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...........................................................      –         $18.96        –           –           –           –         $20.41        –           –     
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................      –          34.74        –           –           –           –          29.38        –           –     
    Management, business, and financial...............................      –          38.28        –           –           –           –          28.79        –           –     
    Professional and related..........................................      –          32.32        –           –           –           –          29.48        –           –     
  Service.............................................................      –          10.91        –           –           –           –          10.97        –           –     
  Sales and office....................................................      –          18.75        –           –           –           –          13.65        –           –     
    Sales and related.................................................      –          31.42        –           –           –           –          16.25        –           –     
    Office and administrative support.................................      –          16.39        –           –           –           –          13.55        –           –     
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      –          19.43        –           –           –           –          16.87        –           –     
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      –          19.98        –           –           –           –          15.86        –           –     
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          14.58        –           –           –           –          11.95        –           –     
    Production........................................................      –          15.03        –           –           –           –          13.53        –           –     
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          12.30        –           –           –           –          10.32        –           –     

  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.