Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 | All Occupations

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Occupations ranked by percentage decrease in employment

Percent change in employment 2002 to 2012

Change in employment (percent)	Occupation
-56.3%	Telephone operators
-38.6%	Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
-38.6%	Word processors and typists
-31.5%	Sewing machine operators
-31.3%	Shuttle car operators
-30.3%	Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
-29.3%	Radio mechanics
-28.7%	Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
-27.7%	Roof bolters, mining
-26.8%	Fishers and related fishing workers
-26.1%	Shoe machine operators and tenders
-24.6%	Communications equipment operators, all other
-24.6%	Fabric and apparel patternmakers
-22.8%	Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
-22.6%	Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
-21.2%	Sewers, hand
-20.6%	Farmers and ranchers
-18.5%	Continuous mining machine operators
-18.3%	Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
-17.4%	Bridge and lock tenders
-16.7%	Computer operators
-16.1%	Shoe and leather workers and repairers
-14.7%	Brokerage clerks
-14.3%	Loan interviewers and clerks
-14.1%	Loading machine operators, underground mining
-14.1%	Meter readers, utilities
-13.9%	Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
-13.8%	Travel agents
-13.1%	Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
-12.3%	Chemical plant and system operators
-11.8%	Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
-11.7%	Wellhead pumpers
-11.6%	Eligibility interviewers, government programs
-11.5%	Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
-11.2%	Prepress technicians and workers
-11.0%	Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
-10.8%	Mining machine operators, all other
-10.6%	Semiconductor processors
-10.5%	Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
-10.1%	Announcers
-9.8%	Petroleum engineers
-9.4%	Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
-9.1%	Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
-8.7%	Upholsterers
-8.3%	Electromechanical equipment assemblers
-7.7%	Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
-7.2%	Locomotive engineers and operators
-7.2%	Statistical assistants
-7.1%	Camera and photographic equipment repairers
-7.1%	Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
-6.9%	Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
-6.7%	Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
-6.7%	Procurement clerks
-6.5%	Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
-6.2%	Radio operators
-5.7%	Order clerks
-5.4%	Cooks, private household
-5.4%	Data entry keyers
-5.2%	Aerospace engineers
-5.2%	Bindery workers
-5.0%	Marine engineers and naval architects
-5.0%	Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
-4.9%	Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
-4.9%	Telemarketers
-4.8%	Proofreaders and copy markers
-4.6%	Office machine operators, except computer
-4.2%	Railroad conductors and yardmasters
-4.2%	Stock clerks and order fillers
-3.8%	Chemical equipment operators and tenders
-3.7%	Logging equipment operators
-3.4%	Fallers
-3.2%	Nuclear power reactor operators
-3.1%	Signal and track switch repairers
-3.0%	Power distributors and dispatchers
-3.0%	Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
-2.9%	Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
-2.9%	Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
-2.8%	Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
-2.8%	Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
-2.7%	Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
-2.7%	Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
-2.6%	Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-2.5%	Butchers and meatcutters
-2.2%	Fabric menders, except garment
-2.1%	Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
-2.0%	Parts salespersons
-2.0%	Pourers and casters, metal
-1.9%	Engine and other machine assemblers
-1.6%	Team assemblers
-1.4%	Correspondence clerks
-1.4%	Machine feeders and offbearers
-1.2%	Log graders and scalers
-1.0%	Mathematicians
-0.9%	Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
-0.8%	Extraction workers, all other
-0.8%	Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
-0.8%	Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
-0.6%	Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
-0.6%	Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-0.6%	Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
-0.5%	Postal service clerks
-0.5%	Postal service mail carriers
-0.5%	Postmasters and mail superintendents
-0.3%	File clerks
-0.3%	Travel guides
-0.2%	Assemblers and fabricators, all other
-0.2%	Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
-0.2%	Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
-0.1%	Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
-0.1%	Nuclear engineers

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