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...........................................................  $16.58   $14.75   $17.65   $16.29   $18.63 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   28.59    24.43    35.29    27.53    30.44 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   32.44    23.80    46.46    31.97    35.19 
    Professional and related..........................................   26.03    24.85    29.12    25.32    26.49 
  Service.............................................................    9.04     9.18     8.49     9.27     8.97 
  Sales and office....................................................   14.54    13.40    15.05    15.21    15.89 
    Sales and related.................................................   16.96    14.78    16.39    18.61    22.21 
    Office and administrative support.................................   12.97    12.17    14.50    13.11    13.46 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   17.66    15.92    15.69    18.21    22.82 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   15.64      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   19.85    17.35    17.10    20.06    23.20 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   14.33    11.66    12.36    13.70    18.24 
    Production........................................................   14.84    11.87    12.25    13.25    18.62 
    Transportation and material moving................................   13.71    11.51    12.49    14.21    17.31 
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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)             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                       
                                                                                    Relative error(3)
                                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
All workers...........................................................    4.7%     3.8%     5.3%     5.4%    14.4% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................    3.0      8.2     12.1      3.4      6.1  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    4.3      6.3     12.1      5.8      7.0  
    Professional and related..........................................    3.8     10.6      9.6      4.2      4.3  
  Service.............................................................    2.5      2.9      6.1      2.6      8.0  
  Sales and office....................................................    6.4      3.3      3.8     12.4     11.8  
    Sales and related.................................................   12.0      6.1     15.5     25.5     29.7  
    Office and administrative support.................................    2.5      3.7      3.2      3.8      5.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    5.3      3.3      7.6      7.5     12.0  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    2.0       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    9.0      6.6     26.4      5.3     11.3  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    5.2      2.1      5.0      4.6     13.1  
    Production........................................................    6.9      5.6      5.7      6.3     16.0  
    Transportation and material moving................................    4.4      3.4      8.4      3.7      8.3  

  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.