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...........................................................    $18.51      $19.31      $16.58      $26.84        –           –         $17.21       $8.34      $13.44  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................     39.40       38.96       35.87       34.35        –           –          25.98       27.39       20.89  
    Management, business, and financial...............................     35.69       42.80       38.34       38.62        –           –          27.91       28.08       22.98  
    Professional and related..........................................     48.10       36.05       33.32       32.35        –           –          25.74       24.52       18.95  
  Service.............................................................      –          11.91       11.91        7.38        –           –           9.76        7.10       10.18  
  Sales and office....................................................     20.17       18.46       13.65       21.37        –           –          13.47       10.88       13.82  
    Sales and related.................................................     46.93       27.05       13.72       27.93        –           –          20.68       10.28       14.93  
    Office and administrative support.................................     15.26       16.37       13.47       18.79        –           –          13.21       11.34       13.13  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................     15.82       17.27       19.54       26.29        –           –          13.49       15.13       16.73  
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................     18.37       19.46       20.09       26.29        –           –          13.54       15.10       17.04  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     15.13       14.18       15.52       14.86        –           –           9.97        8.58        9.17  
    Production........................................................     15.77       14.53       14.46       16.78        –           –          10.04        9.86        9.56  
    Transportation and material moving................................     14.73       12.62       15.75       12.83        –           –           9.93        8.03        8.49  

  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.