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- adjective Not of a
supervisory character; not engaged insupervision
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Examples
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His key descriptive, "nonsupervisory," is telling.
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Their weakness hinges on the fact that most establishments have no clear meaning for "nonsupervisory" and "production workers," and even if they did, do not keep separate records on hours and pay for this subgroup.
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The federal minimum wage buys a lot less today; it represented just 38 percent of the average hourly wage for private, nonsupervisory workers in 2010, down from 47 percent in 1970, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fighting Spending Cuts in Ohio, NYT Focuses on Union Jobs, Not $8B Deficit Clay Waters 2011
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Taking the 88 million workers βin production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls,β 17 million work in education and health services, 11 million work in leisure and hospitality, 12 million work in retail, 13.5 million work in business and professional services, and 12.8 million work in manufacturing.
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The 1.6 percent drop in average weekly earnings for nonsupervisory workers was the worst annual performance since a 2.5 percent decline in 1990.
Matthew Yglesias » Earnings Dropping, Energy Prices Rising 2010
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The average real hourly wage of production and nonsupervisory workers, who make up 80 percent of the private work force, actually fell over the last 12 months; the increase in the wage rate was one percentage point less than the inflation rate.
Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees rose $0.05 to $18.96.
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Indeed, real wages of nonsupervisory workers today are 15-20% lower than they were in 1973 (depending on the data series), the beginning of a long decline and stagnation in real wages.
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If real wages had risen along with productivity in the last almost 40 years, the current average real annual wage for nonsupervisory workers would be somewhere around $60,000 per year, instead of slightly over $30,000 per year today.
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Earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees also fell by 0.1%, to $18.90.
Employers Added Most Jobs in Three Years in March Luca Di Leo 2010
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