Table 19 Private industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Leisure Other tion turing tation, mation activities business health and services and services services hospitality utilities All workers........................................................... – $21.98 – – – – $19.17 – – Management, professional, and related............................... – 35.51 – – – – 26.46 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 40.88 – – – – 33.17 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 33.26 – – – – 25.32 – – Service............................................................. – 12.95 – – – – 11.05 – – Sales and office.................................................... – 21.77 – – – – 13.46 – – Sales and related................................................. – 44.37 – – – – 15.25 – – Office and administrative support................................. – 15.02 – – – – 13.41 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 23.38 – – – – 16.72 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 24.06 – – – – 15.98 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 14.48 – – – – 10.70 – – Production........................................................ – 14.52 – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 14.26 – – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. 3 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.