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...........................................................  $18.56   $16.18   $17.36   $18.47   $23.50 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   31.66    27.41    31.22    31.93    35.10 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   35.17    30.36    34.44    35.57    39.80 
    Professional and related..........................................   29.54    25.45    28.68    29.72    32.70 
  Service.............................................................    9.72     9.28     8.68    10.09    10.93 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.42    14.79    15.83    15.43    16.78 
    Sales and related.................................................   16.57    15.56    18.14    16.47    20.81 
    Office and administrative support.................................   14.71    14.15    14.37    14.78    15.82 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   19.46    17.64    20.31    21.09    23.49 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   19.46      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.64    17.59    20.68    20.75    23.28 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.64    13.04    13.13    13.98    19.27 
    Production........................................................   15.02    13.34    13.57    14.03    18.89 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.22    12.81    12.73    13.93    20.02 
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                                                                        Private   1-49     50-99   100-499    500  
                                                                       industry  workers  workers  workers  workers
                        Occupational group(2)                           workers                             or more
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                     Relative error(3)             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................    1.2%     1.0%     1.4%     1.0%     4.0% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................     .8      1.7      2.1      1.2      1.4  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.2      2.2      2.0      2.0      2.4  
    Professional and related..........................................    1.2      2.4      3.3      1.8      1.2  
  Service.............................................................    1.3      1.5      1.2      1.2      7.5  
  Sales and office....................................................     .7      1.1      2.3      1.8      2.5  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.4      2.3      5.5      4.0      8.1  
    Office and administrative support.................................     .7       .8      1.2       .9      1.5  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.3      1.5      3.7      2.4      2.8  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    1.7       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.6      2.0      2.8      1.7      3.2  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    1.0      2.0      1.6      1.1      2.1  
    Production........................................................    1.1      3.1      1.9      1.4      2.6  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.3      1.9      2.1      1.4      3.1  

  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.

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SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.