Atlanta–Sandy Springs– 

Gainesville, GA–AL 

National Compensation Survey 

January 2007 

_________________________________________________________________________________________ 

U.S. Department of Labor 

Elaine L. Chao, Secretary 

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Philip L. Rones, Deputy Commissioner 

September 2007 

Bulletin 3140–15
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Preface

ata shown in this bulletin were collected as part of the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Compensation Survey (NCS). The survey could not have been conducted without the cooperation of the many private establishments and government agencies that provided pay data 

included in this bulletin. The Bureau thanks these respondents for their cooperation. 

 Field economists of the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected and reviewed the survey data. The Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the 

Office of Field Operations and the Office of Technology 

and Survey Processing in the BLS National Office, designed the survey, processed the data, and prepared the 

survey for publication. 

 For additional information regarding this survey, please 

contact any BLS regional office at the address and telephone 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, call (202) 691–6199, or send an e-mail to 

ocltinfo@bls.gov. 

 The data contained in this bulletin are also available at 

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm, the BLS Internet site. Data are presented in a Portable Document Format 

(PDF) file containing the core bulletin, and in an ASCII file 

containing the published table formats. 

 Results of earlier surveys of this area are available from 

BLS regional offices, the Division of Compensation Data 

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 permission. This information will be made available to sensory 

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Contents

Page 

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

Tables: 

 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings and weekly hours for selected worker 

 and establishment characteristics.................................................................................................. 3 

 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers 

 by work levels............................................................................................................................... 4 

 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers 

 by work levels............................................................................................................................... 11 

 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time and part-time workers 

 by work levels............................................................................................................................... 17 

 5. Combined work levels for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings for full-time 

 and part-time workers................................................................................................................... 19 

 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles................................................................................... 25 

 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles ...................................................................... 29 

 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................... 32 

 9. Full-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles .................................................................... 34 

10. Part-time civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles.................................................................... 38 

11. Full-time civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual 

 earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 39 

12. Full-time private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual 

 earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 44 

13. Full-time State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual 

 earnings and mean weekly and annual hours ................................................................................ 48 

14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings of private industry establishments 

 for major occupational groups...................................................................................................... 50 

15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual 

 earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 51 

16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual 

 earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time private industry workers .................... 53 

17. Union and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................. 56 

18. Time and incentive workers: Mean hourly earnings for major occupational groups .................... 57 

19. Industry sector: Mean hourly earnings for private industry workers 

 by major occupational group ........................................................................................................ 58 

Appendixes: 

 A. Technical Note............................................................................................................................... A – 1 

 Appendix table 1. Number of workers represented by the survey ................................................ A – 5 

 Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response........................................................................ A – 6 

 B. Standard Occupational Classification System................................................................................ B – 1 
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Introduction

he tables in this bulletin summarize the NCS results for 

the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Gainesville, GA–AL, 

Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Data were collected between June 2006 and July 2007; the average reference 

month is January 2007. Tabulations provide information 

on earnings of workers in a variety of occupations and at 

different work levels. Also contained in this bulletin are information on the program, a technical note describing survey procedures, and an appendix with detailed information 

on occupational classifications. 

 Most of the earnings estimates in this bulletin are presented as mean hourly earnings. Mean weekly and annual 

earnings, and the corresponding hours, also are provided 

for full-time employees in specific occupations. Some occupations, such as teachers and fire fighters, typically have 

shorter or longer work schedules than do the majority of 

full-time workers. The weekly and annual estimates are 

useful for comparing the earnings of occupations having 

different work schedules. 

NCS products

The Bureau’s National Compensation Survey provides 

comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, benefit incidence, and detailed plan 

provisions. The Employment Cost Index, a quarterly 

measure of the change in employer costs for wages and 

benefits, is derived from the NCS. Employer Costs for 

Employee Compensation measures employers’ average 

hourly costs for wages and benefits. NCS also measures 

the incidence and provisions of benefit plans. This bulletin 

is limited to data on occupational wages and salaries. 

Changes to the publications 

The locality wage publications are undergoing a number of 

significant changes. Please see the bulletins published between September 2006 and July 2007 for information on 

earlier changes. 

 The areas covered by the publications are currently being updated to the December 2003 definitions of Combined 

Statistical Areas, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, as determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This bulletin includes a new State and local government sample that 

reflects the new area definition. 

 In appendix table 2, the total numbers of establishments 

in the sampling frame are now benchmarked to the latest 

available establishment counts, adjusted for establishments 

that are out of scope for NCS. 

About the tables 

The tables that follow present data on straight-time occupational earnings, which include wages and salaries, incentive 

pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. These 

earnings exclude premium pay for overtime, vacations, 

holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. About 800 detailed occupations, listed in Appendix B, are used to describe all occupations in the civilian nonfarm economy (excluding the Federal Government and private households). 

Data are not shown for any occupations if they would raise 

concerns about the confidentiality of the survey respondents or if the data are insufficient to support reliable estimates. 

 Table 1 presents an overview of all tables in this bulletin. Mean hourly earnings, weekly hours, and relative standard errors are given for all industries, private industry, and 

State and local government for selected worker and establishment characteristics. The worker characteristics include 

high-level and intermediate occupational aggregation, fulltime or part-time status, union or nonunion status, and time 

or incentive pay. Establishment characteristics include 

goods producing, service providing, and size of establishment. 

 Table 2 presents mean hourly earnings data by work 

level for occupational major groups and for detailed occupations. Separate data are also shown for full-time and 

part-time workers. Table 3 provides work level data for 

private industry workers. Table 4 provides similar data for 

State and local government workers. Table 5 simplifies the 

work levels by combining them into broader groups within 

major and detailed occupations, and for full-time and parttime workers. 

Tables 6 through 10 present hourly wage percentiles 

that describe the distribution of hourly earnings for individual workers within each published occupation. Data are 

provided for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles 

for detailed occupations within all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time workers, and 

part-time workers. 

 Table 11 presents mean and median hourly, weekly, and 

annual earnings, and the associated hours, for major occupational groups and detailed occupations for full-time 

workers. Table 12 provides the same type of information 

for private industry workers. Table 13 provides similar 

data for State and local government workers. 

 Table 14 presents mean hourly earnings data for establishment employment sizes by high-level occupational aggregations in the private sector. Tables 15 and 16 provide 

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mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings data 

for full-time employees in private establishments with 

fewer than 100 workers, and in private establishments with 

100 workers or more. 

 Table 17 presents mean hourly earnings data for union 

and nonunion workers in all, private, and State and local 

government establishments by high-level occupational aggregation. Table 18 provides hourly earnings data for time 

and incentive workers in all and private establishments by 

high-level occupational aggregation. Table 19 presents 

mean hourly earnings data for major industry divisions 

within the private sector. 

 Appendix table 1 presents the number of workers represented by the survey, by high-level occupational aggregation and for all industries, private industry, and State and 

local government. Appendix table 2 provides the number 

of establishments in the sampling frame and the number of 

responding and nonresponding establishments. 
Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings1 and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Worker and establishment

characteristics

Civilian

workers

Private industry

workers

State and local government

workers

Hourly earnings

Mean

weekly

hours3

Hourly earnings

Mean

weekly

hours3

Hourly earnings

Mean

weekly

hours3

Mean

Relative

error2

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error2

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error2

(percent)

All workers .......................................................... $20.50 3.2 36.6 $20.28 3.7 36.4 $22.02 2.9 38.4

Worker characteristics4,5

Management, professional, and related ........... 32.26 1.9 39.1 33.60 1.9 39.3 27.43 3.4 38.7

Management, business, and financial .......... 35.26 3.2 41.0 35.74 3.4 41.2 30.50 5.3 39.6

Professional and related ............................... 30.48 2.0 38.1 31.97 2.2 38.0 26.86 3.6 38.5

Service .............................................................. 11.32 4.0 32.9 10.05 3.9 31.5 16.09 3.8 39.1

Sales and office ................................................ 16.86 4.3 35.5 16.86 4.5 35.3 16.86 10.6 38.9

Sales and related .......................................... 18.04 9.4 33.0 18.04 9.4 33.0 – – –

Office and administrative support ................. 16.19 2.5 37.0 16.14 2.5 36.9 16.86 10.6 38.9

Natural resources, construction, and

maintenance ................................................... 19.20 5.6 40.3 19.35 6.1 40.4 17.61 9.0 40.0

Construction and extraction ......................... 18.12 8.4 40.0 18.17 9.3 40.0 17.68 11.3 40.0

Installation, maintenance, and repair ............ 20.14 4.7 40.6 20.33 5.0 40.6 17.51 6.4 40.0

Production, transportation, and material

moving ............................................................ 15.69 11.6 36.8 15.67 12.1 37.1 16.05 8.6 30.7

Production .................................................... 15.48 4.7 38.8 15.43 4.8 38.8 – – –

Transportation and material moving ............. 15.81 18.0 35.7 15.82 19.0 36.1 15.57 8.0 29.8

Full time ............................................................ 21.73 3.2 39.9 21.62 3.6 39.9 22.41 3.0 39.8

Part time ........................................................... 10.35 4.5 21.8 10.20 4.7 21.8 13.18 18.6 21.6

Union ................................................................ 24.53 16.8 37.7 24.89 18.3 37.4 – – –

Nonunion .......................................................... 20.26 3.0 36.6 20.00 3.5 36.3 22.07 2.9 38.3

Time .................................................................. 19.98 3.2 36.5 19.66 3.7 36.2 22.02 2.9 38.4

Incentive ........................................................... 26.88 8.6 38.1 26.88 8.6 38.1 – – –

Establishment characteristics

Goods producing .............................................. 6 ( ) 6 ( ) 6 () – – – 6 ( ) 6 ( ) 6 ( )

Service providing .............................................. 6 ( ) 6 ( ) 6 () – – – 6 ( ) 6 ( ) 6 ( )

1-99 workers ..................................................... 18.59 4.4 36.0 18.56 4.5 36.0 20.29 17.6 39.2

100-499 workers ............................................... 19.88 6.1 37.0 20.15 6.6 36.9 17.04 9.5 37.6

500 workers or more ......................................... 23.77 5.3 37.3 23.98 7.5 36.7 23.31 2.4 38.5

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium

pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is

computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers,

weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of

the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample

estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,

exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based

on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are

determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on

hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially

based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production

bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational

Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing

industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North

American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

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

criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

All workers .............................................................................. $20.50 3.2 $21.73 3.2 $10.35 4.5

Management occupations ................................................. 38.92 3.9 39.03 3.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 21.37 8.0 21.37 8.0 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 27.39 6.3 27.39 6.3 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 36.62 9.7 36.62 9.7 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 46.19 3.3 46.19 3.3 – –

Level 12 ............................................................ 52.40 7.1 52.40 7.1 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 42.38 5.1 42.80 4.8 – –

General and operations managers ................................... 43.92 10.0 43.92 10.0 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 48.79 9.8 48.79 9.8 – –

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 48.93 7.9 48.93 7.9 – –

Sales managers ............................................................ 47.19 6.5 47.19 6.5 – –

Administrative services managers .................................... 34.58 15.6 34.58 15.6 – –

Computer and information systems managers ................. 37.55 9.1 37.55 9.1 – –

Financial managers .......................................................... 34.03 8.8 34.03 8.8 – –

Construction managers .................................................... 38.90 11.2 38.90 11.2 – –

Education administrators .................................................. 37.31 10.4 37.31 10.4 – –

Education administrators, elementary and secondary

school ..................................................................... 42.99 10.2 42.99 10.2 – –

Medical and health services managers ............................ 33.76 4.7 33.76 4.7 – –

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 30.69 6.2 30.64 6.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 14.82 15.3 14.82 15.3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 21.54 3.3 21.54 3.3 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 28.11 5.6 28.11 5.6 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 31.19 3.2 31.19 3.2 – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 46.71 16.5 46.71 16.5 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 40.27 7.8 40.48 8.1 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 34.63 3.8 34.63 3.8 – –

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 23.91 30.6 23.91 30.6 – –

Training and development specialists .......................... 18.53 26.3 18.53 26.3 – –

Management analysts ...................................................... 37.29 10.2 37.29 10.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 34.42 1.3 34.42 1.3 – –

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 25.37 5.9 25.37 5.9 – –

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 33.21 7.6 33.08 8.3 – –

Financial analysts ......................................................... 34.33 6.0 34.23 6.5 – –

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 33.81 5.9 33.81 5.9 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 21.09 7.2 21.09 7.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.38 7.7 23.38 7.7 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 27.68 11.2 27.68 11.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 29.29 3.7 29.29 3.7 – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 35.48 3.3 35.48 3.3 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 45.37 7.8 45.37 7.8 – –

Computer programmers ................................................... 31.65 4.3 31.65 4.3 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 31.30 5.5 31.30 5.5 – –

Computer software engineers .......................................... 40.67 10.0 40.67 10.0 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 35.05 14.3 35.05 14.3 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 44.31 10.0 44.31 10.0 – –

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 44.24 6.2 44.24 6.2 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 46.79 5.0 46.79 5.0 – –

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 35.07 10.9 35.07 10.9 – –

Computer support specialists ........................................... 25.16 8.9 25.16 8.9 – –

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 41.19 21.6 41.19 21.6 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 33.30 6.7 33.60 5.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.52 9.5 – – – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 28.67 10.5 28.67 10.5 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 33.77 8.5 33.77 8.5 – –

Engineers ......................................................................... 39.50 6.0 39.50 6.0 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 34.80 8.2 34.80 8.2 – –

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 35.44 10.6 35.44 10.6 – –

Electrical engineers .................................................. 31.77 9.8 31.77 9.8 – –

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 26.09 6.4 24.62 6.2 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... $24.44 8.5 $24.44 8.5 – –

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 24.04 7.6 24.04 7.6 – –

Community and social services occupations .................. 21.74 16.5 20.43 13.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 17.15 7.1 – – – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 26.40 19.8 26.40 19.8 – –

Counselors ....................................................................... 26.80 19.6 26.53 21.6 – –

Social workers .................................................................. 21.18 29.7 – – – –

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists 13.88 5.2 13.89 5.6 – –

Social and human service assistants ........................... 13.24 5.0 13.24 5.0 – –

Legal occupations .............................................................. 51.34 2.3 51.34 2.3 – –

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 27.77 2.6 28.16 2.9 $17.49 32.0

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.37 4.8 12.44 1.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.61 2.9 13.61 2.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 31.08 4.2 31.95 3.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.77 .6 33.77 .6 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 29.77 7.1 29.77 7.1 – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 32.54 11.0 32.54 11.0 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 25.12 9.4 23.32 17.4 – –

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 29.36 10.1 29.57 13.5 – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 32.54 11.0 32.54 11.0 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 31.00 4.1 31.00 4.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 32.98 3.4 32.98 3.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 34.01 .0 34.01 .0 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 30.24 6.4 30.24 6.4 – –

Preschool and kindergarten teachers ........................... 20.31 30.6 20.31 30.6 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 32.15 .5 32.15 .5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 32.89 1.4 32.89 1.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 32.76 .8 32.76 .8 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 31.32 2.5 31.32 2.5 – –

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 31.79 1.8 31.79 1.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 31.39 2.4 31.39 2.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 32.92 2.2 32.92 2.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 31.82 1.6 31.82 1.6 – –

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 33.23 3.0 33.23 3.0 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 36.17 6.5 36.17 6.5 – –

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 31.90 5.5 31.90 5.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 36.32 2.6 36.32 2.6 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.63 3.3 33.63 3.3 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 27.57 15.4 27.57 15.4 – –

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 31.35 5.3 31.35 5.3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 36.49 2.2 36.49 2.2 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.13 4.8 33.13 4.8 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 26.43 14.5 26.43 14.5 – –

Special education teachers .......................................... 35.17 7.7 35.17 7.7 – –

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 25.05 10.3 26.96 8.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.94 18.5 – – – –

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 12.52 5.3 13.08 1.4 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.37 4.8 12.44 1.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.61 2.9 13.61 2.9 – –

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. 24.93 15.7 25.66 16.5 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 28.20 17.2 28.20 17.2 – –

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Producers and directors ............................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ $29.40 8.5 $29.52 9.3 $27.76 4.2

Level 5 ............................................................. 16.32 6.7 16.15 7.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.56 12.8 20.56 12.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 19.35 11.0 18.73 11.2 24.51 4.0

Level 8 ............................................................. 27.63 3.6 27.26 4.0 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 28.07 2.7 27.69 3.5 30.70 7.1

Level 10 ............................................................ 44.20 14.3 44.30 14.6 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 49.56 20.8 49.71 20.8 – –

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 46.24 3.0 46.52 2.9 – –

Registered nurses ............................................................ 29.35 5.7 29.25 7.1 30.07 4.8

Level 7 ............................................................. 22.57 13.3 22.29 15.0 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 28.44 4.6 28.43 5.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 28.01 1.6 27.53 2.5 30.82 7.2

Therapists ......................................................................... 22.75 21.3 22.60 22.3 – –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. 24.15 1.9 – – – –

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support

technicians .................................................................. 15.04 11.8 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 18.15 4.7 18.17 5.0 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.08 2.2 18.16 2.4 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 17.96 8.7 17.96 8.7 – –

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 11.58 5.6 11.89 5.7 9.38 8.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.41 7.5 9.79 7.0 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 9.99 8.9 9.93 9.2 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.77 8.4 13.97 8.7 – –

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 9.74 5.1 9.82 5.5 9.36 8.3

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.34 7.4 9.72 6.9 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 12.33 4.0 12.51 5.3 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 10.33 6.0 10.55 5.5 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.37 7.9 9.79 7.4 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.83 5.8 10.54 6.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 12.33 4.0 12.51 5.3 – –

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 15.23 2.9 15.28 3.0 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.69 10.8 – – – –

Medical assistants ........................................................ 14.04 13.8 14.12 13.9 – –

Protective service occupations ......................................... 15.77 9.4 15.83 9.4 13.39 24.2

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.04 1.5 10.06 1.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.80 4.6 14.28 5.5 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 14.84 6.5 14.84 6.5 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 18.04 3.2 18.27 5.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 16.70 12.3 16.70 12.3 – –

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 22.98 5.7 22.98 5.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 24.21 .9 24.21 .9 – –

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 17.21 7.6 17.56 8.1 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.02 3.2 16.49 .8 – –

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... 14.20 10.3 14.29 9.4 – –

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 14.29 9.4 14.29 9.4 – –

Police officers ................................................................... 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.14 9.1 20.14 9.1 – –

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.14 9.1 20.14 9.1 – –

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 11.34 10.2 11.19 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.07 1.8 10.06 1.7 – –

Security guards ............................................................. 11.34 10.2 11.19 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.07 1.8 10.06 1.7 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 7.74 3.8 8.55 13.7 6.56 8.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.57 8.5 8.16 11.5 5.95 9.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 5.33 12.0 5.19 23.2 5.68 14.3

Level 3 ............................................................. 9.30 10.8 9.15 15.9 9.67 2.0

Level 5 ............................................................. 12.61 6.7 12.61 6.7 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... $14.14 8.7 $14.93 8.4 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... 14.79 8.8 15.92 12.5 – –

Cooks ............................................................................... 10.68 7.4 11.29 5.2 $9.18 8.3

Level 2 ............................................................. 7.53 9.1 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 9.90 2.5 9.75 7.3 – –

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 13.15 9.9 13.27 10.8 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.06 6.8 11.29 4.2 – –

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 11.10 9.0 11.65 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 5.2 – – – –

Food preparation workers ................................................. 10.62 6.1 11.45 4.4 – –

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 4.28 5.2 4.61 22.4 3.65 30.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 4.78 13.7 – – 3.36 29.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 3.36 13.8 3.43 22.2 – –

Bartenders .................................................................... 5.06 11.3 – – – –

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 3.45 13.2 3.90 11.8 2.64 16.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 2.89 19.7 – – 2.85 22.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 2.98 14.7 – – – –

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender

helpers .................................................................... 8.36 6.8 – – – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.34 7.5 – – – –

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 7.41 2.2 8.50 4.1 6.86 1.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.77 2.6 – – 6.81 2.2

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 7.42 2.7 – – 6.86 1.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.77 2.6 – – 6.81 2.2

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 10.48 5.9 10.65 5.8 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.96 6.5 8.14 5.6 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.35 8.0 10.29 11.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.00 6.6 11.96 6.9 – –

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 9.98 4.9 10.11 4.9 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.96 6.5 8.14 5.6 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.35 8.0 10.29 11.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.07 6.8 12.02 7.1 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 10.41 5.9 10.64 5.1 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.58 10.1 7.86 8.7 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.38 8.5 10.33 12.3 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.31 7.2 12.26 7.5 – –

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 8.43 6.8 8.43 6.8 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.08 4.8 8.08 4.8 – –

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 17.12 12.1 17.70 13.8 13.96 33.0

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.21 4.5 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.96 13.6 – – – –

Child care workers ............................................................ 9.42 4.4 – – – –

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 18.04 9.4 21.66 8.8 8.89 4.3

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.14 4.7 – – 6.99 5.0

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.85 1.1 9.66 3.3 8.55 3.9

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.59 1.0 10.77 1.6 10.11 1.7

Level 4 ............................................................. 16.38 21.9 17.40 20.8 11.65 13.9

Level 5 ............................................................. 20.27 8.8 20.27 8.8 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 17.23 6.8 17.23 6.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 29.43 18.9 29.43 18.9 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 49.12 9.8 49.12 9.8 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 14.05 16.4 14.46 17.9 – –

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 27.39 28.0 27.39 28.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.65 6.8 16.65 6.8 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers 17.17 6.2 17.17 6.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.65 6.8 16.65 6.8 – –

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 12.81 15.0 15.48 19.1 8.46 3.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.12 4.8 – – 6.96 4.9

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Retail sales workers –Continued

Level 2 ............................................................. $8.76 1.2 $9.66 3.3 $8.07 4.5

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.40 .4 10.60 .7 9.94 2.0

Level 4 ............................................................. 18.15 31.1 20.24 27.0 10.30 3.8

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.96 7.4 23.96 7.4 – –

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 8.55 3.2 9.53 3.7 7.60 4.6

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.09 4.9 – – 6.98 5.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.61 .1 9.52 3.7 7.87 4.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 2.9 10.39 4.1 – –

Cashiers ................................................................... 8.55 3.2 9.53 3.7 7.60 4.6

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.09 4.9 – – 6.98 5.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.61 .1 9.52 3.7 7.87 4.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 2.9 10.39 4.1 – –

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 16.82 8.5 18.22 5.8 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 23.64 7.1 – –

Counter and rental clerks ......................................... 14.08 13.7 – – – –

Parts salespersons ................................................... 18.52 19.2 21.50 9.0 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 23.64 7.1 – –

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 16.47 27.5 19.47 24.7 9.89 5.3

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.27 5.5 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.84 3.7 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 18.63 36.0 21.54 30.4 10.30 3.8

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 43.41 8.8 43.41 8.8 – –

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 11.17 14.1 10.62 15.0 – –

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 16.19 2.5 16.78 1.9 11.68 3.0

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.70 10.8 – – – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.48 4.3 11.94 4.4 9.93 5.5

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.45 5.5 13.08 4.3 10.79 13.5

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.20 1.6 15.26 1.7 13.85 6.6

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.29 2.4 18.29 2.4 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.48 6.7 20.48 6.7 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 25.38 7.9 25.38 7.9 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 14.73 5.8 15.88 3.1 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... 22.12 15.6 22.12 15.6 – –

Financial clerks ................................................................. 16.88 4.9 17.36 4.5 11.54 4.9

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.42 4.2 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.05 5.8 15.19 5.9 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.97 1.8 18.97 1.8 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 15.56 4.2 15.77 4.4 – –

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 17.52 8.8 17.52 8.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.84 10.6 15.84 10.6 – –

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 17.43 6.3 17.43 6.3 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 17.07 7.3 17.41 7.3 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 12.89 9.9 13.02 10.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 15.27 2.3 15.27 2.3 – –

Tellers ........................................................................... 11.40 2.7 – – – –

Customer service representatives .................................... 15.53 3.3 15.89 2.6 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.37 2.6 14.37 2.6 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.02 6.2 18.02 6.2 – –

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 13.21 3.9 13.98 3.6 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.73 7.0 12.12 5.4 – –

Dispatchers ....................................................................... 17.80 8.9 17.80 8.9 – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 13.15 2.9 13.15 2.9 – –

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 12.54 6.1 12.80 6.1 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.70 10.8 – – – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 18.42 5.0 18.45 5.0 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.69 2.9 14.69 2.9 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.55 5.0 17.55 5.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 18.04 7.1 18.04 7.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 27.03 12.9 27.03 12.9 – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 19.94 12.7 19.94 12.7 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 15.78 20.6 15.78 20.6 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 19.37 6.5 19.37 6.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 27.03 12.9 27.03 12.9 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Medical secretaries ....................................................... $12.99 7.6 $13.08 8.3 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.63 4.5 13.63 4.5 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 15.78 4.2 15.78 4.2 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.96 3.3 14.96 3.3 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 16.21 2.4 16.22 2.4 – –

Data entry and information processing workers ............... 16.75 9.9 16.75 9.9 – –

Data entry keyers ......................................................... 13.84 9.2 13.84 9.2 – –

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 14.85 5.6 16.03 4.8 $12.17 5.0

Level 3 ............................................................. 14.81 4.4 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.66 4.6 16.46 4.6 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.83 8.1 17.83 8.1 – –

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 18.12 8.4 18.12 8.4 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 16.85 6.4 16.85 6.4 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 22.17 3.5 22.17 3.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.13 5.9 23.13 5.9 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 25.47 3.4 25.47 3.4 – –

Carpenters ........................................................................ 20.14 6.6 20.14 6.6 – –

Construction laborers ....................................................... 11.19 9.4 11.19 9.4 – –

Electricians ....................................................................... 21.66 7.9 21.66 7.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 25.54 9.7 25.54 9.7 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 20.14 4.7 20.14 4.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.86 4.9 13.86 4.9 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.87 10.8 17.87 10.8 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 23.18 7.1 23.18 7.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 22.51 4.9 22.51 4.9 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 29.26 5.5 29.26 5.5 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 17.80 22.5 17.80 22.5 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. 24.04 12.7 24.04 12.7 – –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 26.84 1.4 26.84 1.4 – –

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 26.84 1.4 26.84 1.4 – –

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 18.80 19.1 18.80 19.1 – –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 22.26 14.5 22.26 14.5 – –

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 19.73 10.3 19.73 10.3 – –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 20.04 10.2 20.04 10.2 – –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists ... 17.72 9.1 17.72 9.1 – –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 15.58 10.6 15.58 10.6 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.12 10.0 17.12 10.0 – –

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 18.09 2.8 18.09 2.8 – –

Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... 14.32 15.3 14.32 15.3 – –

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 13.34 6.8 13.34 6.8 – –

Production occupations .................................................... 15.48 4.7 15.40 4.9 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.43 22.4 8.30 5.2 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.63 3.8 9.69 3.8 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 18.61 2.8 19.05 2.1 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.69 11.8 13.61 12.1 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 15.76 10.9 15.76 10.9 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 17.41 6.2 17.41 6.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 24.76 4.7 24.76 4.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 23.70 9.5 23.70 9.5 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 20.16 5.5 20.98 4.4 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 24.18 9.1 25.77 7.9 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... $12.04 10.6 $12.04 10.6 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 16.97 11.7 16.97 11.7 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 17.04 13.6 17.04 13.6 – –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 13.48 19.7 13.44 20.3 – –

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 16.71 4.9 15.77 3.9 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 15.81 18.0 16.81 18.6 $8.32 5.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.74 3.1 9.76 4.0 7.11 6.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.44 3.8 10.48 4.6 10.09 7.6

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.92 5.2 12.94 5.5 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 19.00 8.2 19.03 8.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 22.83 3.6 22.83 3.6 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 21.49 5.6 21.49 5.6 – –

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 17.19 3.8 17.68 5.5 – –

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 17.19 3.8 17.68 5.5 – –

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 17.01 12.2 17.67 10.8 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 13.09 10.7 13.09 10.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 19.30 8.4 19.32 8.5 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 18.97 9.2 19.00 9.1 – –

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ 11.12 11.7 12.64 7.0 – –

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 13.51 8.1 13.51 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.73 7.4 12.73 7.4 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 10.21 2.4 10.79 3.9 7.92 3.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.72 2.4 9.63 1.9 7.50 3.7

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.29 5.5 10.30 6.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.48 7.6 12.48 7.6 – –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment ............................ 8.77 3.6 – – – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 10.62 4.0 11.41 6.1 7.99 3.3

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.84 4.0 – – 7.60 2.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.36 6.6 10.46 7.7 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.48 7.6 12.48 7.6 – –

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 10.82 4.2 10.82 4.5 – –

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 8.90 5.0 9.55 5.0 7.39 7.8

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.40 6.8 – – 7.39 7.8

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded

are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the

number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where

a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is

evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and

complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored

to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the

occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the

overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around

a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories

not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

All workers .............................................................................. $20.28 3.7 $21.62 3.6 $10.20 4.7

Management occupations ................................................. 38.90 4.1 39.03 4.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 21.37 8.0 21.37 8.0 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 26.88 6.8 26.88 6.8 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 37.09 9.7 37.09 9.7 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 46.18 3.7 46.18 3.7 – –

Level 12 ............................................................ 52.40 7.1 52.40 7.1 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 42.62 5.2 43.08 4.9 – –

General and operations managers ................................... 43.92 10.0 43.92 10.0 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 48.79 9.8 48.79 9.8 – –

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 48.93 7.9 48.93 7.9 – –

Sales managers ............................................................ 47.19 6.5 47.19 6.5 – –

Administrative services managers .................................... 34.58 15.6 34.58 15.6 – –

Computer and information systems managers ................. 37.55 9.1 37.55 9.1 – –

Financial managers .......................................................... 33.70 9.3 33.70 9.3 – –

Construction managers .................................................... 38.90 11.2 38.90 11.2 – –

Education administrators .................................................. 33.78 17.0 33.78 17.0 – –

Medical and health services managers ............................ 35.75 3.7 35.75 3.7 – –

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 31.55 6.7 31.51 6.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 21.96 3.4 21.96 3.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 28.97 6.1 28.97 6.1 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 31.82 1.8 31.82 1.8 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 41.80 7.6 42.15 8.0 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 35.22 4.0 35.22 4.0 – –

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 24.23 37.8 24.23 37.8 – –

Management analysts ...................................................... 38.19 10.1 38.19 10.1 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 34.42 1.3 34.42 1.3 – –

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 24.56 10.3 24.56 10.3 – –

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 33.21 7.6 33.08 8.3 – –

Financial analysts ......................................................... 34.33 6.0 34.23 6.5 – –

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 34.05 6.1 34.05 6.1 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.83 8.4 23.83 8.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 27.64 11.7 27.64 11.7 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 28.92 4.0 28.92 4.0 – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 35.48 3.3 35.48 3.3 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 45.67 8.3 45.67 8.3 – –

Computer programmers ................................................... 31.53 4.7 31.53 4.7 – –

Computer software engineers .......................................... 40.67 10.0 40.67 10.0 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 35.05 14.3 35.05 14.3 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 44.31 10.0 44.31 10.0 – –

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 44.24 6.2 44.24 6.2 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 46.79 5.0 46.79 5.0 – –

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 35.07 10.9 35.07 10.9 – –

Computer support specialists ........................................... 25.11 9.9 25.11 9.9 – –

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 40.88 23.6 40.88 23.6 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 34.08 7.0 34.46 5.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.52 9.5 – – – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 35.43 8.7 35.43 8.7 – –

Engineers ......................................................................... 41.73 5.1 41.73 5.1 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 37.00 7.1 37.00 7.1 – –

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 38.49 7.9 38.49 7.9 – –

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 25.64 7.5 23.79 7.5 – –

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... 23.17 10.4 23.17 10.4 – –

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 24.37 9.4 24.37 9.4 – –

Community and social services occupations .................. 19.80 23.7 17.09 8.4 – –

Legal occupations .............................................................. 51.34 2.3 51.34 2.3 – –

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 25.08 13.3 25.34 13.5 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Education, training, and library occupations –Continued

Level 7 ............................................................. $30.77 13.5 – – – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 32.54 11.0 $32.54 11.0 – –

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 26.49 20.5 – – – –

Level 10 ............................................................ 32.54 11.0 32.54 11.0 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 25.28 19.4 25.28 19.4 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 31.12 3.8 31.12 3.8 – –

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. 27.32 15.9 28.20 16.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 30.35 19.1 30.35 19.1 – –

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Producers and directors ............................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 30.96 8.8 31.20 9.6 $28.00 4.4

Level 5 ............................................................. 16.34 7.6 16.15 8.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 24.25 1.3 24.25 1.3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 19.52 14.1 18.92 14.5 24.74 5.3

Level 8 ............................................................. 27.63 3.6 27.26 4.0 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 28.10 2.3 27.68 3.2 30.70 7.1

Level 10 ............................................................ 44.20 14.3 44.30 14.6 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 49.56 20.8 49.71 20.8 – –

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 46.24 3.0 46.52 2.9 – –

Registered nurses ............................................................ 30.43 5.1 30.48 6.4 30.07 4.8

Level 7 ............................................................. 29.01 11.9 – – – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 28.44 4.6 28.43 5.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 28.30 1.2 27.83 2.0 30.82 7.2

Therapists ......................................................................... 21.80 22.0 21.59 23.0 – –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. 24.18 2.1 – – – –

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support

technicians .................................................................. 15.04 11.8 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 19.66 2.6 19.82 2.4 – –

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 11.62 6.4 11.96 6.5 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.39 8.5 9.83 8.0 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. – – 9.74 9.2 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.52 7.3 14.62 7.8 – –

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 9.66 5.6 9.83 6.1 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.31 8.3 9.75 8.0 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 12.51 5.3 12.51 5.3 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 10.26 6.8 10.59 6.0 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.31 8.3 9.75 8.0 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.76 7.7 10.64 7.9 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 12.51 5.3 12.51 5.3 – –

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 15.80 1.8 15.87 1.9 – –

Medical assistants ........................................................ 14.75 14.0 14.87 14.0 – –

Protective service occupations ......................................... 12.41 13.7 12.35 12.8 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.01 1.4 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.57 8.1 – – – –

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 11.36 10.7 11.20 8.6 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.04 1.6 – – – –

Security guards ............................................................. 11.36 10.7 11.20 8.6 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.04 1.6 – – – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 7.44 3.0 8.10 13.1 6.56 8.5

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.57 8.5 8.16 11.5 5.95 9.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 5.24 11.8 5.05 23.1 5.68 14.3

Level 3 ............................................................. 9.03 11.3 8.73 17.3 9.70 1.9

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... 12.88 4.3 13.50 1.1 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... $13.36 1.5 $14.30 8.0 – –

Cooks ............................................................................... 10.52 8.2 11.10 5.8 $9.22 8.4

Level 3 ............................................................. 9.85 2.3 9.61 8.0 – –

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 11.10 9.0 11.65 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 5.2 – – – –

Food preparation workers ................................................. 10.19 6.8 – – – –

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 4.23 5.3 4.54 21.9 3.65 30.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 4.78 13.7 – – 3.36 29.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 3.25 12.9 3.30 19.5 – –

Bartenders .................................................................... 5.06 11.3 – – – –

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 3.45 13.2 3.90 11.8 2.64 16.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 2.89 19.7 – – 2.85 22.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 2.98 14.7 – – – –

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender

helpers .................................................................... 8.34 7.5 – – – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.34 7.5 – – – –

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 7.36 2.2 8.44 4.1 6.83 1.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.77 2.6 – – 6.81 2.2

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 7.40 2.7 – – 6.83 1.4

Level 1 ............................................................. 6.77 2.6 – – 6.81 2.2

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 9.43 5.8 9.47 6.2 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.85 7.3 8.01 6.2 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.54 6.2 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.90 7.4 11.84 7.8 – –

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 9.29 5.5 9.31 6.0 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.85 7.3 8.01 6.2 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.54 6.2 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.90 7.4 11.84 7.8 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 9.53 7.5 9.61 8.2 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.24 11.6 7.50 10.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.15 8.0 12.08 8.4 – –

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 8.43 6.8 8.43 6.8 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.08 4.8 8.08 4.8 – –

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 17.67 14.3 18.34 16.9 14.22 33.6

Child care workers ............................................................ 9.47 4.8 – – – –

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 18.04 9.4 21.66 8.8 8.89 4.3

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.14 4.7 – – 6.99 5.0

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.85 1.1 9.66 3.3 8.55 3.9

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.59 1.0 10.77 1.6 10.11 1.7

Level 4 ............................................................. 16.38 21.9 17.40 20.8 11.65 13.9

Level 5 ............................................................. 20.27 8.8 20.27 8.8 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 17.23 6.8 17.23 6.8 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 29.43 18.9 29.43 18.9 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 49.12 9.8 49.12 9.8 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 14.05 16.4 14.46 17.9 – –

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 27.39 28.0 27.39 28.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.65 6.8 16.65 6.8 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers 17.17 6.2 17.17 6.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.65 6.8 16.65 6.8 – –

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 12.81 15.0 15.48 19.1 8.46 3.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.12 4.8 – – 6.96 4.9

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.76 1.2 9.66 3.3 8.07 4.5

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.40 .4 10.60 .7 9.94 2.0

Level 4 ............................................................. 18.15 31.1 20.24 27.0 10.30 3.8

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.96 7.4 23.96 7.4 – –

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 8.55 3.2 9.53 3.7 7.60 4.6

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.09 4.9 – – 6.98 5.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.61 .1 9.52 3.7 7.87 4.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 2.9 10.39 4.1 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Cashiers ................................................................... $8.55 3.2 $9.53 3.7 $7.60 4.6

Level 1 ............................................................. 7.09 4.9 – – 6.98 5.8

Level 2 ............................................................. 8.61 .1 9.52 3.7 7.87 4.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.25 2.9 10.39 4.1 – –

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 16.82 8.5 18.22 5.8 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 23.64 7.1 – –

Counter and rental clerks ......................................... 14.08 13.7 – – – –

Parts salespersons ................................................... 18.52 19.2 21.50 9.0 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 23.64 7.1 – –

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 16.47 27.5 19.47 24.7 9.89 5.3

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.27 5.5 – – – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 10.84 3.7 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 18.63 36.0 21.54 30.4 10.30 3.8

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 43.41 8.8 43.41 8.8 – –

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 11.17 14.1 10.62 15.0 – –

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 16.14 2.5 16.74 1.8 11.76 2.9

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.70 10.8 – – – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.29 4.0 11.62 4.1 10.11 5.7

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.52 5.9 13.20 4.6 10.88 13.9

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.33 1.6 15.40 1.8 13.85 6.6

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.42 2.7 18.42 2.7 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 21.27 6.9 21.27 6.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.56 3.6 23.56 3.6 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 14.73 5.8 15.88 3.1 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... 22.05 17.0 22.05 17.0 – –

Financial clerks ................................................................. 16.96 5.1 17.47 4.6 11.54 4.9

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.42 4.2 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.24 6.1 15.41 6.2 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 19.06 1.7 19.06 1.7 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 15.56 4.2 15.77 4.4 – –

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 17.52 8.8 17.52 8.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 15.84 10.6 15.84 10.6 – –

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 17.43 6.3 17.43 6.3 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 17.20 7.7 17.58 7.6 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.00 11.7 13.17 12.5 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 15.27 2.3 15.27 2.3 – –

Tellers ........................................................................... 11.40 2.7 – – – –

Customer service representatives .................................... 15.57 3.4 15.95 2.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.39 2.6 14.39 2.6 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.60 7.1 18.60 7.1 – –

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 13.21 3.9 13.98 3.6 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 11.73 7.0 12.12 5.4 – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 13.15 2.9 13.15 2.9 – –

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 12.68 6.2 12.97 6.1 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.70 10.8 – – – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 18.15 3.5 18.19 3.6 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.64 2.5 14.64 2.5 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.65 5.5 17.65 5.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.79 4.7 23.79 4.7 – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 18.67 11.7 18.67 11.7 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 15.78 20.6 15.78 20.6 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 23.79 4.7 23.79 4.7 – –

Medical secretaries ....................................................... 13.15 8.5 13.26 9.4 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.09 5.1 14.09 5.1 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 16.22 5.6 16.22 5.6 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.80 3.0 14.80 3.0 – –

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 14.83 5.7 16.04 5.0 12.17 5.0

Level 3 ............................................................. 14.81 4.4 – – – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 16.02 3.8 16.98 4.0 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.75 8.5 17.75 8.5 – –

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 18.17 9.3 18.17 9.3 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 16.85 6.4 16.85 6.4 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 22.20 3.7 22.20 3.7 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Construction and extraction occupations –Continued

Level 7 ............................................................. $23.92 7.4 $23.92 7.4 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 26.08 4.6 26.08 4.6 – –

Carpenters ........................................................................ 20.14 6.6 20.14 6.6 – –

Electricians ....................................................................... 21.71 8.5 21.71 8.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 26.17 11.0 26.17 11.0 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 20.33 5.0 20.33 5.0 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.99 5.6 13.99 5.6 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 18.12 11.7 18.12 11.7 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 23.49 7.3 23.49 7.3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 22.58 6.3 22.58 6.3 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 29.26 5.5 29.26 5.5 – –

Not able to be leveled ....................................... 17.80 22.5 17.80 22.5 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. 24.88 15.7 24.88 15.7 – –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 27.25 .5 27.25 .5 – –

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 27.25 .5 27.25 .5 – –

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 18.80 19.1 18.80 19.1 – –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 22.26 14.5 22.26 14.5 – –

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 19.93 11.4 19.93 11.4 – –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 20.29 11.4 20.29 11.4 – –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 15.70 11.7 15.70 11.7 – –

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 18.09 2.8 18.09 2.8 – –

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 13.34 6.8 13.34 6.8 – –

Production occupations .................................................... 15.43 4.8 15.34 4.9 – –

Level 1 ............................................................. 11.43 22.4 8.30 5.2 – –

Level 2 ............................................................. 9.63 3.8 9.69 3.8 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 18.61 2.8 19.05 2.1 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.69 11.8 13.61 12.1 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 15.76 10.9 15.76 10.9 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 17.41 6.2 17.41 6.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 25.30 4.7 25.30 4.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 23.70 9.5 23.70 9.5 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 20.16 5.5 20.98 4.4 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 24.18 9.1 25.77 7.9 – –

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... 12.04 10.6 12.04 10.6 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 16.97 11.7 16.97 11.7 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 17.04 13.6 17.04 13.6 – –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 13.48 19.7 13.44 20.3 – –

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 16.71 4.9 15.77 3.9 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 15.82 19.0 16.80 19.5 $7.90 6.1

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.74 3.1 9.76 4.0 7.11 6.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.40 4.2 10.40 4.9 10.43 13.0

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.47 5.2 12.52 5.5 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 19.12 8.1 19.14 8.2 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 21.79 5.7 21.79 5.7 – –

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 17.00 12.6 17.69 11.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.37 8.1 12.37 8.1 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 19.39 8.3 19.40 8.4 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 19.03 9.3 19.06 9.2 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work levels3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ $10.86 12.2 $12.37 7.6 – –

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 13.51 8.1 13.51 8.1 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.73 7.4 12.73 7.4 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 10.21 2.4 10.79 3.9 $7.92 3.7

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.72 2.4 9.63 1.9 7.50 3.7

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.29 5.5 10.30 6.2 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.48 7.6 12.48 7.6 – –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment ............................ 8.77 3.6 – – – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 10.62 4.0 11.41 6.1 7.99 3.3

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.84 4.0 – – 7.60 2.2

Level 2 ............................................................. 10.36 6.6 10.46 7.7 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 12.48 7.6 12.48 7.6 – –

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 10.82 4.2 10.82 4.5 – –

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 8.90 5.0 9.55 5.0 7.39 7.8

Level 1 ............................................................. 8.40 6.8 – – 7.39 7.8

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded

are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the

number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where

a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is

evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and

complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored

to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the

occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the

overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around

a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories

not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work

levels3, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

All workers .............................................................................. $22.02 2.9 $22.41 3.0 $13.18 18.6

Management occupations ................................................. 39.15 9.3 39.06 9.2 – –

Education administrators .................................................. 39.41 12.9 39.41 12.9 – –

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 24.26 5.5 24.26 5.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 19.96 5.1 19.96 5.1 – –

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 26.53 .8 26.53 .8 – –

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 29.98 5.0 29.98 5.0 – –

Community and social services occupations .................. 24.59 14.9 25.03 14.7 – –

Counselors ....................................................................... 34.99 4.4 34.99 4.4 – –

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists 13.90 7.4 – – – –

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 28.65 1.5 29.09 2.2 17.44 41.7

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.37 4.8 12.44 1.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.61 2.9 13.61 2.9 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 31.29 1.3 32.01 1.5 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.97 .1 33.97 .1 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 32.91 1.0 32.91 1.0 – –

Level 11 ............................................................ 25.12 9.4 23.32 17.4 – –

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 29.86 11.6 29.16 15.0 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 33.26 .3 33.26 .3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 33.04 1.3 33.04 1.3 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 34.01 .0 34.01 .0 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 33.03 .7 33.03 .7 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 32.42 .3 32.42 .3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 32.22 .1 32.22 .1 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 32.76 .8 32.76 .8 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 32.61 .1 32.61 .1 – –

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 32.40 1.5 32.40 1.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 32.21 2.4 32.21 2.4 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 32.92 2.2 32.92 2.2 – –

Level 9 ............................................................. 32.51 .3 32.51 .3 – –

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 32.52 4.4 32.52 4.4 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 32.24 7.1 32.24 7.1 – –

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 34.44 2.5 34.44 2.5 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 34.88 2.8 34.88 2.8 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.63 3.3 33.63 3.3 – –

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 33.88 2.2 33.88 2.2 – –

Level 8 ............................................................. 33.13 4.8 33.13 4.8 – –

Special education teachers .......................................... 35.84 8.6 35.84 8.6 – –

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 24.94 16.7 – – – –

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 12.52 5.3 13.08 1.4 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.37 4.8 12.44 1.8 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 13.61 2.9 13.61 2.9 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 17.82 10.2 17.61 9.7 – –

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 11.32 5.3 11.26 7.3 – –

Protective service occupations ......................................... 18.18 3.4 18.30 4.4 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 15.37 7.0 15.37 7.0 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 18.04 3.2 18.27 5.2 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 16.70 12.3 16.70 12.3 – –

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 22.98 5.7 22.98 5.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 24.21 .9 24.21 .9 – –

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 15.80 3.8 16.06 1.6 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 16.02 3.2 16.49 .8 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings1 for full-time and part-time workers2 by work

levels3, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... $14.20 10.3 $14.29 9.4 – –

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 14.29 9.4 14.29 9.4 – –

Police officers ................................................................... 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.14 9.1 20.14 9.1 – –

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Level 6 ............................................................. 20.14 9.1 20.14 9.1 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 14.51 19.8 14.73 20.7 – –

Level 3 ............................................................. 11.93 10.1 – – – –

Cooks ............................................................................... 12.66 23.2 12.94 26.4 – –

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 12.66 23.2 12.94 26.4 – –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 13.44 8.0 13.76 8.9 – –

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 12.47 4.5 12.84 5.6 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 12.59 4.4 12.84 5.6 – –

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 11.65 17.0 – – – –

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 16.86 10.6 17.14 10.7 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.03 7.2 14.03 7.2 – –

Level 5 ............................................................. 17.04 4.4 17.04 4.4 – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 19.56 21.0 19.56 21.0 – –

Level 4 ............................................................. 14.81 7.8 14.81 7.8 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 15.05 5.7 15.05 5.7 – –

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 17.68 11.3 17.68 11.3 – –

Level 7 ............................................................. 21.12 1.7 21.12 1.7 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 17.51 6.4 17.51 6.4 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 15.57 8.0 17.02 1.6 $11.43 13.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 17.36 2.7 17.73 3.8 – –

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 17.19 3.8 17.68 5.5 – –

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Level 3 ............................................................. 17.19 3.8 17.68 5.5 – –

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded

are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the

number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where

a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is

evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and

complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored

to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the

occupation’s rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the

overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around

a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories

not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

All workers .............................................................................. $20.50 3.2 $21.73 3.2 $10.35 4.5

Management occupations ................................................. 38.92 3.9 39.03 3.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 24.18 5.7 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 42.02 4.3 – – – –

General and operations managers ................................... 43.92 10.0 43.92 10.0 – –

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 48.93 7.9 48.93 7.9 – –

Sales managers ............................................................ 47.19 6.5 47.19 6.5 – –

Administrative services managers .................................... 34.58 15.6 34.58 15.6 – –

Computer and information systems managers ................. 37.55 9.1 37.55 9.1 – –

Financial managers .......................................................... 34.03 8.8 34.03 8.8 – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.52 17.1 20.52 17.1 – –

Group III ............................................................ 40.70 14.5 40.70 14.5 – –

Construction managers .................................................... 38.90 11.2 38.90 11.2 – –

Education administrators .................................................. 37.31 10.4 37.31 10.4 – –

Education administrators, elementary and secondary

school ..................................................................... 42.99 10.2 42.99 10.2 – –

Medical and health services managers ............................ 33.76 4.7 33.76 4.7 – –

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 30.69 6.2 30.64 6.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 21.68 10.6 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 39.69 4.8 – – – –

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 23.91 30.6 23.91 30.6 – –

Group II ............................................................. 18.25 29.9 – – – –

Training and development specialists .......................... 18.53 26.3 18.53 26.3 – –

Management analysts ...................................................... 37.29 10.2 37.29 10.2 – –

Group III ............................................................ 39.42 6.9 39.42 6.9 – –

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 25.37 5.9 25.37 5.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.17 4.7 23.17 4.7 – –

Group III ............................................................ 33.41 7.9 33.41 7.9 – –

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 33.21 7.6 33.08 8.3 – –

Financial analysts ......................................................... 34.33 6.0 34.23 6.5 – –

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 33.81 5.9 33.81 5.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 24.72 5.4 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 38.36 5.7 – – – –

Computer programmers ................................................... 31.65 4.3 31.65 4.3 – –

Group III ............................................................ 32.62 5.8 32.62 5.8 – –

Computer software engineers .......................................... 40.67 10.0 40.67 10.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 35.85 12.5 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 40.99 10.1 – – – –

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 44.24 6.2 44.24 6.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 39.38 5.2 39.38 5.2 – –

Group III ............................................................ 44.09 5.4 44.09 5.4 – –

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 35.07 10.9 35.07 10.9 – –

Group III ............................................................ 36.35 12.2 36.35 12.2 – –

Computer support specialists ........................................... 25.16 8.9 25.16 8.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.60 9.0 23.60 9.0 – –

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 41.19 21.6 41.19 21.6 – –

Group III ............................................................ 51.70 26.0 51.70 26.0 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 33.30 6.7 33.60 5.8 – –

Group II ............................................................. 25.30 8.8 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 36.32 7.8 – – – –

Engineers ......................................................................... 39.50 6.0 39.50 6.0 – –

Group III ............................................................ 37.08 7.1 – – – –

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 35.44 10.6 35.44 10.6 – –

Group III ............................................................ 38.40 8.9 – – – –

Electrical engineers .................................................. 31.77 9.8 31.77 9.8 – –

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 26.09 6.4 24.62 6.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 24.94 6.4 – – – –

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... 24.44 8.5 24.44 8.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 24.30 8.8 24.30 8.8 – –

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 24.04 7.6 24.04 7.6 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Life, physical, and social science occupations

–Continued

Group II ............................................................. $19.67 11.8 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 28.42 8.4 – – – –

Community and social services occupations .................. 21.74 16.5 $20.43 13.1 – –

Group II ............................................................. 16.82 5.4 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 34.18 12.5 – – – –

Counselors ....................................................................... 26.80 19.6 26.53 21.6 – –

Social workers .................................................................. 21.18 29.7 – – – –

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists 13.88 5.2 13.89 5.6 – –

Social and human service assistants ........................... 13.24 5.0 13.24 5.0 – –

Legal occupations .............................................................. 51.34 2.3 51.34 2.3 – –

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 27.77 2.6 28.16 2.9 $17.49 32.0

Group I .............................................................. 12.54 5.5 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 30.34 5.9 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 30.01 6.3 – – – –

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 29.36 10.1 29.57 13.5 – –

Group III ............................................................ 30.67 13.8 – – – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 31.00 4.1 31.00 4.1 – –

Group II ............................................................. 31.46 7.4 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 30.24 6.4 – – – –

Preschool and kindergarten teachers ........................... 20.31 30.6 20.31 30.6 – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.31 30.6 – – – –

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 32.15 .5 32.15 .5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 32.86 1.1 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 31.32 2.5 – – – –

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 31.79 1.8 31.79 1.8 – –

Group II ............................................................. 31.85 2.6 31.85 2.6 – –

Group III ............................................................ 31.82 1.6 31.82 1.6 – –

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 33.23 3.0 33.23 3.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 35.66 6.8 35.66 6.8 – –

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 31.90 5.5 31.90 5.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 34.91 2.5 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 27.57 15.4 – – – –

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 31.35 5.3 31.35 5.3 – –

Group II ............................................................. 34.77 3.3 34.77 3.3 – –

Group III ............................................................ 26.43 14.5 26.43 14.5 – –

Special education teachers .......................................... 35.17 7.7 35.17 7.7 – –

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 25.05 10.3 26.96 8.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 25.07 11.6 – – – –

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 12.52 5.3 13.08 1.4 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.54 5.5 13.12 1.7 – –

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. 24.93 15.7 25.66 16.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 15.07 12.6 – – – –

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Producers and directors ............................................... 38.53 20.4 38.53 20.4 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 29.40 8.5 29.52 9.3 27.76 4.2

Group I .............................................................. 14.04 6.8 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.95 6.7 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 36.64 6.0 – – – –

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 46.24 3.0 46.52 2.9 – –

Group III ............................................................ 46.38 3.7 46.38 3.7 – –

Registered nurses ............................................................ 29.35 5.7 29.25 7.1 30.07 4.8

Group II ............................................................. 26.39 7.4 26.26 8.3 – –

Group III ............................................................ 31.20 8.2 31.15 10.4 31.56 5.7

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Therapists ......................................................................... $22.75 21.3 $22.60 22.3 – –

Group III ............................................................ 32.45 2.4 – – – –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. 24.15 1.9 – – – –

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support

technicians .................................................................. 15.04 11.8 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 18.15 4.7 18.17 5.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 18.15 4.7 18.18 5.0 – –

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 11.58 5.6 11.89 5.7 $9.38 8.2

Group I .............................................................. 10.64 10.1 – – – –

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 9.74 5.1 9.82 5.5 9.36 8.3

Group I .............................................................. 9.74 5.2 – – – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 10.33 6.0 10.55 5.5 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.33 6.0 10.55 5.5 – –

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 15.23 2.9 15.28 3.0 – –

Group I .............................................................. 14.09 10.9 – – – –

Medical assistants ........................................................ 14.04 13.8 14.12 13.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.69 17.9 – – – –

Protective service occupations ......................................... 15.77 9.4 15.83 9.4 13.39 24.2

Group I .............................................................. 11.38 8.6 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 17.73 2.9 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 22.98 5.7 22.98 5.7 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 24.21 .9 24.21 .9 – –

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 17.21 7.6 17.56 8.1 – –

Group II ............................................................. 15.76 4.6 16.11 2.3 – –

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... 14.20 10.3 14.29 9.4 – –

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 14.29 9.4 14.29 9.4 – –

Police officers ................................................................... 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 18.42 3.2 – – – –

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 18.42 3.2 18.42 3.2 – –

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 11.34 10.2 11.19 8.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.73 5.5 – – – –

Security guards ............................................................. 11.34 10.2 11.19 8.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.73 5.5 10.55 1.9 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 7.74 3.8 8.55 13.7 6.56 8.4

Group I .............................................................. 7.07 2.8 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 14.89 7.8 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... 14.14 8.7 14.93 8.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 15.68 11.9 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... 14.79 8.8 15.92 12.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 17.19 9.8 18.20 8.7 – –

Cooks ............................................................................... 10.68 7.4 11.29 5.2 9.18 8.3

Group I .............................................................. 10.30 6.9 – – – –

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 13.15 9.9 13.27 10.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.44 11.1 12.56 12.3 – –

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 11.10 9.0 11.65 8.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.84 8.5 – – – –

Food preparation workers ................................................. 10.62 6.1 11.45 4.4 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.62 6.1 11.45 4.4 – –

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 4.28 5.2 4.61 22.4 3.65 30.4

Group I .............................................................. 4.28 5.2 – – – –

Bartenders .................................................................... 5.06 11.3 – – – –

Group I .............................................................. 5.06 11.3 – – – –

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 3.45 13.2 3.90 11.8 2.64 16.7

Group I .............................................................. 3.45 13.2 3.90 11.8 2.64 16.7

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender

helpers .................................................................... 8.36 6.8 – – – –

Group I .............................................................. 8.36 6.8 – – – –

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 7.41 2.2 8.50 4.1 6.86 1.4

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Fast food and counter workers –Continued

Group I .............................................................. $7.38 2.2 – – – –

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 7.42 2.7 – – $6.86 1.4

Group I .............................................................. 7.42 2.7 – – 6.86 1.4

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 10.48 5.9 $10.65 5.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 9.77 6.1 – – – –

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 9.98 4.9 10.11 4.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 9.65 6.1 – – – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 10.41 5.9 10.64 5.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.00 7.5 10.18 7.6 – –

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 8.43 6.8 8.43 6.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 8.30 5.9 8.30 5.9 – –

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 17.12 12.1 17.70 13.8 13.96 33.0

Group I .............................................................. 9.62 10.5 – – – –

Child care workers ............................................................ 9.42 4.4 – – – –

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 18.04 9.4 21.66 8.8 8.89 4.3

Group I .............................................................. 11.68 14.2 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.23 8.8 – – – –

Group III ............................................................ 50.69 4.4 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 27.39 28.0 27.39 28.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 16.54 5.1 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers 17.17 6.2 17.17 6.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 17.59 3.1 17.59 3.1 – –

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 12.81 15.0 15.48 19.1 8.46 3.7

Group I .............................................................. 11.85 18.7 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.96 7.4 – – – –

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 8.55 3.2 9.53 3.7 7.60 4.6

Group I .............................................................. 8.50 3.2 – – – –

Cashiers ................................................................... 8.55 3.2 9.53 3.7 7.60 4.6

Group I .............................................................. 8.50 3.2 9.49 3.6 7.58 4.7

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 16.82 8.5 18.22 5.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.08 9.3 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 – – – –

Counter and rental clerks ......................................... 14.08 13.7 – – – –

Group I .............................................................. 14.08 13.7 – – – –

Parts salespersons ................................................... 18.52 19.2 21.50 9.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.64 7.1 23.64 7.1 – –

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 16.47 27.5 19.47 24.7 9.89 5.3

Group I .............................................................. 16.28 32.7 19.60 30.3 9.64 4.0

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 43.41 8.8 43.41 8.8 – –

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 11.17 14.1 10.62 15.0 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.52 15.9 – – – –

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 16.19 2.5 16.78 1.9 11.68 3.0

Group I .............................................................. 13.94 1.7 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.23 2.7 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... 22.12 15.6 22.12 15.6 – –

Group II ............................................................. 26.83 6.1 26.83 6.1 – –

Financial clerks ................................................................. 16.88 4.9 17.36 4.5 11.54 4.9

Group I .............................................................. 14.23 6.3 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.72 4.6 – – – –

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 17.52 8.8 17.52 8.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 15.84 10.6 15.84 10.6 – –

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 17.43 6.3 17.43 6.3 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 17.07 7.3 17.41 7.3 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.74 9.1 13.02 10.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.59 6.9 20.59 6.9 – –

Tellers ........................................................................... 11.40 2.7 – – – –

Group I .............................................................. 11.13 1.8 – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Customer service representatives .................................... $15.53 3.3 $15.89 2.6 – –

Group I .............................................................. 14.29 2.4 14.29 2.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 18.89 4.4 18.89 4.4 – –

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 13.21 3.9 13.98 3.6 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.47 6.5 12.95 5.6 – –

Dispatchers ....................................................................... 17.80 8.9 17.80 8.9 – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 13.15 2.9 13.15 2.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.72 1.5 13.72 1.5 – –

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 12.54 6.1 12.80 6.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.01 6.3 12.24 5.7 – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 18.42 5.0 18.45 5.0 – –

Group I .............................................................. 14.26 4.2 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.11 7.2 – – – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 19.94 12.7 19.94 12.7 – –

Group II ............................................................. 20.07 13.0 20.07 13.0 – –

Medical secretaries ....................................................... 12.99 7.6 13.08 8.3 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.41 5.7 12.48 6.4 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 15.78 4.2 15.78 4.2 – –

Group I .............................................................. 14.97 4.0 14.97 4.0 – –

Group II ............................................................. 15.74 2.7 15.74 2.7 – –

Data entry and information processing workers ............... 16.75 9.9 16.75 9.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 16.75 9.9 – – – –

Data entry keyers ......................................................... 13.84 9.2 13.84 9.2 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.84 9.2 13.84 9.2 – –

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 14.85 5.6 16.03 4.8 $12.17 5.0

Group I .............................................................. 14.00 7.7 14.58 6.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 17.84 8.1 17.84 8.1 – –

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 18.12 8.4 18.12 8.4 – –

Group I .............................................................. 11.85 6.3 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 21.19 3.7 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 25.47 3.4 25.47 3.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 24.84 .4 24.84 .4 – –

Carpenters ........................................................................ 20.14 6.6 20.14 6.6 – –

Construction laborers ....................................................... 11.19 9.4 11.19 9.4 – –

Electricians ....................................................................... 21.66 7.9 21.66 7.9 – –

Group II ............................................................. 21.29 7.8 21.29 7.8 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 20.14 4.7 20.14 4.7 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.98 4.5 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 21.99 5.3 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. 24.04 12.7 24.04 12.7 – –

Group II ............................................................. 23.89 14.2 23.89 14.2 – –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 26.84 1.4 26.84 1.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 26.13 5.5 – – – –

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 26.84 1.4 26.84 1.4 – –

Group II ............................................................. 26.13 5.5 26.13 5.5 – –

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 18.80 19.1 18.80 19.1 – –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 22.26 14.5 22.26 14.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.26 14.5 22.26 14.5 – –

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 19.73 10.3 19.73 10.3 – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.22 19.4 – – – –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 20.04 10.2 20.04 10.2 – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.96 18.9 22.96 18.9 – –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists ... 17.72 9.1 17.72 9.1 – –

Group II ............................................................. 17.72 9.1 17.72 9.1 – –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 19.43 5.0 19.43 5.0 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 15.58 10.6 15.58 10.6 – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 5. Combined work levels1 for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for full-time and part-time workers3,

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation4 and level

Total Full-time workers Part-time workers

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Mean

Relative

error5

(percent)

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers –Continued

Group II ............................................................. $18.08 7.1 – – – –

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 18.09 2.8 $18.09 2.8 – –

Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... 14.32 15.3 14.32 15.3 – –

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 13.34 6.8 13.34 6.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.29 6.7 – – – –

Production occupations .................................................... 15.48 4.7 15.40 4.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.33 4.8 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 19.13 7.8 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 23.70 9.5 23.70 9.5 – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.93 11.2 22.93 11.2 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 20.16 5.5 20.98 4.4 – –

Group I .............................................................. 20.16 5.5 – – – –

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... 12.04 10.6 12.04 10.6 – –

Group I .............................................................. 12.04 10.6 – – – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 16.97 11.7 16.97 11.7 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 17.04 13.6 17.04 13.6 – –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 13.48 19.7 13.44 20.3 – –

Group I .............................................................. 11.27 18.4 11.14 19.2 – –

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 16.71 4.9 15.77 3.9 – –

Group I .............................................................. 16.35 7.0 – – – –

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 15.81 18.0 16.81 18.6 $8.32 5.7

Group I .............................................................. 13.56 11.0 – – – –

Group II ............................................................. 19.54 5.9 – – – –

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 21.49 5.6 21.49 5.6 – –

Group II ............................................................. 22.11 8.4 22.11 8.4 – –

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Group I .............................................................. 14.33 10.8 – – – –

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 14.37 10.7 16.76 3.2 11.43 13.1

Group I .............................................................. 14.33 10.8 16.76 3.2 – –

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 17.01 12.2 17.67 10.8 – –

Group I .............................................................. 16.98 12.4 – – – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 18.97 9.2 19.00 9.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 18.96 9.3 18.98 9.3 – –

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ 11.12 11.7 12.64 7.0 – –

Group I .............................................................. 11.12 11.7 12.64 7.0 – –

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 13.51 8.1 13.51 8.1 – –

Group I .............................................................. 13.33 8.6 13.33 8.6 – –

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 10.21 2.4 10.79 3.9 7.92 3.7

Group I .............................................................. 10.13 2.7 – – – –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment ............................ 8.77 3.6 – – – –

Group I .............................................................. 8.77 3.6 – – – –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 10.62 4.0 11.41 6.1 7.99 3.3

Group I .............................................................. 10.54 4.2 11.33 6.7 7.99 3.3

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 10.82 4.2 10.82 4.5 – –

Group I .............................................................. 10.74 6.0 – – – –

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 8.90 5.0 9.55 5.0 7.39 7.8

Group I .............................................................. 8.90 5.0 9.55 5.0 7.39 7.8

1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining

levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II

combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines

levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded

are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the

number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where

a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around

a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories

not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA,

January 2007

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

All workers .............................................................................. $8.28 $11.25 $16.50 $25.96 $38.63

Management occupations ................................................. 19.23 27.98 37.02 46.21 60.16

General and operations managers ................................... 24.05 29.47 40.70 57.69 74.35

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 37.76 43.27 43.27 60.16 72.36

Sales managers ............................................................ 43.27 43.27 43.27 47.60 60.16

Administrative services managers .................................... 25.96 27.20 30.29 48.85 48.85

Computer and information systems managers ................. 27.98 27.98 33.48 43.77 53.83

Financial managers .......................................................... 17.46 23.74 32.65 46.21 52.45

Construction managers .................................................... 24.04 32.22 36.33 40.02 59.82

Education administrators .................................................. 21.26 29.81 37.78 43.09 52.01

Education administrators, elementary and secondary

school ..................................................................... 34.28 38.79 40.87 48.31 54.65

Medical and health services managers ............................ 28.23 31.37 33.17 35.24 37.17

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.17 20.43 25.96 39.08 50.31

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 12.24 12.24 18.49 31.50 44.52

Training and development specialists .......................... 12.24 12.24 12.24 25.01 31.74

Management analysts ...................................................... 21.70 29.44 36.15 44.39 50.77

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 18.27 19.73 24.23 28.06 34.81

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 19.68 23.50 23.50 45.46 48.95

Financial analysts ......................................................... 17.29 23.50 27.70 45.46 52.45

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 20.19 25.79 32.10 39.87 48.06

Computer programmers ................................................... 23.85 27.57 30.68 34.81 39.27

Computer software engineers .......................................... 27.86 32.98 40.30 48.12 53.13

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 36.02 38.94 42.41 48.81 55.29

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 27.86 30.29 32.31 38.46 48.29

Computer support specialists ........................................... 14.50 21.15 25.16 30.29 33.37

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 18.32 26.30 34.37 42.45 48.75

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 18.00 24.52 31.30 40.87 49.82

Engineers ......................................................................... 27.16 31.30 37.78 45.84 56.89

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 24.88 27.34 33.65 44.35 44.35

Electrical engineers .................................................. 24.01 27.16 32.07 33.65 37.50

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 18.19 23.12 25.88 27.69 37.02

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... 17.79 19.48 24.52 27.69 30.35

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 13.00 19.00 22.30 28.51 34.78

Community and social services occupations .................. 13.85 15.31 16.21 26.47 37.98

Counselors ....................................................................... 15.31 15.31 28.45 34.15 42.05

Social workers .................................................................. 16.21 16.21 16.21 20.19 30.87

Miscellaneous community and social service

specialists ................................................................... 11.25 11.85 13.85 14.56 16.21

Social and human service assistants ........................... 11.09 11.65 13.25 14.56 14.56

Legal occupations .............................................................. 20.70 46.31 57.69 63.19 81.73

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 11.88 18.58 28.30 35.90 40.80

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 16.80 21.00 27.35 35.65 40.56

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 17.65 25.35 31.67 37.64 42.28

Preschool and kindergarten teachers ........................... 8.09 10.10 17.63 30.26 38.80

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 23.17 26.53 32.01 37.47 41.73

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 23.71 26.53 31.67 35.90 41.90

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 22.34 26.53 34.39 40.32 40.82

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 18.51 24.53 33.09 37.64 42.68

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 18.51 23.93 32.40 37.64 42.28

Special education teachers .......................................... 25.99 28.76 35.41 40.27 46.28

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 11.11 20.00 25.07 31.20 35.90

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 7.62 10.14 12.32 15.13 17.38

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. 11.23 15.39 19.50 26.26 49.76

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA,

January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... $22.25 $24.11 $49.76 $49.76 $49.76

Producers and directors ............................................... 22.25 24.11 49.76 49.76 49.76

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 14.50 18.94 26.54 31.67 52.89

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 42.44 44.50 47.00 47.38 50.53

Registered nurses ............................................................ 21.89 25.33 27.84 31.00 39.51

Therapists ......................................................................... 14.50 14.50 23.85 30.29 34.62

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. 19.06 22.01 24.01 26.86 29.04

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support

technicians .................................................................. 12.00 12.00 14.64 18.18 18.18

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 14.45 16.36 18.23 19.71 22.84

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 8.00 9.00 10.30 13.92 18.09

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.79 12.41

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.89 13.00

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 10.48 13.48 15.80 18.09 18.51

Medical assistants ........................................................ 10.00 11.00 13.92 16.29 18.09

Protective service occupations ......................................... 9.63 10.30 14.37 19.28 25.58

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 13.22 19.00 24.76 27.45 29.59

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 15.70 19.28 25.54 27.45 30.26

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 13.06 13.81 16.10 19.00 27.53

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... 10.00 11.35 13.05 17.21 19.84

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 10.00 11.35 13.10 17.21 19.84

Police officers ................................................................... 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 9.50 9.63 9.75 11.03 15.00

Security guards ............................................................. 9.50 9.63 9.75 11.03 15.00

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 2.13 4.24 7.54 10.50 12.40

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... 10.56 11.00 12.86 16.19 17.17

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... 10.75 12.22 14.27 16.30 17.51

Cooks ............................................................................... 7.00 8.50 11.50 12.11 13.20

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 8.55 10.50 12.01 16.84 17.94

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 8.50 9.85 11.75 12.11 12.77

Food preparation workers ................................................. 8.00 8.70 9.80 12.40 13.31

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 2.13 2.13 2.15 7.00 9.00

Bartenders .................................................................... 2.19 3.65 5.00 7.00 7.25

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.30 8.50

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender

helpers .................................................................... 6.75 6.90 8.39 9.00 9.55

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 6.00 6.00 7.00 8.08 10.00

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 6.00 6.00 7.04 8.08 10.00

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 7.00 7.97 9.50 12.30 15.38

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 6.93 7.89 8.97 11.75 14.95

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 5.75 7.99 9.80 12.42 15.00

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 7.00 7.85 8.00 8.88 10.39

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.90 8.50 12.70 16.99 48.20

Child care workers ............................................................ 8.50 8.50 8.69 9.99 9.99

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 7.25 8.99 11.79 19.23 44.87

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 13.33 14.82 17.25 46.58 54.36

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales

workers ................................................................... 13.01 15.30 17.25 17.86 22.02

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 6.50 8.01 10.11 14.30 19.46

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.30 10.02 11.25

Cashiers ................................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.30 10.02 11.25

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 9.50 10.29 17.07 19.46 28.25

Counter and rental clerks ......................................... 8.32 9.70 17.07 17.21 17.21

Parts salespersons ................................................... 10.00 10.29 18.84 24.87 28.25

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA,

January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

Retail salespersons ...................................................... $8.01 $9.85 $12.00 $16.65 $29.51

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 29.76 33.85 39.80 47.45 63.76

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 8.27 8.27 10.10 12.05 16.98

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 10.56 12.68 15.19 18.85 22.44

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... 11.74 14.19 23.73 31.02 31.54

Financial clerks ................................................................. 10.85 14.08 16.29 19.23 22.81

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 11.07 13.00 17.14 19.90 28.40

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 14.37 14.87 16.25 19.13 21.86

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 10.50 14.54 16.83 19.23 27.01

Tellers ........................................................................... 10.50 10.57 11.10 12.00 12.52

Customer service representatives .................................... 12.00 13.00 14.29 17.85 20.36

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 10.24 12.00 12.70 13.44 19.54

Dispatchers ....................................................................... 12.69 14.45 16.34 21.45 24.78

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 9.00 10.43 12.59 15.50 17.39

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 9.25 9.69 12.25 14.40 16.30

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 9.63 13.98 16.86 21.55 26.62

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 9.63 15.30 19.25 22.84 26.62

Medical secretaries ....................................................... 10.56 10.56 11.96 14.90 17.28

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 12.00 14.00 15.27 16.86 20.09

Data entry and information processing workers ............... 8.83 13.40 13.40 17.56 27.19

Data entry keyers ......................................................... 8.83 13.40 13.40 16.88 17.56

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 12.00 12.00 15.00 17.00 20.63

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.10 12.14 17.28 21.00 28.44

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 17.31 20.60 23.75 29.38 37.50

Carpenters ........................................................................ 17.16 18.00 20.00 20.00 24.50

Construction laborers ....................................................... 8.50 9.50 11.50 12.73 14.00

Electricians ....................................................................... 13.75 18.44 18.44 26.30 32.27

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 11.00 14.19 19.11 26.54 28.05

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. 17.34 19.96 19.96 27.94 36.12

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 21.52 25.97 27.69 29.25 29.25

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 21.52 25.97 27.69 29.25 29.25

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 13.43 13.43 13.43 26.02 26.63

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 11.00 14.00 25.50 27.64 27.64

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 9.53 14.95 16.57 25.00 29.12

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 9.53 14.95 17.00 25.00 29.95

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists ... 11.50 14.45 18.23 20.00 25.09

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 11.00 11.00 15.71 18.52 21.00

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 15.87 18.49 18.49 18.49 19.30

Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... 11.00 11.00 11.12 16.62 20.00

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 11.25 11.85 12.50 15.00 16.30

Production occupations .................................................... 8.00 9.35 13.93 19.50 28.03

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 16.00 17.00 22.12 27.54 33.43

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 8.00 10.14 27.86 28.23 28.38

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... 8.84 8.84 12.50 13.50 15.50

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 11.00 14.32 16.00 17.00 27.62

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 11.00 12.54 16.00 18.00 27.62

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 8.03 8.16 10.20 16.03 28.35

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 8.76 12.10 17.45 19.82 23.00

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 8.02 9.50 12.25 19.78 22.50

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 13.89 18.19 22.68 25.23 25.75

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA,

January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

Bus drivers ........................................................................ $8.97 $10.89 $14.60 $16.93 $19.54

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 8.97 10.89 14.60 16.93 19.54

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 9.76 12.00 19.78 21.89 22.50

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 12.00 15.54 20.00 22.50 22.50

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ 5.15 7.75 11.25 13.85 16.95

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 10.25 11.50 13.42 14.96 16.83

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 7.25 8.50 9.50 11.56 13.87

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment ............................ 8.00 8.27 8.50 9.00 10.19

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 7.00 8.70 9.76 11.80 16.13

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 8.77 9.63 11.56 11.56 11.83

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 6.25 8.00 8.69 10.15 11.00

1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are

calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are

scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours

are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the

same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth

of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate

shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly

wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.

Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;

nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information.

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

meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data

for categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

All workers .............................................................................. $8.09 $11.00 $16.13 $25.25 $38.96

Management occupations ................................................. 19.23 27.98 37.01 46.21 60.16

General and operations managers ................................... 24.05 29.47 40.70 57.69 74.35

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 37.76 43.27 43.27 60.16 72.36

Sales managers ............................................................ 43.27 43.27 43.27 47.60 60.16

Administrative services managers .................................... 25.96 27.20 30.29 48.85 48.85

Computer and information systems managers ................. 27.98 27.98 33.48 43.77 53.83

Financial managers .......................................................... 17.46 19.89 32.65 46.21 52.45

Construction managers .................................................... 24.04 32.22 36.33 40.02 59.82

Education administrators .................................................. 19.23 21.26 29.81 40.87 53.30

Medical and health services managers ............................ 33.17 33.17 35.24 36.23 40.53

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.05 21.13 27.49 40.36 52.45

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 12.24 12.24 12.24 31.74 58.21

Management analysts ...................................................... 21.70 31.76 37.58 46.24 51.75

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 16.65 18.62 21.19 28.06 34.81

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 19.68 23.50 23.50 45.46 48.95

Financial analysts ......................................................... 17.29 23.50 27.70 45.46 52.45

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 20.19 26.01 32.28 40.00 48.29

Computer programmers ................................................... 23.76 26.77 30.07 35.04 39.80

Computer software engineers .......................................... 27.86 32.98 40.30 48.12 53.13

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 36.02 38.94 42.41 48.81 55.29

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 27.86 30.29 32.31 38.46 48.29

Computer support specialists ........................................... 12.50 20.91 24.72 30.77 33.37

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 18.32 25.19 32.66 37.96 48.75

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 18.00 25.00 32.87 43.68 50.17

Engineers ......................................................................... 31.06 34.00 40.87 45.89 58.65

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 27.18 32.07 40.87 44.35 44.35

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 18.03 20.67 25.88 27.69 34.55

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... 17.79 18.19 21.67 27.69 27.69

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 13.00 18.76 22.11 31.20 38.38

Community and social services occupations .................. 14.56 15.31 16.21 16.83 29.58

Legal occupations .............................................................. 20.70 46.31 57.69 63.19 81.73

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 10.10 17.21 22.64 34.52 37.65

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 16.04 16.04 26.08 34.52 37.65

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 10.10 16.91 22.64 37.64 40.32

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 17.77 22.51 34.52 40.32 40.32

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. 14.42 17.34 22.00 41.05 49.76

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... 22.25 24.11 49.76 49.76 49.76

Producers and directors ............................................... 22.25 24.11 49.76 49.76 49.76

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 16.00 22.00 27.04 33.10 52.89

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 42.44 44.50 47.00 47.38 50.53

Registered nurses ............................................................ 24.04 25.75 28.07 31.29 39.51

Therapists ......................................................................... 14.50 14.50 14.50 29.19 32.21

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ............. 18.93 21.95 24.01 27.05 29.37

Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support

technicians .................................................................. 12.00 12.00 14.64 18.18 18.18

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 17.00 18.32 19.00 21.25 22.84

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.92 18.09

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 8.00 8.25 9.00 10.54 12.53

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 8.00 8.25 9.73 11.89 13.41

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 11.73 13.92 16.29 18.51 18.51

Medical assistants ........................................................ 10.00 13.48 13.93 18.09 18.09

Protective service occupations ......................................... 9.55 9.63 10.25 12.00 20.67

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 9.50 9.63 9.75 11.00 15.25

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

Security guards ............................................................. $9.50 $9.63 $9.75 $11.00 $15.25

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 2.13 3.65 7.50 10.00 12.22

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... 10.56 10.56 12.50 15.20 17.17

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... 7.20 12.00 12.86 16.19 17.17

Cooks ............................................................................... 7.00 8.50 11.50 12.11 12.77

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 8.50 9.85 11.75 12.11 12.77

Food preparation workers ................................................. 8.00 8.00 9.80 12.40 12.40

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 2.13 2.13 2.15 7.00 9.00

Bartenders .................................................................... 2.19 3.65 5.00 7.00 7.25

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.30 8.50

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender

helpers .................................................................... 6.75 6.90 8.00 9.50 10.00

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 6.00 6.00 7.00 8.08 9.50

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 6.00 6.00 7.04 8.08 10.00

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 5.75 7.89 8.90 10.59 14.35

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 5.75 7.85 8.84 10.50 13.00

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 5.75 7.89 8.97 10.97 14.95

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 7.00 7.85 8.00 8.88 10.39

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.50 8.50 12.70 16.99 48.20

Child care workers ............................................................ 8.50 8.50 8.77 9.99 9.99

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 7.25 8.99 11.79 19.23 44.87

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 13.33 14.82 17.25 46.58 54.36

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales

workers ................................................................... 13.01 15.30 17.25 17.86 22.02

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 6.50 8.01 10.11 14.30 19.46

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.30 10.02 11.25

Cashiers ................................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.30 10.02 11.25

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 9.50 10.29 17.07 19.46 28.25

Counter and rental clerks ......................................... 8.32 9.70 17.07 17.21 17.21

Parts salespersons ................................................... 10.00 10.29 18.84 24.87 28.25

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 8.01 9.85 12.00 16.65 29.51

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 29.76 33.85 39.80 47.45 63.76

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 8.27 8.27 10.10 12.05 16.98

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 10.57 12.68 15.19 19.13 22.44

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... 11.74 14.19 22.32 31.02 31.54

Financial clerks ................................................................. 11.00 14.26 16.42 19.23 22.81

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 11.07 13.00 17.14 19.90 28.40

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 14.37 14.87 16.25 19.13 21.86

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 10.50 14.54 16.83 19.23 27.01

Tellers ........................................................................... 10.50 10.57 11.10 12.00 12.52

Customer service representatives .................................... 12.00 13.00 14.42 18.33 20.36

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 10.24 12.00 12.70 13.44 19.54

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 9.00 10.43 12.59 15.50 17.39

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 9.25 10.25 12.25 14.55 16.53

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 9.63 14.00 17.78 21.63 25.89

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 9.63 15.19 19.23 21.94 25.48

Medical secretaries ....................................................... 10.56 10.56 12.58 15.17 18.85

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 12.53 14.42 14.42 16.86 20.19

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 12.00 12.00 15.00 16.73 20.63

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.00 12.00 17.28 20.60 29.00

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 16.73 20.60 23.75 32.47 37.50

Carpenters ........................................................................ 17.16 18.00 20.00 20.00 24.50

Electricians ....................................................................... 13.75 18.44 18.44 26.30 32.27

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 11.00 14.00 19.96 27.00 28.05

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. $17.34 $19.96 $19.96 $27.94 $36.12

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 21.52 26.54 27.69 29.25 29.25

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 21.52 26.54 27.69 29.25 29.25

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 13.43 13.43 13.43 26.02 26.63

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 11.00 14.00 25.50 27.64 27.64

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 9.53 14.95 16.33 25.00 29.95

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 9.53 14.22 17.00 25.00 30.39

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 11.00 11.00 15.87 18.75 21.00

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 15.87 18.49 18.49 18.49 19.30

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 11.25 11.85 12.50 15.00 16.30

Production occupations .................................................... 8.00 9.35 13.93 19.00 28.03

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 16.00 17.00 22.12 27.54 33.43

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 8.00 10.14 27.86 28.23 28.38

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... 8.84 8.84 12.50 13.50 15.50

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 11.00 14.32 16.00 17.00 27.62

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 11.00 12.54 16.00 18.00 27.62

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 8.03 8.16 10.20 16.03 28.35

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 8.76 12.10 17.45 19.82 23.00

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 8.00 9.48 12.00 20.00 22.50

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 13.89 18.75 22.68 25.75 25.75

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 9.50 12.00 20.00 21.89 22.50

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 12.00 15.86 20.00 22.50 22.50

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ 5.15 7.75 11.25 12.84 13.85

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 10.25 11.50 13.42 14.96 16.83

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 7.25 8.50 9.50 11.56 13.87

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment ............................ 8.00 8.27 8.50 9.00 10.19

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 7.00 8.70 9.76 11.80 16.13

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 8.77 9.63 11.56 11.56 11.83

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 6.25 8.00 8.69 10.15 11.00

1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are

calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are

scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours

are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the

same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth

of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate

shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly

wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.

Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;

nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information.

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

meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data

for categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville,

GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

All workers .............................................................................. $10.54 $13.88 $19.28 $27.93 $37.23

Management occupations ................................................. 28.23 32.57 37.50 44.85 53.20

Education administrators .................................................. 26.15 33.93 38.38 45.97 52.01

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 18.27 19.06 22.71 26.79 34.61

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 18.51 20.47 26.49 30.26 34.62

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 21.80 25.34 27.15 34.08 44.78

Community and social services occupations .................. 11.65 15.49 21.55 32.91 42.03

Counselors ....................................................................... 26.90 29.42 34.15 42.03 44.91

Miscellaneous community and social service

specialists ................................................................... 11.09 11.52 13.71 14.85 17.83

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 12.35 21.00 28.78 36.23 42.29

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 18.28 21.00 27.41 36.38 40.80

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 24.81 27.47 32.54 38.28 43.23

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 24.44 26.72 31.67 37.24 42.60

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 24.57 26.85 31.67 37.21 42.60

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 24.43 26.53 31.65 37.74 43.27

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 25.03 28.05 33.77 40.16 44.48

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 25.03 27.70 33.03 39.08 43.38

Special education teachers .......................................... 25.86 30.55 35.41 40.51 46.28

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 9.87 20.00 25.07 32.81 40.95

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 7.62 10.14 12.32 15.13 17.38

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 13.70 13.70 16.36 18.40 26.04

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 8.78 9.75 10.75 12.00 15.46

Protective service occupations ......................................... 11.35 13.81 17.82 21.32 26.96

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 13.22 19.00 24.76 27.45 29.59

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 15.70 19.28 25.54 27.45 30.26

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 13.06 13.81 15.59 17.22 19.09

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... 10.00 11.35 13.05 17.21 19.84

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 10.00 11.35 13.10 17.21 19.84

Police officers ................................................................... 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 8.15 9.47 12.57 17.31 26.64

Cooks ............................................................................... 7.19 8.58 11.29 17.31 19.25

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 7.19 8.58 11.29 17.31 19.25

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 7.99 9.99 12.33 17.69 19.89

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 7.99 9.22 11.68 15.69 18.63

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 7.99 9.78 11.77 15.91 18.63

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 7.98 8.49 10.11 13.20 18.32

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 10.10 12.46 15.07 17.58 23.51

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 11.45 13.94 16.04 17.76 51.50

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 11.45 13.94 15.64 16.09 17.84

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 11.69 12.86 17.90 22.60 23.55

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 11.79 14.60 16.75 21.20 23.50

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles1, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville,

GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2 10 25 Median

50 75 90

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... $9.68 $11.59 $15.67 $18.62 $20.97

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 8.97 10.89 14.60 16.93 19.54

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 8.97 10.89 14.60 16.93 19.54

1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are

calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are

scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours

are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the

same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth

of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate

shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly

wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.

Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;

nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information.

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

meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data

for categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007

Occupation3

Full-time workers

10 25 Median

50 75 90

All workers .............................................................................. $9.25 $12.24 $17.62 $27.31 $40.32

Management occupations ................................................. 19.23 28.01 37.18 46.21 60.16

General and operations managers ................................... 24.05 29.47 40.70 57.69 74.35

Marketing and sales managers ........................................ 37.76 43.27 43.27 60.16 72.36

Sales managers ............................................................ 43.27 43.27 43.27 47.60 60.16

Administrative services managers .................................... 25.96 27.20 30.29 48.85 48.85

Computer and information systems managers ................. 27.98 27.98 33.48 43.77 53.83

Financial managers .......................................................... 17.46 23.74 32.65 46.21 52.45

Construction managers .................................................... 24.04 32.22 36.33 40.02 59.82

Education administrators .................................................. 21.26 29.81 37.78 43.09 52.01

Education administrators, elementary and secondary

school ..................................................................... 34.28 38.79 40.87 48.31 54.65

Medical and health services managers ............................ 28.23 31.37 33.17 35.24 37.17

Business and financial operations occupations ............. 16.17 20.27 25.96 39.36 50.48

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ................................................................... 12.24 12.24 18.49 31.50 44.52

Training and development specialists .......................... 12.24 12.24 12.24 25.01 31.74

Management analysts ...................................................... 21.70 29.44 36.15 44.39 50.77

Accountants and auditors ................................................. 18.27 19.73 24.23 28.06 34.81

Financial analysts and advisors ........................................ 19.68 23.50 23.50 45.46 48.95

Financial analysts ......................................................... 17.29 23.50 26.07 48.08 52.45

Computer and mathematical science occupations ......... 20.19 25.79 32.10 39.87 48.06

Computer programmers ................................................... 23.85 27.57 30.68 34.81 39.27

Computer software engineers .......................................... 27.86 32.98 40.30 48.12 53.13

Computer software engineers, applications ................. 36.02 38.94 42.41 48.81 55.29

Computer software engineers, systems software ......... 27.86 30.29 32.31 38.46 48.29

Computer support specialists ........................................... 14.50 21.15 25.16 30.29 33.37

Computer systems analysts ............................................. 18.32 26.30 34.37 42.45 48.75

Architecture and engineering occupations ..................... 18.00 24.88 31.30 40.87 49.94

Engineers ......................................................................... 27.16 31.30 37.78 45.84 56.89

Electrical and electronics engineers ............................. 24.88 27.34 33.65 44.35 44.35

Electrical engineers .................................................. 24.01 27.16 32.07 33.65 37.50

Engineering technicians, except drafters .......................... 18.03 20.67 24.52 27.69 27.69

Electrical and electronic engineering technicians ......... 17.79 19.48 24.52 27.69 30.35

Life, physical, and social science occupations ............... 13.00 19.00 22.30 28.51 34.78

Community and social services occupations .................. 14.19 15.31 16.21 21.55 35.80

Counselors ....................................................................... 15.31 15.31 26.91 35.19 44.02

Miscellaneous community and social service

specialists ................................................................... 11.20 11.65 14.19 14.56 16.21

Social and human service assistants ........................... 11.09 11.65 13.25 14.56 14.56

Legal occupations .............................................................. 20.70 46.31 57.69 63.19 81.73

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 12.95 20.00 28.53 36.12 40.82

Postsecondary teachers ................................................... 18.28 21.00 26.60 35.65 40.56

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ...................................................................... 17.65 25.35 31.67 37.64 42.28

Preschool and kindergarten teachers ........................... 8.09 10.10 17.63 30.26 38.80

Elementary and middle school teachers ....................... 23.17 26.53 32.01 37.47 41.73

Elementary school teachers, except special

education ............................................................ 23.71 26.53 31.67 35.90 41.90

Middle school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 22.34 26.53 34.39 40.32 40.82

Secondary school teachers .......................................... 18.51 24.53 33.09 37.64 42.68

Secondary school teachers, except special and

vocational education ........................................... 18.51 23.93 32.40 37.64 42.28

Special education teachers .......................................... 25.99 28.76 35.41 40.27 46.28

Other teachers and instructors ......................................... 17.91 20.00 26.50 31.20 36.90

Teacher assistants ........................................................... 9.18 10.54 12.81 15.35 17.82

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation3

Full-time workers

10 25 Median

50 75 90

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations .................................................................. $11.36 $15.84 $20.00 $31.97 $49.76

Actors, producers, and directors ....................................... 22.25 24.11 49.76 49.76 49.76

Producers and directors ............................................... 22.25 24.11 49.76 49.76 49.76

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 14.50 18.39 25.75 31.80 52.89

Pharmacists ...................................................................... 42.85 44.85 47.00 48.02 50.53

Registered nurses ............................................................ 21.61 25.00 27.84 31.03 42.51

Therapists ......................................................................... 14.50 14.50 14.50 30.72 34.62

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses ........... 14.45 16.36 18.32 19.71 22.84

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 8.00 9.00 10.83 13.93 18.09

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 7.88 8.56 9.00 10.90 12.77

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ...................... 8.00 9.00 10.11 11.89 13.53

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ................ 10.54 13.48 15.80 18.09 18.51

Medical assistants ........................................................ 10.00 11.00 13.92 16.29 18.09

Protective service occupations ......................................... 9.63 10.50 14.61 19.32 25.58

First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement

workers ....................................................................... 13.22 19.00 24.76 27.45 29.59

First-line supervisors/managers of police and

detectives ............................................................... 15.70 19.28 25.54 27.45 30.26

Fire fighters ....................................................................... 13.12 14.12 16.52 19.09 27.53

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers ........................... 10.00 11.35 13.10 17.21 19.84

Correctional officers and jailers .................................... 10.00 11.35 13.10 17.21 19.84

Police officers ................................................................... 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ................................. 12.36 15.27 18.33 20.99 23.97

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers ............ 9.50 9.63 9.75 11.00 14.42

Security guards ............................................................. 9.50 9.63 9.75 11.00 14.42

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 2.13 3.65 8.75 12.11 13.20

First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and

serving workers .......................................................... 10.56 11.00 14.51 16.30 18.23

First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation

and serving workers ............................................... 11.50 12.86 14.93 17.00 25.21

Cooks ............................................................................... 7.30 9.00 11.96 12.11 15.65

Cooks, institution and cafeteria .................................... 9.17 10.50 12.01 16.84 17.94

Cooks, restaurant ......................................................... 9.00 11.54 12.11 12.11 12.77

Food preparation workers ................................................. 7.60 9.55 12.25 12.40 14.15

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 2.13 2.13 2.15 8.00 10.00

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 2.13 2.13 2.15 7.00 10.00

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 6.00 6.75 7.50 11.60 11.60

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations .................................................................. 7.00 7.99 9.31 12.45 15.91

Building cleaning workers ................................................. 7.00 7.97 8.97 12.00 15.00

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ........................................... 5.75 7.99 9.60 12.76 15.00

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ............................... 7.00 7.85 8.00 8.88 10.39

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 8.30 8.67 13.15 16.99 48.20

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 8.49 10.43 14.82 27.89 47.45

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ............... 13.33 14.82 17.25 46.58 54.36

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales

workers ................................................................... 13.01 15.30 17.25 17.86 22.02

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 7.61 9.54 12.25 17.21 24.87

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 7.25 7.61 9.54 10.50 12.40

Cashiers ................................................................... 7.25 7.61 9.54 10.50 12.40

Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons ....... 9.40 14.48 17.21 23.39 28.25

Parts salespersons ................................................... 13.00 16.13 19.46 27.19 30.00

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 9.75 11.01 14.26 19.06 40.84

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing ...... 29.76 33.85 39.80 47.45 63.76

Miscellaneous sales and related workers ......................... 8.27 8.27 8.27 12.05 12.05

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 11.22 13.27 15.75 19.39 22.84

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation3

Full-time workers

10 25 Median

50 75 90

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ................................... $11.74 $14.19 $23.73 $31.02 $31.54

Financial clerks ................................................................. 11.22 14.54 16.83 19.83 24.76

Bill and account collectors ............................................ 11.07 13.00 17.14 19.90 28.40

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators ........ 14.37 14.87 16.25 19.13 21.86

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ............. 12.25 14.60 16.83 19.23 27.01

Customer service representatives .................................... 12.00 13.45 14.54 18.56 20.43

Receptionists and information clerks ................................ 10.70 12.68 13.00 16.01 19.54

Dispatchers ....................................................................... 12.69 14.45 16.34 21.45 24.78

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ............................... 9.00 10.43 12.59 15.50 17.39

Stock clerks and order fillers ............................................ 9.25 9.69 12.25 14.55 16.95

Secretaries and administrative assistants ........................ 9.73 14.00 16.86 21.55 26.62

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants .... 9.63 15.30 19.25 22.84 26.62

Medical secretaries ....................................................... 10.56 10.56 12.15 15.00 18.15

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive ........ 12.00 14.00 15.27 16.86 20.09

Data entry and information processing workers ............... 8.83 13.40 13.40 17.56 27.19

Data entry keyers ......................................................... 8.83 13.40 13.40 16.88 17.56

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 13.08 14.42 15.75 17.26 20.63

Construction and extraction occupations ....................... 10.10 12.14 17.28 21.00 28.44

First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades

and extraction workers ............................................... 17.31 20.60 23.75 29.38 37.50

Carpenters ........................................................................ 17.16 18.00 20.00 20.00 24.50

Construction laborers ....................................................... 8.50 9.50 11.50 12.73 14.00

Electricians ....................................................................... 13.75 18.44 18.44 26.30 32.27

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations ......... 11.00 14.19 19.11 26.54 28.05

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers,

and repairers .............................................................. 17.34 19.96 19.96 27.94 36.12

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers ..................................................................... 21.52 25.97 27.69 29.25 29.25

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ............................... 21.52 25.97 27.69 29.25 29.25

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ........................... 13.43 13.43 13.43 26.02 26.63

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ...................... 11.00 14.00 25.50 27.64 27.64

Automotive technicians and repairers .............................. 9.53 14.95 16.57 25.00 29.12

Automotive service technicians and mechanics ........... 9.53 14.95 17.00 25.00 29.95

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists ... 11.50 14.45 18.23 20.00 25.09

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians

and mechanics ........................................................... 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines .. 16.11 16.11 22.29 22.71 22.71

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance

workers ....................................................................... 11.00 11.00 15.71 18.52 21.00

Industrial machinery mechanics ................................... 15.87 18.49 18.49 18.49 19.30

Maintenance and repair workers, general .................... 11.00 11.00 11.12 16.62 20.00

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair

workers ....................................................................... 11.25 11.85 12.50 15.00 16.30

Production occupations .................................................... 8.00 9.35 13.50 19.73 28.23

First-line supervisors/managers of production and

operating workers ....................................................... 16.00 17.00 22.12 27.54 33.43

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators ....................... 8.00 11.22 28.03 28.23 28.38

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing

workers ....................................................................... 8.84 8.84 12.50 13.50 15.50

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers .......................... 11.00 14.32 16.00 17.00 27.62

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers ...................... 11.00 12.54 16.00 18.00 27.62

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers ....... 8.03 8.16 10.20 16.03 28.35

Miscellaneous production workers ................................... 8.23 10.00 14.21 19.82 28.50

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 8.82 10.35 13.85 20.00 22.50

First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and

material-moving machine and vehicle operators ........ 13.89 18.19 22.68 25.23 25.75

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 13.09 14.59 16.66 18.94 20.71

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 13.09 14.59 16.66 18.94 20.71

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ............................. 11.22 12.84 20.00 21.97 22.50

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ......................... 12.00 15.86 20.00 22.50 22.50

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 9. Full-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation3

Full-time workers

10 25 Median

50 75 90

Truck drivers, light or delivery services ........................ $8.35 $11.22 $11.25 $13.85 $17.16

Industrial truck and tractor operators ................................ 10.25 11.50 13.42 14.96 16.83

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 8.50 9.00 10.20 11.61 15.05

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 8.50 9.02 10.90 12.58 16.13

Machine feeders and offbearers ................................... 8.77 9.63 11.56 11.56 11.83

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 8.00 8.28 8.94 10.35 11.00

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,

a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are

calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are

scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours

are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the

same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth

of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate

shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly

wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.

Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;

nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information.

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

meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data

for categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 10. Part-time1 civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles2, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL

CSA, January 2007

Occupation3

Part-time workers

10 25 Median

50 75 90

All workers .............................................................................. $6.00 $7.04 $8.99 $12.00 $16.00

Education, training, and library occupations .................. 6.50 6.50 10.14 26.67 40.00

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations ........ 18.75 25.26 27.10 30.00 39.51

Registered nurses ............................................................ 26.92 26.92 28.00 31.00 39.51

Healthcare support occupations ....................................... 8.00 8.00 8.75 10.75 12.00

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .................... 8.00 8.00 8.50 10.75 12.00

Protective service occupations ......................................... 7.75 8.25 11.68 13.31 25.00

Food preparation and serving related occupations ........ 2.13 5.50 7.04 8.14 9.80

Cooks ............................................................................... 6.93 8.00 9.15 10.00 11.50

Food service, tipped ......................................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 5.15 7.50

Waiters and waitresses ................................................ 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.21 3.25

Fast food and counter workers ......................................... 6.00 6.00 6.25 7.80 8.24

Combined food preparation and serving workers,

including fast food ................................................... 6.00 6.00 6.25 7.80 8.24

Personal care and service occupations ........................... 6.50 7.50 8.45 15.25 47.79

Sales and related occupations .......................................... 6.25 7.25 8.99 9.75 11.00

Retail sales workers ......................................................... 6.00 7.00 8.10 10.00 10.90

Cashiers, all workers .................................................... 5.50 6.50 7.06 9.00 10.11

Cashiers ................................................................... 5.50 6.50 7.06 9.00 10.11

Retail salespersons ...................................................... 7.50 8.01 9.60 10.90 12.80

Office and administrative support occupations .............. 8.00 10.50 12.00 13.00 15.00

Financial clerks ................................................................. 10.45 10.50 11.00 12.00 13.38

Office clerks, general ........................................................ 9.03 12.00 12.00 13.00 15.00

Transportation and material moving occupations .......... 5.25 6.65 7.46 9.68 11.75

Bus drivers ........................................................................ 8.60 9.05 10.18 13.88 15.25

Bus drivers, school ....................................................... 8.60 9.05 10.18 13.88 15.25

Laborers and material movers, hand ................................ 6.15 6.97 7.25 9.00 10.00

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers,

hand ........................................................................ 6.25 7.00 7.25 9.00 9.76

Packers and packagers, hand ...................................... 5.25 6.15 7.25 8.02 8.75

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,

a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a

full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in

another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are

calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are

scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours

are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the

same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth

of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate

shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly

wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay.

Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays;

nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information.

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

meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data

for categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and

annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

All workers ................................................ $21.73 $17.62 $867 $706 39.9 $44,062 $36,481 2,028

Management occupations ................... 39.03 37.18 1,599 1,500 41.0 82,356 76,981 2,110

General and operations managers ..... 43.92 40.70 1,799 1,628 41.0 93,567 84,656 2,131

Marketing and sales managers .......... 48.93 43.27 2,222 2,380 45.4 115,545 123,749 2,361

Sales managers .............................. 47.19 43.27 2,207 2,380 46.8 114,785 123,749 2,432

Administrative services managers ...... 34.58 30.29 1,383 1,212 40.0 71,926 62,999 2,080

Computer and information systems

managers ...................................... 37.55 33.48 1,531 1,339 40.8 79,599 69,638 2,120

Financial managers ............................ 34.03 32.65 1,360 1,306 40.0 70,745 67,906 2,079

Construction managers ...................... 38.90 36.33 1,566 1,453 40.3 81,438 75,573 2,094

Education administrators .................... 37.31 37.78 1,478 1,526 39.6 67,416 65,593 1,807

Education administrators,

elementary and secondary

school ....................................... 42.99 40.87 1,692 1,635 39.4 71,684 72,388 1,668

Medical and health services

managers ...................................... 33.76 33.17 1,349 1,327 40.0 70,139 68,994 2,078

Business and financial operations

occupations .................................... 30.64 25.96 1,273 1,058 41.5 66,137 54,999 2,158

Human resources, training, and labor

relations specialists ...................... 23.91 18.49 1,089 904 45.6 56,637 47,000 2,369

Training and development

specialists ................................. 18.53 12.24 894 673 48.2 46,469 35,001 2,508

Management analysts ........................ 37.29 36.15 1,483 1,501 39.8 77,098 78,062 2,067

Accountants and auditors ................... 25.37 24.23 1,015 969 40.0 52,772 50,400 2,080

Financial analysts and advisors .......... 33.08 23.50 1,469 1,058 44.4 76,399 54,999 2,309

Financial analysts ........................... 34.23 26.07 1,536 1,058 44.9 79,862 54,999 2,333

Computer and mathematical science

occupations .................................... 33.81 32.10 1,356 1,284 40.1 70,425 66,762 2,083

Computer programmers ..................... 31.65 30.68 1,273 1,246 40.2 66,186 64,817 2,091

Computer software engineers ............ 40.67 40.30 1,635 1,612 40.2 85,039 83,828 2,091

Computer software engineers,

applications ............................... 44.24 42.41 1,785 1,731 40.3 92,823 90,000 2,098

Computer software engineers,

systems software ...................... 35.07 32.31 1,403 1,292 40.0 72,949 67,201 2,080

Computer support specialists ............. 25.16 25.16 1,014 1,046 40.3 52,754 54,386 2,097

Computer systems analysts ............... 41.19 34.37 1,639 1,377 39.8 84,556 71,702 2,053

Architecture and engineering

occupations .................................... 33.60 31.30 1,346 1,252 40.1 70,008 65,100 2,083

Engineers ........................................... 39.50 37.78 1,584 1,510 40.1 82,374 78,499 2,086

Electrical and electronics

engineers .................................. 35.44 33.65 1,418 1,346 40.0 73,721 69,992 2,080

Electrical engineers .................... 31.77 32.07 1,271 1,283 40.0 66,084 66,714 2,080

Engineering technicians, except

drafters ......................................... 24.62 24.52 985 981 40.0 51,202 51,000 2,080

Electrical and electronic

engineering technicians ............ 24.44 24.52 978 981 40.0 50,838 51,000 2,080

Life, physical, and social science

occupations .................................... 24.04 22.30 976 877 40.6 49,934 46,374 2,077

Community and social services

occupations .................................... 20.43 16.21 801 648 39.2 39,444 33,708 1,931

Counselors ......................................... 26.53 26.91 1,047 1,071 39.5 46,345 44,674 1,747

Miscellaneous community and social

service specialists ......................... 13.89 14.19 534 510 38.5 27,786 26,499 2,001

Social and human service

assistants .................................. 13.24 13.25 505 510 38.2 26,280 26,499 1,984

Legal occupations ................................ 51.34 57.69 2,091 2,308 40.7 108,727 119,999 2,118

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and

annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Education, training, and library

occupations .................................... $28.16 $28.53 $1,120 $1,145 39.8 $43,651 $44,674 1,550

Postsecondary teachers ..................... 29.57 26.60 1,421 1,258 48.0 61,310 52,626 2,073

Primary, secondary, and special

education school teachers ............ 31.00 31.67 1,214 1,230 39.2 46,786 47,532 1,509

Preschool and kindergarten

teachers .................................... 20.31 17.63 797 705 39.2 35,157 29,622 1,731

Elementary and middle school

teachers .................................... 32.15 32.01 1,253 1,241 39.0 47,653 47,702 1,482

Elementary school teachers,

except special education ...... 31.79 31.67 1,234 1,222 38.8 47,087 46,976 1,481

Middle school teachers, except

special and vocational

education .............................. 33.23 34.39 1,311 1,351 39.5 49,360 51,326 1,486

Secondary school teachers ............ 31.90 33.09 1,264 1,300 39.6 47,699 49,658 1,495

Secondary school teachers,

except special and vocational

education .............................. 31.35 32.40 1,244 1,265 39.7 46,918 48,394 1,496

Special education teachers ............ 35.17 35.41 1,376 1,391 39.1 52,341 52,885 1,488

Other teachers and instructors ........... 26.96 26.50 1,047 1,031 38.8 43,235 42,877 1,603

Teacher assistants ............................. 13.08 12.81 496 485 37.9 18,891 18,448 1,444

Arts, design, entertainment, sports,

and media occupations .................. 25.66 20.00 1,015 800 39.6 52,781 41,600 2,057

Actors, producers, and directors ......... 38.53 49.76 1,494 1,990 38.8 77,701 103,501 2,017

Producers and directors ................. 38.53 49.76 1,494 1,990 38.8 77,701 103,501 2,017

Healthcare practitioner and technical

occupations .................................... 29.52 25.75 1,159 1,022 39.3 59,821 53,169 2,026

Pharmacists ........................................ 46.52 47.00 1,861 1,880 40.0 96,765 97,760 2,080

Registered nurses .............................. 29.25 27.84 1,149 1,083 39.3 58,937 55,877 2,015

Therapists ........................................... 22.60 14.50 899 580 39.8 46,448 30,160 2,055

Licensed practical and licensed

vocational nurses .......................... 18.17 18.32 724 728 39.8 37,082 37,690 2,040

Healthcare support occupations ......... 11.89 10.83 472 422 39.7 24,357 21,798 2,049

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health

aides ............................................. 9.82 9.00 389 360 39.6 20,215 18,720 2,058

Nursing aides, orderlies, and

attendants ................................. 10.55 10.11 415 401 39.3 21,565 20,865 2,045

Miscellaneous healthcare support

occupations .................................. 15.28 15.80 611 632 40.0 31,083 32,115 2,034

Medical assistants .......................... 14.12 13.92 565 557 40.0 29,366 28,962 2,080

Protective service occupations ........... 15.83 14.61 634 598 40.0 32,963 31,086 2,083

First-line supervisors/managers, law

enforcement workers .................... 22.98 24.76 937 1,020 40.8 48,705 53,030 2,119

First-line supervisors/managers of

police and detectives ................ 24.21 25.54 984 1,034 40.6 51,150 53,747 2,113

Fire fighters ......................................... 17.56 16.52 893 882 50.9 46,442 45,841 2,645

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and

jailers ............................................ 14.29 13.10 579 528 40.5 30,125 27,453 2,107

Correctional officers and jailers ...... 14.29 13.10 579 528 40.5 30,125 27,453 2,107

Police officers ..................................... 18.42 18.33 750 743 40.7 39,006 38,657 2,117

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ... 18.42 18.33 750 743 40.7 39,006 38,657 2,117

Security guards and gaming

surveillance officers ...................... 11.19 9.75 409 378 36.6 21,275 19,635 1,902

Security guards ............................... 11.19 9.75 409 378 36.6 21,275 19,635 1,902

Food preparation and serving related

occupations .................................... 8.55 8.75 327 340 38.2 16,491 17,063 1,929

First-line supervisors/managers, food

preparation and serving workers .. 14.93 14.51 585 597 39.2 28,660 26,738 1,919

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and

annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

First-line supervisors/managers of

food preparation and serving

workers ..................................... $15.92 $14.93 $621 $648 39.0 $30,029 $31,044 1,887

Cooks ................................................. 11.29 11.96 425 454 37.6 21,049 21,840 1,865

Cooks, institution and cafeteria ...... 13.27 12.01 485 463 36.6 21,379 21,649 1,612

Cooks, restaurant ........................... 11.65 12.11 435 454 37.4 22,633 23,618 1,943

Food preparation workers ................... 11.45 12.25 451 490 39.4 21,764 21,294 1,900

Food service, tipped ........................... 4.61 2.15 177 130 38.3 9,098 6,760 1,972

Waiters and waitresses .................. 3.90 2.15 149 85 38.2 7,750 4,430 1,989

Fast food and counter workers ........... 8.50 7.50 327 281 38.4 16,738 14,625 1,969

Building and grounds cleaning and

maintenance occupations ............. 10.65 9.31 425 393 39.9 21,920 20,384 2,058

Building cleaning workers ................... 10.11 8.97 404 372 39.9 20,783 19,369 2,056

Janitors and cleaners, except

maids and housekeeping

cleaners .................................... 10.64 9.60 427 403 40.1 21,890 20,978 2,058

Maids and housekeeping

cleaners .................................... 8.43 8.00 331 320 39.3 17,234 16,640 2,044

Personal care and service

occupations .................................... 17.70 13.15 603 618 34.1 30,493 29,055 1,723

Sales and related occupations ............ 21.66 14.82 874 593 40.4 45,465 30,826 2,099

First-line supervisors/managers, sales

workers ......................................... 27.39 17.25 1,148 690 41.9 59,672 35,870 2,179

First-line supervisors/managers of

retail sales workers ................... 17.17 17.25 700 690 40.8 36,390 35,870 2,119

Retail sales workers ........................... 15.48 12.25 622 460 40.2 32,326 23,920 2,089

Cashiers, all workers ...................... 9.53 9.54 380 382 39.9 19,756 19,843 2,072

Cashiers ..................................... 9.53 9.54 380 382 39.9 19,756 19,843 2,072

Counter and rental clerks and parts

salespersons ............................ 18.22 17.21 743 688 40.8 38,639 35,786 2,120

Parts salespersons ..................... 21.50 19.46 916 876 42.6 47,608 45,534 2,214

Retail salespersons ........................ 19.47 14.26 781 522 40.1 40,616 27,144 2,087

Sales representatives, wholesale and

manufacturing ............................... 43.41 39.80 1,746 1,635 40.2 90,793 85,038 2,091

Miscellaneous sales and related

workers ......................................... 10.62 8.27 424 331 40.0 22,064 17,200 2,078

Office and administrative support

occupations .................................... 16.78 15.75 667 630 39.8 34,602 32,531 2,062

First-line supervisors/managers of

office and administrative support

workers ......................................... 22.12 23.73 898 893 40.6 46,714 46,428 2,112

Financial clerks ................................... 17.36 16.83 692 673 39.8 35,954 35,002 2,071

Bill and account collectors .............. 17.52 17.14 701 686 40.0 36,444 35,657 2,080

Billing and posting clerks and

machine operators .................... 17.43 16.25 697 650 40.0 36,261 33,800 2,080

Bookkeeping, accounting, and

auditing clerks ........................... 17.41 16.83 691 673 39.7 35,914 35,002 2,063

Customer service representatives ...... 15.89 14.54 635 582 40.0 33,027 30,243 2,079

Receptionists and information clerks .. 13.98 13.00 557 520 39.8 28,972 27,040 2,072

Dispatchers ......................................... 17.80 16.34 716 660 40.2 37,247 34,320 2,092

Shipping, receiving, and traffic

clerks ............................................ 13.15 12.59 526 504 40.0 27,353 26,187 2,080

Stock clerks and order fillers .............. 12.80 12.25 512 490 40.0 26,626 25,480 2,080

Secretaries and administrative

assistants ...................................... 18.45 16.86 730 674 39.6 37,780 35,000 2,048

Executive secretaries and

administrative assistants .......... 19.94 19.25 789 754 39.6 41,034 39,217 2,058

Medical secretaries ......................... 13.08 12.15 523 486 40.0 27,210 25,272 2,080

Secretaries, except legal, medical,

and executive ........................... 15.78 15.27 628 592 39.8 32,131 30,322 2,036

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and

annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Data entry and information processing

workers ......................................... $16.75 $13.40 $670 $536 40.0 $34,848 $27,864 2,080

Data entry keyers ........................... 13.84 13.40 554 536 40.0 28,789 27,864 2,080

Office clerks, general .......................... 16.03 15.75 632 606 39.4 32,782 31,491 2,045

Construction and extraction

occupations .................................... 18.12 17.28 725 691 40.0 37,711 35,936 2,082

First-line supervisors/managers of

construction trades and extraction

workers ......................................... 25.47 23.75 1,019 950 40.0 52,982 49,400 2,080

Carpenters .......................................... 20.14 20.00 806 800 40.0 41,890 41,600 2,080

Construction laborers ......................... 11.19 11.50 448 460 40.0 23,285 23,920 2,080

Electricians ......................................... 21.66 18.44 867 738 40.0 45,061 38,351 2,080

Installation, maintenance, and repair

occupations .................................... 20.14 19.11 817 772 40.6 42,496 40,148 2,110

First-line supervisors/managers of

mechanics, installers, and

repairers ....................................... 24.04 19.96 1,013 798 42.2 52,701 41,517 2,193

Radio and telecommunications

equipment installers and

repairers ....................................... 26.84 27.69 1,074 1,108 40.0 55,833 57,591 2,080

Telecommunications equipment

installers and repairers, except

line installers ............................. 26.84 27.69 1,074 1,108 40.0 55,833 57,591 2,080

Miscellaneous electrical and

electronic equipment mechanics,

installers, and repairers ................ 18.80 13.43 752 537 40.0 39,109 27,941 2,080

Aircraft mechanics and service

technicians .................................... 22.26 25.50 890 1,020 40.0 46,302 53,040 2,080

Automotive technicians and

repairers ....................................... 19.73 16.57 825 653 41.8 42,911 33,973 2,175

Automotive service technicians and

mechanics ................................ 20.04 17.00 842 663 42.0 43,774 34,466 2,184

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel

engine specialists ......................... 17.72 18.23 709 729 40.0 36,856 37,918 2,080

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment

service technicians and

mechanics .................................... 19.43 22.29 777 892 40.0 40,414 46,365 2,080

Mobile heavy equipment

mechanics, except engines ...... 19.43 22.29 777 892 40.0 40,414 46,365 2,080

Industrial machinery installation,

repair, and maintenance

workers ......................................... 15.58 15.71 645 630 41.4 33,505 32,760 2,151

Industrial machinery mechanics ..... 18.09 18.49 717 740 39.6 37,289 38,459 2,061

Maintenance and repair workers,

general ...................................... 14.32 11.12 573 445 40.0 29,724 23,587 2,076

Miscellaneous installation,

maintenance, and repair

workers ......................................... 13.34 12.50 533 500 40.0 27,742 26,000 2,080

Production occupations ...................... 15.40 13.50 617 557 40.1 32,077 28,964 2,083

First-line supervisors/managers of

production and operating

workers ......................................... 23.70 22.12 948 885 40.0 49,302 45,999 2,080

Miscellaneous assemblers and

fabricators ..................................... 20.98 28.03 839 1,121 40.0 43,632 58,302 2,080

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and

fish processing workers ................ 12.04 12.50 482 500 40.0 25,048 26,000 2,080

Welding, soldering, and brazing

workers ......................................... 16.97 16.00 677 640 39.9 35,185 33,280 2,073

Welders, cutters, solderers, and

brazers ...................................... 17.04 16.00 679 632 39.8 35,305 32,864 2,072

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,

and weighers ................................ 13.44 10.20 538 408 40.0 27,954 21,216 2,080

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 11. Full-time1 civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and

annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Miscellaneous production workers ..... $15.77 $14.21 $631 $568 40.0 $32,793 $29,557 2,080

Transportation and material moving

occupations .................................... 16.81 13.85 668 554 39.8 34,371 28,080 2,045

First-line supervisors/managers of

transportation and

material-moving machine and

vehicle operators .......................... 21.49 22.68 910 907 42.3 47,328 47,181 2,202

Bus drivers .......................................... 16.76 16.66 453 435 27.0 16,939 16,092 1,010

Bus drivers, school ......................... 16.76 16.66 453 435 27.0 16,939 16,092 1,010

Driver/sales workers and truck

drivers ........................................... 17.67 20.00 734 800 41.5 38,168 41,600 2,160

Truck drivers, heavy and

tractor-trailer ............................. 19.00 20.00 797 800 42.0 41,452 41,600 2,182

Truck drivers, light or delivery

services .................................... 12.64 11.25 506 450 40.0 26,293 23,400 2,080

Industrial truck and tractor operators .. 13.51 13.42 540 537 40.0 28,091 27,914 2,080

Laborers and material movers, hand .. 10.79 10.20 433 412 40.1 22,509 21,424 2,087

Laborers and freight, stock, and

material movers, hand .............. 11.41 10.90 456 424 39.9 23,691 22,069 2,076

Machine feeders and offbearers ..... 10.82 11.56 433 462 40.0 22,509 24,045 2,080

Packers and packagers, hand ........ 9.55 8.94 382 358 40.0 19,872 18,595 2,080

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,

where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay

of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See

appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of

overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of

overtime.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for

categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

All workers ................................................ $21.62 $17.40 $864 $698 39.9 $44,698 $36,069 2,067

Management occupations ................... 39.03 37.02 1,603 1,510 41.1 83,311 78,541 2,135

General and operations managers ..... 43.92 40.70 1,799 1,628 41.0 93,567 84,656 2,131

Marketing and sales managers .......... 48.93 43.27 2,222 2,380 45.4 115,545 123,749 2,361

Sales managers .............................. 47.19 43.27 2,207 2,380 46.8 114,785 123,749 2,432

Administrative services managers ...... 34.58 30.29 1,383 1,212 40.0 71,926 62,999 2,080

Computer and information systems

managers ...................................... 37.55 33.48 1,531 1,339 40.8 79,599 69,638 2,120

Financial managers ............................ 33.70 32.65 1,347 1,306 40.0 70,065 67,906 2,079

Construction managers ...................... 38.90 36.33 1,566 1,453 40.3 81,438 75,573 2,094

Education administrators .................... 33.78 29.81 1,351 1,192 40.0 68,717 62,001 2,034

Medical and health services

managers ...................................... 35.75 35.24 1,427 1,409 39.9 74,226 73,293 2,076

Business and financial operations

occupations .................................... 31.51 26.97 1,316 1,099 41.7 68,410 57,171 2,171

Human resources, training, and labor

relations specialists ...................... 24.23 12.24 1,143 904 47.2 59,429 47,000 2,452

Management analysts ........................ 38.19 37.58 1,518 1,507 39.7 78,932 78,363 2,067

Accountants and auditors ................... 24.56 21.19 982 848 40.0 51,078 44,075 2,080

Financial analysts and advisors .......... 33.08 23.50 1,469 1,058 44.4 76,399 54,999 2,309

Financial analysts ........................... 34.23 26.07 1,536 1,058 44.9 79,862 54,999 2,333

Computer and mathematical science

occupations .................................... 34.05 32.28 1,368 1,292 40.2 71,118 67,201 2,088

Computer programmers ..................... 31.53 30.07 1,269 1,246 40.2 65,975 64,817 2,093

Computer software engineers ............ 40.67 40.30 1,635 1,612 40.2 85,039 83,828 2,091

Computer software engineers,

applications ............................... 44.24 42.41 1,785 1,731 40.3 92,823 90,000 2,098

Computer software engineers,

systems software ...................... 35.07 32.31 1,403 1,292 40.0 72,949 67,201 2,080

Computer support specialists ............. 25.11 24.72 1,013 1,046 40.4 52,691 54,386 2,099

Computer systems analysts ............... 40.88 32.66 1,635 1,306 40.0 85,025 67,933 2,080

Architecture and engineering

occupations .................................... 34.46 33.65 1,381 1,346 40.1 71,815 69,992 2,084

Engineers ........................................... 41.73 40.87 1,674 1,635 40.1 87,063 84,999 2,086

Electrical and electronics

engineers .................................. 38.49 40.87 1,539 1,635 40.0 80,050 84,999 2,080

Engineering technicians, except

drafters ......................................... 23.79 24.17 951 967 40.0 49,476 50,267 2,080

Electrical and electronic

engineering technicians ............ 23.17 21.67 927 867 40.0 48,186 45,074 2,080

Life, physical, and social science

occupations .................................... 24.37 22.11 975 884 40.0 50,687 45,991 2,080

Community and social services

occupations .................................... 17.09 16.21 666 648 38.9 34,612 33,708 2,025

Legal occupations ................................ 51.34 57.69 2,091 2,308 40.7 108,727 119,999 2,118

Education, training, and library

occupations .................................... 25.34 22.64 1,003 1,043 39.6 39,952 40,144 1,577

Primary, secondary, and special

education school teachers ............ 25.28 22.64 1,011 1,039 40.0 39,605 40,144 1,567

Elementary and middle school

teachers .................................... 31.12 34.52 1,226 1,381 39.4 45,384 51,096 1,458

Arts, design, entertainment, sports,

and media occupations .................. 28.20 22.00 1,113 858 39.5 57,862 44,591 2,052

Actors, producers, and directors ......... 38.53 49.76 1,494 1,990 38.8 77,701 103,501 2,017

Producers and directors ................. 38.53 49.76 1,494 1,990 38.8 77,701 103,501 2,017

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Healthcare practitioner and technical

occupations .................................... $31.20 $27.04 $1,223 $1,074 39.2 $63,616 $55,869 2,039

Pharmacists ........................................ 46.52 47.00 1,861 1,880 40.0 96,765 97,760 2,080

Registered nurses .............................. 30.48 28.22 1,196 1,114 39.2 62,181 57,903 2,040

Therapists ........................................... 21.59 14.50 863 580 40.0 44,892 30,160 2,079

Licensed practical and licensed

vocational nurses .......................... 19.82 19.35 790 774 39.9 41,079 40,248 2,073

Healthcare support occupations ......... 11.96 11.00 475 435 39.7 24,702 22,630 2,065

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health

aides ............................................. 9.83 9.00 389 360 39.6 20,223 18,720 2,057

Nursing aides, orderlies, and

attendants ................................. 10.59 10.14 416 401 39.3 21,626 20,862 2,042

Miscellaneous healthcare support

occupations .................................. 15.87 16.29 635 652 40.0 33,001 33,879 2,080

Medical assistants .......................... 14.87 13.93 595 557 40.0 30,928 28,974 2,080

Protective service occupations ........... 12.35 10.25 455 400 36.9 23,682 20,800 1,917

Security guards and gaming

surveillance officers ...................... 11.20 9.75 408 377 36.4 21,237 19,594 1,895

Security guards ............................... 11.20 9.75 408 377 36.4 21,237 19,594 1,895

Food preparation and serving related

occupations .................................... 8.10 8.50 313 323 38.6 16,265 16,796 2,008

First-line supervisors/managers, food

preparation and serving workers .. 13.50 12.86 540 514 40.0 28,096 26,738 2,081

First-line supervisors/managers of

food preparation and serving

workers ..................................... 14.30 14.93 572 597 40.0 29,758 31,044 2,081

Cooks ................................................. 11.10 12.01 425 454 38.3 22,120 23,618 1,993

Cooks, restaurant ........................... 11.65 12.11 435 454 37.4 22,633 23,618 1,943

Food service, tipped ........................... 4.54 2.15 175 85 38.5 9,088 4,430 2,000

Waiters and waitresses .................. 3.90 2.15 149 85 38.2 7,750 4,430 1,989

Fast food and counter workers ........... 8.44 7.50 327 281 38.7 16,997 14,625 2,014

Building and grounds cleaning and

maintenance occupations ............. 9.47 8.49 380 334 40.1 19,744 17,372 2,085

Building cleaning workers ................... 9.31 8.35 373 333 40.1 19,411 17,326 2,086

Janitors and cleaners, except

maids and housekeeping

cleaners .................................... 9.61 8.97 389 380 40.5 20,249 19,760 2,107

Maids and housekeeping

cleaners .................................... 8.43 8.00 331 320 39.3 17,234 16,640 2,044

Personal care and service

occupations .................................... 18.34 13.15 627 638 34.2 32,626 33,201 1,779

Sales and related occupations ............ 21.66 14.82 874 593 40.4 45,465 30,826 2,099

First-line supervisors/managers, sales

workers ......................................... 27.39 17.25 1,148 690 41.9 59,672 35,870 2,179

First-line supervisors/managers of

retail sales workers ................... 17.17 17.25 700 690 40.8 36,390 35,870 2,119

Retail sales workers ........................... 15.48 12.25 622 460 40.2 32,326 23,920 2,089

Cashiers, all workers ...................... 9.53 9.54 380 382 39.9 19,756 19,843 2,072

Cashiers ..................................... 9.53 9.54 380 382 39.9 19,756 19,843 2,072

Counter and rental clerks and parts

salespersons ............................ 18.22 17.21 743 688 40.8 38,639 35,786 2,120

Parts salespersons ..................... 21.50 19.46 916 876 42.6 47,608 45,534 2,214

Retail salespersons ........................ 19.47 14.26 781 522 40.1 40,616 27,144 2,087

Sales representatives, wholesale and

manufacturing ............................... 43.41 39.80 1,746 1,635 40.2 90,793 85,038 2,091

Miscellaneous sales and related

workers ......................................... 10.62 8.27 424 331 40.0 22,064 17,200 2,078

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Office and administrative support

occupations .................................... $16.74 $15.80 $665 $632 39.7 $34,604 $32,847 2,067

First-line supervisors/managers of

office and administrative support

workers ......................................... 22.05 22.32 897 812 40.7 46,631 42,224 2,115

Financial clerks ................................... 17.47 16.83 696 673 39.8 36,192 35,002 2,072

Bill and account collectors .............. 17.52 17.14 701 686 40.0 36,444 35,657 2,080

Billing and posting clerks and

machine operators .................... 17.43 16.25 697 650 40.0 36,261 33,800 2,080

Bookkeeping, accounting, and

auditing clerks ........................... 17.58 16.83 698 673 39.7 36,287 35,002 2,064

Customer service representatives ...... 15.95 14.54 638 582 40.0 33,156 30,243 2,079

Receptionists and information clerks .. 13.98 13.00 557 520 39.8 28,972 27,040 2,072

Shipping, receiving, and traffic

clerks ............................................ 13.15 12.59 526 504 40.0 27,353 26,187 2,080

Stock clerks and order fillers .............. 12.97 12.25 519 490 40.0 26,967 25,480 2,080

Secretaries and administrative

assistants ...................................... 18.19 17.78 719 711 39.5 37,399 36,978 2,056

Executive secretaries and

administrative assistants .......... 18.67 19.23 738 754 39.5 38,378 39,217 2,056

Medical secretaries ......................... 13.26 12.69 530 508 40.0 27,580 26,395 2,080

Secretaries, except legal, medical,

and executive ........................... 16.22 14.42 646 577 39.9 33,616 30,000 2,073

Office clerks, general .......................... 16.04 15.75 632 606 39.4 32,861 31,491 2,048

Construction and extraction

occupations .................................... 18.17 17.28 727 691 40.0 37,820 35,936 2,082

First-line supervisors/managers of

construction trades and extraction

workers ......................................... 26.08 23.75 1,043 950 40.0 54,246 49,400 2,080

Carpenters .......................................... 20.14 20.00 806 800 40.0 41,890 41,600 2,080

Electricians ......................................... 21.71 18.44 868 738 40.0 45,155 38,351 2,080

Installation, maintenance, and repair

occupations .................................... 20.33 19.96 826 798 40.6 42,940 41,517 2,112

First-line supervisors/managers of

mechanics, installers, and

repairers ....................................... 24.88 19.96 1,061 798 42.6 55,163 41,517 2,217

Radio and telecommunications

equipment installers and

repairers ....................................... 27.25 27.69 1,090 1,108 40.0 56,680 57,591 2,080

Telecommunications equipment

installers and repairers, except

line installers ............................. 27.25 27.69 1,090 1,108 40.0 56,680 57,591 2,080

Miscellaneous electrical and

electronic equipment mechanics,

installers, and repairers ................ 18.80 13.43 752 537 40.0 39,109 27,941 2,080

Aircraft mechanics and service

technicians .................................... 22.26 25.50 890 1,020 40.0 46,302 53,040 2,080

Automotive technicians and

repairers ....................................... 19.93 16.33 837 653 42.0 43,510 33,966 2,184

Automotive service technicians and

mechanics ................................ 20.29 17.00 856 610 42.2 44,519 31,695 2,194

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment

service technicians and

mechanics .................................... 19.43 22.29 777 892 40.0 40,414 46,365 2,080

Mobile heavy equipment

mechanics, except engines ...... 19.43 22.29 777 892 40.0 40,414 46,365 2,080

Industrial machinery installation,

repair, and maintenance

workers ......................................... 15.70 15.87 652 661 41.6 33,922 34,382 2,161

Industrial machinery mechanics ..... 18.09 18.49 717 740 39.6 37,289 38,459 2,061

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 12. Full-time1 private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Miscellaneous installation,

maintenance, and repair

workers ......................................... $13.34 $12.50 $533 $500 40.0 $27,742 $26,000 2,080

Production occupations ...................... 15.34 13.46 614 555 40.0 31,924 28,850 2,080

First-line supervisors/managers of

production and operating

workers ......................................... 23.70 22.12 948 885 40.0 49,302 45,999 2,080

Miscellaneous assemblers and

fabricators ..................................... 20.98 28.03 839 1,121 40.0 43,632 58,302 2,080

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and

fish processing workers ................ 12.04 12.50 482 500 40.0 25,048 26,000 2,080

Welding, soldering, and brazing

workers ......................................... 16.97 16.00 677 640 39.9 35,185 33,280 2,073

Welders, cutters, solderers, and

brazers ...................................... 17.04 16.00 679 632 39.8 35,305 32,864 2,072

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers,

and weighers ................................ 13.44 10.20 538 408 40.0 27,954 21,216 2,080

Miscellaneous production workers ..... 15.77 14.21 631 568 40.0 32,793 29,557 2,080

Transportation and material moving

occupations .................................... 16.80 13.45 675 554 40.2 35,077 28,806 2,088

First-line supervisors/managers of

transportation and

material-moving machine and

vehicle operators .......................... 21.79 22.68 928 907 42.6 48,238 47,181 2,214

Driver/sales workers and truck

drivers ........................................... 17.69 20.00 736 800 41.6 38,253 41,600 2,163

Truck drivers, heavy and

tractor-trailer ............................. 19.06 20.00 801 800 42.0 41,642 41,600 2,185

Truck drivers, light or delivery

services .................................... 12.37 11.25 495 450 40.0 25,740 23,400 2,080

Industrial truck and tractor operators .. 13.51 13.42 540 537 40.0 28,091 27,914 2,080

Laborers and material movers, hand .. 10.79 10.20 433 412 40.1 22,509 21,424 2,087

Laborers and freight, stock, and

material movers, hand .............. 11.41 10.90 456 424 39.9 23,691 22,069 2,076

Machine feeders and offbearers ..... 10.82 11.56 433 462 40.0 22,509 24,045 2,080

Packers and packagers, hand ........ 9.55 8.94 382 358 40.0 19,872 18,595 2,080

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,

where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay

of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See

appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of

overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of

overtime.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for

categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings

and mean weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

All workers ................................................ $22.41 $19.86 $892 $800 39.8 $40,481 $38,875 1,806

Management occupations ................... 39.06 37.50 1,547 1,500 39.6 71,345 69,288 1,827

Education administrators .................... 39.41 38.38 1,552 1,537 39.4 66,772 65,593 1,694

Business and financial operations

occupations .................................... 24.26 22.71 970 908 40.0 50,219 47,237 2,070

Accountants and auditors ................... 26.53 26.49 1,061 1,060 40.0 55,174 55,103 2,080

Computer and mathematical science

occupations .................................... 29.98 27.15 1,181 1,086 39.4 60,057 57,924 2,003

Community and social services

occupations .................................... 25.03 22.58 990 903 39.6 45,415 44,674 1,814

Counselors ......................................... 34.99 34.15 1,366 1,356 39.0 54,133 52,886 1,547

Education, training, and library

occupations .................................... 29.09 29.09 1,158 1,162 39.8 44,843 45,334 1,542

Postsecondary teachers ..................... 29.16 25.64 1,453 1,399 49.8 63,435 54,076 2,176

Primary, secondary, and special

education school teachers ............ 33.26 32.54 1,292 1,264 38.9 49,489 48,394 1,488

Elementary and middle school

teachers .................................... 32.42 31.67 1,260 1,223 38.9 48,278 46,976 1,489

Elementary school teachers,

except special education ...... 32.40 31.67 1,253 1,222 38.7 48,114 46,815 1,485

Middle school teachers, except

special and vocational

education .............................. 32.52 31.65 1,287 1,258 39.6 48,921 47,787 1,504

Secondary school teachers ............ 34.44 33.77 1,341 1,315 38.9 51,253 50,063 1,488

Secondary school teachers,

except special and vocational

education .............................. 33.88 33.03 1,319 1,280 38.9 50,439 49,087 1,489

Special education teachers ............ 35.84 35.41 1,400 1,414 39.0 53,613 53,823 1,496

Teacher assistants ............................. 13.08 12.81 496 485 37.9 18,891 18,448 1,444

Healthcare practitioner and technical

occupations .................................... 17.61 16.36 698 655 39.6 34,145 33,233 1,939

Healthcare support occupations ......... 11.26 10.44 450 418 40.0 21,710 21,002 1,928

Protective service occupations ........... 18.30 17.90 781 766 42.7 40,588 39,832 2,218

First-line supervisors/managers, law

enforcement workers .................... 22.98 24.76 937 1,020 40.8 48,705 53,030 2,119

First-line supervisors/managers of

police and detectives ................ 24.21 25.54 984 1,034 40.6 51,150 53,747 2,113

Fire fighters ......................................... 16.06 15.94 851 845 53.0 44,272 43,931 2,756

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and

jailers ............................................ 14.29 13.10 579 528 40.5 30,125 27,453 2,107

Correctional officers and jailers ...... 14.29 13.10 579 528 40.5 30,125 27,453 2,107

Police officers ..................................... 18.42 18.33 750 743 40.7 39,006 38,657 2,117

Police and sheriff’s patrol officers ... 18.42 18.33 750 743 40.7 39,006 38,657 2,117

Food preparation and serving related

occupations .................................... 14.73 12.92 492 443 33.4 18,413 17,287 1,250

Cooks ................................................. 12.94 11.52 418 360 32.3 15,459 13,488 1,195

Cooks, institution and cafeteria ...... 12.94 11.52 418 360 32.3 15,459 13,488 1,195

Building and grounds cleaning and

maintenance occupations ............. 13.76 12.69 543 493 39.5 27,355 24,918 1,988

Building cleaning workers ................... 12.84 12.02 505 471 39.3 25,157 23,775 1,960

Janitors and cleaners, except

maids and housekeeping

cleaners .................................... 12.84 12.02 505 471 39.3 25,157 23,775 1,960

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 13. Full-time1 State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings

and mean weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Office and administrative support

occupations .................................... $17.14 $15.09 $685 $604 40.0 $34,574 $30,763 2,017

Secretaries and administrative

assistants ...................................... 19.56 16.04 779 642 39.8 39,389 33,305 2,014

Secretaries, except legal, medical,

and executive ........................... 15.05 15.64 597 626 39.7 29,763 32,032 1,978

Construction and extraction

occupations .................................... 17.68 17.90 707 716 40.0 36,767 37,232 2,080

Installation, maintenance, and repair

occupations .................................... 17.51 16.75 700 670 40.0 36,301 34,466 2,073

Transportation and material moving

occupations .................................... 17.02 16.95 564 547 33.1 24,298 21,338 1,427

Bus drivers .......................................... 16.76 16.66 453 435 27.0 16,939 16,092 1,010

Bus drivers, school ......................... 16.76 16.66 453 435 27.0 16,939 16,092 1,010

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time

schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a

worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time

employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm,

where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay

of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See

appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of

overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries

paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of

the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual

hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of

overtime.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for

categories not shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings1 of private industry establishments

for major occupational groups, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007

Occupational group2 Total 1-99

workers

100-499

workers

500

workers

or more

All workers .................................................................... $20.28 $18.56 $20.15 $23.98

Management, professional, and related ..................... 33.60 33.44 33.67 33.74

Management, business, and financial .................... 35.74 32.79 41.91 35.95

Professional and related ......................................... 31.97 34.09 29.22 32.18

Service ........................................................................ 10.05 8.60 9.69 13.93

Sales and office .......................................................... 16.86 17.16 16.63 16.43

Sales and related .................................................... 18.04 19.42 17.83 14.49

Office and administrative support ........................... 16.14 15.83 15.74 17.36

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 19.35 17.90 20.40 23.32

Construction and extraction ................................... 18.17 18.01 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 20.33 17.80 24.08 23.64

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 15.67 13.62 15.06 21.66

Production .............................................................. 15.43 11.87 17.91 19.86

Transportation and material moving ....................... 15.82 14.53 13.01 –

Relative error3 (percent)

All workers .................................................................... 3.7 4.5 6.6 7.5

Management, professional, and related ..................... 1.9 3.6 5.5 2.8

Management, business, and financial .................... 3.4 6.5 7.2 4.1

Professional and related ......................................... 2.2 3.5 6.9 3.6

Service ........................................................................ 3.9 10.1 12.1 13.4

Sales and office .......................................................... 4.5 9.5 11.1 5.3

Sales and related .................................................... 9.4 18.2 21.7 18.6

Office and administrative support ........................... 2.5 5.8 4.3 1.6

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 6.1 7.9 7.8 7.1

Construction and extraction ................................... 9.3 11.7 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 5.0 7.8 10.6 6.2

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 12.1 11.1 4.1 29.7

Production .............................................................. 4.8 4.5 3.0 10.4

Transportation and material moving ....................... 19.0 14.3 8.7 –

1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries

paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living

adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for

overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers

and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.

See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See

appendix B for more information.

3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error

expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to

calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate.

For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that

data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation

Survey.

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Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

All workers .................................................................... $20.04 $16.21 $806 $648 40.2 $41,866 $33,708 2,089

Management occupations ....................................... 35.81 36.33 1,495 1,453 41.7 77,725 75,573 2,171

General and operations managers ......................... 37.47 37.01 1,571 1,480 41.9 81,687 76,981 2,180

Financial managers ................................................ 26.01 19.94 1,040 798 40.0 54,103 41,479 2,080

Business and financial operations occupations ... 28.22 23.50 1,264 1,058 44.8 65,714 54,999 2,329

Computer and mathematical science

occupations ........................................................ 35.69 31.25 1,426 1,250 40.0 74,160 65,000 2,078

Computer software engineers ................................ 44.82 48.12 1,793 1,925 40.0 93,223 100,079 2,080

Architecture and engineering occupations ........... 29.36 27.69 1,174 1,108 40.0 61,064 57,591 2,080

Healthcare practitioner and technical

occupations ........................................................ 38.76 27.87 1,509 1,115 38.9 78,454 57,959 2,024

Registered nurses .................................................. 36.62 28.27 1,465 1,131 40.0 76,170 58,802 2,080

Healthcare support occupations ............................. 12.25 9.10 490 364 40.0 25,488 18,928 2,080

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations ...... 16.26 18.09 650 723 40.0 33,812 37,619 2,080

Food preparation and serving related

occupations ........................................................ 7.05 7.00 270 270 38.3 14,057 14,040 1,994

Cooks ..................................................................... 10.20 11.54 384 369 37.6 19,968 19,201 1,958

Food service, tipped ............................................... 3.70 2.15 141 85 38.2 7,349 4,430 1,986

Waiters and waitresses ...................................... 3.60 2.15 137 85 38.1 7,143 4,430 1,983

Personal care and service occupations ................. 13.27 12.70 549 540 41.4 28,529 28,060 2,151

Sales and related occupations ................................ 23.02 17.09 930 645 40.4 48,348 33,540 2,100

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ..... 31.05 21.73 1,304 869 42.0 67,828 45,200 2,184

Retail sales workers ............................................... 16.27 11.31 647 410 39.8 33,660 21,320 2,069

Cashiers, all workers .......................................... 8.32 8.30 332 332 39.9 17,268 17,264 2,076

Cashiers ......................................................... 8.32 8.30 332 332 39.9 17,268 17,264 2,076

Retail salespersons ............................................ 28.28 17.09 1,101 666 38.9 57,242 34,634 2,024

Office and administrative support occupations .... 16.71 15.79 661 632 39.6 34,376 32,847 2,057

Financial clerks ....................................................... 18.30 18.13 727 725 39.7 37,810 37,710 2,066

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ... 18.51 19.23 731 769 39.5 38,028 39,998 2,055

Receptionists and information clerks ...................... 12.68 13.00 506 520 39.9 26,290 27,040 2,073

Secretaries and administrative assistants .............. 15.92 14.42 630 608 39.6 32,737 31,591 2,057

Executive secretaries and administrative

assistants ...................................................... 16.54 15.33 651 613 39.3 33,832 31,886 2,046

Office clerks, general .............................................. 16.09 15.75 632 625 39.3 32,839 32,500 2,041

Construction and extraction occupations ............. 18.01 16.00 721 640 40.0 37,466 33,280 2,080

First-line supervisors/managers of construction

trades and extraction workers .......................... 26.08 23.75 1,043 950 40.0 54,246 49,400 2,080

Installation, maintenance, and repair

occupations ........................................................ 17.80 17.34 714 694 40.1 37,140 36,069 2,087

Automotive technicians and repairers .................... 17.84 16.33 764 653 42.8 39,734 33,966 2,227

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and

maintenance workers ....................................... 15.84 15.87 631 603 39.9 32,823 31,359 2,073

Production occupations .......................................... 11.85 11.54 476 462 40.2 24,754 24,045 2,090

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Transportation and material moving

occupations ........................................................ $15.52 $14.40 $630 $603 40.6 $32,756 $31,362 2,110

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ................... 17.80 20.00 723 800 40.6 37,620 41,600 2,113

Industrial truck and tractor operators ...................... 13.12 12.42 525 497 40.0 27,297 25,834 2,080

Laborers and material movers, hand ...................... 11.13 10.50 450 436 40.4 23,394 22,693 2,101

Laborers and freight, stock, and material

movers, hand ................................................ 13.25 13.63 530 545 40.0 27,550 28,350 2,080

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a

35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one

establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is

the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational

Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are

premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The

mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to

employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are

paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an

employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to

employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are

paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an

employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not

shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

All workers .................................................................... $23.13 $18.69 $918 $750 39.7 $47,341 $38,941 2,047

Management occupations ....................................... 42.11 38.83 1,704 1,596 40.5 88,491 83,000 2,101

General and operations managers ......................... 48.04 53.68 1,940 2,147 40.4 100,881 111,659 2,100

Marketing and sales managers .............................. 57.59 60.16 2,304 2,406 40.0 119,797 125,127 2,080

Sales managers .................................................. 53.72 58.78 2,149 2,351 40.0 111,740 122,256 2,080

Financial managers ................................................ 36.61 33.00 1,464 1,320 40.0 76,107 68,640 2,079

Medical and health services managers .................. 35.75 35.24 1,427 1,409 39.9 74,226 73,293 2,076

Business and financial operations occupations ... 33.86 28.24 1,348 1,131 39.8 70,120 58,833 2,071

Human resources, training, and labor relations

specialists ......................................................... 30.15 26.30 1,205 1,037 40.0 62,648 53,899 2,078

Management analysts ............................................ 38.19 37.58 1,518 1,507 39.7 78,932 78,363 2,067

Accountants and auditors ....................................... 24.74 21.64 990 865 40.0 51,469 45,001 2,080

Financial analysts and advisors .............................. 33.25 27.70 1,330 1,108 40.0 69,168 57,608 2,080

Financial analysts ............................................... 36.39 31.20 1,456 1,248 40.0 75,692 64,900 2,080

Computer and mathematical science

occupations ........................................................ 33.53 32.31 1,349 1,292 40.2 70,140 67,201 2,092

Computer programmers ......................................... 31.53 30.07 1,269 1,246 40.2 65,975 64,817 2,093

Computer software engineers ................................ 36.65 36.73 1,481 1,463 40.4 77,033 76,080 2,102

Computer software engineers, applications ....... 38.68 39.57 1,574 1,583 40.7 81,833 82,308 2,116

Computer software engineers, systems

software ........................................................ 33.49 33.28 1,340 1,331 40.0 69,667 69,231 2,080

Computer support specialists ................................. 24.69 24.45 998 1,023 40.4 51,884 53,204 2,101

Computer systems analysts ................................... 43.30 34.43 1,732 1,377 40.0 90,067 71,606 2,080

Architecture and engineering occupations ........... 37.45 36.26 1,502 1,449 40.1 78,114 75,325 2,086

Engineers ............................................................... 41.30 38.98 1,658 1,558 40.1 86,208 81,010 2,087

Electrical and electronics engineers ................... 37.44 36.58 1,498 1,463 40.0 77,883 76,086 2,080

Engineering technicians, except drafters ................ 20.84 20.12 834 805 40.0 43,353 41,850 2,080

Electrical and electronic engineering

technicians .................................................... 19.54 19.48 781 779 40.0 40,636 40,518 2,080

Life, physical, and social science occupations ..... 24.93 23.08 997 923 40.0 51,859 48,006 2,080

Education, training, and library occupations ........ 29.01 31.20 1,150 1,248 39.7 43,815 51,096 1,511

Primary, secondary, and special education school

teachers ............................................................ 29.68 34.52 1,187 1,381 40.0 43,765 51,096 1,474

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

occupations ........................................................ 24.11 20.00 956 800 39.7 49,736 41,600 2,063

Healthcare practitioner and technical

occupations ........................................................ 25.70 25.00 1,013 975 39.4 52,681 50,690 2,050

Pharmacists ............................................................ 46.32 45.42 1,853 1,817 40.0 96,352 94,474 2,080

Registered nurses .................................................. 27.77 28.03 1,080 1,049 38.9 56,178 54,531 2,023

Therapists ............................................................... 21.40 14.50 855 580 40.0 44,483 30,160 2,079

Licensed practical and licensed vocational

nurses ............................................................... 19.82 19.35 790 774 39.9 41,079 40,248 2,073

Healthcare support occupations ............................. 11.56 11.27 455 443 39.3 23,639 23,046 2,045

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides .......... 10.74 10.38 420 404 39.1 21,856 21,008 2,034

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants ............ 10.74 10.38 420 404 39.1 21,856 21,008 2,034

Protective service occupations ............................... 12.36 10.25 456 400 36.9 23,687 20,800 1,916

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers .. 11.21 9.75 408 371 36.4 21,223 19,282 1,894

Security guards ................................................... 11.21 9.75 408 371 36.4 21,223 19,282 1,894

Food preparation and serving related

occupations ........................................................ 11.03 11.58 435 440 39.4 22,617 22,880 2,050

Cooks ..................................................................... 13.16 12.77 527 511 40.0 27,381 26,568 2,080

See footnotes at end of table.

53
Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

occupations ........................................................ $9.86 $8.97 $396 $380 40.1 $20,569 $19,760 2,087

Building cleaning workers ....................................... 9.67 8.97 388 377 40.1 20,187 19,594 2,087

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and

housekeeping cleaners ................................. 10.08 9.50 410 403 40.7 21,311 20,978 2,115

Maids and housekeeping cleaners ..................... 8.69 8.15 341 325 39.2 17,717 16,885 2,038

Sales and related occupations ................................ 20.16 14.30 814 577 40.4 42,314 29,994 2,099

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers ..... 15.48 15.27 643 653 41.6 33,437 33,946 2,161

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales

workers ......................................................... 15.48 15.27 643 653 41.6 33,437 33,946 2,161

Retail sales workers ............................................... 14.92 12.40 603 490 40.4 31,368 25,480 2,103

Cashiers, all workers .......................................... 10.92 10.50 435 415 39.8 22,599 21,576 2,069

Cashiers ......................................................... 10.92 10.50 435 415 39.8 22,599 21,576 2,069

Counter and rental clerks and parts

salespersons ................................................ 19.18 18.84 781 702 40.7 40,608 36,500 2,117

Retail salespersons ............................................ 15.28 12.70 622 508 40.7 32,353 26,412 2,117

Office and administrative support occupations .... 16.78 16.01 670 637 39.9 34,815 33,114 2,075

First-line supervisors/managers of office and

administrative support workers ......................... 25.92 27.72 1,074 1,058 41.4 55,863 55,004 2,155

Financial clerks ....................................................... 16.39 16.39 655 656 40.0 34,082 34,091 2,079

Billing and posting clerks and machine

operators ...................................................... 16.88 15.05 675 602 40.0 35,103 31,304 2,080

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ... 15.98 16.19 639 648 40.0 33,230 33,675 2,080

Customer service representatives .......................... 15.92 14.54 636 582 40.0 33,083 30,243 2,078

Receptionists and information clerks ...................... 15.86 16.67 631 667 39.8 32,821 34,674 2,070

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks ..................... 14.06 14.16 562 566 40.0 29,244 29,453 2,080

Stock clerks and order fillers .................................. 13.47 12.40 539 496 40.0 28,013 25,792 2,080

Secretaries and administrative assistants .............. 20.32 19.24 803 754 39.5 41,761 39,204 2,055

Executive secretaries and administrative

assistants ...................................................... 21.26 20.67 845 827 39.8 43,948 43,000 2,068

Medical secretaries ............................................. 14.88 14.53 595 581 40.0 30,957 30,222 2,080

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and

executive ...................................................... 16.57 16.50 658 638 39.7 34,236 33,155 2,066

Office clerks, general .............................................. 15.92 14.62 633 585 39.8 32,923 30,410 2,068

Construction and extraction occupations ............. 18.40 18.44 737 738 40.1 38,341 38,351 2,084

Electricians ............................................................. 21.71 18.44 868 738 40.0 45,155 38,351 2,080

Installation, maintenance, and repair

occupations ........................................................ 23.84 26.10 985 1,047 41.3 51,223 54,454 2,149

First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics,

installers, and repairers .................................... 31.11 27.94 1,447 1,118 46.5 75,245 58,115 2,419

Radio and telecommunications equipment

installers and repairers ..................................... 27.88 27.69 1,115 1,108 40.0 57,988 57,591 2,080

Telecommunications equipment installers and

repairers, except line installers ..................... 27.88 27.69 1,115 1,108 40.0 57,988 57,591 2,080

Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment

mechanics, installers, and repairers ................. 25.60 26.18 1,024 1,047 40.0 53,247 54,454 2,080

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and

maintenance workers ....................................... 15.39 13.90 706 690 45.9 36,724 35,880 2,387

Production occupations .......................................... 19.04 17.45 758 698 39.8 39,436 36,294 2,071

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and

weighers ........................................................... 19.93 16.03 797 641 40.0 41,458 33,342 2,080

Miscellaneous production workers ......................... 17.04 17.45 682 698 40.0 35,442 36,294 2,080

Transportation and material moving

occupations ........................................................ 18.64 11.77 737 472 39.6 38,348 24,544 2,058

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers ................... 17.23 18.86 791 698 45.9 41,118 36,300 2,387

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer ............... 19.75 19.78 997 1,132 50.5 51,824 58,853 2,624

Industrial truck and tractor operators ...................... 14.08 14.42 563 577 40.0 29,286 30,000 2,080

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean

weekly and annual hours for full-time1 private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January

2007 — Continued

Occupation2

Hourly earnings3 Weekly earnings4 Annual earnings5

Mean Median Mean Median

Mean

weekly

hours

Mean Median

Mean

annual

hours

Laborers and material movers, hand ...................... $10.53 $10.05 $420 $400 39.9 $21,850 $20,800 2,076

Laborers and freight, stock, and material

movers, hand ................................................ 10.82 10.50 432 415 39.9 22,456 21,570 2,075

1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule

based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a

35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one

establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is

the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational

Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.

They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are

premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The

mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to

employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are

paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an

employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to

employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are

paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an

employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime.

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

publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not

shown separately

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 17. Union1 and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational groups, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupational group3

Union Nonunion

Civilian

workers

Private

industry

workers

State and

local

government

workers

Civilian

workers

Private

industry

workers

State and

local

government

workers

All workers .................................................................... $24.53 $24.89 – $20.26 $20.00 $22.07

Management, professional, and related ..................... – – – 32.28 33.64 27.43

Management, business, and financial .................... – – – 35.36 35.85 30.50

Professional and related ......................................... – – – 30.45 31.95 26.86

Service ........................................................................ 17.76 14.94 – 11.05 9.92 15.62

Sales and office .......................................................... 17.30 17.30 – 16.84 16.84 16.86

Sales and related .................................................... 16.21 16.21 – 18.12 18.12 –

Office and administrative support ........................... 18.15 18.15 – 16.14 16.07 16.86

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 24.23 24.33 – 17.96 18.08 16.75

Construction and extraction ................................... 21.56 21.40 – 17.16 17.21 16.77

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 27.00 27.37 – 18.62 18.76 16.72

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 30.12 30.58 – 13.85 13.76 16.18

Production .............................................................. 24.89 24.89 – 13.15 13.06 –

Transportation and material moving ....................... – – – 14.21 14.13 15.66

Relative error4 (percent)

All workers .................................................................... 16.8 18.3 – 3.0 3.5 2.9

Management, professional, and related ..................... – – – 1.9 2.0 3.4

Management, business, and financial .................... – – – 3.3 3.5 5.3

Professional and related ......................................... – – – 2.0 2.2 3.6

Service ........................................................................ 11.8 21.5 – 4.1 3.8 4.6

Sales and office .......................................................... 16.0 16.0 – 4.1 4.3 10.6

Sales and related .................................................... 25.6 25.6 – 8.9 8.9 –

Office and administrative support ........................... 12.5 12.5 – 2.6 2.7 10.6

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 3.4 3.5 – 6.2 6.8 7.0

Construction and extraction ................................... 4.1 4.4 – 10.5 11.8 9.9

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 1.7 .8 – 4.7 5.0 3.7

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 34.9 35.4 – 7.3 7.7 9.6

Production .............................................................. 3.2 3.2 – 6.4 6.5 –

Transportation and material moving ....................... – – – 9.9 10.6 9.0

1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through

collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to

employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and

hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,

nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay

of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See

appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard

Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more

information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a

percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval"

around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix

A.

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

publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Table 18. Time and incentive workers1: Mean hourly earnings2 for major occupational

groups, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupational group3

Time Incentive

Civilian

workers

Private

industry

workers

Civilian

workers

Private

industry

workers

All workers .................................................................... $19.98 $19.66 $26.88 $26.88

Management, professional, and related ..................... 31.66 32.90 45.39 45.39

Management, business, and financial .................... 34.85 35.34 39.00 39.00

Professional and related ......................................... 29.94 31.22 – –

Service ........................................................................ 11.21 9.85 – –

Sales and office .......................................................... 15.32 15.23 25.10 25.10

Sales and related .................................................... 13.57 13.57 30.41 30.41

Office and administrative support ........................... 16.12 16.05 16.87 16.87

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 18.96 19.09 26.17 26.17

Construction and extraction ................................... – 18.17 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 19.74 19.91 26.17 26.17

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 15.66 15.65 16.10 16.10

Production .............................................................. 15.65 15.60 10.57 10.57

Transportation and material moving ....................... 15.67 15.68 18.07 18.07

Relative error4 (percent)

All workers .................................................................... 3.2 3.7 8.6 8.6

Management, professional, and related ..................... 1.9 1.9 10.9 10.9

Management, business, and financial .................... 3.2 3.5 8.0 8.0

Professional and related ......................................... 2.0 2.2 – –

Service ........................................................................ 4.1 3.4 – –

Sales and office .......................................................... 5.3 5.6 10.4 10.4

Sales and related .................................................... 16.0 16.0 10.6 10.6

Office and administrative support ........................... 2.4 2.4 4.5 4.5

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 5.7 6.2 19.4 19.4

Construction and extraction ................................... – 9.3 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 4.6 4.9 19.4 19.4

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 12.3 12.9 2.8 2.8

Production .............................................................. 4.7 4.7 14.3 14.3

Transportation and material moving ....................... 19.6 20.8 7.8 7.8

1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate

or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at

least partially based on productivity payments such as piece

rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries

paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living

adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for

overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and

tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers

and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.

See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See

appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error

expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to

calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate.

For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that

data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation

Survey.

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Table 19. Industry sector1: Mean hourly earnings2 for private industry workers by major occupational group, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupational group3

Goods producing Service providing

ConstructionManufacturing

Trade,

transportation,

and utilities

InformationFinancial

activities

Professional and

business

services

Education

and

health

services

Leisure

and

hospitality

Other

services

All workers ................................................ – – $19.61 ––––––

Management, professional, and

related ............................................... – – 33.18 ––––––

Management, business, and

financial ........................................ – – 36.08 ––––––

Professional and related ..................... – – 30.91 ––––––

Service .................................................... – – 20.63 ––––––

Sales and office ...................................... – – 17.63 ––––––

Sales and related ................................ – – 18.26 ––––––

Office and administrative support ....... – – 16.55 ––––––

Natural resources, construction, and

maintenance ..................................... – – 20.37 ––––––

Installation, maintenance, and repair .. – – 20.85 ––––––

Production, transportation, and material

moving .............................................. – – 17.16 ––––––

Production .......................................... – – 13.35 ––––––

Transportation and material moving ... – – 17.85 ––––––

Relative error4 (percent)

All workers ................................................ – – 6.7 ––––––

Management, professional, and

related ............................................... – – 6.3 ––––––

Management, business, and

financial ........................................ – – 7.2 ––––––

Professional and related ..................... – – 5.2 ––––––

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

Sales and office ...................................... – – 8.6 ––––––

Sales and related ................................ – – 12.4 ––––––

Office and administrative support ....... – – 3.9 ––––––

Natural resources, construction, and

maintenance ..................................... – – 5.8 ––––––

Installation, maintenance, and repair .. – – 5.3 ––––––

Production, transportation, and material

moving .............................................. – – 19.8 ––––––

Production .......................................... – – 13.2 ––––––

Transportation and material moving ... – – 21.6 ––––––

1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They

include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are

premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The

mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of

workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational

Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.

4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of

the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample

estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A.

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

criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

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Appendix A: Technical Note 

his section provides basic information on the procedures and concepts used to produce the data contained 

in this bulletin. It is divided into three parts: Planning for 

the survey; data collection; and processing and analyzing 

the data. Although this section answers some questions 

commonly asked by data users, it is not a comprehensive 

description of all of the steps required to produce the data. 

Planning for the survey

The overall design of the National Compensation Survey 

(NCS) includes questions of scope, frame, and sample selection.

Survey scope 

This survey covered establishments employing one worker 

or more in private goods-producing industries (mining, 

construction, and manufacturing); private service-providing 

industries (trade, transportation, and utilities, information, 

financial activities, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and other 

services); State governments; and local governments. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, private households, 

and the Federal Government were excluded from the scope 

of the survey. For purposes of this survey, an establishment is an economic unit that produces goods or services, a 

central administrative office, or an auxiliary unit providing 

support services to a company. For private industries in 

this survey, the establishment is usually at a single physical 

location. For State and local governments, an establishment 

is defined as all locations of a government agency within 

the sampled area. 

 The statistical area covered by this survey is defined by 

the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of 

December 2003. The Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Gainesville, 

GA–AL, Combined Statistical Area (CSA) includes: 

• Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Marietta, GA, Metropolitan 

Statistical Area: Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, 

Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, 

Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, 

Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Newton, 

Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and 

Walton Counties, GA 

• Cedartown, GA, Micropolitan Statistical Area: Polk 

County, GA 

• Gainesville, GA, Metropolitan Statistical Area: Hall 

County, GA 

• LaGrange, GA, Micropolitan Statistical Area: Troup 

County, GA 

• Thomaston, GA, Micropolitan Statistical Area: Upson 

County, GA 

• Valley, AL, Micropolitan Statistical Area: Chambers 

County, AL 

Sampling frame

The list of establishments from which the survey sample 

was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State 

unemployment insurance reports. Due to the volatility of 

industries within the private sector, sampling frames were 

developed using the most recent month of reference available at the time the sample was selected. Approximately 

one-fifth of the sample is reselected each year. 

Sample design

The sample for this survey area was selected using a twostage stratified design with probability proportional to employment sampling at each stage. The first stage of sample 

selection was a probability sample of establishments. The 

sample of establishments was drawn by first stratifying the 

sampling frame by industry and ownership. The number of 

sample establishments allocated to each stratum is approximately proportional to the stratum employment. Each 

sampled establishment is selected within a stratum with a 

probability proportional to its employment. Use of this 

technique means that the larger an establishment’s employment, the greater its chance of selection. Weights were 

applied to each establishment when the data were tabulated 

so that it represents similar units (by industry and employment size) in the economy that were not selected for collection. The second stage of sample selection, detailed below, 

was a probability sample of occupations within a sampled 

establishment. 

Data collection

The collection of data from survey respondents required 

detailed procedures. Field economists collected the data, 

working out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Regional Offices and visiting each establishment surveyed. 

Other contact methods, such as mail and telephone, were 

used to clarify and update data. 

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Occupational selection and classification

Identification of the occupations for which wage data were 

to be collected was a multistep process: 

1. Probability-proportional-to-size selection of establishment jobs 

2. Classification of jobs into occupations based on the 

2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 

system 

3. Characterization of jobs as full-time versus parttime, union versus nonunion, and time versus incentive 

4. Determination of the level of work of each job 

 For each occupation, wage data were collected for those 

workers whose jobs could be characterized by the criteria 

identified in the last three steps. If a specific work level 

could not be determined, wages were still collected. 

 In step one, the jobs to be sampled were selected at each 

establishment by the BLS field economist. A complete list 

of employees was used for sampling, with each selected 

worker representing a job within the establishment. 

 As with the selection of establishments, the selection of 

a job was based on probability proportional to its size in 

the establishment. The greater the number of people working in a job in the establishment, the greater its chance of 

selection. 

 The number of jobs for which data were collected in 

each establishment was based on the establishment’s employment size. The number of jobs selected followed this 

schedule: 

Number 

of employees

Number 

of selected jobs

1–49 Up to 4 

50–249 6 

250 or more 8 

 The second step of the process entailed classifying the 

selected jobs into occupations based on their duties. NCS 

uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 

system. A selected job may fall into any one of about 800 

occupational classifications, from accountant to zoologist. 

When workers could be classified in more than one occupation, they were classified in the occupation that required the 

higher skill level. When there was no perceptible difference in skill level, the workers were classified in the occupation that described their primary activity. 

 Each occupational classification is an element of a 

broader classification known as a major group. Occupations can fall into any of 22 major groups. Appendix B 

contains a complete list of all individual occupations, classified by the major group to which they belong. 

In step three, certain other job characteristics of the 

chosen worker were identified. First, the worker was identified as holding either a full-time or part-time job, based 

on the establishment’s definition of those terms. Then, the 

worker was classified as having a time versus incentive job, 

depending on whether any part of pay was directly based 

on the actual production of the worker, rather than solely 

on hours worked. Finally, the worker was identified as being in a union job or a nonunion job. See the “Definition of 

terms” section on the following page for more detail. 

Occupational leveling

In the last step before wage data were collected, the work 

level of each selected job was determined using a “point 

factor leveling” process. Point factor leveling matches certain aspects of a job to specific levels of work with assigned point values. Points for each factor are then totaled 

to determine the overall work level for the job. 

 The NCS program is in the process of converting from a 

nine-factor to a four-factor occupational leveling system. 

The conversion is being phased in via annual NCS sample 

replenishment groups and will require several years for full 

implementation. The four occupational leveling factors 

are: 

• Knowledge 

• Job controls and complexity 

• Contacts (nature and purpose) 

• Physical environment 

 Each factor consists of several levels, and each level has 

an associated description and assigned points. A knowledge guide for 24 families of closely related occupations 

contains short definitions of the point levels of knowledge 

expected for the occupations and presents relevant examples. The other three factors use identical descriptions for 

all occupational categories and contain a definition of each 

point level within each factor. 

 The description within each factor best matching the job 

is chosen. The point levels within each factor are designed 

to describe the thresholds of distinct levels of work. When 

a job does not meet the full description of a point level, the 

next lowest point level is used. Points for the four factors 

are totaled to determine the overall work level. NCS publishes data for up to 15 work levels. 

 Most supervisory occupations are evaluated based on 

their duties and responsibilities. A modified approach is 

used for professional and administrative supervisors when 

they direct professional work and are paid primarily to supervise. Such supervisory occupations are leveled based 

on the work level of the highest position reporting to them. 

 For a complete description of point factor leveling, refer 

to the publication “National Compensation Survey: Guide 

for Evaluating Your Firm’s Jobs and Pay,” available at the 

BLS National Compensation Survey Internet site at 

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbr0004.pdf. 

Combined work levels

This bulletin includes a table which simplifies the presentation of work levels by combining them into four broad 
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groups. The groups were determined by combinations of 

knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, physical 

environment, and supervisory duties, and are meant to be 

comparable across different occupations. The broad 

groups and the combined work levels are:

Group 

designation

Levels 

combined

Group I Levels 1–4 

Group II Levels 5–8 

Group III Levels 9–12 

Group IV Levels 13–15 

Collection period

Survey data were collected over a 13-month period for 60 

metropolitan areas in the NCS program. For 20 small metropolitan areas, data were collected over a 4-month period. 

For each establishment in the survey, the data reflect the establishment’s most recent information at the time of collection. The payroll reference month shown in the tables reflects the average date of this information for all sample 

units. 

Earnings

Earnings were defined as regular payments from the employer to the employee as compensation for straight-time 

hourly work, or for any salaried work performed. The following components were included as part of earnings: 

• Incentive pay, including commissions, production 

bonuses, 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 transportation workers returning in a vehicle without freight 

or passengers 

 The following forms of payments were not considered 

part of straight-time earnings: 

• Shift differentials, defined as extra payment for 

working a schedule that varies from the norm, such 

as 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 or subsidized room and board 

• Payments made by third parties (for example, tips) 

• On-call pay 

 

 To calculate earnings for various periods (hourly, 

weekly, and annual), data on work schedules also were collected. For hourly workers, scheduled hours worked per 

day and per week, exclusive of overtime, were recorded. 

Annual weeks worked were determined. Because salaried 

workers who are exempt from overtime provisions often 

work beyond the assigned work schedule, their typical 

number of hours actually worked was collected. 

Definition of terms

Full-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be full time. 

Part-time worker. Any employee whom the employer considers to be part time. 

Time-based worker. Any employee whose earnings are 

solely tied to an hourly rate or salary. 

Incentive worker. Any employee whose earnings are tied, 

at least in part, to commissions, piece rates, production bonuses, or other incentives based on production or sales. 

Nonunion worker. An employee in an occupation not 

meeting the conditions for union coverage. 

Union worker. Any employee is in a union occupation 

when all of the following conditions are met: 

• A labor organization is recognized as the bargaining agent for all workers in the occupation 

• Wage and salary rates are determined through collective bargaining or negotiations 

• Settlement terms, which must include earnings provisions and may include benefit provisions, are embodied in a signed, mutually binding collective bargaining agreement

Level. A ranking within an occupation based on the requirements of the position. 

 Processing and analyzing the data

Data were processed and analyzed at the BLS National Office following collection. 

Weighting and nonresponse

Sample weights were calculated for each establishment and 

occupation in the survey. These weights reflected the relative size of the occupation within the establishment and of 

the establishment within the sample universe. Weights 

were used to aggregate data for the individual establishments or occupations into the various data series. Some of 

the establishments surveyed could not supply or refused to 

supply information. If data were not provided by a sample 

member during the initial interview, the weights of responding sample members in the same or similar “cells” 

were adjusted to account for the missing data. This tech-
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nique assumes that the mean value of data for the nonrespondents equals the mean value of data for the respondents at some detailed “cell” level. Responding and nonresponding establishments were classified into these cells 

according to industry and employment size. Responding 

and nonresponding occupations within responding establishments were classified into cells that were additionally 

defined by major occupation group. 

 If average hourly earnings data were not provided by a 

sample member during the update interview, then missing 

average hourly earnings were imputed by multiplying prior 

average hourly earnings by the rate of change in the average hourly earnings of respondents. The regression model 

that takes into account available establishment characteristics is used to derive the rate of change in the average 

hourly earnings. 

 Establishments that were determined to be out of business or outside the scope of the survey had their weights 

changed to zero. 

Estimation

The wage series in the tables are computed by combining 

the wages for each sampled occupation. Before being 

combined, individual wage rates are weighted by the number of workers; the sample weight, adjusted for nonresponding establishments and other factors; and the occupation’s scheduled hours of work. The sample weight reflects 

the inverse of each unit’s probability of selection at each 

sample selection stage and four weight adjustment factors. 

The first factor adjusts for establishment nonresponse and 

the second factor adjusts for occupational nonresponse. 

The third factor adjusts for any special situations that may 

have occurred during data collection. The fourth factor, 

post-stratification, also called benchmarking, is introduced 

to adjust estimated employment totals to the current counts 

of employment by industry. The latest available employment counts were used to derive average hourly earnings in 

this publication. 

 Not all calculated series met the criteria for publication. 

Before any series was published, it was reviewed to make 

sure that the number of observations underlying it was sufficient. This review prevented the publication of a series 

that could have revealed information about a specific establishment. 

 Estimates of the number of workers represent the total 

in all establishments within the scope of the study, and not 

the number actually surveyed. Because occupational structures among establishments differ, estimates of the number 

of workers obtained from the sample of establishments 

serve to indicate only the relative importance of the occupational groups studied. 

Percentiles

The percentiles presented in tables 6 through 10 are computed using earnings reported for individual workers in 

sampled establishment jobs and their scheduled hours of 

work. Establishments in the survey may report only individual-worker earnings for each sampled job. For the calculation of percentile estimates, the individual-worker 

hourly earnings are appropriately weighted and then arrayed from lowest to highest. 

 The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution within 

each published occupation. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the 

rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the 

rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours 

are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 

75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more 

than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow 

the same logic. 

Data reliability

The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically 

selected probability sample. There are two types of errors 

possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling 

and nonsampling. 

 Sampling errors occur because observations come only 

from a sample and not from an entire population. The 

sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible 

samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different 

samples would differ from each other. 

 A measure of the variation among these differing estimates is called the standard error or sampling error. It indicates the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible 

samples. The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard 

error divided by the estimate. RSE data are provided 

alongside the earnings data in the bulletin tables. 

 The standard error can be used to calculate a “confidence interval” around a sample estimate. As an example, 

suppose a table shows that mean hourly earnings for all 

workers were $17.75, with a relative standard error of 1.0 

percent for this estimate. At the 90-percent level, the confidence interval for this estimate is from $17.46 to $18.04 

($17.75 minus and plus $0.29, where $0.29 is the product 

of 1.645 times 1.0 percent times $17.75). If all possible 

samples were selected to estimate the population value, the 

interval from each sample would include the true population value approximately 90 percent of the time. 

 Nonsampling errors also affect survey results. They 

can stem from many sources, such as inability to obtain information for some establishments, difficulties with survey 

definitions, inability of the respondents to provide correct 

information, or mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained. Although they were not specifically measured, the 

nonsampling errors were expected to be minimal due to the 

extensive training of the field economists who gathered the 

survey data, computer edits, and detailed data review. 
Appendix table 1. Number of workers1 represented by the survey, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Occupational group2 Civilian

workers

Private

industry

workers

State and

local

government

workers

All workers .................................................................... 2,213,600 1,913,700 299,900

Management, professional, and related ..................... 632,200 470,200 162,000

Management, business, and financial .................... 212,000 190,700 21,400

Professional and related ......................................... 420,100 279,500 140,600

Service ........................................................................ 394,000 321,200 72,800

Sales and office .......................................................... 647,500 617,400 30,100

Sales and related .................................................... 249,800 249,800 –

Office and administrative support ........................... 397,700 367,500 30,100

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance .... 179,200 164,100 15,000

Construction and extraction ................................... 83,700 75,100 8,700

Installation, maintenance, and repair ...................... 95,400 89,100 6,400

Production, transportation, and material moving ........ 360,700 340,700 20,000

Production .............................................................. 126,200 125,500 –

Transportation and material moving ....................... 234,500 215,300 19,200

1 The number of workers represented by the

survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of

the number of workers provide a description of size

and composition of the labor force included in the

survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for

comparison to other statistical series to measure

employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the

2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)

system. See appendix B for more information.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or

that data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National

Compensation Survey.

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Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Atlanta-Sandy

Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2007

Establishments Total Private

industry

State and

local

government

Total in sampling frame1 ................................................ 85,510 83,370 2,140

Total in sample ............................................................... 745 680 65

Responding ............................................................ 382 325 57

Refused or unable to provide data ......................... 233 225 8

Out of business or not in survey scope .................. 130 130 0

1 The list of establishments from which the

survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was

developed from State unemployment insurance

reports and is based on the 2002 North American

Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private

industries, an establishment is usually a single

physical location. For State and local governments,

an establishment is defined as all locations of a

government entity.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or

that data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National

Compensation Survey.

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