RSE Table 19                                                                                                       Private industry sector(1): Relative standard errors(2) of mean
                                                                                                                                  hourly earnings(3) for major occupational groups
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                           Goods producing                                      Service providing                                 
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                  Trade,                             Profes-    Education                         
                                                                        Construc-    Manufac-   transpor-     Infor-    Financial   sional and     and       Leisure      Other   
                        Occupational group(4)                              tion       turing     tation,      mation    activities   business     health       and       services 
                                                                                                   and                               services    services  hospitality            
                                                                                                utilities                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                    Relative error(5)                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
All workers...........................................................      –          5.2%        2.5%         –           –           –          8.8%        3.8%         –     
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................      –          2.2         3.9          –           –           –         12.2         7.1          –     
    Management, business, and financial...............................      –          5.1         3.9          –           –           –          4.8         9.8          –     
    Professional and related..........................................      –          1.8         8.0          –           –           –         14.3         7.6          –     
  Service.............................................................      –          9.1         3.4          –           –           –          2.4         3.4          –     
  Sales and office....................................................      –          4.9         2.8          –           –           –          2.1         4.1          –     
    Sales and related.................................................      –          9.4         4.0          –           –           –         16.3         7.5          –     
    Office and administrative support.................................      –          4.3         1.7          –           –           –          2.1         7.0          –     
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      –          4.3         3.2          –           –           –          7.5        15.8          –     
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      –          5.0         3.1          –           –           –          8.5        16.1          –     
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          3.2         4.2          –           –           –          4.5         7.3          –     
    Production........................................................      –          3.3         7.7          –           –           –          4.1        10.1          –     
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          3.0         4.7          –           –           –          5.0         6.0          –     

  1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
  2 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.
  3 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.
  4 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.
  5 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.