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...........................................................  $18.26   $16.12   $16.04   $18.25   $24.42 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   33.66    30.02    28.01    35.43    37.71 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   39.17    35.11    35.03    38.84    44.97 
    Professional and related..........................................   30.38    27.10    23.32    33.16    33.76 
  Service.............................................................    8.61     8.47     7.90     8.59    10.34 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.02    14.90    15.04    14.62    16.01 
    Sales and related.................................................   15.84    15.71    16.61    15.30    18.10 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.45    14.14    14.11    14.10    15.58 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   18.03    16.53    19.34    19.11    19.53 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   17.35      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.22    18.14    21.02    18.56    23.64 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.16    13.09    12.79    13.76    17.91 
    Production........................................................   14.06    13.23    12.83    13.43    17.07 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.27    12.96    12.74    14.07    19.22 
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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...........................................................    1.4%     2.3%     2.5%     2.6%     3.2% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    2.7      5.3      2.7      6.1      3.4  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    3.1      4.4      5.8      5.3      5.6  
    Professional and related..........................................    3.4      7.6      5.0      7.8      1.9  
  Service.............................................................    2.8      3.9      3.4      2.6      9.8  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.3      3.9      4.3      4.8      3.0  
    Sales and related.................................................    2.2      6.4     10.3      8.3     17.4  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.3      3.1      3.3      2.5      2.0  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    2.6      3.1      8.3      7.8      8.3  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    4.6       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    2.0      3.3      4.1      4.6      5.1  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    3.4      4.7      4.2      2.5      6.6  
    Production........................................................    2.9      4.4      4.8      3.2      9.3  
    Transportation and material moving................................    6.7      9.2      6.2      4.0     12.5  

  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.