Current Population Survey,
September 1997: Veteran's 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