National Compensation Survey Wages and Salaries: Nevada, July 1997

摘要

This survey of wages and salaries was collected using the methodology of a new Bureau of Labor Statistics program called the National Compensation Survey (NCS). NCS integrates the Occupational Compensation Survey (OCS) program, which has been discontinued. Beginning in the spring of 1996, pilot studies (under the name COMP2000) in six metropolitan areas were conducted to test various procedures of the new program. Wage data were collected based on a new method of classifying occupations and levels of work within those occupations. Following the tests, a new area-based sample covering the Nation as a whole was put into place. The larger metropolitan area collections will yield bulletins, similar to this one. Statistics for smaller areas may be released in summary form, if the data support publication. NCS will also yield national statistics, plus data for the nine geographic regions used in the Census of Population, once collection for all areas is completed. In addition, a number of areas, such as this one, are being surveyed at the request of the Employment Standards Administration.