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...........................................................  $22.77   $18.75   $20.29   $22.61   $31.77 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   35.86    30.49    35.90    34.09    40.71 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   39.88    34.06    38.58    37.67    45.98 
    Professional and related..........................................   33.59    28.34    33.33    32.36    37.91 
  Service.............................................................   11.36    10.74     9.69    11.83    15.14 
  Sales and office....................................................   17.85    17.39    16.30    18.28    19.58 
    Sales and related.................................................   18.28    17.13    15.63    20.08    24.53 
    Office and administrative support.................................   17.55    17.68    16.67    17.04    18.54 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   23.74    20.65    26.03    28.88    25.84 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   24.70      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   22.40    18.92    21.11    26.54    24.92 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.14    14.71    15.20    15.00    16.67 
    Production........................................................   15.71    14.95    15.42    15.84    17.00 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.50    14.53    14.93    13.95    15.93 
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...........................................................    1.2%     2.7%     5.3%     3.0%     3.1% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.9      5.3      5.2      3.2      4.3  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    2.2      6.2      3.9      4.8      5.2  
    Professional and related..........................................    1.5      6.1      8.5      3.4      3.3  
  Service.............................................................    1.1      3.4      3.7      5.0      2.0  
  Sales and office....................................................    2.3      1.9      6.1      5.4      2.9  
    Sales and related.................................................    4.0      3.0     15.7      8.4     11.8  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.3      1.8      3.3      3.6      1.8  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    4.1      3.9     15.9      4.6      5.2  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    5.4       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.7      2.8      4.4      3.1      6.3  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    3.1      4.9      4.4      6.9      8.6  
    Production........................................................    4.5      7.1      4.1      8.3      8.0  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.0      7.1      8.0      5.3     22.6  

  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.