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.10 4.6 19.41 4.8 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 17.75 6.5 17.75 6.5 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.07 13.6 17.63 14.8 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.11 6.5 – – – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.80 4.6 15.86 4.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.94 6.9 16.01 6.7 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.72 3.1 – – – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.70 2.2 13.70 2.2 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.36 7.6 14.32 8.0 10.45 4.3
Level 2 .................................................. 10.46 4.6 – – 10.46 4.6
Level 3 .................................................. 11.49 10.3 11.49 10.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.13 6.2 15.13 6.2 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.79 3.6 18.97 3.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.25 13.0 18.25 13.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 23.67 16.3 23.67 16.3 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.92 4.5 21.92 4.5 – –
Carpenters........................................................ 19.96 9.6 19.96 9.6 – –
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.46 6.5 18.60 6.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.70 10.6 14.26 9.0 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.58 4.9 19.58 4.9 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 20.91 4.7 20.91 4.7 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 25.64 6.4 25.64 6.4 – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.33 5.7 18.13 5.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.46 9.7 17.46 9.7 – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.56 4.5 18.25 3.4 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.91 5.8 18.94 5.8 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.69 1.6 21.69 1.6 – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 3.9 18.81 3.9 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.14 15.7 17.20 15.8 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.14 3.5 11.26 3.2 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.25 4.4 18.03 4.1 9.96 16.8
Level 2 .................................................. 11.10 3.9 11.57 4.5 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 13.91 1.4 13.74 1.3 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 18.61 10.1 18.61 10.1 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 17.46 2.7 17.46 2.7 – –
Level 6 .................................................. 21.24 5.6 21.24 5.6 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 22.31 10.3 22.31 10.3 – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 10.2 18.92 10.2 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.14 19.0 14.99 22.3 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.31 8.7 17.31 8.7 – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.38 1.5 15.38 1.5 – –
Machinists........................................................ 20.52 9.4 20.52 9.4 – –
Level 7 .................................................. 21.22 12.4 21.22 12.4 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.18 24.8 17.18 24.8 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.96 6.3 20.96 6.3 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.83 12.7 20.18 15.0 10.48 10.4
Level 1 .................................................. 9.02 2.4 9.55 6.7 8.71 5.0
Level 2 .................................................. 14.82 7.9 15.54 6.3 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.70 3.5 15.53 2.1 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.10 6.7 16.82 7.9 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 19.25 8.7 19.25 8.7 – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.41 5.4 16.36 6.8 – –
Level 3 .................................................. 14.12 6.5 – – – –
Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 7.8 15.83 7.6 – –
Level 5 .................................................. 18.21 12.9 18.21 12.9 – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.90 6.5 16.96 6.5 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 16.06 6.8 16.06 6.8 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.13 8.9 14.57 8.6 – –
Level 4 .................................................. 14.65 13.7 15.31 13.6 – –
Crane and tower operators......................................... 22.70 4.9 22.70 4.9 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.97 2.8 14.85 .9 10.47 11.6
Level 1 .................................................. 8.88 3.2 – – 8.94 5.7
Level 3 .................................................. 15.26 4.0 15.26 4.0 – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.82 6.3 14.88 6.1 10.85 11.5
Level 1 .................................................. 9.08 3.3 – – 9.19 5.1
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 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3),
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
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........................................................... $27.87 7.4 $29.65 6.8 $11.23 9.0
Management occupations.............................................. 41.07 6.9 41.07 6.9 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.68 5.2 36.97 5.4 10.73 1.1
Level 7 .................................................. 13.49 11.2 – – – –
Level 9 .................................................. 42.41 1.1 42.41 1.1 – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 40.51 3.0 41.77 2.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 42.21 1.9 42.21 1.9 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 40.71 .5 42.71 .1 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 42.71 .1 42.71 .1 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 40.88 1.5 43.77 .5 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 43.77 .5 43.77 .5 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.94 4.1 38.94 4.1 – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Level 9 .................................................. 38.94 4.1 38.94 4.1 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.95 8.9 13.13 9.0 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 23.84 4.4 24.54 6.1 – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.59 5.1 17.30 6.7 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.59 5.1 17.30 6.7 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 16.59 5.1 17.30 6.7 – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.42 15.0 19.43 13.8 10.96 15.4
Level 2 .................................................. 12.31 8.0 – – 11.60 12.8
Level 4 .................................................. 14.40 7.3 14.40 7.3 – –
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.86 11.5 17.21 14.2 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.71 3.7 14.39 3.6 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.16 13.4 16.43 16.7 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.11 6.4 21.11 6.4 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.13 9.8 16.48 10.5 – –
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), Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
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........................................................... $19.78 3.3 $21.50 3.3 $10.81 3.3
Management occupations.............................................. 38.49 7.0 38.42 7.0 – –
Group III................................................. 35.80 9.4 – – – –
General and operations managers................................... 31.10 7.3 31.10 7.3 – –
Financial managers................................................ 35.35 11.7 35.35 11.7 – –
Group III................................................. 36.31 13.3 36.31 13.3 – –
Education administrators.......................................... 33.18 13.5 33.18 13.5 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.31 3.1 26.36 2.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.31 4.4 – – – –
Group III................................................. 27.48 4.1 – – – –
Buyers and purchasing agents
Group II.................................................. 24.88 4.9 – – – –
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.40 8.5 27.40 8.5 – –
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.98 7.9 25.04 7.6 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.68 9.1 25.43 10.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 24.21 11.1 – – – –
Group III................................................. 24.68 5.9 24.68 5.9 – –
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 22.07 3.1 22.07 3.1 – –
Loan officers................................................... 21.89 3.3 21.89 3.3 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.86 6.2 32.87 6.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.05 9.7 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.10 5.9 – – – –
Computer programmers.............................................. 35.76 17.0 35.76 17.0 – –
Computer software engineers....................................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 38.04 1.7 – – – –
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 17.4 24.80 17.4 – –
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.31 2.9 31.31 2.9 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.88 3.3 31.88 3.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 29.93 4.5 – – – –
Group III................................................. 38.01 11.5 – – – –
Engineers......................................................... 36.26 2.8 36.26 2.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 34.04 6.9 – – – –
Group III................................................. 40.46 12.8 – – – –
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Electrical engineers.......................................... 36.94 3.2 36.94 3.2 – –
Drafters.......................................................... 20.41 9.6 20.41 9.6 – –
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.47 10.8 20.47 10.8 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.73 5.6 15.73 5.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 13.94 2.8 – – – –
Group III................................................. 19.12 15.4 – – – –
Social workers.................................................... 15.98 9.4 15.98 9.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 14.27 6.2 – – – –
Legal occupations................................................... 56.60 9.1 56.60 9.1 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.15 6.2 38.26 6.7 13.55 12.2
Group I................................................... 11.09 5.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 15.62 9.7 – – – –
Group III................................................. 45.07 2.9 – – – –
Postsecondary teachers............................................ – – 59.15 10.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 31.95 11.3 – – – –
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.25 3.1 39.17 4.7 10.67 11.3
Group II.................................................. 14.45 13.2 – – – –
Group III................................................. 41.84 1.9 – – – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 39.68 1.3 41.56 1.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 16.44 21.9 – – – –
Group III................................................. 42.47 .6 – – – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 39.46 2.1 42.07 2.2 – –
Group II.................................................. 16.44 21.9 – – – –
Group III................................................. 43.40 1.0 43.40 1.0 – –
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Group III................................................. 40.27 2.2 40.27 2.2 – –
Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Group III................................................. 38.94 4.1 – – – –
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 37.53 5.9 37.92 6.9 – –
Group III................................................. 38.94 4.1 38.94 4.1 – –
Special education teachers...................................... 45.15 8.3 45.15 8.3 – –
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.15 8.3 45.15 8.3 – –
Teacher assistants................................................ 11.99 10.0 12.26 10.3 – –
Group I................................................... 11.09 5.2 11.24 5.5 – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.73 9.0 27.05 4.4 13.02 26.8
Group II.................................................. 19.52 25.7 – – – –
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 20.14 13.7 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.34 6.9 26.90 9.4 24.35 4.3
Group I................................................... 13.57 7.9 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 22.31 1.8 – – – –
Group III................................................. 37.51 11.6 – – – –
Pharmacists....................................................... 47.11 3.5 – – 46.19 3.6
Registered nurses................................................. 28.75 5.7 29.70 4.5 26.13 7.8
Group II.................................................. 24.74 5.4 25.85 2.4 22.75 8.7
Group III................................................. 32.06 4.3 32.15 5.5 31.71 5.2
Therapists........................................................ 26.57 12.0 27.05 4.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.35 5.6 – – – –
Group III................................................. 33.36 .7 – – – –
Physical therapists............................................. 33.17 1.1 – – – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.81 10.4 21.66 8.4 – –
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 2.3 23.88 2.3 – –
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 14.6 20.30 14.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 23.03 4.5 – – – –
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 7.2 24.03 7.2 – –
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.13 2.6 17.09 2.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.10 2.7 17.10 2.7 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.77 3.1 11.99 3.2 9.87 5.9
Group I................................................... 11.51 2.5 – – – –
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.41 2.3 11.54 2.7 9.92 1.4
Group I................................................... 11.41 2.3 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.79 4.0 11.85 3.6 10.87 8.8
Group I................................................... 11.79 4.0 11.85 3.6 10.87 8.8
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.45 9.8 12.94 10.7 – –
Group I................................................... 11.61 5.5 – – – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 16.52 19.1 17.07 19.5 11.77 20.5
Group I................................................... 10.91 8.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.76 7.2 – – – –
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Group I................................................... 10.28 7.3 – – – –
Security guards................................................. 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Group I................................................... 10.28 7.3 10.49 8.1 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.08 6.1 8.85 9.9 7.07 2.0
Group I................................................... 7.20 5.2 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 15.42 5.4 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 15.42 5.4 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.37 4.1 14.37 4.1 – –
Group II.................................................. 15.42 5.4 15.42 5.4 – –
Cooks............................................................. 10.15 5.0 10.34 6.5 9.79 9.4
Group I................................................... 10.15 5.0 – – – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.46 7.1 10.89 8.6 – –
Group I................................................... 10.46 7.1 10.89 8.6 – –
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.04 9.2 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.04 9.2 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.63 2.2 – – 8.68 4.3
Group I................................................... 8.63 2.2 – – 8.68 4.3
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.23 5.3 3.77 9.2 4.79 9.7
Group I................................................... 4.23 5.3 – – – –
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.26 6.3 3.17 4.0 3.40 8.5
Group I................................................... 3.26 6.3 3.17 4.0 3.40 8.5
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.36 4.5 – – 8.47 5.3
Group I................................................... 8.36 4.5 – – 8.47 5.3
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.03 2.8 8.95 10.2 7.50 1.2
Group I................................................... 8.03 2.8 – – – –
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.08 3.1 8.95 10.2 7.52 1.2
Group I................................................... 8.08 3.1 8.95 10.2 7.52 1.2
Dishwashers....................................................... 9.05 6.4 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.05 6.4 – – – –
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.18 7.4 12.60 5.9 10.38 13.8
Group I................................................... 11.74 7.8 – – – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.67 8.0 12.04 6.5 10.23 14.4
Group I................................................... 11.78 8.2 – – – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.83 9.8 12.40 11.2 8.21 4.0
Group I................................................... 12.08 10.8 12.68 12.4 8.18 4.3
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.50 9.0 – – – –
Group I................................................... 11.50 9.0 – – – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.66 10.9 11.27 8.0 – –
Group I................................................... 8.59 7.4 – – – –
Child care workers................................................ 10.22 10.3 – – – –
Group I................................................... 9.01 2.8 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.44 4.3 17.01 5.9 8.30 4.4
Group I................................................... 11.58 5.8 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 24.51 7.7 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.46 26.9 15.46 26.9 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.72 24.3 12.72 24.3 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.56 4.4 17.06 4.0 8.06 1.6
Group I................................................... 10.11 4.4 – – – –
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Group I................................................... 8.39 4.4 – – – –
Cashiers...................................................... 8.69 1.7 – – 8.06 2.3
Group I................................................... 8.39 4.4 – – 8.00 2.5
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.25 16.2 15.31 13.8 – –
Group I................................................... 12.74 12.7 – – – –
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 11.0 16.34 11.0 – –
Retail salespersons............................................. 14.63 5.6 20.15 .6 8.10 2.5
Group I................................................... 10.59 10.6 14.41 4.5 8.10 2.5
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 14.7 21.27 14.7 – –
Telemarketers..................................................... 13.76 30.9 – – – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.79 3.1 15.54 3.3 10.35 3.7
Group I................................................... 12.87 2.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.49 5.5 – – – –
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.99 5.9 17.99 5.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.99 5.9 17.99 5.9 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 14.54 3.9 14.57 3.8 – –
Group I................................................... 13.33 7.1 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 16.86 3.6 – – – –
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.05 5.9 13.38 5.5 – –
Group I................................................... 13.47 5.1 13.38 5.5 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.08 5.5 15.08 5.5 – –
Group I................................................... 14.32 9.6 14.32 9.6 – –
Group II.................................................. 16.12 .4 16.12 .4 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.57 5.6 15.95 4.8 – –
Group I................................................... 14.00 8.8 14.56 7.5 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.38 15.2 18.38 15.2 – –
File clerks....................................................... 11.90 7.6 12.62 5.9 – –
Group I................................................... 11.90 7.6 12.62 5.9 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.22 3.8 – – – –
Group I................................................... 13.00 5.6 – – – –
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 10.23 19.5 – – – –
Group I................................................... 10.23 19.5 – – – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.84 5.3 12.90 6.3 9.91 4.5
Group I................................................... 11.80 5.9 12.94 6.9 9.91 4.5
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.33 11.4 12.51 11.2 – –
Group I................................................... 13.19 13.8 13.19 13.8 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.21 8.0 13.48 11.0 9.09 6.9
Group I................................................... 11.21 8.0 13.48 11.0 9.09 6.9
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.27 4.2 17.52 4.5 14.68 3.8
Group I................................................... 15.24 4.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.39 5.4 – – – –
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.10 4.6 19.41 4.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.77 4.2 19.07 4.4 – –
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.07 13.6 17.63 14.8 – –
Group I................................................... 13.79 5.8 13.87 5.3 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.44 3.7 15.46 4.1 – –
Group I................................................... 15.37 5.4 15.39 6.4 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.81 2.1 13.83 2.1 – –
Group I................................................... 12.70 6.3 – – – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.70 2.2 13.70 2.2 – –
Group I................................................... 12.48 5.4 12.48 5.4 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 13.37 7.2 14.32 7.6 10.48 4.0
Group I................................................... 12.32 5.2 13.14 6.4 10.49 4.3
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.45 3.9 18.67 3.9 – –
Group I................................................... 13.93 5.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.94 4.7 – – – –
Carpenters........................................................ 19.96 9.6 19.96 9.6 – –
Construction laborers............................................. 15.26 39.5 – – – –
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.33 3.2 – – – –
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.47 9.7 21.47 9.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 21.33 3.2 21.33 3.2 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.59 6.2 18.72 6.2 – –
Group I................................................... 12.18 5.6 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 21.52 3.7 – – – –
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.43 5.6 18.24 5.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.91 7.6 – – – –
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.70 4.3 18.41 3.3 – –
Group II.................................................. 17.88 3.3 17.88 3.3 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.99 4.9 19.01 4.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.31 4.2 – – – –
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 3.9 18.81 3.9 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.81 3.9 18.81 3.9 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.90 10.7 17.95 10.7 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.82 9.3 20.82 9.3 – –
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.14 3.5 11.26 3.2 – –
Group I................................................... 11.14 3.5 – – – –
Production occupations.............................................. 17.33 4.3 18.09 4.0 9.96 16.8
Group I................................................... 13.10 4.3 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 19.86 4.0 – – – –
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 10.2 18.92 10.2 – –
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.14 19.0 14.99 22.3 – –
Group I................................................... 8.75 6.0 – – – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.31 8.7 17.31 8.7 – –
Group I................................................... 13.81 1.1 – – – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.38 1.5 15.38 1.5 – –
Group I................................................... 13.21 3.2 13.21 3.2 – –
Machinists........................................................ 20.52 9.4 20.52 9.4 – –
Group II.................................................. 20.52 9.4 20.52 9.4 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.19 13.3 – – – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.09 13.8 19.09 13.8 – –
Group II.................................................. 18.19 13.3 18.19 13.3 – –
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.18 24.8 17.18 24.8 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.96 6.3 20.96 6.3 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.65 11.9 19.94 14.0 10.52 9.7
Group I................................................... 13.85 2.4 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 20.11 6.5 – – – –
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.41 5.0 16.27 6.1 – –
Group I................................................... 14.56 3.7 – – – –
Group II.................................................. 18.21 12.9 – – – –
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.74 5.8 16.80 5.8 – –
Group I................................................... 15.86 3.4 15.91 3.4 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.28 8.5 14.64 7.9 – –
Group I................................................... 12.76 7.2 14.05 6.4 – –
Crane and tower operators......................................... 22.70 4.9 22.70 4.9 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.97 2.8 14.85 .9 10.47 11.6
Group I................................................... 12.97 2.8 – – – –
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.82 6.3 14.88 6.1 10.85 11.5
Group I................................................... 12.82 6.3 14.88 6.1 10.85 11.5
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), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $8.20 $11.00 $16.00 $24.25 $35.38
Management occupations.............................................. 24.29 25.48 34.89 47.45 56.62
General and operations managers................................... 25.63 26.17 29.53 35.03 45.73
Financial managers................................................ 24.98 26.68 29.33 44.12 53.18
Education administrators.......................................... 25.01 25.33 27.56 38.33 49.90
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.46 19.86 23.56 30.35 36.06
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 20.21 24.21 26.92 27.59 27.59
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.99 16.83 24.63 31.08 33.51
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.13 18.89 23.74 28.56 34.45
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.56 35.10
Loan officers................................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.46 35.15
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.75 26.04 31.84 39.18 50.62
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 24.24 29.72 51.00 57.00
Computer software engineers....................................... 32.21 36.36 36.88 41.08 44.05
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 32.21 36.36 36.88 41.08 44.05
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.20 13.41 27.45 30.36 38.14
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.54 22.54 29.86 37.85 42.32
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.96 25.83 31.07 37.98 45.73
Engineers......................................................... 26.78 29.33 33.67 44.89 48.01
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Drafters.......................................................... 10.19 15.00 19.25 25.00 32.73
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.36 15.87 16.26 19.18 30.52
Community and social services occupations........................... 11.92 13.00 14.31 17.65 21.93
Social workers.................................................... 12.18 12.98 14.00 14.42 22.57
Legal occupations................................................... 29.27 43.12 43.12 86.24 86.99
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.90 19.53 37.21 47.40 61.27
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 14.31 29.96 37.54 45.97 55.31
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 21.47 33.10 38.57 49.43 54.78
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.10 32.67 38.31 51.05 55.17
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.14 34.36 39.32 45.10 53.02
Secondary school teachers....................................... 24.96 32.53 37.21 45.97 49.10
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 24.96 32.53 37.21 45.97 49.10
Special education teachers...................................... 29.25 34.89 40.41 57.30 57.76
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 29.25 34.89 40.41 57.30 57.76
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 9.25 11.55 14.40 19.21
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 8.50 12.50 21.06 27.64 37.02
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 10.58 11.54 24.08 26.49 26.49
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 10.58 11.54 24.08 26.49 26.49
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.94 16.50 23.82 29.71 40.00
Pharmacists....................................................... 43.00 46.28 49.26 50.32 50.32
Registered nurses................................................. 20.70 23.38 28.36 32.04 36.45
Therapists........................................................ 13.00 21.93 24.66 34.00 39.25
Physical therapists............................................. 23.83 24.66 34.00 35.70 40.10
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.23 16.41 21.80 23.01 28.45
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.26 22.66 23.10 29.46
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 12.38 14.82 21.42 25.04 29.09
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.24 21.65 23.18 25.99 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.00 15.15 16.92 18.50 19.61
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.90 10.01 11.71 13.09 14.87
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.90 10.00 11.40 12.77 13.82
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.75 10.56 11.75 13.09 14.10
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.50 10.27 12.00 14.31 18.21
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.50 9.94 13.99 24.05 29.05
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 10.75 13.71
Security guards................................................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 10.75 13.71
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.88 4.48 7.50 9.56 13.84
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.25 9.30 11.26 14.79
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.00 9.00 9.25 12.11 14.79
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 8.00 9.42 10.50 16.35
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.15 8.33 8.37 9.56 9.60
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 3.05 5.00 8.16
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.97 3.23 4.00
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.55 8.00 8.20 8.75 9.75
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.15 7.15 7.50 8.15 10.30
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.15 7.15 7.50 8.25 10.95
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.15 7.50 9.48 10.00 10.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 8.90 11.00 14.41 17.14
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 8.80 11.00 14.00 15.29
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.40 8.76 10.00 14.57 17.85
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.80 9.05 11.00 14.00 14.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.15 7.15 8.50 10.72 16.60
Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.45 8.59 10.57 17.03
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 8.24 11.54 18.53 24.86
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 9.50 12.66 18.33 31.25
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 9.27 11.17 13.10 19.56
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 7.56 9.31 12.46 20.83
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.86 7.35 8.24 9.43 11.08
Cashiers...................................................... 6.86 7.35 8.24 9.43 11.08
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.45 10.50 13.06 20.95 20.95
Parts salespersons............................................ 12.25 12.46 13.41 20.95 22.82
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.35 7.56 9.50 13.22 24.25
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.00 14.00 18.53 27.84 30.00
Telemarketers..................................................... 7.15 7.15 8.30 19.78 24.10
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.38 11.25 14.00 17.09 20.73
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 17.09 19.35 21.66
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.26 11.71 14.74 16.29 17.92
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.11 12.25 14.30 16.69 16.69
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.43 12.38 15.94 16.59 20.00
Customer service representatives.................................. 9.15 12.00 13.87 16.03 28.47
File clerks....................................................... 7.35 10.31 12.82 13.37 15.32
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 11.99 12.59 14.11 16.31 16.31
Library assistants, clerical...................................... 7.50 7.50 7.50 14.38 16.61
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.26 10.25 12.09 14.00 14.00
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.40 10.90 13.21 21.48
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.50 8.00 10.58 13.01 15.54
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.69 14.13 16.12 20.45 23.53
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.25 16.00 19.30 23.03 25.61
Medical secretaries............................................. 11.96 14.13 18.28 20.45 20.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.69 14.14 15.91 16.84 18.94
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.06 11.63 12.92 16.20 18.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.00 11.25 13.61 15.50 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 11.00 12.97 17.11 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.58 13.75 19.00 21.90 27.53
Carpenters........................................................ 15.00 19.00 20.94 20.94 23.00
Construction laborers............................................. 8.22 9.50 13.79 13.79 33.61
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.00 18.86 22.03 26.84
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.25 16.00 18.00 20.25 25.21
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 15.03 16.19 18.27 20.25 22.51
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.45 17.39 19.14 22.03 22.91
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 17.39 17.39 17.39 19.14 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.15 12.45 18.46 19.98 22.91
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 8.91 10.00 10.00 13.00 13.00
Production occupations.............................................. 10.25 13.20 16.52 20.35 25.77
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.60 15.13 15.13 19.57 27.80
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.61 8.25 9.61 15.56 19.03
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.50 13.17 15.64 19.96 27.80
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.50 12.84 13.34 18.41 20.15
Machinists........................................................ 15.52 16.90 20.04 22.75 27.80
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 13.65 13.75 15.00 17.30 34.33
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.37 19.31 19.94 24.21 30.36
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.87 11.35 15.09 18.55 24.18
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 12.45 15.02 16.78 21.00
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 15.00 15.88 18.00 23.68
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 7.50 10.50 12.00 14.00 21.92
Crane and tower operators......................................... 16.23 20.94 20.94 25.76 28.99
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.55 9.20 14.15 17.30 19.38
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 9.20 13.29 15.77 19.38
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.
Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $8.00 $10.60 $15.59 $22.64 $32.52
Management occupations.............................................. 24.13 25.01 33.43 45.73 56.62
General and operations managers................................... 25.83 26.17 29.53 36.06 45.73
Financial managers................................................ 24.98 26.68 27.89 38.95 53.18
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.41 19.86 23.18 30.35 36.06
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 20.21 24.21 26.92 27.59 27.59
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 15.99 16.83 24.63 31.08 33.51
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.13 18.89 23.74 28.56 36.61
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.46 35.15
Loan officers................................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.46 35.15
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.69 24.53 33.96 40.38 51.00
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 24.24 29.72 51.00 57.00
Computer software engineers....................................... 32.21 36.36 36.88 41.08 44.05
Computer software engineers, applications....................... 32.21 36.36 36.88 41.08 44.05
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.20 13.41 27.45 30.36 38.14
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.54 22.54 33.61 38.66 42.99
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.96 25.83 31.07 37.98 45.73
Engineers......................................................... 26.78 29.33 33.67 44.89 48.01
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Drafters.......................................................... 10.19 15.00 19.25 25.00 32.73
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.36 15.87 16.26 19.18 26.78
Community and social services occupations........................... 10.73 12.73 14.00 14.40 20.50
Social workers.................................................... 12.00 12.75 14.00 14.39 18.92
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.50 14.68 25.41 51.72 75.55
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 8.50 13.27 14.68 21.47 32.71
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 8.50 12.50 21.06 27.64 37.02
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 10.58 11.54 24.08 26.49 26.49
Coaches and scouts.............................................. 10.58 11.54 24.08 26.49 26.49
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.72 16.50 23.79 29.65 38.42
Pharmacists....................................................... 43.00 46.28 49.26 50.32 50.32
Registered nurses................................................. 20.70 23.20 28.23 31.63 35.33
Therapists........................................................ 13.00 21.93 24.66 34.00 39.25
Physical therapists............................................. 23.83 24.66 34.00 35.70 40.10
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.23 16.41 21.80 23.01 28.45
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.26 22.66 23.10 29.46
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 12.38 14.82 21.42 25.04 29.09
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.24 21.65 23.18 25.99 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.00 15.00 16.70 17.84 19.00
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.90 10.01 11.54 12.78 14.28
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.85 10.00 11.20 12.37 13.19
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.50 10.50 11.54 12.65 13.20
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 8.50 10.27 12.00 14.31 18.21
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.00 8.50 9.94 13.00 14.52
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 10.75 13.71
Security guards................................................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 10.75 13.71
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.88 4.48 7.50 9.56 13.84
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.25 9.30 11.26 14.79
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.00 9.00 9.25 12.11 14.79
Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 8.00 9.42 10.50 16.35
Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.15 8.33 8.37 9.56 9.60
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 3.05 5.00 8.16
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.97 3.23 4.00
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.55 8.00 8.16 8.75 9.75
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.15 7.15 7.50 7.95 9.95
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.15 7.15 7.50 8.00 9.95
Dishwashers....................................................... 7.15 7.50 9.48 10.00 10.00
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 8.80 11.00 14.00 15.00
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 8.76 10.53 14.00 14.57
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.40 8.76 9.49 13.49 14.57
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.80 9.05 11.00 14.00 14.00
Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.15 7.15 8.45 10.25 13.57
Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.25 8.50 10.25 10.57
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 8.24 11.54 18.53 24.86
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 9.50 12.66 18.33 31.25
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 9.27 11.17 13.10 19.56
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 7.56 9.31 12.46 20.83
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.86 7.35 8.24 9.43 11.08
Cashiers...................................................... 6.86 7.35 8.24 9.43 11.08
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.45 10.50 13.06 20.95 20.95
Parts salespersons............................................ 12.25 12.46 13.41 20.95 22.82
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.35 7.56 9.50 13.22 24.25
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.00 14.00 18.53 27.84 30.00
Telemarketers..................................................... 7.15 7.15 8.30 19.78 24.10
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.35 11.06 14.00 16.69 20.45
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 16.79 19.35 19.35
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.26 11.71 14.50 16.29 17.92
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.11 12.25 14.30 16.69 16.69
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.43 11.98 15.94 16.59 20.00
Customer service representatives.................................. 9.15 12.00 13.87 16.03 28.47
File clerks....................................................... 7.35 10.31 12.82 13.37 15.32
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 11.99 12.59 14.11 16.31 16.31
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.26 10.25 12.09 14.00 14.00
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.40 10.90 13.21 21.48
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.45 7.63 9.47 12.80 15.54
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.00 14.26 16.30 20.45 23.17
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.25 16.00 19.30 23.03 25.61
Medical secretaries............................................. 11.96 14.13 18.28 20.45 20.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 11.65 14.41 16.12 17.00 18.94
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 10.50 11.06 11.94 18.12 18.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.00 11.25 13.61 15.50 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.26 12.97 17.11 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.58 13.79 19.19 21.91 27.53
Carpenters........................................................ 15.00 19.00 20.94 20.94 23.00
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.00 18.50 22.03 26.84
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.25 16.00 17.96 20.25 25.21
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 15.03 16.19 18.27 20.25 20.56
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.24 17.39 19.14 22.03 22.03
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 17.39 17.39 17.39 19.14 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.03 12.15 15.12 19.24 31.18
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 8.91 10.00 10.00 13.00 13.00
Production occupations.............................................. 10.25 13.17 16.50 20.35 26.01
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.60 15.13 15.13 19.57 27.80
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 7.61 8.25 9.61 15.56 19.03
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.50 13.17 15.64 19.96 27.80
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.50 12.84 13.34 18.41 20.15
Machinists........................................................ 15.52 16.90 20.04 22.75 27.80
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 13.65 13.75 15.00 17.30 34.33
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.37 19.31 19.94 24.21 30.36
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 11.00 15.09 18.65 24.18
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 12.45 14.90 16.90 23.68
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 14.84 15.88 18.65 25.51
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 7.50 10.25 12.00 13.00 23.50
Crane and tower operators......................................... 16.23 20.94 20.94 25.76 28.99
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.55 9.20 14.15 17.30 19.38
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 9.20 13.29 15.77 19.38
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.
Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $11.99 $14.66 $24.25 $37.87 $49.90
Management occupations.............................................. 25.63 32.63 38.33 49.90 49.90
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.47 24.34 37.54 45.97 57.15
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.38 33.39 38.85 49.10 57.15
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.26 34.96 39.32 50.66 55.17
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.26 35.27 39.32 51.05 55.31
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.14 34.36 39.32 45.10 53.02
Secondary school teachers....................................... 24.96 32.53 37.21 45.97 49.10
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 24.96 32.53 37.21 45.97 49.10
Teacher assistants................................................ 9.25 11.47 11.60 14.40 19.79
Protective service occupations...................................... 15.30 17.47 24.05 29.05 30.92
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.25 15.11 17.85 19.47 19.47
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.25 15.11 17.85 19.47 19.47
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.25 15.11 17.85 19.47 19.47
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.20 12.92 15.37 27.29 27.70
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.69 13.83 15.91 16.84 27.29
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.69 12.99 14.30 15.91 16.84
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.11 13.75 13.75 17.57 28.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.75 18.60 22.91 24.79 24.79
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.93 12.00 15.02 16.20 24.25
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.
Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Full-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $9.57 $12.99 $17.99 $25.85 $37.54
Management occupations.............................................. 24.29 25.33 34.62 48.74 56.62
General and operations managers................................... 25.63 26.17 29.53 35.03 45.73
Financial managers................................................ 24.98 26.68 29.33 44.12 53.18
Education administrators.......................................... 25.01 25.33 27.56 38.33 49.90
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.48 19.86 23.56 30.31 35.82
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 20.21 24.21 26.92 27.59 27.59
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 16.64 18.73 24.63 31.25 34.34
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 15.13 18.89 23.40 28.56 34.18
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.56 35.10
Loan officers................................................... 17.24 18.48 19.76 23.46 35.15
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 18.75 26.04 32.22 39.18 51.00
Computer programmers.............................................. 18.53 24.24 29.72 51.00 57.00
Computer support specialists...................................... 9.20 13.41 27.45 30.36 38.14
Computer systems analysts......................................... 22.54 22.54 29.86 37.85 42.32
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.96 25.83 31.07 37.98 45.73
Engineers......................................................... 26.78 29.33 33.67 44.89 48.01
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Electrical engineers.......................................... 30.43 31.07 31.07 44.89 44.89
Drafters.......................................................... 10.19 15.00 19.25 25.00 32.73
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.36 15.87 16.26 19.18 30.52
Community and social services occupations........................... 11.92 13.00 14.31 17.65 21.93
Social workers.................................................... 12.18 12.98 14.00 14.42 22.57
Legal occupations................................................... 29.27 43.12 43.12 86.24 86.99
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.88 21.47 37.84 49.99 62.76
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.68 41.41 51.72 75.55 83.62
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.37 32.52 38.31 47.22 57.15
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.71 34.97 39.32 50.79 55.17
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.70 35.91 39.32 51.05 55.56
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 29.14 34.36 39.32 45.10 53.02
Secondary school teachers....................................... 25.80 32.73 37.21 45.97 49.11
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 25.80 32.73 37.21 45.97 49.11
Special education teachers...................................... 29.25 34.89 40.41 57.30 57.76
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 29.25 34.89 40.41 57.30 57.76
Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 9.25 11.60 14.40 19.79
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 16.83 19.45 26.45 30.82 48.41
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.47 17.84 23.83 29.94 39.50
Registered nurses................................................. 21.24 24.54 28.72 32.32 37.20
Therapists........................................................ 20.66 23.09 25.12 34.00 35.70
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 15.23 16.50 22.66 23.01 29.46
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 21.80 22.26 22.66 23.10 29.46
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 12.38 14.82 21.42 25.04 29.09
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 21.24 21.65 23.18 25.99 29.09
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.00 15.15 16.92 18.47 19.25
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.48 10.50 11.94 13.09 14.87
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.35 10.09 11.54 13.09 13.90
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.90 10.66 11.75 13.09 14.10
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.48 10.64 12.00 15.87 18.21
Protective service occupations...................................... 8.50 9.94 14.85 24.05 29.05
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 11.09 13.99
Security guards................................................. 8.00 8.50 9.94 11.09 13.99
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.97 4.25 8.24 11.72 14.79
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 7.50 11.38 13.84 15.22 20.54
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.10 9.42 11.33 13.75
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.00 9.10 11.07 12.88 14.79
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.88 3.05 3.67 7.55
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 3.05 3.23 3.67
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.40 7.50 8.00 10.95 12.15
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.40 7.50 8.00 10.95 12.15
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.76 9.00 11.00 14.57 17.85
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.76 9.00 11.00 14.13 16.01
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.76 8.76 11.25 14.57 17.85
Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 8.59 10.20 16.60 17.03
Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.20 10.69 14.00 19.56 25.85
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 9.27 9.50 12.66 18.33 31.25
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 9.27 9.27 11.17 13.10 19.56
Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.10 10.00 12.46 17.59 24.25
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.50 12.46 13.30 20.95 22.82
Parts salespersons............................................ 12.25 12.46 13.41 20.95 22.82
Retail salespersons............................................. 9.20 10.00 12.69 19.46 42.47
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 14.00 14.00 18.53 27.84 30.00
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.25 12.50 14.63 17.68 21.48
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 15.75 15.75 17.09 19.35 21.66
Financial clerks.................................................. 10.26 11.81 14.66 16.29 18.04
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.15 12.03 13.46 14.30 17.37
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 10.43 12.38 15.94 16.59 20.00
Customer service representatives.................................. 10.30 12.00 14.01 16.27 28.47
File clerks....................................................... 10.31 10.54 12.90 13.37 15.32
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.55 11.55 12.50 14.00 14.00
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 9.40 10.95 13.21 21.48
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 9.25 10.31 12.96 15.54 17.29
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.00 14.22 16.38 20.45 23.53
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.68 16.00 19.38 23.53 25.88
Medical secretaries............................................. 12.70 14.13 20.45 20.45 20.45
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.69 13.91 15.92 17.00 18.94
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.06 11.65 12.92 16.20 18.12
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 10.00 11.25 13.61 15.50 19.31
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.75 12.75 14.47 17.11 17.11
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.75 13.75 19.03 21.90 28.00
Carpenters........................................................ 15.00 19.00 20.94 20.94 23.00
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.50 16.50 21.25 24.42 31.78
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 10.00 13.46 19.14 22.03 26.84
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 14.25 16.00 17.96 20.25 25.21
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 15.03 16.19 18.27 20.25 20.56
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.45 17.39 19.14 22.03 22.91
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 17.39 17.39 17.39 19.14 22.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 12.15 12.45 18.46 19.98 22.91
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 8.91 10.00 10.00 13.00 13.50
Production occupations.............................................. 12.00 13.75 17.30 21.24 26.66
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.60 15.13 15.13 19.57 27.80
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.32 10.75 15.56 19.03 19.03
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 12.50 13.17 15.64 19.96 27.80
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 12.50 12.84 13.34 18.41 20.15
Machinists........................................................ 15.52 16.90 20.04 22.75 27.80
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 14.32 14.80 21.36 21.80 21.84
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 13.65 13.75 15.00 17.30 34.33
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.37 19.31 19.94 24.21 30.36
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.10 14.00 16.20 19.38 25.51
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 14.00 15.49 16.90 25.51
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.00 15.00 15.88 18.00 23.68
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 10.25 12.00 13.00 15.49 26.50
Crane and tower operators......................................... 16.23 20.94 20.94 25.76 28.99
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 9.71 15.77 17.39 19.38
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 9.53 15.77 19.38 19.38
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.
Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Part-time workers
Occupation(3)
10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $7.15 $7.45 $8.50 $11.72 $16.41
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 8.50 9.50 10.67 16.00 22.50
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 8.50 9.33 10.00 12.00 12.00
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 7.25 8.50 10.00 12.50 15.63
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 11.72 15.52 23.56 29.00 40.00
Pharmacists....................................................... 44.29 46.28 46.28 49.26 49.26
Registered nurses................................................. 17.25 21.35 24.83 30.08 35.29
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.24 8.50 8.71 12.07 12.25
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.24 8.71 9.50 11.48 12.07
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.50 9.50 10.96 12.07 12.07
Protective service occupations...................................... 7.50 8.00 9.96 13.66 14.14
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.83 6.34 7.35 8.37 9.55
Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.00 8.50 9.50 16.35
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.33 8.37 8.37 9.60 9.65
Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.83 2.83 3.50 7.15 8.75
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.99 5.24
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.50 8.00 8.16 8.88 9.75
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.15 7.15 7.25 7.50 8.50
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 7.15 7.15 7.30 7.50 8.50
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.50 8.00 9.00 14.00 14.00
Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.50 8.00 8.65 14.00 14.00
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.15 7.50 8.00 8.55 9.55
Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.15 7.25 7.56 8.25 9.81
Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.15 7.35 7.56 8.25 9.50
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.79 7.20 7.62 8.50 9.50
Cashiers...................................................... 6.79 7.20 7.62 8.50 9.50
Retail salespersons............................................. 7.35 7.35 7.56 8.24 9.50
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.50 8.02 10.25 11.71 15.49
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 7.50 8.26 10.25 10.25 12.25
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.24 7.50 8.15 10.58 12.00
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.00 11.96 15.49 15.91 19.30
Office clerks, general............................................ 8.02 10.26 10.26 11.23 11.76
Production occupations.............................................. 7.61 7.63 8.25 11.07 17.71
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.50 8.66 10.20 12.45 14.15
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.45 8.25 9.50 14.15 14.15
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.65 9.00 9.50 14.15 14.15
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.
3
2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the
hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the
rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are
paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate
shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to
employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime,
vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for
more information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups
may include data for categories not shown separately
Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $21.50 $17.99 $846 $702 39.4 $42,757 $36,067 1,989
Management occupations.............................................. 38.42 34.62 1,561 1,473 40.6 81,155 76,801 2,112
General and operations managers................................... 31.10 29.53 1,257 1,107 40.4 65,391 57,582 2,103
Financial managers................................................ 35.35 29.33 1,638 1,712 46.3 85,170 89,002 2,409
Education administrators.......................................... 33.18 27.56 1,350 1,240 40.7 70,236 64,488 2,117
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.36 23.56 1,057 923 40.1 54,944 48,001 2,084
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.40 26.92 1,197 1,104 43.7 62,230 57,389 2,271
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.04 24.63 972 985 38.8 50,521 51,237 2,018
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.43 23.40 1,060 962 41.7 55,115 50,000 2,168
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 22.07 19.76 863 884 39.1 44,917 46,083 2,035
Loan officers................................................... 21.89 19.76 861 866 39.3 44,775 45,033 2,045
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.87 32.22 1,287 1,274 39.2 66,935 66,229 2,036
Computer programmers.............................................. 35.76 29.72 1,411 1,189 39.4 73,359 61,818 2,051
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 27.45 992 1,098 40.0 51,585 57,096 2,080
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.31 29.86 1,231 1,092 39.3 63,995 56,784 2,044
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.88 31.07 1,273 1,243 39.9 66,199 64,615 2,076
Engineers......................................................... 36.26 33.67 1,450 1,347 40.0 75,418 70,036 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.94 31.07 1,477 1,243 40.0 76,827 64,615 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 36.94 31.07 1,477 1,243 40.0 76,827 64,615 2,080
Drafters.......................................................... 20.41 19.25 816 770 40.0 42,452 40,040 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.47 16.26 796 635 38.9 40,359 33,003 1,972
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.73 14.31 615 540 39.1 31,340 28,066 1,993
Social workers.................................................... 15.98 14.00 619 540 38.7 31,005 28,066 1,940
Legal occupations................................................... 56.60 43.12 2,169 1,509 38.3 112,776 78,480 1,992
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 38.26 37.84 1,416 1,408 37.0 55,472 53,493 1,450
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 59.15 51.72 2,235 1,939 37.8 85,630 77,109 1,448
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 39.17 38.31 1,440 1,426 36.8 55,286 53,505 1,411
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 41.56 39.32 1,529 1,457 36.8 57,786 54,595 1,391
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 42.07 39.32 1,537 1,454 36.5 58,222 54,595 1,384
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.27 39.32 1,510 1,474 37.5 56,671 54,400 1,407
Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.92 37.21 1,380 1,395 36.4 52,186 52,384 1,376
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 37.92 37.21 1,380 1,395 36.4 52,186 52,384 1,376
Special education teachers...................................... 45.15 40.41 1,636 1,516 36.2 61,223 56,074 1,356
Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and
elementary school............................................ 45.15 40.41 1,636 1,516 36.2 61,223 56,074 1,356
Teacher assistants................................................ 12.26 11.60 451 430 36.8 16,968 15,657 1,384
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.05 26.45 1,092 1,058 40.4 56,751 55,016 2,098
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.90 23.83 1,059 939 39.4 54,551 48,838 2,028
Registered nurses................................................. 29.70 28.72 1,156 1,137 38.9 58,632 59,072 1,974
Therapists........................................................ 27.05 25.12 1,030 986 38.1 53,550 51,293 1,980
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.66 22.66 866 906 40.0 45,051 47,133 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 22.66 955 906 40.0 49,669 47,133 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 21.42 812 857 40.0 42,228 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 23.18 961 927 40.0 49,979 48,214 2,080
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.09 16.92 683 677 40.0 35,541 35,194 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.99 11.94 470 457 39.2 24,438 23,754 2,039
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.54 11.54 458 462 39.7 23,831 24,003 2,065
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.85 11.75 470 463 39.6 24,425 24,083 2,061
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.94 12.00 495 422 38.3 25,754 21,944 1,990
Protective service occupations...................................... 17.07 14.85 677 586 39.6 32,739 29,141 1,918
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Security guards................................................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.85 8.24 339 318 38.3 17,437 15,600 1,970
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.37 13.84 605 665 42.1 31,463 34,555 2,189
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.37 13.84 605 665 42.1 31,463 34,555 2,189
Cooks............................................................. 10.34 9.42 408 377 39.5 20,509 19,594 1,983
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.89 11.07 436 443 40.0 21,476 19,240 1,971
Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.77 3.05 131 115 34.8 6,829 5,990 1,811
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.17 3.05 110 113 34.8 5,742 5,886 1,812
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.95 8.00 348 318 38.9 17,659 16,517 1,973
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.95 8.00 348 318 38.9 17,659 16,517 1,973
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.60 11.00 501 440 39.7 25,913 22,880 2,056
Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.04 11.00 478 440 39.7 24,710 22,880 2,053
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.40 11.25 495 440 39.9 25,503 22,818 2,057
Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.27 10.20 450 400 39.9 20,625 20,278 1,830
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.01 14.00 684 561 40.2 35,437 29,156 2,083
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.46 12.66 631 506 40.8 32,787 26,331 2,120
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.72 11.17 509 447 40.0 26,467 23,234 2,080
Retail sales workers.............................................. 17.06 12.46 685 495 40.1 35,603 25,730 2,087
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.31 13.30 623 561 40.7 32,404 29,156 2,117
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 13.41 667 570 40.8 34,675 29,638 2,123
Retail salespersons............................................. 20.15 12.69 807 502 40.1 41,990 26,125 2,084
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 18.53 851 741 40.0 42,743 34,095 2,009
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.54 14.63 611 571 39.3 31,632 29,490 2,035
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.99 17.09 703 630 39.1 36,548 32,760 2,032
Financial clerks.................................................. 14.57 14.66 576 567 39.5 29,911 29,490 2,052
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.38 13.46 535 538 40.0 27,580 27,997 2,062
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.08 15.94 590 601 39.1 30,687 31,243 2,035
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.95 14.01 628 543 39.4 32,661 28,256 2,048
File clerks....................................................... 12.62 12.90 501 516 39.7 26,049 26,832 2,064
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.90 12.50 488 490 37.8 24,951 25,480 1,935
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.51 10.95 500 438 40.0 25,922 22,776 2,072
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.48 12.96 517 518 38.3 26,888 26,957 1,995
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.52 16.38 689 645 39.3 35,705 33,530 2,038
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.41 19.38 772 725 39.8 40,157 37,699 2,069
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.63 20.45 705 818 40.0 36,667 42,536 2,080
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.46 15.92 601 600 38.8 30,944 31,200 2,001
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.83 12.92 549 517 39.7 28,544 26,878 2,064
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.70 13.61 538 529 39.2 27,954 27,495 2,041
Office clerks, general............................................ 14.32 14.47 564 577 39.4 28,938 29,334 2,021
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.67 19.03 730 760 39.1 34,964 34,320 1,873
Carpenters........................................................ 19.96 20.94 737 820 36.9 37,941 42,640 1,901
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.47 21.25 842 850 39.2 43,803 44,200 2,040
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.47 21.25 842 850 39.2 43,803 44,200 2,040
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.72 19.14 751 769 40.1 38,990 40,000 2,083
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.24 17.96 741 729 40.6 38,523 37,889 2,112
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.41 18.27 755 731 41.0 39,255 37,995 2,132
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.01 19.14 754 766 39.7 39,156 39,811 2,060
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 17.39 752 696 40.0 39,119 36,171 2,080
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.95 18.46 706 738 39.3 36,700 38,397 2,045
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.26 10.00 450 400 40.0 23,414 20,800 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 18.09 17.30 716 666 39.6 36,774 34,095 2,033
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 15.13 757 605 40.0 39,347 31,468 2,080
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.99 15.56 599 622 40.0 31,011 32,365 2,069
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.31 15.64 674 595 38.9 35,045 30,925 2,025
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.38 13.34 595 534 38.7 30,942 27,747 2,011
Machinists........................................................ 20.52 20.04 812 802 39.6 42,248 41,683 2,059
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.09 21.36 757 854 39.7 39,388 44,429 2,063
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.09 21.36 757 854 39.7 39,388 44,429 2,063
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.18 15.00 687 600 40.0 35,443 31,200 2,063
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.96 19.94 838 798 40.0 43,600 41,477 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.94 16.20 771 635 38.7 39,122 32,427 1,962
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.27 15.49 638 608 39.2 32,088 31,387 1,972
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.80 15.88 663 635 39.5 33,022 32,427 1,966
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.64 13.00 561 480 38.3 29,175 24,960 1,992
Crane and tower operators......................................... 22.70 20.94 908 838 40.0 47,225 43,555 2,080
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.85 15.77 585 631 39.4 30,361 32,795 2,044
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.88 15.77 589 631 39.6 30,652 32,795 2,059
1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another
firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard
pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all
workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours,
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $20.61 $17.24 $815 $680 39.6 $41,785 $34,555 2,028
Management occupations.............................................. 38.21 32.90 1,564 1,510 40.9 81,319 78,541 2,128
General and operations managers................................... 31.68 29.53 1,291 1,107 40.8 67,147 57,582 2,120
Financial managers................................................ 34.27 27.89 1,613 1,712 47.1 83,895 89,002 2,448
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.42 23.28 1,061 936 40.2 55,163 48,672 2,088
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.40 26.92 1,197 1,104 43.7 62,230 57,389 2,271
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.04 24.63 972 985 38.8 50,521 51,237 2,018
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.52 22.60 1,071 981 42.0 55,678 51,002 2,182
Loan counselors and officers...................................... 21.89 19.76 861 866 39.3 44,767 45,033 2,045
Loan officers................................................... 21.89 19.76 861 866 39.3 44,775 45,033 2,045
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.26 34.02 1,311 1,344 39.4 68,194 69,909 2,050
Computer programmers.............................................. 35.76 29.72 1,411 1,189 39.4 73,359 61,818 2,051
Computer support specialists...................................... 24.80 27.45 992 1,098 40.0 51,585 57,096 2,080
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.75 33.61 1,270 1,344 40.0 66,047 69,909 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.88 31.07 1,273 1,243 39.9 66,199 64,615 2,076
Engineers......................................................... 36.26 33.67 1,450 1,347 40.0 75,418 70,036 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.94 31.07 1,477 1,243 40.0 76,827 64,615 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 36.94 31.07 1,477 1,243 40.0 76,827 64,615 2,080
Drafters.......................................................... 20.41 19.25 816 770 40.0 42,452 40,040 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 18.63 16.26 730 635 39.2 37,953 33,003 2,038
Community and social services occupations........................... 14.61 14.00 574 540 39.3 29,729 28,066 2,035
Social workers.................................................... 14.60 14.00 573 540 39.3 29,795 28,066 2,041
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.73 38.68 1,580 1,514 37.9 64,386 51,203 1,543
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.96 14.68 780 587 37.2 33,878 29,765 1,616
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.05 26.45 1,092 1,058 40.4 56,751 55,016 2,098
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.71 23.82 1,051 939 39.4 54,539 48,485 2,042
Registered nurses................................................. 29.17 28.56 1,136 1,136 39.0 58,677 58,718 2,012
Therapists........................................................ 27.05 25.12 1,030 986 38.1 53,550 51,293 1,980
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.66 22.66 866 906 40.0 45,051 47,133 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 22.66 955 906 40.0 49,669 47,133 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 21.42 812 857 40.0 42,228 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 23.18 961 927 40.0 49,979 48,214 2,080
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.67 16.70 667 668 40.0 34,673 34,736 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.88 11.77 465 448 39.2 24,196 23,275 2,037
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.34 11.38 450 446 39.7 23,393 23,213 2,064
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.61 11.54 460 462 39.6 23,913 24,003 2,059
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.94 12.00 495 422 38.3 25,754 21,944 1,990
Protective service occupations...................................... 11.02 10.00 434 400 39.4 19,879 20,675 1,804
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Security guards................................................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.82 8.20 338 316 38.4 17,494 15,808 1,983
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.37 13.84 605 665 42.1 31,463 34,555 2,189
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.37 13.84 605 665 42.1 31,463 34,555 2,189
Cooks............................................................. 10.34 9.42 408 377 39.5 20,509 19,594 1,983
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.89 11.07 436 443 40.0 21,476 19,240 1,971
Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.77 3.05 131 115 34.8 6,829 5,990 1,811
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.17 3.05 110 113 34.8 5,742 5,886 1,812
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.78 8.00 347 318 39.5 18,040 16,517 2,054
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food........................................................... 8.78 8.00 347 318 39.5 18,040 16,517 2,054
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.05 11.00 479 440 39.7 24,851 22,880 2,062
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.32 11.00 449 440 39.7 23,324 22,880 2,060
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.08 9.50 443 380 40.0 22,950 19,760 2,071
Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.59 10.06 422 390 39.9 19,116 18,832 1,805
Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.01 14.00 684 561 40.2 35,437 29,156 2,083
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 15.46 12.66 631 506 40.8 32,787 26,331 2,120
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.72 11.17 509 447 40.0 26,467 23,234 2,080
Retail sales workers.............................................. 17.06 12.46 685 495 40.1 35,603 25,730 2,087
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.31 13.30 623 561 40.7 32,404 29,156 2,117
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 13.41 667 570 40.8 34,675 29,638 2,123
Retail salespersons............................................. 20.15 12.69 807 502 40.1 41,990 26,125 2,084
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 18.53 851 741 40.0 42,743 34,095 2,009
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.14 14.48 596 567 39.4 30,879 29,334 2,040
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers.................................................. 17.61 16.79 691 630 39.2 35,933 32,760 2,041
Financial clerks.................................................. 14.56 14.50 576 567 39.5 29,897 29,490 2,053
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.38 13.46 535 538 40.0 27,580 27,997 2,062
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.06 15.94 590 601 39.2 30,678 31,243 2,037
Customer service representatives.................................. 15.95 14.01 628 543 39.4 32,661 28,256 2,048
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.90 12.50 488 490 37.8 24,951 25,480 1,935
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.51 10.95 500 438 40.0 25,922 22,776 2,072
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.57 16.71 698 652 39.7 36,284 33,879 2,065
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.41 19.38 772 725 39.8 40,157 37,699 2,069
Medical secretaries............................................. 17.63 20.45 705 818 40.0 36,667 42,536 2,080
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.86 16.12 624 645 39.3 32,429 33,530 2,045
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.70 13.61 538 529 39.2 27,954 27,495 2,041
Office clerks, general............................................ 14.32 14.47 566 577 39.5 29,004 29,334 2,025
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.97 19.19 739 761 39.0 35,553 39,520 1,874
Carpenters........................................................ 19.96 20.94 737 820 36.9 37,941 42,640 1,901
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.47 21.25 842 850 39.2 43,803 44,200 2,040
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.47 21.25 842 850 39.2 43,803 44,200 2,040
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.60 18.86 747 766 40.1 38,744 39,811 2,083
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.13 17.50 737 729 40.6 38,314 37,889 2,113
Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.25 18.27 749 731 41.0 38,945 37,995 2,134
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.94 19.14 750 766 39.6 38,930 39,811 2,056
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 17.39 752 696 40.0 39,119 36,171 2,080
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.20 15.12 671 535 39.0 34,873 27,835 2,027
Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 11.26 10.00 450 400 40.0 23,414 20,800 2,080
Production occupations.............................................. 18.03 17.30 713 665 39.6 36,625 34,095 2,032
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 15.13 757 605 40.0 39,347 31,468 2,080
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.99 15.56 599 622 40.0 31,011 32,365 2,069
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 17.31 15.64 674 595 38.9 35,045 30,925 2,025
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.38 13.34 595 534 38.7 30,942 27,747 2,011
Machinists........................................................ 20.52 20.04 812 802 39.6 42,248 41,683 2,059
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.09 21.36 757 854 39.7 39,388 44,429 2,063
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.09 21.36 757 854 39.7 39,388 44,429 2,063
Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.18 15.00 687 600 40.0 35,443 31,200 2,063
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 20.96 19.94 838 798 40.0 43,600 41,477 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.18 16.22 781 635 38.7 40,021 32,795 1,983
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.36 15.59 640 624 39.1 32,087 31,387 1,961
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.96 15.88 669 635 39.4 33,129 32,427 1,953
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.57 12.50 556 480 38.2 28,919 24,960 1,985
Crane and tower operators......................................... 22.70 20.94 908 838 40.0 47,225 43,555 2,080
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.85 15.77 585 631 39.4 30,361 32,795 2,044
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.88 15.77 589 631 39.6 30,652 32,795 2,059
1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another
firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard
pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all
workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours,
Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $29.65 $27.29 $1,118 $992 37.7 $50,210 $49,214 1,693
Management occupations.............................................. 41.07 38.33 1,524 1,437 37.1 79,311 74,977 1,931
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.97 37.64 1,357 1,408 36.7 52,430 53,493 1,418
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 41.77 39.64 1,533 1,474 36.7 57,904 55,063 1,386
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 42.71 40.30 1,577 1,491 36.9 59,611 56,100 1,396
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 43.77 41.09 1,605 1,541 36.7 60,870 57,364 1,391
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 40.27 39.32 1,510 1,474 37.5 56,671 54,400 1,407
Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.92 37.21 1,380 1,395 36.4 52,186 52,384 1,376
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational
education.................................................... 37.92 37.21 1,380 1,395 36.4 52,186 52,384 1,376
Teacher assistants................................................ 13.13 11.60 480 435 36.6 17,732 16,095 1,351
Protective service occupations...................................... 24.54 24.05 982 962 40.0 51,039 50,018 2,080
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 17.30 17.85 688 714 39.7 34,705 37,128 2,006
Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.30 17.85 688 714 39.7 34,705 37,128 2,006
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.30 17.85 688 714 39.7 34,705 37,128 2,006
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.43 16.84 749 621 38.5 38,682 32,411 1,991
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.21 14.30 635 572 36.9 32,245 27,440 1,874
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.39 13.83 541 519 37.6 27,247 26,969 1,893
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.43 13.75 657 550 40.0 30,643 28,600 1,865
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.11 22.91 844 916 40.0 43,910 47,653 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.48 15.49 629 601 38.2 28,060 31,242 1,702
1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another
firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard
pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all
workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry
establishments for major occupational groups, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
1-99 100-499 500
Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers
or more
All workers.................................. $18.97 $16.60 $18.18 $24.73
Management, professional, and related...... 29.84 27.61 30.17 31.39
Management, business, and financial...... 32.04 29.18 35.04 32.46
Professional and related................. 28.66 26.71 27.60 30.84
Service.................................... 9.71 9.25 9.48 13.01
Sales and office........................... 14.46 14.86 13.08 14.96
Sales and related........................ 14.44 15.53 11.76 –
Office and administrative support........ 14.48 14.16 14.06 15.21
Natural resources, construction, and
maintenance............................... 18.59 17.88 18.37 21.84
Construction and extraction............. 18.79 18.26 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 18.46 17.60 17.53 23.30
Production, transportation, and material
moving.................................... 17.57 15.74 15.62 26.05
Production............................... 17.25 16.28 17.07 19.89
Transportation and material moving....... 17.83 15.35 14.19 31.34
B
1-99 100-499 500
Total workers workers workers
or more
Occupational group(2)
Relative error(3)
(percent)
Relative error(3) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 3.5 5.0 9.0 4.0
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.7 10.0 8.1 4.7
Management, business, and financial............................... 5.4 6.2 10.4 9.6
Professional and related.......................................... 4.4 15.9 7.4 4.7
Service............................................................. 3.5 7.9 10.1 3.7
Sales and office.................................................... 2.3 3.6 3.3 3.2
Sales and related................................................. 4.3 5.4 13.5 –
Office and administrative support................................. 2.3 3.4 5.3 3.1
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.1 8.0 6.2 4.6
Construction and extraction...................................... 3.6 7.1 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.5 9.2 6.3 5.1
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.4 7.7 5.2 20.9
Production........................................................ 4.4 3.0 7.3 12.7
Transportation and material moving................................ 12.7 12.2 5.0 33.4
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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See
appendix B for more information.
3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used
to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for
full-time(1) private industry workers, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $18.51 $15.95 $734 $630 39.7 $37,552 $32,427 2,029
Management occupations.............................................. 32.82 27.56 1,386 1,240 42.2 72,064 64,488 2,196
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.09 23.74 997 963 41.4 51,848 50,084 2,152
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.35 29.33 1,134 1,173 40.0 58,970 61,006 2,080
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 18.70 20.00 721 748 38.6 33,790 30,534 1,807
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 18.06 14.68 684 587 37.9 30,650 29,049 1,697
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 33.09 23.83 1,324 953 40.0 68,827 49,566 2,080
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.33 8.24 352 314 37.8 18,258 15,600 1,957
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving
workers.......................................................... 14.28 13.84 602 665 42.1 31,288 34,555 2,191
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving
workers........................................................ 14.28 13.84 602 665 42.1 31,288 34,555 2,191
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.13 3.05 135 115 32.8 7,029 5,990 1,703
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.25 3.05 105 84 32.2 5,441 4,362 1,674
Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.14 17.59 732 711 40.4 37,881 36,005 2,088
Retail sales workers.............................................. 22.35 17.59 916 704 41.0 47,609 36,596 2,130
Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 15.31 13.30 623 561 40.7 32,404 29,156 2,117
Parts salespersons............................................ 16.34 13.41 667 570 40.8 34,675 29,638 2,123
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 21.27 18.53 851 741 40.0 42,743 34,095 2,009
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.92 14.42 589 543 39.5 30,422 27,485 2,039
Financial clerks.................................................. 13.53 12.50 541 500 40.0 28,069 26,000 2,075
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.97 13.27 599 531 40.0 31,130 27,602 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.27 18.94 739 758 40.4 38,429 39,399 2,103
Office clerks, general............................................ 12.46 12.97 489 519 39.3 24,821 25,956 1,992
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.26 16.50 710 660 38.9 33,401 31,200 1,829
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.18 20.25 847 810 40.0 44,062 42,120 2,080
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.18 20.25 847 810 40.0 44,062 42,120 2,080
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.77 18.27 716 740 40.3 37,154 38,480 2,091
Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.77 18.27 766 731 40.8 39,844 37,995 2,123
Production occupations.............................................. 16.68 15.52 663 621 39.8 33,522 31,824 2,009
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.50 15.59 648 624 39.3 32,837 31,387 1,990
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.23 14.84 590 594 38.8 29,136 29,120 1,913
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.19 15.19 634 604 39.2 30,753 30,863 1,900
1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another
firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard
pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all
workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for
categories not shown separately
Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for
full-time(1) private industry workers, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $22.44 $18.65 $885 $732 39.5 $45,476 $37,856 2,027
Management occupations.............................................. 42.28 41.87 1,691 1,675 40.0 87,954 87,088 2,080
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.21 22.84 1,082 904 39.8 56,250 47,004 2,067
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 28.74 26.92 1,277 1,104 44.4 66,390 57,389 2,310
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.46 24.63 947 985 38.7 49,236 51,237 2,013
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.50 22.60 1,077 904 40.6 56,008 47,004 2,113
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.43 30.36 1,193 1,214 39.2 62,054 63,149 2,039
Computer programmers.............................................. 23.16 22.56 895 902 38.6 46,516 46,916 2,009
Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.75 33.61 1,270 1,344 40.0 66,047 69,909 2,080
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.29 31.07 1,368 1,243 39.9 71,110 64,615 2,074
Engineers......................................................... 37.11 33.67 1,484 1,347 40.0 77,178 70,036 2,080
Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 37.42 31.07 1,497 1,243 40.0 77,831 64,615 2,080
Electrical engineers.......................................... 37.42 31.07 1,497 1,243 40.0 77,831 64,615 2,080
Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 18.16 15.87 710 635 39.1 36,901 33,003 2,032
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 53.35 49.99 2,001 1,875 37.5 76,672 66,628 1,437
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.81 26.45 1,036 1,058 40.1 53,786 55,016 2,084
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.03 23.82 981 939 39.2 50,870 48,360 2,032
Registered nurses................................................. 29.72 28.91 1,156 1,145 38.9 59,643 59,218 2,007
Therapists........................................................ 27.24 25.60 1,010 980 37.1 52,514 50,960 1,928
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 23.88 22.66 955 906 40.0 49,669 47,133 2,080
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.88 22.66 955 906 40.0 49,669 47,133 2,080
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 20.30 21.42 812 857 40.0 42,228 44,554 2,080
Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.03 23.18 961 927 40.0 49,979 48,214 2,080
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.87 11.79 470 463 39.6 24,460 24,083 2,060
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.59 11.54 459 462 39.6 23,884 24,003 2,061
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.81 11.79 467 463 39.5 24,279 24,083 2,056
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.96 12.71 518 508 40.0 26,952 26,437 2,080
Protective service occupations...................................... 11.02 10.00 434 400 39.4 19,879 20,675 1,804
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Security guards................................................. 10.49 9.94 412 398 39.3 21,447 20,675 2,045
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.63 7.90 304 316 39.8 15,612 17,056 2,046
Cooks............................................................. 11.02 10.42 441 417 40.0 22,224 19,594 2,017
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.92 11.59 477 464 40.0 23,632 22,506 1,983
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.46 10.00 456 400 39.8 23,646 20,280 2,064
Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.10 10.00 442 400 39.8 22,893 20,183 2,063
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.08 9.50 443 380 40.0 22,941 19,760 2,071
Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.22 11.42 435 441 38.8 22,625 22,913 2,016
Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.66 10.06 392 395 40.6 16,761 19,760 1,735
Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.88 11.30 553 448 39.8 28,742 23,296 2,071
Retail salespersons............................................. 12.62 10.80 497 421 39.4 25,852 21,902 2,048
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.30 14.65 602 571 39.3 31,226 29,684 2,041
Financial clerks.................................................. 15.36 15.17 602 600 39.2 31,288 31,200 2,037
Customer service representatives.................................. 16.15 13.87 634 540 39.3 32,966 28,080 2,041
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.31 10.95 532 438 40.0 27,682 22,776 2,080
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.11 16.12 672 637 39.3 34,936 33,116 2,042
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.70 19.05 767 726 38.9 39,873 37,731 2,024
Medical secretaries............................................. 13.79 14.13 551 565 40.0 28,676 29,390 2,080
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.06 15.92 589 600 39.1 30,649 31,200 2,036
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.62 12.79 532 507 39.1 27,669 26,345 2,032
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.27 21.59 832 864 39.1 43,272 44,907 2,035
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.11 19.52 801 770 39.8 41,597 40,019 2,069
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.33 19.14 765 766 39.6 39,697 39,811 2,053
Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.81 17.39 752 696 40.0 39,119 36,171 2,080
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.92 15.29 693 582 38.7 36,059 30,285 2,012
Production occupations.............................................. 19.04 19.03 751 732 39.4 39,015 38,064 2,049
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 18.92 15.13 757 605 40.0 39,347 31,468 2,080
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic.......................................................... 18.48 17.02 710 595 38.4 36,939 30,925 1,999
Machinists........................................................ 21.37 21.84 855 874 40.0 44,440 45,427 2,080
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.21 21.19 848 848 40.0 44,114 44,081 2,080
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 24.74 17.39 940 696 38.0 48,872 36,171 1,975
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.80 18.59 749 739 39.9 38,969 38,438 2,073
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.62 18.44 745 738 40.0 38,731 38,355 2,080
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.33 21.00 763 840 39.5 39,671 43,680 2,053
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 16.12 17.39 632 696 39.2 32,818 36,171 2,036
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 17.59 19.38 696 775 39.5 36,170 40,310 2,056
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
Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March
2009
Union Nonunion
Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and
Civilian industry local Civilian industry local
workers workers government workers workers government
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $21.49 $18.71 $27.95 $19.30 $19.02 $27.65
Management, professional, and related............................... 31.91 21.32 37.01 30.76 30.39 37.05
Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 32.33 32.04 39.21
Professional and related.......................................... 31.98 21.32 37.19 29.86 29.41 36.27
Service............................................................. 13.02 10.61 19.88 9.54 9.51 12.44
Sales and office.................................................... 15.79 14.21 17.55 14.52 14.48 16.95
Sales and related................................................. 7.97 7.97 – 14.67 14.67 –
Office and administrative support................................. 16.80 15.95 17.55 14.42 14.35 16.95
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 21.91 21.98 21.36 16.44 16.62 –
Construction and extraction...................................... 22.10 22.14 – 15.63 16.02 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 21.74 21.84 21.11 16.94 16.94 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 21.16 21.39 18.35 14.90 14.99 –
Production........................................................ 19.48 19.36 – 16.40 16.40 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 21.94 22.37 – 13.24 13.36 –
Union Nonunion
Private State and Private State and
Civilian industry local Civilian industry local
workers workers government workers workers government
workers workers
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 4.0 5.1 4.2 4.2 4.1 26.3
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.4 4.1 3.3 4.0 3.8 21.3
Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 5.2 5.4 8.4
Professional and related.......................................... 3.5 4.1 3.4 5.1 4.6 29.6
Service............................................................. 8.6 6.3 9.5 3.9 3.9 13.7
Sales and office.................................................... 11.3 6.3 18.6 2.4 2.4 13.7
Sales and related................................................. .4 .4 – 4.2 4.2 –
Office and administrative support................................. 11.0 5.0 18.6 2.2 2.2 13.7
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.2 3.5 6.3 8.1 8.4 –
Construction and extraction...................................... 3.0 3.0 – 11.9 12.8 –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.0 6.8 6.4 8.5 8.5 –
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 9.6 10.3 13.8 5.2 5.2 –
Production........................................................ 12.1 12.7 – 4.1 4.1 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 12.3 13.1 – 7.3 7.6 –
1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining.
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments,
and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by
totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more
information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a
"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Pittsburgh-New
Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Time Incentive
Occupational group(3)
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
All workers........................................................... $19.80 $18.95 $19.34 $19.34
Management, professional, and related............................... 31.02 29.92 – –
Management, business, and financial............................... 32.56 32.32 – –
Professional and related.......................................... 30.34 28.66 – –
Service............................................................. 10.32 9.71 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 14.06 13.78 19.24 19.24
Sales and related................................................. 12.25 12.25 19.24 19.24
Office and administrative support................................. 14.79 14.48 – –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.56 18.62 18.27 18.27
Construction and extraction...................................... – 18.79 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.64 18.50 18.27 18.27
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.35 17.41 – –
Production........................................................ 17.06 16.98 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 17.56 17.73 – –
Time Incentive
Civilian Private Civilian Private
workers industry workers industry
workers workers
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... 3.4 3.8 7.6 7.6
Management, professional, and related............................... 3.4 3.7 – –
Management, business, and financial............................... 5.0 5.2 – –
Professional and related.......................................... 3.9 4.4 – –
Service............................................................. 3.6 3.5 – –
Sales and office.................................................... 3.3 2.9 10.5 10.5
Sales and related................................................. 6.5 6.5 10.5 10.5
Office and administrative support................................. 3.1 2.3 – –
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.1 5.5 12.3 12.3
Construction and extraction...................................... – 3.6 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7.1 7.5 12.3 12.3
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.4 7.7 – –
Production........................................................ 3.9 3.9 – –
Transportation and material moving................................ 12.1 12.9 – –
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.
Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Goods producing Service providing
Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure
Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other
tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services
and es business services ity
utilities services
All workers........................................................... – $19.01 $16.91 $24.41 $23.25 $23.44 $19.19 $10.12 $17.61
Management, professional, and related............................... – 27.76 28.38 31.07 34.51 33.18 25.82 34.64 26.78
Management, business, and financial............................... – 29.87 26.52 – 32.67 34.86 25.52 36.40 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 25.35 29.62 30.24 40.24 31.95 25.85 – –
Service............................................................. – – 9.19 – – 11.57 11.43 7.51 –
Sales and office.................................................... – 16.23 13.21 15.32 15.56 15.23 14.38 12.86 13.81
Sales and related................................................. – – 14.16 – 15.58 – – 12.15 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 17.80 11.75 23.09 15.54 14.66 14.38 13.28 14.72
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 19.82 17.84 – – – – – 17.67
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 20.43 17.73 – – – – – 17.67
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 17.39 18.67 – – 17.00 11.23 – –
Production........................................................ – 17.39 16.35 – – 19.20 – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – 17.43 18.89 – – – 11.33 – –
B
Goods producing Service providing
Trade, Profes- Education Leisure
Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other
Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services
and es business services ity
utilities services
Relative error(4)
(percent)
Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers........................................................... – 2.5 9.1 16.3 6.1 7.5 6.0 15.1 8.4
Management, professional, and related............................... – 1.1 7.1 13.7 7.4 6.9 6.5 13.4 28.6
Management, business, and financial............................... – 4.6 4.6 – 14.4 10.1 6.6 12.2 –
Professional and related.......................................... – 5.0 9.4 10.4 3.8 6.1 6.8 – –
Service............................................................. – – 1.1 – – 10.0 1.6 9.7 –
Sales and office.................................................... – 22.2 2.0 11.4 6.0 6.9 6.1 12.3 21.7
Sales and related................................................. – – 3.2 – 19.7 – – 27.5 –
Office and administrative support................................. – 13.5 2.2 5.2 4.3 4.0 6.1 10.3 .1
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 1.1 7.6 – – – – – 13.1
Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 6.5 7.5 – – – – – 13.1
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 3.5 16.8 – – 16.0 4.6 – –
Production........................................................ – 4.3 14.1 – – 18.2 – – –
Transportation and material moving................................ – .5 18.0 – – – 13.2 – –
1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded
are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the
number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information.
3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a
sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March
2009
Private State and
Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local
workers workers government
workers
All workers........................................................... 1,093,700 981,800 111,900
Management, professional, and related............................... 344,400 281,800 62,600
Management, business, and financial............................... 88,100 83,800 4,300
Professional and related.......................................... 256,200 198,000 58,300
Service............................................................. 225,700 211,800 13,900
Sales and office.................................................... 269,800 250,400 19,500
Sales and related................................................. 106,400 106,400 –
Office and administrative support................................. 163,400 143,900 19,500
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 98,700 90,500 8,200
Construction and extraction...................................... 42,900 37,300 5,700
Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 55,800 53,200 2,600
Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 155,100 147,300 7,700
Production........................................................ 64,300 63,300 –
Transportation and material moving................................ 90,700 84,100 6,700
1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the
number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the
survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure
employment trends or levels.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
system. See appendix B for more information.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA, March 2009
Private State and
Establishments Total industry local
government
Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 54,611 52,669 1,942
Total in sample....................................................... 459 430 29
Responding........................................................ 322 294 28
Refused or unable to provide data................................. 93 92 1
Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 44 44 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 2007 North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical
location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government
entity.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.
Last Modified Date: September 23, 2009
