BLS National Compensation Survey

Full-time and part-time1 workers: Mean hourly earnings2
for major occupational groups

Table 2

Full-time

Occupational group3

All workers .......................
Management,
professional, and
related ..........................
Management,
business, and
financial ...................
Professional and
related ......................
Service ...........................
Sales and office ..............
Sales and related ........
Office and
administrative
support .....................
Natural resources,
construction, and
maintenance .................
Construction and
extraction .................
Installation,
maintenance, and
repair ........................
Production,
transportation, and
material moving ...........
Production ..................
Transportation and
material moving .......

Part-time

Civilian
workers

Private
industry
workers

State and
local
government
workers

Civilian
workers

Private
industry
workers

State and
local
government
workers

$22.77

$22.02

$26.75

$12.10

$11.78

$16.39

35.02

35.50

33.61

26.63

27.79

22.19

38.87

39.48

35.39

35.01

35.75

30.86

33.16
13.62
17.59
19.97

33.14
11.69
17.57
19.99

33.19
20.10
17.75
17.80

25.96
8.81
10.66
9.39

27.10
8.65
10.59
9.38

21.70
11.67
12.49
10.60

16.57

16.38

17.74

12.27

12.24

12.67

21.39

21.42

21.14

13.97

13.99

13.81

21.29

21.41

20.26

14.91

15.13

13.29

21.61

21.54

22.18

13.98

14.10

12.55

16.53
16.48

16.40
16.39

20.14
21.68

10.94
10.73

10.73
10.69

15.17
22.09

16.58

16.41

19.59

11.00

10.75

15.07

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 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are
premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips.
The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number

of workers, weighted by hours.
3 The NCS uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification coding structure,
which defines more than 800 unique occupations, to match jobs sampled by the
survey. Military occupations are excluded from the survey.
NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY
All United States

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December 2009 - January 2011