Carrol Cox wrote:
How are supervisory employees defined? If they include, for example, such employees as the four managers assigned to Red Lobster restaurants, quite a few of those supervisory employees are probably nearer the second than the fifth quintile. 18 hour days for barely more than their waitresses get.
<http://bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/apr/wk4/art03.htm>
About one in five workers have supervisory role
Research indicates that approximately 1 in 5 full-time workers has some level of supervisory responsibility. About 9 percent are team leaders, 10 percent are first-line supervisors, 2 percent are second-line managers and fewer than 1 percent are third-line executives.
Share of full-time workers by level, all industries, 1997
Percent No supervisory role 78.0 Team leaders 9.0 Supervisors 10.0 Managers 2.0 Executives Less than 0.5 percent
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Find out more in James Smith, "Supervisory Duties and the National Compensation Survey" (PDF 92K), Compensation and Working Conditions, Spring 2000 <http://bls.gov/opub/cwc/archive/spring2000art2.pdf>.
