Table 14                                       Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of workers in private
                                                              industry establishments for major occupational groups
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                        Private   1-49     50-99   100-499    500  
                        Occupational group(2)                          industry  workers  workers  workers  workers
                                                                        workers                             or more
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................  $17.93   $16.49   $17.50   $18.52   $20.52 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   30.38    25.72    29.92    33.62    33.55 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   34.74    29.60    35.61    34.90    40.93 
    Professional and related..........................................   28.30    24.00    25.93    32.94    30.70 
  Service.............................................................    9.46     8.85     9.03     9.84    10.40 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.28    15.15    17.42    14.53    14.87 
    Sales and related.................................................   16.93    16.79    19.68    16.03      –   
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.15    13.89    15.24    13.38    14.92 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   18.54    18.90    19.08    16.47    22.11 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   17.81      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.05    18.25    22.62    22.40    22.56 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.92    13.75    13.49    15.46    17.87 
    Production........................................................   14.79    13.49    13.71    16.45    15.31 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.02    13.87    13.29    14.71    20.32 
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                                                                        Private   1-49     50-99   100-499    500  
                                                                       industry  workers  workers  workers  workers
                        Occupational group(2)                           workers                             or more
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                     Relative error(3)             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                       
                                                                                    Relative error(3)
                                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................    3.7%     2.5%     4.4%     4.7%    18.8% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    5.8      3.2      8.1      6.6      8.2  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    6.9      4.1     12.3      8.3      8.1  
    Professional and related..........................................    5.3      4.9      6.9      9.2      8.8  
  Service.............................................................    1.8      2.5      3.7      5.8      7.0  
  Sales and office....................................................    2.6      5.6      9.8      5.3     17.7  
    Sales and related.................................................    4.5     12.8     19.5     10.9       –   
    Office and administrative support.................................    3.2      1.7      3.7      3.7      8.2  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    4.1      3.0      4.8     13.4      6.5  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    6.1       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.4      3.6     17.4      5.9     13.4  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    4.0      3.6      5.9      9.5      5.5  
    Production........................................................    6.0      7.1      5.4     14.0     11.8  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.4      4.7      8.4      7.4      5.0  

  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.