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Portland Occupational Compensation
Survey-May 1993
The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
U S . Department of Labor, reported
the results of the new Occupational
Compensation Suncy Pay Only for
the Portland Oregon Metropolitan area
(including Clackamas, Multnomah.
W ashington, and Yamhill counties).
R e g io n a l c o m m issio n e r Sam
H irabayashi stud that this survey,
w hich replaces the earlier Portland
area survey, prov ides information on
pay for selected professional, admin­
istrative support, and state and local
government occupations for the first
time. While the survey continues to
cover maintenance, material move­
ment, technical and clerical occupa­
tions, pay information is expanded to
such professional occupations as at­
torneys, accountants engineers, and
protectiv c sen ice occupations, includ­
ing police offices and firefighters (Pay
data released in this su n ey for profes­
sional occupations are limited to em ­
ployees of State and local govern­
ments.) Data scheduled for release in
January 1994 will provide informa­
tion on pay for private sector profes­
sional occupations as well as data on
supplementary benefits in the Port­
land area
Priv ate Sector
Average (mean) weekly earnings
for office clerical workers in the Port­
land area ranged front a low of $266
for Level 11 General Clerks to $606 for
top level (Level V) Secretaries. The
survey also included various profes-
sional. technical, and data processing
occupations including programmers,
sy stems analy sts. and electronic tech­
nicians. Within these occupations, the
highest average pay went to Computer
systems Analysts 11 employed in the
transportation and utilities sector at
an average $970 a week At the lower
end of tins occupational grouping were
Level 11 Drafters in manufacturing
who averaged $421 a week For hourly
workers, average pay ranged from
$6.33 an hour for Janitors in the ser­
vice producing sector to $16.65 an
hour for Tool and Die Makers
Public Sector
Average weekly pay for workers
em p lo y ed by S tate an d local
governments in professional occupa­
tions ranged from $550 a week for
Level II A ccountants to $1,078
for Level V Engineers Pay for cleri­
cal, adm inistrative, and technical
o c c u p a tio n s ran g ed from an
average $318 a week for Level 11
G eneral C lerks to $770 a week
for Level II C om puter System s
Analy sts. In the protectiv e service oc­
cupations. Corrections Officers aver­
aged $598 a week, firefighters $740 a
week, and Uniformed Police Offices
$698 a week at Level I and $732 at
Level II.
For hourly employees employed
by State and local governments, pay
ranged from an average $8 84 an hour
for Janitors to $17.52 an hour for
Maintenance Electricians.
Scope And Notes
This release summarizes the re­
sults of the May 1992 survey of 218
establishments in the Portland area
employing 148.888 workers. These
establishments were selected to repre­
sent 1,382 establishments with about
328.OOU employees
The expanded format of the Oc­
cupational Compensation Survey was
required to provide data for imple­
mentation of The Federal Employ ees
Pay Comparability Act of 1990. The
Act mandates that future pay adjust­
ment for most Federal white-collar
employees be determined on local
rather than national basis. This re­
quirement resulted in much wider in­
dustrial coverage that now includes
all private nonfarm establishments
(except households) employing 50
workers or more, as well as State and
local governments.
Availability
A limited number of complimen­
tary copies of the May 1992 Occupa­
tional Com pensation Survey: Pay
Only, Portland, O regon (B ulletin
Number 3065-46) are available from
the BLS San Francisco Regional Of­
fice (415-744-6600). The survey may
also be purchased for $3.75 from the
BLS Publication Sales Center in Chi­
cago. Telephone purchase orders us­
ing a major credit card may be place to
the Chicago Sales Office between the
hours of 8am and 4:30pm CDST (312-
353-0614).
Town Hall
Local Organization Database Now
School: Preparing
_ Available At Multnomah County
Kids For Jobs Or Lifo?
Library; Contains Over 6,000 Listings
Many of today’s teens can’t fill
If you’d like information about
local organizations — from support
groups for families of Alzheimer's
patients to meeting times for square
dancer groups — that information is
now av ailable on DYN A. Multnomah
County Library’s public access termi­
nals.
Meeting dates and times, mem­
bership information, mission) state­
ments and lists of special serv ices for
more than 6,000 organizations are
now listed on LINC Local Informa­
tion Connection). Users reach the
database by selecting nether searches
at the main search menu, then select­
ing the community resources" option
“You can use LINC for market­
ing, networking and job searches or
for purely social and recreational pur­
poses,” says Ginnie Cooper. Director
of Libraries, people new to the area
will find it a great way to get ac­
quainted with their neighborhood.”
If you'd like to list your organiza­
tion in the database, call the Literature
and History Section of Central Li­
brary (248-5123) to request a form
Listed organizations must be non­
profit.
out a simple job application Employ­
ers are forming experimental partner­
ships with schools to prepare kids for
the working world But some people
say schools should prepare youths for
life, not work Watch as Town Hall
explores the connection between edu­
cation and work. (June 13-KATU 2)
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