NC SM 11/00/2008 Table: Columbia County, NY, Summary, April 2008 Table 1. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Columbia County, NY, April 2008 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........................................................... $17.72 5.7 $18.39 5.4 $13.66 14.6 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.61 17.4 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.03 8.6 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.26 1.1 – – 6.69 5.7 Sales and related occupations....................................... 22.63 38.7 23.95 41.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.43 6.5 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.68 5.4 13.97 5.7 11.70 8.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.02 2.1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.88 14.4 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.31 6.3 12.22 6.5 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.90 7.1 13.90 7.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.73 10.6 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.57 9.5 20.44 7.5 – – Production occupations.............................................. 12.29 5.5 12.29 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.47 15.8 9.47 15.8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.66 25.5 14.98 22.8 – – 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 2. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Columbia County, NY, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.32 $11.08 $14.33 $19.00 $27.50 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 11.00 15.52 19.00 29.01 74.49 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.09 11.00 12.12 15.75 15.75 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 4.60 7.15 7.15 7.15 8.32 Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.30 10.84 15.25 18.00 43.27 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.30 10.50 10.84 13.00 15.25 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.00 11.12 12.74 17.35 19.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.25 12.00 13.05 13.75 21.85 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.32 12.52 13.00 19.00 20.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.50 16.00 19.00 19.23 34.86 Production occupations.............................................. 7.85 10.52 11.68 14.32 16.23 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.81 9.50 15.70 21.53 31.00 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 3. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Columbia County, NY, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.39 $15.19 $728 $573 39.6 $37,460 $29,621 2,037 Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.95 15.91 968 636 40.4 48,835 31,720 2,039 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.97 13.00 543 520 38.9 27,847 24,960 1,993 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.90 13.05 549 520 39.5 28,567 27,040 2,054 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.44 19.23 817 769 40.0 42,507 40,000 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 12.29 11.68 492 467 40.0 25,060 23,462 2,039 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.98 14.74 668 533 44.6 34,744 27,726 2,319 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