The average compensation for the nearly 87,000 employees will be around $375.

In 1977, average compensation for a major league player rose 50 percent to $76,000.

After five years, average total compensation for firefighters is $76,000.

The average compensation per employee in 2001 fell 23 percent from a year earlier, it said.

With the addition of overtime, the company says the average annual compensation for that grade would be about $24,900.

The 2013 list cited the reason that the reported average annual compensation for an employee was more than $300,000.

The average total compensation for each company's top officer rose about 4 percent to $6.7 million in 1995 from $6.44 million a year earlier.

But these figures pale in comparison with average total compensation of more than $2 million during the boom.

Indeed, a Koch administration analysis conducted before the market drop found that the average annual compensation in the industry was $65,000.

Today's manufacturing jobs provide an average yearly compensation of $49,000 per worker, nearly 17 percent higher than in the private sector overall.