Table 28                                       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...........................................................  $19.21   $16.80   $17.99   $19.09   $24.30 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   32.96    28.32    32.71    33.61    36.38 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   36.54    31.38    36.91    36.83    41.20 
    Professional and related..........................................   30.83    26.28    29.85    31.67    33.93 
  Service.............................................................   10.06     9.63     8.99    10.35    11.32 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.97    15.44    16.26    15.79    17.43 
    Sales and related.................................................   17.29    16.47    18.44    16.82    22.27 
    Office and administrative support.................................   15.14    14.59    14.82    15.14    16.33 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   20.15    18.52    20.87    21.62    23.87 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   20.27      -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.19    18.16    21.40    21.34    23.68 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.03    13.36    13.63    14.48    19.63 
    Production........................................................   15.38    13.64    13.99    14.56    19.12 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.65    13.15    13.30    14.39    20.60 

                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                        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...........................................................    1.1%     1.0%     1.4%     1.5%     4.3% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.1      1.9      2.1      2.7      1.8  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.6      3.0      2.5      2.1      3.1  
    Professional and related..........................................    1.5      2.5      3.2      4.7      1.4  
  Service.............................................................    1.3      1.2      1.4      1.3      8.1  
  Sales and office....................................................     .7      1.4      2.0      1.7      2.6  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.5      3.2      4.1      3.5      9.1  
    Office and administrative support.................................     .6       .9      1.1      1.0      1.5  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.2      1.7      2.7      2.6      2.7  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    1.7       -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.2      1.9      2.2      1.7      2.9  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     .9      2.1      1.5      1.0      2.1  
    Production........................................................    1.1      3.4      1.8      1.4      2.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.3      1.9      2.1      1.5      3.8  

  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.