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...........................................................  $17.05   $15.30   $17.17   $17.07   $19.19 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   30.25    26.04    35.70    30.34    31.96 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   33.83    24.93    44.80    34.13    37.30 
    Professional and related..........................................   27.93    26.78    29.64    28.56    27.86 
  Service.............................................................    9.09     9.25     8.98     9.28     8.91 
  Sales and office....................................................   14.76    13.77    15.02    15.66    15.65 
    Sales and related.................................................   16.88    14.68    17.92    18.80    21.65 
    Office and administrative support.................................   13.40    13.00    13.65    13.58    13.77 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   17.97    16.32    16.33    18.47    24.11 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   15.90      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.89    17.73    17.90    20.08    24.22 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.80    12.36    13.01    14.17    18.92 
    Production........................................................   15.16    12.77    12.60    13.63    19.67 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.39    12.14    13.45    14.89    17.59 
B
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                        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...........................................................    4.6%     2.6%     3.8%     4.3%    17.9% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.5      6.5     13.3      4.4      5.4  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.6      4.6      9.4      4.7      6.1  
    Professional and related..........................................    4.4      9.1     11.6      5.7      4.5  
  Service.............................................................    2.8      1.7      4.8      2.2     10.5  
  Sales and office....................................................    5.6      2.6      7.2     10.0     10.1  
    Sales and related.................................................   10.4      4.3     14.7     20.7     31.7  
    Office and administrative support.................................    2.5      3.8      6.3      3.7      4.8  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    5.2      3.0      5.9      8.6     12.5  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    2.6       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    8.0      5.6     12.6      6.3     13.5  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    3.9      2.3      4.0      2.5      9.7  
    Production........................................................    5.5      8.5      5.0      3.4     11.6  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.3      4.6      5.7      3.0      6.7  

  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.