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...........................................................    $25.43      $24.30      $18.43        –           –           –         $23.38        –           –     
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................     40.10       39.43       36.86        –           –           –          31.00        –           –     
    Management, business, and financial...............................     43.14       40.76       39.48        –           –           –          32.75        –           –     
    Professional and related..........................................      –          38.42       33.64        –           –           –          30.69        –           –     
  Service.............................................................      –          13.52       13.17        –           –           –          13.19        –           –     
  Sales and office....................................................     22.08       22.27       15.10        –           –           –          17.44        –           –     
    Sales and related.................................................      –          35.83       14.76        –           –           –          21.04        –           –     
    Office and administrative support.................................     19.47       18.78       15.94        –           –           –          17.30        –           –     
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................     24.69       21.70       22.53        –           –           –          24.40        –           –     
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................     26.36       21.32       22.41        –           –           –          22.74        –           –     
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          16.04       16.17        –           –           –          12.04        –           –     
    Production........................................................      –          16.33       18.69        –           –           –           –           –           –     
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          13.95       15.77        –           –           –          12.56        –           –     

  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.