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...........................................................  $17.17   $15.23   $14.99   $17.19   $22.73 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   31.46    28.31    25.74    33.66    34.66 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   36.49    34.93    32.67    35.41    39.89 
    Professional and related..........................................   28.63    25.14    21.94    32.37    31.82 
  Service.............................................................    8.31     8.31     7.31     8.28     9.70 
  Sales and office....................................................   14.63    14.27    14.93    14.16    16.08 
    Sales and related.................................................   15.65    14.86    17.39    14.89    21.71 
    Office and administrative support.................................   13.91    13.69    12.95    13.66    15.04 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   17.26    16.32    17.02    18.38    18.90 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   16.58      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   18.46    17.19    19.54    18.79    22.64 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   13.71    12.31    12.62    13.72    16.85 
    Production........................................................   13.57    12.21    13.35    13.58    15.32 
    Transportation and material moving................................   13.83    12.39    12.16    13.85    19.13 
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...........................................................    1.4%     2.7%     2.0%     1.7%     2.4% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    2.8      6.2      3.9      6.1      2.6  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    3.0      7.3      6.1      5.7      4.1  
    Professional and related..........................................    4.3      8.6      4.1      7.8      1.6  
  Service.............................................................    3.7      4.6      3.3      2.0     10.8  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.4      4.7      5.7      4.3      4.3  
    Sales and related.................................................    2.9      8.8     12.4      9.1     24.7  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.0      3.6      2.6      2.4      2.5  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    3.2      5.5      5.9      6.1      8.0  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    4.9       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    2.4      4.4      5.2      3.7      5.8  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    3.5      4.1      6.1      2.6      5.7  
    Production........................................................    3.1      5.7      7.5      3.2      8.8  
    Transportation and material moving................................    6.3      6.2      9.0      4.0     11.6  

  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.