Wyoming Unemployment Insurance
Wage Record Summary Statistics UPDATE

Data Provided by: Brett Judd

This month Research & Planning added new information to the wage record summary statistics and changed the way some of the statistics are calculated. We added a category for pseudo Social Security Numbers (SSN’s) in each quarter starting with first quarter 1995. When the quarterly reports from employers are entered into the computer, pseudo SSN’s are used when an employer doesn’t report an employee’s social security number. Some of these pseudo SSN’s (that start with 000) contain wages for more than one individual. The purpose of separating the pseudo SSN’s and the wages associated with them is to keep these numbers from skewing the mean wages of real SSN’s.

We also changed the way we calculate the Total Wages for one job, two jobs, etc. Previously, the Total Wages for one job were the total wages for each person’s first job, regardless if they were working one, two, three, or more jobs. Now the Total Wages for one job only include the wages earned by people who only worked one job. This changes the Mean Wages per Quarter. Now the Mean Wage per Quarter for one job is the average wage of people who only worked one job. Similarly, the Mean Wage per Quarter for two jobs is the average total wages of those individuals who worked two jobs. It is interesting that as the number of jobs worked increases, the average quarterly wage falls. There are several possible explanations for this phenomenon: People could be people moving from one job to another or it could also reflect the idea that people who have a relatively high paying first job don’t feel the need to work a second or third job.

A third change is the way the 92 Participation is figured for the annual average. 92 Participation was first included in the wage records download that appeared in the August issue of Trends. It shows how many of the 267,453 people who worked sometime in 1992 were still working in the quarter in question. In the August issue the 1995 annual average 92 Participation was 147,069, but this was actually the fourth quarter 1995 92 Participation. For the annual averages, we decided to count anyone who worked at all during the entire year. By using this new method, we found 174,370 people who worked in 1992 working sometime during 1995.

As usual, the tables also show changes that have been made to the wage record database since the end of June (the end of the second quarter of 1996). Data for the first quarter of 1995 has just become finalized and the other quarters have also been adjusted. For a detailed explanation of wage records, refer to the May 1995 issue of Trends.

General Definition of Terms Used in the Wage Tables:

The following is a brief explanation of the terms used in the report:

Wage Record Tables:

First Quarter 1995 - Fourth Quarter 1995

Including Annual Average and Totals for 1995

FIRST QUARTER 1995 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 229,437 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 153,318
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 203,339 100.000% $1,064,093,206 100.000% $5,233 1.13 393,358 7,843
One Job 180,337 88.688 969,436,102 91.104 5,376
Two Jobs 20,317 9.992 84,722,263 7.962 4,170
Three Jobs 2,337 1.149 8,804,894 0.827 3,768
Four Jobs or More 342 0.168 1,058,618 0.099 3,095
* Pseudo SSN's 6 0.003 71,329 0.007 11,888
Total by Jobs 203,339 $1,064,093,206
SECOND QUARTER 1995 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 263,538 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 157,199
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 225,566 100.000% $1,142,545,459 100.000% $5,065 1.17 411,290 17,932
One Job 193,695 85.871 1,014,890,213 88.827 5,240
Two Jobs 26,990 11.965 107,774,745 9.433 3,993
Three Jobs 4,035 1.789 14,599,957 1.278 3,618
Four Jobs or More 657 0.291 2,100,566 0.184 3,197
* Pseudo SSN's 189 0.084 3,179,978 0.278 16,825
Total by Jobs 225,566 $1,142,545,459
THIRD QUARTER 1995 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 271,090 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 153,483
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 230,898 100.000% $1,132,627,121 100.000% $4,905 1.17 426,633 15,343
One Job 197,619 85.587 1,000,119,625 88.301 5,061
Two Jobs 27,977 12.117 111,286,514 9.826 3,978
Three Jobs 4,335 1.877 15,520,739 1.370 3,580
Four Jobs or More 774 0.335 2,710,941 0.239 3,503
* Pseudo SSN's 193 0.084 2,989,302 0.264 15,489
Total by Jobs 230,898 $1,132,627,121
FOURTH QUARTER 1995 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 243,403 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 147,194
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 211,881 100.000% $1,158,151,563 100.000% $5,466 1.15 435,359 8,726
One Job 185,000 87.313 1,041,496,717 89.927 5,630
Two Jobs 23,105 10.905 101,279,411 8.745 4,383
Three Jobs 3,130 1.477 12,200,779 1.053 3,898
Four Jobs or More 483 0.228 1,745,045 0.151 3,613
* Pseudo SSN's 163 0.077 1,429,611 0.123 8,771
Total by Jobs 211,881 $1,158,151,563
ANNUAL AVERAGE AND TOTALS 1995 .......... AVERAGE JOBS = 251,867 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 174,370
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Annual Average Wages # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's this Year
Average SSN's 217,921 100.000% $4,497,417,349 100.000% $20,638 1.16 435,359 49,844
One Job 189,163 86.803 4,025,942,657 89.517 21,283
Two Jobs 24,597 11.287 405,062,933 9.007 16,468
Three Jobs 3,459 1.587 51,126,369 1.137 14,780
Four Jobs or More 564 0.259 7,615,170 0.169 13,502
* Pseudo SSN's 138 0.063 7,670,220 0.171 55,682
Total by Jobs 217,921 $4,489,747,129

Wage Record Tables:

First Quarter 1996 - Second Quarter 1996

FIRST QUARTER 1996 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 220,275 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 138,892
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 196,435 100.000% $1,058,176,932 100.000% $5,387 1.12 442,492 7,133
One Job 175,926 89.559 968,323,381 91.509 5,504
Two Jobs 18,179 9.254 78,529,221 7.421 4,320
Three Jobs 1,986 1.011 7,656,132 0.724 3,855
Four Jobs or More 260 0.132 924,190 0.087 3,555
* Pseudo SSN's 84 0.043 2,744,008 0.259 32,667
Total by Jobs 196,435 $1,058,176,932
SECOND QUARTER 1996 .......... TOTAL JOBS = 249,095 .......... 92 PARTICIPATION = 141,766
Count % of Total SSN's Total Wages % of Total Mean Wages per Quarter # of Jobs per SSN Total Unique SSN's to Date New SSN's This Quarter
Total SSN's 214,454 100.000% $1,114,470,663 100.000% $5,197 1.16 457,005 14,513
One Job 185,511 86.504 995,790,531 89.351 5,368
Two Jobs 24,924 11.622 102,211,835 9.171 4,101
Three Jobs 3,374 1.573 12,328,103 1.106 3,654
Four Jobs or More 486 0.227 1,709,753 0.153 3,518
* Pseudo SSN's 159 0.074 2,430,441 0.218 15,286
Total by Jobs 214,454 $1,114,470,663


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