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HIGHLIGHTS OF INDIANAPOLIS-ANDERSON-COLUMBUS, IND.
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY--JANUARY 2009

 

Workers in the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) earned an average of $18.72 per hour in January 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS). Regional Commissioner Jay A. Mousa noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $27.51 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $17.87 for production occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $14.62. The NCS data available for the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.) 

Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, earned $30.74 per hour. Within the production occupations group, machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic earned $14.75. Payroll and timekeeping clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support occupations group, averaged $17.87 per hour, and medical secretaries earned $13.11 per hour. (See table 1.) 

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $19.88 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $11.28. Union workers earned $25.48 and non-union workers, $18.07. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.06 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $17.92, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $25.27.

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

The NCS data reported here covered 383 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 935,000 workers in the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which is comprised of Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Jennings, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Putnam and Shelby Counties in Indiana.


Survey Availability


Complete survey results are contained in the Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN National Compensation Survey January 2009 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.


For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey data, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Bureau of Labor Statistics Midwest Information Office in Chicago at (312) 353-1880 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. 



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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings (1) for full-time and part-time workers (2), Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN CSA, January 2009
Occupation (3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

$18.72 2.4 $19.88 2.2 $11.28 8.1

Management occupations

37.71 9.4 38.10 9.6

Financial managers

35.84 19.5 35.84 19.5

Education administrators

38.75 8.4 38.75 8.4

Medical and health services managers

41.01 6.2 41.01 6.2

Business and financial operations occupations

24.53 7.6 24.60 7.6

Accountants and auditors

25.45 7.8 25.45 7.8

Computer and mathematical science occupations

32.70 4.8 32.81 4.7

Computer support specialists

20.01 7.6 20.01 7.6

Computer systems analysts

35.84 3.9 35.84 3.9

Architecture and engineering occupations

32.87 8.4 32.87 8.4

Engineers

39.23 5.6 39.23 5.6

Electrical and electronics engineers

37.94 1.9 37.94 1.9

Mechanical engineers

38.13 20.1 38.13 20.1

Life, physical, and social science occupations

28.24 8.8 28.26 8.8

Community and social services occupations

18.00 10.9 16.27 9.6

Social workers

20.86 6.9 20.91 6.9

Mental health and substance abuse social workers

22.41 4.4 22.51 4.1

Legal occupations

52.60 27.8 52.60 27.8

Education, training, and library occupations

29.33 2.2 30.21 2.4 14.88 20.1

Postsecondary teachers

30.15 16.6 31.46 16.6 23.63 11.1

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

36.93 1.7 36.93 1.7

Elementary and middle school teachers

36.21 1.0 36.21 1.0

Elementary school teachers, except special education

36.59 1.5 36.59 1.5

Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education

34.90 5.7 34.90 5.7

Secondary school teachers

38.58 2.0 38.58 2.0

Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education

38.06 3.3 38.06 3.3

Teacher assistants

10.74 3.5 10.74 3.5

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

17.41 17.5 21.20 6.2

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

27.51 5.3 26.81 6.7 30.34 3.4

Registered nurses

30.74 3.7 30.92 4.4 29.93 3.1

Therapists

34.00 2.2

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians

19.67 11.0

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians

23.68 12.5 21.89 14.0

Radiologic technologists and technicians

25.00 10.7

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians

15.74 11.0

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

19.15 1.3 19.19 1.2

Healthcare support occupations

13.63 6.7 13.40 7.0 15.14 15.2

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

11.23 2.5 11.29 2.5

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

10.69 1.4 10.74 1.8

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations

15.23 7.0 15.56 6.9

Protective service occupations

16.57 10.2 17.45 9.6

Food preparation and serving related occupations

6.92 2.5 7.39 6.5 6.33 1.5

Cooks

10.64 3.5 11.41 5.5

Cooks, institution and cafeteria

11.84 6.1 12.05 6.1

Cooks, restaurant

10.84 3.8

Food preparation workers

9.31 10.2

Food service, tipped

2.84 5.1 3.24 5.5 2.37 5.0

Waiters and waitresses

2.21 1.1 2.22 1.4 2.20 0.4

Fast food and counter workers

7.99 2.0 8.24 2.8 7.59 3.1

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

7.91 3.0 7.56 3.8

Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop

8.45 2.1

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

10.62 12.0 10.99 13.1 9.09 4.4

Building cleaning workers

9.77 6.7 9.97 7.0 9.09 4.4

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

9.75 7.3 10.05 8.4

Personal care and service occupations

13.81 20.9 15.61 17.7

Child care workers

10.76 7.9

Recreation and fitness workers

24.90 5.7

Sales and related occupations

12.97 7.6 15.14 7.5 8.01 5.5

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

14.28 16.2 14.28 16.2

Retail sales workers

10.82 6.3 12.95 1.3 8.01 5.5

Cashiers, all workers

9.46 6.2 10.38 5.8 8.30 2.7

Cashiers

9.46 6.2 10.38 5.8 8.30 2.7

Retail salespersons

12.58 1.9 13.84 2.3 9.06 1.7

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing

22.39 23.4 22.39 23.4

Office and administrative support occupations

14.62 3.7 14.89 3.9 11.15 8.5

First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers

22.61 12.5 22.61 12.5

Financial clerks

13.78 9.4 13.78 9.4

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

16.13 8.7 16.14 8.7

Payroll and timekeeping clerks

17.87 4.6 17.87 4.6

Customer service representatives

16.17 6.9 16.17 6.9

Receptionists and information clerks

13.41 5.4 13.75 5.5

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

14.65 15.8 14.84 16.1

Stock clerks and order fillers

9.79 10.1 10.03 13.0 9.07 5.9

Secretaries and administrative assistants

17.05 3.2 17.06 3.5

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

19.94 2.9 19.94 2.9

Medical secretaries

13.11 1.9 13.11 1.9

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

16.92 5.0 16.91 6.0

Office clerks, general

14.51 2.7 14.58 2.9

Construction and extraction occupations

19.71 3.7 19.71 3.7

Painters and paperhangers

18.33 10.0 18.33 10.0

Painters, construction and maintenance

18.33 10.0 18.33 10.0

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

19.02 5.5 19.15 5.0

Automotive technicians and repairers

16.36 5.4

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists

20.67 6.5 20.67 6.5

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

22.52 19.4 22.52 19.4

Production occupations

17.87 2.0 17.87 2.0

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

18.41 5.5 18.41 5.5

Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

14.75 6.7 14.75 6.7

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

16.96 22.1 16.96 22.1

Miscellaneous production workers

18.59 2.6 18.59 2.6

Transportation and material moving occupations

14.03 6.2 14.69 6.1 11.79 6.6

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

13.80 14.9 15.38 13.3

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

17.48 5.9 17.48 5.9

Truck drivers, light or delivery services

15.11 18.0

Industrial truck and tractor operators

12.00 8.7 11.74 7.2

Laborers and material movers, hand

13.61 4.3 14.19 5.1 12.05 7.2

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

14.02 2.5 14.68 3.7 12.56 6.0

Packers and packagers, hand

10.21 0.9

Footnotes:
(1) Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
(2) Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
(3) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

(4) The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate.


NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

 

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

 

Last Modified Date: October 26, 2008