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...........................................................      –         $19.54      $15.89        –         $23.73        –         $19.02       $8.85      $16.32  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................      –          33.97       32.18        –          35.88        –          26.25       20.58       24.12  
    Management, business, and financial...............................      –          38.34       33.63        –          35.93        –          29.39       19.44       24.66  
    Professional and related..........................................      –          31.46       30.31        –          35.65        –          25.75       24.01       21.81  
  Service.............................................................      –          14.55       10.43        –          11.41        –          11.51        8.09       12.53  
  Sales and office....................................................      –          17.82       13.28        –          17.89        –          14.37       10.59       14.26  
    Sales and related.................................................      –          26.84       12.95        –          39.42        –          19.98        9.00        –     
    Office and administrative support.................................      –          16.29       13.89        –          13.85        –          14.22       11.10       12.91  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      –          20.77       19.25        –          18.81        –          21.30        –          18.55  
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      –          20.95       19.24        –          18.81        –          22.26        –          18.57  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          15.95       16.11        –          17.37        –          12.52        8.29       14.00  
    Production........................................................      –          16.03       18.09        –           –           –          12.80       10.57       17.67  
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          15.39       15.89        –          17.03        –          11.88        7.28       11.54  

  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.