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...........................................................  $18.93   $16.83   $18.65   $20.22   $21.98 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   32.36    27.47    31.28    35.77    35.29 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   35.64    29.31    34.94    38.68    40.65 
    Professional and related..........................................   30.72    26.58    28.70    34.24    33.04 
  Service.............................................................    9.87     9.18     9.40    10.31    11.01 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.59    14.89    19.09    15.22    15.59 
    Sales and related.................................................   17.15    15.82    22.31    17.33    16.58 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.55    14.10    16.40    13.80    15.34 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   19.78    19.83    16.95    21.36    22.82 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   19.02      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   21.19    19.54    21.31    24.55    23.98 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.77    14.44    13.81    16.89    18.29 
    Production........................................................   16.41    14.42    14.06    19.55    15.98 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.31    14.44    13.67    14.42    20.14 
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...........................................................    2.7%     2.7%     4.1%     3.7%    14.5% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.5      2.3      6.6      6.1      6.7  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.4      3.4      7.8      7.7      8.3  
    Professional and related..........................................    3.2      3.8      9.7      8.0      7.0  
  Service.............................................................    2.3      2.2      4.8      7.2      6.6  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.6      3.7      5.8      3.5     12.4  
    Sales and related.................................................    3.0      8.2     12.5      6.3     39.5  
    Office and administrative support.................................    2.6      1.7      7.5      2.2      5.6  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    3.5      3.6      9.5      4.9      5.8  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    5.5       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    2.5      3.5     14.3      6.7     10.0  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    5.0      5.5      3.2     12.9      5.9  
    Production........................................................    8.3      5.9      5.2     18.3      9.8  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.6      6.9      3.0      8.1      7.5  

  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.