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...........................................................  $22.38   $18.84   $19.69   $21.76   $30.92 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   35.22    30.09    37.97    33.86    39.05 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   39.82    34.47    39.58    38.41    45.00 
    Professional and related..........................................   32.42    27.06    36.20    31.41    35.85 
  Service.............................................................   11.42    10.95     9.74    11.89    14.46 
  Sales and office....................................................   17.90    17.44    15.38    18.45    19.88 
    Sales and related.................................................   19.00    18.29    14.33    19.98    26.61 
    Office and administrative support.................................   17.15    16.64    15.94    17.26    18.56 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   23.68    21.10    26.09    28.09    24.88 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   24.66      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   22.40    21.06    22.06    24.05    23.92 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.54    13.94    14.26    14.18    17.71 
    Production........................................................   15.28    14.37    15.02    15.07    17.68 
    Transportation and material moving................................   13.55    13.55    13.26    12.84    17.79 
B
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                        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...........................................................    1.9%     2.5%     4.6%     3.1%     3.1% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    2.4      3.0      5.5      2.7      5.1  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.5      6.7      2.9      3.0      7.4  
    Professional and related..........................................    1.2      4.8     10.2      3.6      2.0  
  Service.............................................................     .9      2.9      4.7      5.2      1.7  
  Sales and office....................................................    2.1      2.4      5.0      4.9      2.8  
    Sales and related.................................................    3.4      3.2     11.4      8.0      9.7  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.5      1.7      2.8      3.6      2.3  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    2.3      4.6      9.9      4.2      7.0  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    2.9       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................     .9      5.3      9.2      2.4      8.8  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    3.2      5.3      6.5      5.4      5.8  
    Production........................................................    4.3     10.6      7.3      6.2      7.5  
    Transportation and material moving................................    2.4      2.9      7.3      4.3     25.6  

  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.