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...........................................................    $23.99     $17.50   $19.81   $22.00   $24.69 
                                                                                                                       
  Management, professional, and related...............................     30.79      24.40    26.82    29.12    31.31 
    Management, business, and financial...............................     33.03      33.17    29.07    32.76    33.23 
    Professional and related..........................................     30.30      19.02    26.25    28.39    30.88 
  Service.............................................................     18.51      14.77    15.01    16.94    19.11 
  Sales and office....................................................     15.86      14.22    13.27    14.79    16.21 
    Sales and related.................................................     15.10        –        –      14.35    15.27 
    Office and administrative support.................................     15.87      14.22    13.27    14.80    16.23 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................     19.84      15.64    15.67    18.33    20.91 
    Construction and  extraction......................................     19.52        –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................     20.39      18.45    16.40    18.72    21.03 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     18.33      13.80    18.20    17.18    18.66 
    Production........................................................     20.75        –      21.02    19.13    21.25 
    Transportation and material moving................................     17.60      12.66    16.74    16.50    17.94 
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                                                                           State                                  500  
                                                                         and local    1-49     50-99   100-499  workers
                                                                        government   workers  workers  workers  or more
                        Occupational group(2)                             workers                                      
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                       Relative error(3)               
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
All workers...........................................................      1.2%       9.3%     4.6%     1.4%     1.4% 
                                                                                                                       
  Management, professional, and related...............................      1.3       14.4      3.7      1.6      1.5  
    Management, business, and financial...............................      3.6        9.3      7.8      2.0      4.4  
    Professional and related..........................................      1.1       17.8      5.0      1.9      1.3  
  Service.............................................................      1.3        5.8     10.8      3.6      1.2  
  Sales and office....................................................      1.2        8.1      4.6      1.5      1.4  
    Sales and related.................................................      4.5         –        –       8.1      5.1  
    Office and administrative support.................................      1.2        8.1      4.6      1.6      1.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................      1.7       11.9      7.8      2.7      1.8  
    Construction and  extraction......................................      2.0         –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................      3.0       12.9      9.6      4.8      3.1  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................      1.6       11.7      7.2      3.3      1.9  
    Production........................................................      3.8         –       9.6      7.2      4.4  
    Transportation and material moving................................      1.3       12.3      7.7      4.1      1.5  

  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.