Findings from municipal government wage surveys conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are presented. Pay comparisons tend to show city clerical workers earning more, and skilled maintenance workers less, than their industry and Federal counterparts. Among 24 cities, no consistent pay leader emerged for 19 occupations studied. (Editor/TA)

This report presents 1983 annual average weekly earnings of wage and salary workers (both men and women) who usually work full time (excluding the "incorporated self-employed") in more than 200 occupations, according to the classification system developed for the 1980 Census of Population. (Author)