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Article: Occupational pay in structural clay products industries.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1988
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Occupational pay in structural clay products industries
According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey, hourly earnings of production workers in structural clay products industries averaged $7.41 in October 1986, up from $5.86 in September 1980..sup.1 This represents an increase of 4.0 percent, on an annual average basis, and compares with an increase of 5.2 percent a year in the Bureau's Employment Cost Index for durable goods manufacturing industries.
Average hourly earnings in October 1986 varied considerably among the seven regions for which separate data are available, ranging from $6.24 in the Southwest to $9.43 in the Middle West. In the ...