RSE Table 19 Private industry sector(1): Relative standard errors(2) of mean hourly earnings(3) for major occupational groups Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Leisure Other Occupational group(4) tion turing tation, mation activities business health and services and services services hospitality utilities Relative error(5) All workers........................................................... – 2.9% 2.3% – 7.7% – 5.9% 3.3% 6.0% Management, professional, and related............................... – 2.2 7.4 – 11.1 – 8.3 7.2 10.6 Management, business, and financial............................... – 4.8 9.1 – 12.9 – 6.4 7.9 10.5 Professional and related.......................................... – 2.9 9.8 – 11.0 – 9.2 28.4 22.2 Service............................................................. – 9.8 4.1 – 14.3 – 2.6 3.2 7.5 Sales and office.................................................... – 6.1 3.0 – 6.4 – 1.4 3.9 9.9 Sales and related................................................. – 20.9 3.9 – 9.0 – 13.2 6.3 – Office and administrative support................................. – 3.2 3.5 – 2.2 – 1.9 5.3 7.6 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 4.2 4.7 – 10.4 – 10.9 – 11.7 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 4.2 3.6 – 10.4 – 10.0 – 11.9 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 2.4 3.7 – 11.7 – 7.9 4.4 22.3 Production........................................................ – 2.7 17.2 – – – 10.7 6.3 39.0 Transportation and material moving................................ – 4.1 3.5 – 16.0 – 2.6 5.8 5.7 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. 3 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. 4 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 5 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.