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........................................................... – $23.79 – – – – $22.49 – – Management, professional, and related............................... – 38.07 – – – – 29.29 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 39.42 – – – – 31.43 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 37.17 – – – – 28.90 – – Service............................................................. – 16.48 – – – – 13.31 – – Sales and office.................................................... – 22.05 – – – – 16.92 – – Sales and related................................................. – 33.47 – – – – 22.80 – – Office and administrative support................................. – 18.68 – – – – 16.81 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 20.89 – – – – 22.99 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 20.56 – – – – 21.34 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 15.62 – – – – 11.75 – – Production........................................................ – 15.86 – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 13.74 – – – – 12.16 – – 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.