Table 27                                      Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of workers in civilian
                                                                       establishments for major occupational groups
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                       Civilian   1-49     50-99   100-499    500  
                        Occupational group(2)                           workers  workers  workers  workers  workers
                                                                                                            or more
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................  $20.62   $17.42   $18.77   $20.18   $25.79 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   33.56    29.44    32.55    33.47    35.99 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   37.57    32.17    37.60    38.38    41.16 
    Professional and related..........................................   31.67    27.70    29.25    31.06    34.13 
  Service.............................................................   11.68     9.97     9.78    11.94    14.66 
  Sales and office....................................................   16.31    15.74    16.72    16.03    17.61 
    Sales and related.................................................   17.34    16.61    18.89    16.68    22.10 
    Office and administrative support.................................   15.74    15.04    15.53    15.64    16.86 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   20.81    19.11    21.18    22.37    23.74 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   20.91      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.84    18.93    21.43    21.76    23.81 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.53    13.82    14.10    14.97    19.77 
    Production........................................................   15.92    14.40    14.43    15.16    19.45 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.11    13.36    13.78    14.74    20.23 
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                                                                       Civilian   1-49     50-99   100-499    500  
                                                                        workers  workers  workers  workers  workers
                        Occupational group(2)                                                               or more
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                     Relative error(3)             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                       
                                                                                    Relative error(3)
                                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................    0.7%     1.0%     1.4%     0.8%     2.6% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................     .5      1.8      2.0      1.1      1.1  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.0      2.1      1.8      1.7      2.1  
    Professional and related..........................................     .7      2.5      3.0      1.6       .9  
  Service.............................................................    1.3       .9      1.6      1.3      6.8  
  Sales and office....................................................     .6      1.3      1.7      1.3      1.9  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.3      2.5      3.5      2.7      7.8  
    Office and administrative support.................................     .5       .8      1.3       .8      1.2  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.1      1.6      2.5      1.8      2.3  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    1.6       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.1      2.1      2.4      1.4      2.1  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     .7      1.4      1.3       .9      1.7  
    Production........................................................     .9      2.2      1.4      1.2      2.0  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.1      1.6      1.9      1.3      2.8  

  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.