Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $26.76 2.1 34.0 $26.27 2.3 34.0 $30.86 2.5 33.8 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 39.48 2.6 36.7 39.73 2.9 37.2 37.89 2.7 33.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 43.44 3.9 39.1 43.84 4.2 39.3 39.12 5.2 36.7 Professional and related.......................................... 37.40 1.8 35.6 37.37 2.2 36.1 37.56 2.5 33.1 Service............................................................. 14.55 1.9 28.4 12.76 1.7 27.6 24.57 2.2 34.4 Sales and office.................................................... 19.48 1.9 32.9 19.36 1.9 33.1 21.28 6.4 29.8 Sales and related................................................. 20.03 4.0 31.4 20.15 3.9 31.6 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 19.10 1.5 34.0 18.79 1.6 34.3 22.43 2.9 31.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 27.08 5.0 38.7 27.23 5.5 38.7 25.68 3.4 39.4 Construction and extraction...................................... 28.08 6.3 38.3 28.13 6.9 38.2 27.54 6.0 39.5 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 25.89 8.9 39.5 26.19 9.6 39.5 23.11 6.9 39.4 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.97 5.2 35.6 16.76 5.4 35.6 21.99 8.0 36.9 Production........................................................ 17.27 4.7 38.7 17.21 4.8 38.7 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.71 7.7 33.3 16.34 8.3 33.1 22.01 8.2 36.4 Full time........................................................... 28.72 2.4 39.2 28.34 2.7 39.4 31.66 2.3 37.5 Part time........................................................... 14.95 3.4 19.0 14.67 3.6 19.3 20.10 9.9 14.6 Union............................................................... 30.03 1.9 34.4 27.93 3.1 32.9 32.31 2.6 36.4 Nonunion............................................................ 26.15 2.5 33.9 26.10 2.6 34.2 27.35 6.6 28.9 Time................................................................ 26.71 2.2 33.9 26.19 2.5 33.9 30.86 2.5 33.8 Incentive........................................................... 28.37 16.0 38.7 28.37 16.0 38.7 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 27.79 3.2 39.3 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 25.99 2.6 33.2 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 22.15 4.0 33.1 22.01 4.2 33.3 25.21 6.4 29.2 100-499 workers..................................................... 26.33 3.8 34.4 25.66 4.5 34.2 30.76 3.7 35.8 500 workers or more................................................. 35.65 3.9 35.5 36.24 4.6 35.7 33.20 3.3 34.5 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 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $26.76 2.1 $28.72 2.4 $14.95 3.4 Management occupations.............................................. 49.68 3.9 49.65 3.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.67 4.6 21.67 4.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.85 6.1 25.85 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.15 7.1 34.15 7.1 – – Level 10.................................................. 37.68 8.3 37.68 8.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.70 2.2 46.70 2.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 68.47 6.3 68.56 6.3 – – Level 13.................................................. 81.52 9.6 81.52 9.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.45 5.7 56.61 5.8 – – General and operations managers................................... 62.23 10.2 62.23 10.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 68.20 4.3 68.20 4.3 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 54.40 9.7 54.40 9.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 50.09 4.5 50.09 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.66 10.7 51.66 10.7 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.67 15.3 56.67 15.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.70 3.3 46.70 3.3 – – Sales managers.................................................. 50.39 12.3 50.39 12.3 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.12 8.9 55.12 8.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.96 1.7 55.96 1.7 – – Financial managers................................................ 58.64 4.4 58.64 4.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 66.15 7.1 66.15 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 66.64 7.3 66.64 7.3 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 42.51 6.9 42.51 6.9 – – Purchasing managers............................................... 42.67 13.9 42.67 13.9 – – Education administrators.......................................... 50.36 5.8 50.65 6.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 53.63 4.5 53.63 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.48 8.6 48.42 9.7 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 56.82 9.4 56.82 9.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.69 15.6 54.69 15.6 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 48.05 6.5 48.37 6.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 53.26 2.8 53.26 2.8 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 55.21 4.3 55.21 4.3 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 38.16 3.1 36.56 3.6 – – Social and community service managers............................. 31.71 9.7 31.71 9.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.08 4.6 33.11 4.6 32.35 17.1 Level 6 .................................................. 21.49 9.4 21.60 10.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.14 9.9 23.36 9.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.45 4.2 27.45 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.86 5.7 29.60 6.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 38.17 6.5 38.17 6.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.62 9.1 44.68 10.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 62.22 13.2 62.22 13.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.53 9.5 34.53 9.5 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.90 14.0 28.70 14.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.69 10.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.67 4.9 20.67 4.9 – – Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.26 21.0 23.26 21.0 – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.06 14.8 32.96 15.7 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 29.58 12.6 28.65 15.1 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 29.37 14.5 28.29 17.9 – – Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 26.69 13.6 26.70 15.8 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 30.38 7.1 31.28 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.85 7.9 37.85 7.9 – – Training and development specialists............................ 33.78 6.9 35.80 4.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 45.96 12.8 45.96 12.8 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.79 2.9 28.37 2.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.02 8.8 29.02 8.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.75 16.0 25.75 16.0 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 44.02 7.0 44.78 6.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.45 5.4 51.45 5.4 – – Financial analysts.............................................. 47.71 8.9 47.71 8.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.89 11.4 56.89 11.4 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.93 7.0 42.04 7.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.40 6.2 21.40 6.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.45 4.1 27.45 4.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.01 14.9 35.01 14.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.12 2.5 40.12 2.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.04 2.6 44.04 2.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 51.79 .8 51.79 .8 – – Level 12.................................................. 66.41 11.2 66.41 11.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.08 7.1 38.48 7.0 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 34.85 7.6 34.85 7.6 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 50.24 5.3 50.24 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.12 7.0 39.12 7.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 46.50 1.7 46.50 1.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 52.51 6.5 52.51 6.5 – – Level 12.................................................. 66.94 12.7 66.94 12.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.93 6.3 44.93 6.3 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 52.33 8.9 52.33 8.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.17 6.2 45.17 6.2 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 48.86 6.2 48.86 6.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 56.41 7.4 56.41 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.87 8.5 44.87 8.5 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.24 10.2 35.24 10.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.53 4.2 26.53 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.42 10.0 29.42 10.0 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 42.41 2.3 42.41 2.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.07 5.4 39.07 5.4 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 35.44 7.0 36.27 6.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.01 4.2 54.01 4.2 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 33.56 7.0 33.56 7.0 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 40.24 2.1 39.87 1.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.59 3.2 28.59 3.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.54 3.6 34.54 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.19 4.9 38.94 4.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.64 5.8 44.64 5.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.89 1.9 44.89 1.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.21 4.2 56.11 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.27 7.3 56.27 7.3 – – Architects, except naval.......................................... 30.12 10.9 – – – – Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 30.91 14.3 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 46.88 3.8 46.74 4.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.28 5.5 38.28 5.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.64 5.8 44.64 5.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.67 5.3 48.67 5.3 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.21 4.2 56.11 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 61.09 11.8 61.09 11.8 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 43.67 5.8 43.67 5.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.29 2.4 47.29 2.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.41 8.6 43.41 8.6 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 45.76 4.6 45.76 4.6 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 42.60 8.1 42.60 8.1 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.91 2.5 42.91 2.5 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 29.37 5.6 29.37 5.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.61 8.9 30.61 8.9 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 31.54 6.4 31.54 6.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 36.73 8.6 36.80 8.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.88 16.0 31.88 16.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.35 11.8 38.27 12.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.85 10.1 32.15 10.9 – – Life scientists................................................... 39.23 12.5 39.23 12.5 – – Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 10.1 45.49 10.1 – – Medical scientists.............................................. 36.26 22.8 36.26 22.8 – – Physical scientists............................................... 36.05 17.5 36.05 17.5 – – Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 11.4 49.78 11.4 – – Psychologists..................................................... 27.38 8.4 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 21.71 8.3 21.89 9.1 19.94 13.9 Level 5 .................................................. 12.15 7.5 12.30 8.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 13.54 8.8 13.54 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.31 3.5 20.23 4.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.70 5.9 33.03 6.1 – – Counselors........................................................ 23.64 10.7 23.57 11.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.01 9.5 35.48 9.7 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 33.76 10.3 34.31 10.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.50 11.5 41.89 10.5 – – Social workers.................................................... 25.55 9.3 25.40 9.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.33 5.9 20.92 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.87 9.6 33.21 10.0 – – Child, family, and school social workers........................ 25.79 21.8 25.79 21.8 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.58 11.9 13.95 13.5 – – Social and human service assistants............................. 13.51 10.4 13.11 11.3 – – Legal occupations................................................... 52.76 14.5 53.79 14.8 – – Lawyers........................................................... 73.42 7.6 73.42 7.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.99 6.8 37.02 6.5 25.72 15.9 Level 3 .................................................. 14.79 1.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.43 12.1 14.63 12.2 12.60 19.5 Level 6 .................................................. 15.82 11.5 – – 16.37 13.2 Level 7 .................................................. – – 18.50 21.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 43.07 11.3 43.08 11.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 41.65 4.6 41.61 4.8 42.57 6.9 Level 10.................................................. 45.44 2.5 44.78 2.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.81 2.3 45.07 5.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 63.41 3.7 63.41 3.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.92 16.4 35.87 17.5 18.15 21.5 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 52.75 3.3 53.22 4.1 46.31 18.3 Level 9 .................................................. 41.28 3.8 42.13 4.3 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.59 2.2 44.78 2.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.73 .9 43.72 5.5 – – Level 12.................................................. 63.41 3.7 63.41 3.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.11 9.6 50.82 9.9 60.43 22.5 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 65.13 5.3 65.13 5.3 – – Social sciences teachers, postsecondary......................... 50.55 4.9 – – – – Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 56.59 15.8 – – – – Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 47.06 14.7 46.07 14.4 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.04 4.6 45.17 7.5 44.37 18.8 Level 11.................................................. 42.43 5.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.22 10.8 37.74 9.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 50.50 6.3 50.50 6.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 43.57 4.1 43.45 4.1 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.58 28.8 17.42 24.2 – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 16.59 28.8 16.31 23.8 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 46.06 1.4 46.21 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.11 1.5 46.09 1.5 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.51 1.8 46.71 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.58 1.7 46.55 1.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.70 1.5 44.70 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 44.72 1.2 44.72 1.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 44.28 2.2 44.28 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 43.47 2.4 43.47 2.4 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.28 2.2 44.28 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 43.47 2.4 43.47 2.4 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.93 4.2 47.00 2.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.22 1.5 44.84 2.0 – – Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 49.17 10.7 48.01 9.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.05 8.8 – – – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 24.65 5.5 24.76 15.9 24.45 23.0 Level 6 .................................................. 20.96 18.1 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.44 22.9 – – – – Self-enrichment education teachers.............................. 26.15 19.7 – – – – Librarians........................................................ 28.41 19.7 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.01 10.1 15.18 11.3 14.13 10.7 Level 3 .................................................. 14.79 1.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.43 12.1 14.63 12.2 12.60 19.5 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.86 8.9 27.99 9.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.25 13.2 29.37 13.5 – – Designers......................................................... 26.78 10.6 26.78 10.6 – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 32.47 11.4 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.47 11.4 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 32.47 11.4 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.47 11.4 – – – – Writers and editors............................................... 39.11 9.8 39.61 10.9 – – Editors......................................................... 36.96 8.7 37.43 9.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 37.01 5.9 36.90 9.2 37.32 5.4 Level 4 .................................................. 17.08 7.2 16.85 8.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.70 4.3 23.19 5.7 21.14 2.2 Level 6 .................................................. 27.23 2.6 27.08 3.9 27.81 5.2 Level 7 .................................................. 29.18 5.9 28.65 5.6 30.21 8.6 Level 8 .................................................. 39.35 2.9 38.50 7.6 40.77 8.6 Level 9 .................................................. 40.76 5.3 37.89 5.8 45.28 3.7 Level 10.................................................. 37.03 5.3 37.03 5.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 56.20 6.4 56.44 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.96 15.7 37.93 16.7 – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 70.03 24.3 70.01 24.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 67.10 25.3 67.10 25.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 41.48 2.5 40.50 2.6 44.03 3.9 Level 7 .................................................. 31.37 5.5 30.55 5.9 32.86 6.9 Level 8 .................................................. 41.17 7.3 39.11 9.0 48.23 7.9 Level 9 .................................................. 41.24 4.5 38.60 4.9 46.28 3.0 Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.62 9.5 39.32 9.6 – – Therapists........................................................ 35.50 3.5 35.55 1.6 35.43 8.5 Physical therapists............................................. 35.59 3.7 35.55 1.6 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 26.34 9.8 24.93 15.3 28.45 3.3 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 30.82 4.1 – – 32.49 .4 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 19.22 1.2 – – – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.26 8.3 16.37 6.6 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 24.77 4.0 25.19 3.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.17 4.3 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 26.50 9.0 – – – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.91 3.4 16.04 3.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.88 4.9 14.82 4.2 15.05 8.6 Level 2 .................................................. 13.07 5.7 – – 12.01 7.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.30 3.5 13.15 3.6 13.68 5.5 Level 4 .................................................. 14.85 7.5 14.70 10.3 15.14 8.6 Level 5 .................................................. 20.07 12.3 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.57 6.9 17.57 6.9 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.19 3.9 13.35 4.6 12.56 3.4 Level 2 .................................................. 13.02 6.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.23 3.1 13.16 4.4 13.52 4.0 Level 4 .................................................. 13.01 8.6 13.32 10.3 11.92 6.8 Home health aides............................................... 10.92 3.9 10.93 3.7 10.82 10.3 Level 4 .................................................. 10.56 4.1 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.41 2.9 14.79 2.4 12.98 1.6 Level 2 .................................................. 12.96 7.2 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.00 2.9 14.13 2.4 13.53 2.9 Level 4 .................................................. 15.13 3.4 15.96 2.0 12.54 .3 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.83 3.7 18.69 5.3 16.69 7.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.69 9.8 – – 13.88 15.3 Level 4 .................................................. 18.62 11.4 18.76 19.1 18.48 3.7 Level 5 .................................................. 18.16 8.2 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 17.80 3.3 18.12 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.02 1.5 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 22.16 1.9 23.01 3.0 15.13 27.0 Level 4 .................................................. 12.00 8.5 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 27.26 1.4 26.53 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.18 1.8 29.26 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.13 10.3 27.79 15.8 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 25.50 3.3 25.85 1.7 – – Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 28.09 .9 28.13 .7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.76 3.5 29.92 3.4 – – Police officers................................................... 29.31 9.0 28.46 6.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.59 5.7 26.68 2.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.48 3.3 30.48 3.3 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.31 9.0 28.46 6.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.59 5.7 26.68 2.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.48 3.3 30.48 3.3 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 16.36 11.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.28 5.5 12.23 3.2 8.02 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 2.1 7.96 10.9 8.67 2.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.66 7.1 9.47 1.4 7.78 12.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.13 9.7 12.51 8.7 6.89 7.8 Level 4 .................................................. 14.62 3.0 14.66 3.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 26.56 24.7 26.56 24.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 23.36 19.9 23.36 19.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 11.61 3.5 12.03 2.6 10.35 12.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.34 10.5 12.66 9.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.65 4.0 13.53 3.9 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.86 5.2 13.85 5.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.48 7.0 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.15 8.0 12.53 7.7 11.20 .0 Level 3 .................................................. 11.72 14.5 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.49 4.9 7.16 5.1 4.92 7.7 Level 1 .................................................. 6.60 18.0 – – 7.22 14.0 Level 2 .................................................. 5.64 16.9 – – 5.15 28.3 Level 3 .................................................. 4.41 6.3 – – 3.49 18.9 Bartenders...................................................... 5.61 16.6 – – 5.66 18.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.85 12.9 – – 3.21 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 3.13 3.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 4.43 12.6 – – 3.22 17.6 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.38 4.4 – – 8.94 7.1 Level 1 .................................................. 7.70 4.8 – – 8.62 5.8 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.68 2.4 10.19 5.8 9.18 .7 Level 1 .................................................. 9.21 2.9 – – 9.17 5.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.32 1.3 9.66 1.6 8.76 2.0 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 10.29 4.8 10.69 11.2 9.75 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.67 4.0 – – 9.52 6.3 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.23 1.7 9.70 5.6 8.86 4.5 Level 2 .................................................. 8.99 2.5 9.57 3.2 – – Dishwashers....................................................... 9.49 1.4 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.49 1.4 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.37 2.2 14.86 3.1 12.56 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 11.82 5.3 11.50 6.5 12.76 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.91 4.9 13.44 7.2 11.92 3.3 Level 3 .................................................. 15.53 5.2 15.51 5.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.68 8.5 19.68 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.59 11.5 15.79 12.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 21.45 12.2 21.45 12.2 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.32 3.9 13.57 5.5 12.58 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 11.71 5.8 11.30 7.3 12.76 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 13.11 4.9 13.80 7.5 11.92 3.3 Level 3 .................................................. 16.43 3.9 16.24 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.95 14.2 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.54 2.4 15.41 3.9 12.65 3.2 Level 1 .................................................. 13.26 3.5 13.65 6.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.73 5.0 14.95 7.1 11.94 4.2 Level 3 .................................................. 16.43 3.9 16.24 4.2 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.13 4.3 9.91 4.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.81 5.3 9.69 5.3 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 18.04 12.1 18.35 12.6 – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.56 13.6 17.87 14.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.01 8.1 20.07 8.7 11.99 4.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.60 5.7 – – 9.71 6.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.42 3.8 – – 10.47 4.3 Level 4 .................................................. 12.76 4.5 12.16 8.4 13.49 3.7 Level 6 .................................................. 31.40 13.0 31.64 15.0 – – Child care workers................................................ 11.65 7.2 – – 11.89 9.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.64 6.5 – – 9.92 6.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.97 5.6 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 16.75 18.4 – – 14.24 14.2 Level 4 .................................................. 12.92 5.1 – – – – Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... – – – – 14.29 22.6 Recreation workers.............................................. 15.13 10.4 – – 14.04 12.3 Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.03 4.0 23.54 6.0 10.09 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.49 5.7 – – 9.03 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.07 4.1 12.04 8.8 9.55 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 6.1 14.69 7.3 10.70 2.0 Level 4 .................................................. 17.92 2.6 18.43 2.5 13.19 6.7 Level 5 .................................................. 19.26 5.1 19.32 5.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.89 7.8 21.92 7.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 35.79 10.4 35.79 10.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.51 6.1 36.51 6.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.30 21.3 24.61 22.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.61 3.1 18.73 3.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.63 3.6 18.78 3.9 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.71 7.3 15.44 3.5 9.72 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.49 5.7 – – 9.03 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.04 4.0 12.04 8.8 9.51 3.6 Level 3 .................................................. 13.49 6.3 14.70 7.4 10.50 .8 Level 4 .................................................. 17.49 4.0 18.09 2.8 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.11 3.8 11.31 11.1 9.65 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 6.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.77 3.5 – – 9.63 3.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.67 8.6 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 10.09 3.8 11.31 11.1 9.61 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 6.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.77 3.5 – – 9.63 3.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.84 8.7 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.86 9.7 17.13 12.3 8.44 3.8 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.94 14.9 – – – – Parts salespersons............................................ 19.76 13.9 20.49 18.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 14.25 13.0 16.19 10.0 10.50 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 11.42 2.7 – – 10.44 8.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.93 5.8 15.62 7.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.21 7.1 18.14 5.8 – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 87.27 8.0 91.32 4.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.24 5.3 31.24 5.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 26.08 3.0 26.08 3.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.60 7.4 24.60 7.4 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 32.45 13.1 32.45 13.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 30.47 5.2 30.47 5.2 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 25.59 20.0 26.12 22.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.10 1.5 19.81 1.6 14.66 5.5 Level 2 .................................................. 13.75 11.0 12.74 8.8 15.36 22.2 Level 3 .................................................. 14.00 2.8 14.44 2.8 12.97 5.6 Level 4 .................................................. 17.64 2.5 17.71 2.7 17.12 3.2 Level 5 .................................................. 20.65 2.9 20.64 3.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.24 3.1 24.18 3.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.91 2.9 25.09 2.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.17 2.2 22.76 2.2 11.92 7.1 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.05 7.8 28.05 7.8 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.68 3.7 19.26 4.5 15.26 6.6 Level 3 .................................................. 12.67 5.9 12.51 8.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.56 2.7 16.70 3.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 24.24 9.0 24.62 10.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.45 5.6 25.45 5.6 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.16 9.5 15.37 9.7 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 22.44 4.0 23.20 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.12 4.2 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.38 6.3 25.38 6.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.53 2.6 14.90 2.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.46 1.8 – – – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 5.7 20.63 5.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.82 5.8 18.20 5.1 14.65 16.9 Level 3 .................................................. 13.64 3.0 14.37 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.00 7.6 17.00 7.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.43 9.0 17.04 8.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.78 5.7 21.16 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.55 15.4 21.55 15.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.56 5.6 23.56 5.6 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.43 3.5 15.77 4.3 14.16 10.3 Level 3 .................................................. 14.35 6.6 14.89 7.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.90 3.1 16.92 4.1 – – Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 15.17 15.2 – – – – Dispatchers....................................................... 19.66 19.1 19.94 20.6 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 19.76 22.8 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 17.85 4.9 18.17 6.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.20 6.3 16.20 6.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.80 7.0 19.70 10.8 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.56 5.2 16.42 20.7 9.58 6.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.98 3.9 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.01 1.9 22.50 1.6 17.02 4.9 Level 3 .................................................. 16.11 4.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.07 6.8 18.04 6.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.48 4.7 21.48 4.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.46 4.8 25.50 5.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.77 3.3 27.16 3.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.18 4.6 23.47 5.0 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 25.76 2.2 25.76 2.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.46 4.3 24.46 4.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.23 3.1 27.23 3.1 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 19.23 4.7 19.26 4.2 18.99 9.4 Level 4 .................................................. 19.06 7.9 18.99 6.9 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.18 6.3 18.73 7.8 16.15 6.0 Level 4 .................................................. 16.05 9.0 16.06 9.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.28 3.2 22.28 3.2 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.51 8.6 14.52 11.1 – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.74 10.1 – – – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 18.67 4.8 18.67 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.43 5.1 16.43 5.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 19.95 2.7 20.14 2.7 19.41 9.5 Level 4 .................................................. 18.18 5.2 18.19 6.8 18.13 5.2 Level 5 .................................................. 20.95 3.5 21.25 3.1 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.08 6.3 28.69 6.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 22.59 9.9 22.59 9.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.19 14.1 18.19 14.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 26.04 11.9 26.05 12.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.87 6.1 25.03 6.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.71 3.5 34.71 3.5 – – Carpenters........................................................ 34.35 1.5 34.41 1.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.54 3.2 33.54 3.2 – – Construction laborers............................................. 22.15 17.1 26.39 5.1 – – Electricians...................................................... 27.30 21.0 27.30 21.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.89 9.0 22.89 9.0 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.40 2.8 28.40 2.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.14 10.9 25.14 10.9 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 33.20 8.8 33.20 8.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.14 10.9 25.14 10.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.89 8.9 25.99 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.95 13.1 20.99 13.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.81 5.9 23.81 5.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.90 9.5 34.96 9.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.63 8.6 26.63 8.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 38.32 7.7 38.32 7.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 27.45 20.5 27.58 20.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.96 17.0 – – – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.07 20.5 27.20 20.5 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 20.16 9.8 20.16 9.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.41 5.3 22.44 5.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.13 2.4 20.13 2.4 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.98 5.6 22.05 5.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.13 2.4 20.13 2.4 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 29.81 5.2 29.81 5.2 – – Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 29.11 7.3 29.11 7.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.27 4.7 17.52 4.8 11.80 7.1 Level 1 .................................................. 10.71 6.4 10.17 4.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.02 5.2 13.30 5.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.58 2.2 14.76 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.24 5.5 15.28 5.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.25 5.0 18.25 5.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.60 8.9 21.60 8.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.17 9.8 29.17 9.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.50 15.4 31.50 15.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.74 14.7 19.79 14.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 27.90 11.1 27.90 11.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.59 8.6 14.59 8.6 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.36 12.6 14.36 12.6 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.30 12.8 14.28 14.2 – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 14.58 11.8 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.34 6.1 17.34 6.1 – – Printers.......................................................... 19.71 16.9 19.71 16.9 – – Prepress technicians and workers................................ 18.71 25.3 18.71 25.3 – – Printing machine operators...................................... 19.98 13.8 19.98 13.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.45 4.4 17.87 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.35 3.2 14.35 3.2 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.92 7.1 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.71 7.7 18.40 7.4 10.33 2.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.97 3.1 10.65 5.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.40 7.2 13.13 5.5 11.56 7.2 Level 3 .................................................. 18.73 5.7 18.82 6.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.63 7.0 19.63 7.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 24.38 11.4 24.38 11.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.93 9.0 19.96 9.0 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 14.26 19.3 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.31 5.5 19.53 5.1 14.97 17.9 Level 2 .................................................. 12.16 16.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 20.36 7.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.08 8.3 20.08 8.3 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.95 6.8 20.96 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.14 8.9 20.14 8.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.46 14.1 16.53 15.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.45 8.1 18.58 8.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 19.26 7.5 – – – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.12 3.2 13.45 6.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.09 3.8 11.03 8.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.24 5.5 13.90 8.4 11.57 10.3 Level 3 .................................................. 16.49 .5 16.49 .5 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.31 8.3 13.85 11.3 11.04 7.2 Level 1 .................................................. 10.66 9.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.52 6.3 – – 11.51 10.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... – – 11.96 6.0 – – 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $26.27 2.3 $28.34 2.7 $14.67 3.6 Management occupations.............................................. 50.38 4.2 50.34 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.67 4.6 21.67 4.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.85 6.1 25.85 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.01 7.6 34.01 7.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 37.36 9.3 37.36 9.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.67 2.4 46.67 2.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 69.38 6.3 69.50 6.4 – – Level 13.................................................. 81.52 9.6 81.52 9.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 58.32 5.9 58.48 5.9 – – General and operations managers................................... 66.70 10.1 66.70 10.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 68.20 4.3 68.20 4.3 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 54.40 9.7 54.40 9.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 50.09 4.5 50.09 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.66 10.7 51.66 10.7 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.67 15.3 56.67 15.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.70 3.3 46.70 3.3 – – Sales managers.................................................. 50.39 12.3 50.39 12.3 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.11 9.2 55.11 9.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 56.05 1.9 56.05 1.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 59.16 4.5 59.16 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 66.64 7.3 66.64 7.3 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 42.51 6.9 42.51 6.9 – – Education administrators.......................................... 49.12 6.3 49.49 6.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 53.26 2.8 53.26 2.8 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 49.12 6.3 49.49 6.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 53.26 2.8 53.26 2.8 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 56.85 3.9 56.85 3.9 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 39.16 2.8 37.27 4.1 – – Social and community service managers............................. 29.38 6.3 29.38 6.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.36 4.8 33.46 4.8 29.36 20.8 Level 6 .................................................. 21.00 12.6 21.73 13.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.14 9.9 23.36 9.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.45 4.2 27.45 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.15 6.9 29.87 7.3 – – Level 10.................................................. 38.17 6.5 38.17 6.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.02 9.7 44.68 10.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 62.22 13.2 62.22 13.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.68 9.7 34.68 9.7 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.90 14.0 28.70 14.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.69 10.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.67 4.9 20.67 4.9 – – Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.26 21.0 23.26 21.0 – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.06 14.8 32.96 15.7 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 29.58 12.6 28.65 15.1 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 29.37 14.5 28.29 17.9 – – Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 26.70 15.8 26.70 15.8 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.92 7.2 30.88 7.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.65 7.3 36.65 7.3 – – Training and development specialists............................ 33.78 6.9 35.80 4.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 45.96 12.8 45.96 12.8 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.50 3.5 29.00 2.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.02 8.8 29.02 8.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.75 16.0 25.75 16.0 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 44.02 7.0 44.78 6.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 51.45 5.4 51.45 5.4 – – Financial analysts.............................................. 47.71 8.9 47.71 8.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.89 11.4 56.89 11.4 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 42.17 7.2 42.29 7.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.40 6.2 21.40 6.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.45 4.1 27.45 4.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.01 14.9 35.01 14.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 41.02 2.6 41.02 2.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.04 2.6 44.04 2.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 51.79 .8 51.79 .8 – – Level 12.................................................. 66.41 11.2 66.41 11.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.79 7.9 38.22 7.8 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 50.24 5.3 50.24 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.12 7.0 39.12 7.0 – – Level 10.................................................. 46.50 1.7 46.50 1.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 52.51 6.5 52.51 6.5 – – Level 12.................................................. 66.94 12.7 66.94 12.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.93 6.3 44.93 6.3 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 52.33 8.9 52.33 8.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.17 6.2 45.17 6.2 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 48.86 6.2 48.86 6.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 56.41 7.4 56.41 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.87 8.5 44.87 8.5 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.19 10.6 35.19 10.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.53 4.2 26.53 4.2 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 42.56 2.3 42.56 2.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.31 5.4 38.31 5.4 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 35.66 7.0 36.52 6.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.01 4.2 54.01 4.2 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 40.36 2.1 39.99 1.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 28.78 3.8 28.78 3.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.54 3.6 34.54 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.19 4.9 38.94 4.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.64 5.8 44.64 5.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.89 1.9 44.89 1.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.21 4.2 56.11 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 56.37 7.7 56.37 7.7 – – Architects, except naval.......................................... 30.12 10.9 – – – – Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 30.91 14.3 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 46.82 3.9 46.68 4.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.28 5.5 38.28 5.5 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.64 5.8 44.64 5.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.67 5.3 48.67 5.3 – – Level 12.................................................. 55.21 4.2 56.11 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 61.52 12.2 61.52 12.2 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 43.28 5.9 43.28 5.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.29 2.4 47.29 2.4 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 44.75 4.7 44.75 4.7 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 42.60 8.1 42.60 8.1 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.91 2.5 42.91 2.5 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 29.67 6.5 29.67 6.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.47 11.1 31.47 11.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 31.54 6.4 31.54 6.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 37.27 9.1 37.36 9.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.47 18.2 31.47 18.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 37.76 11.8 37.67 12.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.01 8.3 35.86 8.7 – – Life scientists................................................... 40.63 11.9 40.63 11.9 – – Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 10.1 45.49 10.1 – – Medical scientists.............................................. 36.26 22.8 36.26 22.8 – – Physical scientists............................................... 36.65 17.9 36.65 17.9 – – Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 11.4 49.78 11.4 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.38 7.7 17.20 8.6 18.86 14.6 Level 5 .................................................. 11.65 4.7 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 13.54 8.8 13.54 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.42 2.8 19.17 3.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.37 9.7 27.27 10.5 – – Counselors........................................................ 16.78 12.1 16.70 12.4 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 23.28 17.1 23.41 17.8 – – Social workers.................................................... 21.24 5.0 20.86 4.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.08 4.9 – – – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.37 12.4 13.62 13.8 – – Social and human service assistants............................. 13.19 10.5 12.67 10.4 – – Legal occupations................................................... 59.29 10.9 60.77 10.3 – – Lawyers........................................................... 78.36 3.4 78.36 3.4 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.22 14.2 31.67 13.6 27.17 28.6 Level 4 .................................................. 10.76 16.1 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.26 13.6 29.48 15.1 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.78 2.2 44.78 2.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.48 .1 44.96 6.5 – – Level 12.................................................. 67.40 .4 67.40 .4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.79 19.5 33.16 20.6 20.61 21.6 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 52.54 3.9 53.00 4.8 46.71 20.0 Level 9 .................................................. 41.28 3.8 42.13 4.3 – – Level 10.................................................. 44.78 2.2 44.78 2.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.48 .1 44.96 6.5 – – Level 12.................................................. 67.40 .4 67.40 .4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.73 10.0 48.32 10.5 60.43 22.5 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.37 16.8 45.13 16.0 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.04 4.6 45.17 7.5 44.37 18.8 Level 11.................................................. 42.43 5.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 19.90 25.7 20.00 22.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.64 21.6 29.64 21.6 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 15.41 26.9 14.97 20.3 – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 15.41 26.9 14.97 20.3 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 23.07 7.9 – – 30.22 6.8 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.85 20.9 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 10.76 16.1 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 28.04 9.2 28.16 9.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.29 13.3 29.37 13.5 – – Designers......................................................... 26.78 10.6 26.78 10.6 – – Writers and editors............................................... 39.11 9.8 39.61 10.9 – – Editors......................................................... 36.96 8.7 37.43 9.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 37.11 6.3 37.00 10.0 37.40 5.4 Level 4 .................................................. 17.08 7.2 16.85 8.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.70 4.3 23.19 5.7 21.14 2.2 Level 6 .................................................. 27.76 2.6 27.72 3.5 27.89 5.3 Level 7 .................................................. 29.12 6.1 28.51 6.0 30.21 8.6 Level 8 .................................................. 39.45 3.1 38.55 8.6 40.77 8.6 Level 9 .................................................. 40.68 6.0 36.87 6.2 45.46 3.8 Level 10.................................................. 37.03 5.3 37.03 5.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 56.20 6.4 56.44 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.96 15.7 37.93 16.7 – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 70.03 24.3 70.01 24.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 67.10 25.3 67.10 25.3 – – Registered nurses................................................. 41.76 2.7 40.67 2.6 44.17 3.9 Level 7 .................................................. 31.47 6.2 30.57 7.0 32.86 6.9 Level 8 .................................................. 41.55 8.3 39.27 10.6 48.23 7.9 Level 9 .................................................. 41.24 5.2 37.66 5.3 46.55 3.0 Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.62 9.5 39.32 9.6 – – Therapists........................................................ 35.50 3.5 35.55 1.6 35.43 8.5 Physical therapists............................................. 35.59 3.7 35.55 1.6 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 26.34 9.8 24.93 15.3 28.45 3.3 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 30.82 4.1 – – 32.49 .4 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 19.22 1.2 – – – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.26 8.3 16.37 6.6 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 24.77 4.0 25.19 3.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.17 4.3 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 26.50 9.0 – – – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.91 3.4 16.04 3.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.80 5.1 14.70 4.3 15.04 8.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.76 6.2 – – 12.01 7.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.18 3.6 13.04 3.6 13.56 5.7 Level 4 .................................................. 14.85 7.5 14.70 10.3 15.14 8.6 Level 5 .................................................. 19.57 14.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.57 6.9 17.57 6.9 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.11 4.1 13.28 4.8 12.41 3.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.69 6.4 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.09 3.1 13.05 4.4 13.27 3.9 Level 4 .................................................. 13.01 8.6 13.32 10.3 11.92 6.8 Home health aides............................................... 10.92 3.9 10.93 3.7 10.82 10.3 Level 4 .................................................. 10.56 4.1 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.35 3.0 14.76 2.4 12.77 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 12.96 7.2 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.84 3.0 14.01 2.6 13.16 1.2 Level 4 .................................................. 15.13 3.4 15.96 2.0 12.54 .3 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.68 3.6 18.46 5.1 16.69 7.5 Level 3 .................................................. 13.69 9.8 – – 13.88 15.3 Level 4 .................................................. 18.62 11.4 18.76 19.1 18.48 3.7 Medical assistants.............................................. 17.80 3.3 18.12 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.02 1.5 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 14.91 7.6 15.59 4.4 12.38 12.1 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.22 5.7 12.18 3.3 7.95 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.38 2.1 7.75 11.1 8.67 2.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.62 7.5 9.47 1.4 7.66 13.1 Level 3 .................................................. 10.04 10.2 12.47 9.3 6.89 7.8 Level 4 .................................................. 14.62 3.1 14.66 3.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 26.82 25.2 26.82 25.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 23.54 20.7 23.54 20.7 – – Cooks............................................................. 11.57 3.5 12.00 2.5 10.25 13.5 Level 3 .................................................. 12.28 10.8 12.60 10.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.63 4.1 13.53 3.9 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.84 5.6 13.70 5.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.44 7.5 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.15 8.0 12.53 7.7 11.20 .0 Level 3 .................................................. 11.72 14.5 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.43 5.1 7.16 5.1 4.83 8.0 Level 1 .................................................. 6.60 18.0 – – 7.22 14.0 Level 2 .................................................. 5.46 16.8 – – 4.91 29.5 Level 3 .................................................. 4.41 6.3 – – 3.49 18.9 Bartenders...................................................... 5.61 16.6 – – 5.66 18.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.85 12.9 – – 3.21 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 3.13 3.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 4.43 12.6 – – 3.22 17.6 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.24 4.8 – – 8.68 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.70 4.8 – – 8.62 5.8 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.60 2.1 10.05 5.6 9.16 .6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.10 2.9 – – 9.20 5.4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.29 1.3 9.66 1.6 8.68 2.2 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 10.22 4.6 10.57 10.7 9.73 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.62 3.4 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.14 1.3 9.52 5.8 8.86 4.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.99 2.5 9.57 3.2 – – Dishwashers....................................................... 9.49 1.4 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.49 1.4 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.44 2.3 13.80 3.4 12.39 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 11.64 5.4 11.23 6.5 12.76 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.06 2.7 12.16 4.2 11.92 3.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.54 5.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.05 12.2 16.13 12.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.23 4.1 12.16 5.9 12.40 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 11.51 5.9 10.99 7.2 12.76 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.22 2.4 12.45 4.1 11.92 3.3 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.36 2.2 14.01 4.6 12.45 3.1 Level 1 .................................................. 13.02 3.4 13.23 6.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.68 2.0 13.41 3.5 11.94 4.2 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.13 4.3 9.91 4.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.81 5.3 9.69 5.3 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 17.56 13.6 17.87 14.2 – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.56 13.6 17.87 14.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.12 8.3 20.07 8.7 12.01 4.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 5.9 – – 9.54 6.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.42 3.8 – – 10.47 4.3 Level 4 .................................................. 12.76 4.5 12.16 8.4 13.49 3.7 Level 6 .................................................. 31.40 13.0 31.64 15.0 – – Child care workers................................................ 11.71 7.4 – – 12.01 9.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.65 7.0 – – 9.97 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.97 5.6 – – – – Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 16.70 18.6 – – 14.12 14.2 Level 4 .................................................. 12.92 5.1 – – – – Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... – – – – 14.29 22.6 Recreation workers.............................................. 14.98 10.7 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.15 3.9 23.56 6.0 10.02 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.49 5.7 – – 9.03 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.96 4.3 12.04 8.8 9.34 3.2 Level 3 .................................................. 13.28 6.5 14.38 7.6 10.70 2.0 Level 4 .................................................. 17.86 2.8 18.39 2.7 13.19 6.7 Level 5 .................................................. 19.26 5.1 19.32 5.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.89 7.8 21.92 7.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 35.79 10.4 35.79 10.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.51 6.1 36.51 6.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.30 21.3 24.61 22.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.57 3.5 18.70 3.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.59 4.1 18.74 4.4 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.69 7.5 15.34 3.5 9.62 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.49 5.7 – – 9.03 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.93 4.1 12.04 8.8 9.29 2.8 Level 3 .................................................. 13.25 6.8 14.38 7.8 10.50 .8 Level 4 .................................................. 17.49 4.0 18.09 2.8 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.82 3.6 10.69 9.8 9.47 2.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 6.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.51 2.9 – – 9.28 .3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.49 5.2 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.80 3.6 10.69 9.8 9.42 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 6.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.51 2.9 – – 9.28 .3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.60 5.2 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.86 9.7 17.13 12.3 8.44 3.8 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.94 14.9 – – – – Parts salespersons............................................ 19.76 13.9 20.49 18.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 14.25 13.0 16.19 10.0 10.50 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 11.42 2.7 – – 10.44 8.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.93 5.8 15.62 7.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.21 7.1 18.14 5.8 – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 87.27 8.0 91.32 4.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.24 5.3 31.24 5.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 26.08 3.0 26.08 3.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.60 7.4 24.60 7.4 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 32.45 13.1 32.45 13.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 30.47 5.2 30.47 5.2 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 25.59 20.0 26.12 22.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.79 1.6 19.47 1.7 14.73 5.7 Level 2 .................................................. 13.82 11.8 12.59 8.9 15.99 23.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.75 2.8 14.11 2.7 12.95 5.8 Level 4 .................................................. 17.38 2.7 17.41 2.9 17.20 3.1 Level 5 .................................................. 20.33 3.1 20.30 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.34 3.3 24.28 3.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.85 3.0 25.04 2.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.52 2.6 22.15 2.5 11.92 7.1 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.14 9.3 28.14 9.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.50 3.6 19.08 4.5 15.26 6.6 Level 3 .................................................. 12.67 5.9 12.51 8.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.56 2.7 16.70 3.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 24.24 9.0 24.62 10.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.31 6.2 25.31 6.2 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.16 9.5 15.37 9.7 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 22.20 4.2 22.99 4.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.12 4.2 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.21 7.1 25.21 7.1 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.53 2.6 14.90 2.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.46 1.8 – – – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 5.7 20.63 5.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.46 5.6 17.82 4.8 14.65 16.9 Level 3 .................................................. 13.64 3.0 14.37 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.00 7.6 17.00 7.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.43 9.0 17.04 8.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.78 5.7 21.16 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.55 15.4 21.55 15.4 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.41 3.6 15.76 4.5 14.16 10.3 Level 3 .................................................. 14.35 6.6 14.89 7.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.90 3.1 16.92 4.1 – – Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 15.17 15.2 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 17.85 4.9 18.17 6.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.20 6.3 16.20 6.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.80 7.0 19.70 10.8 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.29 5.4 16.23 23.2 9.58 6.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.98 3.9 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.76 2.1 22.32 1.7 17.02 4.9 Level 4 .................................................. 17.33 7.8 17.23 7.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.77 4.3 20.77 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.72 5.1 25.79 5.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.86 3.6 27.30 3.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.23 5.6 23.59 6.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 26.16 2.2 26.16 2.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.59 4.6 24.59 4.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.38 3.3 27.38 3.3 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 19.18 4.8 19.20 4.4 18.99 9.4 Level 4 .................................................. 18.93 8.4 18.84 7.3 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.22 7.4 17.62 9.9 16.15 6.0 Level 4 .................................................. 15.45 9.4 15.43 10.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.66 2.8 21.66 2.8 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.10 10.7 – – – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.10 10.7 – – – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 18.67 4.8 18.67 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.43 5.1 16.43 5.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 20.03 3.0 19.96 3.0 20.21 9.1 Level 4 .................................................. 18.17 5.5 18.01 7.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.41 4.0 20.76 3.6 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.13 6.9 28.82 6.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 22.59 9.9 22.59 9.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.28 15.4 17.28 15.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 26.04 11.9 26.05 12.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.48 6.4 24.65 6.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.94 3.5 34.94 3.5 – – Carpenters........................................................ 34.78 1.5 34.85 1.4 – – Construction laborers............................................. 22.15 17.1 26.39 5.1 – – Electricians...................................................... 27.01 21.4 27.01 21.4 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.00 2.9 29.00 2.9 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 35.04 6.0 35.04 6.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 26.19 9.6 26.30 9.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.93 14.6 20.98 14.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.81 5.9 23.81 5.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.90 9.5 34.96 9.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.27 12.8 27.27 12.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 38.32 7.7 38.32 7.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 27.45 20.5 27.58 20.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.96 17.0 – – – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.07 20.5 27.20 20.5 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.69 6.0 22.75 6.1 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 22.10 5.5 22.23 5.6 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 29.81 5.2 29.81 5.2 – – Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 29.11 7.3 29.11 7.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.21 4.8 17.46 4.8 11.80 7.1 Level 1 .................................................. 10.71 6.4 10.17 4.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.00 5.4 13.28 5.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.58 2.2 14.76 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.24 5.5 15.28 5.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.25 5.0 18.25 5.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.60 8.9 21.60 8.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.12 11.1 29.12 11.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.50 15.4 31.50 15.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.74 14.7 19.79 14.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 27.90 11.1 27.90 11.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.59 8.6 14.59 8.6 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.36 12.6 14.36 12.6 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.30 12.8 14.28 14.2 – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 14.58 11.8 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.34 6.1 17.34 6.1 – – Printers.......................................................... 19.71 16.9 19.71 16.9 – – Prepress technicians and workers................................ 18.71 25.3 18.71 25.3 – – Printing machine operators...................................... 19.98 13.8 19.98 13.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.45 4.4 17.87 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.35 3.2 14.35 3.2 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.92 7.1 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.34 8.3 18.06 8.2 10.23 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.97 3.1 10.65 5.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.32 7.3 13.13 5.5 11.36 6.7 Level 3 .................................................. 18.95 6.1 19.07 6.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.63 7.0 19.63 7.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.19 15.7 23.19 15.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.85 11.7 19.85 11.7 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.33 5.6 19.53 5.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 20.36 7.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.08 8.3 20.08 8.3 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.95 6.8 20.96 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.14 8.9 20.14 8.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.44 14.7 16.53 15.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.45 8.1 18.58 8.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 19.26 7.5 – – – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.78 2.7 12.99 4.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.09 3.8 11.03 8.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.24 5.5 13.90 8.4 11.57 10.3 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.69 7.3 13.10 9.6 11.06 7.3 Level 1 .................................................. 10.66 9.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.52 6.3 – – 11.51 10.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... – – 11.96 6.0 – – 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $30.86 2.5 $31.66 2.3 $20.10 9.9 Management occupations.............................................. 43.21 7.1 43.25 7.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.92 7.2 46.92 7.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.33 7.0 41.41 6.9 – – Education administrators.......................................... 53.25 11.5 53.25 11.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.69 15.6 54.69 15.6 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 56.82 9.4 56.82 9.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 54.69 15.6 54.69 15.6 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.08 9.4 27.28 5.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.32 4.4 28.32 4.4 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.59 5.6 36.59 5.6 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.79 13.7 30.79 13.7 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 32.93 7.8 33.11 8.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.24 7.4 35.64 7.4 – – Counselors........................................................ 37.59 12.4 37.92 12.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.65 11.7 36.95 12.4 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 48.22 9.3 49.94 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.68 9.5 49.61 6.3 – – Social workers.................................................... 31.87 10.2 32.11 10.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 40.16 2.5 41.58 3.0 24.16 7.0 Level 3 .................................................. 14.79 1.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 4.1 17.86 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.76 16.9 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.48 4.2 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 44.28 11.5 44.28 11.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.49 1.6 45.48 1.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.02 18.3 46.25 17.3 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 46.60 .9 46.63 .9 44.97 5.5 Level 8 .................................................. 50.50 6.3 50.50 6.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.32 .3 46.21 .2 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 46.62 1.0 46.78 1.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.73 .9 46.71 .9 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 47.13 1.3 47.36 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.27 1.0 47.25 1.0 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.98 1.3 44.98 1.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.03 .8 45.03 .8 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 45.57 1.1 45.57 1.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 44.65 .3 44.65 .3 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.57 1.1 45.57 1.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 44.65 .3 44.65 .3 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.93 4.2 47.00 2.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.22 1.5 44.84 2.0 – – Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 49.17 10.7 48.01 9.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.05 8.8 – – – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 26.92 3.5 33.77 25.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.16 18.6 – – – – Librarians........................................................ 29.41 24.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 17.30 6.7 17.66 7.0 15.53 4.5 Level 3 .................................................. 14.79 1.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.66 4.1 17.86 4.3 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 35.54 6.0 35.77 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 41.26 8.6 41.65 9.6 – – Registered nurses................................................. 39.33 7.5 39.56 8.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 41.26 8.6 41.65 9.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.90 9.9 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 28.21 2.2 28.01 1.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 27.45 1.4 26.70 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 29.64 1.9 29.64 1.9 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 25.50 3.3 25.85 1.7 – – Police officers................................................... 29.45 9.2 28.58 6.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.81 5.9 26.84 2.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.45 9.2 28.58 6.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 28.81 5.9 26.84 2.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 13.51 7.6 – – 11.87 8.6 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.49 3.0 18.55 3.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.15 4.6 16.91 4.9 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.54 2.1 17.56 2.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.15 4.6 16.91 4.9 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.54 2.1 17.56 2.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.15 4.6 16.91 4.9 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.72 13.2 – – 11.72 13.2 Child care workers................................................ 10.84 8.8 – – 10.84 8.8 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 22.43 2.9 23.20 2.9 13.26 8.8 Level 3 .................................................. 17.60 7.9 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.88 5.3 21.39 3.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 23.74 7.2 23.74 7.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.44 6.0 23.44 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.93 9.9 26.93 9.9 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 23.51 4.4 23.51 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 21.99 4.3 21.99 4.3 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.18 5.1 24.18 5.1 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 21.66 2.2 21.66 2.2 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 19.42 5.8 – – – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.54 6.0 27.54 6.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.11 6.9 23.11 6.9 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.82 10.8 21.82 10.8 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.82 10.8 21.82 10.8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 22.01 8.2 22.33 9.5 – – 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $26.76 2.1 $28.72 2.4 $14.95 3.4 Management occupations.............................................. 49.68 3.9 49.65 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.47 5.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 46.45 4.4 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 88.35 4.7 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 62.23 10.2 62.23 10.2 – – Group III................................................. 59.00 18.9 59.00 18.9 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 54.40 9.7 54.40 9.7 – – Group III................................................. 52.13 11.3 – – – – Marketing managers.............................................. 56.67 15.3 56.67 15.3 – – Group III................................................. 56.02 17.3 56.02 17.3 – – Sales managers.................................................. 50.39 12.3 50.39 12.3 – – Group III................................................. 47.23 10.2 47.23 10.2 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.12 8.9 55.12 8.9 – – Group III................................................. 48.95 7.9 48.95 7.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 58.64 4.4 58.64 4.4 – – Group III................................................. 52.64 8.0 52.64 8.0 – – Human resources managers.......................................... 42.51 6.9 42.51 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 41.22 10.4 – – – – Purchasing managers............................................... 42.67 13.9 42.67 13.9 – – Education administrators.......................................... 50.36 5.8 50.65 6.0 – – Group III................................................. 51.70 5.1 – – – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 56.82 9.4 56.82 9.4 – – Group III................................................. 56.09 13.3 56.09 13.3 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 48.05 6.5 48.37 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 50.28 4.6 50.28 4.6 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 55.21 4.3 55.21 4.3 – – Group III................................................. 52.46 5.0 52.46 5.0 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 38.16 3.1 36.56 3.6 – – Group III................................................. 38.24 4.3 35.87 6.8 – – Social and community service managers............................. 31.71 9.7 31.71 9.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.08 4.6 33.11 4.6 32.35 17.1 Group II.................................................. 23.70 5.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.29 6.1 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.90 14.0 28.70 14.5 – – Group III................................................. 36.13 9.3 – – – – Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.26 21.0 23.26 21.0 – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 33.06 14.8 32.96 15.7 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 29.58 12.6 28.65 15.1 – – Group II.................................................. 27.38 10.9 – – – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 29.37 14.5 28.29 17.9 – – Group II.................................................. 26.65 13.6 26.65 13.6 – – Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 26.69 13.6 26.70 15.8 – – Group II.................................................. 24.06 9.8 23.53 11.7 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 30.38 7.1 31.28 7.1 – – Group II.................................................. 21.35 10.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.81 7.4 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 33.78 6.9 35.80 4.7 – – Management analysts............................................... 45.96 12.8 45.96 12.8 – – Group III................................................. 48.18 12.6 48.18 12.6 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.79 2.9 28.37 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 25.18 8.9 25.18 8.9 – – Group III................................................. 36.39 7.5 35.41 8.7 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 44.02 7.0 44.78 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 40.30 8.0 – – – – Financial analysts.............................................. 47.71 8.9 47.71 8.9 – – Group III................................................. 39.41 8.5 39.41 8.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 41.93 7.0 42.04 7.0 – – Group II.................................................. 28.42 4.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 48.84 6.4 – – – – Computer programmers.............................................. 34.85 7.6 34.85 7.6 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 50.24 5.3 50.24 5.3 – – Group III................................................. 52.23 5.2 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 52.33 8.9 52.33 8.9 – – Group III................................................. 54.43 8.4 54.43 8.4 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 48.86 6.2 48.86 6.2 – – Group III................................................. 49.78 6.4 49.78 6.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 35.24 10.2 35.24 10.2 – – Group II.................................................. 28.20 13.4 28.20 13.4 – – Group III................................................. 48.83 8.9 48.83 8.9 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 42.41 2.3 42.41 2.3 – – Group III................................................. 46.89 6.3 46.89 6.3 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 35.44 7.0 36.27 6.2 – – Group III................................................. 45.70 6.9 45.70 6.9 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 33.56 7.0 33.56 7.0 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 40.24 2.1 39.87 1.9 – – Group II.................................................. 29.09 3.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 45.38 2.2 – – – – Architects, except naval.......................................... 30.12 10.9 – – – – Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 30.91 14.3 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 46.88 3.8 46.74 4.4 – – Group II.................................................. 34.54 2.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 46.75 2.5 – – – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 43.67 5.8 43.67 5.8 – – Group III................................................. 44.77 4.7 – – – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 45.76 4.6 45.76 4.6 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 42.60 8.1 42.60 8.1 – – Group III................................................. 44.07 6.1 44.07 6.1 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.91 2.5 42.91 2.5 – – Group III................................................. 42.80 2.9 42.80 2.9 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 29.37 5.6 29.37 5.6 – – Group II.................................................. 29.24 6.4 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 31.54 6.4 31.54 6.4 – – Group II.................................................. 30.27 10.1 30.27 10.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 36.73 8.6 36.80 8.7 – – Group II.................................................. 23.28 8.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.76 9.2 – – – – Life scientists................................................... 39.23 12.5 39.23 12.5 – – Group III................................................. 38.49 17.1 – – – – Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 10.1 45.49 10.1 – – Medical scientists.............................................. 36.26 22.8 36.26 22.8 – – Physical scientists............................................... 36.05 17.5 36.05 17.5 – – Group III................................................. 37.11 16.8 – – – – Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 11.4 49.78 11.4 – – Psychologists..................................................... 27.38 8.4 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 21.71 8.3 21.89 9.1 19.94 13.9 Group II.................................................. 16.24 7.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.75 5.7 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 23.64 10.7 23.57 11.2 – – Group II.................................................. 14.54 3.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.01 9.5 – – – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 33.76 10.3 34.31 10.3 – – Group II.................................................. 18.36 10.5 18.36 10.5 – – Group III................................................. 40.50 11.5 41.89 10.5 – – Social workers.................................................... 25.55 9.3 25.40 9.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.17 5.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.95 8.7 – – – – Child, family, and school social workers........................ 25.79 21.8 25.79 21.8 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.58 11.9 13.95 13.5 – – Group II.................................................. 13.51 10.4 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 13.51 10.4 13.11 11.3 – – Group II.................................................. 13.51 10.4 13.11 11.3 – – Legal occupations................................................... 52.76 14.5 53.79 14.8 – – Group III................................................. 61.81 7.5 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 73.42 7.6 73.42 7.6 – – Group III................................................. 72.11 5.5 72.11 5.5 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.99 6.8 37.02 6.5 25.72 15.9 Group I................................................... 14.50 9.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.36 21.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 43.87 4.0 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 85.04 15.2 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 52.75 3.3 53.22 4.1 46.31 18.3 Group III................................................. 51.87 3.4 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 85.04 15.2 – – – – Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 81.23 5.9 82.15 6.0 – – Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 65.13 5.3 65.13 5.3 – – Social sciences teachers, postsecondary......................... 50.55 4.9 – – – – Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 56.59 15.8 – – – – Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 47.06 14.7 46.07 14.4 – – Group III................................................. 54.88 2.7 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.04 4.6 45.17 7.5 44.37 18.8 Group III................................................. 45.25 3.2 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.22 10.8 37.74 9.5 – – Group III................................................. 43.57 4.1 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.58 28.8 17.42 24.2 – – Group II.................................................. 14.60 23.5 – – – – Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 16.59 28.8 16.31 23.8 – – Group II.................................................. 14.60 23.5 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 46.06 1.4 46.21 1.5 – – Group II.................................................. 46.38 3.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 46.11 1.5 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.51 1.8 46.71 1.9 – – Group III................................................. 46.58 1.7 46.55 1.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.70 1.5 44.70 1.5 – – Group III................................................. 44.72 1.2 44.72 1.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 44.28 2.2 44.28 2.2 – – Group III................................................. 43.47 2.4 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.28 2.2 44.28 2.2 – – Group III................................................. 43.47 2.4 43.47 2.4 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.93 4.2 47.00 2.4 – – Group III................................................. 46.22 1.5 – – – – Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 49.17 10.7 48.01 9.3 – – Group III................................................. 47.05 8.8 – – – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 24.65 5.5 24.76 15.9 24.45 23.0 Group II.................................................. 23.73 9.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 28.44 22.9 – – – – Self-enrichment education teachers.............................. 26.15 19.7 – – – – Librarians........................................................ 28.41 19.7 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.01 10.1 15.18 11.3 14.13 10.7 Group I................................................... 14.50 9.7 14.60 10.6 13.90 12.3 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.86 8.9 27.99 9.2 – – Group II.................................................. 20.84 9.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.34 7.7 – – – – Designers......................................................... 26.78 10.6 26.78 10.6 – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 32.47 11.4 – – – – Coaches and scouts.............................................. 32.47 11.4 – – – – Writers and editors............................................... 39.11 9.8 39.61 10.9 – – Editors......................................................... 36.96 8.7 37.43 9.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 37.01 5.9 36.90 9.2 37.32 5.4 Group I................................................... 16.78 5.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 30.24 2.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 42.71 3.1 – – – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 70.03 24.3 70.01 24.5 – – Group III................................................. 33.69 14.1 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 41.48 2.5 40.50 2.6 44.03 3.9 Group II.................................................. 36.67 1.6 35.57 2.4 39.42 6.1 Group III................................................. 44.31 3.7 43.40 4.4 46.48 2.8 Therapists........................................................ 35.50 3.5 35.55 1.6 35.43 8.5 Physical therapists............................................. 35.59 3.7 35.55 1.6 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 26.34 9.8 24.93 15.3 28.45 3.3 Group II.................................................. 27.32 11.0 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 30.82 4.1 – – 32.49 .4 Group II.................................................. 31.03 5.8 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 19.22 1.2 – – – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.26 8.3 16.37 6.6 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 24.77 4.0 25.19 3.5 – – Group II.................................................. 24.50 3.9 24.91 3.3 – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.91 3.4 16.04 3.6 – – Group I................................................... 15.43 1.4 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.88 4.9 14.82 4.2 15.05 8.6 Group I................................................... 14.08 3.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.39 13.5 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.19 3.9 13.35 4.6 12.56 3.4 Group I................................................... 13.11 4.2 – – – – Home health aides............................................... 10.92 3.9 10.93 3.7 10.82 10.3 Group I................................................... 10.92 3.9 10.93 3.7 10.82 10.3 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.41 2.9 14.79 2.4 12.98 1.6 Group I................................................... 14.33 3.3 14.71 2.9 12.98 1.6 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.83 3.7 18.69 5.3 16.69 7.5 Group I................................................... 17.27 8.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.43 13.1 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 17.80 3.3 18.12 2.9 – – Group I................................................... 15.49 3.2 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 22.16 1.9 23.01 3.0 15.13 27.0 Group I................................................... 12.66 3.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.52 7.5 – – – – Fire fighters..................................................... 25.50 3.3 25.85 1.7 – – Group II.................................................. 25.50 .6 25.50 .6 – – Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 28.09 .9 28.13 .7 – – Group II.................................................. 28.09 .9 – – – – Police officers................................................... 29.31 9.0 28.46 6.4 – – Group II.................................................. 28.48 6.8 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 29.31 9.0 28.46 6.4 – – Group II.................................................. 28.48 6.8 27.50 3.0 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 16.36 11.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.28 5.5 12.23 3.2 8.02 3.3 Group I................................................... 9.54 2.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 26.56 24.7 26.56 24.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 23.36 19.9 23.36 19.9 – – Cooks............................................................. 11.61 3.5 12.03 2.6 10.35 12.8 Group I................................................... 11.51 3.2 – – – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.86 5.2 13.85 5.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.86 5.2 13.85 5.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.15 8.0 12.53 7.7 11.20 .0 Group I................................................... 12.13 8.6 12.53 8.1 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.49 4.9 7.16 5.1 4.92 7.7 Group I................................................... 5.54 5.3 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 5.61 16.6 – – 5.66 18.0 Group I................................................... 5.66 18.0 – – 5.66 18.0 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.85 12.9 – – 3.21 6.2 Group I................................................... 3.87 12.8 – – 3.21 6.4 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 8.38 4.4 – – 8.94 7.1 Group I................................................... 8.38 4.4 – – 8.94 7.1 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.68 2.4 10.19 5.8 9.18 .7 Group I................................................... 9.51 1.7 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 10.29 4.8 10.69 11.2 9.75 3.0 Group I................................................... 9.91 3.3 10.23 7.8 9.46 1.5 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.23 1.7 9.70 5.6 8.86 4.5 Group I................................................... 9.23 1.7 9.70 5.6 8.86 4.6 Dishwashers....................................................... 9.49 1.4 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.49 1.4 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.37 2.2 14.86 3.1 12.56 2.6 Group I................................................... 12.97 4.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.07 8.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 21.45 12.2 21.45 12.2 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.32 3.9 13.57 5.5 12.58 2.6 Group I................................................... 13.08 4.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.54 2.4 15.41 3.9 12.65 3.2 Group I................................................... 14.30 3.2 15.16 4.6 12.64 3.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.13 4.3 9.91 4.2 – – Group I................................................... 10.11 4.5 9.90 4.3 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 18.04 12.1 18.35 12.6 – – Group I................................................... 11.80 6.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.54 2.9 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.56 13.6 17.87 14.2 – – Group I................................................... 11.80 6.7 11.91 7.1 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.01 8.1 20.07 8.7 11.99 4.3 Group I................................................... 11.37 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 28.19 6.8 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 11.65 7.2 – – 11.89 9.3 Group I................................................... 11.30 7.9 – – 11.82 9.8 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 16.75 18.4 – – 14.24 14.2 Group I................................................... 11.99 4.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.53 10.5 – – – – Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... – – – – 14.29 22.6 Group I................................................... 10.66 3.3 – – 10.66 3.3 Group II.................................................. 29.68 1.6 – – 35.12 22.9 Recreation workers.............................................. 15.13 10.4 – – 14.04 12.3 Group I................................................... 13.62 7.7 – – 14.04 12.3 Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.03 4.0 23.54 6.0 10.09 2.6 Group I................................................... 12.77 8.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.27 8.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 53.84 18.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.61 3.1 18.73 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 19.51 3.5 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.63 3.6 18.78 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 19.92 3.4 19.92 3.4 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.71 7.3 15.44 3.5 9.72 2.7 Group I................................................... 12.20 11.5 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.11 3.8 11.31 11.1 9.65 2.6 Group I................................................... 10.00 4.1 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 10.09 3.8 11.31 11.1 9.61 2.5 Group I................................................... 9.98 4.2 11.09 13.2 9.59 2.5 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.86 9.7 17.13 12.3 8.44 3.8 Group I................................................... 13.26 13.4 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.94 14.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.94 14.9 – – – – Parts salespersons............................................ 19.76 13.9 20.49 18.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 14.25 13.0 16.19 10.0 10.50 3.5 Group I................................................... 14.13 12.5 16.36 7.5 10.51 3.5 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 87.27 8.0 91.32 4.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.24 5.3 31.24 5.3 – – Group II.................................................. 29.36 6.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.30 10.8 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 32.45 13.1 32.45 13.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.69 8.1 25.69 8.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 30.47 5.2 30.47 5.2 – – Group II.................................................. 31.22 6.2 31.22 6.2 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 25.59 20.0 26.12 22.4 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.10 1.5 19.81 1.6 14.66 5.5 Group I................................................... 15.89 2.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.08 1.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.05 7.8 28.05 7.8 – – Group II.................................................. 27.04 9.5 27.04 9.5 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.68 3.7 19.26 4.5 15.26 6.6 Group I................................................... 15.30 2.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.57 4.7 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.16 9.5 15.37 9.7 – – Group I................................................... 14.74 10.4 14.95 10.7 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 22.44 4.0 23.20 4.4 – – Group I................................................... 15.67 3.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.26 4.9 25.26 4.9 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.53 2.6 14.90 2.7 – – Group I................................................... 14.68 .8 15.13 .7 – – Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 5.7 20.63 5.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.82 5.8 18.20 5.1 14.65 16.9 Group I................................................... 14.66 4.8 15.34 4.2 – – Group II.................................................. 19.85 6.9 19.50 7.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.43 3.5 15.77 4.3 14.16 10.3 Group I................................................... 15.47 3.7 15.68 4.4 14.62 9.8 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 15.17 15.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.80 1.9 – – – – Dispatchers....................................................... 19.66 19.1 19.94 20.6 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 19.76 22.8 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 17.85 4.9 18.17 6.5 – – Group I................................................... 15.49 5.0 15.49 5.0 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.56 5.2 16.42 20.7 9.58 6.4 Group I................................................... 11.52 4.1 14.46 17.6 9.58 6.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.01 1.9 22.50 1.6 17.02 4.9 Group I................................................... 17.71 5.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.58 3.3 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 25.76 2.2 25.76 2.2 – – Group II.................................................. 26.16 2.5 26.16 2.5 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 19.23 4.7 19.26 4.2 18.99 9.4 Group I................................................... 18.88 7.9 19.05 6.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.18 6.3 18.73 7.8 16.15 6.0 Group I................................................... 15.93 6.5 16.11 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 22.57 2.8 22.43 3.0 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.51 8.6 14.52 11.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.92 4.1 – – – – Data entry keyers............................................... 14.74 10.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.75 5.0 – – – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 18.67 4.8 18.67 4.8 – – Group I................................................... 16.43 5.1 16.43 5.1 – – Group II.................................................. 20.13 6.9 20.13 6.9 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 19.95 2.7 20.14 2.7 19.41 9.5 Group I................................................... 18.63 5.6 17.92 6.1 19.61 9.5 Group II.................................................. 22.48 2.8 22.73 2.4 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.08 6.3 28.69 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 18.61 6.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 30.05 4.8 – – – – Carpenters........................................................ 34.35 1.5 34.41 1.5 – – Group II.................................................. 33.56 3.3 33.64 3.2 – – Construction laborers............................................. 22.15 17.1 26.39 5.1 – – Group I................................................... 20.42 19.8 – – – – Electricians...................................................... 27.30 21.0 27.30 21.0 – – Group II.................................................. 27.50 23.1 27.50 23.1 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.40 2.8 28.40 2.8 – – Group II.................................................. 31.80 7.5 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 33.20 8.8 33.20 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 31.80 7.5 31.80 7.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.89 8.9 25.99 8.7 – – Group I................................................... 16.49 3.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.81 10.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 38.32 7.7 38.32 7.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 27.45 20.5 27.58 20.4 – – Group II.................................................. 28.66 19.4 – – – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.07 20.5 27.20 20.5 – – Group II.................................................. 28.28 19.7 28.44 19.5 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 20.16 9.8 20.16 9.8 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.41 5.3 22.44 5.3 – – Group II.................................................. 21.42 3.0 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.98 5.6 22.05 5.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.33 4.5 21.33 4.5 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 29.81 5.2 29.81 5.2 – – Group II.................................................. 29.11 7.3 – – – – Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 29.11 7.3 29.11 7.3 – – Group II.................................................. 29.11 7.3 29.11 7.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.27 4.7 17.52 4.8 11.80 7.1 Group I................................................... 13.84 2.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.82 5.6 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 27.90 11.1 27.90 11.1 – – Group II.................................................. 27.90 11.1 27.90 11.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.59 8.6 14.59 8.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.56 8.6 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.36 12.6 14.36 12.6 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.30 12.8 14.28 14.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.92 8.0 – – – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 14.58 11.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.58 11.8 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.34 6.1 17.34 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 15.33 .0 – – – – Printers.......................................................... 19.71 16.9 19.71 16.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.33 15.2 – – – – Prepress technicians and workers................................ 18.71 25.3 18.71 25.3 – – Printing machine operators...................................... 19.98 13.8 19.98 13.8 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.45 4.4 17.87 3.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.20 2.8 14.54 2.7 – – Group II.................................................. 20.50 2.1 20.50 2.1 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.92 7.1 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.71 7.7 18.40 7.4 10.33 2.3 Group I................................................... 14.29 4.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 24.11 10.9 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 14.26 19.3 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.31 5.5 19.53 5.1 14.97 17.9 Group I................................................... 18.25 6.1 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.95 6.8 20.96 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 20.28 8.3 20.30 8.4 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.46 14.1 16.53 15.3 – – Group I................................................... 16.46 14.1 16.53 15.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.45 8.1 18.58 8.0 – – Group I................................................... 18.45 8.1 18.58 8.0 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.12 3.2 13.45 6.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.79 3.2 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.31 8.3 13.85 11.3 11.04 7.2 Group I................................................... 12.83 7.5 13.26 10.0 11.06 7.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... – – 11.96 6.0 – – Group I................................................... – – 11.63 6.6 – – 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.00 $14.06 $21.41 $34.19 $49.54 Management occupations.............................................. 26.10 32.79 45.00 59.10 82.81 General and operations managers................................... 32.97 43.27 51.63 80.59 96.15 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 32.30 37.86 49.13 68.64 92.23 Marketing managers.............................................. 33.56 38.55 49.13 68.64 97.55 Sales managers.................................................. 24.86 33.28 51.45 57.18 92.23 Computer and information systems managers......................... 37.02 48.85 53.41 58.26 86.11 Financial managers................................................ 27.48 37.50 62.50 75.72 85.82 Human resources managers.......................................... 31.38 33.68 41.88 47.60 55.31 Purchasing managers............................................... 31.25 31.25 44.10 48.89 63.00 Education administrators.......................................... 27.08 33.31 51.43 59.34 67.19 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.71 48.24 57.69 61.78 67.19 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 24.57 29.76 40.77 59.34 66.76 Engineering managers.............................................. 41.83 50.42 52.40 62.65 70.38 Medical and health services managers.............................. 27.43 30.91 36.96 40.25 49.75 Social and community service managers............................. 22.86 25.64 32.50 32.50 32.79 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.18 21.54 29.13 39.21 50.73 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.95 20.00 27.25 34.66 46.63 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 14.49 20.00 20.05 27.56 34.00 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 19.36 27.25 29.85 40.50 46.63 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 17.54 20.82 28.96 37.36 46.50 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.54 20.10 27.69 39.62 46.50 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 19.05 19.52 22.30 28.93 48.05 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.76 23.51 25.76 37.15 47.03 Training and development specialists............................ 22.35 25.76 37.13 41.69 47.17 Management analysts............................................... 24.27 31.78 50.73 59.62 80.10 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.40 19.94 27.20 34.75 44.87 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 26.44 37.86 48.08 103.37 Financial analysts.............................................. 26.23 29.33 38.62 48.08 106.25 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.98 31.73 42.24 49.60 57.39 Computer programmers.............................................. 27.12 28.85 34.82 39.86 45.55 Computer software engineers....................................... 31.99 39.90 47.36 56.38 76.66 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 34.67 41.49 46.64 56.25 85.47 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 30.95 39.58 47.91 56.79 64.45 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 24.28 33.28 44.53 53.85 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.19 34.80 41.79 49.60 55.07 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 19.71 19.77 36.50 47.01 54.11 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 21.98 21.98 34.87 37.02 45.67 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.47 29.04 38.51 47.71 56.95 Architects, except naval.......................................... 16.46 22.22 27.13 37.70 44.97 Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 16.46 18.52 27.13 38.85 55.00 Engineers......................................................... 31.25 38.46 44.06 51.65 61.79 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 28.63 39.12 46.14 49.01 54.26 Electrical engineers.......................................... 34.38 44.07 47.71 47.71 54.26 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.06 36.64 45.87 49.01 54.67 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.04 35.58 41.11 48.11 57.50 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.60 26.41 27.56 38.02 38.02 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 15.60 20.70 38.02 38.02 39.32 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 18.51 24.10 33.65 46.21 59.22 Life scientists................................................... 21.41 28.55 38.27 47.10 59.22 Biological scientists........................................... 35.72 36.32 44.81 52.46 69.71 Medical scientists.............................................. 21.41 28.55 35.01 38.50 59.22 Physical scientists............................................... 22.39 24.61 30.78 46.21 61.10 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 30.78 42.63 46.21 61.10 66.27 Psychologists..................................................... 12.02 13.46 15.81 47.48 52.15 Community and social services occupations........................... 11.32 12.40 19.23 27.05 33.03 Counselors........................................................ 11.59 12.40 19.23 27.97 46.63 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 16.13 20.19 32.32 46.63 53.88 Social workers.................................................... 15.07 19.45 24.50 30.50 33.03 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 14.84 15.44 24.04 30.50 45.03 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 10.33 10.33 12.88 17.85 20.14 Social and human service assistants............................. 10.33 10.33 12.16 16.41 18.31 Legal occupations................................................... 17.31 23.14 35.49 84.62 112.64 Lawyers........................................................... 26.44 37.02 73.36 107.69 128.21 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.25 18.13 36.37 49.34 59.10 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.05 39.05 49.04 60.70 78.58 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 51.12 51.12 73.42 96.56 138.89 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 51.12 51.12 73.42 96.56 138.89 Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 49.87 54.68 58.06 78.17 87.77 Social sciences teachers, postsecondary......................... 40.19 49.04 49.04 50.79 50.79 Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 39.05 39.05 71.62 71.62 71.62 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 32.05 32.05 37.89 54.00 77.66 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 21.58 33.71 41.09 49.62 67.83 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.50 19.16 40.89 50.07 57.73 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 9.75 10.50 13.15 18.10 40.57 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 9.75 10.50 12.75 16.92 40.57 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.74 39.21 46.03 54.19 59.10 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.74 39.21 46.07 56.24 59.59 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.45 37.81 45.93 50.90 57.25 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.15 35.80 44.41 51.81 58.39 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 29.15 35.80 44.41 51.81 58.39 Special education teachers...................................... 35.32 39.81 47.94 54.66 61.11 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 35.32 36.65 50.09 56.49 63.74 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 10.77 20.67 20.67 27.92 42.25 Self-enrichment education teachers.............................. 20.67 20.67 20.67 20.67 49.34 Librarians........................................................ 19.54 22.43 22.43 25.59 55.70 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 12.48 14.50 16.31 20.63 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.72 17.83 26.44 31.85 40.41 Designers......................................................... 20.00 22.56 27.73 28.29 33.27 Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................... 17.74 25.67 35.22 35.22 49.43 Coaches and scouts.............................................. 17.74 25.67 35.22 35.22 49.43 Writers and editors............................................... 26.14 31.30 36.06 46.42 54.33 Editors......................................................... 26.14 31.30 36.06 40.41 54.33 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 19.00 25.47 30.45 42.32 59.52 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 26.30 29.08 58.08 110.00 150.00 Registered nurses................................................. 27.55 30.41 37.39 51.37 62.20 Therapists........................................................ 28.13 33.19 34.78 38.57 43.24 Physical therapists............................................. 28.59 33.19 34.78 38.57 43.24 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.13 19.04 26.15 31.90 36.51 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 22.80 29.21 30.53 34.13 38.09 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.13 18.13 18.79 20.27 23.08 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.00 15.14 17.25 18.39 25.05 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.86 22.79 24.70 27.00 28.40 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.00 15.66 15.70 15.70 18.82 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.30 11.46 14.06 17.31 20.59 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.25 10.75 12.62 14.64 17.70 Home health aides............................................... 9.30 10.25 10.30 11.46 13.00 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.46 12.30 13.75 15.75 18.97 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.50 14.85 17.31 19.40 24.00 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.30 14.85 16.89 18.50 25.22 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.68 14.77 22.88 29.00 33.02 Fire fighters..................................................... 22.76 22.88 24.74 29.32 31.29 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 21.98 25.53 28.96 31.81 33.02 Police officers................................................... 23.60 24.88 28.18 29.80 43.08 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.60 24.88 28.18 29.80 43.08 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.50 16.78 17.40 19.14 19.14 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.50 8.00 9.58 12.50 15.00 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.05 19.47 21.73 37.69 47.05 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.91 17.00 21.11 26.04 37.69 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.00 11.50 14.00 15.21 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.39 12.09 14.26 15.43 17.07 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.19 15.21 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.63 2.65 3.73 8.00 10.09 Bartenders...................................................... 2.63 4.49 5.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.63 2.63 2.67 3.27 5.00 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.73 7.50 8.50 10.00 11.89 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.00 8.50 9.10 10.00 12.45 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.25 8.75 10.00 10.25 13.15 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.00 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.00 9.00 9.02 11.00 11.05 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.36 11.00 13.32 15.56 20.84 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 14.83 17.50 20.64 23.77 37.02 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.30 10.59 13.00 15.00 18.78 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.10 12.15 14.14 15.56 19.92 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.25 9.15 10.00 10.59 12.50 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.15 12.25 14.06 25.08 27.24 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 10.00 12.10 14.06 27.24 27.24 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.25 10.00 11.66 17.90 27.89 Child care workers................................................ 8.00 9.00 10.66 14.00 15.50 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.00 10.22 14.10 19.62 26.44 Recreation workers.............................................. 11.66 11.66 15.45 19.62 19.62 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.50 11.10 16.00 22.30 34.49 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 13.75 15.25 17.00 20.07 27.55 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.76 15.25 17.00 19.66 27.55 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.07 8.93 11.29 14.27 20.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.00 8.30 9.25 11.25 13.00 Cashiers...................................................... 8.00 8.30 9.20 11.20 13.00 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.00 10.00 12.57 17.31 23.89 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 8.00 8.31 11.35 12.57 20.77 Parts salespersons............................................ 12.63 16.00 16.00 25.44 30.65 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.00 10.50 12.74 15.67 21.20 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 34.06 64.23 66.94 110.10 110.10 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.22 23.75 27.50 36.91 48.08 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 19.23 25.48 27.50 48.08 53.27 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.08 23.03 28.80 36.91 48.05 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.36 17.36 19.00 36.41 42.31 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.00 14.66 18.50 22.48 27.06 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.29 23.00 25.64 34.17 40.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 14.69 17.50 21.16 27.60 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.11 11.16 15.55 18.35 20.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.00 17.91 20.91 27.54 34.46 Tellers......................................................... 11.73 12.00 14.10 16.65 18.75 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.11 18.76 21.18 22.02 22.02 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.03 14.11 16.58 20.67 24.42 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.15 12.69 14.95 17.62 20.15 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 9.00 10.00 13.19 21.17 21.17 Dispatchers....................................................... 12.50 12.50 18.12 21.24 37.58 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 12.50 12.50 12.50 26.77 37.58 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.60 13.50 16.00 21.44 27.79 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 8.50 10.84 14.00 18.75 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.00 17.50 21.28 25.52 29.38 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.75 21.92 25.03 28.27 30.55 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.00 16.71 20.00 20.54 25.00 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.00 13.20 18.05 21.62 25.33 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 10.00 11.50 13.71 14.71 19.72 Data entry keyers............................................... 10.00 10.71 14.46 19.04 21.36 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.52 15.38 17.08 20.86 26.61 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.95 16.54 19.53 22.21 26.85 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.19 20.27 27.92 37.07 41.45 Carpenters........................................................ 26.28 32.54 37.07 37.59 40.65 Construction laborers............................................. 7.59 14.00 28.60 29.49 29.49 Electricians...................................................... 18.90 19.80 24.98 32.00 44.25 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 14.00 20.00 26.22 33.12 45.22 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 20.00 23.06 32.30 45.22 45.22 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.99 19.12 23.61 31.09 37.94 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 29.75 32.44 38.95 43.69 43.69 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 16.50 19.12 25.16 27.50 52.39 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 16.00 19.12 25.00 27.50 52.39 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 14.42 18.50 20.50 22.80 24.24 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.73 20.40 21.93 24.23 28.17 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.34 19.20 21.93 24.23 28.17 Line installers and repairers..................................... 19.21 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 19.15 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Production occupations.............................................. 11.00 12.74 15.55 19.35 26.13 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 19.23 22.01 28.08 35.13 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.53 12.39 13.54 17.00 18.13 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.53 12.39 13.05 16.65 18.80 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.02 11.86 14.15 15.84 18.68 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 9.00 15.22 15.40 15.75 16.50 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 11.86 13.90 16.40 19.90 24.41 Printers.......................................................... 10.50 13.25 18.00 23.47 25.13 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 10.00 11.00 17.10 20.60 40.72 Printing machine operators...................................... 11.00 13.25 18.00 24.00 25.13 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 12.40 14.76 18.02 19.91 21.99 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.88 9.88 12.74 15.03 18.10 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 10.25 16.00 19.95 25.00 Bus drivers....................................................... 9.25 9.80 11.36 16.87 30.18 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 16.72 19.00 23.00 26.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.63 18.37 20.00 23.00 26.56 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 9.13 10.00 16.50 21.92 24.58 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.90 16.29 18.37 20.36 22.11 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 9.00 10.80 14.39 16.73 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 10.00 12.50 15.98 18.34 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.00 $13.57 $20.29 $33.43 $49.31 Management occupations.............................................. 26.00 32.69 45.93 61.28 85.49 General and operations managers................................... 34.00 43.27 55.34 96.15 96.15 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 32.30 37.86 49.13 68.64 92.23 Marketing managers.............................................. 33.56 38.55 49.13 68.64 97.55 Sales managers.................................................. 24.86 33.28 51.45 57.18 92.23 Computer and information systems managers......................... 37.02 47.90 53.41 60.74 86.11 Financial managers................................................ 27.06 32.69 66.08 75.72 85.82 Human resources managers.......................................... 31.38 33.68 41.88 47.60 55.31 Education administrators.......................................... 24.57 30.47 42.86 59.34 66.76 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 24.57 30.47 42.86 59.34 66.76 Engineering managers.............................................. 47.52 52.40 52.40 62.65 70.38 Medical and health services managers.............................. 26.45 32.81 37.00 41.62 49.75 Social and community service managers............................. 22.86 25.64 32.50 32.50 32.79 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.18 21.55 29.37 39.62 50.73 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.95 20.00 27.25 34.66 46.63 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 14.49 20.00 20.05 27.56 34.00 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 19.36 27.25 29.85 40.50 46.63 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 17.54 20.82 28.96 37.36 46.50 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.54 20.10 27.69 39.62 46.50 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 18.88 19.11 22.30 28.93 48.05 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.76 23.51 25.76 37.15 47.03 Training and development specialists............................ 22.35 25.76 37.13 41.69 47.17 Management analysts............................................... 24.27 31.78 50.73 59.62 80.10 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.32 19.24 27.20 34.87 49.54 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 26.44 37.86 48.08 103.37 Financial analysts.............................................. 26.23 29.33 38.62 48.08 106.25 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.98 31.73 42.31 50.11 57.55 Computer software engineers....................................... 31.99 39.90 47.36 56.38 76.66 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 34.67 41.49 46.64 56.25 85.47 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 30.95 39.58 47.91 56.79 64.45 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 24.28 33.28 45.67 53.85 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.19 34.80 41.79 49.60 55.07 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 19.71 19.77 36.50 47.01 55.01 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.47 29.65 38.66 47.71 57.30 Architects, except naval.......................................... 16.46 22.22 27.13 37.70 44.97 Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 16.46 18.52 27.13 38.85 55.00 Engineers......................................................... 31.15 38.46 43.85 51.65 61.79 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 28.40 36.64 45.95 48.22 53.04 Electrical engineers.......................................... 34.38 43.33 47.71 47.71 47.71 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.06 36.64 45.87 49.01 54.67 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.04 35.58 41.11 48.11 57.50 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.60 25.39 27.64 38.02 38.02 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 15.60 20.70 38.02 38.02 39.32 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 19.10 24.61 35.01 46.21 59.22 Life scientists................................................... 21.43 34.67 38.37 48.08 59.22 Biological scientists........................................... 35.72 36.32 44.81 52.46 69.71 Medical scientists.............................................. 21.41 28.55 35.01 38.50 59.22 Physical scientists............................................... 24.61 24.61 32.69 46.21 61.10 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 30.78 42.63 46.21 61.10 66.27 Community and social services occupations........................... 10.33 12.16 16.39 20.82 26.92 Counselors........................................................ 11.59 12.36 12.40 19.23 22.17 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 12.41 19.17 21.93 22.17 38.46 Social workers.................................................... 14.84 16.39 19.86 24.74 28.87 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 10.33 10.33 12.16 16.41 22.37 Social and human service assistants............................. 10.33 10.33 12.10 16.41 18.31 Legal occupations................................................... 21.64 26.44 41.76 87.71 117.95 Lawyers........................................................... 26.44 42.56 84.62 112.64 128.21 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.00 13.65 21.58 44.97 58.29 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.05 37.89 49.04 62.13 78.60 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 51.12 51.12 73.42 96.56 138.89 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 51.12 51.12 73.42 96.56 138.89 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 32.05 32.05 32.90 54.00 82.30 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 21.58 33.71 41.09 49.62 67.83 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.00 10.50 15.69 20.48 43.32 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 9.75 10.40 12.50 16.58 19.95 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 9.75 10.40 12.50 16.58 19.95 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 20.67 20.67 20.67 22.00 35.50 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 8.50 12.35 14.50 16.00 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.72 17.83 26.44 31.85 40.41 Designers......................................................... 20.00 22.56 27.73 28.29 33.27 Writers and editors............................................... 26.14 31.30 36.06 46.42 54.33 Editors......................................................... 26.14 31.30 36.06 40.41 54.33 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 18.82 25.44 30.25 41.50 60.18 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 26.30 29.08 58.08 110.00 150.00 Registered nurses................................................. 27.32 30.30 36.79 51.92 65.22 Therapists........................................................ 28.13 33.19 34.78 38.57 43.24 Physical therapists............................................. 28.59 33.19 34.78 38.57 43.24 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.13 19.04 26.15 31.90 36.51 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 22.80 29.21 30.53 34.13 38.09 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.13 18.13 18.79 20.27 23.08 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.00 15.14 17.25 18.39 25.05 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.86 22.79 24.70 27.00 28.40 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.00 15.66 15.70 15.70 18.82 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.30 11.40 13.97 17.31 20.40 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.25 10.75 12.55 14.57 17.74 Home health aides............................................... 9.30 10.25 10.30 11.46 13.00 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.33 12.20 13.57 15.70 18.97 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.38 14.79 17.10 19.26 23.28 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.30 14.85 16.89 18.50 25.22 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.03 11.68 13.49 14.77 21.64 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.50 8.00 9.50 12.35 15.00 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.91 18.59 21.82 37.69 47.05 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.91 17.00 21.11 26.04 37.69 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.00 11.50 13.90 15.21 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.39 12.09 14.26 15.43 17.07 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.19 15.21 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.63 2.65 3.73 8.00 10.00 Bartenders...................................................... 2.63 4.49 5.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.63 2.63 2.67 3.27 5.00 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 3.73 7.50 8.40 10.00 11.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.00 8.50 9.01 10.00 11.64 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.25 8.75 10.00 10.10 13.15 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.00 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.00 9.00 9.02 11.00 11.05 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.01 10.25 12.63 14.73 20.28 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.00 10.13 11.70 14.24 15.05 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.89 11.59 13.32 14.73 15.08 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.25 9.15 10.00 10.59 12.50 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.00 12.10 14.06 27.24 27.24 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 10.00 12.10 14.06 27.24 27.24 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.25 10.00 12.00 19.23 31.25 Child care workers................................................ 8.00 9.18 10.90 14.00 15.50 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.00 10.22 14.00 19.62 26.44 Recreation workers.............................................. 11.66 11.66 15.45 19.62 19.62 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.50 11.16 16.00 22.64 34.49 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 13.33 14.92 16.85 20.07 27.55 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.76 15.25 16.70 19.62 27.55 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.07 8.84 11.35 14.62 19.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.00 8.27 9.00 11.19 12.85 Cashiers...................................................... 8.00 8.27 9.00 11.19 12.85 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.00 10.00 12.57 17.31 23.89 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 8.00 8.31 11.35 12.57 20.77 Parts salespersons............................................ 12.63 16.00 16.00 25.44 30.65 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.00 10.50 12.74 15.67 21.20 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 34.06 64.23 66.94 110.10 110.10 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.22 23.75 27.50 36.91 48.08 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 19.23 25.48 27.50 48.08 53.27 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.08 23.03 28.80 36.91 48.05 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.36 17.36 19.00 36.41 42.31 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.80 14.35 17.99 22.02 26.90 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.29 23.00 25.64 34.17 40.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 14.55 17.50 21.16 28.83 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.11 11.16 15.55 18.35 20.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.00 17.91 20.91 26.68 34.46 Tellers......................................................... 11.73 12.00 14.10 16.65 18.75 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.11 18.76 21.18 22.02 22.02 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 14.11 16.58 20.07 23.45 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.15 12.69 14.95 17.62 20.15 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 9.00 10.00 13.19 21.17 21.17 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.60 13.50 16.00 21.44 27.79 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 8.50 10.05 14.00 18.75 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.00 16.83 20.72 25.29 29.38 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.96 22.64 25.03 28.27 30.77 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.00 16.55 20.00 20.11 25.00 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.00 13.00 15.81 20.39 24.68 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 10.00 10.71 13.71 14.71 21.36 Data entry keyers............................................... 10.00 10.71 13.71 14.71 21.36 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.52 15.38 17.08 20.86 26.61 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.54 16.54 19.30 23.39 26.85 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.19 20.00 28.60 37.07 41.45 Carpenters........................................................ 25.19 32.54 37.07 37.59 40.65 Construction laborers............................................. 7.59 14.00 28.60 29.49 29.49 Electricians...................................................... 18.90 19.58 24.00 31.00 44.25 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 14.00 14.00 30.45 45.22 45.22 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 20.00 30.45 33.05 45.22 45.22 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.36 19.12 24.23 32.44 38.95 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 29.75 32.44 38.95 43.69 43.69 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 16.50 19.12 25.16 27.50 52.39 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 16.00 19.12 25.00 27.50 52.39 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.73 20.80 22.50 24.23 25.34 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.50 21.00 22.50 24.23 25.34 Line installers and repairers..................................... 19.21 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 19.15 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Production occupations.............................................. 11.00 12.74 15.55 19.23 25.63 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 19.23 22.01 28.08 35.13 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.53 12.39 13.54 17.00 18.13 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.53 12.39 13.05 16.65 18.80 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.02 11.86 14.15 15.84 18.68 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 9.00 15.22 15.40 15.75 16.50 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 11.86 13.90 16.40 19.90 24.41 Printers.......................................................... 10.50 13.25 18.00 23.47 25.13 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 10.00 11.00 17.10 20.60 40.72 Printing machine operators...................................... 11.00 13.25 18.00 24.00 25.13 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 12.40 14.76 18.02 19.91 21.99 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.88 9.88 12.74 15.03 18.10 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 10.00 15.03 19.90 24.32 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 16.63 19.00 23.00 26.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.63 18.37 20.00 23.00 26.56 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 9.13 10.00 16.50 22.64 24.58 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.90 16.29 18.37 20.36 22.11 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 9.00 10.75 14.25 16.64 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 9.50 12.23 15.98 16.64 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $16.26 $21.03 $27.92 $38.68 $51.74 Management occupations.............................................. 28.12 34.75 39.56 53.00 58.42 Education administrators.......................................... 28.12 46.71 57.21 60.34 67.19 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.71 48.24 57.69 61.78 67.19 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.08 21.07 27.64 31.75 34.65 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.13 32.41 36.63 40.87 44.53 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 17.77 20.76 25.13 30.85 52.15 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.63 26.25 29.90 35.23 52.69 Counselors........................................................ 26.66 27.28 27.97 46.63 56.19 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 30.58 45.41 46.63 53.88 60.67 Social workers.................................................... 23.68 26.25 30.50 33.03 45.03 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 16.40 26.41 42.04 51.62 59.22 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 32.92 39.43 46.68 54.19 59.10 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.73 39.23 46.55 54.58 59.15 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.28 39.76 46.56 56.29 59.90 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.83 37.81 46.54 50.90 57.25 Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.45 37.74 46.01 52.35 59.10 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.45 37.74 46.01 52.35 59.10 Special education teachers...................................... 35.32 39.81 47.94 54.66 61.11 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 35.32 36.65 50.09 56.49 63.74 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 8.63 11.67 20.82 33.95 49.34 Librarians........................................................ 22.43 22.43 22.43 24.83 60.55 Teacher assistants................................................ 13.32 14.12 15.87 18.46 21.38 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.61 26.56 34.65 43.61 51.71 Registered nurses................................................. 28.24 31.41 39.38 43.61 56.49 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.33 14.34 15.80 17.77 24.00 Protective service occupations...................................... 21.98 24.63 27.72 31.81 34.23 Fire fighters..................................................... 22.76 22.88 24.74 29.32 31.29 Police officers................................................... 23.60 24.88 28.40 29.80 43.08 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.60 24.88 28.40 29.80 43.08 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.81 11.29 13.35 14.83 17.14 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.07 14.64 18.67 20.49 23.50 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.07 14.64 18.14 19.92 21.01 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.07 14.64 18.14 19.92 21.01 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.23 8.78 10.00 15.78 15.78 Child care workers................................................ 8.23 8.78 10.00 11.03 15.78 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.95 19.53 21.31 26.05 29.59 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.77 21.19 22.09 26.05 26.65 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.19 21.72 24.36 25.98 26.65 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.12 18.77 22.09 26.05 26.07 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.32 16.75 20.48 21.07 28.18 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 22.10 23.06 25.73 33.10 35.86 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.88 19.20 21.24 25.28 35.05 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.61 18.32 19.20 28.17 31.00 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.61 18.32 19.20 28.17 31.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.64 17.02 18.73 30.18 30.48 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.86 $16.00 $23.22 $36.30 $50.79 Management occupations.............................................. 26.10 32.79 45.00 59.14 82.81 General and operations managers................................... 32.97 43.27 51.63 80.59 96.15 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 32.30 37.86 49.13 68.64 92.23 Marketing managers.............................................. 33.56 38.55 49.13 68.64 97.55 Sales managers.................................................. 24.86 33.28 51.45 57.18 92.23 Computer and information systems managers......................... 37.02 48.85 53.41 58.26 86.11 Financial managers................................................ 27.48 37.50 62.50 75.72 85.82 Human resources managers.......................................... 31.38 33.68 41.88 47.60 55.31 Purchasing managers............................................... 31.25 31.25 44.10 48.89 63.00 Education administrators.......................................... 27.08 31.61 52.67 59.34 67.19 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.71 48.24 57.69 61.78 67.19 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 24.57 29.76 41.71 59.34 66.76 Engineering managers.............................................. 41.83 50.42 52.40 62.65 70.38 Medical and health services managers.............................. 26.58 30.91 36.96 40.25 49.75 Social and community service managers............................. 22.86 25.64 32.50 32.50 32.79 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.18 21.54 29.23 39.21 50.73 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 18.95 20.00 27.25 34.13 46.63 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 14.49 20.00 20.05 27.56 34.00 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 19.36 25.00 29.71 40.50 46.63 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 17.54 20.67 27.69 36.24 39.62 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.54 19.80 26.15 37.36 39.62 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 18.88 19.11 22.30 28.93 48.05 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.02 24.10 26.85 37.15 47.17 Training and development specialists............................ 25.76 25.76 37.15 41.93 47.17 Management analysts............................................... 24.27 31.78 50.73 59.62 80.10 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.36 19.38 27.20 34.00 43.29 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 24.04 26.44 37.95 48.08 103.37 Financial analysts.............................................. 26.23 29.33 38.62 48.08 106.25 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.98 31.99 42.28 49.60 57.39 Computer programmers.............................................. 27.12 28.85 34.82 39.86 45.55 Computer software engineers....................................... 31.99 39.90 47.36 56.38 76.66 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 34.67 41.49 46.64 56.25 85.47 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 30.95 39.58 47.91 56.79 64.45 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 24.28 33.28 44.53 53.85 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.19 34.80 41.79 49.60 55.07 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 19.71 19.77 36.50 47.01 55.01 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 21.98 21.98 34.87 37.02 45.67 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.47 28.63 38.46 47.69 57.50 Engineers......................................................... 31.15 38.46 43.27 50.28 61.79 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 28.63 39.12 46.14 49.01 54.26 Electrical engineers.......................................... 34.38 44.07 47.71 47.71 54.26 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 27.06 36.64 45.87 49.01 54.67 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.04 35.58 41.11 48.11 57.50 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 15.60 26.41 27.56 38.02 38.02 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 15.60 20.70 38.02 38.02 39.32 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 18.51 23.50 33.65 46.21 59.22 Life scientists................................................... 21.41 28.55 38.27 47.10 59.22 Biological scientists........................................... 35.72 36.32 44.81 52.46 69.71 Medical scientists.............................................. 21.41 28.55 35.01 38.50 59.22 Physical scientists............................................... 22.39 24.61 30.78 46.21 61.10 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 30.78 42.63 46.21 61.10 66.27 Community and social services occupations........................... 11.59 12.40 19.38 27.05 33.03 Counselors........................................................ 11.59 12.40 19.23 27.97 46.63 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 13.50 20.05 38.46 46.63 56.19 Social workers.................................................... 15.07 19.45 24.48 30.29 33.03 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 14.84 15.44 24.04 30.50 45.03 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 10.33 10.33 12.16 16.41 19.54 Social and human service assistants............................. 10.33 10.33 12.16 16.41 16.59 Legal occupations................................................... 18.60 24.04 37.02 84.62 112.64 Lawyers........................................................... 26.44 37.02 73.36 107.69 128.21 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.35 19.54 38.29 49.87 59.22 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.05 40.19 49.04 60.14 78.58 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 51.12 51.12 74.35 96.96 140.96 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 51.12 51.12 74.35 96.96 140.96 Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 49.87 54.68 58.06 78.17 87.77 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 32.05 32.05 37.89 54.00 69.77 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 21.58 35.01 41.09 48.21 73.22 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 11.00 20.48 41.31 50.42 57.73 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 9.85 10.50 14.54 18.10 43.32 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 9.75 10.50 13.65 16.92 19.95 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.98 39.21 46.07 54.15 59.10 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.88 39.21 46.07 56.24 59.59 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.45 37.81 45.93 50.90 57.25 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.15 35.80 44.41 51.81 58.39 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 29.15 35.80 44.41 51.81 58.39 Special education teachers...................................... 35.32 39.81 47.94 52.34 56.82 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 35.32 35.34 47.94 54.82 60.51 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 20.67 20.67 20.67 22.00 33.95 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.50 13.00 14.33 16.46 20.79 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.72 17.83 26.44 31.85 40.41 Designers......................................................... 20.00 22.56 27.73 28.29 33.27 Writers and editors............................................... 27.74 31.30 36.06 48.36 54.33 Editors......................................................... 27.20 31.30 36.06 41.00 54.33 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 18.38 25.07 29.24 38.57 62.32 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 26.07 29.08 56.14 110.00 150.00 Registered nurses................................................. 27.62 29.91 34.65 49.40 62.32 Therapists........................................................ 28.59 33.19 33.19 38.57 43.24 Physical therapists............................................. 28.59 33.19 33.19 38.57 43.24 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.13 18.79 23.18 30.53 32.54 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.00 14.95 17.00 18.03 19.32 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.40 23.05 25.19 27.00 28.64 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.00 15.66 15.70 15.70 19.12 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.30 11.00 14.13 16.91 19.57 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.30 10.58 12.93 15.07 18.00 Home health aides............................................... 9.30 10.30 10.43 11.00 13.00 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.58 12.55 14.13 16.66 19.23 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.20 14.85 17.10 19.57 30.47 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.75 14.70 16.45 20.35 27.23 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.71 14.77 23.80 29.32 33.02 Fire fighters..................................................... 22.76 22.88 24.74 29.32 31.29 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 21.98 25.53 29.22 31.81 33.02 Police officers................................................... 23.49 24.88 26.37 29.80 34.13 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.49 24.88 26.37 29.80 34.13 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.00 9.00 10.83 13.75 17.00 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 15.05 19.47 21.73 37.69 47.05 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.91 17.00 21.11 26.04 37.69 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 9.77 13.00 14.19 15.43 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.77 12.09 14.62 15.54 16.70 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.18 10.00 13.75 14.50 15.61 Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.26 3.27 5.15 11.37 13.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.50 9.00 10.00 10.00 13.20 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.75 9.00 10.00 10.00 14.83 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.00 8.75 9.25 10.00 12.75 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.30 10.40 13.75 18.06 23.05 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 14.83 17.50 20.64 23.77 37.02 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.00 10.13 13.32 15.56 19.92 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.51 13.32 14.64 18.14 20.28 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.25 8.93 10.00 10.32 11.44 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.15 12.42 14.06 27.24 27.24 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 10.15 12.17 14.06 27.24 27.24 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.53 11.06 15.45 25.74 38.57 Sales and related occupations....................................... 11.38 14.00 19.16 26.88 36.91 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 13.75 15.29 17.01 20.07 27.55 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.96 15.34 17.50 20.07 27.55 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.00 11.43 14.00 17.10 23.46 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 4.86 8.27 11.19 13.62 15.43 Cashiers...................................................... 4.86 8.27 11.19 13.62 15.43 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 11.24 12.00 16.00 21.42 30.65 Parts salespersons............................................ 12.63 16.00 17.31 25.44 30.65 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.35 12.12 14.21 18.08 23.12 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 38.71 64.23 82.05 110.10 110.31 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.22 23.75 27.50 36.91 48.08 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 19.23 25.48 27.50 48.08 53.27 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.08 23.03 28.80 36.91 48.05 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.36 17.36 17.95 37.95 44.47 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.50 15.38 19.30 22.92 27.79 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.29 23.00 25.64 34.17 40.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.26 15.14 17.91 21.50 30.36 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 9.11 10.75 16.32 18.35 20.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.45 17.99 21.16 27.60 34.46 Tellers......................................................... 11.47 11.80 15.17 18.50 18.75 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 18.11 18.76 21.18 22.02 22.02 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.98 14.46 16.85 20.81 24.93 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.09 13.22 15.00 17.62 20.15 Dispatchers....................................................... 12.50 12.50 19.59 26.77 37.58 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.30 14.00 16.02 21.44 27.79 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.00 12.11 14.00 18.75 27.90 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.39 18.87 21.72 25.88 29.49 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.75 21.92 25.03 28.27 30.55 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.60 16.82 20.00 20.15 22.48 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.00 13.90 19.61 22.09 26.05 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 10.00 10.71 13.51 19.04 21.36 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.52 15.38 17.08 20.86 26.61 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.95 17.00 20.69 21.73 25.63 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.84 21.42 28.60 37.07 41.45 Carpenters........................................................ 27.00 32.54 37.07 37.59 40.65 Construction laborers............................................. 21.50 21.50 28.60 29.49 30.30 Electricians...................................................... 18.90 19.80 24.98 32.00 44.25 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 14.00 20.00 26.22 33.12 45.22 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 20.00 23.06 32.30 45.22 45.22 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.26 19.12 23.61 31.25 38.95 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 29.75 32.44 38.95 43.69 43.69 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 16.50 19.12 25.16 27.50 52.39 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 16.50 19.12 25.00 27.50 52.39 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 14.42 18.50 20.50 22.80 24.24 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.88 20.40 21.93 24.23 28.17 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.50 19.20 21.93 24.23 28.17 Line installers and repairers..................................... 19.21 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 19.15 23.61 30.28 34.31 36.84 Production occupations.............................................. 11.30 13.05 15.69 19.57 26.50 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 19.23 22.01 28.08 35.13 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.53 12.39 13.54 17.00 18.13 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 11.53 12.39 13.05 16.65 18.80 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.01 11.56 14.15 15.84 18.68 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 11.86 13.90 16.40 19.90 24.41 Printers.......................................................... 10.50 13.25 18.00 23.47 25.13 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 10.00 11.00 17.10 20.60 40.72 Printing machine operators...................................... 11.00 13.25 18.00 24.00 25.13 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 14.16 15.22 18.02 19.91 21.99 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.37 12.25 17.77 21.10 26.20 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 16.79 19.95 23.00 26.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.63 18.37 20.00 23.00 26.56 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 8.00 11.00 16.50 21.91 24.58 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.29 16.50 18.37 20.36 22.11 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 10.50 13.50 15.98 18.34 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 10.00 13.53 16.14 19.77 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.00 10.50 12.25 13.89 14.25 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), Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.00 $8.75 $11.05 $15.26 $28.13 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 12.61 16.70 28.95 47.33 54.62 Community and social services occupations........................... 10.00 18.31 18.31 26.25 31.26 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.50 11.07 19.00 38.50 54.94 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 27.64 34.00 41.15 66.23 66.23 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 27.64 27.64 43.22 66.23 66.23 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 8.63 10.77 19.86 36.50 49.24 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.25 11.83 14.92 16.28 18.81 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.79 26.30 35.00 48.95 54.00 Registered nurses................................................. 25.50 32.07 43.99 53.10 60.18 Therapists........................................................ 26.28 33.54 34.78 36.00 41.50 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.27 22.80 29.21 36.51 38.84 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 22.80 29.21 31.98 37.92 39.80 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.40 11.77 13.96 17.77 21.18 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.75 11.29 12.30 13.92 15.83 Home health aides............................................... 8.25 9.75 10.30 12.07 14.79 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.81 11.85 12.50 13.87 14.84 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.50 14.49 17.77 18.50 22.00 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 11.68 11.68 11.99 26.06 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.65 7.25 8.00 10.00 11.50 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 8.00 10.00 11.50 14.26 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 14.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.63 2.64 3.50 8.00 8.60 Bartenders...................................................... 2.63 4.00 5.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.63 2.63 2.65 3.27 3.50 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.50 8.00 8.30 9.50 10.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.00 8.00 8.75 10.00 10.25 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.00 8.47 9.00 10.25 13.15 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.88 8.00 8.70 10.00 10.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.89 11.29 12.50 14.45 14.73 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.06 11.29 12.50 14.45 14.73 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.06 11.29 12.53 14.45 14.73 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.00 10.68 14.00 16.00 Child care workers................................................ 8.00 9.00 11.00 15.50 16.00 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 8.25 10.00 11.04 14.10 24.00 Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors....................... 8.25 9.27 10.22 13.39 26.00 Recreation workers.............................................. 8.50 11.50 13.50 17.90 17.90 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.00 8.31 9.05 11.00 12.50 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.99 12.08 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.00 8.49 9.00 10.99 11.59 Cashiers...................................................... 8.00 8.45 9.00 10.99 11.55 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.25 8.00 8.25 8.75 10.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.00 8.95 10.00 12.00 13.01 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.93 10.25 13.71 17.50 23.45 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 12.11 14.10 16.40 22.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.69 9.95 12.00 16.79 24.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.00 11.15 13.10 14.95 22.00 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.00 8.25 8.75 10.00 13.80 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.00 14.00 15.00 19.07 25.00 Medical secretaries............................................. 14.00 15.00 15.05 25.00 25.29 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.00 13.00 14.00 17.00 25.00 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.32 16.00 17.71 26.85 26.85 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 9.88 11.50 14.00 15.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 8.55 9.45 10.75 13.30 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 8.00 9.13 16.86 18.00 25.00 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.30 9.45 10.70 12.83 13.46 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. 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $28.72 $23.22 $1,125 $910 39.2 $57,271 $46,842 1,994 Management occupations.............................................. 49.65 45.00 1,951 1,755 39.3 101,188 91,283 2,038 General and operations managers................................... 62.23 51.63 2,476 2,065 39.8 128,750 107,380 2,069 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 54.40 49.13 2,120 1,965 39.0 110,245 102,197 2,027 Marketing managers.............................................. 56.67 49.13 2,218 1,965 39.1 115,315 102,197 2,035 Sales managers.................................................. 50.39 51.45 1,950 2,058 38.7 101,425 107,020 2,013 Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.12 53.41 2,172 2,122 39.4 112,928 110,340 2,049 Financial managers................................................ 58.64 62.50 2,330 2,404 39.7 121,180 125,000 2,066 Human resources managers.......................................... 42.51 41.88 1,705 1,656 40.1 88,642 86,116 2,085 Purchasing managers............................................... 42.67 44.10 1,626 1,549 38.1 84,574 80,542 1,982 Education administrators.......................................... 50.65 52.67 1,859 1,949 36.7 94,113 99,268 1,858 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 56.82 57.69 2,239 2,288 39.4 105,143 101,333 1,851 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 48.37 41.71 1,731 1,800 35.8 90,007 93,601 1,861 Engineering managers.............................................. 55.21 52.40 2,195 2,096 39.8 114,159 109,000 2,068 Medical and health services managers.............................. 36.56 36.96 1,427 1,404 39.0 74,192 73,000 2,029 Social and community service managers............................. 31.71 32.50 1,238 1,230 39.0 64,362 63,944 2,029 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.11 29.23 1,323 1,143 40.0 68,760 59,432 2,077 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.70 27.25 1,167 1,102 40.7 60,671 57,316 2,114 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.26 20.05 945 900 40.6 49,160 46,800 2,114 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 32.96 29.71 1,340 1,226 40.7 69,699 63,772 2,114 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 28.65 27.69 1,105 1,038 38.6 57,453 53,996 2,005 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 28.29 26.15 1,095 981 38.7 56,960 50,993 2,014 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 26.70 22.30 1,062 892 39.8 55,232 46,388 2,068 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.28 26.85 1,192 1,030 38.1 61,333 53,575 1,961 Training and development specialists............................ 35.80 37.15 1,424 1,486 39.8 74,024 77,270 2,068 Management analysts............................................... 45.96 50.73 1,940 1,353 42.2 100,890 70,337 2,195 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.37 27.20 1,089 1,077 38.4 56,617 55,994 1,996 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 44.78 37.95 1,890 1,538 42.2 98,287 80,001 2,195 Financial analysts.............................................. 47.71 38.62 2,042 1,546 42.8 106,177 80,409 2,226 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 42.04 42.28 1,668 1,648 39.7 86,475 85,001 2,057 Computer programmers.............................................. 34.85 34.82 1,351 1,306 38.8 70,257 67,901 2,016 Computer software engineers....................................... 50.24 47.36 2,011 1,865 40.0 104,588 97,001 2,082 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 52.33 46.64 2,126 1,865 40.6 110,548 97,001 2,112 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 48.86 47.91 1,938 1,880 39.7 100,750 97,773 2,062 Computer support specialists...................................... 35.24 33.28 1,393 1,269 39.5 72,456 66,000 2,056 Computer systems analysts......................................... 42.41 41.79 1,693 1,626 39.9 88,028 84,577 2,076 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 36.27 36.50 1,441 1,460 39.7 74,923 75,920 2,066 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 33.56 34.87 1,337 1,371 39.8 69,500 71,292 2,071 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 39.87 38.46 1,617 1,538 40.6 84,069 80,001 2,109 Engineers......................................................... 46.74 43.27 1,893 1,827 40.5 98,430 95,000 2,106 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 43.67 46.14 1,747 1,845 40.0 90,835 95,963 2,080 Electrical engineers.......................................... 45.76 47.71 1,830 1,908 40.0 95,182 99,228 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 42.60 45.87 1,704 1,835 40.0 88,617 95,399 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.91 41.11 1,800 1,850 41.9 93,593 96,197 2,181 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 29.37 27.56 1,174 1,106 40.0 61,038 57,500 2,078 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 31.54 38.02 1,266 1,521 40.2 65,848 79,082 2,088 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 36.80 33.65 1,450 1,308 39.4 74,365 65,000 2,021 Life scientists................................................... 39.23 38.27 1,528 1,441 38.9 79,448 74,907 2,025 Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 44.81 1,795 1,775 39.5 93,319 92,300 2,052 Medical scientists.............................................. 36.26 35.01 1,451 1,400 40.0 75,430 72,819 2,080 Physical scientists............................................... 36.05 30.78 1,461 1,231 40.5 75,966 64,018 2,107 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 46.21 2,064 2,080 41.5 107,321 108,136 2,156 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.89 19.38 847 732 38.7 42,451 39,663 1,940 Counselors........................................................ 23.57 19.23 915 732 38.8 44,547 40,000 1,890 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 34.31 38.46 1,278 1,538 37.2 56,552 63,996 1,648 Social workers.................................................... 25.40 24.48 978 979 38.5 49,074 50,918 1,932 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 25.79 24.04 962 902 37.3 46,574 46,878 1,806 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 13.95 12.16 539 486 38.6 28,028 25,293 2,009 Social and human service assistants............................. 13.11 12.16 505 484 38.5 26,257 25,168 2,003 Legal occupations................................................... 53.79 37.02 2,106 1,452 39.1 109,495 75,504 2,036 Lawyers........................................................... 73.42 73.36 2,916 2,934 39.7 151,611 152,587 2,065 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.02 38.29 1,325 1,354 35.8 54,222 53,619 1,465 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 53.22 49.04 2,001 1,890 37.6 81,959 74,557 1,540 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 65.13 58.06 2,565 2,322 39.4 116,661 119,340 1,791 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 46.07 37.89 1,672 1,516 36.3 61,853 50,371 1,343 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.17 41.09 1,707 1,581 37.8 68,038 59,400 1,506 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 37.74 41.31 1,340 1,471 35.5 53,386 56,047 1,414 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.42 14.54 640 510 36.8 31,671 27,352 1,818 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 16.31 13.65 601 480 36.8 30,118 24,960 1,847 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 46.21 46.07 1,607 1,665 34.8 59,693 61,795 1,292 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.71 46.07 1,623 1,688 34.7 60,261 62,062 1,290 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.70 45.93 1,561 1,594 34.9 57,994 60,475 1,297 Secondary school teachers....................................... 44.28 44.41 1,586 1,554 35.8 59,064 57,930 1,334 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.28 44.41 1,586 1,554 35.8 59,064 57,930 1,334 Special education teachers...................................... 47.00 47.94 1,608 1,558 34.2 59,106 57,029 1,258 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 48.01 47.94 1,657 1,639 34.5 60,752 58,526 1,266 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 24.76 20.67 877 827 35.4 39,504 43,000 1,595 Teacher assistants................................................ 15.18 14.33 520 479 34.2 21,389 19,353 1,409 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.99 26.44 1,106 1,058 39.5 57,372 54,999 2,050 Designers......................................................... 26.78 27.73 1,050 1,061 39.2 54,617 55,169 2,040 Writers and editors............................................... 39.61 36.06 1,558 1,442 39.3 81,011 75,001 2,045 Editors......................................................... 37.43 36.06 1,469 1,442 39.3 76,408 75,001 2,041 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 36.90 29.24 1,413 1,144 38.3 72,767 59,072 1,972 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 70.01 56.14 2,640 2,538 37.7 137,287 132,000 1,961 Registered nurses................................................. 40.50 34.65 1,513 1,376 37.4 77,129 68,660 1,905 Therapists........................................................ 35.55 33.19 1,375 1,350 38.7 71,509 70,199 2,011 Physical therapists............................................. 35.55 33.19 1,375 1,350 38.7 71,509 70,199 2,011 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.93 23.18 975 904 39.1 50,681 46,987 2,033 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.37 17.00 652 680 39.9 33,930 35,360 2,073 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 25.19 25.19 991 998 39.4 51,553 51,895 2,047 Medical records and health information technicians................ 16.04 15.70 619 628 38.6 32,191 32,656 2,007 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.82 14.13 574 549 38.7 29,775 28,353 2,010 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.35 12.93 516 485 38.7 26,850 25,210 2,011 Home health aides............................................... 10.93 10.43 427 412 39.0 22,192 21,424 2,030 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.79 14.13 567 543 38.4 29,502 28,226 1,994 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 18.69 17.10 728 646 39.0 37,847 33,571 2,025 Medical assistants.............................................. 18.12 16.45 720 658 39.8 37,461 34,216 2,067 Protective service occupations...................................... 23.01 23.80 925 956 40.2 47,961 49,714 2,084 Fire fighters..................................................... 25.85 24.74 1,142 1,098 44.2 59,375 57,103 2,297 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 28.13 29.22 1,107 1,130 39.4 57,579 58,773 2,047 Police officers................................................... 28.46 26.37 1,121 1,055 39.4 58,314 54,839 2,049 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.46 26.37 1,121 1,055 39.4 58,314 54,839 2,049 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.23 10.83 470 400 38.4 24,111 20,800 1,971 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 26.56 21.73 1,100 844 41.4 54,223 43,903 2,042 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 23.36 21.11 974 832 41.7 47,511 43,264 2,034 Cooks............................................................. 12.03 13.00 458 497 38.0 23,700 25,829 1,970 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.85 14.62 509 557 36.8 25,787 27,061 1,862 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.53 13.75 465 497 37.1 24,178 25,829 1,929 Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.16 5.15 253 175 35.3 12,834 9,105 1,793 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.19 10.00 396 360 38.9 20,274 18,720 1,990 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 10.69 10.00 423 400 39.6 21,709 20,800 2,031 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.70 9.25 371 350 38.2 18,934 18,200 1,952 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.86 13.75 590 536 39.7 30,083 27,714 2,024 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers.............................................. 21.45 20.64 858 826 40.0 44,609 42,931 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.57 13.32 538 533 39.6 27,984 27,714 2,062 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.41 14.64 611 578 39.6 31,773 30,056 2,062 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.91 10.00 393 400 39.6 20,430 20,800 2,061 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 18.35 14.06 729 562 39.7 33,705 27,616 1,837 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.87 14.06 709 562 39.7 32,481 23,400 1,818 Personal care and service occupations............................... 20.07 15.45 692 698 34.5 35,986 36,279 1,793 Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.54 19.16 937 766 39.8 48,647 39,837 2,066 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.73 17.01 765 725 40.9 39,794 37,700 2,124 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.78 17.50 770 725 41.0 40,045 37,700 2,133 Retail sales workers.............................................. 15.44 14.00 615 560 39.8 31,855 28,829 2,064 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.31 11.19 460 448 40.6 23,485 23,275 2,076 Cashiers...................................................... 11.31 11.19 460 448 40.6 23,485 23,275 2,076 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 17.13 16.00 685 640 40.0 35,623 33,280 2,080 Parts salespersons............................................ 20.49 17.31 820 692 40.0 42,625 36,001 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.19 14.21 637 568 39.4 33,150 29,523 2,047 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 91.32 82.05 3,478 3,370 38.1 180,835 175,250 1,980 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.24 27.50 1,244 1,100 39.8 64,677 57,200 2,071 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 32.45 27.50 1,298 1,100 40.0 67,489 57,200 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 30.47 28.80 1,210 1,152 39.7 62,905 59,904 2,065 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 26.12 17.95 1,045 731 40.0 54,331 37,999 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.81 19.30 770 750 38.9 39,982 39,000 2,018 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.05 25.64 1,091 1,026 38.9 56,753 53,333 2,023 Financial clerks.................................................. 19.26 17.91 754 716 39.1 39,198 37,251 2,035 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.37 16.32 615 653 40.0 31,976 33,946 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 23.20 21.16 894 846 38.5 46,501 44,009 2,004 Tellers......................................................... 14.90 15.17 594 607 39.9 30,876 31,554 2,073 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 21.18 797 826 38.6 41,442 42,931 2,009 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.20 16.85 710 663 39.0 36,940 34,493 2,029 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.77 15.00 627 595 39.7 32,590 30,936 2,066 Dispatchers....................................................... 19.94 19.59 791 744 39.7 41,135 38,710 2,063 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.17 16.02 722 641 39.8 37,563 33,322 2,067 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 16.42 14.00 639 560 38.9 33,253 29,120 2,025 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.50 21.72 865 842 38.4 44,823 43,803 1,992 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 25.76 25.03 991 958 38.5 51,521 49,823 2,000 Medical secretaries............................................. 19.26 20.00 751 800 39.0 39,062 41,600 2,028 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.73 19.61 702 711 37.5 35,897 35,199 1,916 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.52 13.51 576 540 39.7 29,947 28,101 2,062 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 18.67 17.08 726 675 38.9 37,771 35,081 2,024 Office clerks, general............................................ 20.14 20.69 778 772 38.6 40,434 40,136 2,008 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.69 28.60 1,145 1,144 39.9 59,152 59,280 2,062 Carpenters........................................................ 34.41 37.07 1,376 1,483 40.0 71,576 77,106 2,080 Construction laborers............................................. 26.39 28.60 1,056 1,144 40.0 53,651 59,488 2,033 Electricians...................................................... 27.30 24.98 1,092 999 40.0 56,776 51,958 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.40 26.22 1,125 922 39.6 58,514 47,965 2,060 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 33.20 32.30 1,311 1,292 39.5 68,182 67,184 2,054 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.99 23.61 1,049 944 40.4 54,549 49,100 2,099 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 38.32 38.95 1,724 1,558 45.0 89,659 81,012 2,340 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 27.58 25.16 1,114 1,006 40.4 57,917 52,331 2,100 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.20 25.00 1,093 1,006 40.2 56,860 52,331 2,090 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 20.16 20.50 806 820 40.0 41,937 42,640 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.44 21.93 887 877 39.5 46,144 45,606 2,056 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 22.05 21.93 869 877 39.4 45,182 45,606 2,049 Line installers and repairers..................................... 29.81 30.28 1,192 1,211 40.0 61,999 62,989 2,080 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 29.11 30.28 1,164 1,211 40.0 60,539 62,989 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.52 15.69 697 628 39.8 36,222 32,639 2,068 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 27.90 28.08 1,090 1,123 39.1 56,704 58,398 2,033 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.59 13.54 584 542 40.0 30,357 28,163 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.36 13.05 574 522 40.0 29,860 27,152 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.28 14.15 568 566 39.8 29,522 29,432 2,067 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.34 16.40 685 644 39.5 35,632 33,488 2,055 Printers.......................................................... 19.71 18.00 783 720 39.7 40,733 37,440 2,066 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 18.71 17.10 742 684 39.7 38,609 35,568 2,063 Printing machine operators...................................... 19.98 18.00 794 720 39.8 41,306 37,440 2,067 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.87 18.02 726 721 40.6 37,763 37,482 2,113 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.40 17.77 727 711 39.5 36,914 36,114 2,006 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.53 19.95 785 773 40.2 40,829 40,186 2,091 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.96 20.00 848 800 40.4 44,085 41,600 2,103 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.53 16.50 661 660 40.0 34,389 34,320 2,080 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.58 18.37 743 735 40.0 38,637 38,210 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.45 13.50 535 521 39.8 26,824 26,083 1,994 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.85 13.53 554 541 40.0 27,126 27,040 1,959 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.96 12.25 474 490 39.6 24,643 25,480 2,060 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $28.34 $22.19 $1,117 $868 39.4 $57,637 $45,000 2,034 Management occupations.............................................. 50.34 45.93 1,978 1,760 39.3 102,834 91,499 2,043 General and operations managers................................... 66.70 55.34 2,616 2,214 39.2 136,052 115,107 2,040 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 54.40 49.13 2,120 1,965 39.0 110,245 102,197 2,027 Marketing managers.............................................. 56.67 49.13 2,218 1,965 39.1 115,315 102,197 2,035 Sales managers.................................................. 50.39 51.45 1,950 2,058 38.7 101,425 107,020 2,013 Computer and information systems managers......................... 55.11 53.41 2,176 2,136 39.5 113,164 111,091 2,053 Financial managers................................................ 59.16 66.08 2,356 2,500 39.8 122,507 130,000 2,071 Human resources managers.......................................... 42.51 41.88 1,705 1,656 40.1 88,642 86,116 2,085 Education administrators.......................................... 49.49 49.31 1,767 1,885 35.7 91,862 98,000 1,856 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 49.49 49.31 1,767 1,885 35.7 91,862 98,000 1,856 Engineering managers.............................................. 56.85 52.40 2,274 2,096 40.0 118,244 109,000 2,080 Medical and health services managers.............................. 37.27 36.96 1,455 1,449 39.0 75,685 75,348 2,030 Social and community service managers............................. 29.38 32.50 1,144 1,230 38.9 59,499 63,944 2,025 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 33.46 29.45 1,343 1,169 40.1 69,815 60,798 2,086 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 28.70 27.25 1,167 1,102 40.7 60,671 57,316 2,114 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.26 20.05 945 900 40.6 49,160 46,800 2,114 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 32.96 29.71 1,340 1,226 40.7 69,699 63,772 2,114 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 28.65 27.69 1,105 1,038 38.6 57,453 53,996 2,005 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 28.29 26.15 1,095 981 38.7 56,960 50,993 2,014 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 26.70 22.30 1,062 892 39.8 55,232 46,388 2,068 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 30.88 25.76 1,180 1,030 38.2 61,359 53,575 1,987 Training and development specialists............................ 35.80 37.15 1,424 1,486 39.8 74,024 77,270 2,068 Management analysts............................................... 45.96 50.73 1,940 1,353 42.2 100,890 70,337 2,195 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.00 27.20 1,116 1,077 38.5 58,026 55,994 2,001 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 44.78 37.95 1,890 1,538 42.2 98,287 80,001 2,195 Financial analysts.............................................. 47.71 38.62 2,042 1,546 42.8 106,177 80,409 2,226 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 42.29 42.31 1,682 1,684 39.8 87,156 87,402 2,061 Computer software engineers....................................... 50.24 47.36 2,011 1,865 40.0 104,588 97,001 2,082 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 52.33 46.64 2,126 1,865 40.6 110,548 97,001 2,112 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 48.86 47.91 1,938 1,880 39.7 100,750 97,773 2,062 Computer support specialists...................................... 35.19 33.28 1,399 1,269 39.8 72,749 66,000 2,068 Computer systems analysts......................................... 42.56 41.79 1,702 1,626 40.0 88,480 84,577 2,079 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 36.52 36.50 1,458 1,460 39.9 75,821 75,920 2,076 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 39.99 38.46 1,624 1,570 40.6 84,448 81,619 2,112 Engineers......................................................... 46.68 43.00 1,890 1,811 40.5 98,300 94,160 2,106 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 43.28 45.95 1,731 1,838 40.0 90,015 95,576 2,080 Electrical engineers.......................................... 44.75 47.71 1,790 1,908 40.0 93,080 99,228 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 42.60 45.87 1,704 1,835 40.0 88,617 95,399 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.91 41.11 1,800 1,850 41.9 93,593 96,197 2,181 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 29.67 27.64 1,196 1,171 40.3 62,181 60,905 2,096 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 31.54 38.02 1,266 1,521 40.2 65,848 79,082 2,088 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 37.36 35.01 1,488 1,375 39.8 77,074 70,000 2,063 Life scientists................................................... 40.63 38.37 1,603 1,458 39.5 83,372 75,799 2,052 Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 44.81 1,795 1,775 39.5 93,319 92,300 2,052 Medical scientists.............................................. 36.26 35.01 1,451 1,400 40.0 75,430 72,819 2,080 Physical scientists............................................... 36.65 32.69 1,486 1,231 40.5 77,287 64,018 2,109 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 46.21 2,064 2,080 41.5 107,321 108,136 2,156 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.20 15.44 672 602 39.1 34,701 30,170 2,018 Counselors........................................................ 16.70 12.40 661 496 39.6 34,369 25,782 2,058 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 23.41 21.93 916 776 39.1 47,623 40,348 2,035 Social workers.................................................... 20.86 19.45 816 775 39.1 41,396 40,310 1,984 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 13.62 12.16 525 484 38.5 27,284 25,168 2,004 Social and human service assistants............................. 12.67 12.10 486 478 38.4 25,278 24,856 1,996 Legal occupations................................................... 60.77 41.76 2,404 1,670 39.6 125,002 86,861 2,057 Lawyers........................................................... 78.36 84.62 3,134 3,385 40.0 162,992 175,999 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.67 21.58 1,190 827 37.6 54,253 43,000 1,713 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 53.00 49.04 1,990 1,890 37.5 82,384 75,001 1,554 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 45.13 32.05 1,634 1,122 36.2 59,989 39,255 1,329 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.17 41.09 1,707 1,581 37.8 68,038 59,400 1,506 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.00 15.96 750 559 37.5 35,858 31,849 1,793 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 14.97 13.11 554 459 37.0 28,156 23,860 1,881 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 14.97 13.11 554 459 37.0 28,156 23,860 1,881 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 28.16 26.44 1,112 1,058 39.5 57,701 54,999 2,049 Designers......................................................... 26.78 27.73 1,050 1,061 39.2 54,617 55,169 2,040 Writers and editors............................................... 39.61 36.06 1,558 1,442 39.3 81,011 75,001 2,045 Editors......................................................... 37.43 36.06 1,469 1,442 39.3 76,408 75,001 2,041 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 37.00 29.08 1,420 1,136 38.4 73,649 59,072 1,990 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 70.01 56.14 2,640 2,538 37.7 137,287 132,000 1,961 Registered nurses................................................. 40.67 34.46 1,521 1,314 37.4 79,033 68,307 1,943 Therapists........................................................ 35.55 33.19 1,375 1,350 38.7 71,509 70,199 2,011 Physical therapists............................................. 35.55 33.19 1,375 1,350 38.7 71,509 70,199 2,011 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.93 23.18 975 904 39.1 50,681 46,987 2,033 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.37 17.00 652 680 39.9 33,930 35,360 2,073 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 25.19 25.19 991 998 39.4 51,553 51,895 2,047 Medical records and health information technicians................ 16.04 15.70 619 628 38.6 32,191 32,656 2,007 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.70 14.00 569 543 38.7 29,584 28,226 2,013 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.28 12.62 513 485 38.6 26,663 25,195 2,008 Home health aides............................................... 10.93 10.43 427 412 39.0 22,192 21,424 2,030 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.76 14.10 565 543 38.3 29,394 28,226 1,992 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 18.46 16.91 718 646 38.9 37,356 33,571 2,023 Medical assistants.............................................. 18.12 16.45 720 658 39.8 37,461 34,216 2,067 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.59 14.77 623 591 39.9 32,185 30,711 2,064 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.18 10.71 469 400 38.5 24,178 20,800 1,985 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 26.82 21.82 – – – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 23.54 21.11 1,000 844 42.5 49,852 43,264 2,118 Cooks............................................................. 12.00 13.00 457 497 38.1 23,742 25,829 1,979 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.70 14.35 505 556 36.9 26,280 28,912 1,919 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.53 13.75 465 497 37.1 24,178 25,829 1,929 Food service, tipped.............................................. 7.16 5.15 253 175 35.3 12,834 9,105 1,793 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.05 10.00 392 360 39.0 20,163 18,720 2,006 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 10.57 10.00 421 400 39.8 21,907 20,800 2,072 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 9.52 9.00 363 350 38.1 18,510 18,200 1,943 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.80 13.28 547 525 39.6 27,733 25,834 2,010 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.16 11.55 481 460 39.6 25,007 23,920 2,057 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.01 13.52 553 533 39.5 28,782 27,714 2,054 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.91 10.00 393 400 39.6 20,430 20,800 2,061 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 17.87 14.06 709 562 39.7 32,481 23,400 1,818 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.87 14.06 709 562 39.7 32,481 23,400 1,818 Personal care and service occupations............................... 20.07 15.45 692 698 34.5 35,986 36,279 1,793 Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.56 19.08 938 763 39.8 48,689 39,686 2,066 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.70 16.88 765 725 40.9 39,789 37,700 2,128 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.74 16.85 770 725 41.1 40,062 37,700 2,137 Retail sales workers.............................................. 15.34 14.00 611 556 39.8 31,650 28,698 2,064 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.69 11.19 435 448 40.7 22,189 23,275 2,076 Cashiers...................................................... 10.69 11.19 435 448 40.7 22,189 23,275 2,076 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 17.13 16.00 685 640 40.0 35,623 33,280 2,080 Parts salespersons............................................ 20.49 17.31 820 692 40.0 42,625 36,001 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.19 14.21 637 568 39.4 33,150 29,523 2,047 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 91.32 82.05 3,478 3,370 38.1 180,835 175,250 1,980 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 31.24 27.50 1,244 1,100 39.8 64,677 57,200 2,071 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 32.45 27.50 1,298 1,100 40.0 67,489 57,200 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 30.47 28.80 1,210 1,152 39.7 62,905 59,904 2,065 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 26.12 17.95 1,045 731 40.0 54,331 37,999 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.47 18.75 761 734 39.1 39,567 38,168 2,032 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.14 25.64 1,110 1,026 39.4 57,717 53,333 2,051 Financial clerks.................................................. 19.08 17.91 748 716 39.2 38,895 37,251 2,039 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.37 16.32 615 653 40.0 31,976 33,946 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 22.99 21.16 889 846 38.7 46,249 44,009 2,012 Tellers......................................................... 14.90 15.17 594 607 39.9 30,876 31,554 2,073 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 21.18 797 826 38.6 41,442 42,931 2,009 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.82 16.58 695 663 39.0 36,118 34,493 2,027 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.76 15.00 628 595 39.8 32,642 30,936 2,071 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.17 16.02 722 641 39.8 37,563 33,322 2,067 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 16.23 14.00 641 560 39.5 33,340 29,120 2,054 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.32 21.21 864 841 38.7 44,951 43,711 2,014 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 26.16 25.03 1,017 978 38.9 52,871 50,835 2,021 Medical secretaries............................................. 19.20 20.00 748 800 39.0 38,914 41,600 2,027 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.62 18.05 664 677 37.7 34,538 35,199 1,960 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 18.67 17.08 726 675 38.9 37,771 35,081 2,024 Office clerks, general............................................ 19.96 20.37 778 772 39.0 40,447 40,136 2,026 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.82 29.00 1,151 1,154 40.0 59,446 60,000 2,063 Carpenters........................................................ 34.85 37.07 1,394 1,483 40.0 72,483 77,106 2,080 Construction laborers............................................. 26.39 28.60 1,056 1,144 40.0 53,651 59,488 2,033 Electricians...................................................... 27.01 24.00 1,081 960 40.0 56,190 49,920 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.00 30.45 1,158 1,218 39.9 60,220 63,336 2,076 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 35.04 33.05 1,398 1,322 39.9 72,703 68,744 2,075 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 26.30 24.23 1,065 969 40.5 55,357 50,400 2,105 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 38.32 38.95 1,724 1,558 45.0 89,659 81,012 2,340 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 27.58 25.16 1,114 1,006 40.4 57,917 52,331 2,100 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 27.20 25.00 1,093 1,006 40.2 56,860 52,331 2,090 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.75 22.50 903 877 39.7 46,939 45,606 2,063 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 22.23 22.50 878 877 39.5 45,670 45,606 2,054 Line installers and repairers..................................... 29.81 30.28 1,192 1,211 40.0 61,999 62,989 2,080 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 29.11 30.28 1,164 1,211 40.0 60,539 62,989 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.46 15.69 694 628 39.8 36,104 32,639 2,068 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 27.90 28.08 1,090 1,123 39.1 56,704 58,398 2,033 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.59 13.54 584 542 40.0 30,357 28,163 2,080 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.36 13.05 574 522 40.0 29,860 27,152 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.28 14.15 568 566 39.8 29,522 29,432 2,067 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.34 16.40 685 644 39.5 35,632 33,488 2,055 Printers.......................................................... 19.71 18.00 783 720 39.7 40,733 37,440 2,066 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 18.71 17.10 742 684 39.7 38,609 35,568 2,063 Printing machine operators...................................... 19.98 18.00 794 720 39.8 41,306 37,440 2,067 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.87 18.02 726 721 40.6 37,763 37,482 2,113 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.06 17.46 717 698 39.7 36,647 35,797 2,029 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.53 19.95 785 773 40.2 40,829 40,186 2,091 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.96 20.00 848 800 40.4 44,085 41,600 2,103 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.53 16.50 661 660 40.0 34,389 34,320 2,080 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.58 18.37 743 735 40.0 38,637 38,210 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.99 12.54 517 502 39.8 25,857 25,480 1,990 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.10 12.71 524 508 40.0 25,554 25,203 1,951 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.96 12.25 474 490 39.6 24,643 25,480 2,060 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $31.66 $28.40 $1,187 $1,108 37.5 $54,907 $54,175 1,734 Management occupations.............................................. 43.25 39.56 1,705 1,582 39.4 86,326 82,285 1,996 Education administrators.......................................... 53.25 57.21 2,085 2,237 39.2 99,175 100,230 1,862 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 56.82 57.69 2,239 2,288 39.4 105,143 101,333 1,851 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.28 27.64 1,028 1,064 37.7 52,727 55,319 1,933 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.59 36.63 1,391 1,336 38.0 72,327 69,462 1,977 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.79 25.13 1,087 890 35.3 50,883 46,270 1,653 Community and social services occupations........................... 33.11 29.90 1,251 1,144 37.8 58,749 58,184 1,774 Counselors........................................................ 37.92 27.97 1,417 1,119 37.4 61,234 58,184 1,615 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 49.94 50.88 1,740 1,749 34.8 64,705 64,614 1,296 Social workers.................................................... 32.11 30.50 1,209 1,144 37.6 59,695 59,475 1,859 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.58 43.05 1,431 1,517 34.4 54,202 57,029 1,303 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 46.63 46.68 1,612 1,634 34.6 59,644 60,546 1,279 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 46.78 46.67 1,620 1,683 34.6 59,951 61,795 1,282 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 47.36 47.03 1,641 1,692 34.7 60,665 62,062 1,281 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 44.98 46.54 1,556 1,588 34.6 57,735 60,273 1,283 Secondary school teachers....................................... 45.57 46.01 1,577 1,552 34.6 58,489 57,716 1,284 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 45.57 46.01 1,577 1,552 34.6 58,489 57,716 1,284 Special education teachers...................................... 47.00 47.94 1,608 1,558 34.2 59,106 57,029 1,258 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............................................ 48.01 47.94 1,657 1,639 34.5 60,752 58,526 1,266 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 33.77 33.02 – – – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 17.66 15.87 553 478 31.3 20,591 17,422 1,166 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 35.77 34.65 1,345 1,386 37.6 63,852 61,503 1,785 Registered nurses................................................. 39.56 39.38 1,472 1,559 37.2 68,098 72,072 1,722 Protective service occupations...................................... 28.01 27.72 1,130 1,130 40.4 58,770 58,773 2,098 Fire fighters..................................................... 25.85 24.74 1,142 1,098 44.2 59,375 57,103 2,297 Police officers................................................... 28.58 26.37 1,125 1,055 39.4 58,523 54,839 2,048 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 28.58 26.37 1,125 1,055 39.4 58,523 54,839 2,048 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.55 18.67 740 745 39.9 38,479 38,750 2,075 Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.56 18.14 700 726 39.9 36,413 37,731 2,074 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.56 18.14 700 726 39.9 36,413 37,731 2,074 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 23.20 21.72 855 828 36.8 43,806 42,354 1,889 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 23.51 22.09 869 848 37.0 44,162 44,079 1,878 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.18 24.36 893 895 36.9 46,435 46,556 1,920 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 21.66 22.09 799 821 36.9 39,204 39,265 1,810 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.54 25.73 1,087 935 39.5 56,531 48,614 2,053 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.11 21.24 909 850 39.4 47,288 44,179 2,047 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.82 19.20 857 733 39.3 44,547 38,106 2,041 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.82 19.20 857 733 39.3 44,547 38,106 2,041 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 22.33 18.73 836 749 37.4 39,615 37,436 1,774 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $26.27 $22.01 $25.66 $36.24 Management, professional, and related...... 39.73 34.47 39.35 45.30 Management, business, and financial...... 43.84 38.16 41.73 50.77 Professional and related................. 37.37 32.61 37.67 42.18 Service.................................... 12.76 11.24 14.02 16.59 Sales and office........................... 19.36 18.25 20.21 21.44 Sales and related........................ 20.15 18.95 22.13 25.14 Office and administrative support........ 18.79 17.50 18.66 21.07 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 27.23 25.56 30.07 33.11 Construction and extraction............. 28.13 27.43 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 26.19 23.18 31.25 34.00 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 16.76 16.14 15.62 24.24 Production............................... 17.21 15.60 18.61 20.89 Transportation and material moving....... 16.34 16.70 13.52 – 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........................................................... 2.3 4.2 4.5 4.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.9 6.7 2.4 4.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 4.2 10.2 3.7 6.8 Professional and related.......................................... 2.2 4.6 2.7 2.5 Service............................................................. 1.7 4.5 4.0 3.8 Sales and office.................................................... 1.9 2.9 4.5 1.9 Sales and related................................................. 3.9 5.0 6.6 21.9 Office and administrative support................................. 1.6 3.4 3.3 1.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.5 5.0 9.5 4.3 Construction and extraction...................................... 6.9 6.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 9.6 11.7 15.9 6.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.4 4.1 7.8 18.5 Production........................................................ 4.8 4.9 6.3 11.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 8.3 6.1 10.3 – 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $23.97 $19.38 $950 $766 39.6 $49,035 $39,763 2,045 Management occupations.............................................. 42.80 37.02 1,706 1,494 39.9 88,695 77,713 2,072 General and operations managers................................... 64.16 45.00 2,539 1,800 39.6 132,021 93,600 2,058 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 46.83 48.90 1,845 1,956 39.4 95,933 101,718 2,049 Marketing managers.............................................. 39.38 39.89 1,552 1,503 39.4 80,721 78,146 2,050 Sales managers.................................................. 52.87 56.38 2,082 2,144 39.4 108,264 111,499 2,048 Financial managers................................................ 43.80 32.69 1,744 1,308 39.8 90,707 67,999 2,071 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.80 25.00 1,212 1,000 40.7 63,021 52,000 2,115 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.04 25.00 1,076 1,000 41.3 55,974 52,000 2,149 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 42.07 44.71 1,705 1,788 40.5 88,647 93,001 2,107 Computer software engineers....................................... 57.91 47.36 2,401 1,894 41.5 124,830 98,500 2,156 Computer support specialists...................................... 39.23 42.31 1,569 1,692 40.0 81,597 88,001 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 43.46 49.60 1,789 1,984 41.2 93,035 103,168 2,141 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.78 29.73 1,275 1,186 40.1 66,319 61,666 2,087 Engineers......................................................... 38.23 38.46 1,561 1,538 40.8 81,192 80,001 2,124 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 35.47 32.77 1,419 1,311 40.0 73,769 68,162 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 31.08 24.99 1,243 1,000 40.0 64,652 51,977 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.74 14.84 609 571 38.7 31,253 29,000 1,986 Legal occupations................................................... 56.24 31.25 2,212 1,154 39.3 115,022 60,000 2,045 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.47 15.96 648 579 37.1 31,699 29,700 1,814 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 15.42 13.65 570 480 37.0 28,845 24,960 1,871 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 14.97 13.11 554 459 37.0 28,156 23,860 1,881 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 14.97 13.11 554 459 37.0 28,156 23,860 1,881 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 23.63 17.83 945 713 40.0 49,147 37,084 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 38.17 28.00 1,460 1,120 38.3 75,931 58,240 1,989 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.06 11.00 509 455 39.0 26,479 23,634 2,028 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.62 10.75 454 430 39.1 23,606 22,360 2,032 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.67 10.00 448 375 38.4 23,311 19,499 1,998 Cooks............................................................. 11.57 12.00 441 468 38.1 22,933 24,336 1,982 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.54 14.00 461 497 36.8 23,971 25,829 1,912 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.43 5.15 219 175 34.0 11,378 9,105 1,770 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.18 9.01 360 360 39.2 18,718 18,720 2,040 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.86 9.00 341 350 38.5 17,747 18,200 2,002 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.89 10.13 516 405 40.0 24,965 19,600 1,937 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.97 9.74 399 390 40.0 20,729 20,259 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.45 19.50 858 771 40.0 44,592 40,092 2,079 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.01 17.01 744 725 41.3 38,705 37,700 2,149 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.86 17.00 746 725 41.8 38,791 37,700 2,172 Retail sales workers.............................................. 15.91 14.00 638 560 40.1 33,194 29,120 2,087 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 17.13 16.00 685 640 40.0 35,623 33,280 2,080 Parts salespersons............................................ 20.49 17.31 820 692 40.0 42,625 36,001 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 17.70 14.21 698 568 39.5 36,319 29,548 2,052 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 30.20 28.75 1,201 1,100 39.8 62,449 57,200 2,068 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products........................................ 26.89 25.48 1,076 1,019 40.0 55,941 53,000 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 31.52 29.04 1,250 1,162 39.7 65,004 60,407 2,063 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.16 17.52 713 683 39.3 37,064 35,516 2,041 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.34 17.31 693 692 40.0 36,020 36,001 2,078 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 21.87 20.91 875 837 40.0 45,490 43,499 2,080 Tellers......................................................... 14.84 15.17 591 607 39.9 30,745 31,554 2,072 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.70 14.75 657 590 39.3 34,168 30,680 2,046 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.05 15.00 568 563 37.7 29,532 29,250 1,962 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 21.87 20.00 849 800 38.8 44,168 41,600 2,019 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 24.98 23.17 960 904 38.4 49,942 47,022 1,999 Office clerks, general............................................ 19.91 21.50 786 860 39.5 40,885 44,718 2,053 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.58 27.00 1,102 1,042 40.0 56,722 54,080 2,057 Carpenters........................................................ 35.05 37.59 1,402 1,504 40.0 72,897 78,191 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 25.43 25.00 1,017 1,000 40.0 52,886 52,000 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.23 21.93 931 877 40.1 48,417 45,606 2,084 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 23.15 23.23 936 974 40.5 48,689 50,626 2,104 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 22.46 23.00 904 920 40.2 46,993 47,840 2,092 Production occupations.............................................. 15.81 14.00 627 560 39.7 32,615 29,108 2,063 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.45 13.05 538 522 40.0 27,980 27,152 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 16.58 16.00 663 640 40.0 34,477 33,280 2,080 Printing machine operators...................................... 17.14 18.00 685 720 40.0 35,644 37,440 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.35 17.62 698 695 40.2 35,237 35,090 2,030 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.01 19.00 768 760 40.4 39,940 39,520 2,101 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.55 19.95 836 798 40.7 43,482 41,496 2,116 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.47 13.89 532 521 39.5 25,489 27,086 1,892 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.41 15.00 576 600 40.0 26,349 30,160 1,829 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $32.35 $26.44 $1,269 $1,030 39.2 $65,464 $53,144 2,023 Management occupations.............................................. 54.58 49.75 2,127 1,965 39.0 110,604 102,197 2,026 General and operations managers................................... 69.22 56.70 2,692 2,214 38.9 139,985 115,107 2,022 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 62.40 56.50 2,405 2,177 38.5 125,054 113,217 2,004 Marketing managers.............................................. 66.45 67.23 2,589 2,689 39.0 134,651 139,838 2,026 Computer and information systems managers......................... 61.43 54.74 2,412 2,190 39.3 125,434 113,861 2,042 Financial managers................................................ 66.79 69.23 2,660 2,625 39.8 138,301 136,500 2,071 Human resources managers.......................................... 42.37 39.18 1,660 1,592 39.2 86,306 82,805 2,037 Education administrators.......................................... 49.49 49.31 1,767 1,885 35.7 91,862 98,000 1,856 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 49.49 49.31 1,767 1,885 35.7 91,862 98,000 1,856 Engineering managers.............................................. 57.90 57.21 2,316 2,288 40.0 120,429 119,001 2,080 Medical and health services managers.............................. 37.27 36.96 1,455 1,449 39.0 75,685 75,348 2,030 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 35.22 29.89 1,404 1,196 39.9 73,011 62,173 2,073 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 33.53 29.85 1,324 1,194 39.5 68,835 62,078 2,053 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 26.95 25.40 1,034 981 38.4 53,756 50,993 1,994 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 26.23 23.08 1,010 901 38.5 52,520 46,859 2,002 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation....................................... 28.05 22.30 1,115 892 39.7 57,964 46,388 2,066 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.65 24.20 957 968 37.3 49,764 50,336 1,940 Training and development specialists............................ 29.57 26.85 1,171 1,030 39.6 60,881 53,575 2,059 Management analysts............................................... 45.89 38.00 1,856 1,353 40.4 96,502 70,337 2,103 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.73 26.92 1,068 1,077 38.5 55,546 55,994 2,003 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 43.66 36.84 1,850 1,497 42.4 96,204 77,848 2,203 Financial analysts.............................................. 46.62 38.66 2,007 1,546 43.0 104,360 80,409 2,238 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 42.43 41.19 1,667 1,594 39.3 86,222 82,909 2,032 Computer software engineers....................................... 47.98 47.12 1,902 1,855 39.6 98,887 96,468 2,061 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 43.57 42.58 1,728 1,694 39.7 89,869 88,103 2,062 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 49.74 48.15 1,971 1,896 39.6 102,477 98,600 2,060 Computer support specialists...................................... 29.71 26.48 1,172 1,059 39.4 60,930 55,070 2,051 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.44 40.19 1,600 1,515 38.6 83,175 78,782 2,007 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 40.53 47.01 1,616 1,880 39.9 84,043 97,772 2,073 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 37.72 34.87 1,487 1,371 39.4 77,307 71,292 2,049 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 43.64 41.01 1,782 1,693 40.8 92,663 88,021 2,123 Engineers......................................................... 49.89 47.38 2,014 1,895 40.4 104,739 98,542 2,099 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 46.86 47.71 1,874 1,908 40.0 97,469 99,228 2,080 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 46.92 47.27 1,877 1,891 40.0 97,590 98,322 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 42.78 48.11 1,776 1,975 41.5 92,333 102,675 2,158 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 32.02 33.58 1,285 1,343 40.1 66,796 69,846 2,086 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 39.70 36.32 1,579 1,441 39.8 81,662 74,907 2,057 Life scientists................................................... 39.27 38.37 1,545 1,458 39.3 80,344 75,799 2,046 Biological scientists........................................... 45.49 44.81 1,795 1,775 39.5 93,319 92,300 2,052 Physical scientists............................................... 46.71 46.21 1,916 2,080 41.0 99,609 108,136 2,132 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 49.78 46.21 2,064 2,080 41.5 107,321 108,136 2,156 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.19 19.38 762 769 39.7 39,625 40,000 2,065 Counselors........................................................ 14.81 12.40 585 496 39.5 30,433 25,782 2,054 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 18.36 19.23 721 769 39.3 37,496 40,000 2,042 Social workers.................................................... 23.17 21.91 927 876 40.0 48,190 45,573 2,080 Legal occupations................................................... 69.67 73.36 2,787 2,934 40.0 144,920 152,587 2,080 Lawyers........................................................... 84.49 87.71 3,380 3,508 40.0 175,743 182,433 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 48.69 47.82 1,857 1,826 38.1 78,181 71,455 1,606 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 53.83 50.22 2,036 1,962 37.8 85,690 81,894 1,592 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 82.15 74.35 2,875 2,602 35.0 104,881 97,486 1,277 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 45.13 32.05 1,634 1,122 36.2 59,989 39,255 1,329 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 45.40 41.09 1,746 1,581 38.4 71,373 66,504 1,572 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 32.50 30.86 1,268 1,232 39.0 65,653 63,066 2,020 Writers and editors............................................... 37.61 34.35 1,471 1,374 39.1 76,474 71,454 2,033 Editors......................................................... 34.19 34.35 1,332 1,271 38.9 69,239 66,092 2,025 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 36.54 30.45 1,403 1,174 38.4 72,741 61,027 1,991 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 52.75 31.82 2,110 1,273 40.0 109,725 66,186 2,080 Registered nurses................................................. 42.01 36.08 1,561 1,380 37.2 81,096 71,760 1,930 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.93 23.18 975 904 39.1 50,681 46,987 2,033 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.69 17.28 704 691 39.8 36,624 35,942 2,071 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 25.94 25.19 1,019 988 39.3 52,975 51,370 2,042 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.87 15.24 611 586 38.5 31,772 30,481 2,002 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 14.60 14.06 559 543 38.3 29,050 28,226 1,990 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 15.13 14.42 586 563 38.7 30,466 29,265 2,013 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 18.49 17.50 721 667 39.0 37,499 34,684 2,028 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 13.55 13.00 524 505 38.7 26,424 26,000 1,950 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 18.41 17.39 731 696 39.7 35,609 35,672 1,934 Cooks............................................................. 13.68 13.49 517 520 37.8 26,900 27,040 1,967 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.70 14.35 505 556 36.9 26,280 28,912 1,919 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 13.68 13.00 519 488 37.9 25,681 24,710 1,878 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.26 13.32 562 533 39.4 29,232 27,714 2,050 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.14 13.32 517 527 39.4 26,903 27,394 2,047 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.51 14.45 572 534 39.4 29,726 27,768 2,049 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.53 10.25 414 400 39.3 21,527 20,800 2,044 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 16.20 13.28 636 531 39.2 33,057 27,616 2,040 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 16.20 13.28 636 531 39.2 33,057 27,616 2,040 Personal care and service occupations............................... 24.24 21.29 788 839 32.5 40,977 43,640 1,690 Sales and related occupations....................................... 28.39 17.01 1,118 680 39.4 57,868 35,383 2,039 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 20.28 16.70 811 668 40.0 42,181 34,736 2,080 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 20.28 16.70 811 668 40.0 42,181 34,736 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.34 13.92 564 536 39.3 29,048 27,352 2,025 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 12.63 12.85 498 506 39.4 24,987 24,502 1,978 Cashiers...................................................... 12.63 12.85 498 506 39.4 24,987 24,502 1,978 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.00 14.25 590 564 39.3 30,669 29,328 2,044 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 91.38 82.05 3,479 3,370 38.1 180,933 175,250 1,980 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.50 27.22 1,380 1,089 40.0 71,770 56,613 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 20.39 19.61 794 768 39.0 41,306 39,957 2,026 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.90 27.17 1,139 1,087 39.4 59,204 56,520 2,048 Financial clerks.................................................. 21.57 18.70 824 729 38.2 42,842 37,898 1,986 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.85 15.45 634 618 40.0 32,975 32,136 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 24.16 22.13 904 881 37.4 46,995 45,829 1,945 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 20.63 21.18 797 826 38.6 41,442 42,931 2,009 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.55 17.38 719 663 38.7 37,381 34,493 2,015 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 16.44 16.02 691 635 42.1 35,956 33,000 2,187 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 18.08 15.59 723 623 40.0 37,608 32,421 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 22.62 21.81 874 851 38.7 45,467 44,252 2,010 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 26.47 25.55 1,032 1,001 39.0 53,664 52,054 2,027 Medical secretaries............................................. 18.78 18.21 731 706 38.9 38,016 36,733 2,024 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.59 19.61 730 744 37.2 37,935 38,711 1,936 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 19.84 18.77 763 724 38.5 39,686 37,633 2,001 Office clerks, general............................................ 20.05 19.30 764 772 38.1 39,741 40,136 1,982 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 31.84 32.54 1,272 1,302 40.0 66,166 67,683 2,078 Electricians...................................................... 29.26 23.40 1,170 936 40.0 60,854 48,672 2,080 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 30.93 32.30 1,230 1,292 39.8 63,977 67,184 2,068 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 30.93 32.30 1,230 1,292 39.8 63,977 67,184 2,068 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 32.70 32.44 1,351 1,285 41.3 70,249 66,821 2,148 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.80 22.95 912 918 40.0 47,429 47,736 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 19.49 17.10 777 682 39.9 40,418 35,464 2,073 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.75 15.00 621 600 39.5 32,318 31,206 2,052 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.69 16.45 708 658 40.0 36,798 34,216 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.32 16.78 712 671 41.1 37,008 34,896 2,137 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.02 17.15 742 712 39.0 38,580 37,003 2,028 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 21.31 21.61 842 864 39.5 43,807 44,949 2,055 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 19.26 18.77 771 751 40.0 40,068 39,042 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.59 12.12 504 485 40.0 26,194 25,203 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.88 10.00 475 400 40.0 24,709 20,800 2,080 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... $30.03 $27.93 $32.31 $26.15 $26.10 $27.35 Management, professional, and related............................... 40.70 42.90 39.93 39.30 39.60 33.30 Management, business, and financial............................... 41.61 – 42.11 43.49 43.86 37.96 Professional and related.......................................... 40.63 43.06 39.73 36.67 37.01 28.64 Service............................................................. 22.71 17.26 25.51 12.68 12.40 20.45 Sales and office.................................................... 20.86 19.53 23.64 19.34 19.35 19.11 Sales and related................................................. 12.41 11.49 – 20.33 20.48 – Office and administrative support................................. 22.64 22.11 23.50 18.60 18.48 21.13 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 32.66 34.49 24.65 23.52 23.31 – Construction and extraction...................................... 34.05 35.40 25.60 22.43 21.85 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 29.05 31.53 23.54 24.78 24.87 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 22.61 22.54 22.91 15.48 15.48 – Production........................................................ 23.51 23.21 – 16.30 16.32 – Transportation and material moving................................ 22.22 22.19 22.33 14.63 14.62 – 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........................................................... 1.9 3.1 2.6 2.5 2.6 6.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.8 5.7 3.1 2.9 3.0 4.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 10.2 – 11.1 4.0 4.2 5.4 Professional and related.......................................... 2.7 6.2 2.8 2.2 2.3 7.2 Service............................................................. 2.7 8.6 2.4 1.9 1.8 10.6 Sales and office.................................................... 4.9 6.9 4.5 2.0 2.1 10.1 Sales and related................................................. 16.9 16.7 – 4.2 4.2 – Office and administrative support................................. 3.9 6.0 4.5 1.6 1.7 5.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.4 1.5 5.6 7.3 7.6 – Construction and extraction...................................... 2.6 .7 8.3 6.0 5.5 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.4 6.1 8.4 11.8 12.0 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 9.0 10.9 10.0 4.1 4.2 – Production........................................................ 10.0 10.6 – 5.0 5.1 – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.2 16.1 9.5 3.3 3.3 – 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $26.71 $26.19 $28.37 $28.37 Management, professional, and related............................... 39.50 39.76 35.72 35.72 Management, business, and financial............................... 43.56 43.98 35.72 35.72 Professional and related.......................................... 37.40 37.37 – – Service............................................................. 14.48 12.66 – – Sales and office.................................................... 18.55 18.35 28.37 28.37 Sales and related................................................. 17.63 17.71 29.96 29.96 Office and administrative support................................. 19.07 18.74 20.34 20.34 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 26.87 27.00 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 28.13 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 25.22 25.48 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.76 16.53 – – Production........................................................ 17.11 17.05 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.45 16.03 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.2 2.5 16.0 16.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.6 2.9 11.8 11.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 4.0 4.3 11.8 11.8 Professional and related.......................................... 1.8 2.2 – – Service............................................................. 2.1 1.8 – – Sales and office.................................................... 2.3 2.4 18.1 18.1 Sales and related................................................. 6.4 6.5 18.7 18.7 Office and administrative support................................. 1.5 1.6 9.7 9.7 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.1 4.6 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 6.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 5.5 6.0 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.7 6.0 – – Production........................................................ 4.6 4.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 9.1 10.0 – – 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 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........................................................... – $27.73 $20.11 – $33.69 – $26.16 $12.55 – Management, professional, and related............................... – 43.00 40.08 – 44.42 – 33.81 24.73 – Management, business, and financial............................... – 48.13 41.89 – 44.07 – 40.36 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 39.70 36.88 – 45.35 – 32.73 23.20 – Service............................................................. – – 17.23 – – – 14.45 10.62 – Sales and office.................................................... – 23.01 15.94 – 24.03 – 19.86 13.35 – Sales and related................................................. – 29.11 16.04 – – – – 13.80 – Office and administrative support................................. – 20.62 15.68 – 19.58 – 19.55 13.07 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 26.95 25.13 – 21.76 – 29.70 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 28.68 24.66 – 21.76 – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 16.42 17.31 – – – 15.37 – – Production........................................................ – 16.54 23.20 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 15.34 16.55 – – – – – – 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........................................................... – 2.8 3.4 – 7.9 – 2.8 3.4 – Management, professional, and related............................... – 4.6 3.7 – 8.4 – 2.4 17.6 – Management, business, and financial............................... – 2.9 2.7 – 8.8 – 6.1 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 4.6 15.4 – 7.5 – 2.5 3.9 – Service............................................................. – – 14.4 – – – 3.7 5.4 – Sales and office.................................................... – 8.3 2.9 – 5.8 – 3.6 4.3 – Sales and related................................................. – 28.3 3.9 – – – – 2.4 – Office and administrative support................................. – 5.0 5.3 – 1.5 – 2.6 7.2 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 1.2 20.3 – 18.4 – 5.1 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 5.7 21.9 – 18.4 – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 5.1 10.6 – – – 21.1 – – Production........................................................ – 5.9 14.0 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 5.3 11.3 – – – – – – 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 2,814,800 2,479,600 335,100 Management, professional, and related............................... 1,054,200 869,900 184,300 Management, business, and financial............................... 324,900 294,800 30,200 Professional and related.......................................... 729,300 575,100 154,200 Service............................................................. 588,500 513,300 75,200 Sales and office.................................................... 678,300 633,200 45,200 Sales and related................................................. 288,200 279,700 – Office and administrative support................................. 390,200 353,400 36,800 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 178,300 161,700 16,600 Construction and extraction...................................... 103,700 94,000 9,600 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 72,900 65,900 7,000 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 315,400 301,700 13,800 Production........................................................ 133,700 132,100 – Transportation and material moving................................ 181,700 169,500 12,200 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, Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2010 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 117,200 112,283 4,917 Total in sample....................................................... 841 760 81 Responding........................................................ 568 490 78 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 170 167 3 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 103 103 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.