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...........................................................      –         $19.82      $15.51        –           –           –         $19.18       $9.56      $17.37  
                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Management, professional, and related...............................      –          36.46       30.72        –           –           –          25.95       24.64       31.90  
    Management, business, and financial...............................      –          40.66       32.67        –           –           –          29.09       26.35       37.79  
    Professional and related..........................................      –          33.62       28.94        –           –           –          25.47       21.32       23.48  
  Service.............................................................      –          11.82       12.61        –           –           –          11.24        8.11       14.19  
  Sales and office....................................................      –          19.33       13.39        –           –           –          14.37       11.23       14.81  
    Sales and related.................................................      –          31.44       13.30        –           –           –          16.63       10.09       11.12  
    Office and administrative support.................................      –          16.83       13.60        –           –           –          14.29       12.51       16.39  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      –          19.52       19.30        –           –           –          19.20       15.53       17.28  
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      –          20.07       19.96        –           –           –          18.13       15.42       17.07  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      –          15.07       15.08        –           –           –          12.67        9.79       10.48  
    Production........................................................      –          15.49       14.69        –           –           –          13.54       12.19       10.99  
    Transportation and material moving................................      –          12.94       15.15        –           –           –          11.95        9.10        9.75  

  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.