Table 27 Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of workers in civilian establishments for major occupational groups Civilian 1-49 50-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) workers workers workers workers workers or more All workers........................................................... $19.29 $16.19 $17.45 $18.81 $23.93 Management, professional, and related............................... 31.45 27.39 30.90 31.46 33.50 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.89 30.37 34.26 35.34 37.95 Professional and related.......................................... 29.76 25.42 28.44 29.43 31.84 Service............................................................. 11.31 9.30 8.97 11.21 14.50 Sales and office.................................................... 15.46 14.79 15.78 15.39 16.60 Sales and related................................................. 16.57 15.56 18.14 16.46 20.56 Office and administrative support................................. 14.86 14.15 14.33 14.78 15.97 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 19.49 17.62 20.16 20.85 22.53 Construction and extraction...................................... 19.46 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.70 17.59 20.58 20.60 22.59 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.78 13.04 13.19 14.05 19.20 Production........................................................ 15.11 13.34 13.63 14.08 19.00 Transportation and material moving................................ 14.42 12.81 12.79 14.01 19.50 B Civilian 1-49 50-99 100-499 500 workers workers workers workers workers Occupational group(2) or more Relative error(3) All workers........................................................... 1.2% 0.9% 1.4% 0.8% 2.8% Management, professional, and related............................... .8 1.7 2.0 1.0 1.1 Management, business, and financial............................... 1.2 2.2 2.0 1.8 2.0 Professional and related.......................................... 1.0 2.4 3.0 1.5 1.0 Service............................................................. 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.0 7.1 Sales and office.................................................... .7 1.1 2.3 1.7 1.8 Sales and related................................................. 1.4 2.3 5.5 4.0 7.6 Office and administrative support................................. .7 .8 1.1 .9 1.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 1.3 1.5 3.6 2.2 2.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 1.5 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 1.6 2.0 2.8 1.7 2.7 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... .9 2.0 1.6 1.1 1.8 Production........................................................ 1.1 3.1 1.9 1.4 2.5 Transportation and material moving................................ 1.2 1.9 2.1 1.3 2.4 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 2 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.