Table 19                                                                                                                       Private industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2)
                                                                                                                                                     for major occupational groups
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                           Goods producing                                      Service providing                                 
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                        Occupational group(3)                                                     Trade,                             Profes-    Education                         
                                                                        Construc-    Manufac-   transpor-     Infor-    Financial   sional and     and       Leisure      Other   
                                                                           tion       turing     tation,      mation    activities   business     health       and       services 
                                                                                                   and                               services    services  hospitality            
                                                                                                utilities                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
All workers...........................................................      –         $21.22        –           –           –           –         $20.44       $9.03      $16.04  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................      –          36.35        –           –           –           –          28.32       25.02       28.09  
    Management, business, and financial...............................      –          41.76        –           –           –           –          31.43       25.46       32.93  
    Professional and related..........................................      –          32.18        –           –           –           –          27.98       23.86       22.52  
  Service.............................................................      –          14.76        –           –           –           –          11.43        8.24       12.47  
  Sales and office....................................................      –          18.40        –           –           –           –          14.40       10.84       14.85  
    Sales and related.................................................      –          23.92        –           –           –           –          13.59        9.32       14.78  
    Office and administrative support.................................      –          16.94        –           –           –           –          14.41       11.74       14.86  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      –          23.91        –           –           –           –          19.88       14.33       16.37  
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      –          23.82        –           –           –           –          19.18       14.44       16.37  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          17.47        –           –           –           –          11.90        9.03       11.34  
    Production........................................................      –          17.73        –           –           –           –          12.61       11.80       13.23  
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          15.85        –           –           –           –          11.45        7.83        9.51  

  1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
  2 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.
  3 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.