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........................................................... – 6.5% – – – – 4.4% 7.6% 13.0% Management, professional, and related............................... – 3.8 – – – – 5.6 1.6 9.6 Management, business, and financial............................... – 2.4 – – – – 8.5 2.3 8.6 Professional and related.......................................... – 3.8 – – – – 6.0 – 46.9 Service............................................................. – 12.1 – – – – 3.0 6.6 6.4 Sales and office.................................................... – 6.1 – – – – 3.6 3.1 22.8 Sales and related................................................. – 10.3 – – – – 5.4 8.5 30.7 Office and administrative support................................. – 3.1 – – – – 3.6 2.5 14.5 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 11.1 – – – – 2.6 – 10.5 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 11.5 – – – – 3.2 – 10.5 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 7.6 – – – – 5.0 10.8 12.9 Production........................................................ – 7.9 – – – – 9.2 3.2 14.3 Transportation and material moving................................ – 6.6 – – – – – 11.3 – 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.