Reno, NV National Compensation Survey February 2004 · Compensation, measures employers’ average...

Reno, NVNational Compensation SurveyFebruary 2004_________________________________________________________________________________________

U.S. Department of LaborElaine L. Chao, Secretary

Bureau of Labor StatisticsKathleen P. Utgoff, Commissioner

June 2004

Bulletin 3120–71

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Preface

ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of theBureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Compensa-

tion Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been con-ducted without the cooperation of the many private firmsand government jurisdictions that provided pay data in-cluded in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respon-dents for their cooperation.

Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics col-lected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Com-pensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with theOffice of Field Operations and the Office of Technologyand Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, de-signed the survey, processed the data, and prepared thesurvey for publication.

For additional information regarding this survey, pleasecontact any BLS regional office at the address and tele-phone number listed on the back cover of this bulletin.You may also write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at:Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning,

2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington,DC 20212–0001, or call (202) 691–6199, or send e-mail [email protected].

The data contained in this bulletin are also available athttp://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm, the BLS Inter-net site. Data are in three formats: An ASCII file contain-ing the published table formats; an ASCII file containingpositional columns of data for manipulation as a data baseor spreadsheet; and a Portable Document Format (PDF) filecontaining the entire bulletin.

Results of earlier surveys of this area are also availablefrom BLS regional offices, the Division of CompensationData Analysis and Planning, or at the BLS Internet site.

Material in this bulletin is in the public domain and,with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permis-sion. This information will be made available to sensoryimpaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202)691–5200; Federal Relay Service: 1–800–877–8339.

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Contents

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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1

Tables:

1–1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours by selected worker and establishmentcharacteristics, private industry, and State and local government................................................ 2

2–1. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, all workers, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 3

2–2. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 5

2–3. Mean hourly earnings: Selected occupations, part-time workers, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 7

3–1. Mean weekly earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 8

3–2. Mean annual earnings and hours: Selected occupations, full-time workers, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 10

4–1. Selected occupations and levels, all workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 12

4–2. Selected occupations and levels, full-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 16

4–3. Selected occupations and levels, part-time workers: Mean hourly earnings, private industry,and State and local government ................................................................................................... 19

5–1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group ........................... 215–2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group, private industry............ 225–3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings by occupational group,

private industry ............................................................................................................................ 236–1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:

Selected occupations, all industries.............................................................................................. 246–2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:

Selected occupations, private industry ......................................................................................... 266–3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, all workers:

Selected occupations, State and local government....................................................................... 286–4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, full-time workers:

Selected occupations, all industries.............................................................................................. 296–5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs, part-time workers:

Selected occupations, all industries.............................................................................................. 31

Appendixes:

A. Technical Note ................................................................................................................................ A – 1Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey, by occupational group ........... A – 5

B. Occupational Classifications ........................................................................................................... B – 1C. Occupational Leveling Criteria ....................................................................................................... C – 1D. Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs........................................................................................................... D – 1

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Introduction

he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results forthe Reno, NV, metropolitan area. Data were collected

between December 2003 and April 2004; the average ref-erence month is February 2004. Tabulations provide in-formation on earnings of workers in a variety of occupa-tions and at different work levels. Also contained in thisbulletin are information on the program, a technical notedescribing survey procedures, and several appendixes withdetailed information on occupational classifications and theoccupational leveling methodology.

NCS productsThe Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides dataon occupational wages and employee benefits for localities,broad geographic regions, and the Nation as a whole. TheEmployment Cost Index, a quarterly measure of the changein employer costs for wages and benefits, is derived fromthe NCS. Another product, Employer Costs for EmployeeCompensation, measures employers’ average hourly costsfor total compensation, that is, wages and benefits. Stillanother NCS product measures the incidence of benefitplans and their provisions. This bulletin is limited to dataon occupational wages and salaries.

About the tablesThe tables that follow present data on straight-time occupa-tional earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentivepay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Theseearnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations,holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 480 de-tailed occupations are used to describe all occupations inthe civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Gov-ernment and private households). Data are not shown forany occupations if they would raise concerns about the con-fidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are in-sufficient to support reliable estimates.

Table 1–1 presents an overview of all tables in this bul-letin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relativestandard errors are given for all industries, private industry,and State and local government for selected worker and es-tablishment characteristics. The worker characteristics in-clude major occupational group, full-time or part-timestatus, union or nonunion status, and time or incentive pay.

Establishment characteristics include goods and serviceproducing and size of establishment.

Table 2–1 presents estimates of mean hourly earnings,and the relative standard errors associated with them, fordetailed occupations within all industries, private industry,and State and local government. Table 2–2 presents thesame type of information for full-time workers only. Table2–3 provides similar data for workers designated as part-time.

Table 3–1 provides mean weekly earnings data, withrelative standard errors, and weekly hours for full-time em-ployees in specific occupations across all industries, privateindustry, and State and local government. Table 3–2 pro-vides annual earnings, relative standard errors, and annualhours for full-time employees in specific occupations.

Table 4–1 provides mean hourly earnings data by worklevel for occupational groups and for detailed occupations.Separate data are also shown for private industry and gov-ernment workers. Table 4–2 provides work level data forfull-time workers. Table 4–3 provides similar data forworkers designated as part-time.

Table 5–1 presents mean hourly earnings data for se-lected worker characteristics by major occupational groups.The worker characteristics include full-time or part-timedesignation, union or nonunion status, and time or incentivepay. Table 5–2 presents mean hourly earnings data for ma-jor industry divisions by occupational groups; these esti-mates are limited to the private sector. Table 5–3 presentsmean hourly earnings data for establishment employmentsizes by major occupational groups within the private sec-tor.

Tables 6–1 through 6–5 present hourly wage percentilesthat describe the distribution of hourly earnings for indi-vidual workers within each published occupation. Data areprovided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentilesfor detailed occupations within all industries, private indus-try, State and local government, full-time workers, andpart-time workers. These iterations correspond to thosepresented in tables 2–1, 2–2, and 2–3.

Appendix table 1 provides the number of workers rep-resented by the survey by major occupational group. Theemployment estimates relate to all employers in the area,rather than just to those surveyed.

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Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Worker and establishment characteristics

Total Private industry State and local government

Hourly earningsMean

weeklyhours3

Hourly earningsMean

weeklyhours3

Hourly earningsMeanweeklyhours3Mean

Relativeerror2

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror2

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror2

(percent)

Total ........................................................................... $16.59 3.1 37.7 $14.77 4.0 37.8 $26.42 3.7 37.2

Worker characteristics:4

White-collar occupations5 ....................................... 21.21 5.1 37.8 18.69 7.4 38.1 28.83 4.2 36.8Professional specialty and technical ................... 30.85 4.4 37.2 27.97 6.2 36.6 34.78 7.0 38.2Executive, administrative, and managerial ......... 30.08 5.4 42.2 28.83 6.8 42.9 34.50 10.0 40.0Sales ................................................................... 13.15 7.9 37.6 13.11 7.9 37.6 – – –Administrative support ........................................ 14.11 3.7 37.0 12.84 4.1 38.2 17.65 8.0 34.0

Blue-collar occupations5 ......................................... 17.13 3.2 39.0 17.08 3.4 39.3 18.02 9.2 35.1Precision production, craft, and repair ................ 21.30 4.3 40.2 21.32 4.5 40.3 21.02 12.0 39.2Machine operators, assemblers, andinspectors ......................................................... 12.19 9.0 39.8 12.19 9.0 39.8 – – –

Transportation and material moving ................... 18.03 4.5 39.6 18.60 3.8 39.6 – – –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers,and laborers ...................................................... 11.40 7.4 36.2 11.40 7.5 37.0 – – –

Service occupations5 .............................................. 10.32 2.7 36.7 8.90 3.3 36.4 21.98 5.2 39.0

Full time .................................................................. 17.03 3.3 39.9 15.08 4.3 40.1 27.10 3.9 38.9Part time ................................................................. 11.72 7.8 23.2 11.54 8.6 23.5 13.46 15.1 20.5

Union ...................................................................... 21.45 2.4 38.5 19.39 4.0 39.5 24.01 1.6 37.3Nonunion ................................................................ 15.34 4.1 37.5 14.05 4.8 37.5 29.85 7.1 37.0

Time ........................................................................ 16.39 3.3 37.6 14.48 4.3 37.6 26.42 3.7 37.2Incentive ................................................................. 24.32 12.2 42.3 24.32 12.2 42.3 – – –

Establishment characteristics:

Goods producing .................................................... 6( ) 6( ) 6( ) 19.63 5.2 40.2 6( ) 6( ) 6( )Service producing ................................................... 6( ) 6( ) 6( ) 13.85 5.0 37.3 6( ) 6( ) 6( )

50-99 workers7 ....................................................... 18.07 7.4 37.8 18.04 7.5 37.7 – – –100-499 workers ..................................................... 15.62 8.4 37.4 15.28 9.1 37.3 22.23 3.8 37.9500 workers or more ............................................... 16.53 2.3 37.8 12.72 3.0 38.1 26.86 4.0 37.0

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. Theyinclude incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premiumpay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean iscomputed 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 ofthe estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sampleestimate. 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 basedon the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages aredetermined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on

hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partiallybased on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and productionbonuses.

5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to coverall workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.

6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producingindustries applies to private industry only.

7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments withfewer 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 publicationcriteria.

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Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3


MeanRelativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

All ............................................................................................. $16.59 3.1 $14.77 4.0 $26.42 3.7All excluding sales ............................................................ 16.98 3.0 15.00 4.0 26.41 3.8

White collar ......................................................................... 21.21 5.1 18.69 7.4 28.83 4.2White collar excluding sales ......................................... 23.67 4.4 21.20 7.0 28.83 4.2

Professional specialty and technical ............................ 30.85 4.4 27.97 6.2 34.78 7.0Professional specialty ................................................... 33.39 4.0 31.05 5.8 36.06 6.3

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 32.80 3.3 32.18 2.8 – –Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... – – – – – –Natural scientists ...................................................... – – – – – –Health related ........................................................... 32.98 5.2 33.13 5.8 – –

Registered nurses ................................................ 28.94 2.1 28.42 1.3 – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 23.86 8.2 – – – –Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ – – – – – –Technical ...................................................................... 20.24 6.2 19.05 6.5 – –

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 19.18 1.6 19.15 1.7 – –Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 15.64 9.5 – – – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 30.08 5.4 28.83 6.8 34.50 10.0Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 29.96 7.8 27.43 8.0 40.89 10.5

Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... 23.51 12.5 23.51 12.5 – –Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 30.40 13.9 29.83 15.5 – –

Management related ................................................. 30.32 16.2 31.93 20.4 – –

Sales ................................................................................ 13.15 7.9 13.11 7.9 – –Supervisors, sales ................................................ 18.41 10.2 18.41 10.2 – –Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 12.66 5.2 12.66 5.2 – –Cashiers ............................................................... 9.14 5.1 9.14 5.1 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 14.11 3.7 12.84 4.1 17.65 8.0Secretaries ........................................................... 16.37 5.8 16.37 5.8 – –Hotel clerks ........................................................... 9.46 6.5 9.46 6.5 – –Receptionists ........................................................ 9.85 9.0 – – – –Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 13.05 9.9 12.35 6.8 – –Dispatchers ........................................................... 21.39 8.6 – – – –Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 11.13 7.3 11.13 7.3 – –General office clerks ............................................. 16.23 5.9 15.60 14.6 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.13 3.2 17.08 3.4 18.02 9.2

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 21.30 4.3 21.32 4.5 21.02 12.0Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 17.85 6.1 17.82 6.8 – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 12.19 9.0 12.19 9.0 – –Assemblers ........................................................... 10.81 .9 10.81 .9 – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ 18.03 4.5 18.60 3.8 – –Truck drivers ......................................................... 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – –Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 17.43 17.7 17.43 17.7 – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 11.40 7.4 11.40 7.5 – –Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 8.36 17.9 8.36 17.9 – –Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 11.16 6.4 11.16 6.4 – –Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 9.42 8.2 9.40 8.3 – –

Service ................................................................................. 10.32 2.7 8.90 3.3 21.98 5.2Protective service ..................................................... 18.42 3.0 9.92 9.4 25.43 1.0

Firefighting ............................................................ 18.64 3.5 – – 18.64 3.5Police and detectives, public service .................... 29.48 10.0 – – – –Guards and police, except public service ............. 8.84 3.8 8.84 3.8 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government,National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued

Occupation3


MeanRelativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

Service –ContinuedFood service ............................................................. $8.54 5.5 $8.54 5.6 – –Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 6.21 1.9 6.21 1.9 – –Bartenders ............................................................ 7.37 2.7 7.35 2.7 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.69 3.0 5.69 3.0 – –Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 6.28 4.8 6.28 4.8 – –

Other food service .................................................. 9.90 6.0 9.90 6.0 – –Cooks ................................................................... 11.41 4.2 11.41 4.2 – –Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 9.40 4.9 9.40 4.9 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.71 6.7 7.71 6.7 – –

Health service ........................................................... 12.14 3.8 11.68 4.2 – –Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 12.11 4.5 11.61 5.3 – –

Cleaning and building service ................................... 9.37 5.0 9.04 4.4 – –Maids and housemen ........................................... 8.68 2.6 8.68 2.6 – –Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 9.75 5.2 9.28 5.4 – –

Personal service ....................................................... 8.68 2.4 8.59 2.1 $11.38 24.3Supervisors, personal service .............................. 15.78 2.1 15.59 2.2 – –Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 7.15 6.4 7.02 6.4 – –Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 9.41 9.3 9.41 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. Excludedare premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, andtips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by thenumber 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 apercent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" arounda sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meetpublication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overalloccupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

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Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3


MeanRelativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)





Registered nurses ................................................ 29.57 4.5 28.89 4.7 – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 23.86 8.2 – – – –Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 19.10 2.1 19.06 2.2 – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 30.12 5.5 28.83 6.8 35.07 9.9Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 29.96 7.8 27.43 8.0 40.89 10.5



Sales ................................................................................ 13.63 9.0 13.59 9.1 – –Supervisors, sales ................................................ 18.41 10.2 18.41 10.2 – –Cashiers ............................................................... 9.18 5.1 9.18 5.1 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 14.20 3.9 12.83 4.3 17.98 8.6Secretaries ........................................................... 16.37 5.8 16.37 5.8 – –Hotel clerks ........................................................... 9.46 6.5 9.46 6.5 – –Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 13.03 10.0 12.32 6.8 – –Dispatchers ........................................................... 21.39 8.6 – – – –Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 11.13 7.3 11.13 7.3 – –General office clerks ............................................. 16.23 5.9 15.60 14.6 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.53 3.3 17.47 3.4 18.72 12.8

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 21.32 4.3 21.34 4.5 21.01 12.1Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 17.85 6.1 17.82 6.8 – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 12.22 9.3 12.22 9.3 – –Assemblers ........................................................... 10.75 .7 10.75 .7 – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ 18.11 4.5 18.71 3.8 – –Truck drivers ......................................................... 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 11.99 8.1 11.99 8.1 – –Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 11.20 6.6 11.20 6.6 – –Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 9.83 11.2 9.83 11.2 – –

Service ................................................................................. 10.72 2.8 9.16 3.4 23.07 6.2Protective service ..................................................... 18.94 3.0 10.30 9.2 25.57 1.0


Food service ............................................................. 8.93 5.5 8.93 5.5 – –Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 6.43 2.1 6.43 2.1 – –Bartenders ............................................................ 7.50 1.4 7.50 1.4 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.82 4.2 5.82 4.2 – –Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 6.58 3.2 6.58 3.2 – –


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Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued

Occupation3


MeanRelativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

Service –ContinuedFood service –ContinuedOther food service .................................................. $10.16 6.4 $10.16 6.4 – –Cooks ................................................................... 11.41 4.2 11.41 4.2 – –Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 9.40 4.9 9.40 4.9 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.74 7.7 7.74 7.7 – –

Health service ........................................................... – – – – – –Cleaning and building service ................................... 9.53 5.8 9.20 5.3 – –

Maids and housemen ........................................... 8.69 3.0 8.69 3.0 – –Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 10.05 5.5 9.60 6.0 – –

Personal service ....................................................... 8.87 1.8 8.82 1.6 – –Supervisors, personal service .............................. 15.78 2.1 15.59 2.2 – –Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 7.21 6.3 7.21 6.3 – –Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 9.24 8.2 9.24 8.2 – –


2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-timeschedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, aworker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-timeemployee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, wherea 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is usedto cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.



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Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3


MeanRelativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)



Professional specialty and technical ............................ 25.72 4.3 26.32 5.1 – –Professional specialty ................................................... 27.10 3.8 27.10 3.8 – –

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... – – – – – –Health related ........................................................... – – – – – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ – – – – – –Technical ...................................................................... 18.43 5.0 – – – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. – – – – – –Management related ................................................. – – – – – –

Sales ................................................................................ 8.81 7.3 8.81 7.3 – –Cashiers ............................................................... 8.86 10.5 8.86 10.5 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 12.38 7.7 12.95 8.0 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.83 4.3 8.48 4.1 – –

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 8.40 5.1 7.95 2.9 – –Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 6.96 2.3 6.96 2.3 – –

Service ................................................................................. 7.20 4.0 6.96 4.4 10.00 13.1Protective service ..................................................... – – – – – –Food service ............................................................. 6.14 2.8 6.12 2.8 – –Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.50 1.2 5.47 1.1 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.32 .7 5.32 .7 – –

Other food service .................................................. 7.14 11.0 7.15 11.1 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.54 6.7 – – – –


Cleaning and building service ................................... – – – – – –Personal service ....................................................... 7.09 8.5 5.97 7.8 – –

Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 6.83 7.4 5.54 .3 – –


2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-timeschedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, aworker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-timeemployee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, wherea 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is usedto cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.



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Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3


Weekly earningsMean

weeklyhours5

Weekly earningsMeanweeklyhours5

Weekly earningsMeanweeklyhours5Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

All ............................................................... $679 3.2 39.9 $605 4.2 40.1 $1,054 4.0 38.9All excluding sales .............................. 693 3.0 39.8 612 4.1 40.0 1,054 4.0 38.9

White collar ........................................... 852 5.5 39.7 758 8.2 40.4 1,102 4.6 37.7White collar excluding sales ........... 937 4.7 39.4 848 7.7 40.3 1,102 4.6 37.7

Professional specialty andtechnical ...................................... 1,250 4.7 39.7 1,142 7.0 40.3 1,368 6.9 39.0

Professional specialty ..................... 1,346 4.7 39.3 1,281 6.9 39.9 1,402 6.7 38.9Engineers, architects, and

surveyors .............................. 1,362 5.5 41.7 1,316 4.1 41.1 – – –Mathematical and computer

scientists ............................... – – – – – – – – –Natural scientists ........................ – – – – – – – – –Health related ............................. 1,367 7.3 39.2 1,393 8.3 39.3 – – –

Registered nurses .................. 1,153 4.1 39.0 1,129 4.5 39.1 – – –Teachers, college and university – – – – – – – – –Teachers, except college and

university .............................. – – – – – – – – –Social scientists and urban

planners ................................ – – – – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious

workers ................................. 973 7.1 40.8 – – – – – –Lawyers and judges .................... – – – – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers,

athletes, and professionals,n.e.c. ..................................... – – – – – – – – –

Technical ........................................ 841 5.1 41.2 787 4.5 41.5 – – –Licensed practical nurses ....... 750 3.5 39.3 748 3.7 39.3 – – –

Executive, administrative, andmanagerial ................................... 1,272 6.1 42.2 1,236 7.7 42.9 1,403 9.9 40.0Executives, administrators, and

managers .............................. 1,296 6.7 43.2 1,209 7.5 44.1 1,636 10.5 40.0Managers, service

organizations, n.e.c. ......... 1,063 20.7 45.2 1,063 20.7 45.2 – – –Managers and administrators,

n.e.c. ................................. 1,330 15.0 43.7 1,318 17.0 44.2 – – –Management related ................... 1,228 16.7 40.3 1,291 20.1 40.5 – – –

Sales .................................................. 553 8.8 40.6 552 8.8 40.6 – – –Supervisors, sales .................. 728 11.2 39.6 728 11.2 39.6 – – –Cashiers ................................. 364 5.1 39.7 364 5.1 39.7 – – –

Administrative support, includingclerical ......................................... 541 4.3 38.1 505 4.6 39.4 632 9.5 35.1

Secretaries ............................. 642 6.8 39.2 642 6.8 39.2 – – –Hotel clerks ............................. 377 6.7 39.9 377 6.7 39.9 – – –Bookkeepers, accounting and

auditing clerks ................... 520 10.1 39.9 492 6.8 39.9 – – –Dispatchers ............................. 856 8.6 40.0 – – – – – –Stock and inventory clerks ...... 445 7.3 40.0 445 7.3 40.0 – – –General office clerks ............... 649 5.9 40.0 624 14.6 40.0 – – –

Blue collar ............................................. 704 3.5 40.2 702 3.6 40.2 749 12.8 40.0

Precision production, craft, andrepair ............................................ 860 4.5 40.3 861 4.7 40.3 841 12.1 40.0

Mechanics and repairers,n.e.c. ................................. 714 6.1 40.0 713 6.8 40.0 – – –

Machine operators, assemblers,and inspectors ............................ 489 9.3 40.0 489 9.3 40.0 – – –

Assemblers ............................. 430 .7 40.0 430 .7 40.0 – – –


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Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued

Occupation3


Weekly earningsMean

weeklyhours5

Weekly earningsMeanweeklyhours5

Weekly earningsMeanweeklyhours5Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

Blue collar –Continued

Transportation and materialmoving ......................................... $725 4.5 40.0 $748 3.8 40.0 – – –

Truck drivers ........................... 778 4.0 40.0 778 4.0 40.0 – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners,helpers, and laborers ................. 480 8.4 40.1 480 8.4 40.1 – – –

Freight, stock, and materialhandlers, n.e.c. ................. 447 6.7 39.9 447 6.7 39.9 – – –

Laborers, except construction,n.e.c. ................................. 393 11.2 40.0 393 11.2 40.0 – – –

Service ................................................... 429 2.7 40.0 363 3.2 39.7 $985 7.2 42.7Protective service ....................... 784 4.1 41.4 402 7.3 39.0 1,111 1.2 43.4

Firefighting .............................. 988 3.5 53.0 – – – 988 3.5 53.0Police and detectives, public

service .............................. 1,179 10.0 40.0 – – – – – –Guards and police, except

public service .................... 367 3.6 39.9 367 3.6 39.9 – – –Food service ............................... 356 5.7 39.9 356 5.7 39.9 – – –Waiters, waitresses, and

bartenders .......................... 255 1.5 39.7 255 1.5 39.7 – – –Bartenders .............................. 299 1.2 39.8 299 1.2 39.8 – – –Waiters and waitresses .......... 229 2.2 39.4 229 2.2 39.4 – – –Waiters’/Waitresses’

assistants .......................... 263 3.2 40.0 263 3.2 40.0 – – –Other food service .................... 406 6.5 39.9 406 6.5 39.9 – – –Cooks ..................................... 452 4.0 39.7 452 4.0 39.7 – – –Kitchen workers, food

preparation ....................... 376 4.9 40.0 376 4.9 40.0 – – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... 310 7.7 40.0 310 7.7 40.0 – – –

Health service ............................. – – – – – – – – –Cleaning and building service ..... 379 5.2 39.7 365 4.6 39.7 – – –

Maids and housemen ............. 347 2.7 39.9 347 2.7 39.9 – – –Janitors and cleaners ............. 397 4.9 39.5 379 5.2 39.4 – – –

Personal service ......................... 351 1.8 39.6 349 1.6 39.6 – – –Supervisors, personal service 637 2.6 40.4 629 2.8 40.4 – – –Attendants, amusement, and

recreation facilities ............ 283 6.6 39.3 283 6.6 39.3 – – –Service, n.e.c. ......................... 367 8.2 39.8 367 8.2 39.8 – – –

1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees.They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excludedare premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, andtips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by thenumber of workers, weighted by hours.

2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedulebased on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in oneestablishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week isthe 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 asample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in aweek, exclusive of overtime.


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Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3


Annual earningsMeanannualhours5


Annual earningsMeanannualhours5Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)

All ............................................................... $34,497 3.2 2,026 $31,359 4.2 2,079 $48,476 4.0 1,789All excluding sales .............................. 35,101 3.0 2,017 31,712 4.1 2,075 48,459 4.0 1,788

White collar ........................................... 42,323 5.5 1,971 39,372 8.2 2,100 49,033 4.6 1,677White collar excluding sales ........... 45,975 4.7 1,933 44,058 7.7 2,095 49,011 4.6 1,676

Professional specialty andtechnical ...................................... 58,893 4.7 1,871 59,263 7.0 2,092 58,557 6.9 1,669

Professional specialty ..................... 62,054 4.7 1,814 66,404 6.9 2,067 58,978 6.7 1,636Engineers, architects, and

surveyors .............................. 70,816 5.5 2,168 68,437 4.1 2,137 – – –Mathematical and computer

scientists ............................... – – – – – – – – –Natural scientists ........................ – – – – – – – – –Health related ............................. 68,698 7.3 1,973 72,415 8.3 2,046 – – –

Registered nurses .................. 57,310 4.1 1,938 58,705 4.5 2,032 – – –Teachers, college and university – – – – – – – – –Teachers, except college and

university .............................. – – – – – – – – –Social scientists and urban

planners ................................ – – – – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious

workers ................................. 50,618 7.1 2,121 – – – – – –Lawyers and judges .................... – – – – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers,

athletes, and professionals,n.e.c. ..................................... – – – – – – – – –

Technical ........................................ 43,720 5.1 2,141 40,938 4.5 2,155 – – –Licensed practical nurses ....... 39,020 3.5 2,043 38,915 3.7 2,042 – – –

Executive, administrative, andmanagerial ................................... 66,162 6.1 2,197 64,279 7.7 2,229 72,948 9.9 2,080Executives, administrators, and

managers .............................. 67,369 6.7 2,249 62,853 7.5 2,292 85,060 10.5 2,080Managers, service

organizations, n.e.c. ......... 55,289 20.7 2,352 55,289 20.7 2,352 – – –Managers and administrators,

n.e.c. ................................. 69,147 15.0 2,275 68,530 17.0 2,297 – – –Management related ................... 63,849 16.7 2,098 67,157 20.1 2,103 – – –

Sales .................................................. 28,773 8.8 2,111 28,693 8.8 2,111 – – –Supervisors, sales .................. 37,866 11.2 2,057 37,866 11.2 2,057 – – –Cashiers ................................. 18,937 5.1 2,063 18,937 5.1 2,063 – – –

Administrative support, includingclerical ......................................... 26,989 4.3 1,901 26,236 4.6 2,045 28,614 9.5 1,591

Secretaries ............................. 32,758 6.8 2,001 32,758 6.8 2,001 – – –Hotel clerks ............................. 19,627 6.7 2,074 19,627 6.7 2,074 – – –Bookkeepers, accounting and

auditing clerks ................... 27,041 10.1 2,076 25,566 6.8 2,075 – – –Dispatchers ............................. 44,493 8.6 2,080 – – – – – –Stock and inventory clerks ...... 23,152 7.3 2,080 23,152 7.3 2,080 – – –General office clerks ............... 33,766 5.9 2,080 32,446 14.6 2,080 – – –

Blue collar ............................................. 36,133 3.5 2,062 36,203 3.6 2,073 34,887 12.8 1,864

Precision production, craft, andrepair ............................................ 44,386 4.5 2,082 44,438 4.7 2,082 43,708 12.1 2,080

Mechanics and repairers,n.e.c. ................................. 37,121 6.1 2,080 37,074 6.8 2,080 – – –

Machine operators, assemblers,and inspectors ............................ 25,343 9.3 2,075 25,343 9.3 2,075 – – –

Assemblers ............................. 22,175 .7 2,063 22,175 .7 2,063 – – –


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Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, private industry and State and localgovernment, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued

Occupation3




Annual earningsMeanannualhours5Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror4

(percent)


Transportation and materialmoving ......................................... $36,198 4.5 1,998 $38,913 3.8 2,080 – – –

Truck drivers ........................... 40,439 4.0 2,080 40,439 4.0 2,080 – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners,helpers, and laborers ................. 24,536 8.4 2,047 24,536 8.4 2,047 – – –

Freight, stock, and materialhandlers, n.e.c. ................. 23,243 6.7 2,076 23,243 6.7 2,076 – – –

Laborers, except construction,n.e.c. ................................. 20,451 11.2 2,080 20,451 11.2 2,080 – – –

Service ................................................... 22,281 2.7 2,078 18,881 3.2 2,061 $51,195 7.2 2,219Protective service ....................... 40,788 4.1 2,154 20,911 7.3 2,030 57,772 1.2 2,259

Firefighting .............................. 51,385 3.5 2,756 – – – 51,385 3.5 2,756Police and detectives, public

service .............................. 61,312 10.0 2,080 – – – – – –Guards and police, except

public service .................... 19,087 3.6 2,076 19,087 3.6 2,076 – – –Food service ............................... 18,506 5.7 2,072 18,506 5.7 2,072 – – –Waiters, waitresses, and

bartenders .......................... 13,260 1.5 2,063 13,260 1.5 2,063 – – –Bartenders .............................. 15,525 1.2 2,070 15,525 1.2 2,070 – – –Waiters and waitresses .......... 11,912 2.2 2,048 11,912 2.2 2,048 – – –Waiters’/Waitresses’

assistants .......................... 13,677 3.2 2,080 13,677 3.2 2,080 – – –Other food service .................... 21,100 6.5 2,077 21,100 6.5 2,077 – – –Cooks ..................................... 23,520 4.0 2,062 23,520 4.0 2,062 – – –Kitchen workers, food

preparation ....................... 19,545 4.9 2,080 19,545 4.9 2,080 – – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ......... 16,108 7.7 2,080 16,108 7.7 2,080 – – –

Health service ............................. – – – – – – – – –Cleaning and building service ..... 19,685 5.2 2,065 18,982 4.6 2,063 – – –

Maids and housemen ............. 18,037 2.7 2,077 18,037 2.7 2,077 – – –Janitors and cleaners ............. 20,651 4.9 2,056 19,685 5.2 2,050 – – –

Personal service ......................... 18,187 1.8 2,050 18,078 1.6 2,050 – – –Supervisors, personal service 33,105 2.6 2,098 32,719 2.8 2,099 – – –Attendants, amusement, and

recreation facilities ............ 14,641 6.6 2,031 14,641 6.6 2,031 – – –Service, n.e.c. ......................... 19,108 8.2 2,068 19,108 8.2 2,068 – – –

1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees.They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excludedare premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, andtips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by thenumber of workers, weighted by hours.

2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedulebased on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in oneestablishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week isthe 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 asample 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.


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Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State andlocal government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation and level


MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)


White collar ......................................................................... 21.21 5.1 18.69 7.4 28.83 4.2 1 ...................................................................... 7.02 .9 7.02 .9 – – 2 ...................................................................... 9.18 5.5 8.89 5.8 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.19 4.8 10.26 5.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.09 5.2 12.45 4.0 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.52 3.1 15.73 3.4 18.58 4.2 6 ...................................................................... 17.47 6.3 16.70 6.2 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.53 4.6 22.59 3.4 – – 8 ...................................................................... 26.64 7.0 27.55 7.9 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.78 1.7 27.94 2.2 29.87 2.210 ...................................................................... 32.93 10.2 36.91 9.8 – –11 ...................................................................... 35.15 5.4 34.74 8.3 35.97 1.712 ...................................................................... 39.08 12.7 – – – –13 ...................................................................... 53.80 7.2 – – – –Not able to be leveled ....................................... 38.30 43.0 – – – –

White collar excluding sales ......................................... 23.67 4.4 21.20 7.0 28.83 4.2 2 ...................................................................... 10.22 4.9 10.00 6.4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.49 6.2 10.67 7.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.52 6.5 12.71 5.8 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.78 3.6 15.76 4.8 18.58 4.2 6 ...................................................................... 17.46 7.2 16.56 7.2 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.80 6.0 22.48 5.4 – – 8 ...................................................................... 23.35 4.7 23.42 6.4 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.75 1.6 27.85 2.1 29.87 2.210 ...................................................................... 32.93 10.2 36.91 9.8 – –11 ...................................................................... 35.20 5.5 34.74 8.3 36.13 2.012 ...................................................................... 39.08 12.7 – – – –13 ...................................................................... 53.80 7.2 – – – –


5 ...................................................................... 13.67 1.2 13.67 1.2 – – 8 ...................................................................... 22.01 8.2 22.01 8.2 – – 9 ...................................................................... 29.46 1.7 28.52 2.2 30.61 1.410 ...................................................................... 30.03 9.4 – – – –11 ...................................................................... 38.20 3.4 40.73 5.4 – –12 ...................................................................... 39.83 24.4 – – – –


9 ...................................................................... 29.01 2.4 28.39 1.3 – –Registered nurses ................................................ 28.94 2.1 28.42 1.3 – –

9 ...................................................................... 29.01 2.4 28.39 1.3 – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 23.86 8.2 – – – –Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


5 ...................................................................... 20.32 10.9 17.95 6.0 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.09 5.1 18.03 5.4 – –

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 19.18 1.6 19.15 1.7 – –Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 15.64 9.5 – – – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 30.08 5.4 28.83 6.8 34.50 10.0 8 ...................................................................... 24.48 6.4 – – – – 9 ...................................................................... 26.50 2.2 – – 26.12 1.911 ...................................................................... 31.01 10.0 30.19 10.6 – –

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 29.96 7.8 27.43 8.0 40.89 10.5 9 ...................................................................... 27.32 2.8 – – – –


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Table 4-1. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 all workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry and State andlocal government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)

White collar –Continued

Executive, administrative, and managerial –ContinuedExecutives, administrators, and managers

–Continued11 ...................................................................... $30.99 10.2 – – – –

Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... 23.51 12.5 $23.51 12.5 – –Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 30.40 13.9 29.83 15.5 – –


Sales ................................................................................ 13.15 7.9 13.11 7.9 – – 1 ...................................................................... 7.01 .9 7.01 .9 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.76 5.3 7.76 5.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.86 7.0 9.86 7.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 11.81 3.8 11.81 3.8 – – 5 ...................................................................... 15.66 2.0 15.66 2.0 – –

Supervisors, sales ................................................ 18.41 10.2 18.41 10.2 – –Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 12.66 5.2 12.66 5.2 – –Cashiers ............................................................... 9.14 5.1 9.14 5.1 – –

1 ...................................................................... 7.01 .9 7.01 .9 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.68 5.9 7.68 5.9 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.61 8.6 9.61 8.6 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 14.11 3.7 12.84 4.1 $17.65 8.0 2 ...................................................................... 10.22 4.9 10.00 6.4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.49 6.2 10.67 7.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.60 6.4 12.77 5.7 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.46 5.4 15.55 10.4 17.40 2.1 6 ...................................................................... 16.48 9.5 16.10 9.9 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.96 9.8 – – – –

Secretaries ........................................................... 16.37 5.8 16.37 5.8 – –Hotel clerks ........................................................... 9.46 6.5 9.46 6.5 – –Receptionists ........................................................ 9.85 9.0 – – – –Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 13.05 9.9 12.35 6.8 – –

4 ...................................................................... 13.27 18.6 11.89 16.7 – –Dispatchers ........................................................... 21.39 8.6 – – – –Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 11.13 7.3 11.13 7.3 – –General office clerks ............................................. 16.23 5.9 15.60 14.6 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.13 3.2 17.08 3.4 18.02 9.2 1 ...................................................................... 9.47 5.8 9.36 6.2 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.86 5.7 8.86 5.7 – – 3 ...................................................................... 13.01 5.1 13.10 5.5 – – 4 ...................................................................... 15.63 10.4 15.20 9.4 – – 5 ...................................................................... 17.91 7.6 17.91 8.0 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.00 6.2 18.32 6.8 – – 7 ...................................................................... 22.62 5.8 22.63 6.0 – – 9 ...................................................................... 27.23 6.7 27.29 7.0 – –

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 21.30 4.3 21.32 4.5 21.02 12.0 5 ...................................................................... 19.40 7.0 19.52 7.4 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.03 8.2 18.51 9.1 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.06 5.7 23.09 5.9 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.39 6.0 28.55 6.3 – –

Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 17.85 6.1 17.82 6.8 – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 12.19 9.0 12.19 9.0 – – 3 ...................................................................... 11.24 3.0 11.24 3.0 – – 5 ...................................................................... 15.66 1.6 15.66 1.6 – –

Assemblers ........................................................... 10.81 .9 10.81 .9 – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ 18.03 4.5 18.60 3.8 – – 3 ...................................................................... 14.31 6.1 – – – – 4 ...................................................................... 21.32 6.9 21.32 6.9 – –

Truck drivers ......................................................... 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – –


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MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)


Transportation and material moving –ContinuedTruck drivers –Continued

4 ...................................................................... $21.18 7.3 $21.18 7.3 – –Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 17.43 17.7 17.43 17.7 – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 11.40 7.4 11.40 7.5 – – 1 ...................................................................... 9.39 6.2 9.26 6.7 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.56 7.8 8.56 7.8 – – 3 ...................................................................... 12.87 8.9 12.85 9.0 – –

Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 8.36 17.9 8.36 17.9 – –Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 11.16 6.4 11.16 6.4 – –Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 9.42 8.2 9.40 8.3 – –

1 ...................................................................... 8.63 7.3 8.63 7.3 – –

Service ................................................................................. 10.32 2.7 8.90 3.3 $21.98 5.2 1 ...................................................................... 6.66 5.5 6.63 5.6 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.79 2.6 7.77 2.8 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.37 5.0 8.07 4.5 – – 4 ...................................................................... 10.68 2.5 10.67 2.5 – – 5 ...................................................................... 12.17 10.3 11.59 12.2 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.98 5.8 14.91 2.4 22.35 5.7 7 ...................................................................... 20.73 6.3 – – 22.91 5.8 8 ...................................................................... 22.17 12.6 – – – –Not able to be leveled ....................................... 11.13 6.6 10.79 7.7 – –

Protective service ..................................................... 18.42 3.0 9.92 9.4 25.43 1.0 6 ...................................................................... 22.54 4.6 – – – – 7 ...................................................................... 22.95 6.1 – – 22.95 6.1 8 ...................................................................... 21.57 17.7 – – – –


Food service ............................................................. 8.54 5.5 8.54 5.6 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.49 7.0 6.49 7.0 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.43 2.3 7.43 2.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.02 5.8 8.02 5.8 – – 4 ...................................................................... 10.19 5.3 10.20 5.4 – –

Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 6.21 1.9 6.21 1.9 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.04 8.8 6.04 8.8 – – 3 ...................................................................... 6.36 5.5 6.36 5.5 – –

Bartenders ............................................................ 7.37 2.7 7.35 2.7 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.69 3.0 5.69 3.0 – –

3 ...................................................................... 5.66 3.9 5.66 3.9 – –Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 6.28 4.8 6.28 4.8 – –

1 ...................................................................... 6.36 5.6 6.36 5.6 – –Other food service .................................................. 9.90 6.0 9.90 6.0 – –

1 ...................................................................... 7.12 4.5 7.13 4.6 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.96 6.6 7.96 6.6 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.56 4.2 9.56 4.2 – – 4 ...................................................................... 10.94 2.9 10.94 2.9 – –

Cooks ................................................................... 11.41 4.2 11.41 4.2 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.29 5.9 10.29 5.9 – – 4 ...................................................................... 11.10 3.3 11.10 3.3 – –

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 9.40 4.9 9.40 4.9 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.71 6.7 7.71 6.7 – –

1 ...................................................................... 7.37 3.9 7.38 3.9 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.54 8.7 7.54 8.7 – –


Cleaning and building service ................................... 9.37 5.0 9.04 4.4 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.67 3.4 8.64 3.7 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.19 8.7 – – – –

Maids and housemen ........................................... 8.68 2.6 8.68 2.6 – –


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MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)

Service –ContinuedCleaning and building service –Continued

Maids and housemen –Continued 2 ...................................................................... $8.72 3.0 $8.72 3.0 – –

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 9.75 5.2 9.28 5.4 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.63 4.1 8.56 4.4 – –

Personal service ....................................................... 8.68 2.4 8.59 2.1 $11.38 24.3 1 ...................................................................... 6.69 4.3 6.57 2.0 – – 2 ...................................................................... 6.98 2.0 6.92 2.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.12 8.8 8.12 8.8 – –

Supervisors, personal service .............................. 15.78 2.1 15.59 2.2 – –Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 7.15 6.4 7.02 6.4 – –

1 ...................................................................... 6.68 5.8 – – – – 2 ...................................................................... 6.73 .7 6.64 .4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 6.95 1.2 6.95 1.2 – –

Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 9.41 9.3 9.41 9.3 – –

1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations isused to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for moreinformation.

2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment isevaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, workenvironment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation’s rank withineach factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of theoccupation. See appendixes C and D 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 payof all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.

5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as apercent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendixA.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did notmeet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overalloccupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.

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Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry andState and local government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)


White collar ......................................................................... 21.48 5.4 18.75 8.1 29.25 4.2 1 ...................................................................... 6.99 1.5 6.99 1.5 – – 2 ...................................................................... 9.50 5.4 9.50 5.4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.27 5.1 10.36 5.4 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.10 5.2 12.44 4.0 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.62 3.6 15.76 4.0 18.58 4.2 6 ...................................................................... 17.55 6.5 16.75 6.5 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.41 4.9 22.37 3.4 – – 8 ...................................................................... 26.88 7.0 27.49 8.1 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.72 2.0 27.55 3.1 29.87 2.210 ...................................................................... 33.46 11.2 37.36 10.1 – –11 ...................................................................... 35.15 5.4 34.74 8.3 35.97 1.712 ...................................................................... 39.02 12.8 – – – –13 ...................................................................... 53.80 7.2 – – – –

White collar excluding sales ......................................... 23.79 4.5 21.03 7.6 29.25 4.2 2 ...................................................................... 10.00 6.4 10.00 6.4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.46 6.2 10.64 7.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.55 6.5 12.72 5.7 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.94 4.1 15.80 6.0 18.58 4.2 6 ...................................................................... 17.55 7.6 16.62 7.6 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.65 6.3 22.09 5.5 – – 8 ...................................................................... 23.46 5.4 23.23 7.2 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.68 1.9 27.41 3.1 29.87 2.210 ...................................................................... 33.46 11.2 37.36 10.1 – –11 ...................................................................... 35.20 5.5 34.74 8.3 36.13 2.012 ...................................................................... 39.02 12.8 – – – –13 ...................................................................... 53.80 7.2 – – – –


9 ...................................................................... 29.52 2.0 28.23 3.2 30.61 1.410 ...................................................................... 30.09 10.0 – – – –11 ...................................................................... 38.20 3.4 40.73 5.4 – –


9 ...................................................................... 28.93 3.5 27.91 1.8 – –Registered nurses ................................................ 29.57 4.5 28.89 4.7 – –

9 ...................................................................... 28.93 3.5 27.91 1.8 – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 23.86 8.2 – – – –Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


5 ...................................................................... 20.47 12.6 17.56 6.7 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.08 5.1 – – – –

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 19.10 2.1 19.06 2.2 – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 30.12 5.5 28.83 6.8 35.07 9.9 8 ...................................................................... 24.48 6.4 – – – – 9 ...................................................................... 26.50 2.2 – – 26.12 1.911 ...................................................................... 31.01 10.0 30.19 10.6 – –

Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 29.96 7.8 27.43 8.0 40.89 10.5 9 ...................................................................... 27.32 2.8 – – – –11 ...................................................................... 30.99 10.2 – – – –




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Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry andState and local government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)

White collar –Continued

Sales ................................................................................ $13.63 9.0 $13.59 9.1 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.99 1.5 6.99 1.5 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.03 7.5 10.03 7.5 – – 4 ...................................................................... 11.79 4.0 11.79 4.0 – – 5 ...................................................................... 15.70 1.8 15.70 1.8 – –

Supervisors, sales ................................................ 18.41 10.2 18.41 10.2 – –Cashiers ............................................................... 9.18 5.1 9.18 5.1 – –

1 ...................................................................... 6.99 1.5 6.99 1.5 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.54 8.3 9.54 8.3 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 14.20 3.9 12.83 4.3 $17.98 8.6 2 ...................................................................... 10.00 6.4 10.00 6.4 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.46 6.2 10.64 7.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 13.66 6.4 12.83 5.7 17.11 2.7 5 ...................................................................... 16.62 5.9 15.72 12.7 17.40 2.1 6 ...................................................................... 16.58 10.0 16.20 10.6 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.96 9.8 – – – –

Secretaries ........................................................... 16.37 5.8 16.37 5.8 – –Hotel clerks ........................................................... 9.46 6.5 9.46 6.5 – –Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 13.03 10.0 12.32 6.8 – –

4 ...................................................................... 13.25 18.7 – – – –Dispatchers ........................................................... 21.39 8.6 – – – –Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 11.13 7.3 11.13 7.3 – –General office clerks ............................................. 16.23 5.9 15.60 14.6 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.53 3.3 17.47 3.4 18.72 12.8 1 ...................................................................... 9.79 10.1 9.79 10.1 – – 2 ...................................................................... 9.12 7.0 9.12 7.0 – – 3 ...................................................................... 13.08 5.3 13.18 5.8 – – 4 ...................................................................... 15.64 10.4 15.20 9.4 – – 5 ...................................................................... 17.91 7.6 17.91 8.0 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.00 6.2 18.32 6.8 – – 7 ...................................................................... 22.62 5.8 22.63 6.0 – – 9 ...................................................................... 27.23 6.7 27.29 7.0 – –

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 21.32 4.3 21.34 4.5 21.01 12.1 5 ...................................................................... 19.40 7.0 19.52 7.4 – – 6 ...................................................................... 18.03 8.2 18.51 9.1 – – 7 ...................................................................... 23.06 5.7 23.09 5.9 – – 9 ...................................................................... 28.39 6.0 28.55 6.3 – –

Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 17.85 6.1 17.82 6.8 – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 12.22 9.3 12.22 9.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 11.24 3.0 11.24 3.0 – – 5 ...................................................................... 15.66 1.6 15.66 1.6 – –

Assemblers ........................................................... 10.75 .7 10.75 .7 – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ 18.11 4.5 18.71 3.8 – – 4 ...................................................................... 21.32 6.9 21.32 6.9 – –

Truck drivers ......................................................... 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – – 4 ...................................................................... 21.18 7.3 21.18 7.3 – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 11.99 8.1 11.99 8.1 – – 1 ...................................................................... 9.80 10.3 9.80 10.3 – – 2 ...................................................................... 9.23 7.3 9.23 7.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 13.07 10.0 13.07 10.0 – –

Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 11.20 6.6 11.20 6.6 – –Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 9.83 11.2 9.83 11.2 – –

Service ................................................................................. 10.72 2.8 9.16 3.4 23.07 6.2 1 ...................................................................... 6.82 6.8 6.82 6.8 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.91 2.7 7.89 2.7 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.82 3.6 8.48 3.4 – –


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Table 4-2. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 full-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry andState and local government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)

Service –Continued 4 ...................................................................... $10.59 2.6 $10.59 2.6 – – 5 ...................................................................... 12.17 10.3 11.59 12.2 – – 6 ...................................................................... 19.05 5.8 14.91 2.4 – – 7 ...................................................................... 20.73 6.3 – – $22.91 5.8 8 ...................................................................... 22.17 12.6 – – – –Not able to be leveled ....................................... 11.13 6.6 10.79 7.7 – –

Protective service ..................................................... 18.94 3.0 10.30 9.2 25.57 1.0 6 ...................................................................... 22.54 4.6 – – – – 7 ...................................................................... 22.95 6.1 – – 22.95 6.1 8 ...................................................................... 21.57 17.7 – – – –


Food service ............................................................. 8.93 5.5 8.93 5.5 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.71 7.9 6.71 7.9 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.60 .6 7.60 .6 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.50 4.4 8.50 4.4 – – 4 ...................................................................... 10.20 5.4 10.20 5.4 – –

Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 6.43 2.1 6.43 2.1 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.29 11.7 6.29 11.7 – – 3 ...................................................................... 6.71 3.2 6.71 3.2 – –

Bartenders ............................................................ 7.50 1.4 7.50 1.4 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.82 4.2 5.82 4.2 – –Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 6.58 3.2 6.58 3.2 – –

1 ...................................................................... 6.73 4.0 6.73 4.0 – –Other food service .................................................. 10.16 6.4 10.16 6.4 – –

1 ...................................................................... 7.13 4.6 7.13 4.6 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.27 5.0 8.27 5.0 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.99 3.8 9.99 3.8 – – 4 ...................................................................... 10.94 2.9 10.94 2.9 – –

Cooks ................................................................... 11.41 4.2 11.41 4.2 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.29 5.9 10.29 5.9 – – 4 ...................................................................... 11.10 3.3 11.10 3.3 – –

Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 9.40 4.9 9.40 4.9 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.74 7.7 7.74 7.7 – –

1 ...................................................................... 7.38 3.9 7.38 3.9 – –Health service ........................................................... – – – – – –Cleaning and building service ................................... 9.53 5.8 9.20 5.3 – –

2 ...................................................................... 8.75 2.9 8.71 3.2 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.19 8.7 – – – –

Maids and housemen ........................................... 8.69 3.0 8.69 3.0 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.74 2.9 8.74 2.9 – –

Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 10.05 5.5 9.60 6.0 – – 2 ...................................................................... 8.77 3.4 8.69 3.8 – –

Personal service ....................................................... 8.87 1.8 8.82 1.6 – – 1 ...................................................................... 6.60 2.1 6.60 2.1 – – 2 ...................................................................... 7.03 2.0 7.03 2.0 – – 3 ...................................................................... 8.89 8.7 8.89 8.7 – –

Supervisors, personal service .............................. 15.78 2.1 15.59 2.2 – –Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 7.21 6.3 7.21 6.3 – –

2 ...................................................................... 6.76 .6 6.76 .6 – –Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 9.24 8.2 9.24 8.2 – –



3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-timeschedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, aworker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-timeemployee 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 toemployees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, andhazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the payof all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.



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Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry andState and local government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)


White collar ......................................................................... 17.99 7.4 18.12 7.9 16.94 23.1 2 ...................................................................... 8.63 12.3 7.22 8.1 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.51 6.3 9.51 6.3 – –

White collar excluding sales ......................................... 22.09 4.7 23.08 4.5 16.94 23.1

Professional specialty and technical ............................ 25.72 4.3 26.32 5.1 – –Professional specialty ................................................... 27.10 3.8 27.10 3.8 – –

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... – – – – – –Health related ........................................................... – – – – – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ – – – – – –Technical ...................................................................... 18.43 5.0 – – – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. – – – – – –Management related ................................................. – – – – – –

Sales ................................................................................ 8.81 7.3 8.81 7.3 – – 3 ...................................................................... 9.16 7.3 9.16 7.3 – –

Cashiers ............................................................... 8.86 10.5 8.86 10.5 – – 3 ...................................................................... 10.04 14.6 10.04 14.6 – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 12.38 7.7 12.95 8.0 – –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.83 4.3 8.48 4.1 – – 1 ...................................................................... 8.95 7.0 8.53 6.9 – –

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 8.40 5.1 7.95 2.9 – – 1 ...................................................................... 8.59 7.7 8.02 5.3 – –

Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 6.96 2.3 6.96 2.3 – –

Service ................................................................................. 7.20 4.0 6.96 4.4 10.00 13.1 1 ...................................................................... 5.85 3.7 5.65 2.0 – – 2 ...................................................................... 6.86 4.3 6.63 4.6 – – 3 ...................................................................... 6.84 7.1 6.80 7.1 – –

Protective service ..................................................... – – – – – –Food service ............................................................. 6.14 2.8 6.12 2.8 – –

1 ...................................................................... 5.41 1.5 – – – – 2 ...................................................................... 6.18 3.8 6.18 3.8 – –

Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.50 1.2 5.47 1.1 – –Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.32 .7 5.32 .7 – –

Other food service .................................................. 7.14 11.0 7.15 11.1 – –Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 7.54 6.7 – – – –


Cleaning and building service ................................... – – – – – –


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Table 4-3. Selected occupations1 and levels,2 part-time workers:3 Mean hourly earnings,4 private industry andState and local government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued



MeanRelativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)Mean

Relativeerror5

(percent)

Service –ContinuedPersonal service ....................................................... $7.09 8.5 $5.97 7.8 – –

2 ...................................................................... 6.53 4.6 – – – –Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 6.83 7.4 5.54 .3 – –

2 ...................................................................... 6.53 4.6 – – – –







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Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 NationalCompensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupational group

Private industry and State and local government

Full-timeworkers3

Part-timeworkers3 Union4 Nonunion4 Time5 Incentive5

Mean

All occupations ....................................................................... $17.03 $11.72 $21.45 $15.34 $16.39 $24.32All excluding sales ........................................................ 17.40 12.14 21.48 15.66 16.90 –

White collar ......................................................................... 21.48 17.99 24.33 20.64 21.07 24.28White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 23.79 22.09 24.46 23.47 23.60 –

Professional specialty and technical ................................. 31.48 25.72 31.55 30.63 30.85 –Professional specialty ................................................... 34.20 27.10 31.69 34.05 33.39 –Technical ...................................................................... 20.42 18.43 – 19.70 20.24 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... 30.12 – – 30.17 29.70 –Sales ................................................................................. 13.63 8.81 – 13.12 10.93 23.08Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 14.20 12.38 17.34 13.13 14.11 –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.53 8.83 20.87 14.56 16.92 –Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. 21.32 – 23.75 18.83 21.06 –Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 12.22 – 14.26 11.55 12.19 –Transportation and material moving ................................. 18.11 – 19.06 15.73 17.90 –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 11.99 8.40 13.62 10.96 11.40 –

Service ................................................................................. 10.72 7.20 18.37 9.06 10.32 –

Relative error6 (percent)

All occupations ....................................................................... 3.3 7.8 2.4 4.1 3.3 12.2All excluding sales ........................................................ 3.0 8.8 2.4 3.9 3.1 –

White collar ......................................................................... 5.4 7.4 3.6 6.1 5.2 17.4White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 4.5 4.7 3.6 5.4 4.3 –

Professional specialty and technical ................................. 4.7 4.3 1.3 5.7 4.4 –Professional specialty ................................................... 4.4 3.8 .9 5.3 4.0 –Technical ...................................................................... 6.9 5.0 – 5.9 6.2 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... 5.5 – – 5.4 5.5 –Sales ................................................................................. 9.0 7.3 – 8.0 6.0 17.3Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 3.9 7.7 5.3 3.8 3.7 –

Blue collar ........................................................................... 3.3 4.3 4.1 4.7 3.5 –Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. 4.3 – 5.0 6.5 4.3 –Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 9.3 – 8.2 10.2 9.0 –Transportation and material moving ................................. 4.5 – 7.1 3.7 4.7 –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 8.1 5.1 3.1 9.9 7.4 –

Service ................................................................................. 2.8 4.0 6.6 3.4 2.7 –




4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined throughcollective 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 onproductivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and productionbonuses.


NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did notmeet publication criteria.

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Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 private industry, National CompensationSurvey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupational group

Full-time and part-time workers

All privateindustries

Goods-producing industries3 Service-producing industries4

Total MiningCon-struc-tion

Manu-factur-

ingTotal

Transport-ation andpublic util-

ities

Wholesaleand retail

trade

Finance,insurance,and realestate

Serv-ices

Mean

All occupations ............................................................. $14.77 $19.63 – – $17.64 $13.85 – – $18.96 $12.59All excluding sales .............................................. 15.00 19.17 – – 17.56 14.13 – – 17.06 12.90

White collar ............................................................... 18.69 23.53 – – 22.28 18.13 – – 19.37 18.95White-collar excluding sales ............................... 21.20 22.37 – – 22.97 21.04 – – 17.44 21.57

Professional specialty and technical ....................... 27.97 26.00 – – 27.16 28.32 – – – 28.34Professional specialty ......................................... 31.05 31.36 – – 31.64 31.01 – – – 30.11Technical ............................................................ 19.05 – – – – 19.10 – – – 21.17

Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. 28.83 27.22 – – – 29.13 – – – 27.11Sales ....................................................................... 13.11 – – – – 12.01 – – – 8.38Administrative support, including clerical ................ 12.84 13.75 – – 12.66 12.75 – – 13.67 11.14

Blue collar ................................................................. 17.08 18.49 – – 15.62 15.91 – – – 11.66Precision production, craft, and repair .................... 21.32 21.83 – – 19.11 20.70 – – – 15.46Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... 12.19 13.54 – – 13.54 – – – – –Transportation and material moving ....................... 18.60 17.50 – – – 19.08 – – – –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and

laborers ............................................................. 11.40 13.18 – – 13.27 10.96 – – – 8.65

Service ....................................................................... 8.90 – – – – 8.87 – – – 8.87


All occupations ............................................................. 4.0 5.2 – – 7.3 5.0 – – 20.4 7.9All excluding sales .............................................. 4.0 5.6 – – 8.3 5.0 – – 18.5 7.5

White collar ............................................................... 7.4 12.2 – – 13.6 8.3 – – 20.7 13.5White-collar excluding sales ............................... 7.0 15.6 – – 17.7 7.7 – – 18.7 10.0

Professional specialty and technical ....................... 6.2 13.7 – – 12.7 6.8 – – – 7.1Professional specialty ......................................... 5.8 12.0 – – 12.3 6.3 – – – 8.1Technical ............................................................ 6.5 – – – – 8.5 – – – 5.9

Executive, administrative, and managerial ............. 6.8 8.8 – – – 7.9 – – – 10.6Sales ....................................................................... 7.9 – – – – 6.1 – – – 4.4Administrative support, including clerical ................ 4.1 4.2 – – 1.6 4.5 – – 7.7 5.8

Blue collar ................................................................. 3.4 2.6 – – 1.7 5.3 – – – 13.0Precision production, craft, and repair .................... 4.5 2.9 – – 6.5 8.9 – – – 5.2Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .... 9.0 7.3 – – 7.3 – – – – –Transportation and material moving ....................... 3.8 8.4 – – – 4.3 – – – –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and

laborers ............................................................. 7.5 2.0 – – 2.4 10.1 – – – .7

Service ....................................................................... 3.3 – – – – 3.3 – – – 3.2

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. Theyinclude incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premiumpay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean iscomputed 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 coverall 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; wholesaleand retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent ofthe estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sampleestimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publicationcriteria.

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Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings1 by occupational group,2 privateindustry, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupational group


All privateindustryworkers

50 - 99workers3

100 workers or more

Total 100 - 499workers

500workers or

more

Mean

All occupations ....................................................................... $14.77 $18.04 $13.75 $15.28 $12.72All excluding sales ........................................................ 15.00 18.65 13.91 15.73 12.88

White collar ......................................................................... 18.69 19.44 18.45 18.31 18.61White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 21.20 22.43 20.86 21.44 20.37

Professional specialty and technical ................................. 27.97 27.80 28.01 27.81 28.18Professional specialty ................................................... 31.05 29.84 31.39 32.46 30.59Technical ...................................................................... 19.05 20.37 18.77 16.86 20.66

Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... 28.83 39.27 27.17 33.33 23.38Sales ................................................................................. 13.11 14.66 12.42 13.48 9.53Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 12.84 15.50 11.89 12.16 11.63

Blue collar ........................................................................... 17.08 19.28 15.39 15.18 15.68Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. 21.32 22.98 19.25 21.57 17.56Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 12.19 14.07 11.55 13.42 9.98Transportation and material moving ................................. 18.60 16.70 19.40 17.33 –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 11.40 12.56 10.65 10.30 –

Service ................................................................................. 8.90 9.42 8.85 8.69 8.89


All occupations ....................................................................... 4.0 7.5 5.2 9.1 3.0All excluding sales ........................................................ 4.0 6.3 4.9 9.3 2.7

White collar ......................................................................... 7.4 11.5 9.7 14.4 6.5White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 7.0 12.2 8.6 15.7 4.4

Professional specialty and technical ................................. 6.2 11.6 7.9 17.7 2.1Professional specialty ................................................... 5.8 12.9 7.1 14.9 3.7Technical ...................................................................... 6.5 6.9 7.6 10.5 6.3

Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... 6.8 20.4 8.0 15.9 3.3Sales ................................................................................. 7.9 19.0 12.2 14.2 5.6Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 4.1 10.5 3.3 5.0 6.7

Blue collar ........................................................................... 3.4 4.9 4.6 8.0 4.2Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. 4.5 4.3 7.4 7.9 8.5Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 9.0 10.7 10.3 7.9 13.4Transportation and material moving ................................. 3.8 8.5 6.9 6.4 –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 7.5 15.6 3.4 3.8 –

Service ................................................................................. 3.3 14.5 3.1 6.6 4.4

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid toemployees. 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 computedby totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number ofworkers, weighted by hours.

2 A classification system including about 480 individualoccupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Seeappendix B for more information.

3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain

establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions betweensurvey sampling and collection.

4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard errorexpressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a"confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more informationabout RSEs, see appendix A.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data didnot meet publication criteria.

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Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, allindustries, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3 10 25 Median50 75 90

All ............................................................................................. $6.50 $8.71 $13.12 $22.12 $29.67All excluding sales ............................................................ 6.56 8.91 13.94 22.95 29.99

White collar ......................................................................... 8.24 11.50 17.94 27.48 37.80White collar excluding sales ......................................... 9.89 13.52 21.84 29.55 39.71

Professional specialty and technical ............................ 17.48 22.49 28.85 34.33 45.75Professional specialty ................................................... 20.82 24.97 30.92 38.46 51.50

Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 26.83 31.25 32.71 34.29 37.31Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... – – – – –Natural scientists ...................................................... – – – – –Health related ........................................................... 22.82 26.00 30.25 33.85 45.75

Registered nurses ................................................ 22.82 25.82 29.35 31.90 35.76Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 17.71 20.07 24.97 28.35 29.67Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and

professionals, n.e.c. ............................................ – – – – –Technical ...................................................................... 14.35 17.14 20.01 22.21 28.85

Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 16.88 18.15 20.01 20.61 20.82Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c. ........ 10.25 12.00 16.49 18.38 20.94

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 17.79 24.37 25.96 32.22 50.47Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 16.16 24.37 27.88 32.53 47.35

Managers, service organizations, n.e.c. ............... 10.50 24.03 25.00 25.85 28.53Managers and administrators, n.e.c. .................... 16.83 24.37 27.88 38.50 50.47

Management related ................................................. 21.51 24.82 25.64 28.24 51.38

Sales ................................................................................ 6.29 7.59 10.46 14.70 23.07Supervisors, sales ................................................ 12.50 14.00 16.50 20.25 27.48Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 8.00 11.64 12.50 14.70 15.00Cashiers ............................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.28 10.59 14.70

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 8.28 10.00 12.81 17.10 21.60Secretaries ........................................................... 9.65 14.06 16.76 17.36 25.25Hotel clerks ........................................................... 7.72 8.28 9.45 10.68 11.48Receptionists ........................................................ 8.00 8.00 10.00 11.25 11.40Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 9.50 10.95 12.00 14.05 18.85Dispatchers ........................................................... 16.63 17.28 21.11 24.51 27.00Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 7.50 8.00 10.11 13.56 16.25General office clerks ............................................. 12.39 13.79 16.59 19.01 20.26

Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.75 11.45 16.87 22.15 26.65

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 14.28 17.67 20.82 25.10 28.00Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c. ........................... 12.46 15.49 17.91 20.37 22.66

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ 8.00 9.59 10.95 15.40 17.03Assemblers ........................................................... 9.01 10.27 10.90 11.50 11.71

Transportation and material moving ............................ 12.22 14.03 17.33 22.39 24.85Truck drivers ......................................................... 14.03 17.33 17.94 24.85 24.85Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 10.50 13.00 16.00 25.68 25.68

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 7.09 8.50 10.50 13.20 16.00Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 5.80 6.00 6.45 8.50 14.72Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 8.50 9.50 10.25 12.80 14.20Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 7.00 7.25 8.00 10.97 13.04

Service ................................................................................. 5.45 6.55 8.65 11.40 17.97Protective service ..................................................... 7.00 9.77 18.44 24.66 29.77

Firefighting ............................................................ 16.69 18.44 18.44 19.02 20.39Police and detectives, public service .................... 20.18 24.81 29.02 32.49 43.07Guards and police, except public service ............. 5.15 7.00 9.00 10.71 11.94

Food service ............................................................. 5.25 6.00 7.50 10.30 12.71Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.15 5.25 5.62 7.00 8.00Bartenders ............................................................ 5.79 6.70 7.25 8.00 9.00Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.15 5.15 5.50 5.96 7.00


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Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, allindustries, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued


Service –ContinuedFood service –ContinuedWaiters, waitresses, and bartenders –ContinuedWaiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ $5.15 $5.32 $5.75 $6.56 $8.95

Other food service .................................................. 6.50 7.25 9.75 11.00 15.06Cooks ................................................................... 8.50 10.30 10.91 12.71 14.94Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 7.50 8.94 9.38 10.30 10.40Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 6.25 6.50 7.25 9.00 9.82

Health service ........................................................... 9.86 10.46 11.50 13.50 14.64Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants ............... 9.96 10.46 11.50 13.46 14.64

Cleaning and building service ................................... 6.50 7.36 8.75 10.85 12.51Maids and housemen ........................................... 6.60 7.21 8.25 10.05 12.04Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 6.50 7.50 9.44 10.90 13.68

Personal service ....................................................... 5.25 6.00 7.25 9.00 15.00Supervisors, personal service .............................. 7.00 13.93 15.06 18.10 23.74Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 5.15 5.75 6.75 8.25 9.25Service, n.e.c. ....................................................... 7.15 8.00 9.00 9.25 14.00

1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and arecalculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they arescheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hoursare paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid thesame as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourthof the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rateshown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourlywages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. Theyinclude 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 formore information.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did notmeet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified."Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shownseparately.

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Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, privateindustry, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3

Private industry

10 25 Median50 75 90




Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 25.96 31.25 31.25 34.29 36.11Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... – – – – –Health related ........................................................... 22.82 26.00 30.25 33.19 45.75

Registered nurses ................................................ 22.66 25.55 29.00 31.82 33.09Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 16.22 18.15 20.01 20.48 20.70




Sales ................................................................................ 6.29 7.59 10.46 14.70 22.14Supervisors, sales ................................................ 12.50 14.00 16.50 20.25 27.48Sales workers, other commodities ........................ 8.00 11.64 12.50 14.70 15.00Cashiers ............................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.28 10.59 14.70

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 8.04 9.50 12.00 14.67 20.26Secretaries ........................................................... 9.65 14.06 16.76 17.36 25.25Hotel clerks ........................................................... 7.72 8.28 9.45 10.68 11.48Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 9.45 10.35 12.00 13.69 15.00Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 7.50 8.00 10.11 13.56 16.25General office clerks ............................................. 8.98 12.39 14.52 20.26 20.26

Blue collar ........................................................................... 8.50 11.00 16.94 22.15 26.65



Transportation and material moving ............................ 13.00 16.00 17.33 24.85 24.85Truck drivers ......................................................... 14.03 17.33 17.94 24.85 24.85Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators .. 10.50 13.00 16.00 25.68 25.68

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 7.00 8.50 10.50 14.00 16.00Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 5.80 6.00 6.45 8.50 14.72Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 8.50 9.50 10.25 12.80 14.20Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 7.00 7.25 8.00 10.97 13.04


Guards and police, except public service ............. 5.15 7.00 9.00 10.71 11.94Food service ............................................................. 5.25 6.00 7.50 10.30 12.71Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.15 5.25 5.62 7.00 7.97Bartenders ............................................................ 5.79 6.70 7.15 8.00 9.00Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.15 5.15 5.50 5.96 7.00Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 5.15 5.32 5.75 6.56 8.95

Other food service .................................................. 6.50 7.25 9.75 11.00 15.06Cooks ................................................................... 8.50 10.30 10.91 12.71 14.94Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 7.50 8.94 9.38 10.30 10.40


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Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, privateindustry, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued

Occupation3

Private industry

10 25 Median50 75 90

Service –ContinuedFood service –ContinuedOther food service –ContinuedFood preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... $6.25 $6.50 $7.25 $9.00 $9.82


Cleaning and building service ................................... 6.50 7.36 8.60 10.40 12.18Maids and housemen ........................................... 6.60 7.21 8.25 10.05 12.04Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 6.35 7.36 8.71 10.65 12.70






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Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 all workers:2 Selected occupations, State andlocal government, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupation3

State and local government

10 25 Median50 75 90




Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... – – – – –Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... – – – – –Natural scientists ...................................................... – – – – –Health related ........................................................... – – – – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. – – – – –Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – –

Technical ...................................................................... – – – – –

Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. 23.73 25.24 28.24 47.35 47.35Executives, administrators, and managers ............... 24.81 32.53 47.35 47.35 47.35Management related ................................................. – – – – –

Sales ................................................................................ – – – – –

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 9.79 13.41 17.52 20.30 25.71

Blue collar ........................................................................... 11.21 12.76 16.07 22.71 28.42

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ 15.41 16.07 20.82 26.65 28.42

Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers – – – – –


Firefighting ............................................................ 16.69 18.44 18.44 19.02 20.39Food service ............................................................. – – – – –Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... – – – – –Other food service .................................................. – – – – –

Health service ........................................................... – – – – –Cleaning and building service ................................... – – – – –Personal service ....................................................... 7.00 8.00 8.75 12.00 17.00





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Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, allindustries, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004





Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... 26.83 31.25 32.71 34.29 37.31Mathematical and computer scientists ..................... – – – – –Natural scientists ...................................................... – – – – –Health related ........................................................... 23.32 26.05 30.69 38.75 55.29

Registered nurses ................................................ 23.26 25.98 29.35 31.90 37.43Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – –Social, recreation, and religious workers .................. 17.71 20.07 24.97 28.35 29.67Lawyers and judges .................................................. – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


Licensed practical nurses ..................................... 15.52 17.87 20.01 20.48 20.70




Sales ................................................................................ 6.45 8.00 11.25 14.70 25.00Supervisors, sales ................................................ 12.50 14.00 16.50 20.25 27.48Cashiers ............................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.34 11.09 14.70

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 8.28 10.00 12.93 17.30 21.90Secretaries ........................................................... 9.65 14.06 16.76 17.36 25.25Hotel clerks ........................................................... 7.72 8.28 9.45 10.68 11.48Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks ...... 9.50 10.95 12.00 14.05 18.85Dispatchers ........................................................... 16.63 17.28 21.11 24.51 27.00Stock and inventory clerks .................................... 7.50 8.00 10.11 13.56 16.25General office clerks ............................................. 12.39 13.79 16.59 19.01 20.26

Blue collar ........................................................................... 9.25 12.20 17.33 22.66 26.65



Transportation and material moving ............................ 12.35 14.15 17.33 23.26 24.85Truck drivers ......................................................... 14.03 17.33 17.94 24.85 24.85

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 7.65 9.50 11.09 14.20 16.00Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c. ......... 8.50 9.50 10.30 13.00 14.20Laborers, except construction, n.e.c. .................... 7.00 7.25 8.00 10.97 16.00


Firefighting ............................................................ 16.69 18.44 18.44 19.02 20.39Police and detectives, public service .................... 20.18 24.81 29.02 32.49 43.07Guards and police, except public service ............. 5.15 8.30 9.00 10.87 12.00

Food service ............................................................. 5.40 6.50 8.00 10.40 13.90Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.15 5.32 6.00 7.25 8.65Bartenders ............................................................ 5.79 7.00 7.44 8.60 9.00Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.15 5.25 5.50 6.25 7.20Waiters’/Waitresses’ assistants ............................ 5.15 5.32 6.36 7.71 8.95

Other food service .................................................. 6.50 7.50 9.94 11.26 15.06Cooks ................................................................... 8.50 10.30 10.91 12.71 14.94Kitchen workers, food preparation ........................ 7.50 8.94 9.38 10.30 10.40


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Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 full-time workers:2 Selected occupations, allindustries, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004 — Continued


Service –ContinuedFood service –ContinuedOther food service –ContinuedFood preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... $6.25 $6.50 $7.31 $9.55 $9.82

Health service ........................................................... – – – – –Cleaning and building service ................................... 6.75 7.50 9.00 10.90 12.58

Maids and housemen ........................................... 6.60 7.21 8.25 10.05 12.04Janitors and cleaners ........................................... 7.35 8.00 9.92 11.05 14.50


1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and arecalculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they arescheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hoursare paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid thesame as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourthof the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rateshown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourlywages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. Theyinclude 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 afull-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time inanother firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupationsis used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B formore information.


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Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,1 part-time workers:2 Selected occupations, allindustries, National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004





Engineers, architects, and surveyors ....................... – – – – –Health related ........................................................... – – – – –Teachers, college and university .............................. – – – – –Teachers, except college and university .................. – – – – –Social scientists and urban planners ........................ – – – – –Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and


Executive, administrative, and managerial .................. – – – – –Management related ................................................. – – – – –

Sales ................................................................................ 6.00 7.25 8.00 9.50 12.75Cashiers ............................................................... 6.00 7.00 7.75 9.50 14.70

Administrative support, including clerical ................... 9.60 10.85 11.72 14.66 14.66

Blue collar ........................................................................... 6.35 7.00 8.00 10.67 12.00

Precision production, craft, and repair ........................ – – – – –

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ........ – – – – –

Transportation and material moving ............................ – – – – –

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 6.35 7.00 7.50 10.00 12.00Stock handlers and baggers ................................. 6.00 6.35 6.80 7.25 8.02

Service ................................................................................. 5.15 5.25 6.08 8.00 11.36Protective service ..................................................... – – – – –Food service ............................................................. 5.15 5.15 5.55 6.75 8.00Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders ...................... 5.15 5.15 5.32 5.55 6.25Waiters and waitresses ........................................ 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.50 5.50

Other food service .................................................. 5.50 6.50 7.25 8.00 9.00Food preparation, n.e.c. ....................................... 6.50 6.75 7.25 8.90 9.00


Cleaning and building service ................................... – – – – –Personal service ....................................................... 5.15 5.15 5.88 7.50 10.67

Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities 5.15 5.15 5.75 7.25 10.00

1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and arecalculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they arescheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hoursare paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid thesame as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourthof the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rateshown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourlywages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. Theyinclude 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 afull-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time inanother firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.

3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupationsis used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B formore information.


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Appendix A: Technical Note

his section provides basic information on the proce-dures and concepts used to produce the data contained

in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning forthe survey; data collection; and processing and analyzingthe data. Although this section answers some questionscommonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensivedescription of all the steps required to produce the data.

Planning for the survey

The overall design of the survey includes questions ofscope, frame, and sample selection.

Survey scopeThis survey covered establishments employing 50 workersor more in goods-producing industries (mining, construc-tion and manufacturing); service-producing industries(transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitaryservices; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance,and real estate; and services industries); and State and localgovernments. Agriculture, private households, and the Fed-eral Government were excluded from the scope of the sur-vey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment is aneconomic unit that produces goods or services, a centraladministrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing supportservices to a company. For private industries in this sur-vey, the establishment is usually at a single physical loca-tion. For State and local governments, an establishment isdefined as all locations of a government entity.

The Reno, NV, Metropolitan Statistical Area consists ofWashoe County.

Sampling frameThe list of establishments from which the survey samplewas selected (sampling frame) was developed from Stateunemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility ofindustries within the private sector, sampling frames weredeveloped using the most recent month of reference avail-able at the time the sample was selected. The samplingframe was reviewed prior to the survey and, when neces-sary, missing establishments were added, out-of-businessand out-of-scope establishments were removed, and ad-dresses, employment levels, industry classification, andother information were updated. Approximately one-fifthof the sample is reselected each year.

Sample designThe sample for this survey area was selected using a two-stage stratified design with probability proportional to em-ployment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sampleselection was a probability sample of establishments. Thesample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying thesampling frame by industry and ownership. The number ofsample establishments allocated to each stratum is ap-proximately proportional to the stratum employment. Eachsampled establishment is selected within a stratum with aprobability proportional to its employment. Use of thistechnique means that the larger an establishment’s em-ployment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights wereapplied to each establishment when the data were tabulatedso that it represents similar units (by industry and employ-ment size) in the economy that were not selected for collec-tion. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below,was a probability sample of occupations within a sampledestablishment.

Data collection

The collection of data from survey respondents requireddetailed procedures. Field economists collected the data,working out of the Regional Office and visiting each estab-lishment surveyed. Other contact methods, such as mailand telephone, were used to follow-up and update data.

Occupational selection and classificationIdentification of the occupations for which wage data wereto be collected was a multistep process:

1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of estab-lishment jobs

2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on theCensus of Population system

3. Characterization of jobs as full-time v. part-time,union v. nonunion, and time v. incentive

4. Determination of the level of work of each job

For each occupation, wage data were collected for thoseworkers who met all the criteria identified in the last threesteps. Special procedures were developed for jobs forwhich a correct classification or level could not be deter-mined.

T

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In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at eachestablishment by the BLS field economist during a personalvisit. A complete list of employees was used for sampling,with each selected worker representing a job within the es-tablishment.

As with the selection of establishments, the selection ofa job was based on probability proportional to its size inthe establishment. The greater the number of people work-ing in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance ofselection.

The number of jobs for which data were collected ineach establishment was based on the establishment’s em-ployment size. Prior to 2002, the number of jobs selectedranged from 8 to 20. Beginning in 2002, the number ofjobs selected followed this schedule:

Numberof employees

Numberof selected jobs

50–249 6250 and over 8

The second step of the process entailed classifying theselected jobs into occupations based on their duties. TheNational Compensation Survey occupational classificationsystem is based on the 1990 Census of Population. A se-lected job may fall into any one of about 480 occupationalclassifications, from accountant to wood lathe operator.For cases in which a job’s duties overlapped two or morecensus classification codes, the duties used to set the wagelevel were used to classify the job. Classification by pri-mary duties was the fallback.

Each occupational classification is an element of abroader classification known as a major occupational group(MOG). Occupations can fall into any of the followingMOGs:

• Professional specialty and technical• Executive, administrative, and managerial• Sales• Administrative support, including clerical• Precision production, craft, and repair• Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors• Transportation and material moving• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers• Service occupations

Appendix B contains a complete list of all individualoccupations, classified by the MOG to which they belong.

In step three, certain other job characteristics of thechosen worker were identified. First, the worker was iden-tified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, basedon the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, theworker was classified as having a time versus incentive job,depending on whether any part of pay was directly basedon the actual production of the worker, rather than solely

on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as be-ing in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition ofterms” section on the following page for more detail.

Occupational levelingIn the last step before wage data were collected, the worklevel of each selected job was determined using an “occu-pational leveling” process. Occupational leveling ranksand compares all occupations randomly selected in an es-tablishment using the same criteria.

For this survey, the level of each occupation in an estab-lishment was determined by an analysis of each of 10 level-ing factors. Nine of these factors are drawn from the U.S.Government Office of Personnel Management’s FactorEvaluation System, which is the underlying structure forevaluation of General Schedule Federal employees. Thetenth factor, supervisory duties, attempts to account for theeffect of supervisory duties. It is considered experimental.The 10 factors are:

• Knowledge• Supervision received• Guidelines• Complexity• Scope and effect• Personal contacts• Purpose of contacts• Physical demands• Work environment• Supervisory duties

Each factor contains a number of levels, and each levelhas an associated written description and point value. Thenumber and range of points differ among the factors. Foreach factor, an occupation was assigned a level based onthe written description that best matched the job. Withineach occupation, the points for nine factors (supervisoryduties was excluded) were recorded and totaled. The totaldetermines the overall level of the occupation. A descrip-tion of the levels for each factor is shown in appendix C.

Tabulations of levels of work for occupations in thesurvey follow the Federal Government’s white-collar Gen-eral Schedule. Point ranges for each of the 15 levels areshown in appendix D. It also includes an example of a jobwith its associated leveling factors, and a guide to help datausers evaluate jobs in their firms

Wage data collected in prior surveys using the occupa-tional leveling method were evaluated by BLS researchersusing regression techniques. For each of the major occupa-tional groups, wages were compared to the 10 occupationalleveling factors (and levels within those factors). Theanalysis showed that several of the occupational levelingfactors, most notably knowledge and supervision received,had strong explanatory power for wages. That is, as thelevels within a given factor increased, the wages also in-creased.

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Collection periodSurvey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small met-ropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period.For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the es-tablishment’s most recent information at the time of collec-tion. The payroll reference month shown in the tables re-flects the average date of this information for all sampleunits.

EarningsEarnings were defined as regular payments from the em-ployer to the employee as compensation for straight-timehourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The fol-lowing components were included as part of earnings:

• Incentive pay, including commissions, productionbonuses, and piece rates

• Cost-of-living allowances• Hazard pay• Payments of income deferred due to participation

in a salary reduction plan• Deadhead pay, defined as pay given to transporta-

tion workers returning in a vehicle without freightor passengers

The following forms of payments were not consideredpart of straight-time earnings:

• Shift differentials, defined as extra payment forworking a schedule that varies from the norm, suchas night or weekend work

• Premium pay for overtime, holidays, and weekends• Bonuses not directly tied to production (such as

Christmas and profit-sharing bonuses)• Uniform and tool allowances• Free room and board• Payments made by third parties (for example, tips,

bonuses given by manufacturers to departmentstore salespeople, referral incentives in real estate)

• On-call pay

To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly,weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were col-lected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked perday and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded.Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salariedworkers, exempt from overtime provisions, often work be-yond the assigned work schedule, their typical number ofhours actually worked was collected.

Definition of terms

Full-time worker. Any employee that the employer consid-ers to be full time.

Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied,at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bo-nuses, or other incentives based on production or sales.

Level. A ranking of an occupation based on the require-ments of the position. (See the description in the technicalnote on occupational leveling through point factor analysisfor more details on the leveling process.)

Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation notmeeting the conditions for union coverage. (See below.)

Part-time worker. Any employee that the employer con-siders to be part time.

Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings aretied to an hourly rate or salary, and not to a specific level ofproduction.

Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupationwhen all of the following conditions are met:

• A labor organization is recognized as the bargain-ing agent for all workers in the occupation

• Wage and salary rates are determined through col-lective bargaining or negotiations

• Settlement terms, which must include earnings pro-visions and may include benefit provisions, are em-bodied in a signed, mutually binding collectivebargaining agreement

Processing and analyzing the data

Data were processed and analyzed at the Bureau’s NationalOffice following collection.

Weighting and nonresponseSample weights were calculated for each establishment andoccupation in the survey. These weights reflected the rela-tive size of the occupation within the establishment and ofthe establishment within the sample universe. Weightswere used to aggregate data for the individual establish-ments or occupations into the various data series. Some ofthe establishments surveyed could not supply or refused tosupply information. If data were not provided by a samplemember, the weights of responding sample members in thesame or similar “cells” were adjusted to account for themissing data. This technique assumes that the mean valueof data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value ofdata for the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Re-sponding and nonresponding establishments were classifiedinto these cells according to industry and employment size.Responding and nonresponding occupations within re-sponding establishments were classified into cells that wereadditionally defined by major occupation group and joblevel.

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Establishments that were determined to be out of busi-ness or outside the scope of the survey had their weightschanged to zero. If only partial data were given by a sam-ple establishment or occupation, or data were missing, theresponse was treated as a refusal.

Survey responseEstablish-

mentsTotal in sampling frame 504

Total in sample 248Responding 161Out of business or not in survey scope 30Unable or refused to provide data 57

In this survey, the nonresponse rates for all industries,private industry, and State and local government were with-in regular survey standards.

EstimationThe wage series in the tables are computed by combiningthe wages for each sampled occupation. Before beingcombined, individual wage rates are weighted by: the num-ber of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonre-sponding establishments and other factors; and the occupa-tion’s scheduled hours of work.

Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication.Before any series was published, it was reviewed to makesure that the number of observations underlying it was suf-ficient. This review prevented the publication of a seriesthat could have revealed information about a specific estab-lishment.

Estimates of the number of workers represent the totalin all establishments within the scope of the study, and notthe number actually surveyed. Because occupational struc-tures among establishments differ, estimates of the numberof workers obtained from the sample of establishmentsserve to indicate only the relative importance of the occu-pational groups studied.

PercentilesThe percentiles presented in tables 6–1 through 6–5 arecomputed using earnings reported for individual workers insampled establishment jobs and their scheduled hours ofwork. Establishments in the survey may report only indi-vidual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the cal-culation of percentile estimates, the individual-workerhourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then ar-rayed from lowest to highest.

The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percen-tiles designate position in the earnings distribution withineach published occupation. At the 50th percentile, the me-dian, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than therate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than therate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hoursare paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or morethan the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles followthe same logic.

Data reliabilityThe data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientificallyselected probability sample. There are two types of errorspossible in an estimate based on a sample survey, samplingand nonsampling.

Sampling errors occur because observations come onlyfrom a sample and not from an entire population. Thesample used for this survey is one of a number of possiblesamples of the same size that could have been selected us-ing the sample design. Estimates derived from the differentsamples would differ from each other.

A measure of the variation among these differing esti-mates is called the standard error or sampling error. It in-dicates the precision with which an estimate from a particu-lar sample approximates the average result of all possiblesamples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standarderror divided by the estimate. RSE data are providedalongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables.

The standard error can be used to calculate a “confi-dence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example,suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for allworkers were $12.79, with a relative standard error of 3.6percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the con-fidence interval for the estimate is $13.55 to $12.03 (1.645times 3.6 percent times $12.79 = $0.76, plus or minus$12.79). If all possible samples were selected to estimatethe population value, the interval from each sample wouldinclude the true population value approximately 90 percentof the time.

Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. Theycan stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain in-formation for some establishments, difficulties with surveydefinitions, inability of the respondents to provide correctinformation, or mistakes in recording or coding the data ob-tained. Although they were not specifically measured, thenonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to theextensive training of the field economists who gathered thesurvey data by personal visit, computer edits of the data,and detailed data review.

Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, by occupational group,2National Compensation Survey, Reno, NV, February 2004

Occupational group



All occupations ....................................................................... 77,200 63,700 13,600All excluding sales ........................................................ 69,600 56,000 13,500

White collar ......................................................................... 34,100 24,300 9,800White-collar excluding sales ......................................... 26,500 16,700 9,800

Professional specialty and technical ................................. 11,500 6,300 5,300Professional specialty ................................................... 9,500 4,700 4,700Technical ...................................................................... 2,000 1,500 –

Executive, administrative, and managerial ....................... 3,700 2,800 900Sales ................................................................................. 7,700 7,600 –Administrative support, including clerical .......................... 11,300 7,700 3,600

Blue collar ........................................................................... 16,700 15,600 1,100Precision production, craft, and repair .............................. 7,700 7,100 600Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors .............. 2,400 2,400 –Transportation and material moving ................................. 2,200 2,000 –Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ...... 4,300 4,100 –

Service ................................................................................. 26,400 23,700 2,700

1 The number of workers represented by the survey arerounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workersprovide a description of size and composition of the labor forceincluded in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, forcomparison to other statistical series to measure employmenttrends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers wereincluded in the survey.

2 A classification system including about 480 individualoccupations 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 datadid not meet publication criteria.

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