NC SM 06/00/2009 Table: Starkville, MS, Summary, March 2009
Table 1. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3),
Starkville, MS, March 2009
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(4) and level
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $20.91 37.3 $20.99 37.8 $15.65 27.2
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.43 8.3 15.43 8.3 � �
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 50.61 25.7 52.43 23.0 � �
Protective service occupations...................................... 13.50 10.5 13.54 10.6 � �
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.52 17.1 15.54 17.1 � �
Level 4 .................................................. 12.57 5.7 12.60 5.9 � �
Level 5 .................................................. 13.90 4.3 � � � �
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.39 24.9 � � � �
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.
Table 2. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Starkville, MS, March 2009
Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90
50
All workers........................................................... $8.98 $10.69 $16.35 $21.15 $38.85
Community and social services occupations........................... 12.50 12.50 17.31 17.31 17.82
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.70 26.68 57.67 72.63 74.73
Protective service occupations...................................... 9.91 10.45 12.79 14.33 20.64
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.69 12.05 12.05 19.06 23.20
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 10.45 10.45 10.45 19.06 19.06
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.
Table 3. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours,
Starkville, MS, March 2009
Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5)
Occupation(2)
Mean Mean
Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual
hours hours
All workers........................................................... $20.99 $16.45 $842 $670 40.1 $41,260 $35,000 1,965
Community and social services occupations........................... 15.43 17.31 617 692 40.0 32,087 36,001 2,080
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 52.43 57.67 2,096 2,307 40.0 80,508 89,967 1,536
Protective service occupations...................................... 13.54 12.79 643 614 47.5 33,420 31,944 2,468
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.54 12.05 621 482 40.0 32,317 25,058 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.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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