RSE Table 19 Private industry sector(1): Relative standard errors(2) of mean hourly earnings(3) for major occupational groups Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Leisure Other Occupational group(4) tion turing tation, mation activities business health and services and services services hospitality utilities Relative error(5) All workers........................................................... – – – 10.7% 2.7% – 4.2% 5.3% 7.1% Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 11.8 4.7 – 2.8 11.6 14.0 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 11.9 3.4 – 7.8 2.9 19.9 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 10.5 12.7 – 3.4 3.5 5.1 Service............................................................. – – – – 17.0 – 2.0 5.9 12.4 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 5.7 7.8 – 4.7 3.6 8.8 Sales and related................................................. – – – 12.1 28.8 – 28.8 4.9 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 6.6 5.0 – 4.2 3.9 5.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 10.2 10.9 – 6.4 1.0 13.5 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 10.2 10.9 – 5.3 1.0 13.6 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – 6.2 – – 6.9 3.8 6.1 Production........................................................ – – – 3.4 – – – 3.0 8.5 Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 10.0 – – – 6.9 10.1 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. 3 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. 4 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 5 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.