Table SA07 presents BEA's State estimates of wage and salary disbursements for Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) two-digit industries. These estimates are on a place-of-work basis.
The principal source data for the State estimates of wage and salary disbursements are from the ES-202 series provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ES-202 series provides monthly employment and quarterly wages for each State (and county) in SIC four-digit detail. BEA restricts its wage and salary estimates to the SIC Division ("one-digit") and two-digit levels and suppresses these estimates in many individual cases in order to preclude the disclosure of information about individual employers.
Greater detail of the BEA State-level personal income methodology is located in the METHODS sub-directory of the SPI CD–ROM. Please read the file README.DOC in that directory, or in the SPI application select an item from the "Personal Income Methodology" submenu of the "Documentation" menu.