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Highlights of York-Hanover National Compensation Survey - September 2009 (PDF)

Workers in the York-Hanover metropolitan area earned an average of $18.22 per hour in September 2009 according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $31.41 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $14.49 for office and administrative support occupations. Another occupational group, transportation and material moving, had a mean hourly wage of $13.54. The NCS data available for the York-Hanover area include earnings for 17 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)

Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, earned $30.81 per hour, and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses averaged $18.88. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, earned $15.38 per hour and tellers, $12.93 per hour. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer, part of the transportation and material moving occupational group, earned $16.51 per hour and laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand, $12.81.

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $19.89 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $9.54. Union workers earned $23.95 and non-union workers, $17.32. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.64 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $17.80, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $22.83.

The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/.

The NCS data reported here covered 169 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 161,200 workers in the York-Hanover PA, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which consists of York County in Pennsylvania.

Survey Availability

Complete survey results are contained in the York-Hanover PA, National Compensation Survey September 2009 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.

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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), York-Hanover, PA, September 2009
Occupation(3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

 $18.22 4.4 $19.89 4.5 $9.54 4.0

Management occupations

 36.23 5.2 36.23 5.2 – –

Business and financial operations occupations

 24.60 9.2 24.60 9.2 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations

 31.95 6.2 32.97 6.2 – –

Engineers

 38.42 4.4 38.42 4.4 – –

Engineering technicians, except drafters

 27.48 15.1 27.48 15.1 – –

Life, physical, and social science occupations

 22.07 5.3 – – – –

Community and social services occupations

 – – 22.02 20.3 – –

Education, training, and library occupations

 35.99 7.0 36.74 4.5 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

 43.39 4.0 43.39 4.0 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers

 42.62 3.4 42.62 3.4 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 31.41 5.2 32.09 5.1 25.79 12.8

Registered nurses

 30.81 3.6 31.13 4.0 – –

Therapists

 28.78 0.8 – – – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

 18.88 1.2 18.88 1.2 – –

Healthcare support occupations

 10.99 5.7 10.99 6.3 – –

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

 10.81 5.2 10.75 5.1 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

 12.04 2.1 – – – –

Protective service occupations

 14.42 29.7 – – – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations

 7.56 2.4 10.52 2.0 5.78 11.8

Cooks

 9.73 7.8 – – – –

Food service, tipped

 2.97 2.0 – – 2.96 2.1

Waiters and waitresses

 2.90 0.5 – – 2.88 0.1

Fast food and counter workers

 8.39 2.8 – – – –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 11.13 10.5 12.74 9.9 – –

Building cleaning workers

 10.50 7.9 11.45 3.4 – –

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

 11.83 4.1 – – – –

Sales and related occupations

 13.89 10.4 18.84 11.1 8.36 1.2

Retail sales workers

 9.51 1.2 12.34 4.7 8.32 1.1

Cashiers, all workers

 8.82 1.5 – – – –

Cashiers

 8.82 1.5 – – – –

Retail salespersons

 10.97 6.3 12.88 0.4 8.90 4.6

Office and administrative support occupations

 14.49 2.3 15.28 3.0 9.19 4.3

Financial clerks

 14.48 4.0 14.55 4.3 – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

 15.38 5.1 15.38 5.1 – –

Tellers

 12.93 2.5 – – – –

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

 14.86 19.4 15.08 19.6 – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants

 17.35 5.8 17.52 6.2 – –

Office clerks, general

 14.86 4.1 15.06 4.3 – –

Construction and extraction occupations

 18.71 13.6 18.71 13.6 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 19.56 6.9 19.64 6.8 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

 19.36 11.0 19.36 11.0 – –

Production occupations

 16.07 7.0 16.12 7.0 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 23.82 11.8 23.82 11.8 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

 16.03 12.0 16.03 12.0 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

 20.61 13.5 20.61 13.5 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

 20.61 13.5 20.61 13.5 – –

Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers

 18.34 21.3 18.34 21.3 – –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

 19.21 14.4 19.71 12.5 – –

Miscellaneous production workers

 11.74 23.3 11.79 23.5 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations

 13.54 9.1 14.32 8.3 9.57 11.0

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

 15.28 8.7 15.28 8.7 – –

Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

 16.51 7.7 16.51 7.7 – –

Industrial truck and tractor operators

 18.25 10.4 – – – –

Laborers and material movers, hand

 12.24 8.0 13.16 6.8 8.94 10.6

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

 12.81 9.8 – – – –

Packers and packagers, hand

 11.45 11.4 12.13 12.9 – –

Footnotes:
(1) Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
(2) Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
(3) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
(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.

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.

Last Modified Date: June 30, 2010