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........................................................... – $19.39 $15.44 – $23.30 – $18.33 $9.25 $15.28 Management, professional, and related............................... – 36.34 31.79 – 31.84 – 26.44 16.38 23.23 Management, business, and financial............................... – 39.62 32.57 – 31.33 – 27.01 – 25.18 Professional and related.......................................... – 29.19 30.67 – 34.66 – 26.35 – – Service............................................................. – 14.52 11.56 – 11.34 – 10.01 7.90 9.77 Sales and office.................................................... – 17.82 13.21 – 20.51 – 13.59 11.57 15.67 Sales and related................................................. – 30.77 13.38 – 34.52 – 11.63 12.81 20.23 Office and administrative support................................. – 14.93 12.87 – 13.36 – 13.60 10.60 13.23 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – 21.29 20.46 – 15.98 – 14.40 – 18.25 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 21.32 20.31 – – – 14.39 – 18.25 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 15.33 15.00 – – – 9.17 8.44 10.36 Production........................................................ – 15.69 13.14 – – – 8.19 9.88 10.44 Transportation and material moving................................ – 13.52 15.21 – – – – 6.41 – 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.