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...........................................................  $22.52   $19.15   $20.50   $22.56   $30.91 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   37.93    33.13    34.57    38.49    42.67 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   40.51    34.06    40.03    41.67    47.31 
    Professional and related..........................................   36.35    32.41    31.18    36.23    40.65 
  Service.............................................................   11.81    11.05    10.93    12.32    14.73 
  Sales and office....................................................   18.10    16.70    18.28    18.48    21.36 
    Sales and related.................................................   19.26    16.69    20.62    19.46    32.28 
    Office and administrative support.................................   17.44    16.70    16.83    17.90    18.79 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   23.63    22.23    24.72    24.29    27.07 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   23.97      –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   23.31    22.29    23.36    23.24    28.17 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.98    14.12    15.03    15.66    21.71 
    Production........................................................   16.32    15.23    16.72    15.18    20.35 
    Transportation and material moving................................   15.67    13.12    13.81    16.11    23.67 
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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...........................................................    1.4%     2.7%     3.7%     1.7%     2.8% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................     .7      3.8      5.9      2.5      1.0  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    2.4      6.3      5.3      5.2      2.6  
    Professional and related..........................................    2.0      6.9      7.8      6.0      1.8  
  Service.............................................................    1.4      1.4      3.2      4.0      2.6  
  Sales and office....................................................    1.4      2.8      5.6      2.4      5.6  
    Sales and related.................................................    2.0      4.6      9.9      7.6     17.0  
    Office and administrative support.................................    1.6      2.2      3.6      2.4      2.4  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.9      2.6      6.1      4.7      8.1  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    3.3       –        –        –        –   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    3.6      7.9      4.3      4.6      2.5  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................    2.0      4.3      4.9      2.9      7.5  
    Production........................................................    2.0      4.3      4.5      3.0      8.3  
    Transportation and material moving................................    2.9      4.8      6.1      3.6      8.1  

  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.

NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.