> At 03:35 PM 11/2/2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >john taylor wrote:
> >
> >>What are you guys smoking? Skilled trades at max
> >>seniority and overtime can't make that much in a year.
> >> I topped out in production at $45,000 (with
> >>overtime)! And I thought I was making it good!
> >
> >According to the BLS, the average weekly wage for a production
> worker in
> >automobiles & light trucks was $1,305.32 in August, which works
> out to
> >$65,000 a year. That included 6.2 hours of overtime.
>
> what's the median?
See "May 2004 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and
Wage Estimates, NAICS 336000 - Transportation Equipment
Manufacturing, Production Occupations": <http://www.bls.gov/oes/
current/naics3_336000.htm#b51-0000>. The estimate of the median
hourly wage for production occupations in this industrial sector in
2004 was $16.17 and that of the mean annual wage was $36,420. Why so
much difference between this estimate from 2004 and the figure that
Doug cites from this year (which can't be accounted for by COLA, etc.)?
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