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...........................................................  $18.37   $16.28   $17.63   $18.78   $22.82 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   30.33    27.79    26.95    31.67    32.40 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   33.95    32.10    32.01    35.36    35.44 
    Professional and related..........................................   28.22    24.05    24.38    29.91    30.81 
  Service.............................................................   10.07     9.58     9.13    10.71    12.08 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.04    14.09    19.08    14.71    15.42 
    Sales and related.................................................   15.91    14.36    26.49    13.48    23.33 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.57    13.88    14.89    15.38    14.79 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   21.22    20.44    19.92    23.67    25.21 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   22.62      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.99    19.08    17.93    22.50    22.87 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.61    14.10    14.90    15.44    18.22 
    Production........................................................   15.88    15.44    14.84    15.32    17.52 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.24    13.30    14.98    15.66    20.24 
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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...........................................................    1.6%     2.9%     3.3%     3.8%     5.3% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.2      6.8      4.7      7.7      2.3  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.7     13.8      6.8      3.9      4.6  
    Professional and related..........................................    4.4      4.4      9.1     12.1      2.3  
  Service.............................................................    2.3      3.4      4.1      2.4      6.5  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.7      2.8      6.9      2.1      3.6  
    Sales and related.................................................    5.0      6.8      9.8      4.1     15.4  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.3      2.4      4.3      2.0      3.1  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    3.9      5.3      7.5      3.8      9.1  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    5.0       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    4.4      5.5      5.7      4.3      7.4  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    1.5      5.2      1.9      3.7      4.7  
    Production........................................................    3.0     10.7      2.4      4.4      3.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.1      3.9      2.9      5.2     22.0  

  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.