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...........................................................  $18.34   $15.89   $16.92   $18.84   $23.54 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   33.15    27.68    34.31    36.76    35.02 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   35.20    29.29    37.19    36.05    40.58 
    Professional and related..........................................   31.82    26.47    32.02    37.22    32.12 
  Service.............................................................    9.53     9.01     8.40     9.95    11.57 
  Sales and office....................................................   14.95    14.65    15.03    14.95    15.76 
    Sales and related.................................................   15.41    15.34    15.41    15.00    17.14 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.62    14.04    14.76    14.92    15.34 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   17.54    16.06    17.62    18.56    21.96 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   16.24      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.39    17.01    20.77    20.24    22.04 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.12    12.71    12.84    13.38    18.99 
    Production........................................................   14.46    12.61    12.64    13.60    18.42 
    Transportation and material moving................................   13.77    12.78    12.97    13.13    20.33 
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                                                                        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...........................................................    2.7%     4.2%     2.6%     6.2%     3.3% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.8      5.0      3.6     11.3      1.4  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.6      5.4      5.8      4.4      1.9  
    Professional and related..........................................    6.2      6.3      5.4     19.2      1.3  
  Service.............................................................    2.1      2.8      3.7      2.1      3.1  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.8      3.0      4.3      3.9      1.6  
    Sales and related.................................................    3.4      5.5      8.5      6.1      5.8  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.3      1.9      2.4      3.0      1.5  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.7      2.0      4.5      2.8      4.4  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    2.0       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    2.0      5.0      5.0      4.5      5.9  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    2.3      5.0      2.5      3.0      5.4  
    Production........................................................    2.9      5.4      4.8      3.5      4.5  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.7      6.7      3.2      3.2     11.2  

  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.