Article: Web site makes finding labor statistics easy.

By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 13--Aided by a laptop computer and the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web site, Tami Harney conducted a search Thursday morning for the average hourly wage level for registered nurses in the Oklahoma City area.

Harney filled in requested information on a query page at www.bls.gov, clicked the mouse and onto the screen popped the answer: $21.79.

Harney's mission was accomplished, but it wasn't just to show her audience that average pay for registered nurses in the Oklahoma City area had risen by $1.60 per hour from February 2003 to February 2004.

Harney was ...

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