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...........................................................  $21.31   $18.14   $20.63   $20.90   $27.46 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   35.00    29.54    35.99    33.73    39.76 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   39.28    32.99    41.40    36.11    46.93 
    Professional and related..........................................   32.52    27.20    32.16    32.38    36.35 
  Service.............................................................   11.49    10.35    10.25    11.83    13.80 
  Sales and office....................................................   17.15    16.83    16.29    16.57    19.42 
    Sales and related.................................................   18.43    18.44    17.42    17.37    22.54 
    Office and administrative support.................................   16.41    15.61    15.64    16.12    18.64 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   23.42    20.49    22.60    27.54    29.42 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   25.71      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   21.38    19.31    22.89    21.96    26.62 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.68    14.24    14.16    15.16    20.75 
    Production........................................................   15.52    13.95    14.31    15.19    19.15 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.85    14.46    14.02    15.13    22.88 
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...........................................................    1.3%     2.1%     3.6%     3.2%     2.7% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.6      6.8      1.9      3.4      6.3  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.1      4.3      6.9      4.0     11.0  
    Professional and related..........................................    2.1      9.8      1.8      5.2      4.3  
  Service.............................................................    3.9      3.4      2.1      3.9      5.7  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.2      1.9      3.4      3.8      5.4  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.9      2.8      7.2      5.7     20.6  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.0      2.5      2.3      3.4      1.7  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    2.7      6.0      4.5      4.7      2.6  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    2.3       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    3.7      5.6      5.2      4.3      4.0  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    2.4      2.0      4.1      4.2      6.2  
    Production........................................................    2.2      6.4      5.0      2.1      6.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    3.9      3.5      5.5      7.4      9.5  

  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.