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........................................................... $18.75 $16.39 $17.17 $18.71 $24.64 Management, professional, and related............................... 33.03 28.92 33.30 33.52 36.57 Management, business, and financial............................... 37.42 31.51 36.23 39.59 42.62 Professional and related.......................................... 30.51 27.36 30.72 30.37 33.46 Service............................................................. 9.72 9.29 8.55 10.08 11.87 Sales and office.................................................... 15.31 14.96 15.36 15.14 16.56 Sales and related................................................. 15.60 15.33 15.91 14.88 19.57 Office and administrative support................................. 15.11 14.65 14.96 15.38 15.80 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.90 16.58 18.00 18.89 22.13 Construction and extraction...................................... 16.49 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.57 17.95 19.87 20.23 22.35 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.55 12.85 13.42 13.91 19.12 Production........................................................ 15.02 13.36 13.80 14.13 18.43 Transportation and material moving................................ 14.07 12.48 13.13 13.69 20.52 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% 3.1% 3.3% 2.4% 3.5% Management, professional, and related............................... 1.1 3.2 3.4 2.9 1.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 1.9 4.4 3.8 5.0 2.2 Professional and related.......................................... 1.0 4.2 5.2 3.1 1.1 Service............................................................. 1.6 2.4 3.2 1.6 2.6 Sales and office.................................................... 1.6 2.4 3.0 3.1 2.4 Sales and related................................................. 3.1 4.7 6.8 4.6 9.4 Office and administrative support................................. 1.0 1.5 2.3 2.3 1.5 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 1.6 2.2 2.8 2.9 3.8 Construction and extraction...................................... 1.9 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 1.7 3.6 4.0 3.8 4.7 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 1.9 3.3 2.3 2.5 4.4 Production........................................................ 2.8 4.9 3.8 3.7 3.6 Transportation and material moving................................ 2.2 3.5 3.9 2.7 8.0 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.