Table 36 State and local government workers in hospitals: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) State and local Full-time Part-time government workers workers workers Occupation(3) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(4) error(4) error(4) All workers........................................................... $23.07 2.8% $23.01 3.0% $23.78 4.4% Management occupations.............................................. 50.18 17.1 50.18 17.1 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 57.20 21.7 57.20 21.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.62 6.8 24.62 6.8 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 27.38 7.7 27.38 7.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.64 14.6 26.64 14.6 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 29.94 12.3 29.94 12.3 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 27.97 5.6 27.71 6.5 – – Psychologists..................................................... 29.92 7.2 29.92 7.2 – – Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists.................. 29.92 7.2 29.92 7.2 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 23.47 5.6 23.60 6.0 – – Counselors........................................................ 22.41 9.3 22.41 9.3 – – Social workers.................................................... 24.22 6.0 24.38 6.6 – – Medical and public health social workers........................ 24.29 13.6 24.00 14.8 – – Mental health and substance abuse social workers................ 22.61 7.4 22.90 7.9 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 19.46 13.0 19.46 13.0 – – Social and human service assistants............................. 15.87 10.1 15.87 10.1 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.44 2.0 28.21 2.2 30.46 4.8 Dietitians and nutritionists...................................... 25.73 2.1 – – – – Pharmacists....................................................... 49.96 1.7 49.96 1.7 – – Physicians and surgeons........................................... 50.85 15.5 50.45 15.8 – – Family and general practitioners................................ 84.70 14.4 – – – – Psychiatrists................................................... 74.89 2.4 75.04 2.6 – – Registered nurses................................................. 31.59 3.1 31.29 3.5 33.11 4.6 Therapists........................................................ 28.11 5.9 27.81 6.4 31.00 6.8 Occupational therapists......................................... 31.04 3.0 31.01 3.2 – – Physical therapists............................................. 33.74 3.5 33.61 3.9 – – Recreational therapists......................................... 18.38 15.0 18.38 15.0 – – Respiratory therapists.......................................... 27.80 2.5 27.47 2.1 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.16 4.6 20.03 4.8 – – Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 22.01 6.2 21.77 6.6 – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 19.00 6.4 19.02 6.5 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.18 3.0 25.20 3.1 24.98 9.1 Cardiovascular technologists and technicians.................... 17.52 17.1 – – – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.31 3.4 25.20 3.6 27.03 5.6 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.13 11.4 15.15 12.0 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.93 7.2 16.92 7.9 17.14 10.7 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 14.17 4.2 14.07 4.2 – – Psychiatric technicians......................................... 18.37 10.6 18.55 12.0 – – Surgical technologists.......................................... 16.80 2.9 16.80 2.9 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.52 3.2 17.41 3.3 19.08 13.4 Medical records and health information technicians................ 16.67 5.1 16.90 5.0 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.13 2.5 13.12 2.3 13.25 7.8 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.52 2.7 12.57 2.6 11.95 6.6 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.83 2.9 11.82 2.7 11.91 6.9 Psychiatric aides............................................... 14.13 3.0 14.12 3.0 – – Physical therapist assistants and aides........................... 20.62 6.4 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.51 5.2 14.56 5.5 13.50 7.1 Medical assistants.............................................. 13.93 2.6 14.04 2.8 – – Medical transcriptionists....................................... 13.58 14.4 13.39 14.8 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 19.22 10.4 19.38 10.6 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 16.62 12.6 16.48 13.1 – – Security guards................................................. 16.62 12.6 16.48 13.1 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.82 5.8 11.93 6.0 9.99 9.4 Cooks............................................................. 10.15 7.0 10.24 7.4 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.14 7.1 10.24 7.6 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.17 6.3 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 13.06 6.9 13.24 7.3 – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 13.06 6.9 13.24 7.3 – – Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 11.79 11.0 11.95 11.0 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.95 6.3 12.06 6.6 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.70 6.2 11.79 6.5 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.88 8.6 13.07 9.0 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.18 4.7 10.19 4.9 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.46 10.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.54 2.6 15.62 2.5 13.76 8.6 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 16.21 13.6 16.21 13.6 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.49 4.1 14.49 4.1 – – Bill and account collectors..................................... 13.27 5.9 13.27 5.9 – – Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.64 5.4 12.89 5.8 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.02 7.8 13.12 5.2 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.14 11.3 14.14 11.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.37 5.7 17.50 5.8 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.26 6.9 18.26 6.9 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 15.68 4.9 15.79 5.1 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 23.78 13.2 23.78 13.2 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.37 2.9 15.37 2.9 – – Word processors and typists..................................... 15.45 3.2 15.45 3.2 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.56 6.0 15.77 5.5 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 24.03 9.3 24.03 9.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.64 7.1 19.64 7.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.22 8.5 18.22 8.5 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.22 8.5 18.22 8.5 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.56 9.1 16.71 9.5 – – Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 13.89 21.5 13.89 21.5 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.25 7.9 15.36 8.1 – – 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, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.