Table 29                                                     Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1)of State and
                                                          local government establishments for major occupational groups
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                                                                           State                                  500  
                        Occupational group(2)                            and local    1-49     50-99   100-499  workers
                                                                        government   workers  workers  workers  or more
                                                                          workers                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
All workers...........................................................    $24.15     $18.02   $19.24   $22.51   $25.71 
                                                                                                                       
  Management, professional, and related...............................     30.63      22.77    24.73    29.17    31.97 
    Management, business, and financial...............................     32.65      24.84    31.22    33.24    34.00 
    Professional and related..........................................     30.16      21.30    22.79    28.18    31.56 
  Service.............................................................     17.77      15.08    16.12    17.07    18.46 
  Sales and office....................................................     16.17      14.00    14.44    15.64    16.84 
    Sales and related.................................................     15.62      13.56    15.42    14.35    16.98 
    Office and administrative support.................................     16.19      14.04    14.36    15.68    16.84 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................     19.37      16.52    15.36    18.60    21.23 
    Construction and  extraction......................................     18.69        -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................     20.29      17.66    16.33    19.59    21.52 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     18.02      15.55    15.74    16.14    19.24 
    Production........................................................     19.96      17.34    17.76    19.88    21.35 
    Transportation and material moving................................     17.40      14.34    14.53    14.58    18.76 

                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                                                                           State                                  500  
                                                                         and local    1-49     50-99   100-499  workers
                                                                        government   workers  workers  workers  or more
                        Occupational group(2)                             workers                                      
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                       Relative error(3)               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                       
                                                                                      Relative error(3)
                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
All workers...........................................................      0.8%       2.0%     2.6%     1.5%     0.8% 
                                                                                                                       
  Management, professional, and related...............................       .9        2.6      2.8      1.5       .9  
    Management, business, and financial...............................      1.9        3.6      3.6      3.0      2.3  
    Professional and related..........................................       .8        3.0      3.1      1.6       .9  
  Service.............................................................      1.4        4.4      6.0      2.8      1.4  
  Sales and office....................................................      1.1        2.3      2.5      2.1      1.4  
    Sales and related.................................................      5.2        8.7     17.2     11.8      7.5  
    Office and administrative support.................................      1.1        2.4      2.2      2.1      1.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      1.8        4.2      3.0      2.6      2.5  
    Construction and  extraction......................................      2.3         -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      1.6        7.1      4.9      3.6      1.9  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      2.2        2.9      3.9      4.2      2.4  
    Production........................................................      3.4        5.8      5.1      6.1      5.5  
    Transportation and material moving................................      2.9        5.4      5.5      4.1      3.4  

  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.