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Table A3. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation: Civilian workers by occupational and industry
group and private industry, full-time workers in manufacturing, corrected data for March 1996
As originally published Corrected Difference
Total Wages Total Wages Total Wages
Series compen- and Total compen- and Total compen- and Total
sation salary benefitssation salary benefitssation salary benefits
Civilian workers $18.82 $13.48 $5.34 $18.68 $13.36 $5.32 -$0.14 -$0.12 -$0.02
Occupational group
White-collar occupations 22.52 16.43 6.09 22.52 16.40 6.12 0.00 -0.03 0.03
Professional specialty and tech 30.09 22.10 7.99 30.82 22.55 8.27 0.73 0.45 0.28
Professional 31.14 23.00 8.14 32.60 23.95 8.65 1.46 0.95 0.51
Nurses 29.16 21.10 8.07 28.69 20.87 7.82 -0.47 -0.23 -0.25
Teachers 31.46 23.94 7.52 35.50 26.82 8.68 4.04 2.88 1.16
Technical 24.94 17.69 7.25 24.24 17.36 6.88 -0.70 -0.33 -0.37
Executive, administrative,
and managerial 32.90 23.71 9.20 33.05 23.81 9.24 0.15 0.10 0.04
Adminstrative support,
including clerical 15.17 10.72 4.45 15.17 10.73 4.44 0.00 0.01 -0.01
Blue-collar occupations 17.28 11.72 5.56 17.28 11.73 5.56 0.00 0.01 0.00
Service occupations 10.17 7.37 2.80 10.17 7.38 2.79 0.00 0.01 -0.01
Industry group
Services 19.90 14.67 5.23 19.54 14.37 5.16 -0.36 -0.30 -0.07
Health services 20.04 14.14 5.91 18.34 13.21 5.12 -1.70 -0.93 -0.79
Hospitals 21.71 15.10 6.61 21.71 15.10 6.61 0.00 0.00 0.00
Educational services 25.57 18.95 6.62 27.70 20.34 7.37 2.13 1.39 0.75
Elementary and secondary
education 24.80 18.45 6.35 27.33 20.12 7.21 2.53 1.67 0.86
Higher education 29.29 21.38 7.91 29.29 21.38 7.91 0.00 0.00 0.00
Private industry
Full-time workers
Manufacturing 20.00 13.46 6.54 21.25 14.28 6.97 1.25 0.82 0.43