Table 29 Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1)of State and local government establishments for major occupational groups State 500 Occupational group(2) and local 1-49 50-99 100-499 workers government workers workers workers or more workers All workers........................................................... $25.08 $18.90 $20.26 $23.23 $26.69 Management, professional, and related............................... 31.83 24.00 25.91 30.15 33.22 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.08 26.85 33.67 34.30 35.35 Professional and related.......................................... 31.30 22.01 23.60 29.16 32.78 Service............................................................. 18.46 16.10 16.87 17.66 19.14 Sales and office.................................................... 16.76 14.45 15.22 16.27 17.42 Sales and related................................................. 16.26 12.89 16.36 14.35 18.17 Office and administrative support................................. 16.78 14.55 15.09 16.34 17.40 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 20.11 16.92 16.12 19.36 22.06 Construction and extraction...................................... 19.38 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 21.04 18.34 17.34 20.41 22.22 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 18.59 16.02 16.53 16.81 19.80 Production........................................................ 20.62 17.66 18.97 20.72 22.01 Transportation and material moving................................ 17.95 14.84 15.20 15.18 19.30 B State 500 and local 1-49 50-99 100-499 workers government workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) workers Relative error(3) Relative error(3) All workers........................................................... 0.8% 2.4% 2.4% 1.5% 0.8% Management, professional, and related............................... .9 3.3 2.8 1.5 .9 Management, business, and financial............................... 2.1 5.4 4.3 3.1 2.6 Professional and related.......................................... .8 3.1 3.0 1.6 .9 Service............................................................. 1.4 4.4 5.6 2.9 1.4 Sales and office.................................................... 1.1 2.5 2.5 2.2 1.4 Sales and related................................................. 5.7 9.2 12.4 16.2 8.0 Office and administrative support................................. 1.1 2.6 2.2 2.2 1.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 1.7 4.1 3.0 2.6 2.4 Construction and extraction...................................... 2.2 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 1.6 7.4 4.1 3.7 1.9 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 2.2 2.8 4.9 4.0 2.5 Production........................................................ 3.3 5.1 8.4 6.0 5.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 2.9 5.0 5.8 3.8 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.