NC SM 06/00/1999 State of California, Forestry and Logging Survey, 1998
Table 1.  Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations in the forestry and logging industries(2), California, 1998
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                         Percentiles                        
                                            Number                                                                          
               Occupation                     of         Mean                                                               
                                           workers                    10          25        Median        75          90    
                                                                                              50                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
        Tree planting occupation                                                                                            
Tree planters...........................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
  Other than tree planting occupations                                                                                      
Brush/precommercial thinners............         97     $11.36      $10.00      $10.00      $11.92      $12.00      $13.00  
Choker setters..........................        375      12.76       11.00       12.00       12.50       13.50       14.25  
Faller/buckers..........................        448      28.63       16.00       25.00       29.38       35.00       37.50  
Fire lookouts...........................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     
Forestry/logging heavy equipment                                                                                            
   operators............................      1,049      14.33       12.00       13.00       14.00       15.50       16.81  
  Loader operators......................        267      15.18       12.74       13.50       15.25       16.70       17.00  
  Skidder operators.....................        287      13.27       12.00       12.18       13.00       14.00       15.00  
  Other heavy equipment operators.......        495      14.47       12.25       13.00       14.00       16.00       16.71  
Forestry technicians....................         76      13.56       11.00       11.50       12.50       16.25       16.74  
Forestry truckdrivers...................        417      12.35       11.25       11.39       12.00       12.90       14.00  
  Light truck...........................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     
  Medium truck..........................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     
  Heavy truck...........................         99      12.12       10.76       12.00       12.00       12.50       13.00  
  Tractor-trailer.......................        307      12.35       11.25       11.39       12.00       13.00       14.00  
  Combination of sizes..................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     
General forestry laborers...............         60      11.70       11.00       11.00       11.66       13.00       14.00  
Slash pilers/burners....................      -           -           -           -           -           -           -     

  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 The 1987 Standard Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupations may
include data for categories not shown separately.