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...........................................................  $18.82   $16.48   $17.33   $17.59   $24.94 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   30.92    25.68    31.58    30.20    35.23 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   34.37    27.80    33.52    36.72    39.13 
    Professional and related..........................................   29.04    24.33    30.54    26.58    33.37 
  Service.............................................................    9.79     9.24     8.65    10.05    12.11 
  Sales and office....................................................   16.08    16.29    15.45    15.05    17.79 
    Sales and related.................................................   18.39    18.85    17.58    16.26    27.29 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.85    14.30    14.30    14.39    16.61 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   21.25    18.38    25.24    22.79    26.42 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   22.74      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.12    17.03    21.15    21.46    25.71 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.79    13.53    13.77    14.70    21.10 
    Production........................................................   16.41    13.68    13.81    15.00    21.68 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.89    13.40    13.72    14.15    19.87 
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...........................................................    1.1%     2.2%     4.8%     2.7%     1.4% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    1.9      3.7      9.0      2.2      1.8  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    2.4      4.4      4.0      4.7      2.4  
    Professional and related..........................................    3.3      5.3     13.4      2.3      2.4  
  Service.............................................................    1.2      2.7      2.5      2.9      3.7  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.7      6.0      2.8      5.9      3.1  
    Sales and related.................................................    4.4     12.7      6.6     12.5      8.4  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.8      2.4      2.3      2.2      2.7  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    4.1      4.5      7.2      3.4      3.6  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    6.0       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    3.5      6.1      2.7      2.6      5.7  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    1.4      5.7      4.3      1.3      2.4  
    Production........................................................    1.7      9.2      2.9      2.5      3.2  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.5      4.3      7.8      3.4      3.5  

  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.