Current Population Survey,
February 1998: Displaced Worker and Employee Tenure Supplement

ATTACHMENT 13
TOPCODING OF USUAL HOURLY EARNINGS

This variable will be topcoded based on an individual's usual hours worked variable, if the individual's edited usual weekly earnings variable is $999. The topcode is computed such that the product of usual hours times usual hourly does not exceed an annualized wage of $100,000 ($1,923.07 per week). Below is a list of the appropriate topcodes.

Topcodes 1 to 33 Topcodes 34 to 66 Topcodes 67 to 99

Hours Topcode
1 None
2 None
3 None
4 None
5 None
6 None
7 None
8 None
9 None
10 None
11 None
12 None
13 None
14 None
15 None
16 None
17 None
18 None
19 None
20 $96.15
21 $91.57
22 $87.41
23 $83.61
24 $80.12
25 $76.92
26 $73.96
27 $71.22
28 $68.68
29 $66.31
30 $64.10
31 $62.03
32 $60.09
33 $58.27
Hours Topcode
34 $56.56
35 $54.94
36 $53.41
37 $51.97
38 $50.60
39 $49.30
40 $48.07
41 $46.90
42 $45.78
43 $44.72
44 $43.70
45 $42.73
46 $41.80
47 $40.91
48 $40.06
49 $39.24
50 $38.46
51 $37.70
52 $36.98
53 $36.28
54 $35.61
55 $34.96
56 $34.34
57 $33.73
58 $33.15
59 $32.59
60 $32.05
61 $31.52
62 $31.01
63 $30.52
64 $30.04
65 $29.58
66 $29.13
Hours Topcode
67 $28.70
68 $28.28
69 $27.87
70 $27.47
71 $27.08
72 $26.70
73 $26.34
74 $25.98
75 $25.64
76 $25.30
77 $24.97
78 $24.65
79 $24.34
80 $24.03
81 $23.74
82 $23.45
83 $23.16
84 $22.89
85 $22.62
86 $22.36
87 $22.10
88 $21.85
89 $21.60
90 $21.36
91 $21.13
92 $20.90
93 $20.67
94 $20.45
95 $20.24
96 $20.03
97 $19.82
98 $19.62
99 $19.42

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau