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...........................................................  $17.42   $15.48   $17.00   $17.73   $21.53 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   28.70    26.59    27.26    28.33    31.15 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   33.01    31.70    31.53    33.62    34.48 
    Professional and related..........................................   26.27    22.79    24.52    25.77    29.55 
  Service.............................................................    9.60     9.20     8.25    10.05    11.68 
  Sales and office....................................................   14.52    13.47    18.28    14.35    15.30 
    Sales and related.................................................   15.45    13.78    25.69    13.94    25.82 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.01    13.23    14.43    14.57    14.61 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   20.59    19.81    19.63    23.69    22.97 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   21.78      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.57    18.28    18.38    22.57    21.95 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.29    13.53    14.58    15.29    18.18 
    Production........................................................   15.47    14.76    14.20    14.88    17.57 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.06    12.88    15.09    15.98    19.66 
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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...........................................................    1.7%     3.8%     2.8%     2.2%     5.9% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.6     10.6      5.2      4.5      2.8  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    7.7     19.7      5.7     10.5      4.6  
    Professional and related..........................................    2.5      3.7     11.0      5.0      2.6  
  Service.............................................................    2.5      4.0      2.5      3.3      5.2  
  Sales and office....................................................    2.4      4.4      7.3      3.3      4.0  
    Sales and related.................................................    7.3     10.0     12.5      6.4      9.2  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.6      2.3      4.7      3.9      3.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    4.7      6.4      6.8      2.7      8.2  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    4.9       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    4.9      7.1      5.1      4.1      7.7  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    2.1      5.6      3.4      4.8      5.2  
    Production........................................................    3.7     13.1      5.2      6.0      4.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.0      3.7      4.0      7.7     23.1  

  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.