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........................................................... $22.11 $18.86 $21.73 $21.44 $28.27 Management, professional, and related............................... 36.55 31.71 38.31 34.07 41.26 Management, business, and financial............................... 41.93 36.35 45.92 37.35 49.04 Professional and related.......................................... 33.59 28.90 33.24 32.11 37.74 Service............................................................. 11.77 10.37 10.82 11.98 14.53 Sales and office.................................................... 17.74 17.50 17.65 16.92 19.56 Sales and related................................................. 18.97 19.20 18.60 17.39 22.44 Office and administrative support................................. 17.01 16.11 17.22 16.62 18.84 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.22 21.29 23.98 28.74 27.98 Construction and extraction...................................... 26.79 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.03 19.42 23.62 23.85 26.50 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.79 14.24 14.46 15.52 19.98 Production........................................................ 16.06 14.49 15.28 16.13 18.51 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.53 14.07 13.51 14.82 21.76 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........................................................... 1.4% 2.7% 1.9% 2.7% 2.5% Management, professional, and related............................... 1.3 6.3 3.4 2.8 4.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 3.3 4.8 5.4 2.0 8.7 Professional and related.......................................... 2.6 9.7 4.2 4.9 3.6 Service............................................................. 3.6 3.4 3.3 2.7 5.7 Sales and office.................................................... 1.3 3.6 4.0 3.4 6.0 Sales and related................................................. 2.6 3.5 8.7 6.7 22.4 Office and administrative support................................. 1.1 3.7 3.3 2.8 2.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.7 6.5 5.1 4.3 5.5 Construction and extraction...................................... 4.0 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.0 4.9 7.3 4.3 3.1 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 1.9 1.8 2.6 2.8 5.8 Production........................................................ 2.0 6.2 2.5 1.6 5.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 4.0 4.0 6.2 5.1 9.1 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.