Table 28                                       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...........................................................  $19.92   $17.38   $18.68   $19.79   $25.35 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   34.13    29.77    33.36    34.30    37.88 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   38.17    32.52    37.86    38.92    43.18 
    Professional and related..........................................   31.82    28.03    30.16    31.66    35.27 
  Service.............................................................   10.29     9.77     9.33    10.65    11.70 
  Sales and office....................................................   16.27    15.76    16.79    16.01    17.67 
    Sales and related.................................................   17.35    16.62    18.92    16.69    22.29 
    Office and administrative support.................................   15.60    15.05    15.56    15.56    16.64 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   20.88    19.17    21.42    22.70    24.49 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   21.05      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.82    18.94    21.59    21.90    24.37 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.43    13.79    14.08    14.93    19.76 
    Production........................................................   15.85    14.37    14.39    15.11    19.38 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.97    13.34    13.76    14.72    20.44 
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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...........................................................    0.8%     1.0%     1.4%     0.9%     3.9% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................     .6      1.9      2.1      1.2      1.5  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.1      2.3      1.9      1.8      2.5  
    Professional and related..........................................     .9      2.6      3.4      2.0      1.3  
  Service.............................................................    1.2      1.0      1.4      1.3      8.4  
  Sales and office....................................................     .6      1.3      1.8      1.4      2.4  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.3      2.5      3.5      2.8      8.2  
    Office and administrative support.................................     .5       .8      1.4       .8      1.5  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.1      1.6      2.6      2.0      2.9  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    1.6       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.2      2.1      2.4      1.5      2.7  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     .7      1.4      1.3       .9      1.8  
    Production........................................................     .9      2.2      1.4      1.2      2.0  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.1      1.7      1.9      1.4      3.4  

  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.