NC BL 09/00/1999 Table: Huntsville, AL, Bulletin 3095-68, July 1998 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $15.68 2.0% $6.28 $8.18 $13.26 $20.79 $27.82 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.90 2.1 6.40 8.42 13.76 20.79 28.02 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.16 2.5 7.67 10.93 17.63 25.50 32.22 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 19.97 2.5 8.40 12.10 18.65 26.03 32.82 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.17 2.9 11.71 15.90 21.49 27.21 33.83 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 24.71 2.6 15.07 19.06 24.38 28.90 36.06 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.16 2.8 18.82 21.63 25.93 31.31 38.02 Aerospace engineers......................................... 28.04 5.8 19.70 22.75 26.69 32.14 39.18 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.31 3.4 18.28 20.38 24.00 29.03 34.40 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 27.71 4.5 17.89 21.63 26.55 31.55 38.82 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.73 7.3 13.13 20.40 27.45 32.29 37.18 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 26.85 8.0 13.13 20.50 27.85 32.86 37.18 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.85 7.5 14.91 16.35 17.40 19.64 26.88 Registered nurses........................................... 19.02 6.4 14.76 16.41 17.40 19.27 25.77 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.91 1.9 18.69 21.50 24.73 26.81 28.46 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.47 1.0 19.87 22.52 25.12 27.08 28.46 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 9.88 8.7 8.18 8.18 9.00 11.30 13.36 Recreation workers.......................................... 8.83 6.1 8.18 8.18 8.18 9.05 11.30 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 17.52 6.4 11.50 14.38 16.87 18.73 24.04 Technical occupations........................................... 13.82 4.7 8.03 10.16 13.14 16.76 19.99 Licensed practical nurses................................... 10.53 2.4 8.84 9.44 10.04 12.00 12.48 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 13.53 6.5 9.25 10.41 12.88 16.43 19.99 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.34 14.0 11.37 13.13 14.64 23.08 26.66 Drafters.................................................... 15.46 16.3 8.58 8.58 14.68 18.52 25.39 Chemical technicians........................................ 13.48 6.1 8.65 11.79 13.98 15.55 16.55 Computer programmers........................................ 18.81 5.6 16.45 16.71 18.27 19.98 24.10 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.55 4.6 14.26 17.90 23.48 31.21 38.70 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.28 5.3 17.90 23.11 29.21 35.38 45.20 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 19.76 8.2 14.73 16.64 17.91 22.04 25.68 Financial managers.......................................... 30.49 13.9 20.67 21.45 31.21 31.21 53.45 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.97 5.9 19.75 23.50 31.07 38.23 45.34 Management related occupations................................ 19.86 4.8 13.13 15.77 18.58 22.89 28.85 Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.35 8.6 14.10 16.13 20.52 23.48 27.45 Management analysts......................................... 20.98 9.2 14.25 15.98 18.58 24.94 34.17 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.81 5.9 15.63 18.30 18.80 22.19 22.36 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 14.13 14.0 9.81 10.10 12.87 13.94 24.63 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 20.80 8.3 16.25 16.25 19.25 23.51 30.23 Sales occupations................................................. 11.66 7.8 5.50 6.50 8.70 12.84 24.35 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. $17.07 11.9% $8.94 $11.00 $15.50 $24.95 $28.00 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 9.41 12.2 6.74 7.46 8.50 9.38 12.50 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.54 8.3 5.55 6.00 8.80 11.60 14.09 Cashiers.................................................... 6.93 3.9 5.15 5.60 7.05 7.50 8.57 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.61 3.0 6.67 7.86 9.66 12.53 15.89 Secretaries................................................. 11.78 8.3 8.18 8.84 11.25 14.10 15.94 Receptionists............................................... 7.79 4.0 6.49 6.74 7.50 8.71 9.42 Order clerks................................................ 10.73 4.9 7.50 9.02 10.85 12.43 13.06 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.00 6.3 8.00 8.60 11.02 12.92 14.46 Dispatchers................................................. 10.79 3.7 9.43 9.96 10.92 11.84 11.97 Production coordinators..................................... 13.86 17.2 8.62 8.71 11.27 17.54 23.40 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.00 9.8 7.61 7.96 8.81 13.34 13.34 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.39 8.9 6.00 7.00 8.87 11.28 14.35 General office clerks....................................... 8.35 4.5 6.36 6.75 7.96 9.69 10.90 Bank tellers................................................ 7.90 2.9 6.59 7.17 7.98 8.60 8.90 Data entry keyers........................................... 8.50 7.0 5.50 6.85 8.40 10.05 10.68 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.93 7.9 7.63 9.62 11.34 21.93 24.17 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.11 2.2 6.20 7.80 11.47 19.51 20.91 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.71 5.2 6.30 7.64 12.20 19.25 24.18 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 19.67 6.5 16.35 16.35 20.26 21.43 26.88 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 20.94 5.2 13.04 18.90 23.66 24.37 24.37 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 13.50 11.6 9.03 10.34 11.94 18.50 20.02 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.44 4.8 12.78 14.76 16.83 19.60 22.98 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.04 3.2 6.67 7.94 12.89 20.24 20.79 Punching and stamping press operators....................... 10.72 5.7 7.20 9.65 11.43 12.08 12.08 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 9.39 6.9 6.75 7.23 9.58 10.81 11.43 Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.43 4.6 5.40 5.67 6.08 7.36 7.59 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 17.26 3.1 8.06 15.07 20.24 20.24 20.74 Welders and cutters......................................... 17.56 21.8 9.16 10.15 24.23 24.23 24.37 Assemblers.................................................. 12.52 9.1 6.00 7.72 10.00 20.79 20.79 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.65 17.6 6.56 6.86 9.11 17.39 21.10 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.90 7.9 5.80 8.48 10.55 13.82 16.25 Truck drivers............................................... 11.88 7.4 8.50 9.01 11.25 14.33 16.25 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.99 16.1 6.00 8.16 11.21 15.88 17.97 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.09 4.2 5.75 6.39 9.00 11.18 13.00 Construction laborers....................................... 9.02 7.7 7.00 7.65 8.25 10.35 11.94 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.48 11.9 5.15 5.80 6.80 11.33 13.00 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 8.40 6.1 6.00 6.50 8.00 10.28 10.96 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 9.51 8.6 5.35 6.00 10.39 11.18 12.22 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.21 18.9 7.20 7.20 11.57 17.56 17.56 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 6.80 8.3 5.64 5.75 5.75 6.74 10.15 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.79 8.2 5.78 6.01 9.05 10.50 13.38 Service occupations................................................. 7.66 4.1 5.15 5.75 6.82 9.01 11.99 Protective service occupations................................ $11.56 8.9% $6.51 $8.57 $11.47 $14.46 $16.71 Food service occupations...................................... 6.34 8.8 2.13 5.15 6.25 8.04 10.13 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.99 14.6 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Cooks....................................................... 7.92 4.1 6.00 7.23 7.91 8.74 10.11 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.52 8.8 6.13 7.13 8.47 10.50 10.78 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.22 10.1 5.15 5.25 5.50 7.02 8.75 Health service occupations.................................... 6.91 1.1 6.00 6.42 6.67 7.25 8.00 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.90 1.2 6.00 6.40 6.60 7.15 8.08 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 6.89 4.2 5.20 5.50 6.08 7.99 9.22 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.83 4.0 5.15 5.80 6.22 7.99 9.00 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.57 6.3 5.15 5.80 5.80 6.80 9.50 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $15.48 2.2% $6.08 $7.76 $12.71 $20.79 $28.13 $16.33 4.7% $7.48 $10.00 $14.60 $21.25 $27.07 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.74 2.2 6.16 7.94 13.13 20.79 28.50 16.42 4.7 7.49 10.13 14.67 21.54 27.08 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.05 2.8 7.20 9.92 17.00 25.96 34.18 19.43 5.4 9.43 13.69 18.46 25.12 28.58 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.13 2.8 7.99 11.00 18.59 26.88 34.71 19.63 5.4 9.65 14.04 18.69 25.20 28.80 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.77 3.7 10.27 15.46 22.23 29.38 35.84 21.20 5.0 13.13 16.41 20.19 25.51 28.46 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.59 2.5 16.91 20.45 26.11 31.55 37.26 22.23 5.0 13.13 17.40 22.28 26.03 28.55 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.35 2.8 19.16 21.76 26.25 31.50 38.02 - - - - - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 28.04 5.8 19.70 22.75 26.69 32.14 39.18 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.46 3.5 18.64 20.60 24.09 29.23 34.63 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 27.71 4.5 17.89 21.63 26.55 31.55 38.82 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.78 3.3 18.88 24.23 28.97 34.18 38.01 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 29.16 3.5 19.73 24.88 29.33 34.47 38.17 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... - - - - - - - 20.00 8.1 14.76 16.34 17.40 20.12 26.88 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 16.28 11.0 8.60 12.78 17.30 20.19 20.19 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 17.82 7.0 11.50 15.29 17.81 18.80 26.44 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.50 5.7 7.61 9.60 12.64 16.55 20.92 14.90 6.3 10.79 12.48 14.90 17.16 18.57 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 13.43 6.7 9.14 10.37 12.76 16.20 19.99 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.34 14.0 11.37 13.13 14.64 23.08 26.66 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 15.46 16.3 8.58 8.58 14.68 18.52 25.39 - - - - - - - Chemical technicians........................................ 13.48 6.1 8.65 11.79 13.98 15.55 16.55 - - - - - - - Computer programmers........................................ 19.43 6.0 16.22 17.11 18.59 20.92 24.32 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.74 5.4 13.94 17.70 23.17 31.25 41.16 24.66 7.1 15.48 17.91 24.08 30.26 32.56 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.10 6.3 20.25 23.70 30.28 38.50 48.35 25.48 8.4 15.85 17.91 25.68 30.37 32.56 Administrators and officials, public administration......... - - - - - - - 19.76 8.2 14.73 16.64 17.91 22.04 25.68 Financial managers.......................................... 30.49 13.9 20.67 21.45 31.21 31.21 53.45 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.86 6.1 19.75 23.17 30.71 38.50 45.70 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 19.82 5.1 12.91 15.77 18.55 22.48 29.61 - - - - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.52 10.9 13.65 16.58 17.92 21.63 28.85 - - - - - - - Management analysts......................................... 20.91 9.5 14.25 15.93 18.55 25.36 34.17 - - - - - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.81 5.9 15.63 18.30 18.80 22.19 22.36 - - - - - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 14.13 14.0 9.81 10.10 12.87 13.94 24.63 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 20.80 8.3 16.25 16.25 19.25 23.51 30.23 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.74 8.2 5.50 6.46 8.55 12.90 24.35 - - - - - - - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 17.07 11.9 8.94 11.00 15.50 24.95 28.00 - - - - - - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 9.41 12.2 6.74 7.46 8.50 9.38 12.50 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.96 7.6 5.50 6.00 7.90 10.96 12.23 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.78 3.7 5.15 5.50 6.75 7.50 8.00 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.49 3.3 6.50 7.62 9.50 12.00 15.52 11.00 6.7 7.65 8.46 10.19 14.04 15.94 Secretaries................................................. $11.85 5.9% $8.48 $9.70 $11.51 $13.09 $16.84 $11.74 12.6% $8.18 $8.65 $10.44 $15.89 $15.94 Receptionists............................................... 7.79 4.0 6.49 6.74 7.50 8.71 9.42 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 10.73 4.9 7.50 9.02 10.85 12.43 13.06 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 9.86 6.0 7.60 8.00 9.83 11.70 12.53 - - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 14.00 18.2 8.62 8.71 11.06 17.54 23.48 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.00 9.8 7.61 7.96 8.81 13.34 13.34 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.39 8.9 6.00 7.00 8.87 11.28 14.35 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 8.41 5.8 6.37 6.75 7.75 10.00 11.00 - - - - - - - Bank tellers................................................ 7.90 2.9 6.59 7.17 7.98 8.60 8.90 - - - - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.65 7.7 5.50 6.96 9.48 10.05 11.23 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.93 7.9 7.63 9.62 11.34 21.93 24.17 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.21 2.3 6.18 7.59 11.47 19.62 20.91 12.06 4.6 6.50 9.41 11.86 13.40 19.80 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.61 6.0 6.21 7.04 11.73 19.25 24.18 14.47 5.3 10.78 11.31 13.24 17.10 20.62 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 19.57 7.6 16.35 16.35 18.46 21.43 26.88 - - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 20.94 5.2 13.04 18.90 23.66 24.37 24.37 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 14.94 14.1 9.03 10.34 15.50 20.02 20.02 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.44 4.8 12.78 14.76 16.83 19.60 22.98 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.08 3.2 6.67 7.94 13.13 20.24 20.79 - - - - - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 10.72 5.7 7.20 9.65 11.43 12.08 12.08 - - - - - - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 9.39 6.9 6.75 7.23 9.58 10.81 11.43 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.43 4.6 5.40 5.67 6.08 7.36 7.59 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 17.26 3.1 8.06 15.07 20.24 20.24 20.74 - - - - - - - Welders and cutters......................................... 17.56 21.8 9.16 10.15 24.23 24.23 24.37 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.52 9.1 6.00 7.72 10.00 20.79 20.79 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.65 17.6 6.56 6.86 9.11 17.39 21.10 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.87 9.9 5.72 8.50 9.72 13.82 16.25 10.97 12.8 5.80 6.42 12.51 13.13 14.89 Truck drivers............................................... 11.51 11.1 8.50 8.71 9.75 16.25 16.25 - - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.99 16.1 6.00 8.16 11.21 15.88 17.97 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.05 4.8 5.75 6.01 8.18 11.29 13.00 9.31 7.1 6.50 8.19 9.41 10.84 11.94 Construction laborers....................................... 8.16 3.7 6.91 7.44 7.86 9.02 10.00 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.48 11.9 5.15 5.80 6.80 11.33 13.00 - - - - - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 8.40 6.1 6.00 6.50 8.00 10.28 10.96 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 9.51 8.6 5.35 6.00 10.39 11.18 12.22 - - - - - - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.21 18.9 7.20 7.20 11.57 17.56 17.56 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 6.80 8.3 5.64 5.75 5.75 6.74 10.15 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.79 8.2 5.78 6.01 9.05 10.50 13.38 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 6.19 4.1 2.25 5.25 6.05 7.15 8.75 9.64 4.8 5.94 7.07 9.00 11.47 15.21 Protective service occupations................................ - - - - - - - 12.58 4.9 9.01 10.35 11.99 15.21 16.71 Food service occupations...................................... 5.44 6.8 2.13 2.47 5.50 7.02 8.74 8.52 6.8 6.03 7.33 8.49 10.50 10.78 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.96 14.8 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 7.84 4.6 6.00 6.60 7.74 8.92 10.11 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.24 10.4 5.15 5.25 5.50 7.02 8.75 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... $6.81 1.6% $5.59 $6.37 $6.50 $7.15 $7.70 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.77 1.6 5.55 6.37 6.50 7.00 7.83 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 6.74 4.9 5.15 5.41 6.00 7.15 9.66 $7.17 7.2% $5.50 $5.89 $7.18 $8.15 $9.00 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.59 4.2 5.15 5.40 6.00 7.15 9.00 7.20 7.3 5.37 5.93 7.23 8.15 9.00 Personal service occupations.................................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $16.08 2.1% $6.50 $8.66 $13.94 $20.91 $28.18 $8.20 8.9% $5.15 $5.50 $6.30 $7.90 $15.01 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.21 2.1 6.51 8.75 14.26 20.91 28.35 8.77 11.0 5.15 5.70 6.62 8.60 17.86 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.65 2.5 8.24 11.66 18.12 25.79 32.59 9.57 12.1 5.15 6.00 7.05 9.06 21.71 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 20.20 2.5 8.60 12.53 18.75 26.19 33.14 12.32 14.5 6.58 7.00 8.17 17.51 22.50 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.33 2.8 11.98 16.22 21.57 27.39 34.08 15.65 18.1 7.00 7.48 16.43 22.50 22.50 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 24.77 2.6 15.20 19.06 24.42 28.95 36.23 20.30 13.0 7.00 14.56 22.50 22.50 31.88 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.16 2.8 18.82 21.63 25.93 31.31 38.02 - - - - - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 28.04 5.8 19.70 22.75 26.69 32.14 39.18 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.31 3.4 18.28 20.38 24.00 29.03 34.40 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 27.71 4.5 17.89 21.63 26.55 31.55 38.82 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.68 7.4 13.13 20.27 27.25 32.53 37.18 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 26.85 8.0 13.13 20.50 27.85 32.86 37.18 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.74 8.0 14.90 16.34 17.40 19.20 26.88 - - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.77 6.7 14.76 16.35 17.40 19.06 25.86 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.95 1.9 18.69 21.50 24.75 26.81 28.46 - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.47 1.0 19.87 22.52 25.12 27.08 28.46 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 10.12 8.5 8.18 8.18 9.05 11.30 13.36 - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 17.85 7.0 11.50 14.38 17.63 18.80 26.42 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.93 4.1 8.41 10.33 13.17 16.71 19.99 12.25 26.3 6.91 7.27 9.82 17.86 18.60 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 13.53 6.5 9.25 10.41 12.88 16.43 19.99 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.34 14.0 11.37 13.13 14.64 23.08 26.66 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 15.46 16.3 8.58 8.58 14.68 18.52 25.39 - - - - - - - Chemical technicians........................................ 13.48 6.1 8.65 11.79 13.98 15.55 16.55 - - - - - - - Computer programmers........................................ 18.81 5.6 16.45 16.71 18.27 19.98 24.10 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.60 4.6 14.45 17.90 23.50 31.19 38.70 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.50 5.3 17.90 23.11 29.65 35.38 45.20 - - - - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 19.76 8.2 14.73 16.64 17.91 22.04 25.68 - - - - - - - Financial managers.......................................... 30.49 13.9 20.67 21.45 31.21 31.21 53.45 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.97 5.9 19.75 23.50 31.07 38.23 45.34 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 19.71 4.8 13.08 15.77 18.55 22.87 28.17 - - - - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.35 8.6 14.10 16.13 20.52 23.48 27.45 - - - - - - - Management analysts......................................... 20.55 9.4 14.25 15.93 18.55 23.56 33.23 - - - - - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.81 5.9 15.63 18.30 18.80 22.19 22.36 - - - - - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 14.13 14.0 9.81 10.10 12.87 13.94 24.63 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 20.80 8.3 16.25 16.25 19.25 23.51 30.23 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 13.25 7.6 6.30 7.50 10.00 15.24 26.12 6.38 3.3 5.15 5.20 6.00 7.00 8.00 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. $17.07 11.9% $8.94 $11.00 $15.50 $24.95 $28.00 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.60 9.2 6.00 7.30 10.96 12.56 14.09 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.68 3.6 6.30 7.05 7.50 7.96 9.30 $5.99 3.4% $5.15 $5.15 $5.45 $6.00 $7.94 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.79 3.1 6.74 8.00 9.75 12.73 15.94 7.51 3.5 6.25 6.75 7.18 8.00 9.02 Secretaries................................................. 11.86 8.6 8.22 8.88 11.51 14.54 15.94 - - - - - - - Receptionists............................................... 7.85 4.4 6.49 6.74 7.72 8.79 9.42 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 10.73 4.9 7.50 9.02 10.85 12.43 13.06 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.09 6.2 8.00 8.74 11.21 12.92 14.46 - - - - - - - Dispatchers................................................. 10.79 3.7 9.43 9.96 10.92 11.84 11.97 - - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 13.86 17.2 8.62 8.71 11.27 17.54 23.40 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.00 9.8 7.61 7.96 8.81 13.34 13.34 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.50 9.5 6.00 7.00 8.87 11.28 14.35 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 8.46 5.0 6.34 6.86 8.03 9.75 10.90 - - - - - - - Bank tellers................................................ 7.92 3.6 6.61 7.17 7.98 8.66 8.98 - - - - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.61 7.5 5.50 6.85 9.48 10.05 11.23 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 14.15 8.4 7.63 9.75 11.60 21.93 24.17 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.35 2.1 6.45 7.94 11.73 19.55 20.91 6.94 9.7 5.15 5.52 6.07 6.89 10.00 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.96 5.0 6.45 8.23 12.71 19.60 24.18 - - - - - - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 19.67 6.5 16.35 16.35 20.26 21.43 26.88 - - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 20.94 5.2 13.04 18.90 23.66 24.37 24.37 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 13.50 11.6 9.03 10.34 11.94 18.50 20.02 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.44 4.8 12.78 14.76 16.83 19.60 22.98 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.18 3.3 6.70 8.03 13.25 20.24 20.79 - - - - - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 10.72 5.7 7.20 9.65 11.43 12.08 12.08 - - - - - - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 9.39 6.9 6.75 7.23 9.58 10.81 11.43 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.43 4.6 5.40 5.67 6.08 7.36 7.59 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 17.26 3.1 8.04 15.07 20.24 20.24 20.74 - - - - - - - Welders and cutters......................................... 17.56 21.8 9.16 10.15 24.23 24.23 24.37 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.78 9.6 6.00 7.94 10.63 20.79 20.79 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.65 17.6 6.56 6.86 9.11 17.39 21.10 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.19 7.0 6.00 8.50 10.65 13.82 16.25 - - - - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 11.99 7.3 8.50 9.08 11.73 14.33 16.25 - - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.99 16.1 6.00 8.16 11.21 15.88 17.97 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.38 4.1 5.80 6.50 9.30 11.33 13.00 5.98 2.2 5.15 5.60 5.75 6.08 7.18 Construction laborers....................................... 9.02 7.7 7.00 7.65 8.25 10.35 11.94 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.40 11.3 5.75 6.00 9.91 13.00 13.00 5.77 4.5 5.15 5.15 5.45 6.00 6.80 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 8.40 6.1 6.00 6.50 8.00 10.28 10.96 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 9.76 8.6 5.15 6.50 10.55 11.18 12.22 - - - - - - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.21 18.9 7.20 7.20 11.57 17.56 17.56 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 7.09 11.1 5.75 5.75 5.75 7.61 10.15 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.79 8.2 5.78 6.01 9.05 10.50 13.38 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. $7.78 4.7% $5.15 $6.00 $7.07 $9.09 $11.99 $6.58 9.7% $5.15 $5.20 $5.75 $6.20 $7.85 Protective service occupations................................ 11.50 8.1 6.51 8.74 11.47 14.44 16.71 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 6.46 10.0 2.13 5.15 6.54 8.49 10.35 5.48 3.1 5.15 5.15 5.50 5.75 6.02 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.64 13.5 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 7.92 4.1 6.00 7.23 7.91 8.74 10.11 - - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.52 8.8 6.13 7.13 8.47 10.50 10.78 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.52 13.7 5.15 5.38 5.50 8.00 8.75 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... $6.89 1.0% $6.00 $6.42 $6.60 $7.23 $7.96 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.88 1.0 6.00 6.40 6.60 7.15 8.00 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 6.88 4.4 5.15 5.50 6.04 7.99 9.06 $7.01 9.8% $5.43 $5.65 $6.09 $7.85 $9.66 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.78 4.3 5.15 5.75 6.15 7.82 9.00 - - - - - - - Personal service occupations.................................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 39.9 $642 2.0% $553 2,050 $32,963 $28,746 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 39.8 646 2.0 564 2,046 33,161 29,335 White-collar occupations............................................ 40.3 792 2.4 722 2,063 40,546 36,920 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 40.3 813 2.4 750 2,057 41,558 37,960 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 40.2 898 2.7 859 2,031 45,348 41,995 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 40.2 996 2.7 975 2,014 49,883 47,216 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 41.3 1,121 2.9 1,062 2,146 58,281 55,224 Aerospace engineers......................................... 40.1 1,123 5.8 1,073 2,083 58,403 55,806 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 42.0 1,063 4.4 984 2,183 55,266 51,191 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 41.8 1,158 4.9 1,090 2,173 60,208 56,680 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 40.6 1,084 7.6 1,107 2,112 56,351 57,574 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 40.7 1,092 8.2 1,130 2,115 56,777 58,760 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 40.0 789 8.0 696 2,078 41,016 36,191 Registered nurses........................................... 40.0 750 6.7 696 2,078 39,005 36,191 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 38.6 925 1.6 942 1,712 40,992 39,626 Elementary school teachers.................................. 38.7 946 2.0 957 1,720 42,106 40,081 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 40.0 405 8.5 362 2,080 21,046 18,824 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 40.0 714 7.0 705 2,080 37,132 36,669 Technical occupations........................................... 40.2 560 3.9 527 2,090 29,113 27,414 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 40.0 541 6.5 515 2,080 28,151 26,790 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 40.0 694 14.0 586 2,080 36,077 30,451 Drafters.................................................... 40.0 618 16.3 587 2,080 32,156 30,534 Chemical technicians........................................ 40.0 539 6.1 559 2,080 28,040 29,074 Computer programmers........................................ 40.0 752 5.6 731 2,080 39,127 38,002 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 40.8 1,045 4.7 948 2,123 54,334 49,296 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 41.2 1,255 5.3 1,186 2,140 65,281 61,672 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 40.0 790 8.2 716 2,080 41,102 37,253 Financial managers.......................................... 45.3 1,380 15.3 1,561 2,353 71,756 81,146 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 41.4 1,325 6.1 1,284 2,155 68,904 66,789 Management related occupations................................ 40.4 797 4.9 748 2,102 41,423 38,896 Accountants and auditors.................................... 41.2 838 9.3 806 2,141 43,564 41,933 Management analysts......................................... 40.3 828 9.5 743 2,095 43,065 38,646 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 40.7 807 5.4 846 2,118 41,962 43,992 Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 40.0 565 14.0 515 2,080 29,393 26,777 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 40.0 832 8.3 770 2,080 43,259 40,040 Sales occupations................................................. 41.1 544 8.8 406 2,135 28,285 21,112 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 41.2 703 13.0 558 2,142 36,558 28,995 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 38.7 410 7.9 406 2,012 21,329 21,112 Cashiers.................................................... 39.4 303 4.2 300 2,048 15,741 15,600 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 39.9 $430 3.1% $390 2,068 $22,305 $20,280 Secretaries................................................. 40.0 475 8.6 460 2,080 24,675 23,941 Receptionists............................................... 40.0 314 4.4 309 2,080 16,330 16,058 Order clerks................................................ 40.0 429 4.9 434 2,080 22,314 22,568 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 39.5 438 6.6 448 2,055 22,798 23,310 Dispatchers................................................. 40.0 432 3.7 437 2,080 22,451 22,714 Production coordinators..................................... 40.1 556 17.3 451 2,087 28,919 23,442 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 40.4 404 9.8 352 2,098 20,987 18,318 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 40.0 380 9.5 355 2,080 19,750 18,450 General office clerks....................................... 40.0 338 5.0 321 2,034 17,205 16,692 Bank tellers................................................ 40.0 317 3.6 319 2,080 16,481 16,589 Data entry keyers........................................... 40.0 344 7.5 379 2,080 17,906 19,709 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 39.7 562 8.3 459 2,066 29,240 23,878 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 40.0 534 2.1 468 2,077 27,730 24,335 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 40.0 558 5.1 507 2,076 28,987 26,374 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 43.0 846 7.7 912 2,236 43,989 47,408 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 40.0 838 5.2 946 2,080 43,553 49,213 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 40.2 542 11.6 478 2,088 28,190 24,835 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 40.0 698 4.8 673 2,081 36,293 35,006 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 40.0 567 3.3 530 2,079 29,480 27,560 Punching and stamping press operators....................... 40.0 429 5.7 457 2,080 22,293 23,774 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 40.0 376 6.9 383 2,080 19,527 19,926 Textile sewing machine operators............................ 40.0 257 4.6 243 2,080 13,385 12,646 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 39.9 689 3.2 810 2,077 35,853 42,099 Welders and cutters......................................... 40.0 703 21.8 969 2,080 36,534 50,398 Assemblers.................................................. 40.0 511 9.6 425 2,080 26,584 22,110 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 40.0 466 17.6 364 2,078 24,207 18,941 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 40.3 451 7.8 425 2,079 23,265 22,090 Truck drivers............................................... 40.7 488 8.8 460 2,084 24,989 23,400 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 39.9 478 16.2 448 2,074 24,863 23,317 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 39.9 374 4.2 371 2,063 19,355 19,311 Construction laborers....................................... 39.2 353 8.5 326 1,975 17,803 16,572 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 376 11.3 396 2,080 19,545 20,613 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 40.0 336 6.1 320 2,080 17,481 16,640 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 40.4 395 9.3 422 2,103 20,520 21,944 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 40.0 489 18.9 463 2,080 25,407 24,066 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 40.0 283 11.1 230 2,080 14,741 11,960 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 38.4 338 9.7 362 1,997 17,563 18,824 Service occupations................................................. 37.7 294 4.6 270 1,915 14,904 13,478 Protective service occupations................................ 42.5 488 8.8 500 2,208 25,392 26,017 Food service occupations...................................... 36.7 237 7.6 259 1,810 11,699 12,600 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 36.6 97 17.0 75 1,904 5,032 3,920 Cooks....................................................... 37.7 298 4.2 310 1,958 15,516 16,103 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 35.0 298 3.4 306 1,612 13,726 12,936 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 39.8 $259 13.8% $215 2,070 $13,490 $11,190 Health service occupations.................................... 39.5 272 1.4 263 2,052 14,145 13,697 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 39.4 271 1.4 261 2,051 14,100 13,596 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 33.9 233 6.0 239 1,753 12,057 12,480 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 33.5 227 6.3 240 1,744 11,816 12,480 Personal service occupations.................................. - - - - - - - 1 Earnings 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, 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. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $15.68 2.0% $15.48 2.2% $16.33 4.7% $16.08 2.1% $8.20 8.9% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.90 2.1 15.74 2.2 16.42 4.7 16.21 2.1 8.77 11.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.16 2.5 19.05 2.8 19.43 5.4 19.65 2.5 9.57 12.1 Level 1................................................... 6.61 3.8 6.46 2.9 - - 6.95 5.8 6.08 2.5 Level 2................................................... 8.32 4.4 8.35 5.4 8.21 2.2 8.48 5.0 7.36 1.9 Level 3................................................... 9.04 3.8 8.57 3.6 10.46 7.4 9.44 3.6 6.22 4.0 Level 4................................................... 10.34 3.8 10.09 4.3 11.36 6.3 10.52 3.8 8.02 5.2 Level 5................................................... 13.88 3.2 13.84 3.7 - - 13.88 3.2 - - Level 6................................................... 15.56 3.4 15.77 5.1 15.44 4.5 15.61 3.5 - - Level 7................................................... 19.73 7.1 18.22 4.1 21.48 9.1 19.82 7.0 - - Level 8................................................... 22.50 3.0 22.18 4.4 23.03 3.2 22.57 3.0 - - Level 9................................................... 25.78 3.1 25.58 3.5 26.75 5.9 25.75 3.1 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.68 5.9 27.06 3.2 - - 28.68 5.9 - - Level 11.................................................. 31.34 4.0 32.15 4.5 - - 31.34 4.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 35.70 4.4 36.00 4.4 - - 36.36 4.2 - - Level 13.................................................. 37.72 3.9 37.72 3.9 - - 37.72 3.9 - - Level 14.................................................. 44.30 4.9 44.30 4.9 - - 44.30 4.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.88 16.8 35.41 12.9 - - 25.13 17.3 - - White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 19.97 2.5 20.13 2.8 19.63 5.4 20.20 2.5 12.32 14.5 Level 1................................................... 7.06 8.7 6.50 5.3 - - 7.20 10.1 - - Level 2................................................... 8.32 4.5 8.35 5.5 - - 8.47 5.0 7.33 2.0 Level 3................................................... 9.47 4.0 9.20 3.9 10.17 8.7 9.52 4.0 - - Level 4................................................... 10.56 4.2 10.31 5.0 11.36 6.3 10.71 4.2 8.21 6.9 Level 5................................................... 13.91 3.4 13.89 3.9 - - 13.91 3.4 - - Level 6................................................... 15.43 3.2 15.42 3.7 15.44 4.5 15.48 3.2 - - Level 7................................................... 20.09 6.9 18.73 4.0 21.48 9.1 20.19 6.8 - - Level 8................................................... 22.68 3.0 22.46 4.6 23.03 3.2 22.75 3.1 - - Level 9................................................... 25.80 3.1 25.60 3.5 26.75 5.9 25.77 3.1 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.51 6.5 26.66 3.4 - - 28.51 6.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 31.55 4.2 32.58 4.8 - - 31.55 4.2 - - Level 12.................................................. 35.86 4.5 36.19 4.4 - - 36.54 4.2 - - Level 13.................................................. 37.72 3.9 37.72 3.9 - - 37.72 3.9 - - Level 14.................................................. 44.30 4.9 44.30 4.9 - - 44.30 4.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.88 16.8 35.41 12.9 - - 25.13 17.3 - - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.17 2.9 22.77 3.7 21.20 5.0 22.33 2.8 15.65 18.1 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 24.71 2.6 26.59 2.5 22.23 5.0 24.77 2.6 20.30 13.0 Level 5................................................... 13.11 5.9 13.50 8.0 - - 13.11 5.9 - - Level 6................................................... 15.70 4.4 16.95 7.6 15.55 4.7 15.72 4.5 - - Level 7................................................... 22.05 5.7 19.87 5.0 23.49 3.9 22.05 5.7 - - Level 8................................................... 24.11 3.1 23.85 5.8 24.36 2.9 24.11 3.1 - - Level 9................................................... 26.96 4.0 27.17 4.4 - - 26.92 4.1 - - Level 10.................................................. 29.54 6.9 27.26 3.8 - - 29.54 6.9 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.69 2.8 29.69 2.8 - - 29.69 2.8 - - Level 12.................................................. $34.83 3.7% $34.86 2.5% - - $35.71 3.0% - - Level 13.................................................. 34.66 3.7 34.66 3.7 - - 34.66 3.7 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.16 2.8 27.35 2.8 - - 27.16 2.8 - - Level 7................................................... 20.94 5.3 21.42 5.5 - - 20.94 5.3 - - Level 8................................................... 23.47 3.5 23.47 3.5 - - 23.47 3.5 - - Level 9................................................... 25.79 6.4 25.79 6.4 - - 25.79 6.4 - - Level 10.................................................. 26.59 2.1 26.59 2.1 - - 26.59 2.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.90 2.5 28.90 2.5 - - 28.90 2.5 - - Level 12.................................................. 35.19 3.1 35.19 3.1 - - 35.19 3.1 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.73 7.3 28.78 3.3 - - 26.68 7.4 - - Level 9................................................... 29.00 4.8 29.00 4.8 - - 28.88 5.1 - - Level 10.................................................. 30.54 4.2 30.54 4.2 - - 30.54 4.2 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.06 4.1 34.06 4.1 - - 34.06 4.1 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.85 7.5 - - $20.00 8.1% 19.74 8.0 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.91 1.9 16.28 11.0 - - 23.95 1.9 - - Level 7................................................... 23.51 4.3 - - - - 23.51 4.3 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... 9.88 8.7 - - - - 10.12 8.5 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 17.52 6.4 17.82 7.0 - - 17.85 7.0 - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.82 4.7 13.50 5.7 14.90 6.3 13.93 4.1 $12.25 26.3% Level 4................................................... 10.46 5.8 10.37 6.7 - - 10.69 4.7 - - Level 5................................................... 13.36 5.3 13.36 6.7 - - 13.36 5.3 - - Level 6................................................... 15.14 6.5 15.71 7.3 - - 15.41 6.7 - - Level 7................................................... 15.97 5.2 15.77 8.2 - - 15.97 5.2 - - Level 8................................................... 18.91 5.0 20.34 6.6 - - 19.03 5.8 - - Level 9................................................... 18.32 4.8 18.32 4.8 - - 18.32 4.8 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.55 4.6 25.74 5.4 24.66 7.1 25.60 4.6 - - Level 5................................................... 14.46 12.1 14.46 12.1 - - 14.46 12.1 - - Level 6................................................... 13.92 6.5 13.92 6.5 - - 13.92 6.5 - - Level 7................................................... 18.18 6.2 19.14 6.9 - - 18.68 5.8 - - Level 8................................................... 21.28 7.0 21.47 7.5 - - 21.28 7.0 - - Level 9................................................... 25.50 4.2 24.64 4.4 - - 25.50 4.2 - - Level 10.................................................. 24.17 3.6 - - - - 24.17 3.6 - - Level 11.................................................. 33.15 7.0 37.04 7.0 - - 33.15 7.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 38.27 10.3 39.28 10.9 - - 38.45 10.7 - - Level 13.................................................. 40.82 3.9 40.82 3.9 - - 40.82 3.9 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.28 5.3 32.10 6.3 25.48 8.4 30.50 5.3 - - Level 8................................................... 24.72 11.3 - - - - 24.72 11.3 - - Level 9................................................... 26.62 4.9 25.30 5.5 - - 26.62 4.9 - - Level 11.................................................. 34.05 8.2 - - - - 34.05 8.2 - - Level 12.................................................. 38.45 10.7 39.55 11.3 - - 38.45 10.7 - - Level 13.................................................. $41.33 4.3% $41.33 4.3% - - $41.33 4.3% - - Management related occupations................................ 19.86 4.8 19.82 5.1 - - 19.71 4.8 - - Level 5................................................... 14.46 12.1 14.46 12.1 - - 14.46 12.1 - - Level 6................................................... 14.07 7.1 14.07 7.1 - - 14.07 7.1 - - Level 8................................................... 19.73 7.5 19.94 7.7 - - 19.73 7.5 - - Level 9................................................... 23.12 5.3 23.40 6.7 - - 23.12 5.3 - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.66 7.8 11.74 8.2 - - 13.25 7.6 $6.38 3.3% Level 1................................................... 6.39 3.5 6.43 3.5 - - 6.75 5.1 6.03 2.9 Level 3................................................... 7.99 8.4 7.19 4.8 - - 9.11 9.0 6.07 4.3 Level 4................................................... 9.34 6.9 9.34 6.9 - - 9.60 7.5 - - Level 5................................................... 13.27 7.8 13.27 7.8 - - 13.29 8.4 - - Level 7................................................... 14.67 8.8 14.67 8.8 - - 14.67 8.8 - - Level 8................................................... 16.54 7.0 16.54 7.0 - - 16.54 7.0 - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.61 3.0 10.49 3.3 $11.00 6.7% 10.79 3.1 7.51 3.5 Level 1................................................... 7.06 8.7 6.50 5.3 - - 7.20 10.1 - - Level 2................................................... 8.26 2.9 8.27 3.6 - - 8.42 3.3 7.33 2.0 Level 3................................................... 9.58 4.1 9.33 4.1 10.17 8.7 9.61 4.1 - - Level 4................................................... 10.67 5.7 10.30 7.0 11.60 7.9 10.73 5.8 9.06 7.4 Level 5................................................... 14.50 4.6 14.15 5.0 - - 14.50 4.6 - - Level 6................................................... 14.98 6.0 14.98 6.0 - - 14.98 6.0 - - Level 7................................................... 16.47 5.4 17.55 3.1 - - 16.47 5.4 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 13.11 2.2 13.21 2.3 12.06 4.6 13.35 2.1 6.94 9.7 Level 1................................................... 6.97 3.1 6.72 2.2 - - 7.17 3.3 - - Level 2................................................... 8.24 2.8 8.22 2.9 - - 8.24 2.8 - - Level 3................................................... 14.63 5.6 14.88 5.8 - - 14.72 5.6 - - Level 4................................................... 10.28 2.4 10.19 2.3 - - 10.17 2.2 - - Level 5................................................... 14.38 4.4 14.68 5.0 12.82 4.1 14.42 4.4 - - Level 6................................................... 15.65 3.9 16.35 3.6 - - 15.65 3.9 - - Level 7................................................... 19.03 3.5 19.44 3.5 14.74 7.8 19.03 3.4 - - Level 9................................................... 20.20 7.3 19.38 7.3 - - 20.20 7.3 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.71 5.2 13.61 6.0 14.47 5.3 13.96 5.0 - - Level 3................................................... 8.22 3.6 8.22 3.6 - - 8.22 3.6 - - Level 4................................................... 10.19 1.6 10.24 1.7 - - 10.19 1.6 - - Level 5................................................... 13.38 4.9 13.62 6.2 - - 13.40 4.9 - - Level 6................................................... 13.69 8.3 14.74 10.0 - - 13.69 8.3 - - Level 7................................................... 19.19 4.4 19.80 4.4 14.74 7.8 19.19 4.3 - - Level 8................................................... 20.19 1.4 - - - - 20.19 1.4 - - Level 9................................................... 20.20 7.3 19.38 7.3 - - 20.20 7.3 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.04 3.2 14.08 3.2 - - 14.18 3.3 - - Level 1................................................... 6.85 2.0 6.85 2.0 - - 6.84 2.4 - - Level 2................................................... 7.93 4.0 7.93 4.0 - - 7.91 4.1 - - Level 3................................................... 15.72 6.8 15.80 6.9 - - 15.81 6.9 - - Level 4................................................... 10.45 3.0 10.45 3.0 - - 10.45 3.0 - - Level 5................................................... 15.36 6.9 15.36 6.9 - - 15.36 6.9 - - Level 6................................................... $17.07 4.8% $17.07 4.8% - - $17.07 4.8% - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.90 7.9 10.87 9.9 $10.97 12.8% 11.19 7.0 - - Level 2................................................... 9.25 15.1 9.25 15.1 - - 9.25 15.1 - - Level 3................................................... 8.89 7.5 9.48 5.0 - - 9.06 7.6 - - Level 4................................................... 10.49 7.6 9.91 5.5 - - 9.82 4.9 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.09 4.2 9.05 4.8 9.31 7.1 9.38 4.1 $5.98 2.2% Level 1................................................... 7.64 4.7 7.33 4.8 - - 8.01 4.8 5.88 2.1 Level 2................................................... 8.46 5.4 8.27 6.8 - - 8.48 5.7 - - Level 3................................................... 9.81 6.9 9.92 6.7 - - 9.81 6.9 - - Level 4................................................... 9.46 6.2 9.46 6.2 - - 9.46 6.2 - - Service occupations................................................. 7.66 4.1 6.19 4.1 9.64 4.8 7.78 4.7 6.58 9.7 Level 1................................................... 6.44 3.2 5.97 3.4 7.15 3.3 6.50 3.5 5.77 1.7 Level 2................................................... 7.53 9.9 6.46 3.2 - - 7.95 10.5 6.18 6.4 Level 3................................................... 5.70 16.9 4.85 18.5 - - 5.76 18.8 - - Level 4................................................... 10.51 6.9 7.78 3.7 - - 10.54 7.0 - - Level 7................................................... 14.78 7.9 - - - - - - - - Protective service occupations.............................. 11.56 8.9 - - 12.58 4.9 11.50 8.1 - - Food service occupations..................................... 6.34 8.8 5.44 6.8 8.52 6.8 6.46 10.0 5.48 3.1 Level 1................................................... 6.22 6.9 5.45 1.8 - - 6.26 7.6 - - Level 2................................................... 8.14 13.7 - - - - 9.22 8.8 - - Level 3................................................... 4.48 22.0 4.22 23.4 - - 4.39 24.3 - - Health service occupations.................................. 6.91 1.1 6.81 1.6 - - 6.89 1.0 - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 6.89 4.2 6.74 4.9 7.17 7.2 6.88 4.4 7.01 9.8 Level 1................................................... 6.55 3.9 6.32 4.5 6.92 6.4 6.59 4.0 - - Level 2................................................... 7.14 7.3 7.14 7.3 - - - - - - Personal service occupations................................ 6.57 6.3 - - - - - - - - 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Aerospace engineers......................................... $28.04 5.8% $28.04 5.8% - - $28.04 5.8% - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.31 3.4 25.46 3.5 - - 25.31 3.4 - - Level 8................................................... 23.85 4.5 23.85 4.5 - - 23.85 4.5 - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 27.71 4.5 27.71 4.5 - - 27.71 4.5 - - Level 12.................................................. 35.33 5.5 35.33 5.5 - - 35.33 5.5 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 26.85 8.0 29.16 3.5 - - 26.85 8.0 - - Level 10.................................................. 30.41 4.6 30.41 4.6 - - 30.41 4.6 - - Level 12.................................................. 33.33 3.5 33.33 3.5 - - 33.33 3.5 - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.02 6.4 - - - - 18.77 6.7 - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.47 1.0 - - - - 24.47 1.0 - - Recreation workers.......................................... 8.83 6.1 - - - - - - - - Technical occupations: Licensed practical nurses................................... 10.53 2.4 - - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 13.53 6.5 13.43 6.7 - - 13.53 6.5 - - Level 4................................................... 11.64 4.0 11.64 4.0 - - 11.64 4.0 - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.34 14.0 17.34 14.0 - - 17.34 14.0 - - Drafters.................................................... 15.46 16.3 15.46 16.3 - - 15.46 16.3 - - Chemical technicians........................................ 13.48 6.1 13.48 6.1 - - 13.48 6.1 - - Computer programmers........................................ 18.81 5.6 19.43 6.0 - - 18.81 5.6 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration......... 19.76 8.2 - - $19.76 8.2% 19.76 8.2 - - Financial managers.......................................... 30.49 13.9 30.49 13.9 - - 30.49 13.9 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.97 5.9 31.86 6.1 - - 31.97 5.9 - - Level 9................................................... 23.97 4.8 23.97 4.8 - - 23.97 4.8 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.60 5.7 34.38 6.5 - - 34.60 5.7 - - Level 13.................................................. 40.30 4.0 40.30 4.0 - - 40.30 4.0 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.35 8.6 20.52 10.9 - - 20.35 8.6 - - Management analysts......................................... 20.98 9.2 20.91 9.5 - - 20.55 9.4 - - Level 8................................................... 20.89 11.5 20.89 11.5 - - 20.89 11.5 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 19.81 5.9 19.81 5.9 - - 19.81 5.9 - - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 14.13 14.0 14.13 14.0 - - 14.13 14.0 - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 20.80 8.3 20.80 8.3 - - 20.80 8.3 - - Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 17.07 11.9 17.07 11.9 - - 17.07 11.9 - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 9.41 12.2 9.41 12.2 - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.54 8.3 8.96 7.6 - - 10.60 9.2 - - Level 4................................................... 9.26 9.3 9.26 9.3 - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.93 3.9 6.78 3.7 - - 7.68 3.6 $5.99 3.4% Level 1................................................... 6.59 7.0 6.72 7.0 - - - - 5.61 2.6 Level 3................................................... 7.11 5.6 6.75 5.2 - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Secretaries................................................. 11.78 8.3 11.85 5.9 11.74 12.6 11.86 8.6 - - Level 3................................................... $10.74 11.1% - - - - $10.74 11.1% - - Level 4................................................... 11.48 7.6 $11.68 8.6% - - 11.63 8.7 - - Receptionists............................................... 7.79 4.0 7.79 4.0 - - 7.85 4.4 - - Level 3................................................... 8.35 4.0 8.35 4.0 - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 10.73 4.9 10.73 4.9 - - 10.73 4.9 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.00 6.3 9.86 6.0 - - 11.09 6.2 - - Level 3................................................... 11.32 6.3 - - - - 11.32 6.3 - - Level 4................................................... 11.30 9.3 9.62 6.2 - - 11.30 9.3 - - Dispatchers................................................. 10.79 3.7 - - - - 10.79 3.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 13.86 17.2 14.00 18.2 - - 13.86 17.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.00 9.8 10.00 9.8 - - 10.00 9.8 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.39 8.9 9.39 8.9 - - 9.50 9.5 - - General office clerks....................................... 8.35 4.5 8.41 5.8 - - 8.46 5.0 - - Level 2................................................... 8.43 5.0 8.48 7.4 - - 8.59 5.3 - - Level 3................................................... 8.66 5.6 9.05 7.0 - - 8.66 5.6 - - Bank tellers................................................ 7.90 2.9 7.90 2.9 - - 7.92 3.6 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.50 7.0 8.65 7.7 - - 8.61 7.5 - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 13.93 7.9 13.93 7.9 - - 14.15 8.4 - - Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 19.67 6.5 19.57 7.6 - - 19.67 6.5 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 20.94 5.2 20.94 5.2 - - 20.94 5.2 - - Level 7................................................... 21.48 5.6 21.48 5.6 - - 21.48 5.6 - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 13.50 11.6 14.94 14.1 - - 13.50 11.6 - - Level 5................................................... 13.49 14.9 - - - - 13.49 14.9 - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 17.44 4.8 17.44 4.8 - - 17.44 4.8 - - Level 5................................................... 16.15 13.9 16.15 13.9 - - 16.15 13.9 - - Level 7................................................... 16.52 6.3 16.52 6.3 - - 16.52 6.3 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Punching and stamping press operators....................... 10.72 5.7 10.72 5.7 - - 10.72 5.7 - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 9.39 6.9 9.39 6.9 - - 9.39 6.9 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.43 4.6 6.43 4.6 - - 6.43 4.6 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 17.26 3.1 17.26 3.1 - - 17.26 3.1 - - Level 2................................................... 9.87 7.1 9.87 7.1 - - 9.83 7.2 - - Level 5................................................... 18.61 7.4 18.61 7.4 - - 18.61 7.4 - - Welders and cutters......................................... 17.56 21.8 17.56 21.8 - - 17.56 21.8 - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.52 9.1 12.52 9.1 - - 12.78 9.6 - - Level 2................................................... 7.62 6.2 7.62 6.2 - - 7.62 6.2 - - Level 3................................................... 14.65 15.2 14.65 15.2 - - 14.73 15.4 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.65 17.6 11.65 17.6 - - 11.65 17.6 - - Level 5................................................... 15.96 15.4 15.96 15.4 - - 15.96 15.4 - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers............................................... 11.88 7.4 11.51 11.1 - - 11.99 7.3 - - Level 3................................................... 9.32 6.3 9.32 6.3 - - - - - - Level 4................................................... $9.81 5.0% $9.90 5.6% - - $9.81 5.0% - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.99 16.1 11.99 16.1 - - 11.99 16.1 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Construction laborers....................................... 9.02 7.7 8.16 3.7 - - 9.02 7.7 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.48 11.9 8.48 11.9 - - 9.40 11.3 $5.77 4.5% Level 1................................................... 7.05 10.2 7.05 10.2 - - 8.11 13.9 5.77 4.5 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 8.40 6.1 8.40 6.1 - - 8.40 6.1 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 9.51 8.6 9.51 8.6 - - 9.76 8.6 - - Level 1................................................... 8.95 9.1 8.95 9.1 - - 9.37 8.5 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.21 18.9 12.21 18.9 - - 12.21 18.9 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 6.80 8.3 6.80 8.3 - - 7.09 11.1 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.79 8.2 8.79 8.2 - - 8.79 8.2 - - Service occupations: Food service occupations: Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.99 14.6 2.96 14.8 - - 2.64 13.5 - - Level 3................................................... 3.25 23.0 - - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 7.92 4.1 7.84 4.6 - - 7.92 4.1 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.52 8.8 - - - - 8.52 8.8 - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.22 10.1 6.24 10.4 - - 6.52 13.7 - - Level 1................................................... $6.56 14.3% $6.56 14.3% - - $6.56 14.3% - - Health service occupations: Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.90 1.2 6.77 1.6 - - 6.88 1.0 - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.83 4.0 6.59 4.2 $7.20 7.3% 6.78 4.3 - - Level 1................................................... 6.67 4.1 6.47 4.9 - - 6.69 4.1 - - Level 2................................................... 7.14 7.3 7.14 7.3 - - - - - - 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. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) Occupational group(2) 3) 3) 3) 3) Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $16.08 $8.20 $18.96 $15.23 $15.68 $15.87 2.1% 8.9% 1.6% 2.4% 2.1% 11.2% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.21 8.77 19.07 15.44 15.94 10.36 2.1 11.0 1.5 2.5 2.1 6.5 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.65 9.57 15.09 19.24 19.16 18.95 2.5 12.1 6.0 2.6 2.6 11.6 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 20.20 12.32 16.13 20.04 19.97 - 2.5 14.5 4.3 2.6 2.5 - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.33 15.65 - 22.23 22.17 - 2.8 18.1 - 2.9 2.9 - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 24.77 20.30 - 24.71 24.71 - 2.6 13.0 - 2.6 2.6 - Technical occupations........................................... 13.93 12.25 - 13.80 13.82 - 4.1 26.3 - 4.8 4.7 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.60 - - 25.60 25.55 - 4.6 - - 4.6 4.6 - Sales occupations................................................. 13.25 6.38 - 11.76 9.63 18.95 7.6 3.3 - 7.9 5.9 11.6 Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 10.79 7.51 16.74 10.30 10.61 - 3.1 3.5 5.6 3.1 3.0 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.35 6.94 19.33 10.14 13.15 - 2.1 9.7 1.5 2.5 2.2 - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.96 - 20.99 11.61 13.71 - 5.0 - 3.7 4.6 5.2 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.18 - 19.81 9.36 14.10 - 3.3 - 0.9 2.9 3.3 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.19 - - 10.51 10.84 - 7.0 - - 8.9 8.3 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.38 5.98 11.67 8.52 9.15 - 4.1 2.2 8.1 3.9 4.2 - Service occupations................................................. 7.78 6.58 - 7.66 7.66 - 4.7 9.7 - 4.1 4.1 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers(2), Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All All private Goods-producing indust- pri- Goods-producing indust- industries ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) vate ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) indus- tries Trans- Fin- Trans- Fin- Occupational group(3) port- Whole- ance, port- Whole- ance, Con- Manu- ation sale in- Con- Manu- ation sale in- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- tion turing public retail ance, ices tion turing public retail ance, ices Mean util- trade and RSE util- trade and ities real ities real estate estate Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $15.48 $16.74 - $10.23 $16.98 $13.95 $13.14 - $10.50 $16.84 2.2% 2.5% - 8.9% 2.5% 3.6% 11.9% - 6.2% 4.4% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.74 16.67 - 10.23 16.91 14.45 13.09 - 9.78 16.91 2.2 2.5 - 8.9 2.6 3.8 12.3 - 6.4 4.4 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.05 21.73 - 13.04 21.85 17.13 12.35 - 10.78 20.46 2.8 4.2 - 12.8 4.3 3.3 11.2 - 6.4 3.7 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 20.13 21.71 - 13.04 21.84 18.76 12.23 - 10.04 20.60 2.8 4.3 - 12.8 4.4 3.4 11.7 - 6.5 3.7 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.77 24.31 - - 24.39 21.61 10.62 - - 22.59 3.7 4.4 - - 4.4 5.4 20.7 - - 4.8 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.59 27.28 - - 27.28 26.01 - - - 26.23 2.5 3.6 - - 3.6 3.5 - - - 3.5 Technical occupations........................................... 13.50 15.31 - - 15.43 12.47 - - - 13.35 5.7 6.9 - - 6.9 7.2 - - - 5.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.74 25.79 - - 25.78 25.67 - - - 26.59 5.4 8.5 - - 8.6 4.9 - - - 5.2 Sales occupations................................................. 11.74 22.08 - - 22.08 10.41 - - - - 8.2 14.1 - - 14.1 8.3 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.49 11.87 - - 11.92 9.50 12.28 - 9.52 9.50 3.3 5.5 - - 5.7 4.0 16.1 - 7.4 4.6 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.21 13.84 - 9.73 14.05 10.38 14.79 - - 9.54 2.3 2.0 - 8.5 2.0 7.8 9.3 - - 9.6 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.61 13.49 - 11.77 13.63 14.09 15.28 - - 13.35 6.0 7.0 - 9.8 7.4 11.0 20.0 - - 16.6 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.08 14.75 - - 14.76 7.47 - - - 7.47 3.2 2.3 - - 2.3 4.7 - - - 4.7 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.87 10.86 - - 11.83 10.88 - - - - 9.9 9.9 - - 11.1 17.4 - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.05 9.53 - 7.69 10.00 8.36 - - - 7.24 4.8 5.7 - 6.9 6.4 8.0 - - - 7.2 Service occupations................................................. 6.19 6.71 - - 6.71 6.16 - - - 6.65 4.1 6.7 - - 6.7 4.4 - - - 3.0 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers(2), Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All All private Mean private RSE industry industry workers workers Occupational group(3) 100 workers or more 100 workers or more Mean 50 - 99 RSE 50 - 99 workers 100 - 499 500 workers 100 - 499 500 Total workers workers Total workers workers or more or more All occupations....................................................... $15.48 $10.57 $16.53 $13.50 $19.27 2.2% 6.4% 2.4% 3.6% 3.1% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 15.74 10.82 16.66 13.58 19.22 2.2 7.3 2.4 3.7 3.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.05 12.70 20.46 17.53 23.13 2.8 7.3 3.2 4.6 4.0 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 20.13 14.22 21.12 18.55 23.07 2.8 8.1 3.1 4.3 4.0 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 22.77 14.66 23.97 21.82 25.46 3.7 13.5 3.6 6.5 3.9 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.59 18.87 27.34 26.76 27.64 2.5 14.2 2.4 3.1 3.3 Technical occupations........................................... 13.50 10.68 14.33 13.67 15.31 5.7 6.7 6.7 9.4 7.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 25.74 25.60 25.75 26.30 25.51 5.4 6.7 6.0 5.3 8.4 Sales occupations................................................. 11.74 9.27 13.64 12.72 - 8.2 7.9 13.0 12.5 - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.49 8.95 10.90 9.88 12.33 3.3 5.0 3.9 4.5 6.9 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13.21 10.61 13.51 10.30 15.96 2.3 7.3 2.6 3.2 3.6 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13.61 13.26 13.66 14.39 13.34 6.0 6.9 6.6 3.9 9.5 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.08 8.49 14.44 9.40 17.70 3.2 7.6 3.4 3.9 3.0 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 10.87 13.37 10.06 9.35 - 9.9 12.2 10.1 8.2 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.05 8.12 9.31 8.85 11.58 4.8 8.2 5.5 4.6 18.1 Service occupations................................................. 6.19 6.00 6.37 6.41 - 4.1 6.5 5.2 6.4 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-4. Number of workers(1) represented by occupational group, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All workers All indus- Private State and All indus- Private State and Occupational group(2) tries industry local tries industry local government government Workers RSE All occupations....................................................... 80,320 60,895 19,425 4.5% 2.5% 16.9% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 75,786 56,704 19,082 4.8 2.7 17.2 White-collar occupations............................................ 42,478 29,839 12,640 6.0 4.4 17.1 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 37,945 25,648 12,297 6.5 4.7 17.7 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 21,435 12,629 8,806 10.5 8.0 22.8 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 16,485 8,877 7,608 13.0 8.8 26.3 Technical occupations........................................... 4,950 3,752 1,198 15.5 17.3 34.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 7,101 5,820 1,281 10.3 10.8 28.6 Sales occupations................................................. 4,533 4,191 - 13.8 14.3 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 9,410 7,199 2,211 8.5 8.4 24.1 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 27,104 24,657 2,447 5.1 5.2 20.2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 8,156 7,235 921 10.2 11.1 23.3 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13,366 13,122 - 7.1 7.1 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 2,198 1,391 807 23.0 22.7 49.0 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 3,384 2,910 475 12.7 13.3 39.1 Service occupations................................................. 10,737 6,399 4,338 12.7 13.7 24.2 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 366 174 58 116 88 28 Private industry.................................................... 345 160 57 103 85 18 Goods-producing industries........................................ 95 72 23 49 37 12 Construction.................................................... 14 6 4 2 2 - Manufacturing................................................... 81 66 19 47 35 12 Service-producing industries...................................... 249 88 34 54 48 6 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 16 7 3 4 4 - Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 109 28 14 14 14 - Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 9 6 2 4 3 1 Services........................................................ 115 47 15 32 27 5 State and local government.......................................... 22 14 1 13 3 10 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers(2), Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All State and Occupation(3) indus- Private local tries industry govern- ment All occupations....................................................... 2.0 2.2 4.7 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 2.1 2.2 4.7 White-collar occupations............................................ 2.5 2.8 5.4 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 2.5 2.8 5.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 2.9 3.7 5.0 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 2.6 2.5 5.0 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 2.8 2.8 - Aerospace engineers......................................... 5.8 5.8 - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 3.4 3.5 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 4.5 4.5 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 7.3 3.3 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 8.0 3.5 - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 7.5 - 8.1 Registered nurses........................................... 6.4 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 1.9 11.0 - Elementary school teachers.................................. 1.0 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 8.7 - - Recreation workers.......................................... 6.1 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 6.4 7.0 - Technical occupations........................................... 4.7 5.7 6.3 Licensed practical nurses................................... 2.4 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 6.5 6.7 - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 14.0 14.0 - Drafters.................................................... 16.3 16.3 - Chemical technicians........................................ 6.1 6.1 - Computer programmers........................................ 5.6 6.0 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 4.6 5.4 7.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 5.3 6.3 8.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 8.2 - 8.2 Financial managers.......................................... 13.9 13.9 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 5.9 6.1 - Management related occupations................................ 4.8 5.1 - Accountants and auditors.................................... 8.6 10.9 - Management analysts......................................... 9.2 9.5 - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 5.9 5.9 - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 14.0 14.0 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 8.3 8.3 - Sales occupations................................................. 7.8 8.2 - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 11.9 11.9 - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 12.2 12.2 - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.3 7.6 - Cashiers.................................................... 3.9 3.7 - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 3.0 3.3 6.7 Secretaries................................................. 8.3 5.9 12.6 Receptionists............................................... 4.0 4.0 - Order clerks................................................ 4.9 4.9 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 6.3 6.0 - Dispatchers................................................. 3.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 17.2 18.2 - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 9.8 9.8 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 8.9 8.9 - General office clerks....................................... 4.5 5.8 - Bank tellers................................................ 2.9 2.9 - Data entry keyers........................................... 7.0 7.7 - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 7.9 7.9 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 2.2 2.3 4.6 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 5.2 6.0 5.3 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 6.5 7.6 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 5.2 5.2 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 11.6 14.1 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 4.8 4.8 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.2 3.2 - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 5.7 5.7 - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 6.9 6.9 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 4.6 4.6 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 3.1 3.1 - Welders and cutters......................................... 21.8 21.8 - Assemblers.................................................. 9.1 9.1 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 17.6 17.6 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 7.9 9.9 12.8 Truck drivers............................................... 7.4 11.1 - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 16.1 16.1 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.2 4.8 7.1 Construction laborers....................................... 7.7 3.7 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.9 11.9 - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 6.1 6.1 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 8.6 8.6 - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 18.9 18.9 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.3 8.3 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.2 8.2 - Service occupations................................................. 4.1 4.1 4.8 Protective service occupations................................ 8.9 - 4.9 Food service occupations...................................... 8.8 6.8 6.8 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 14.6 14.8 - Cooks....................................................... 4.1 4.6 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.8 - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 10.1 10.4 - Health service occupations.................................... 1.1 1.6 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 1.2 1.6 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 4.2 4.9 7.2 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 4.0 4.2 7.3 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.3 - - 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(1) workers ime me workers workers All occupations....................................................... 5 5 3 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 5 5 3 White-collar occupations............................................ 7 7 4 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 7 7 6 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 8 8 7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 8 8 9 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 10 10 - Aerospace engineers......................................... 10 10 - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 8 8 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 10 10 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 9 9 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 9 9 - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 8 7 - Registered nurses........................................... 7 7 - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 7 7 - Elementary school teachers.................................. 7 7 - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 5 6 - Recreation workers.......................................... 6 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 7 7 - Technical occupations........................................... 6 6 6 Licensed practical nurses................................... 5 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 5 5 - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 6 6 - Drafters.................................................... 6 6 - Chemical technicians........................................ 5 5 - Computer programmers........................................ 8 8 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 9 9 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 10 10 - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 9 9 - Financial managers.......................................... 11 11 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 10 10 - Management related occupations................................ 8 7 - Accountants and auditors.................................... 9 9 - Management analysts......................................... 8 7 - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 7 7 - Purchasing agents and buyers, N.E.C......................... 6 6 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 7 7 - Sales occupations................................................. 4 5 2 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 8 8 - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 3 4 - Cashiers.................................................... 2 3 2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 3 4 2 Secretaries................................................. 4 4 - Receptionists............................................... 3 2 - Order clerks................................................ 4 4 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 4 4 - Dispatchers................................................. 4 4 - Production coordinators..................................... 5 5 - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 3 3 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 3 3 - General office clerks....................................... 3 3 - Bank tellers................................................ 2 3 - Data entry keyers........................................... 2 2 - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 4 4 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 4 4 2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 5 5 - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 8 8 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 7 7 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 5 5 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 7 7 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4 4 - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 4 4 - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 3 3 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 2 2 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 4 4 - Welders and cutters......................................... 6 6 - Assemblers.................................................. 3 3 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 4 4 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4 4 - Truck drivers............................................... 4 4 - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 5 5 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2 3 1 Construction laborers....................................... 2 2 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 2 2 1 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 3 3 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 2 2 - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 4 4 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 2 2 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 3 3 - Service occupations................................................. 3 3 2 Protective service occupations................................ 5 4 - Food service occupations...................................... 2 2 2 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2 2 - Cooks....................................................... 3 3 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 2 2 - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 2 1 - Health service occupations.................................... 2 2 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 2 2 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 2 2 2 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 1 1 - Personal service occupations.................................. 2 - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 1. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in construction industries(2), Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $10.23 5.4% $10.50 $9.00 $11.38 $10.23 5.4% $10.50 $9.00 $11.38 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 2. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in non-construction industries(2), Huntsville, AL, July 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Craft workers and helpers............................................. $14.87 20.1% $10.78 $8.66 $24.23 $14.87 20.1% $10.78 $8.66 $24.23 - - - - - Welders and cutters............................................. 17.56 21.8 24.23 10.15 24.23 17.56 21.8 24.23 10.15 24.23 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 3. Number of workers in construction trades occupations, Huntsville, AL, July 1998 Workers RSE Construction industries(2) Non-construction Construction industries(2) Non-construction Occupational group(1) and level industries(2) industries(2) All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers 3) 3) 3) 3) Construction trades occupations....................................... 346 346 - - - - 33.4% 33.4% - - - - Craft workers and helpers............................................. - - - 513 513 - - - - 35.6% 35.6% - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation.