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...........................................................  $19.37   $17.14   $18.13   $18.29   $25.00 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   32.05    27.70    32.80    31.94    35.34 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   35.41    29.60    32.39    38.96    39.45 
    Professional and related..........................................   30.25    26.58    33.10    28.19    33.51 
  Service.............................................................   10.01     9.43     8.74    10.27    12.30 
  Sales and office....................................................   16.22    16.41    15.92    15.14    17.78 
    Sales and related.................................................   18.01    18.53    18.57    15.96    22.35 
    Office and administrative support.................................   15.24    14.75    14.62    14.67    17.14 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   21.65    18.73    25.01    23.22    26.83 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   23.03      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.57    17.37    23.07    21.18    25.96 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   16.18    14.19    14.31    15.06    21.07 
    Production........................................................   16.77    14.74    14.17    15.36    21.55 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.32    13.69    14.49    14.57    20.05 
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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...........................................................    1.0%     2.6%     4.8%     2.2%     1.4% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.6      4.9      9.5      1.8      1.2  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.8      4.9      3.4      4.0      1.8  
    Professional and related..........................................    2.8      6.1     15.4      2.1      1.6  
  Service.............................................................    1.4      2.7      3.3      2.4      3.1  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.4      5.3      2.8      4.5      3.0  
    Sales and related.................................................    4.1     11.1      5.9      9.2      9.4  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.5      1.9      2.3      1.8      2.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    3.5      4.7      3.5      3.2      3.1  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    4.5       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    3.3      4.5      6.4      2.6      5.0  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     .8      2.0      3.1      1.2      2.0  
    Production........................................................     .9      3.4      2.5      1.9      2.8  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.5      3.6      5.0      3.9      3.3  

  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.