Area Wage Survey: Omaha, Nebraska, Iowa, Metropolitan Area
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/ ®? « 'S ; Area " Omaha, Nebraska Iowa, Wage Metropolitan Area Survey October 1979 U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 2050-51 A# Pottawattamie j r & > c V s v V >kO rfS9 ^ Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Preface This bulletin provides results of an October 1979 survey of occu pational earnings in the Omaha, Nebraska—Iowa, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The survey was made as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual area wage survey program. It was conducted by the Bureau's regional office in Kansas City, Mo., under the general direction of Edward Chaiken, Assistant Regional Commissioner for Operations. The survey could not have been accomplished without the cooperation of the many firms whose wage and salary data provided the basis for the statistical information in this bulletin. The Bureau wishes to express sincere appreciation for the cooperation received. Material in this publication is in the public domain and may be reproduced without permission of the Federal Government. Please credit the Bureau of Labor Statistics and cite the name and number of this publication. Note: A current report on occupational earnings in the Omaha area is available for the moving and storage (October 1979) industry. Also available are listings of union wage rates for building trades, printing trades, local-transit operating employees, local truckdrivers and helpers, and grocery store employees. Free copies of these are available from the Bureau's regional offices. (See back cover for addresses.) Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Area Omaha, Nebraska-lowa, Wage Metropolitan Area Survey October 1979 U.S. Department of Labor C o n te n ts P a g e P ag e Ray Marshall, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner January 1980 Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Appendix A. Scope and method of survey_________15 Appendix B. Occupational descriptions___________ 18 Bulletin 2050-51 Tables: Earnings, all establishments: A -l . Weekly earnings of office workers______ 3 A -2. Weekly earnings of professional and technical workers__________________ 5 A -3. Average weekly earnings of office, professional, and technical workers, by sex______________ 6 A -4. Hourly earnings of maintenance, toolroom, and powerplant A -5. Hourly earnings of material movement and custodial workers_____ 8 A -6. Average hourly earnings of maintenance, toolroom, power- plant, material movement, and custodial workers, by s e x _____________ 10 A -7. Percent increases in average hourly earnings for selected occupational groups_____________________11 A -8. Average pay relationships within establishments for white-collar workers________________ 12 A -9. Average pay relationships within establishments for blue-collar workers________________ 13 For sale by the Superintendent of Docu ments U S Government Printing Office. Washington D C 20402 GPO Bookstores or BLS Regional Offices listed on back cover DigitizedPrice $1for 50 FRASER Make checks payable to Super intendent of Documents http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Introduction This area is 1 of 72 in which the U.S. Department of Labor's manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries. The occupations are defined Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts surveys of occupational earnings and in Appendix B. For the 31 largest survey areas, tables A -10 through A -15 related benefits. (See list of areas on inside back cover.) In each area, provide similar data for establishments employing 500 workers or more. earnings data for selected occupations (A-series tables) are collected annually. Information on establishment practices and supplementary wage Table A-7 provides percent changes in average hourly earnings benefits (B-series tables) is obtained every third year. This report has of office clerical workers, electronic data processing workers, industrial no B-series tables. nurses, skilled maintenance trades workers, and unskilled plant workers. Where possible, data are presented for all industries and for manufac Each year after all individual area wage surveys have been com turing and nonmanufacturing separately. Data are not presented for skilled pleted, two summary bulletins are issued. The first brings together data maintenance workers in nonmanufacturing because the number of workers for each metropolitan area surveyed; the second presents national and employed in this occupational group in nonmanufacturing is too small to regional estimates, projected from individual metropolitan area data, for warrant separate presentation. This table provides a measure of wage all Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States, excluding trends after elimination of changes in average earnings caused by employ Alaska and Hawaii. ment shifts among establishments as well as turnover of establishments included in survey samples. For further details, see appendix A. A major consideration in the area wage survey program is the need to describe the level and movement of wages in a variety of labor markets, Tables A-8 and A-9 provide for the first time measures of average through the analysis of (1) the level and distribution of wages by occupation, pay relationships within establishments. These measures may differ con and (2) the movement of wages by occupational category and skill level. The siderably from the pay relationships of overall averages published in tables program develops information that may be used for many purposes, including A -l through A-6. See appendix A for details. wage and salary administration, collective bargaining, and assistance in determining plant location. Survey results also are used by the U.S. Depart ment of Labor to make wage determinations under the Service Contract Act Appendixes of 1965. Appendix A describes the methods and concepts used in the area A-series tables wage survey program and provides information on the scope of the survey. Tables A -l through A-6 provide estimates of straight-time weekly Appendix B provides job descriptions used by Bureau field re or hourly earnings for workers in occupations common to a variety of presentatives to classify workers by occupation. Digitized for FRASER 2 http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis E arn in g s Table A-1. Weekly earnings of office workers, Omaha, Nebr. —Iowa, October 1979 Weekly earnings * (standard) NUMBER OF UORKERS RECEIVING STRAIGHT -TIME WEEKLY EARNINGS (TN DOLLARS) OF — Number Average weekly Occupation and industry division of 1 1 5 120 125 1 3 0 140 150 160 170 180 193 2 00 220 280 260 280 300 320 380 360 380 workers hours * UNDER AND AND (standard) Mean 2 Median 2 Middle range 2 115 UNDER OVER 120 125 130 180 150 160 170 180 190 200 2 20 240 260 280 300 320 380 360 3 80 _ _ _ SECRETARIES......................................................................... 951 3 9 .5 * 2 2 8 .5 0 * 2 1 8 .0 0 * 1 8 8 . 0 0 - * 2 5 3 .5 0 _ 6 23 23 58 66 127 63 1 50 109 106 85 86 36 28 81 28 7 manufacturing .......................................................... 236 3 9 .5 2 3 7 .0 0 2 1 7 .5 0 1 8 8 . 0 0 - 2 8 8 .0 0 - - 1 5 8 10 28 26 18 32 33 11 8 19 3 9 21 10 2 NONMANUFACTURING................................................ 715 3 9 .5 2 2 6 .0 0 2 1 3 .7 0 1 8 8 . 5 0 - 2 5 3 .0 0 - - - - 5 15 15 88 82 101 89 118 76 95 37 27 33 15 20 14 5 PIJRLIC U T IL IT IE S .......................................... 199 AO.O 265.-30 2 5 3 .3 0 2 1 6 . 0 0 - 3 0 6 .0 0 - - - 1 6 13 5 30 21 38 9 28 25 2 13 i i 5 SECRETARIES* c l a s s a ....................................... 132 3 9 .5 2 8 6 .5 0 2 8 8 .5 0 2 2 1 . 0 0 - 3 5 3 .0 0 - - - - - - - _ 2 _ 8 15 11 5 9 9 6 7 10 14 6 NONMANUFACTURING................................................ 84 3 9 .5 2 9 1 .5 0 2 8 8 .5 0 2 3 3 . 5 0 - 3 5 3 . 00 - - - ~ - - 2 - 5 12 8 4 9 4 5 7 10 13 5 PUBLIC UTILITIES .......................................... 32 AO.O 3 A 1 .0 0 3 5 6 .0 0 3 1 6 . 5 0 - 36 8. 33 “ “ - “ “ 2 - - - 3 4 2 6 10 *5 secretaries * c l a s s b ....................................... 252 3 9 .5 2 3 2 .5 0 2 2 8 .0 0 1 9 3 . 5 0 - 2 5 3 . 00 - _ - - - _ - 9 6 33 21 50 35 85 17 11 9 6 2 7 1 manufacturing .......................................................... 61 3 9 .5 2 A 2 . 50 2 2 1 .5 0 2 0 0 . 0 0 - 25 5. 00 - - - - - - - - - 8 4 17 14 4 2 2 2 - - 7 1 N0M*ANUF ACTURING................................................ 191 3 9 . 0 2 2 9 .0 0 2 2 6 .3 0 1 9 2 . o n - 2 5 3 .0 0 “ 9 6 25 17 33 21 81 15 9 7 6 2 - - SECRFTAPIES. c l a s s c ....................................... 325 3 9 .5 2 2 8 .5 0 2 1 3 .0 0 1 8 0 . 0 0 - 2 6 0 .0 0 - - _ - - 6 11 30 28 58 19 30 31 38 15 13 20 2 29 3 _ MANUFACTURING.................................................... 87 AO.O 2 3 A . 50 2 0 7 .5 0 ' 1 7 5 . 5 3 - 3 8 6 . 50 - - - 5 8 8 8 8 3 6 12 4 2 - - - 21 2 - NONMANUFACTURING................................................ 23B 3 9 . 0 2 2 6 .3 0 2 1 3 .0 0 1 8 2 . 5 0 - 2 5 8 .0 3 - - - - - 1 3 22 16 86 16 28 19 38 13 13 20 2 8 1 _ PUBLIC U T IL IT IE S .........................................