NC BL 09/00/2005 Table: Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, Bulletin 3130-16, January 2005 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $15.09 2.9 37.9 $14.49 2.6 37.7 $18.03 6.4 39.4 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 19.87 4.5 38.6 18.98 5.8 38.5 21.49 6.6 38.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.94 5.3 38.3 24.25 10.8 38.0 23.72 4.3 38.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 8.3 42.5 29.17 7.5 43.1 – – – Sales............................................................. 16.82 27.3 35.7 16.82 27.3 35.7 – – – Administrative support............................................ 12.63 3.1 38.6 13.07 2.1 38.4 11.22 7.9 39.1 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 13.85 3.2 39.0 13.96 3.2 39.0 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 1.9 40.1 17.37 1.6 40.1 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 12.81 1.4 38.8 12.81 1.4 38.8 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.00 15.3 40.2 16.22 15.8 40.2 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 11.13 5.1 37.7 11.37 4.9 37.5 – – – Service occupations(5).............................................. 11.13 11.8 32.7 8.72 5.6 29.2 14.88 17.8 40.1 Full time........................................................... 15.45 2.8 39.7 14.90 2.6 39.8 17.97 6.5 39.6 Part time........................................................... 8.44 9.6 20.7 7.99 9.2 20.7 – – – Union............................................................... – – – – – – – – – Nonunion............................................................ 14.93 2.5 38.0 14.28 1.9 37.7 18.03 6.4 39.4 Time................................................................ 14.72 3.6 37.6 13.91 3.5 37.2 18.03 6.4 39.4 Incentive........................................................... 17.47 1.4 40.6 17.47 1.4 40.6 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 14.31 .9 39.2 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 14.79 7.1 35.2 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 11.56 8.7 33.8 11.56 8.7 33.8 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 14.97 3.3 38.9 14.93 3.5 38.8 – – – 500 workers or more................................................. 16.90 5.0 38.4 15.50 5.1 37.9 18.66 6.4 39.1 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, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $15.09 2.9 $14.49 2.6 $18.03 6.4 All excluding sales............................................... 15.04 2.9 14.42 2.6 18.03 6.4 White collar........................................................ 19.87 4.5 18.98 5.8 21.49 6.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.18 3.8 19.33 4.5 21.49 6.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.94 5.3 24.25 10.8 23.72 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.42 6.4 27.86 11.8 24.26 6.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.23 12.4 30.17 12.4 – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.52 13.8 30.48 14.1 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.13 3.8 19.19 4.7 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 18.53 8.0 18.53 8.0 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 16.05 9.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 8.3 29.17 7.5 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.04 10.1 30.46 7.5 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.71 8.8 28.71 8.8 – – Management related............................................ 28.01 8.6 – – – – Sales............................................................. 16.82 27.3 16.82 27.3 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.63 3.1 13.07 2.1 11.22 7.9 Order clerks................................................ 12.42 3.1 12.42 3.1 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.88 7.3 – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 13.75 3.4 13.75 3.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.93 6.3 12.93 6.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.56 4.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.85 3.2 13.96 3.2 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 1.9 17.37 1.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.51 7.7 16.51 7.7 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.72 4.1 13.72 4.1 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.08 7.0 19.08 7.0 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 18.68 3.3 18.68 3.3 – – Upholsterers................................................ 19.48 .0 19.48 .0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 1.4 12.81 1.4 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators $12.96 0.1 $12.96 0.1 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.69 .0 10.69 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 12.89 .7 12.89 .7 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.65 4.4 12.65 4.4 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.99 3.0 11.99 3.0 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.82 6.1 13.82 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.94 4.2 13.94 4.2 – – Assemblers.................................................. 12.61 7.1 12.61 7.1 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 14.86 1.8 14.86 1.8 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 14.34 9.1 14.34 9.1 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.87 4.8 11.87 4.8 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.00 15.3 16.22 15.8 – – Truck drivers............................................... 18.95 9.3 19.51 8.7 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.13 5.1 11.37 4.9 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.46 13.6 10.46 13.6 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.20 1.6 10.20 1.6 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.42 4.0 10.42 4.0 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.36 4.5 9.36 4.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.57 6.3 11.46 2.8 – – Service............................................................. 11.13 11.8 8.72 5.6 $14.88 17.8 Protective service............................................ 12.02 14.2 – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.31 7.6 8.11 8.2 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... – – – – – – Other food service........................................... 9.29 4.8 9.15 5.5 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.13 11.8 8.71 15.2 – – Health service................................................ 10.50 2.5 10.68 4.7 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.49 2.6 10.68 4.7 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 18.03 31.0 12.01 14.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.75 3.7 10.31 6.3 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 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. 3 A classification system including about 480 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 no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $15.45 2.8 $14.90 2.6 $17.97 6.5 All excluding sales............................................... 15.35 2.8 14.77 2.6 17.97 6.5 White collar........................................................ 20.17 4.3 19.47 5.6 21.37 6.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.15 3.9 19.35 4.7 21.37 6.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.91 5.6 24.39 11.5 23.57 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.36 6.7 28.07 12.7 24.10 6.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.27 13.9 30.36 13.9 – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.77 14.5 30.78 14.8 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.22 4.0 19.32 5.0 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 16.21 10.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 8.3 29.17 7.5 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.04 10.1 30.46 7.5 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.71 8.8 28.71 8.8 – – Management related............................................ 28.01 8.6 – – – – Sales............................................................. 20.46 29.0 20.46 29.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.59 3.0 13.03 2.1 11.22 7.9 Order clerks................................................ 12.42 3.1 12.42 3.1 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.88 7.3 – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 13.75 3.4 13.75 3.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.93 6.3 12.93 6.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.56 4.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.98 3.2 14.11 3.2 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 1.9 17.37 1.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.51 7.7 16.51 7.7 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.72 4.1 13.72 4.1 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.08 7.0 19.08 7.0 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 18.68 3.3 18.68 3.3 – – Upholsterers................................................ 19.48 .0 19.48 .0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 1.5 12.81 1.5 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 12.96 .1 12.96 .1 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... $10.69 0.0 $10.69 0.0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 12.89 .7 12.89 .7 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.71 5.0 12.71 5.0 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.99 3.0 11.99 3.0 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.82 6.1 13.82 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.94 4.2 13.94 4.2 – – Assemblers.................................................. 12.61 7.1 12.61 7.1 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 14.86 1.8 14.86 1.8 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 14.34 9.1 14.34 9.1 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.87 4.8 11.87 4.8 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.14 15.6 16.37 16.1 – – Truck drivers............................................... 19.20 9.1 19.79 8.5 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.48 4.8 11.79 4.3 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 12.14 4.3 12.14 4.3 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.20 1.6 10.20 1.6 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.86 3.6 10.86 3.6 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.36 4.5 9.36 4.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.57 6.3 11.46 2.8 – – Service............................................................. 12.20 12.2 9.62 3.9 $14.93 17.9 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 9.63 3.2 9.47 3.0 – – Other food service........................................... 9.63 3.2 9.47 3.0 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 10.79 5.0 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.46 2.5 10.61 5.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.45 2.6 10.61 5.0 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 18.03 31.0 12.01 14.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.75 3.7 10.31 6.3 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 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 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. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.44 9.6 $7.99 9.2 – – All excluding sales............................................... 8.71 9.8 8.19 9.5 – – White collar........................................................ 12.28 28.5 10.15 24.4 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.06 15.5 18.19 9.1 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.25 18.4 20.27 14.7 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 28.15 20.3 – – – – Health related................................................ 30.79 19.6 – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.64 10.8 8.64 10.8 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.37 12.1 8.37 12.1 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.46 7.7 9.46 7.7 – – Service............................................................. 6.88 16.9 6.83 17.2 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.59 23.0 6.52 23.6 – – Other food service........................................... 8.61 13.1 8.56 13.8 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.35 9.0 – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 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 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. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $614 2.6 39.7 $593 2.5 39.8 $712 5.6 39.6 All excluding sales............................................... 609 2.6 39.7 587 2.4 39.7 712 5.6 39.6 White collar........................................................ 806 4.5 40.0 788 5.7 40.5 836 7.4 39.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 802 4.0 39.8 779 4.5 40.3 836 7.4 39.1 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 937 5.9 39.2 965 11.9 39.6 918 4.7 38.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 996 7.1 39.3 1,133 12.2 40.3 936 6.5 38.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 1,232 14.2 39.4 1,214 13.9 40.0 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 1,132 15.2 39.3 1,231 14.8 40.0 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 747 4.1 38.9 744 5.1 38.5 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 648 10.0 40.0 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,303 9.2 42.5 1,258 9.6 43.1 – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,403 10.3 43.8 1,391 9.7 45.7 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,340 9.2 46.7 1,340 9.2 46.7 – – – Management related............................................ 1,131 8.8 40.4 – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 863 31.2 42.2 863 31.2 42.2 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 499 3.4 39.6 519 2.0 39.8 439 9.5 39.1 Order clerks................................................ 492 3.1 39.6 492 3.1 39.6 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 435 7.3 40.0 – – – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 550 3.4 40.0 550 3.4 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 503 5.0 38.9 503 5.0 38.9 – – – General office clerks....................................... 501 4.1 39.8 – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 555 3.0 39.7 560 3.0 39.7 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 683 1.9 40.1 696 1.6 40.1 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 661 7.7 40.0 661 7.7 40.0 – – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 549 4.1 40.0 549 4.1 40.0 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 763 7.0 40.0 763 7.0 40.0 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 752 3.2 40.3 752 3.2 40.3 – – – Upholsterers................................................ $779 0.0 40.0 $779 0.0 40.0 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 498 1.4 38.9 498 1.4 38.9 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 518 .1 40.0 518 .1 40.0 – – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 427 .0 40.0 427 .0 40.0 – – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 516 .7 40.0 516 .7 40.0 – – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 508 5.0 40.0 508 5.0 40.0 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 480 3.0 40.0 480 3.0 40.0 – – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 553 6.1 40.0 553 6.1 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 506 4.2 36.3 506 4.2 36.3 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 494 8.8 39.1 494 8.8 39.1 – – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 595 1.8 40.0 595 1.8 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 572 8.8 39.9 572 8.8 39.9 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 464 9.7 39.0 464 9.7 39.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 663 13.8 41.1 674 14.2 41.1 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 802 5.5 41.8 829 4.0 41.9 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 463 5.2 40.3 476 4.8 40.4 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 486 4.3 40.0 486 4.3 40.0 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 407 1.8 39.9 407 1.8 39.9 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 434 3.1 40.0 434 3.1 40.0 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 366 5.1 39.1 366 5.1 39.1 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 423 6.3 40.0 458 2.8 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 483 12.4 39.6 374 4.9 38.8 $603 17.8 40.4 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 385 3.2 40.0 379 3.0 40.0 – – – Other food service........................................... 385 3.2 40.0 379 3.0 40.0 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 432 5.0 40.0 – – – – – – Health service................................................ 410 1.4 39.2 407 3.5 38.3 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 409 1.5 39.2 407 3.5 38.3 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 721 31.0 40.0 480 14.3 40.0 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 390 3.7 40.0 412 6.3 40.0 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly 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 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. 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. 5 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $31,578 2.6 2,044 $30,783 2.5 2,066 $35,073 5.6 1,952 All excluding sales............................................... 31,344 2.6 2,042 30,477 2.4 2,063 35,073 5.6 1,952 White collar........................................................ 40,287 4.5 1,998 40,761 5.7 2,093 39,566 7.4 1,852 White collar excluding sales.................................... 39,979 4.0 1,984 40,282 4.5 2,082 39,566 7.4 1,852 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 45,479 5.9 1,902 49,284 11.9 2,020 43,017 4.7 1,825 Professional specialty.......................................... 47,366 7.1 1,868 57,082 12.2 2,034 43,380 6.5 1,800 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 64,054 14.2 2,049 63,148 13.9 2,080 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 58,846 15.2 2,045 64,017 14.8 2,080 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 38,864 4.1 2,022 38,683 5.1 2,002 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 33,708 10.0 2,080 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 67,746 9.2 2,212 65,438 9.6 2,243 – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 72,945 10.3 2,277 72,344 9.7 2,375 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 69,663 9.2 2,426 69,663 9.2 2,426 – – – Management related............................................ 58,806 8.8 2,099 – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 44,862 31.2 2,193 44,862 31.2 2,193 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 25,355 3.4 2,013 26,980 2.0 2,070 20,809 9.5 1,854 Order clerks................................................ 25,579 3.1 2,059 25,579 3.1 2,059 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 22,638 7.3 2,080 – – – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 28,592 3.4 2,080 28,592 3.4 2,080 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 26,157 5.0 2,023 26,157 5.0 2,023 – – – General office clerks....................................... 26,031 4.1 2,072 – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 28,845 3.0 2,063 29,090 3.0 2,062 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 35,513 1.9 2,082 36,168 1.6 2,082 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 34,347 7.7 2,080 34,347 7.7 2,080 – – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 28,544 4.1 2,080 28,544 4.1 2,080 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 39,695 7.0 2,080 39,695 7.0 2,080 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 39,122 3.2 2,094 39,122 3.2 2,094 – – – Upholsterers................................................ $40,527 0.0 2,080 $40,527 0.0 2,080 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 25,912 1.4 2,022 25,912 1.4 2,022 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 26,952 .1 2,080 26,952 .1 2,080 – – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 22,227 .0 2,080 22,227 .0 2,080 – – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 26,807 .7 2,080 26,807 .7 2,080 – – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 26,435 5.0 2,080 26,435 5.0 2,080 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 24,942 3.0 2,080 24,942 3.0 2,080 – – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 28,755 6.1 2,080 28,755 6.1 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 26,316 4.2 1,888 26,316 4.2 1,888 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 25,665 8.8 2,035 25,665 8.8 2,035 – – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 30,914 1.8 2,080 30,914 1.8 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 29,728 8.8 2,073 29,728 8.8 2,073 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 24,111 9.7 2,031 24,111 9.7 2,031 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 34,463 13.8 2,135 34,990 14.2 2,137 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 41,668 5.5 2,170 43,073 4.0 2,176 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 24,075 5.2 2,097 24,746 4.8 2,099 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 25,254 4.3 2,080 25,254 4.3 2,080 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 21,159 1.8 2,075 21,159 1.8 2,075 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 22,567 3.1 2,078 22,567 3.1 2,078 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 19,040 5.1 2,034 19,040 5.1 2,034 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 21,982 6.3 2,080 23,838 2.8 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 25,108 12.4 2,058 19,427 4.9 2,020 $31,371 17.8 2,101 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 20,023 3.2 2,080 19,688 3.0 2,080 – – – Other food service........................................... 20,023 3.2 2,080 19,688 3.0 2,080 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 22,443 5.0 2,080 – – – – – – Health service................................................ 21,323 1.4 2,038 21,151 3.5 1,993 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 21,290 1.5 2,037 21,151 3.5 1,993 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 37,506 31.0 2,080 24,983 14.3 2,080 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 20,276 3.7 2,080 21,440 6.3 2,080 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual 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 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. 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. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $15.09 2.9 $14.49 2.6 $18.03 6.4 All excluding sales............................................... 15.04 2.9 14.42 2.6 18.03 6.4 White collar........................................................ 19.87 4.5 18.98 5.8 21.49 6.6 2....................................................... 9.67 5.1 11.00 1.8 – – 3....................................................... 11.49 4.4 11.49 4.4 – – 4....................................................... 12.97 2.3 12.91 2.6 – – 5....................................................... 16.95 8.4 18.73 7.0 – – 6....................................................... 17.72 3.9 17.95 4.1 – – 7....................................................... 21.90 3.5 20.45 8.1 22.22 3.1 8....................................................... 23.43 2.5 22.33 2.7 24.40 3.3 9....................................................... 34.00 8.8 34.00 8.8 – – 10........................................................ 30.84 4.7 30.84 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.31 14.4 19.11 19.9 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.18 3.8 19.33 4.5 21.49 6.6 2....................................................... 9.67 5.1 11.00 1.8 – – 3....................................................... 11.49 4.6 11.49 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 13.04 2.3 12.99 2.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.18 7.4 16.85 8.3 – – 6....................................................... 17.85 3.9 18.12 4.0 – – 7....................................................... 21.90 3.5 20.45 8.1 22.22 3.1 8....................................................... 23.43 2.5 22.33 2.7 24.40 3.3 9....................................................... 28.89 .8 28.89 .8 – – 10........................................................ 30.84 4.7 30.84 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.30 15.8 21.69 23.0 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.94 5.3 24.25 10.8 23.72 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.42 6.4 27.86 11.8 24.26 6.1 7....................................................... 22.14 3.4 – – 22.44 2.8 8....................................................... 24.69 2.5 24.56 4.4 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.23 12.4 30.17 12.4 – – 8....................................................... 24.65 6.0 23.26 2.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.52 13.8 30.48 14.1 – – 8....................................................... 22.75 1.3 22.75 1.3 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.13 3.8 19.19 4.7 – – 5....................................................... 18.47 8.7 18.47 8.7 – – 6....................................................... 18.28 7.2 – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 18.53 8.0 18.53 8.0 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. $16.05 9.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 8.3 $29.17 7.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.34 17.5 – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.04 10.1 30.46 7.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.34 17.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.71 8.8 28.71 8.8 – – Management related............................................ 28.01 8.6 – – – – Sales............................................................. 16.82 27.3 16.82 27.3 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.63 3.1 13.07 2.1 $11.22 7.9 2....................................................... 9.53 4.9 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.43 4.6 11.43 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 13.11 2.3 13.06 2.6 – – 5....................................................... 13.73 1.7 – – – – 6....................................................... 17.46 3.8 17.46 3.8 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.42 3.1 12.42 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.22 6.5 12.22 6.5 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.88 7.3 – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 13.75 3.4 13.75 3.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.93 6.3 12.93 6.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.56 4.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.85 3.2 13.96 3.2 – – 1....................................................... 9.42 2.8 9.51 2.9 – – 2....................................................... 11.12 3.0 11.13 3.1 – – 3....................................................... 13.92 9.0 13.94 9.1 – – 4....................................................... 15.48 3.2 15.57 3.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.42 3.9 16.56 4.1 – – 6....................................................... 18.69 5.4 18.88 5.6 – – 7....................................................... 19.32 2.2 19.32 2.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.23 12.7 21.23 12.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 1.9 17.37 1.6 – – 3....................................................... 12.47 3.2 12.47 3.6 – – 4....................................................... 15.37 5.5 15.81 5.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.15 6.0 16.42 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 18.75 5.2 18.98 5.5 – – 7....................................................... 19.17 2.1 19.17 2.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.40 4.3 17.40 4.3 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.51 7.7 16.51 7.7 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.72 4.1 13.72 4.1 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.08 7.0 19.08 7.0 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 18.68 3.3 18.68 3.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.40 4.3 17.40 4.3 – – Upholsterers................................................ $19.48 0.0 $19.48 0.0 – – 4....................................................... 18.32 4.6 18.32 4.6 – – 5....................................................... 20.33 3.8 20.33 3.8 – – 6....................................................... 20.31 8.4 20.31 8.4 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 1.4 12.81 1.4 – – 1....................................................... 9.59 2.4 9.59 2.4 – – 2....................................................... 11.32 4.5 11.32 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.49 1.4 12.49 1.4 – – 4....................................................... 15.30 3.1 15.30 3.1 – – 5....................................................... 15.60 3.1 15.60 3.1 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 12.96 .1 12.96 .1 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.69 .0 10.69 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 12.89 .7 12.89 .7 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.65 4.4 12.65 4.4 – – 2....................................................... 9.37 14.7 9.37 14.7 – – 3....................................................... 13.14 1.4 13.14 1.4 – – 4....................................................... 16.20 3.2 16.20 3.2 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.99 3.0 11.99 3.0 – – 2....................................................... 11.12 2.5 11.12 2.5 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.82 6.1 13.82 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.94 4.2 13.94 4.2 – – 2....................................................... 12.24 5.9 12.24 5.9 – – 3....................................................... 12.44 .1 12.44 .1 – – 4....................................................... 15.64 8.7 15.64 8.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.50 1.4 15.50 1.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 12.61 7.1 12.61 7.1 – – 1....................................................... 9.88 1.6 9.88 1.6 – – 2....................................................... 13.75 11.5 13.75 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.50 1.8 12.50 1.8 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 14.86 1.8 14.86 1.8 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 14.34 9.1 14.34 9.1 – – 1....................................................... 10.02 3.7 10.02 3.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.87 4.8 11.87 4.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.77 5.2 9.77 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 10.75 3.5 10.75 3.5 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.00 15.3 16.22 15.8 – – 2....................................................... 10.51 5.4 – – – – 4....................................................... 16.27 9.7 16.27 9.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 18.95 9.3 19.51 8.7 – – 4....................................................... 17.83 4.3 17.83 4.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.13 5.1 11.37 4.9 – – 1....................................................... 9.40 3.5 9.52 3.9 – – 2....................................................... 11.14 2.0 11.14 2.0 – – 3....................................................... $12.46 1.5 $12.46 1.5 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.46 13.6 10.46 13.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.88 11.1 10.88 11.1 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.20 1.6 10.20 1.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.30 3.3 10.30 3.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.42 4.0 10.42 4.0 – – 1....................................................... 9.91 4.2 9.91 4.2 – – 2....................................................... 11.37 5.7 11.37 5.7 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.36 4.5 9.36 4.5 – – 1....................................................... 8.86 3.1 8.86 3.1 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.57 6.3 11.46 2.8 – – 1....................................................... 9.49 5.0 10.29 1.9 – – 2....................................................... 12.61 3.3 12.61 3.3 – – Service............................................................. 11.13 11.8 8.72 5.6 $14.88 17.8 1....................................................... 7.37 4.1 6.96 5.0 – – 2....................................................... 8.25 12.2 8.12 14.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.82 1.7 9.85 1.8 – – 4....................................................... 10.32 3.0 9.97 8.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.38 27.0 – – – – Protective service............................................ 12.02 14.2 – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.31 7.6 8.11 8.2 – – 1....................................................... 6.39 9.8 6.26 10.2 – – Other food service........................................... 9.29 4.8 9.15 5.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.46 7.4 7.35 7.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.13 11.8 8.71 15.2 – – 1....................................................... 7.44 8.7 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.50 2.5 10.68 4.7 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.49 2.6 10.68 4.7 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 18.03 31.0 12.01 14.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.75 3.7 10.31 6.3 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 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. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $15.45 2.8 $14.90 2.6 $17.97 6.5 All excluding sales............................................... 15.35 2.8 14.77 2.6 17.97 6.5 White collar........................................................ 20.17 4.3 19.47 5.6 21.37 6.6 2....................................................... 9.67 5.2 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.37 4.4 11.37 4.4 – – 4....................................................... 12.96 2.3 12.89 2.6 – – 5....................................................... 17.04 8.5 18.93 6.8 – – 6....................................................... 17.74 3.9 17.97 4.1 – – 7....................................................... 21.88 3.6 20.45 8.1 22.20 3.2 8....................................................... 23.01 2.8 22.07 3.2 23.84 2.8 9....................................................... 34.31 8.5 34.31 8.5 – – 10........................................................ 30.84 4.7 30.84 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.91 16.2 19.86 22.8 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.15 3.9 19.35 4.7 21.37 6.6 2....................................................... 9.67 5.2 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.36 4.6 11.36 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 13.03 2.4 12.96 2.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.24 7.6 17.09 8.5 – – 6....................................................... 17.87 3.9 18.15 3.9 – – 7....................................................... 21.88 3.6 20.45 8.1 22.20 3.2 8....................................................... 23.01 2.8 22.07 3.2 23.84 2.8 9....................................................... 29.12 1.5 29.12 1.5 – – 10........................................................ 30.84 4.7 30.84 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.30 15.8 21.69 23.0 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.91 5.6 24.39 11.5 23.57 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.36 6.7 28.07 12.7 24.10 6.1 7....................................................... 22.12 3.5 – – 22.43 2.9 8....................................................... 24.18 2.4 24.27 4.6 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.27 13.9 30.36 13.9 – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.77 14.5 30.78 14.8 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.22 4.0 19.32 5.0 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 16.21 10.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 8.3 29.17 7.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.34 17.5 – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.04 10.1 30.46 7.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... $25.34 17.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.71 8.8 $28.71 8.8 – – Management related............................................ 28.01 8.6 – – – – Sales............................................................. 20.46 29.0 20.46 29.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.59 3.0 13.03 2.1 $11.22 7.9 2....................................................... 9.54 5.0 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.29 4.6 11.29 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 13.09 2.3 13.03 2.6 – – 5....................................................... 13.73 1.7 – – – – 6....................................................... 17.46 3.8 17.46 3.8 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.42 3.1 12.42 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.22 6.5 12.22 6.5 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.88 7.3 – – – – Production coordinators..................................... 13.75 3.4 13.75 3.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.93 6.3 12.93 6.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.56 4.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.98 3.2 14.11 3.2 – – 1....................................................... 9.65 2.4 9.78 2.2 – – 2....................................................... 11.13 3.0 11.14 3.1 – – 3....................................................... 13.92 9.0 13.94 9.1 – – 4....................................................... 15.48 3.2 15.57 3.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.42 3.9 16.56 4.1 – – 6....................................................... 18.69 5.4 18.88 5.6 – – 7....................................................... 19.32 2.2 19.32 2.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.23 12.7 21.23 12.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 1.9 17.37 1.6 – – 3....................................................... 12.47 3.2 12.47 3.6 – – 4....................................................... 15.37 5.5 15.81 5.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.15 6.0 16.42 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 18.75 5.2 18.98 5.5 – – 7....................................................... 19.17 2.1 19.17 2.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.40 4.3 17.40 4.3 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.51 7.7 16.51 7.7 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.72 4.1 13.72 4.1 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.08 7.0 19.08 7.0 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 18.68 3.3 18.68 3.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.40 4.3 17.40 4.3 – – Upholsterers................................................ 19.48 .0 19.48 .0 – – 4....................................................... 18.32 4.6 18.32 4.6 – – 5....................................................... 20.33 3.8 20.33 3.8 – – 6....................................................... 20.31 8.4 20.31 8.4 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $12.81 1.5 $12.81 1.5 – – 1....................................................... 9.59 2.4 9.59 2.4 – – 2....................................................... 11.34 4.5 11.34 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.49 1.4 12.49 1.4 – – 4....................................................... 15.30 3.1 15.30 3.1 – – 5....................................................... 15.60 3.1 15.60 3.1 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 12.96 .1 12.96 .1 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.69 .0 10.69 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 12.89 .7 12.89 .7 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.71 5.0 12.71 5.0 – – 3....................................................... 13.14 1.4 13.14 1.4 – – 4....................................................... 16.20 3.2 16.20 3.2 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.99 3.0 11.99 3.0 – – 2....................................................... 11.12 2.5 11.12 2.5 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.82 6.1 13.82 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.94 4.2 13.94 4.2 – – 2....................................................... 12.24 5.9 12.24 5.9 – – 3....................................................... 12.44 .1 12.44 .1 – – 4....................................................... 15.64 8.7 15.64 8.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.50 1.4 15.50 1.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 12.61 7.1 12.61 7.1 – – 1....................................................... 9.88 1.6 9.88 1.6 – – 2....................................................... 13.75 11.5 13.75 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.50 1.8 12.50 1.8 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 14.86 1.8 14.86 1.8 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 14.34 9.1 14.34 9.1 – – 1....................................................... 10.02 3.7 10.02 3.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.87 4.8 11.87 4.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.77 5.2 9.77 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 10.75 3.5 10.75 3.5 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.14 15.6 16.37 16.1 – – 4....................................................... 16.27 9.7 16.27 9.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 19.20 9.1 19.79 8.5 – – 4....................................................... 17.83 4.3 17.83 4.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.48 4.8 11.79 4.3 – – 1....................................................... 9.68 3.2 9.91 3.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.20 1.5 11.20 1.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.46 1.5 12.46 1.5 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 12.14 4.3 12.14 4.3 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.20 1.6 10.20 1.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.30 3.3 10.30 3.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.86 3.6 10.86 3.6 – – 1....................................................... 10.51 5.1 10.51 5.1 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. $9.36 4.5 $9.36 4.5 – – 1....................................................... 8.86 3.1 8.86 3.1 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.57 6.3 11.46 2.8 – – 1....................................................... 9.49 5.0 10.29 1.9 – – 2....................................................... 12.61 3.3 12.61 3.3 – – Service............................................................. 12.20 12.2 9.62 3.9 $14.93 17.9 1....................................................... 8.18 4.5 7.78 4.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.71 6.8 9.89 8.2 – – 3....................................................... 9.42 2.5 9.42 2.7 – – 4....................................................... 10.53 2.2 – – – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 9.63 3.2 9.47 3.0 – – Other food service........................................... 9.63 3.2 9.47 3.0 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 10.79 5.0 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.46 2.5 10.61 5.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.45 2.6 10.61 5.0 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 18.03 31.0 12.01 14.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.75 3.7 10.31 6.3 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 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 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. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.44 9.6 $7.99 9.2 – – All excluding sales............................................... 8.71 9.8 8.19 9.5 – – White collar........................................................ 12.28 28.5 10.15 24.4 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.06 15.5 18.19 9.1 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.25 18.4 20.27 14.7 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 28.15 20.3 – – – – Health related................................................ 30.79 19.6 – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.64 10.8 8.64 10.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.92 9.3 7.92 9.3 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.37 12.1 8.37 12.1 – – 1....................................................... 8.02 10.6 8.02 10.6 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.46 7.7 9.46 7.7 – – Service............................................................. 6.88 16.9 6.83 17.2 – – 1....................................................... 6.18 10.0 6.04 10.5 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.59 23.0 6.52 23.6 – – 1....................................................... 6.06 12.3 – – – – Other food service........................................... 8.61 13.1 8.56 13.8 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.35 9.0 – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 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 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. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $15.45 $8.44 – $14.93 $14.72 $17.47 All excluding sales............................................. 15.35 8.71 – 14.88 14.80 16.67 White collar........................................................ 20.17 12.28 – 19.87 19.57 – White-collar excluding sales.................................... 20.15 22.06 – 20.18 20.18 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.91 25.25 – 23.94 23.94 – Professional specialty.......................................... 25.36 28.15 – 25.42 25.42 – Technical....................................................... 19.22 – – 19.13 19.13 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.63 – – 30.63 30.63 – Sales............................................................. 20.46 – – 16.82 9.89 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.59 – – 12.63 12.63 – Blue collar......................................................... 13.98 8.64 – 13.54 13.11 16.67 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.06 – – 17.04 16.26 19.72 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 – – 12.77 12.07 15.06 Transportation and material moving................................ 16.14 – – 14.16 15.04 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.48 8.37 – 11.12 11.13 – Service............................................................. 12.20 6.88 – 11.13 11.13 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.8 9.6 – 2.5 3.6 1.4 All excluding sales............................................. 2.8 9.8 – 2.6 3.5 2.8 White collar........................................................ 4.3 28.5 – 4.5 4.1 – White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.9 15.5 – 3.8 3.8 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 5.6 18.4 – 5.3 5.3 – Professional specialty.......................................... 6.7 20.3 – 6.4 6.4 – Technical....................................................... 4.0 – – 3.8 3.8 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 8.3 – – 8.3 8.3 – Sales............................................................. 29.0 – – 27.3 15.1 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.0 – – 3.1 3.1 – Blue collar......................................................... 3.2 10.8 – 1.8 4.5 2.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 1.9 – – 2.0 2.2 .8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.5 – – 1.7 1.5 4.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.6 – – 5.0 24.0 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.8 12.1 – 5.1 5.3 – Service............................................................. 12.2 16.9 – 11.8 11.8 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 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. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $14.49 $14.31 – – $14.28 $14.79 $17.48 $10.95 - $14.87 All excluding sales............................................. 14.42 14.15 – – 14.11 14.91 17.72 10.40 - 14.87 White collar........................................................ 18.98 18.96 – – 18.95 18.99 17.41 13.20 - 21.15 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.33 18.07 – – 18.04 20.65 19.94 – - 21.15 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.25 23.83 – – 23.83 24.32 – – - 23.86 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.86 – – – – 27.76 – – - 27.33 Technical....................................................... 19.19 – – – – 19.35 – – - 18.76 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.17 27.89 – – 27.89 – – – - – Sales............................................................. 16.82 – – – – 12.92 – 13.09 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.07 12.78 – – 12.53 13.54 – – - 12.10 Blue collar......................................................... 13.96 13.54 – – 13.50 15.29 17.49 12.79 - 11.01 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.37 17.38 – – 17.44 17.32 18.04 – - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 12.87 – – 12.87 10.73 – – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.22 13.09 – – 12.83 16.82 18.02 14.23 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.37 11.12 – – 11.10 11.84 15.38 9.42 - – Service............................................................. 8.72 10.91 – – 10.91 8.48 – 7.29 - 9.13 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.6 0.9 – – 1.0 7.1 17.4 10.3 - 7.9 All excluding sales............................................. 2.6 .2 – – .1 7.5 17.9 4.8 - 7.9 White collar........................................................ 5.8 8.5 – – 8.7 8.0 18.1 25.0 - 8.4 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.5 4.2 – – 4.3 7.6 18.2 – - 8.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 10.8 8.8 – – 8.8 12.7 – – - 13.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 11.8 – – – – 13.9 – – - 15.0 Technical....................................................... 4.7 – – – – 5.5 – – - 5.2 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.5 8.1 – – 8.1 – – – - – Sales............................................................. 27.3 – – – – 22.8 – 29.0 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.1 2.0 – – .6 4.6 – – - 7.5 Blue collar......................................................... 3.2 .9 – – .9 12.7 19.2 11.0 - 7.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 1.6 .6 – – .6 6.8 13.9 – - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.4 1.5 – – 1.5 15.6 – – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.8 4.3 – – 4.7 18.5 23.1 7.3 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.9 4.2 – – 4.4 12.7 16.1 16.2 - – Service............................................................. 5.6 15.2 – – 15.2 5.9 – 7.4 - 6.5 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $14.49 $11.56 $15.07 $14.93 $15.50 All excluding sales............................................. 14.42 11.72 14.93 14.72 15.58 White collar........................................................ 18.98 14.01 20.13 19.58 21.40 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.33 15.80 20.00 18.92 22.54 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.25 – 25.25 24.15 26.33 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.86 – 29.27 26.25 32.91 Technical....................................................... 19.19 – 19.39 20.26 18.74 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.17 – 30.15 29.98 – Sales............................................................. 16.82 – 21.19 25.06 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.07 13.27 13.02 13.05 12.90 Blue collar......................................................... 13.96 12.09 14.26 14.37 13.89 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.37 15.65 17.64 18.40 15.67 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.81 9.68 13.20 12.92 14.22 Transportation and material moving................................ 16.22 15.97 16.28 16.43 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.37 9.53 11.72 11.97 11.25 Service............................................................. 8.72 7.05 9.56 9.60 9.38 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.6 8.7 2.7 3.5 5.1 All excluding sales............................................. 2.6 8.6 2.6 3.2 5.0 White collar........................................................ 5.8 12.8 6.4 7.4 13.7 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.5 11.1 5.3 4.7 13.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 10.8 – 10.4 5.0 19.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 11.8 – 10.0 6.5 16.2 Technical....................................................... 4.7 – 5.3 7.9 6.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.5 – 12.2 13.5 – Sales............................................................. 27.3 – 30.3 34.0 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.1 9.0 3.0 3.6 4.4 Blue collar......................................................... 3.2 8.5 3.1 4.0 3.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 1.6 7.0 2.2 2.4 5.6 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.4 2.5 1.4 1.5 6.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.8 13.4 17.3 19.9 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.9 15.7 5.2 7.4 4.2 Service............................................................. 5.6 13.2 5.7 6.4 9.3 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.59 $10.25 $12.99 $17.29 $25.10 All excluding sales........................... 8.75 10.25 13.00 17.29 25.00 White collar.................................... 9.96 12.25 17.13 24.64 31.23 White collar excluding sales................ 10.22 12.69 17.43 25.00 31.23 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.91 18.46 22.43 27.32 34.01 Professional specialty...................... 16.17 19.82 23.94 27.67 37.02 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... – – – – – Health related............................ 18.87 21.48 25.28 38.27 50.05 Registered nurses....................... 18.99 21.30 24.76 37.02 43.81 Teachers, college and university.......... – – – – – Teachers, except college and university... – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... – – – – – Technical................................... 12.06 14.76 18.89 22.28 27.32 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.74 17.00 18.66 21.19 22.05 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 11.19 12.62 14.48 18.88 24.67 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.68 19.94 29.80 37.58 48.08 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.24 19.94 31.14 48.08 54.27 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.63 15.24 19.94 31.14 54.27 Management related........................ 16.93 27.90 29.80 31.00 32.30 Sales......................................... 6.00 7.75 11.54 19.08 26.08 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.00 10.35 12.25 14.41 16.00 Order clerks............................ 10.88 11.20 12.00 13.37 14.34 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.00 9.80 11.99 14.90 Production coordinators................. 11.63 11.81 12.40 16.69 17.85 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.85 10.35 12.95 15.10 15.80 General office clerks................... 10.00 10.84 12.69 14.12 14.55 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 10.46 12.57 16.05 20.74 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.50 13.63 16.04 20.00 23.86 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.63 13.63 15.50 20.58 21.10 Machinery maintenance................... 10.68 12.70 13.59 15.68 16.34 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.75 15.52 19.63 24.50 25.99 Supervisors, production................. 15.00 15.67 19.25 20.74 23.57 Upholsterers............................ 12.89 15.45 19.00 22.49 26.52 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.20 10.49 12.15 14.77 17.29 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.50 10.82 12.97 15.68 16.68 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 8.00 8.50 11.12 11.92 13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... $11.26 $11.40 $12.34 $14.16 $15.86 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.80 10.24 12.15 14.44 18.04 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 10.59 11.17 11.58 13.36 13.85 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.97 12.31 12.45 16.00 17.84 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.09 11.65 13.35 15.75 17.85 Assemblers.............................. 9.61 10.25 10.89 13.44 16.20 Hand cutting and trimming............... 10.97 11.47 14.43 18.00 19.05 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 8.84 10.13 12.95 17.50 21.98 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 10.10 11.39 14.93 15.39 Transportation and material moving............ 9.20 10.50 14.49 20.02 25.35 Truck drivers........................... 9.87 13.48 17.74 25.35 25.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.00 8.95 10.16 12.30 14.80 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 7.75 11.67 12.37 14.00 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.67 9.90 10.25 10.63 11.01 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.55 13.69 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.73 8.00 9.00 9.89 11.36 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.45 8.50 10.10 11.85 14.80 Service......................................... 6.50 8.13 9.66 12.02 15.04 Protective service........................ 6.50 9.50 12.41 13.90 16.48 Food service.............................. 2.13 7.00 8.75 10.00 12.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... – – – – – Other food service....................... 6.75 8.00 9.00 10.40 12.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.50 7.00 8.87 10.56 12.02 Health service............................ 9.00 9.52 10.07 11.19 12.62 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.52 10.07 11.18 12.63 Cleaning and building service............. 8.20 8.89 10.05 35.00 35.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.50 8.79 9.20 10.05 11.19 Personal service.......................... – – – – – 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.50 $10.21 $12.60 $16.61 $22.89 All excluding sales........................... 8.50 10.24 12.62 16.60 22.66 White collar.................................... 9.96 11.68 15.24 22.99 32.88 White collar excluding sales................ 10.30 12.21 15.80 24.56 32.88 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.18 17.00 22.27 28.60 37.98 Professional specialty...................... 16.75 19.23 26.50 36.78 42.50 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Health related............................ 18.81 21.48 25.28 38.27 49.96 Registered nurses....................... 19.12 21.56 25.28 38.27 49.96 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.19 14.12 18.22 22.66 28.60 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.74 17.00 18.66 21.19 22.05 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.24 19.94 29.80 32.30 40.78 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.24 19.94 29.02 40.78 54.27 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.63 15.24 19.94 31.14 54.27 Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.00 7.75 11.54 19.08 26.08 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.92 11.04 12.60 14.62 16.98 Order clerks............................ 10.88 11.20 12.00 13.37 14.34 Production coordinators................. 11.63 11.81 12.40 16.69 17.85 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.85 10.35 12.95 15.10 15.80 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 10.49 12.78 16.15 20.83 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.95 13.79 16.11 20.58 24.33 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.63 13.63 15.50 20.58 21.10 Machinery maintenance................... 10.68 12.70 13.59 15.68 16.34 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.75 15.52 19.63 24.50 25.99 Supervisors, production................. 15.00 15.67 19.25 20.74 23.57 Upholsterers............................ 12.89 15.45 19.00 22.49 26.52 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.20 10.49 12.15 14.77 17.29 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.50 10.82 12.97 15.68 16.68 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 8.00 8.50 11.12 11.92 13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... 11.26 11.40 12.34 14.16 15.86 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.80 10.24 12.15 14.44 18.04 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ $10.59 $11.17 $11.58 $13.36 $13.85 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.97 12.31 12.45 16.00 17.84 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.09 11.65 13.35 15.75 17.85 Assemblers.............................. 9.61 10.25 10.89 13.44 16.20 Hand cutting and trimming............... 10.97 11.47 14.43 18.00 19.05 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 8.84 10.13 12.95 17.50 21.98 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 10.10 11.39 14.93 15.39 Transportation and material moving............ 9.20 10.50 15.00 20.76 25.35 Truck drivers........................... 12.00 15.00 18.91 25.35 25.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.75 9.00 10.45 12.37 14.80 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 7.75 11.67 12.37 14.00 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.67 9.90 10.25 10.63 11.01 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.55 13.69 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.73 8.00 9.00 9.89 11.36 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.50 10.10 11.41 12.90 14.80 Service......................................... 6.00 7.50 8.75 10.06 12.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 6.85 8.50 9.65 12.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.75 8.00 9.00 10.00 12.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.25 6.75 8.00 9.88 12.08 Health service............................ 8.60 9.11 10.50 12.05 13.48 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.60 9.11 10.50 12.05 13.48 Cleaning and building service............. 7.73 8.81 9.80 15.10 15.10 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.73 8.81 9.78 10.83 15.10 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.95 $10.62 $14.89 $22.80 $29.50 All excluding sales........................... 8.95 10.62 14.89 22.80 29.50 White collar.................................... 10.00 14.67 20.82 25.29 29.97 White collar excluding sales................ 10.00 14.67 20.82 25.29 29.97 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.06 19.40 22.43 26.02 29.50 Professional specialty...................... 16.17 20.10 22.80 26.42 29.51 Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.26 9.09 10.98 13.47 14.40 Blue collar..................................... - - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 9.09 9.81 12.02 14.47 35.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.00 $10.50 $13.34 $17.54 $25.28 All excluding sales........................... 9.00 10.49 13.27 17.48 25.23 White collar.................................... 10.22 12.55 17.31 24.85 31.23 White collar excluding sales................ 10.21 12.67 17.51 25.00 31.23 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.00 18.54 22.43 27.32 32.88 Professional specialty...................... 16.43 19.82 23.93 27.67 37.02 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Health related............................ 18.87 21.37 25.28 38.27 52.70 Registered nurses....................... 18.90 21.30 24.92 37.02 43.81 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.06 14.76 18.89 22.43 27.32 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 11.19 12.85 14.48 18.88 24.67 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.68 19.94 29.80 37.58 48.08 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.24 19.94 31.14 48.08 54.27 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.63 15.24 19.94 31.14 54.27 Management related........................ 16.93 27.90 29.80 31.00 32.30 Sales......................................... 10.97 11.50 15.69 22.75 41.40 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.00 10.35 12.25 14.30 16.00 Order clerks............................ 10.88 11.20 12.00 13.37 14.34 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.00 9.80 11.99 14.90 Production coordinators................. 11.63 11.81 12.40 16.69 17.85 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.85 10.35 12.95 15.10 15.80 General office clerks................... 10.00 10.84 12.69 14.12 14.55 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 10.49 12.78 16.15 20.81 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.50 13.63 16.04 20.00 23.86 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.63 13.63 15.50 20.58 21.10 Machinery maintenance................... 10.68 12.70 13.59 15.68 16.34 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.75 15.52 19.63 24.50 25.99 Supervisors, production................. 15.00 15.67 19.25 20.74 23.57 Upholsterers............................ 12.89 15.45 19.00 22.49 26.52 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.20 10.49 12.18 14.77 17.29 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.50 10.82 12.97 15.68 16.68 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 8.00 8.50 11.12 11.92 13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... $11.26 $11.40 $12.34 $14.16 $15.86 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.80 10.49 12.37 14.74 18.16 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 10.59 11.17 11.58 13.36 13.85 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.97 12.31 12.45 16.00 17.84 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.09 11.65 13.35 15.75 17.85 Assemblers.............................. 9.61 10.25 10.89 13.44 16.20 Hand cutting and trimming............... 10.97 11.47 14.43 18.00 19.05 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 8.84 10.13 12.95 17.50 21.98 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 10.10 11.39 14.93 15.39 Transportation and material moving............ 9.20 10.50 14.50 20.37 25.35 Truck drivers........................... 10.63 13.93 18.18 25.35 25.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.45 9.00 10.45 12.37 14.80 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 9.65 11.60 12.35 12.55 14.00 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.67 9.90 10.25 10.63 11.01 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.75 9.24 10.66 11.75 13.69 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.73 8.00 9.00 9.89 11.36 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.45 8.50 10.10 11.85 14.80 Service......................................... 7.82 8.95 10.06 12.71 16.07 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 8.21 8.50 9.24 10.25 12.02 Other food service....................... 8.21 8.50 9.24 10.25 12.02 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 8.31 9.22 10.50 12.02 15.00 Health service............................ 9.00 9.52 10.07 11.15 12.63 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.52 10.07 11.05 12.86 Cleaning and building service............. 8.20 8.89 10.05 35.00 35.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.50 8.79 9.20 10.05 11.19 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 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. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $2.13 $6.25 $7.50 $9.55 $12.00 All excluding sales........................... 2.13 6.35 7.75 10.00 13.05 White collar.................................... 5.65 6.15 7.47 15.10 25.00 White collar excluding sales................ 13.32 15.10 16.67 25.28 38.57 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.32 15.03 23.00 34.76 45.00 Professional specialty...................... 14.38 20.45 25.00 34.76 45.00 Health related............................ 20.45 23.00 25.65 38.57 45.00 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... - - - - - Blue collar..................................... 5.75 6.70 8.50 9.70 11.35 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.65 6.70 8.50 9.55 10.35 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.70 8.50 9.00 10.00 11.35 Service......................................... 2.13 5.75 7.00 8.00 12.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 2.13 6.75 8.75 12.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.25 6.75 7.50 12.00 12.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.00 6.50 7.00 8.00 9.00 Health service............................ - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 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. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 91,200 75,700 15,500 All excluding sales............................................. 88,900 73,400 15,500 White collar........................................................ 24,400 15,200 9,100 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22,100 12,900 9,100 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 10,600 4,300 6,300 Professional specialty.......................................... 8,200 2,500 5,700 Technical....................................................... 2,300 1,800 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2,600 1,900 - Sales............................................................. 2,300 2,300 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9,000 6,700 2,300 Blue collar......................................................... 53,100 51,100 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 10,800 9,900 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 24,800 24,800 – Transportation and material moving................................ 7,500 7,200 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10,100 9,200 - Service............................................................. 13,700 9,300 4,400 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.