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Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 | All Occupations

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Occupations ranked by percentage of self-employed workers

2002 percentage of self-employed workers

Self-employed workers (percent)Occupation
0.0%Agricultural and food science technicians
0.0%Agricultural inspectors
0.0%Air traffic controllers
0.0%Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
0.0%Airfield operations specialists
0.0%Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
0.0%Air transportation workers, all other
0.0%Architects, surveyors, and cartographers, all other
0.0%Communications equipment operators, all other
0.0%Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
0.0%Food processing workers, all other
0.0%Life scientists, all other
0.0%Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
0.0%Media and communication equipment workers, all other
0.0%Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
0.0%Mining machine operators, all other
0.0%Printing workers, all other
0.0%Protective service workers, all other
0.0%Transportation workers, all other
0.0%Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
0.0%Water transportation workers, all other
0.0%Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
0.0%Bailiffs
0.0%Boilermakers
0.0%Bridge and lock tenders
0.0%Brokerage clerks
0.0%Budget analysts
0.0%Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
0.0%Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
0.0%Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
0.0%Continuous mining machine operators
0.0%Conveyor operators and tenders
0.0%Cooks, private household
0.0%Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
0.0%Correctional officers and jailers
0.0%Correspondence clerks
0.0%Credit analysts
0.0%Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
0.0%Crossing guards
0.0%Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Dental assistants
0.0%Desktop publishers
0.0%Detectives and criminal investigators
0.0%Dietetic technicians
0.0%Directors, religious activities and education
0.0%Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
0.0%Elevator installers and repairers
0.0%Eligibility interviewers, government programs
0.0%Embalmers
0.0%Emergency management specialists
0.0%Engine and other machine assemblers
0.0%Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
0.0%Fabric and apparel patternmakers
0.0%Financial examiners
0.0%Firefighters
0.0%Fire inspectors
0.0%First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
0.0%First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
0.0%First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
0.0%Fish and game wardens
0.0%Flight attendants
0.0%Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Funeral attendants
0.0%Gaming cage workers
0.0%Graders and sorters, agricultural products
0.0%Hazardous materials removal workers
0.0%Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Helpers — extraction workers
0.0%Helpers — installation, maintenance, and repair workers
0.0%Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
0.0%Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
0.0%Human resources managers
0.0%Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
0.0%Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
0.0%Legislators
0.0%Library technicians
0.0%Locomotive engineers and operators
0.0%Machine feeders and offbearers
0.0%Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
0.0%Maintenance workers, machinery
0.0%Marine engineers and naval architects
0.0%Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
0.0%Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
0.0%Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
0.0%Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations
0.0%Model makers, metal and plastic
0.0%Model makers, wood
0.0%Motion picture projectionists
0.0%Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%New-accounts clerks
0.0%Nuclear engineers
0.0%Nuclear power reactor operators
0.0%Nuclear technicians
0.0%Numerical tool and process control programmers
0.0%Office machine operators, except computer
0.0%Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
0.0%Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
0.0%Parking enforcement workers
0.0%Patternmakers, metal and plastic
0.0%Patternmakers, wood
0.0%Pharmacy technicians
0.0%Police and sheriff's patrol officers
0.0%Postal service clerks
0.0%Postal service mail carriers
0.0%Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
0.0%Postmasters and mail superintendents
0.0%Pourers and casters, metal
0.0%Power distributors and dispatchers
0.0%Power plant operators
0.0%Procurement clerks
0.0%Psychiatric technicians
0.0%Radiation therapists
0.0%Railroad conductors and yardmasters
0.0%Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
0.0%Respiratory therapists
0.0%Respiratory therapy technicians
0.0%Riggers
0.0%Roof bolters, mining
0.0%Roustabouts, oil and gas
0.0%Sailors and marine oilers
0.0%Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
0.0%Semiconductor processors
0.0%Ship engineers
0.0%Shoe machine operators and tenders
0.0%Shuttle car operators
0.0%Signal and track switch repairers
0.0%Sociologists
0.0%Statistical assistants
0.0%Subway, streetcar operators and all other rail transportation workers
0.0%Surgical technologists
0.0%Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
0.0%Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
0.0%Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
0.0%Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.0%Tile and marble setters
0.0%Traffic technicians
0.0%Transit and railroad police
0.0%Veterinary technologists and technicians
0.0%Vocational education teachers, secondary school
0.0%Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
0.1%Financial, information, and record clerks, all other
0.1%Athletic trainers
0.1%Biological technicians
0.1%Cargo and freight agents
0.1%Chemical technicians
0.1%Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
0.1%Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
0.1%Dishwashers
0.1%Elementary school teachers, except special education
0.1%Engineering managers
0.1%First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
0.1%Industrial truck and tractor operators
0.1%Librarians
0.1%Library assistants, clerical
0.1%Material moving workers, all other
0.1%Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
0.1%Packers and packagers, hand
0.1%Vocational education teachers, middle school
0.2%Administrative services managers
0.2%Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
0.2%Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
0.2%Chemists
0.2%Diagnostic medical sonographers
0.2%First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand
0.2%First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material moving machine and vehicle operators
0.2%Health educators
0.2%Helpers — production workers
0.2%Materials scientists
0.2%Nuclear medicine technologists
0.2%Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.2%Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
0.2%Purchasing managers
0.2%Radiologic technologists and technicians
0.2%Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
0.2%Social and human service assistants
0.2%Tellers
0.2%Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
0.3%Baggage porters and bellhops
0.3%Clergy
0.3%Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
0.3%Concierges
0.3%Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
0.3%Electromechanical equipment assemblers
0.3%Food cooking machine operators and tenders
0.3%Helpers — painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
0.3%Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
0.3%Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
0.3%Postsecondary teachers
0.3%Special education teachers
0.3%Structural metal fabricators and fitters
0.3%Teacher assistants
0.3%Waiters and waitresses
0.4%Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
0.4%Helpers — construction trades, all other
0.4%Amusement and recreation attendants
0.4%Civil engineering technicians
0.4%Costume attendants
0.4%Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
0.4%Environmental engineering technicians
0.4%Environmental engineers
0.4%Extraction workers, all other
0.4%Helpers — brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
0.4%Helpers — carpenters
0.4%Helpers — electricians
0.4%Helpers — pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
0.4%Helpers — roofers
0.4%Industrial engineering technicians
0.4%Mechanical engineering technicians
0.4%Meter readers, utilities
0.4%Order clerks
0.4%Parking lot attendants
0.4%Physical therapist aides
0.4%Physical therapist assistants
0.4%Production, planning, and expediting clerks
0.4%Rock splitters, quarry
0.4%Stock clerks and order fillers
0.4%Transportation inspectors
0.5%Customer service representatives
0.5%Food servers, nonrestaurant
0.5%Network and computer systems administrators
0.5%Office clerks, general
0.5%Payroll and timekeeping clerks
0.6%Chemical engineers
0.6%Computer support specialists
0.6%Database administrators
0.6%Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
0.6%Electro-mechanical technicians
0.6%Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
0.6%Food preparation workers
0.6%Hoist and winch operators
0.6%Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
0.6%Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
0.6%Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
0.6%Prepress technicians and workers
0.6%Sales engineers
0.7%Bindery workers
0.7%Bookbinders
0.7%Bus drivers, school
0.7%Bus drivers, transit and intercity
0.7%Control valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
0.7%Dental hygienists
0.7%Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
0.7%Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
0.7%General and operations managers
0.7%Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
0.7%Mechanical door repairers
0.7%Residential advisors
0.8%Business operations specialists, all other
0.8%Chemical equipment operators and tenders
0.8%Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
0.8%Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
0.8%Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
0.8%Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
0.8%Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
0.8%Physician assistants
0.8%Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
0.8%Training and development specialists
0.9%Farming, fishing, and forestry workers, all other
0.9%Plant and system operators, all other
0.9%Bill and account collectors
0.9%Chemical plant and system operators
0.9%Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
0.9%Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
0.9%Cutters and trimmers, hand
0.9%Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.9%Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
0.9%First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
0.9%Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
0.9%Gas plant operators
0.9%Maintenance and repair workers, general
0.9%Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
0.9%Public relations managers
0.9%Security guards
0.9%Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators and tenders
0.9%Switchboard operators, including answering service
1.0%Agricultural equipment operators
1.0%Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
1.0%Cashiers, except gaming
1.0%Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
1.0%Forensic science technicians
1.0%Forest and conservation technicians
1.0%Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
1.0%Insurance underwriters
1.0%Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
1.0%Recreational therapists
1.0%Slaughterers and meat packers
1.0%Telemarketers
1.1%Assemblers and fabricators, all other
1.1%Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
1.1%Butchers and meatcutters
1.1%Computer and information systems managers
1.1%Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.1%Derrick operators, oil and gas
1.1%Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
1.1%Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.1%Grinding and polishing workers, hand
1.1%Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
1.1%Medical records and health information technicians
1.1%Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
1.1%Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
1.1%Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
1.1%Team assemblers
1.1%Telephone operators
1.1%Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
1.1%Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
1.2%Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
1.2%File clerks
1.2%Foundry mold and coremakers
1.2%Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
1.2%Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.2%Natural sciences managers
1.2%Receptionists and information clerks
1.2%Recreational vehicle service technicians
1.2%Registered nurses
1.2%Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
1.3%Cooks, restaurant
1.3%Counter and rental clerks
1.3%Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
1.4%Actuaries
1.4%Bicycle repairers
1.4%Cooks, short order
1.4%Data entry keyers
1.4%Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.4%Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
1.4%Tire repairers and changers
1.5%Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
1.5%Avionics technicians
1.5%Cooks, fast food
1.5%Cooks, institution and cafeteria
1.5%Industrial engineers
1.5%Industrial production managers
1.5%Millwrights
1.5%Parts salespersons
1.6%Aerospace engineers
1.6%Animal control workers
1.6%Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
1.6%Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
1.6%Highway maintenance workers
1.6%Home health aides
1.6%Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
1.6%Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
1.6%Medical secretaries
1.6%Mental health and substance abuse social workers
1.6%Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
1.6%Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
1.7%Child, family, and school social workers
1.7%Computer operators
1.7%Cost estimators
1.7%Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
1.7%Legal secretaries
1.7%Medical and public health social workers
1.7%Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
1.7%Psychiatric aides
1.7%Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
1.7%Tool and die makers
1.8%Health practitioners and technical workers, all other
1.8%Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
1.8%Insurance appraisers, auto damage
1.8%Meeting and convention planners
1.8%Refuse and recyclable material collectors
1.9%Bartenders
1.9%Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
1.9%Crane and tower operators
2.0%Gaming service workers, all other
2.0%Gaming and sports book writers and runners
2.0%Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
2.1%Atmospheric scientists
2.1%Epidemiologists
2.1%Geological and petroleum technicians
2.1%Orthotists and prosthetists
2.1%Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
2.2%Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
2.2%First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
2.2%Kindergarten teachers, except special education
2.2%Medical equipment preparers
2.2%Preschool teachers, except special education
2.2%Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
2.2%Stationary engineers and boiler operators
2.3%Loan counselors
2.3%Loan officers
2.3%Medical assistants
2.3%Medical transcriptionists
2.3%Paralegals and legal assistants
2.3%Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
2.3%Pharmacy aides
2.4%Advertising and promotions managers
2.4%Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
2.4%Farm and home management advisors
2.4%Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
2.4%Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2.4%Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2.4%Zoologists and wildlife biologists
2.5%Healthcare support workers, all other
2.5%Gaming dealers
2.6%Biochemists and biophysicists
2.6%Court, municipal, and license clerks
2.6%Education administrators, postsecondary
2.6%Microbiologists
2.6%Urban and regional planners
2.7%Biological scientists, all other
2.7%Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
2.7%Instructional coordinators
2.7%Machinists
2.7%Printing machine operators
2.8%Opticians, dispensing
2.9%Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
2.9%Occupational therapist aides
2.9%Occupational therapist assistants
2.9%Political scientists
3.0%Library, museum, training, and other education workers, all other
3.0%Computer software engineers, systems software
3.0%Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
3.0%Hydrologists
3.0%Mechanical engineers
3.0%Sales managers
3.1%Audio-visual collections specialists
3.1%Computer software engineers, applications
3.1%Electrical powerline installers and repairers
3.1%Electronics engineers, except computer
3.1%Financial managers
3.1%Marketing managers
3.1%Sheet metal workers
3.1%Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
3.2%Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
3.2%Service station attendants
3.2%Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
3.3%Cartographers and photogrammetrists
3.3%Electrical engineers
3.4%Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
3.4%Production workers, all other
3.4%Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
3.4%Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
3.4%Food batchmakers
3.4%Pharmacists
3.5%First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
3.5%Anthropologists and archeologists
3.5%Historians
3.5%Loan interviewers and clerks
3.5%Surveyors
3.6%Financial specialists, all other
3.6%Motor vehicle operators, all other
3.6%Materials engineers
3.7%Architectural and civil drafters
3.7%Computer programmers
3.7%Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
3.7%Geographers
3.7%Mechanical drafters
3.7%Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
3.7%Railcar repairers
3.7%Telecommunications line installers and repairers
3.9%Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
3.9%Insulation workers
4.0%Electrical and electronics drafters
4.0%Occupational therapists
4.0%Photographic process workers
4.1%Mental health counselors
4.2%Marriage and family therapists
4.3%Retail salespersons
4.4%Educational, vocational, and school counselors
4.4%Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
4.4%Radio mechanics
4.4%Rehabilitation counselors
4.5%Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians, all other
4.5%First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers
4.5%Photographic processing machine operators
4.5%Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
4.6%Etchers and engravers
4.6%Mathematicians
4.6%Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
4.6%Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
4.6%Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
4.7%Computer hardware engineers
4.7%Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
4.7%Motorboat operators
4.7%Truck drivers, light or delivery services
4.8%Engineers, all other
4.8%Financial analysts
4.8%Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
4.8%Tire builders
4.9%Biomedical engineers
4.9%Farm equipment mechanics
4.9%Terrazzo workers and finishers
5.0%Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
5.2%Cement masons and concrete finishers
5.3%Construction trades and related workers, all other
5.3%Medical and health services managers
5.4%Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
5.4%Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
5.5%Surveying and mapping technicians
5.5%Wellhead pumpers
5.6%Education administrators, all other
5.6%First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers
5.6%Glaziers
5.6%Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
5.7%Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
5.7%Physical therapists
5.7%Recreation workers
5.7%Statisticians
5.7%Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
5.8%Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
5.8%Operations research analysts
6.1%Public relations specialists
6.1%Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
6.2%Computer specialists, all other
6.2%Proofreaders and copy markers
6.2%Structural iron and steel workers
6.3%Dietitians and nutritionists
6.3%Industrial machinery mechanics
6.3%News analysts, reporters and correspondents
6.3%Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
6.4%Bakers
6.4%Computer systems analysts
6.4%Segmental pavers
6.6%Social and community service managers
6.7%Counselors, social, and religious workers, all other
6.7%Civil engineers
6.7%Personal care and service workers, all other
6.8%Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
6.8%Security and fire alarm systems installers
6.9%Couriers and Messengers
7.1%Audiologists
7.1%Personal and home care aides
7.3%Sales and related workers, all other
7.3%Market research analysts
7.3%Technical writers
7.4%Chefs and head cooks
7.4%Computer and information scientists, research
7.4%Sewing machine operators
7.8%Painters, transportation equipment
7.9%Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
8.0%Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
8.0%Total, all occupations
8.1%Construction and building inspectors
8.2%Painting, coating, and decorating workers
8.2%Speech-language pathologists
8.3%Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
8.6%Sound engineering technicians
8.6%Word processors and typists
8.9%Agricultural and food scientists
9.0%Maids and housekeeping cleaners
9.1%Audio and video equipment technicians
9.1%Electricians
9.1%Pest control workers
9.2%Automotive glass installers and repairers
9.2%Travel agents
9.3%Survey researchers
9.5%Advertising sales agents
9.6%Legal and related workers, all other
9.6%Broadcast technicians
9.6%Plasterers and stucco masons
9.6%Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
9.9%Physicists
9.9%Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products
10.0%Fabric menders, except garment
10.1%Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
10.3%Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
10.4%Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
10.6%Accountants and auditors
10.7%Law clerks
10.8%Job printers
10.9%Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
11.0%Court reporters
11.1%Funeral directors
11.2%Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
11.2%Commercial pilots
11.2%Pipelayers
11.3%Automotive body and related repairers
11.5%Economists
11.5%Radio operators
11.8%Forest and conservation workers
12.2%Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
12.5%Agricultural engineers
12.8%Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
12.9%Editors
13.0%Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
13.0%Dental laboratory technicians
13.0%Medical appliance technicians
13.1%Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
13.2%Driver/sales workers
13.2%Tour guides and escorts
13.3%Construction laborers
13.6%Conservation scientists
13.6%Pile-driver operators
13.9%Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
14.1%Motorboat mechanics
14.1%Travel guides
14.5%Motorcycle mechanics
14.6%Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
14.6%Chief executives
14.6%Foresters
14.9%Earth drillers, except oil and gas
15.0%Physical scientists, all other
15.4%Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
15.5%Automotive service technicians and mechanics
15.5%Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
15.8%Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
16.5%Loading machine operators, underground mining
16.5%Petroleum engineers
16.6%Dredge operators
16.7%Choreographers
16.7%Home appliance repairers
16.8%Locksmiths and safe repairers
16.9%Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
16.9%Physicians and surgeons
16.9%Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
17.0%Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
17.4%Actors
18.4%Drywall and ceiling tile installers
19.1%Tapers
19.2%Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
19.3%Dancers
19.5%Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
19.6%Interpreters and translators
19.9%Self-enrichment education teachers
20.1%First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
20.3%Media and communication workers, all other
20.3%Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
20.5%Teachers, primary, secondary, and adult, all other
21.4%Architects, except landscape and naval
21.9%Film and video editors
21.9%Musical instrument repairers and tuners
22.1%Furniture finishers
22.8%Watch repairers
23.0%Fence erectors
23.2%Medical equipment repairers
23.3%Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
23.4%Landscape architects
23.6%Network systems and data communications analysts
23.8%Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
24.1%Camera and photographic equipment repairers
24.2%Manufactured building and mobile home installers
24.5%Woodworkers, all other
25.4%Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
25.5%Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
25.6%Tree trimmers and pruners
25.9%Fallers
26.2%Insurance sales agents
26.2%Tax preparers
26.3%Upholsterers
26.5%Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
26.5%Stonemasons
26.6%Coaches and scouts
26.8%Industrial-organizational psychologists
26.8%Lawyers
27.0%Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
27.1%Social scientists and related workers, all other
27.3%Nonfarm animal caretakers
27.5%Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
27.6%Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, all other
27.7%Veterinarians
27.9%Brickmasons and blockmasons
29.2%Optometrists
29.3%Fashion designers
29.3%Logging equipment operators
29.7%Carpenters
29.8%Management analysts
30.2%Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
30.9%Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
31.0%Commercial and industrial designers
31.2%Slot key persons
31.3%Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
31.5%Athletes and sports competitors
31.8%Graphic designers
31.9%Roofers
32.2%Interior designers
32.2%Set and exhibit designers
32.5%Floral designers
32.8%Producers and directors
33.0%First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
33.8%Gaming supervisors
34.4%Announcers
34.6%Commercial divers
34.7%First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
34.7%Food service managers
34.7%Private detectives and investigators
34.8%Appraisers and assessors of real estate
37.7%Personal financial advisors
38.1%Shoe and leather workers and repairers
38.2%Skin care specialists
38.3%Musicians and singers
38.6%Gaming managers
39.3%Music directors and composers
39.7%Manicurists and pedicurists
39.9%Dentists
40.2%Shampooers
41.7%Painters, construction and maintenance
42.1%Demonstrators and product promoters
42.9%Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
43.4%Childcare workers
44.3%Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
44.4%Podiatrists
44.7%First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
44.7%Sewers, hand
46.0%Property, real estate, and community association managers
46.9%Construction managers
47.4%Animal breeders
47.8%Log graders and scalers
49.1%Models
49.4%First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
50.3%Lodging managers
50.6%Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
52.0%Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
52.5%Photographers
53.1%Paperhangers
53.5%Carpet installers
53.5%Multi-media artists and animators
53.6%Art directors
53.7%Fishers and related fishing workers
55.0%Managers, all other
55.5%Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
55.5%Floor sanders and finishers
58.5%Chiropractors
59.0%Real estate sales agents
59.1%Real estate brokers
60.0%Animal trainers
65.0%Art and design workers, all other
67.9%Writers and authors
70.1%Massage therapists
70.2%Hunters and trappers
72.6%Barbers
82.8%Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
99.3%Farmers and ranchers

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