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...........................................................  $21.68   $18.53   $20.13   $21.58   $29.18 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   36.54    32.28    33.76    36.69    40.76 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   39.51    35.30    35.79    40.67    44.56 
    Professional and related..........................................   34.70    29.95    32.40    33.94    39.00 
  Service.............................................................   11.46    10.71    10.47    11.78    14.09 
  Sales and office....................................................   18.02    16.55    18.48    18.51    20.68 
    Sales and related.................................................   19.69    16.85    21.84    20.12    30.00 
    Office and administrative support.................................   17.07    16.35    16.07    17.52    18.56 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   22.47    20.65    24.44    23.53    26.28 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   23.10      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   21.74    19.76    23.13    22.54    27.04 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.57    13.88    14.73    15.01    21.26 
    Production........................................................   15.78    14.78    16.57    14.49    19.00 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.37    13.03    13.51    15.45    25.27 
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...........................................................    1.8%     1.5%     3.7%     1.6%     3.5% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.2      3.8      4.7      2.9       .8  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    3.5     10.5      4.5      6.0      2.6  
    Professional and related..........................................    2.1      3.5      6.7      7.5       .8  
  Service.............................................................    1.4      1.9      3.2      4.2      2.8  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.4      2.9      5.8      3.6      4.8  
    Sales and related.................................................    2.0      5.3     10.1     10.2     18.0  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.6      2.2      2.5      2.1      1.2  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    2.5      3.1      5.9      6.1      6.2  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    3.2       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    2.2      3.6      4.2      7.3      2.4  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    2.0      6.0      4.2      2.3      8.8  
    Production........................................................    2.2      8.0      5.5      2.4     10.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    2.8      4.9      4.0      3.3      7.3  

  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.