Prices and Wages by Decade: 1980-1989

EARNINGS by SEX, 1980s

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER EARNINGS BY OCCUPATION AND SEX, 1980

Mean hourly and annual earnings reported in the 1980 Census, Special Report: Earnings by Occupation and Education.  The Census Bureau also has a digitized copy of this volume available on its website.

• Experienced civilian labor force
• Executive, managerial and administrative occupations
• Executive and administrative occupations
  • Includes legislators, chief executives, general administrators, administrators, protective services; financial, personnel and labor relations, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and public relations managers; education and health administrators, property and real estate managers; postmasters and mail superintendents; and funeral directors.
• Management related occupations
  • Includes accountants; auditors; financial officers; management analysts; personnel, training, and labor relations specialists; buyers and purchasing agents; business and promotion agents; and inspectors and compliance officers, including construction.
• Professional specialty occupations
• Engineers, architects and surveyors
  • Includes architects, aerospace, metallurgical, mining, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, civil, agricultural, electrical and electronic, industrial, mechanical, and marine engineers, naval architects, surveyors, and mapping scientists.
• Mathematical and computer scientists
  • Includes computer systems analysts; operations and systems researchers and analysts; actuaries, mathematicians, and statisticians.
• Natural scientists
  • Includes physicists, geologists, and chemists, except biochemists; and atmospheric, space, agricultural, biological, forestry, conservation, and medical scientists.
• Health diagnosing occupations
  • Includes physicians, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, and podiatrists.
• Health assessment and treating occupations
  • Includes registered nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, and physicians' assistants.
• Teachers, post-secondary
• Teachers, except post-secondary
  • Includes pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers, but excludes principals and supervisors.
• Librarians, archivists and curators
• Social scientists and urban planners
  • Includes economists, psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
• Social, recreation and religious workers
• Lawyers and judges
• Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes
  • Includes authors, technical writers, designers, musicians and composers, actors and directors, painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist print makers, photographers, dancers, editors and reporters, public relations specialists, announcers, and athletes.
• Technical, sales and administrative support occupations
• Health technologists and technicians
  • Includes clinical laboratory, health record, and radiologic technicians, dental hygienists; and licensed practical nurses.
• Engineering and related technologists and technicians
  • Includes electrical, electronic, industrial and mechanical engineering, and survey and mapping technicians; and drafting occupations.
• Science technicians
• Technicians, except health, engineering and science
  • Includes airplane pilots and navigators; air traffic controllers; broadcast equipment operators; computer programmers; tool programmers, numerical control; and legal assistants.
• Sales occupations
• Sales representatives, finance and business services
  • Includes insurance, real estate, securities, advertising, and other business service sales occupations.
• Sales representatives, commodities, except retail
  • Includes sales engineers and sales representatives, mining, manufacturing and wholesale.
• Sales workers, retail and personal services
  • Includes sales workers, commodities; sales counter clerks, cashiers, street and door-to-door sales workers; and news vendors.
• Sales related occupations
  • Includes demonstrators, promoters, and models; auctioneers, and sales support occupations.
• Administrative support occupations, including clerical
• Supervisors, administrative support occupations
• Computer equipment operators
• Secretaries, stenographers and typists
• Information clerks
  • Includes interviewers, hotel clerks, transportation and reservation agents, and receptionists.
• Records processing occupations, except financial
  • Includes classified ad, correspondence, order, personnel, library, file, and record clerks.
• Financial records processing occupations
  • Includes bookkeepers; accounting, payroll, billing, and cost clerks; and billing and calculating machine operators.
• Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
• Communications equipment operators
  • Includes telephone operators and telegraphers.
• Mail and message distributing occupations
  • Includes postal clerks, mail carriers, mail clerks, and messengers.
• Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks
  • Includes dispatchers; production coordinators; traffic shipping, and receiving clerks; stock and inventory clerks; meter readers; weighers, measurers and checkers; samplers; and expediters.
• Adjusters and investigators
  • Includes adjusters and investigators, eligibility clerks, social welfare; and bill and account collectors.
• Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
  • Includes general office and statistical clerks; book tellers; proofreaders; data-entry keyers; statistical clerks, and teacher's aides.
• Service occupations
• Private household occupations
  • Includes launderers, cooks, housekeepers, child care workers, and household cleaners and servants.
• Supervisors, protective service occupations
• Firefighting and fire prevention occupations
• Police and detectives
  • Includes police and detectives; sheriffs, bailiffs, and correctional institution officers.
• Guards
• Food preparation and service occupations
  • Includes bartenders; cooks; waiters; kitchen, food counter, and fountain workers; and waiters' assistants.
• Health service occupations
  • Includes dental assistants; health and nursing aides; orderlies; and attendants.
• Cleaning and building service occupations, except household
  • Includes maids and housemen, janitors, elevator operators, and pest control occupations.
• Personal service occupations
  • Includes barbers, hairdressers and cosmetologists, recreation and public transportation attendants, guides, ushers, baggage porters, bellhops, welfare service aides, and child care workers.
• Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
• Farm operators and managers
• Farm occupations, except managerial
  • Includes farm, marine life cultivation and nursery workers.
• Related agricultural occupations
  • Includes groundskeepers and gardeners animal caretakers; and graders, sorters and inspectors, agricultural products.
• Forestry and logging occupations
• Fishers, hunters and trappers
• Precision production, craft and repair occupations
• Mechanics and repairers
  • Includes vehicle and mobile equipment, industrial machinery, machinery maintenance, heating, and air conditioning mechanics; electrical and electronic equipment repairers, including telephone and telephone line installers; and camera, watch, musical instrument, office machine, mechanic controls, and valve repairers; locksmiths; elevator installers; and millwrights.
• Construction trades
• Contractive occupations
• Precision metalworking occupations
• Precision woodworking occupations
• Precision textile, apparel and furnishings machine workers
• Precision workers, assorted materials
• Precision food production occupations
• Precision inspectors, tester and related workers
• Plant and system operators
• Operators, fabricators and laborers
• Metalworking and plastic working machine operators
• Metal and plastic processing machine operators
• Woodworking machine operators
• Printing machine operators
• Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators
• Machine operators, assorted materials
• Fabricators, assemblers and hand working occupations
• Motor vehicle operators
• Rail transportation occupations
• Water transportation occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

WHITE PERSONS' EARNINGS BY SEX, 1980

Mean hourly and annual earnings reported in the 1980 Census, Special Report: Earnings by Occupation and Education.  The Census Bureau also has a digitized copy of this volume available on its website.

• Experienced civilian labor force
• Executive, managerial and administrative occupations
• Executive and administrative occupations
  • Includes legislators, chief executives, general administrators, administrators, protective services; financial, personnel and labor relations, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and public relations managers; education and health administrators, property and real estate managers; postmasters and mail superintendents; and funeral directors.
• Management related occupations
  • Includes accountants; auditors; financial officers; management analysts; personnel, training, and labor relations specialist; buyers and purchasing agents; business and promotion agents; and inspectors and compliance officers, including construction.
• Professional specialty occupations
• Engineers, architects and surveyors
  • Includes architects, aerospace, metallurgical, mining, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, civil, agricultural, electrical and electronic, industrial, mechanical, and marine engineers, naval architects, surveyors, and mapping scientists.
• Mathematical and computer scientists
  • Includes computer systems analysts; operations and systems researchers and analysts; actuaries, mathematicians, and statisticians.
• Natural scientists
  • Includes physicists, geologists, and chemists, except biochemists; and atmospheric, space, agricultural, biological, forestry, conservation, and medical scientists.
• Health diagnosing occupations
  • Includes physicians, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, and podiatrists.
• Health assessment and treating occupations
  • Includes registered nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, and physicians' assistants.
• Teachers, post-secondary
• Teachers, except post-secondary
  • lncludes pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers, but excludes principals and supervisors.
• Librarians, archivists and curators
• Social scientists and urban planners
  • Includes economists, psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
• Social, recreation and religious workers
• Lawyers and judges
• Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes
  • Includes authors, technical writers, designers, musicians and composers, actors and directors, painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist print makers, photographers, dancers, editors and reporters, public relations specialists, announcers, and athletes.
• Technical, sales and administrative support occupations
• Health technologists and technicians
  • Includes clinical laboratory, health record, and radiologic technicians, dental hygienists; and licensed practical nurses.
• Engineering and related technologists and technicians
  • Includes electrical, electronic, industrial and mechanical engineering, and survey and mapping technicians; and drafting occupations.
• Science technicians
• Technicians, except health, engineering and science
  • Includes airplane pilots and navigators; air traffic controllers; broadcast equipment operators; computer programmers; tool programmers, numerical control; and legal assistants.
• Sales occupations
• Sales representatives, finance and business services
  • Includes insurance, real estate, securities, advertising, and other business service sales occupations.
• Sales representatives, commodities, except retail
  • Includes sales engineers and sales representatives, mining, manufacturing and wholesale.
• Sales workers, retail and personal services
• Sales related occupations
  • Includes demonstrators, promoters, and models; auctioneers, and sales support occupations.
• Administrative support occupations, including clerical
• Supervisors, administrative support occupations
• Computer equipment operators
• Secretaries, stenographers and typists
• Information clerks
  • Includes interviewers, hotel clerks, transportation and reservation agents, and receptionists.
• Records processing occupations, except financial
  • Includes classified ad, correspondence, order, personnel, library, file, and record clerks.
• Financial records processing occupations
  • Includes bookkeepers; accounting, payroll, billing, and cost clerks; and billing and calculating machine operators.
• Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
• Communications equipment operators
  • Includes telephone operators and telegraphers.
• Mail and message distributing occupations
  • Includes postal clerks, mail carriers, mail clerks, and messengers.
• Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks
  • Includes dispatchers; production coordinators; traffic shipping, and receiving clerks; stock and inventory clerks; meter readers; weighers, measurers and checkers; samplers; and expediters.
• Adjusters and investigators
  • Includes adjusters and investigators, eligibility clerks, social welfare; and bill and account collectors.
• Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
  • Includes general office and statistical clerks; book tellers; proofreaders; data-entry keyers; statistical clerks, and teacher's aides.
• Service occupations
• Private household occupations
  • Includes launderers, cooks, housekeepers, child care workers, and household cleaners and servants.
• Supervisors, protective service occupations
• Firefighting and fire prevention occupations
• Police and detectives
  • Includes police and detectives; sheriffs, bailiffs, and correctional institution officers.
• Guards
• Food preparation and service occupations
  • Includes bartenders; cooks; waiters; kitchen, food counter, and fountain workers; and waiters' assistants.
• Health service occupations
  • Includes dental assistants; health and nursing aides; orderlies; and attendants.
• Cleaning and building service occupations, except household
  • Includes maids and housemen, janitors, elevator operators, and pest control occupations.
• Personal service occupations
  • Includes barbers, hairdressers and cosmetologists, recreation and public transportation attendants, guides, ushers, baggage porters, bellhops, welfare service aides, and child care workers.
• Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
• Farm operators and managers
• Farm occupations, except managerial
  • Includes farm, marine life cultivation and nursery workers.
• Related agricultural occupations
  • Includes groundskeepers and gardeners animal caretakers; and graders, sorters and inspectors, agricultural products.
• Forestry and logging occupations
• Fishers, hunters and trappers
• Precision production, craft and repair occupations
• Mechanics and repairers
  • Includes vehicle and mobile equipment, industrial machinery, machinery maintenance, heating, and air conditioning mechanics; electrical and electronic equipment repairers, including telephone and telephone line installers; and camera, watch, musical instrument, office machine, mechanic controls, and valve repairers; locksmiths; elevator installers; and millwrights.
• Construction trades
  • Includes brickmasons, stonemasons, tile setters, carpet installers, carpenters, drywall installers, electricians, electrical power installers and repairers, painters, paperhangers, plasterers, plumbers, concrete finishers, glaziers, insulation workers, paving equipment operators, roofers, sheetmetal duct installers, structural metal workers, earth drillers, and construction apprentices.
• Extractive occupations
  • Includes oil well drillers, explosives workers, mine and mining machine operators.
• Precision metalworking occupations
  • Includes tool and die makers; precision assemblers and grinders; machinists, boilermakers; pattern and model makers lay-out workers; jewelers; engravers; and sheet metal workers.
• Precision woodworking occupations
• Precision textile, apparel and furnishings machine workers
• Precision workers, assorted materials
• Precision food production occupations
• Precision inspectors, tester and related workers
• Plant and system operators
• Operators, fabricators and laborers
• Metalworking and plastic working machine operators
• Metal and plastic processing machine operators
• Woodworking machine operators
• Printing machine operators
• Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators
• Machine operators, assorted materials
• Fabricators, assemblers and hand working occupations
• Production inspectors, testers, samplers and weighers
• Motor vehicle operators
• Rail transportation occupations
• Water transportation occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

BLACK PERSONS' EARNINGS BY OCCUPATION AND SEX, 1980

Mean hourly and annual earnings reported in the 1980 Census, Special Report: Earnings by Occupation and Education.  The Census Bureau also has a digitized copy of this volume available on its website.

• Experienced civilian labor force
• Executive, managerial and administrative occupations
• Executive and administrative occupations
  • Includes legislators, chief executives, general administrators, administrators, protective services; financial, personnel and labor relations, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and public relations managers; education and health administrators, property and real estate managers; postmasters and mail superintendents; and funeral directors.
• Management related occupations
  • Includes accountants; auditors; financial officers; management analysts; personnel, training, and labor relations specialist; buyers and purchasing agents; business and promotion agents; and inspectors and compliance officers, including construction.
• Professional specialty occupations
• Engineers, architects and surveyors
  • Includes architects, aerospace, metallurgical, mining, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, civil, agricultural, electrical and electronic, industrial, mechanical, and marine engineers, naval architects, surveyors, and mapping scientists.
• Mathematical and computer scientists
  • Includes computer systems analysts; operations and systems researchers and analysts; actuaries, mathematicians, and statisticians.
• Natural scientists
  • Includes physicists, geologists, and chemists, except biochemists; and atmospheric, space, agricultural, biological, forestry, conservation, and medical scientists.
• Health diagnosing occupations
  • Includes physicians, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, and podiatrists.
• Health assessment and treating occupations
  • Includes registered nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, and physicians' assistants.
• Teachers, post-secondary
• Teachers, except post-secondary
  • lncludes pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers, but excludes principals and supervisors.
• Librarians, archivists and curators
• Social scientists and urban planners
  • Includes economists, psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
• Social, recreation and religious workers
• Lawyers and judges
• Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes
  • Includes authors, technical writers, designers, musicians and composers, actors and directors, painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist print makers, photographers, dancers, editors and reporters, public relations specialists, announcers, and athletes.
• Technical, sales and administrative support occupations
• Health technologists and technicians
  • Includes clinical laboratory, health record, and radiologic technicians, dental hygienists; and licensed practical nurses.
• Engineering and related technologists and technicians
  • Includes electrical, electronic, industrial and mechanical engineering, and survey and mapping technicians; and drafting occupations.
• Science technicians
• Technicians, except health, engineering and science
  • Includes airplane pilots and navigators; air traffic controllers; broadcast equipment operators; computer programmers; tool programmers, numerical control; and legal assistants.
• Sales occupations
• Sales representatives, finance and business services
  • Includes insurance, real estate, securities, advertising, and other business service sales occupations.
• Sales representatives, commodities, except retail
  • Includes sales engineers and sales representatives, mining, manufacturing and wholesale.
• Sales workers, retail and personal services
• Sales related occupations
  • Includes demonstrators, promoters, and models; auctioneers, and sales support occupations.
• Administrative support occupations, including clerical
• Supervisors, administrative support occupations
• Computer equipment operators
• Secretaries, stenographers and typists
• Information clerks
  • Includes interviewers, hotel clerks, transportation and reservation agents, and receptionists.
• Records processing occupations, except financial
  • Includes classified ad, correspondence, order, personnel, library, file, and record clerks.
• Financial records processing occupations
  • Includes bookkeepers; accounting, payroll, billing, and cost clerks; and billing and calculating machine operators.
• Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
• Communications equipment operators
  • Includes telephone operators and telegraphers.
• Mail and message distributing occupations
  • Includes postal clerks, mail carriers, mail clerks, and messengers.
• Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks
  • Includes dispatchers; production coordinators; traffic shipping, and receiving clerks; stock and inventory clerks; meter readers; weighers, measurers and checkers; samplers; and expediters.
• Adjusters and investigators
  • Includes adjusters and investigators, eligibility clerks, social welfare; and bill and account collectors.
• Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
  • Includes general office and statistical clerks; book tellers; proofreaders; data-entry keyers; statistical clerks, and teacher's aides.
• Service occupations
• Private household occupations
  • Includes launderers, cooks, housekeepers, child care workers, and household cleaners and servants.
• Supervisors, protective service occupations
• Firefighting and fire prevention occupations
• Police and detectives
  • Includes police and detectives; sheriffs, bailiffs, and correctional institution officers.
• Guards
• Food preparation and service occupations
  • Includes bartenders; cooks; waiters; kitchen, food counter, and fountain workers; and waiters' assistants.
• Health service occupations
  • Includes dental assistants; health and nursing aides; orderlies; and attendants.
• Cleaning and building service occupations, except household
  • Includes maids and housemen, janitors, elevator operators, and pest control occupations.
• Personal service occupations
  • Includes barbers, hairdressers and cosmetologists, recreation and public transportation attendants, guides, ushers, baggage porters, bellhops, welfare service aides, and child care workers.
• Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
• Farm operators and managers
• Farm occupations, except managerial
  • Includes farm, marine life cultivation and nursery workers.
• Related agricultural occupations
  • Includes groundskeepers and gardeners animal caretakers; and graders, sorters and inspectors, agricultural products.
• Forestry and logging occupations
• Fishers, hunters and trappers
• Precision production, craft and repair occupations
• Mechanics and repairers
  • Includes vehicle and mobile equipment, industrial machinery, machinery maintenance, heating, and air conditioning mechanics; electrical and electronic equipment repairers, including telephone and telephone line installers; and camera, watch, musical instrument, office machine, mechanic controls, and valve repairers; locksmiths; elevator installers; and millwrights.
• Construction trades
  • Includes brickmasons, stonemasons, tile setters, carpet installers, carpenters, drywall installers, electricians, electrical power installers and repairers, painters, paperhangers, plasterers, plumbers, concrete finishers, glaziers, insulation workers, paving equipment operators, roofers, sheetmetal duct installers, structural metal workers, earth drillers, and construction apprentices.
• Extractive occupations
  • Includes oil well drillers, explosives workers, mine and mining machine operators.
• Precision metalworking occupations
  • Includes tool and die makers; precision assemblers and grinders; machinists, boilermakers; pattern and model makers lay-out workers; jewelers; engravers; and sheet metal workers.
• Precision woodworking occupations
• Precision textile, apparel and furnishings machine workers
• Precision workers, assorted materials
• Precision food production occupations
• Precision inspectors, tester and related workers
• Plant and system operators
• Operators, fabricators and laborers
• Metalworking and plastic working machine operators
• Metal and plastic processing machine operators
• Woodworking machine operators
• Printing machine operators
• Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators
• Machine operators, assorted materials
• Fabricators, assemblers and hand working occupations
• Production inspectors, testers, samplers and weighers
• Motor vehicle operators
• Rail transportation occupations
• Water transportation occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

HISPANIC PERSONS' EARNINGS BY OCCUPATION AND SEX, 1980

Mean hourly and annual earnings reported in the 1980 Census, Special Report: Earnings by Occupation and Education.  The Census Bureau also has a digitized copy of this volume available on its website.

• Experienced civilian labor force 
• Executive, managerial and administrative occupations
• Executive and administrative occupations
  • Includes legislators, chief executives, general administrators, administrators, protective services; financial, personnel and labor relations, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and public relations managers; education and health administrators, property and real estate managers; postmasters and mail superintendents; and funeral directors.
• Management related occupations
  • Includes accountants; auditors; financial officers; management analysts; personnel, training, and labor relations specialist; buyers and purchasing agents; business and promotion agents; and inspectors and compliance officers, including construction.
• Professional specialty occupations
• Engineers, architects and surveyors
  • Includes architects, aerospace, metallurgical, mining, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, civil, agricultural, electrical and electronic, industrial, mechanical, and marine engineers, naval architects, surveyors, and mapping scientists.
• Mathematical and computer scientists
  • Includes computer systems analysts; operations and systems researchers and analysts; actuaries, mathematicians, and statisticians.
• Natural scientists
  • Includes physicists, geologists, and chemists, except biochemists; and atmospheric, space, agricultural, biological, forestry, conservation, and medical scientists.
• Health diagnosing occupations
  • Includes physicians, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, and podiatrists.
• Health assessment and treating occupations
  • Includes registered nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, and physicians' assistants.
• Teachers, post-secondary
• Teachers, except post-secondary
  • Includes pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers, but excludes principals and supervisors.
• Librarians, archivists and curators
• Social scientists and urban planners
  • Includes economists, psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
• Social, recreation and religious workers
• Lawyers and judges
• Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes
  • Includes authors, technical writers, designers, musicians and composers, actors and directors, painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist print makers, photographers, dancers, editors and reporters, public relations specialists, announcers, and athletes.
• Technical, sales and administrative support occupations
• Health technologists and technicians
  • Includes clinical laboratory, health record, and radiologic technicians, dental hygienists; and licensed practical nurses.
• Engineering and related technologists and technicians
  • Includes electrical, electronic, industrial and mechanical engineering, and survey and mapping technicians; and drafting occupations.
• Science technicians
• Technicians, except health, engineering and science
  • Includes airplane pilots and navigators; air traffic controllers; broadcast equipment operators; computer programmers; tool programmers, numerical control; and legal assistants.
• Sales occupations
• Sales representatives, finance and business services
  • Includes insurance, real estate, securities, advertising, and other business service sales occupations.
• Sales representatives, commodities, except retail
• Sales workers, retail and personal services
• Sales related occupations
• Administrative support occupations, including clerical
• Supervisors, administrative support occupations
• Computer equipment operators
• Secretaries, stenographers and typists
• Information clerks
• Records processing occupations, except financial
• Financial records processing occupations
• Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
• Communications equipment operators
• Mail and message distributing occupations
• Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks
• Adjusters and investigators
• Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
• Service occupations
• Private household occupations
• Supervisors, protective service occupations
• Firefighting and fire prevention occupations
• Police and detectives
• Guards
• Food preparation and service occupations
• Health service occupations
• Cleaning and building service occupations, except household
• Personal service occupations
• Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
• Farm operators and managers
• Farm occupations, except managerial
• Related agricultural occupations
• Forestry and logging occupations
• Fishers, hunters and trappers
• Precision production, craft and repair occupations
• Mechanics and repairers
• Construction trades
• Contractive occupations
• Precision metalworking occupations
• Precision woodworking occupations
• Precision textile, apparel and furnishings machine workers
• Precision workers, assorted materials
• Precision food production occupations
• Precision inspectors, tester and related workers
• Plant and system operators
• Operators, fabricators and laborers
• Metalworking and plastic working machine operators
• Metal and plastic processing machine operators
• Woodworking machine operators
• Printing machine operators
• Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators
• Machine operators, assorted materials
• Fabricators, assemblers and hand working occupations
• Production inspectors, testers, samplers and weighers
• Motor vehicle operators
• Rail transportation occupations
• Water transportation occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

AMERICAN INDIAN, ESKIMO AND ALEUT  EARNINGS BY SEX, 1980

Mean hourly and annual earnings reported in the 1980 Census, Special Report: Earnings by Occupation and Education.  The Census Bureau also has a digitized copy of this volume available on its website.

• Experienced civilian labor force  
• Executive, managerial and administrative occupations
• Executive and administrative occupations  
  • Includes legislators, chief executives, general administrators, administrators, protective services; financial, personnel and labor relations, purchasing, marketing, advertising, and public relations managers; education and health administrators, property and real estate managers; postmasters and mail superintendents; and funeral directors.
• Management related occupations
  • Includes accountants; auditors; financial officers; management analysts; personnel, training, and labor relations specialist; buyers and purchasing agents; business and promotion agents; and inspectors and compliance officers, including construction.
• Professional specialty occupations  
• Engineers, architects and surveyors
  • Includes architects, aerospace, metallurgical, mining, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, civil, agricultural, electrical and electronic, industrial, mechanical, and marine engineers, naval architects, surveyors, and mapping scientists.
• Mathematical and computer scientists  
  • Includes computer systems analysts; operations and systems researchers and analysts; actuaries, mathematicians, and statisticians.
• Natural scientists
  • Includes physicists, geologists, and chemists, except biochemists; and atmospheric, space, agricultural, biological, forestry, conservation, and medical scientists.
• Health diagnosing occupations  
  • Includes physicians, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, and podiatrists.
• Health assessment and treating occupations
  • Includes registered nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, and physicians' assistants.
• Teachers, post-secondary 
• Teachers, except post-secondary
  • lncludes pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers, but excludes principals and supervisors.
• Librarians, archivists and curators 
• Social scientists and urban planners
  • Includes economists, psychologists, sociologists, and urban planners.
• Social, recreation and religious workers
• Lawyers and judges
• Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes 
  • Includes authors, technical writers, designers, musicians and composers, actors and directors, painters, sculptors, craft artists, and artist print makers, photographers, dancers, editors and reporters, public relations specialists, announcers, and athletes.
• Technical, sales and administrative support occupations
• Health technologists and technicians 
  • Includes clinical laboratory, health record, and radiologic technicians, dental hygienists; and licensed practical nurses.
• Engineering and related technologists and technicians
  • Includes electrical, electronic, industrial and mechanical engineering, and survey and mapping technicians; and drafting occupations.
• Science technicians 
• Technicians, except health, engineering and science
  • Includes airplane pilots and navigators; air traffic controllers; broadcast equipment operators; computer programmers; tool programmers, numerical control; and legal assistants.
• Sales occupations
• Sales representatives, finance and business services
  • Includes insurance, real estate, securities, advertising, and other business service sales occupations.
• Sales representatives, commodities, except retail 
  • Includes sales engineers and sales representatives, mining, manufacturing and wholesale.
• Sales workers, retail and personal services
  • Includes sales workers, commodities; sales counter clerks, cashiers, street and door-to-door sales workers; and news vendors.
• Sales related occupations
  • Includes demonstrators, promoters, and models; auctioneers, and sales support occupations.
• Administrative support occupations, including clerical
• Supervisors, administrative support occupations 
• Computer equipment operators
• Secretaries, stenographers and typists
• Information clerks
  • Includes interviewers, hotel clerks, transportation and reservation agents, and receptionists.
• Records processing occupations, except financial
  • Includes classified ad, correspondence, order, personnel, library, file, and record clerks.
• Financial records processing occupations
  • Includes bookkeepers; accounting, payroll, billing, and cost clerks; and billing and calculating machine operators.
• Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
• Communications equipment operators
  • Includes telephone operators and telegraphers.
• Mail and message distributing occupations 
  • Includes postal clerks, mail carriers, mail clerks, and messengers.
• Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks
  • Includes dispatchers; production coordinators; traffic shipping, and receiving clerks; stock and inventory clerks; meter readers; weighers, measurers and checkers; samplers; and expediters.
• Adjusters and investigators 
  • Includes adjusters and investigators, eligibility clerks, social welfare; and bill and account collectors.
• Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
  • Includes general office and statistical clerks; book tellers; proofreaders; data-entry keyers; statistical clerks, and teacher's aides.
• Service occupations 
• Private household occupations
  • Includes launderers, cooks, housekeepers, child care workers, and household cleaners and servants.
• Supervisors, protective service occupations 
• Firefighting and fire prevention occupations
• Police and detectives 
  • Includes police and detectives; sheriffs, bailiffs, and correctional institution officers.
• Guards
• Food preparation and service occupations 
  • Includes bartenders; cooks; waiters; kitchen, food counter, and fountain workers; and waiters' assistants.
• Health service occupations
  • Includes dental assistants; health and nursing aides; orderlies; and attendants.
• Cleaning and building service occupations, except household
  • Includes maids and housemen, janitors, elevator operators, and pest control occupations.
• Personal service occupations
  • Includes barbers, hairdressers and cosmetologists, recreation and public transportation attendants, guides, ushers, baggage porters, bellhops, welfare service aides, and child care workers.
• Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
• Farm operators and managers
• Farm occupations, except managerial 
  • Includes farm, marine life cultivation and nursery workers.
• Related agricultural occupations
  • Includes groundskeepers and gardeners animal caretakers; and graders, sorters and inspectors, agricultural products.
• Forestry and logging occupations 
• Fishers, hunters and trappers
• Precision production, craft and repair occupations 
• Mechanics and repairers
  • Includes vehicle and mobile equipment, industrial machinery, machinery maintenance, heating, and air conditioning mechanics; electrical and electronic equipment repairers, including telephone and telephone line installers; and camera, watch, musical instrument, office machine, mechanic controls, and valve repairers; locksmiths; elevator installers; and millwrights.
• Construction trades 
  • Includes brickmasons, stonemasons, tile setters, carpet installers, carpenters, drywall installers, electricians, electrical power installers and repairers, painters, paperhangers, plasterers, plumbers, concrete finishers, glaziers, insulation workers, paving equipment operators, roofers, sheetmetal duct installers, structural metal workers, earth drillers, and construction apprentices.
• Extractive occupations
  • Includes oil well drillers, explosives workers, mine and mining machine operators.
• Precision metalworking occupations
  • Includes tool and die makers; precision assemblers and grinders; machinists, boilermakers; pattern and model makers lay-out workers; jewelers; engravers; and sheet metal workers.
• Precision woodworking occupations
• Precision textile, apparel and furnishings machine workers
• Precision workers, assorted materials
• Precision food production occupations 
• Precision inspectors, tester and related workers
• Plant and system operators 
• Operators, fabricators and laborers
• Metalworking and plastic working machine operators 
• Metal and plastic processing machine operators
• Woodworking machine operators
• Printing machine operators
• Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators
• Machine operators, assorted materials
• Fabricators, assemblers and hand working occupations
• Production inspectors, testers, samplers and weighers
• Motor vehicle operators 
• Rail transportation occupations
• Water transportation occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Banking job wages
  • 1980 (Bulletin 2099)
  • 1985 (Bulletin 2269)
  • 1989 (Bulletin 2371)
• Banking jobs
  Occupational earnings in selected metro areas, 1985
  Lists the average weekly earnings of bank employees in 14 cities by specific occupation such as accounting clerk, stenographer, loan officer, etc.
• Building trades - Union wages and hours,
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 2091)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Chemical (industrial) manufacturing job wages
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 2136)
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 2287)
• Cigarette manufacturing job wages
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 2132)
  • July 1986 (Bulletin 2276)
• Coal industry job wages
  • July 1982 (source)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 2342)
• Communications industry job wages
  • October-December 1981 (Bulletin 2188)
• Computer and data processing service job wages
  • October 1982 (source)
  • 1987 (Bulletin 2318)
• Congress, Members of - Salaries
  • See Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Tables, page 16 (page 20 of the pdf)
• Contract cleaning service job wages
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 2152)
  • August 1986 (Bulletin 2299)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Deep sea freighters wages
  • ​November 1989 
• Deep sea tankers wages
  • November 1986
  • November 1988
  • November 1989
• Department store job wages
  • August 1986 (Bulletin 2311)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Education - School teacher salaries
  • ​1981-82 teacher salaries in 23 states plus Guam are listed in ERIC document 213678.  Source: American Federation of Teachers data.
  • 1982-1983 Illinois teacher salaries.  Source: Illinois State Board of Education, Planning, Research, and Evaluation.
• Electric and gas utility job wages
  • October 1982 (Bulletin 2218)
  • February 1988 (Bulletin 2338)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Farming
  • March 1981 earnings of hired farm workers (source)
  • 1982 wages of California farmers (source)
  • 1930-present
    • The USDA periodical Farm Labor has been in publication for nearly 90 years and lists wages in each issue. Drill down to desired year, or access this title through the Hathi Trust digital library.
• Fire fighters
  • 1981 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 80-116 of source
  • 1983 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 74-110 of source
• Footwear manufacturing job wages
  • October 1986 (Bulletin 2291)
• Glass and glassware manufacturing job wages
  • May 1980 (source)
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 2286)
• Government
  • Congress persons' salaries
  • Local government employee salaries by function 
    • 1981 - Average earnings for October
      • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
      • Each metro area on pages 80-116 of source
    • 1983 - Average earnings for October
      • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
      • Each metro area on pages 74-110 of source
  • Civilian job pay schedule (The Kiplinger Magazine)
• Grain mill product industry job wages
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 2325)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• High technology industry job wages
  • ​1989 (source)
• Hosiery manufacturing industry job wages
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 2151)
  • August 1987 (Bulletin 2321)
• Hospital job wages
  • August 1984 (Bulletin 2204)
  • March 1989 (Bulletin 2364)
• Hotel and motel job wages
  Includes occupations such as bell boys, porters, housekeepers / maids, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers, checkout cashiers, maintenance workers and stationary engineers.  Reports pay by metro areas, including Atlantic city, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Washington DC, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland CA, San Diego and San Francisco.
  • July-September 1983 (Bulletin 2227)
  • June-July 1988 (Bulletin 2335)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Iron and steel foundry job wages
  • October 1986 (Bulletin 2291)
• Iron and steel industry job wages
  • August 1983 (Bulletin 2221)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 2346)
• Lawyer fees
  • February 1980 (The Kiplinger Magazine)
• Librarian salaries at research institutions - 1982, 1983, 1984.
  • Source: Association of Research Libraries.
• Life and health insurance job wages
  • July 1986 (Bulletin 2293)
• Life insurance job wages 
  Earnings of actuaries, claim approvers, underwriters, etc.
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 2119)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Machinery manufacturing job wages
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 2124)
  • November 1983 (Bulletin 2229)
• Meat products
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 2247)
• Military pay charts, U.S.
  This website does a good job of organizing a complex topic. 
  • 1790s-present
• Motor vehicles and parts manufacturing job wages
  • May 1983 (Bulletin 2223)
  • June & August 1989 (Bulletin 2384)
• Moving and storage job wages, 1984
  • Some reports cover the entire states of Connecticut, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, and northern New York state,
  • Some reports cover specific cities and counties (listed here alphabetically by state) :
    • Phoenix AZ
    • Oxnard/Simi Valley/Ventura CA
    • Mobile AL/Pensacola FL/Panama City FL
    • Topeka KS, and Wichita KS
    • Corpus Christi TX and Houston TX and El Paso TX
    • Saint Louis MO
    • Raleigh-Durham NC
    • Alamogordo/Las Cruces NM
    • Newark NJ and Middlesex/Monmouth/Ocean County NJ, and Paterson/Clifton/Passaic NJ
    •       Oklahoma City OK
    • Charleston/North Charleston/Walterboro SC
    • Richmond VA

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Nonprofit organizations 
  • 1982 (source)
• Oil and gas extraction job wages
  • June 1988 (Bulletin 2334)
• Paper manufacturing job wages
  • July 1982 (Bulletin 2180)
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 2324)
• Philanthropic sector earnings
  • 1982 (source)
• Police
  • 1981 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 80-116 of source
  • 1983 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 74-110 of source
  • 1984 - Average yearly earnings
    • Entry level rank on a metropolitan police force (The Kiplinger Magazine)
• Printing trades - Union wages and hours,
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 2125)

Unless otherwise noted, the following listings refer to Industry Wage Surveys from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Bulletin series. Listings followed by a 'source' link are from the BLS Monthly Labor Review. 

• Savings and loan associations job wages
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 2106)
• Self-employed
  • 1982 - see table on page 18 (source)
  • 1983 (source)
• Shipbuilding and repairing job wages
  • October 1986 (Bulletin 2295)
• Sports, professional - Salaries
  • Baseball, 1970-1996
    • This article investigates the history of major league baseball players' salaries; table 1 (page 5) shows average and median annual salaries for 1970-1996, table 2 (page 6) shows the average salaries for the highest and lowest playing teams for select years 1980-1995, and table 4 (page 7) shows minimum baseball salaries for 1967-1997 (source).
  • Team sports, 1984-1997
    • This article explores salary caps for basketball, football, baseball, and hockey players.It included tables showing the average salaries for each sport (source).
• Stockbrokers
  • This article from Kiplinger Magazine's Changing Times explores, among other things, the income and earnings of stockbrokers in 1984.
• Structural clay product industry job wages
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 2139)
  • October 1986 (Bulletin 2288)
• Synthetic fiber manufacturing job wages
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 2150)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 2268)
• Teachers (instructional employees of metropolitan governments)
  • 1981 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 80-116 of source
  • 1983 - Average earnings for October
    • Across 75 metro areas on page 1 of source
    • Each metro area on pages 74-110 of source
• Textile mills and textile dying and finishing plant wages
  • ​August 1980 (Bulletin 2122)
  • June 1985 (source)
• Wood household furniture manufacturing job wages
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 2283)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Alabama --1980s

• Birmingham, Alabama
  • April 1985
  • September 1988
• Huntsville, Alabama, Metropolitan Area
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 3000-14)
  • February 1981 (Bulletin 3010-5)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-3)
• Mobile, Alabama, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-20)
• Selma, Alabama
  • July 1987
  • August 1988
  • August 1989

Wages, salaries and earnings in Arkansas metro areas -- 1980s

• Memphis, Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-59)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-55)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-56)

Wages, salaries and earnings in California metro areas -- 1980s

• Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove, California, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-62)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-57)
  • October 1984 (Bulletin 3025-58)
  • October 1985 (Bulletin 3030-54)
  • September 1986 (Bulletin 3035-45)
• Anaheim-Santa Ana, California, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-43)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-39)
• Fresno, California, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-30)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-27)
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-38)
• Los Angeles-Long Beach, California, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-63)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-66)
  • October 1982 (Bulletin 3015-62)
  • October 1983 (Bulletin 3020-55)
  • October 1984 (Bulletin 3025-65)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-49)
  • October 1989 (Bulletin 3050-57)
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-57/corrected)
• Oakland, California, Metropolitan Area
  • February 1988 (Bulletin 3045-4)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-6)
• Riverside-San Bernardino, California, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1988 (Bulletin 3045-21)
• Sacramento, California, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-70)
• San Diego, California, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-71)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-68)
  • November 1982 (Bulletin 3015-67)
  • December 1983 (Bulletin 3020-70)
  • December 1984 (Bulletin 3025-62)
  • December 1986 (Bulletin 3035-71)
  • December 1987 (Bulletin 3040-55)
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-58)
• San Francisco-Oakland, California, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-9)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-13)
• San Francisco, California, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1989 (Bulletin 3050-9)
• San Jose, California, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-6)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-10)
  • March 1988 (Bulletin 3045-13)
  • March 1989 (Bulletin 3050-12)
• Visalia-Tulare-Porterville, California, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-29)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Colorado metro areas - 1980s

• Denver-Boulder, Colorado, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-68)
  • December 1981 (Bulletin 3010-67)
  • December 1982 (Bulletin 3015-68)
  • December 1983 (Bulletin 3020-72)
  • December 1984 (Bulletin 3025-67)
  • December 1985 (Bulletin 3030-67)
  • December 1988 (Bulletin 3045-59)
• Denver, Colorado, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-52)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Connecticut metro areas -- 1980s

• Danbury, Connecticut, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1989 (Bulletin 3050-18)
• Hartford, Connecticut, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-19)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-21)
  • July 1982 (Bulletin 3015-57)
  • July 1983 (Bulletin 3020-44)
  • July 1984 (Bulletin 3025-35)
  • July 1985 (Bulletin 3030-30)
  • July 1986 (Bulletin 3035-32)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-25)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Delaware -- 1980s

• Wilmington, Delaware-New Jersey-Maryland, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-45)

Wages, salaries and earnings in the District of Columbia - 1980s

• Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-4)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-6)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Florida metro areas -- 1980s

• Bradenton, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1989 (Bulletin 3050-15)
• Daytona Beach, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-33)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-38)
• Gainesville, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-55)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-45)
• Jacksonville, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-66)
  • December 1981 (Bulletin 3010-63)
• Miami, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-51)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-53)
• Miami-Hialeah, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1987 (Bulletin 3040-42)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-47)
  • October 1989 (Bulletin 3050-37)
• Orlando, Florida, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-41)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Georgia metro areas -- 1980s

• Atlanta, Georgia, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-21)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-24)
• Augusta, Georgia-South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1989 (Bulletin 3050-17)
• Chattanooga, Tennessee-Georgia, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-44)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-42)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-43)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-38)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-40)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 3030-40)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Illinois metro areas -- 1980s

• Champaign-Urbana-Rantoul, Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1988 (Bulletin 3045-30)
• Chicago, Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-26)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-19)
  • July 1989 (Bulletin 3050-34)
• Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, Iowa-Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 3000-5)
  • February 1981 (Bulletin 3010-7)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-8)
• Decatur, Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-28)
• Joliet, Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-55)
• St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-12)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-8)
  • March 1982 (Bulletin 3015-11)
  • March 1983 (Bulletin 3020-9)
  • March 1984 (Bulletin 3025-13)
  • March 1985 (Bulletin 3030-14)
  • March 1986 (Bulletin 3035-10)
  • March 1987 (Bulletin 3040-13)
  • March 1988 (Bulletin 3045-11)
  • March 1989 (Bulletin 3050-11)

See also Illinois Statewide Wage and Salary Survey of Selected Occupations, September 1980, published by the Illnois Bureau of Employment Security, Research and Analysis.  This state-produced source lists wages by region of the state, then by occupation.  

Wages, salaries and earnings in Indiana metro areas - 1980s

• Cincinnati, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-32)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-30)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-24)
• Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1987 (Bulletin 3040-43)
  • October 1989 (Bulletin 3050-38)
• Gary-Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-56)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-59)
• Gary-Hammond, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-55)
• Indianapolis, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-47)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-56)
• Louisville, Kentucky-Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-65)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-60)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-44)
• South Bend, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-36)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-33)
  • August 1982 (Bulletin 3015-37)
  • August 1983 (Bulletin 3020-33)
  • August 1985 (Bulletin 3030-41)
  • August 1986 (Bulletin 3035-34)
  • August 1987 (Bulletin 3040-27)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Iowa metro areas - 1980s

• Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, Iowa-Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 3000-5)
  • February 1981 (Bulletin 3010-7)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-8)
• Omaha, Nebraska-Iowa, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-57)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-51)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-48)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Kansas metro areas -- 1980s

• Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-42)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-47)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-49)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-50)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-45)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 3030-46)
  • September 1986 (Bulletin 3035-44)
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 3040-37)
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-42)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-25)
• Wichita, Kansas, Metropolitan Area
  • April 1980 (Bulletin 3000-15)
  • April 1981 (Bulletin 3010-11)
  • April 1982 (Bulletin 3015-13)
  • April 1983 (Bulletin 3020-12)
  • April 1985 (Bulletin 3030-15)
  • April 1986 (Bulletin 3035-17)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Kentucky metro areas -- 1980s

• Cincinnati, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-32)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-30)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-24)
• Louisville, Kentucky-Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-65)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-60)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-44)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Louisiana metro areas -- 1980s

• New Orleans, Louisiana, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-58)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-46)
  • October 1982 (Bulletin 3015-47)
  • October 1983 (Bulletin 3020-48)
  • October 1984 (Bulletin 3025-49)
  • October 1985 (Bulletin 3030-49)
  • October 1987 (Bulletin 3040-49)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-46)
  • October 1989 (Bulletin 3050-36)
• Shreveport, Louisiana, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-53)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Maine -- 1980s

• Portland, Maine, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-61)
  • December 1981 (Bulletin 3010-64)
  • December 1986 (Bulletin 3035-66)
  • December 1988 (Bulletin 3045-54)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Maryland metro areas -- 1980s

• Baltimore, Maryland, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-38)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-39)
  • August 1982 (Bulletin 3015-39)
  • August 1983 (Bulletin 3020-39)
  • August 1984 (Bulletin 3025-39)
  • August 1985 (Bulletin 3030-35)
  • August 1986 (Bulletin 3035-37)
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 3040-33)
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-34)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-40)
• Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-4)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-6)
• Wilmington, Delaware-New Jersey-Maryland, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-45)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Massachusetts metro areas -- 1980s

• Boston, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-40)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-48)
  • August 1982 (Bulletin 3015-55)
  • August 1983 (Bulletin 3020-41)
  • August 1984 (Bulletin 3025-46)
  • August 1985 (Bulletin 3030-39)
  • August 1986 (Bulletin 3035-40)
  • August 1987 (Bulletin 3040-34)
  • August 1988 (Bulletin 3045-31)
  • August 1989 (Bulletin 3050-23)
• Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, Rhode Island-Massachusetts, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-27)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-36)
• Worcester, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Area
  • April 1980 (Bulletin 3000-25)
  • April 1981 (Bulletin 3010-34)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-47)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Michigan metro areas -- 1980s

• Detroit, Michigan, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-7)
  • April 1981 (Bulletin 3010-12)
  • April 1988 (Bulletin 3045-14)
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-59)
• Saginaw, Michigan, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-54)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-58)
• Toledo, Ohio-Michigan, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-13)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-20)
  • June 1982 (Bulletin 3015-21)
  • June 1983 (Bulletin 3020-22)
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 3025-23)
  • June 1985 (Bulletin 3030-25)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Minnesota metro areas -- 1980s

• Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1980 (Bulletin 3000-1)
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 3010-1)
  • January 1984 (Bulletin 3025-2)
  • February 1988 (Bulletin 3045-6)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-5)
• St. Cloud, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1989 (Bulletin 3050-31)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Mississippi metro areas -- 1980s

• Jackson, Mississippi, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1980 (Bulletin 3000-2)
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 3010-4—READEX microfiche, Government Documents, 82-16616)
  • January 1982 (Bulletin 3015-1)
  • January 1983 (Bulletin 3020-2)
  • January 1987 (Bulletin 3040-1)
  • January 1989 (Bulletin 3050-1)
• Memphis, Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-59)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-55)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-56)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Missouri metro areas -- 1980s

• Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-42)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-47)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-49)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-50)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-45)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 3030-46)
  • September 1986 (Bulletin 3035-44)
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 3040-37)
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-42)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-25)
• St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-12)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-8)
  • March 1982 (Bulletin 3015-11)
  • March 1983 (Bulletin 3020-9)
  • March 1984 (Bulletin 3025-13)
  • March 1985 (Bulletin 3030-14)
  • March 1986 (Bulletin 3035-10)
  • March 1987 (Bulletin 3040-13)
  • March 1988 (Bulletin 3045-11)
  • March 1989 (Bulletin 3050-11)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Montana -- 1980s

• Billings, Montana, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-31)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-25)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-41)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Nebraska -- 1980s

• Omaha, Nebraska-Iowa, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-57)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-51)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-48)

Wages, salaries and earnings in New Jersey metro areas -- 1980s

• Bergen-Passaic, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-40)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-35)
• Monmouth-Ocean, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1989 (Bulletin 3050-2)
• New York, New York-New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-24)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-41)
  • May 1988 (Bulletin 3045-19)
• Newark, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1980 (Bulletin 3000-8)
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 3010-3)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-7)
• Paterson-Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-34)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-35)
  • April 1982 (Bulletin 3015-14)
  • April 1983 (Bulletin 3020-24)
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 3025-38)
  • June 1985 (Bulletin 3030-31)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-53)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-52)
• Trenton, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-43)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-50)
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-51)
• Wilmington, Delaware-New Jersey-Maryland, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-45)

Wages, salaries and earnings in New York metro areas -- 1980s

• Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-45)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-49)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-46)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-45)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-43)
• Buffalo, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-52)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-61)
  • October 1988 (Bulletin 3045-52)
• Nassau-Suffolk, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-29)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-31)
  • August 1989 (Bulletin 3050-28)
• New York, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1989 (Bulletin 3050-32)
• New York, New York-New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-24)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-41)
  • May 1988 (Bulletin 3045-19)
• Poughkeepsie, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-35)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-28)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-52)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-53)
• Poughkeepsie-Kingston-Newburgh, New York Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-39)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-32)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-60)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-56)
  • September 1986 (Bulletin 3035-47)
• Rochester, New York, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-42)

Wages, salaries and earnings in North Carolina -- 1980s

• Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, North Carolina-South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-39)
• Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, North Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-50)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-43)
• Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Portsmouth, Virginia-North Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-20)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-17)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Ohio metro areas -- 1980s

• Cincinnati, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-32)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-30)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-24)
• Cleveland, Ohio, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-46)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-44)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-45)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-46)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-44)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 3030-45)
  • September 1986 (Bulletin 3035-42)
  • September 1987 (Bulletin 3040-40)
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-35)
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-33)
• Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Area
  • October 1980 (Bulletin 3000-48)
  • October 1981 (Bulletin 3010-54)
  • October 1982 (Bulletin 3015-51)
  • October 1983 (Bulletin 3020-49)
  • October 1984 (Bulletin 3025-50)
  • October 1985 (Bulletin 3030-51)
  • October 1986 (Bulletin 3035-51)
• Dayton, Ohio, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-64)
  • December 1981 (Bulletin 3010-65)
  • December 1982 (Bulletin 3015-66)
  • December 1983 (Bulletin 3020-66)
  • December 1984 (Bulletin 3025-61)
  • December 1986 (Bulletin 3035-64)
• Toledo, Ohio-Michigan, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-13)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-20)
  • June 1982 (Bulletin 3015-21)
  • June 1983 (Bulletin 3020-22)
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 3025-23)
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 3035-21)
• Toledo, Ohio, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1988 (Bulletin 3045-60)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Oklahoma -- 1980s

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-41)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-37)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Oregon -- 1980s

• Portland, Oregon-Washington, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-49)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-29)
  • June 1982 (Bulletin 3015-31)
  • June 1983 (Bulletin 3020-40)
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 3025-28)
  • June 1985 (Bulletin 3030-24)
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 3035-26)
  • June 1987 (Bulletin 3040-21)
• Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-48)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Pennsylvania metro areas -- 1980s

• Northeast Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1980 (Bulletin 3000-37)
  • August 1981 (Bulletin 3010-40)
  • August 1982 (Bulletin 3015-41)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-New Jersey, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-53)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-52)
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1980 (Bulletin 3000-3)
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 3010-2)
  • January 1982 (Bulletin 3015-6)
  • January 1983 (Bulletin 3020-3)
  • January 1984 (Bulletin 3025-4)
  • January 1985 (Bulletin 3030-3)
  • January 1986 (Bulletin 3035-4)
  • February 1987 (Bulletin 3040-2)
  • February 1988 (Bulletin 3045-7)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-4)
• Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1988 (Bulletin 3045-36)
  • August 1989 (Bulletin 3050-26)
• York, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Area
  • February 1980 (Bulletin 3000-11)
  • February 1981 (Bulletin 3010-9)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Rhode Island -- 1980s

• Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, Rhode Island-Massachusetts, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-27)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-36)

Wages, salaries and earnings in South Carolina metro areas -- 1980s

• Augusta, Georgia-South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1989 (Bulletin 3050-17)
• Charleston, South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-44)
• Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, North Carolina-South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1988 (Bulletin 3045-39)
• Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-16)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-23)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Tennessee -- 1980s

• Chattanooga, Tennessee-Georgia, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1980 (Bulletin 3000-44)
  • September 1981 (Bulletin 3010-42)
  • September 1982 (Bulletin 3015-43)
  • September 1983 (Bulletin 3020-38)
  • September 1984 (Bulletin 3025-40)
  • September 1985 (Bulletin 3030-40)
• Knoxville, Tennessee
  • October 1980
• Memphis, Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-59)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-55)
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-56)
• Nashville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Area
  • September 1989 (Bulletin 3050-30)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Texas metro areas -- 1980s

• Austin, Texas, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1988 (Bulletin 3045-32)
• Corpus Christi, Texas, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-28)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-22)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-27)
• Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-67)
  • December 1981 (Bulletin 3010-69)
  • December 1982 (Bulletin 3015-65)
  • December 1983 (Bulletin 3020-67)
  • December 1984 (Bulletin 3025-71)
  • December 1985 (Bulletin 3030-66)
  • December 1986 (Bulletin 3035-69)
  • December 1987 (Bulletin 3040-53)
  • December 1988 (Bulletin 3045-58)
  • December 1989 (Bulletin 3050-51)
• Houston, Texas, Metropolitan Area
  • April 1980 (Bulletin 3000-18)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-14)
  • April 1988 (Bulletin 3045-15)
  • April 1989 (Bulletin 3050-13)
• San Antonio, Texas, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-17)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-15)
  • July 1988 (Bulletin 3045-23)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Utah -- 1980s

• Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1980 (Bulletin 3000-60)
  • November 1981 (Bulletin 3010-62)
  • November 1984 (Bulletin 3025-68)
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-56)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Virginia metro areas -- 1980s

• Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Portsmouth, Virginia-North Carolina, Metropolitan Area
  • May 1980 (Bulletin 3000-20)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-17)
• Richmond, Virginia, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-23)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-18)
• Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia, Metropolitan Area
  • August 1989 (Bulletin 3050-24)
• Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia, Metropolitan Area
  • March 1980 (Bulletin 3000-4)
  • March 1981 (Bulletin 3010-6)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Washington state metro areas -- 1980s

• Portland, Oregon-Washington, Metropolitan Area
  • June 1980 (Bulletin 3000-49)
  • June 1981 (Bulletin 3010-29)
  • June 1982 (Bulletin 3015-31)
  • June 1983 (Bulletin 3020-40)
  • June 1984 (Bulletin 3025-28)
  • June 1985 (Bulletin 3030-24)
  • June 1986 (Bulletin 3035-26)
  • June 1987 (Bulletin 3040-21)
• Seattle-Everett, Washington, Metropolitan Area
  • December 1980 (Bulletin 3000-69)
• Seattle, Washington, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1988 (Bulletin 3045-50)

Wages, salaries and earnings in Wisconsin metro areas -- 1980s

• Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Area
  • November 1989 (Bulletin 3050-43)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Area
  • July 1980 (Bulletin 3000-22)
  • July 1981 (Bulletin 3010-26)
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Metropolitan Area
  • January 1980 (Bulletin 3000-1)
  • January 1981 (Bulletin 3010-1)
  • January 1984 (Bulletin 3025-2)
  • February 1988 (Bulletin 3045-6)
  • February 1989 (Bulletin 3050-5)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Area
  • April 1980 (Bulletin 3000-10)
  • May 1981 (Bulletin 3010-16)
  • May 1982 (Bulletin 3015-18)
  • May 1983 (Bulletin 3020-14)
  • May 1984 (Bulletin 3025-21)
  • May 1985 (Bulletin 3030-17)
  • May 1987 (Bulletin 3040-17)
  • May 1988 (Bulletin 3045-17)
  • May 1989 (Bulletin 3050-14)

PRICES for MERCHANDISE, 1980s

PRICES for HOUSING, 1980s

LAND

HEALTH PRICES, 1980s

PRICES for COMMUNICATION, 1980s

See box below.

COST of a COLLEGE EDUCATION, 1980s

In 1980, 32% of people aged 18-21 were enrolled in college (U.S. Census) and 17% of people aged 25 years or older have completed 4 years (U.S. Census, Table A-2).

• 1984-1985 data in 1987 edition, table 194
• 1986-1987 data in 1989 edition, table 259

PRICES for SERVICES, 1980s

ENERGY PRICES, 1980s

ENTERTAINMENT PRICES, 1980s

• Gasoline prices by state, 1983-2010 

  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

• Gasoline prices, 1949-2011 

  "Nominal price" was the price paid by the customer at the time of the transaction. This table shows the nominal price of leaded gasoline from 1949-1990 and unleaded gas from 1976-2011. Source: U.S. EIA.

• Diesel prices in select countries, 1978-1990 

  Shows the diesel fuel prices in the US, Canada, as well as in western Europe and Japan between 1978-1990. Also shows the average annual change over this time period in each country. Source: Transportation Energy Data Book, 12th Ed.

• Intercity bus fares, 1983 

  Fares for Greyhound Bus, Trailways and other similar carriers were regulated and based on mileage. See fare chart in this National Bus Traffic Association publication.

• Rail transit fare - 1980 

  This report on urban mass transit contains rail transit fare for major metropolitan areas. The list of acronyms will be useful when reading this table.

• Airfare - Government employee rates, 1983 

  Shows one-way fares in the U.S between these cities. These are discounted rates contracted for federal employees. See explanation here.

What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?

"The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of consumer goods and services" with respect to a given base year with value 100. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

What is inflation?

As measured with CPI, it is the percent change in the CPI between two different years, showing the "annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services". Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

CPI Inflation Formula: CPI_x-1-CPI_x ⁄_CPIx*100