U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics| For release: Monday, December 6, 2010 | |
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Workers in the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe Combined Statistical Area earned an average of $20.54 per hour in March 2010, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Regional Commissioner Charlene Peiffer noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $28.13 for business and financial operations occupations and $20.12 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $15.77. The NCS data available for the Columbus–Marion–Chillicothe area include earnings for 20 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)
Claims, adjusters, examiners, and investigators, part of the business and financial operations occupational group, earned $22.66 per hour. Within the installation, maintenance, and repair occupational group, automotive service technicians and mechanics earned $15.56. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, averaged $16.78 per hour, and tellers earned $11.30 per hour. (See table 1.)
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $22.31 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $10.91. Union workers earned $28.06 and non-union workers, $18.96. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $16.42 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $19.32, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $26.75.
The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant location, 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/home.htm.
The NCS data reported here covered 319 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 925,100 workers in the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Knox, Licking, Madison, Marion, Morrow, Pickaway, Ross, and Union Counties in Ohio.
Survey Availability
Complete survey results are contained in the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH National Compensation Survey March 2010 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.
For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Midwest Information Office in Chicago at (312) 353-1880 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
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| Occupation (3) | Total | Full-time workers | Part-time workers | |||
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| Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | Mean | Relative error (4) (percent) | |
All workers |
$20.54 | 3.9 | $22.31 | 4.3 | $10.91 | 3.9 |
Management occupations |
38.07 | 10.6 | 38.71 | 11.0 | -- | -- |
Administrative services managers |
35.71 | 12.9 | 35.71 | 12.9 | -- | -- |
Financial managers |
42.52 | 28.5 | 42.52 | 28.5 | -- | -- |
Business and financial operations occupations |
28.13 | 8.2 | 28.21 | 8.3 | -- | -- |
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators |
22.66 | 1.8 | 22.66 | 1.8 | -- | -- |
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators |
22.66 | 1.8 | 22.66 | 1.8 | -- | -- |
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists |
30.21 | 5.1 | 30.21 | 5.1 | -- | -- |
Accountants and auditors |
20.69 | 8.4 | 20.69 | 8.4 | -- | -- |
Computer and mathematical science occupations |
30.63 | 4.7 | 30.63 | 4.7 | -- | -- |
Network and computer systems administrators |
30.18 | 8.0 | 30.18 | 8.0 | -- | -- |
Architecture and engineering occupations |
26.02 | 5.6 | 26.02 | 5.6 | -- | -- |
Engineers |
29.59 | 10.3 | 29.59 | 10.3 | -- | -- |
Life, physical, and social science occupations |
34.14 | 10.1 | 33.13 | 10.3 | -- | -- |
Community and social services occupations |
18.74 | 5.2 | 18.81 | 5.2 | -- | -- |
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists |
17.93 | 10.6 | 17.93 | 10.6 | -- | -- |
Education, training, and library occupations |
37.22 | 13.9 | 38.80 | 12.1 | 16.46 | 28.4 |
Postsecondary teachers |
59.08 | 9.7 | 60.51 | 9.3 | -- | -- |
Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary |
36.31 | 11.9 | 37.07 | 12.2 | -- | -- |
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers |
35.28 | 15.7 | 36.15 | 14.8 | -- | -- |
Elementary and middle school teachers |
44.47 | 0.8 | 44.47 | 0.8 | -- | -- |
Elementary school teachers, except special education |
44.35 | 1.5 | 44.36 | 1.5 | -- | -- |
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education |
44.66 | 3.9 | 44.66 | 3.9 | -- | -- |
Secondary school teachers |
37.96 | 12.6 | 40.29 | 7.2 | -- | -- |
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education |
38.11 | 5.2 | 38.11 | 5.2 | -- | -- |
Special education teachers |
39.52 | 4.5 | 38.90 | 4.9 | -- | -- |
Teacher assistants |
11.29 | 14.4 | 12.77 | 12.0 | -- | -- |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations |
20.15 | 7.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations |
28.47 | 5.7 | 28.43 | 6.6 | 28.74 | 6.7 |
Registered nurses |
28.80 | 2.2 | 28.92 | 2.1 | 27.94 | 7.1 |
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians |
21.51 | 5.7 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses |
20.79 | 4.9 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Healthcare support occupations |
11.04 | 8.2 | 11.09 | 10.3 | 10.91 | 4.9 |
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides |
10.77 | 9.1 | 10.87 | 10.3 | 10.40 | 7.1 |
Home health aides |
9.48 | 0.3 | 9.56 | 0.8 | -- | -- |
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants |
11.64 | 2.2 | 11.76 | 3.3 | 11.28 | 1.0 |
Protective service occupations |
20.16 | 5.3 | 20.66 | 4.7 | -- | -- |
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers |
18.16 | 3.5 | 18.16 | 3.5 | -- | -- |
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers |
12.42 | 7.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Security guards |
12.42 | 7.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Food preparation and serving related occupations |
8.99 | 4.0 | 10.81 | 16.0 | 7.72 | 3.8 |
Cooks |
12.25 | 11.9 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Food service, tipped |
5.33 | 13.8 | -- | -- | 6.12 | 13.3 |
Waiters and waitresses |
4.20 | 1.3 | -- | -- | 4.87 | 14.4 |
Fast food and counter workers |
8.19 | 5.7 | 9.23 | 3.4 | 7.82 | 3.5 |
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food |
8.20 | 5.9 | 9.34 | 4.2 | 7.82 | 3.5 |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations |
13.27 | 6.1 | 13.64 | 6.5 | 12.54 | 17.2 |
Building cleaning workers |
13.09 | 8.8 | 13.12 | 10.4 | 13.03 | 18.0 |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
12.44 | 12.7 | 13.90 | 14.2 | 9.36 | 4.2 |
Maids and housekeeping cleaners |
14.12 | 22.6 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Personal care and service occupations |
12.43 | 12.0 | 16.79 | 3.4 | 9.15 | 8.5 |
Recreation and fitness workers |
15.30 | 10.5 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Sales and related occupations |
15.58 | 8.0 | 20.87 | 11.5 | 8.31 | 0.2 |
Retail sales workers |
12.93 | 15.4 | 18.12 | 23.5 | 8.20 | 1.4 |
Cashiers, all workers |
9.81 | 8.0 | -- | -- | 8.08 | 4.9 |
Cashiers |
9.81 | 8.0 | -- | -- | 8.08 | 4.9 |
Retail salespersons |
13.11 | 20.5 | 19.68 | 26.6 | 8.08 | 5.1 |
Office and administrative support occupations |
15.77 | 3.3 | 16.31 | 2.7 | 10.82 | 3.5 |
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers |
18.46 | 6.4 | 18.46 | 6.4 | -- | -- |
Financial clerks |
14.91 | 7.6 | 15.25 | 6.3 | -- | -- |
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks |
16.78 | 4.9 | 17.04 | 4.5 | -- | -- |
Tellers |
11.30 | 2.6 | 11.29 | 2.9 | -- | -- |
Customer service representatives |
16.08 | 4.6 | 16.39 | 4.0 | -- | -- |
Stock clerks and order fillers |
11.24 | 1.8 | 12.80 | 4.3 | 9.18 | 2.6 |
Secretaries and administrative assistants |
19.66 | 4.2 | 19.68 | 4.2 | -- | -- |
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants |
21.64 | 5.3 | 21.64 | 5.3 | -- | -- |
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive |
16.81 | 3.5 | 16.85 | 3.5 | -- | -- |
Data entry and information processing workers |
12.43 | 3.7 | 12.43 | 3.7 | -- | -- |
Office clerks, general |
16.94 | 5.6 | 17.05 | 5.7 | -- | -- |
Construction and extraction occupations |
23.98 | 4.6 | 24.02 | 4.7 | -- | -- |
Carpenters |
20.33 | 1.4 | 20.33 | 1.4 | -- | -- |
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations |
20.12 | 4.7 | 20.30 | 5.0 | -- | -- |
Automotive technicians and repairers |
15.56 | 7.0 | 15.56 | 7.0 | -- | -- |
Automotive service technicians and mechanics |
15.56 | 7.0 | 15.56 | 7.0 | -- | -- |
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers |
19.95 | 8.9 | 20.26 | 8.8 | -- | -- |
Industrial machinery mechanics |
24.31 | 0.7 | 24.31 | 0.7 | -- | -- |
Maintenance and repair workers, general |
18.20 | 16.2 | 18.71 | 16.4 | -- | -- |
Production occupations |
16.18 | 3.6 | 16.26 | 3.5 | -- | -- |
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators |
17.02 | 8.3 | 17.02 | 8.3 | -- | -- |
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers |
13.38 | 11.5 | 13.38 | 11.5 | -- | -- |
Transportation and material moving occupations |
20.60 | 22.9 | 23.16 | 28.1 | 10.08 | 11.7 |
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers |
19.56 | 8.3 | 19.88 | 8.0 | -- | -- |
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer |
22.60 | 5.0 | 22.60 | 5.0 | -- | -- |
Industrial truck and tractor operators |
16.09 | 8.2 | 16.09 | 8.2 | -- | -- |
Laborers and material movers, hand |
11.65 | 4.2 | 12.45 | 5.6 | 10.05 | 11.5 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
11.93 | 6.7 | 13.55 | 11.7 | 10.10 | 12.4 |
Packers and packagers, hand |
11.03 | 8.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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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. |
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Last Modified Date: December 6, 2010