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...........................................................  $19.88   $16.84   $18.06   $19.46   $24.75 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................   32.38    28.00    31.82    32.69    34.61 
    Management, business, and financial...............................   35.97    30.99    36.53    36.40    39.38 
    Professional and related..........................................   30.63    26.00    28.86    30.79    32.84 
  Service.............................................................   11.36     9.80     9.46    11.58    13.96 
  Sales and office....................................................   15.98    15.41    16.18    15.78    17.28 
    Sales and related.................................................   17.27    16.47    18.41    16.80    22.02 
    Office and administrative support.................................   15.27    14.57    14.79    15.19    16.47 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................   20.09    18.47    20.60    21.35    23.08 
    Construction and  extraction......................................   20.14      -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................   20.20    18.15    21.19    21.17    23.14 
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................   15.12    13.39    13.65    14.51    19.59 
    Production........................................................   15.44    13.68    14.03    14.61    19.18 
    Transportation and material moving................................   14.78    13.17    13.32    14.39    20.25 

                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                       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...........................................................    0.9%     1.0%     1.4%     1.3%     2.9% 
                                                                                                                   
  Management, professional, and related...............................     .8      1.9      1.9      2.2      1.3  
    Management, business, and financial...............................    1.4      2.8      2.3      1.9      2.5  
    Professional and related..........................................    1.1      2.4      2.9      3.6       .9  
  Service.............................................................    1.4      1.2      1.5      1.3      7.2  
  Sales and office....................................................     .6      1.4      2.0      1.6      2.0  
    Sales and related.................................................    1.5      3.2      4.0      3.5      8.7  
    Office and administrative support.................................     .6       .9      1.0       .9      1.2  
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance....................    1.1      1.6      2.7      2.4      2.2  
    Construction and  extraction......................................    1.6       -        -        -        -   
    Installation, maintenance, and repair.............................    1.1      1.9      2.2      1.6      2.3  
  Production, transportation, and material moving.....................     .9      2.1      1.5      1.0      1.9  
    Production........................................................    1.1      3.3      1.8      1.4      2.7  
    Transportation and material moving................................    1.2      1.9      2.1      1.4      3.2  

  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.