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.