Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 | All Occupations

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Occupations grouped by percentage of unemployment

VL | L | H | VH

VL

Very low: percentage of unemployment less than 2.5%

Accountants and auditors
Actuaries
Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
Administrative services managers
Aerospace engineers
Agricultural and food scientists
Air traffic controllers
Air transportation workers, all other
Airfield operations specialists
Animal control workers
Anthropologists and archeologists
Appraisers and assessors of real estate
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
Architects, except landscape and naval
Architects, surveyors, and cartographers, all other
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
Athletic trainers
Atmospheric scientists
Audio-visual collections specialists
Audiologists
Bailiffs
Barbers
Biochemists and biophysicists
Biological scientists, all other
Budget analysts
Camera and photographic equipment repairers
Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
Cartographers and photogrammetrists
Chemical plant and system operators
Chemists
Chief executives
Child, family, and school social workers
Chiropractors
Civil engineers
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
Clergy
Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
Construction managers
Control valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
Conveyor operators and tenders
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
Correctional officers and jailers
Correspondence clerks
Cost estimators
Court, municipal, and license clerks
Dental assistants
Dental hygienists
Dentists
Desktop publishers
Detectives and criminal investigators
Diagnostic medical sonographers
Dietetic technicians
Dietitians and nutritionists
Directors, religious activities and education
Education administrators, all other
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
Education administrators, postsecondary
Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
Electrical engineers
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
Electronics engineers, except computer
Elementary school teachers, except special education
Elevator installers and repairers
Eligibility interviewers, government programs
Emergency management specialists
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
Engineering managers
Engineers, all other
Environmental engineers
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
Epidemiologists
Fabric and apparel patternmakers
Farm and home management advisors
Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
Farmers and ranchers
Financial analysts
Financial examiners
Financial managers
Financial specialists, all other
Financial, information, and record clerks, all other
Firefighters
First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
Fish and game wardens
Funeral directors
Gaming cage workers
Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
Gas plant operators
General and operations managers
Geographers
Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
Health practitioners and technical workers, all other
Historians
Home appliance repairers
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
Hydrologists
Industrial-organizational psychologists
Instructional coordinators
Insurance appraisers, auto damage
Insurance sales agents
Insurance underwriters
Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
Landscape architects
Lawyers
Legislators
Librarians
Library, museum, training, and other education workers, all other
Life scientists, all other
Loan counselors
Loan officers
Locksmiths and safe repairers
Locomotive engineers and operators
Maintenance and repair workers, general
Managers, all other
Materials engineers
Materials scientists
Mathematicians
Mechanical door repairers
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
Medical and health services managers
Medical and public health social workers
Medical equipment repairers
Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
Mental health and substance abuse social workers
Microbiologists
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Musical instrument repairers and tuners
Natural sciences managers
Nuclear engineers
Nuclear medicine technologists
Nuclear power reactor operators
Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
Occupational therapist aides
Occupational therapist assistants
Occupational therapists
Operations research analysts
Opticians, dispensing
Optometrists
Orthotists and prosthetists
Parking enforcement workers
Personal financial advisors
Petroleum engineers
Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
Pharmacists
Pharmacy technicians
Physical scientists, all other
Physical therapist aides
Physical therapist assistants
Physical therapists
Physician assistants
Physicians and surgeons
Physicists
Plant and system operators, all other
Podiatrists
Police and sheriff's patrol officers
Political scientists
Postal service clerks
Postal service mail carriers
Postmasters and mail superintendents
Postsecondary teachers
Power distributors and dispatchers
Power plant operators
Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
Procurement clerks
Property, real estate, and community association managers
Psychiatric technicians
Public relations managers
Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
Radiation therapists
Radiologic technologists and technicians
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
Railroad conductors and yardmasters
Real estate brokers
Real estate sales agents
Recreational therapists
Registered nurses
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
Respiratory therapists
Respiratory therapy technicians
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
Signal and track switch repairers
Social scientists and related workers, all other
Sociologists
Special education teachers
Speech-language pathologists
Stationary engineers and boiler operators
Statisticians
Surgical technologists
Surveyors
Transit and railroad police
Urban and regional planners
Veterinarians
Veterinary technologists and technicians
Vocational education teachers, middle school
Vocational education teachers, secondary school
Watch repairers
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
Wellhead pumpers
Zoologists and wildlife biologists

L

Low: percentage of unemployment 2.5% to 4.0%

Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
Advertising and promotions managers
Advertising sales agents
Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
Agricultural engineers
Agricultural inspectors
Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
Announcers
Art and design workers, all other
Art directors
Audio and video equipment technicians
Automotive body and related repairers
Automotive service technicians and mechanics
Bill and account collectors
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
Biological technicians
Biomedical engineers
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
Broadcast technicians
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
Bus drivers, school
Bus drivers, transit and intercity
Business operations specialists, all other
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
Cargo and freight agents
Chemical engineers
Chemical equipment operators and tenders
Chemical technicians
Civil engineering technicians
Commercial and industrial designers
Commercial divers
Commercial pilots
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
Computer and information scientists, research
Computer and information systems managers
Computer hardware engineers
Computer programmers
Computer software engineers, applications
Computer software engineers, systems software
Computer specialists, all other
Computer systems analysts
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
Conservation scientists
Construction and building inspectors
Counselors, social, and religious workers, all other
Court reporters
Credit analysts
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
Database administrators
Dental laboratory technicians
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
Dredge operators
Economists
Editors
Educational, vocational, and school counselors
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
Electro-mechanical technicians
Embalmers
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
Environmental engineering technicians
Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
Fabric menders, except garment
Farm equipment mechanics
Fashion designers
Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand
First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material moving machine and vehicle operators
Floral designers
Food service managers
Foresters
Funeral attendants
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
Gaming supervisors
Graphic designers
Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
Health educators
Healthcare support workers, all other
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
Human resources managers
Industrial engineering technicians
Industrial engineers
Industrial machinery mechanics
Industrial production managers
Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
Interior designers
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
Kindergarten teachers, except special education
Law clerks
Legal and related workers, all other
Legal secretaries
Library assistants, clerical
Library technicians
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
Loading machine operators, underground mining
Loan interviewers and clerks
Lodging managers
Maintenance workers, machinery
Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
Management analysts
Manicurists and pedicurists
Marine engineers and naval architects
Marketing managers
Marriage and family therapists
Massage therapists
Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
Mechanical engineering technicians
Mechanical engineers
Medical appliance technicians
Medical assistants
Medical equipment preparers
Medical secretaries
Medical transcriptionists
Meeting and convention planners
Mental health counselors
Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
Meter readers, utilities
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
Model makers, metal and plastic
Multi-media artists and animators
Network and computer systems administrators
Network systems and data communications analysts
New-accounts clerks
News analysts, reporters and correspondents
Nuclear technicians
Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
Paralegals and legal assistants
Parts salespersons
Patternmakers, metal and plastic
Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Pharmacy aides
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
Preschool teachers, except special education
Printing machine operators
Private detectives and investigators
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
Purchasing managers
Radio mechanics
Radio operators
Railcar repairers
Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
Rehabilitation counselors
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
Residential advisors
Roof bolters, mining
Sales engineers
Sales managers
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
Security and fire alarm systems installers
Self-enrichment education teachers
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators and tenders
Set and exhibit designers
Shampooers
Shoe and leather workers and repairers
Skin care specialists
Slot key persons
Social and community service managers
Social and human service assistants
Sound engineering technicians
Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
Subway, streetcar operators and all other rail transportation workers
Teacher assistants
Teachers, primary, secondary, and adult, all other
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
Tellers
Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
Training and development specialists
Transportation inspectors
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
Upholsterers
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products

H

High: percentage of unemployment 4.1% to 6.4%

Agricultural and food science technicians
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
Animal trainers
Architectural and civil drafters
Athletes and sports competitors
Automotive glass installers and repairers
Baggage porters and bellhops
Bakers
Bartenders
Bindery workers
Bookbinders
Brokerage clerks
Butchers and meatcutters
Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
Carpet installers
Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
Chefs and head cooks
Childcare workers
Choreographers
Coaches and scouts
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Computer operators
Computer support specialists
Concierges
Continuous mining machine operators
Counter and rental clerks
Couriers and Messengers
Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Customer service representatives
Cutters and trimmers, hand
Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Dancers
Data entry keyers
Demonstrators and product promoters
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians, all other
Driver/sales workers
Earth drillers, except oil and gas
Electrical and electronics drafters
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
Electrical powerline installers and repairers
Electricians
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
Etchers and engravers
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Fire inspectors
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
Flight attendants
Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
Floor sanders and finishers
Food batchmakers
Food cooking machine operators and tenders
Food processing workers, all other
Food servers, nonrestaurant
Forensic science technicians
Forest and conservation technicians
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Furniture finishers
Gaming and sports book writers and runners
Gaming dealers
Gaming managers
Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
Geological and petroleum technicians
Grinding and polishing workers, hand
Highway maintenance workers
Home health aides
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Interpreters and translators
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
Job printers
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
Machinists
Manufactured building and mobile home installers
Market research analysts
Material moving workers, all other
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
Mechanical drafters
Media and communication workers, all other
Medical records and health information technicians
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
Mining machine operators, all other
Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
Model makers, wood
Models
Motorboat mechanics
Motorboat operators
Motorcycle mechanics
Music directors and composers
Musicians and singers
Nonfarm animal caretakers
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
Office clerks, general
Office machine operators, except computer
Order clerks
Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Paperhangers
Patternmakers, wood
Pest control workers
Photographers
Photographic process workers
Photographic processing machine operators
Pipelayers
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
Pourers and casters, metal
Prepress technicians and workers
Printing workers, all other
Producers and directors
Production, planning, and expediting clerks
Proofreaders and copy markers
Psychiatric aides
Public relations specialists
Receptionists and information clerks
Recreation workers
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Retail salespersons
Riggers
Roustabouts, oil and gas
Sales and related workers, all other
Security guards
Semiconductor processors
Sewers, hand
Sheet metal workers
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
Shoe machine operators and tenders
Slaughterers and meat packers
Statistical assistants
Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
Survey researchers
Surveying and mapping technicians
Switchboard operators, including answering service
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Technical writers
Telecommunications line installers and repairers
Telephone operators
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
Tire builders
Tool and die makers
Traffic technicians
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
Transportation workers, all other
Travel agents
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
Truck drivers, light or delivery services
Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
Water transportation workers, all other
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
Woodworkers, all other
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
Word processors and typists
Writers and authors

VH

Very high: percentage of unemployment greater then 6.4%

Actors
Agricultural equipment operators
Amusement and recreation attendants
Animal breeders
Assemblers and fabricators, all other
Avionics technicians
Bicycle repairers
Boilermakers
Brickmasons and blockmasons
Bridge and lock tenders
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, all other
Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
Carpenters
Cashiers, except gaming
Cement masons and concrete finishers
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
Communications equipment operators, all other
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
Construction laborers
Construction trades and related workers, all other
Cooks, fast food
Cooks, institution and cafeteria
Cooks, private household
Cooks, restaurant
Cooks, short order
Costume attendants
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
Crane and tower operators
Crossing guards
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Derrick operators, oil and gas
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
Dishwashers
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
Electromechanical equipment assemblers
Engine and other machine assemblers
Extraction workers, all other
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Fallers
Farming, fishing, and forestry workers, all other
Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
Fence erectors
Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
File clerks
Film and video editors
Fishers and related fishing workers
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
Food preparation workers
Forest and conservation workers
Foundry mold and coremakers
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
Gaming service workers, all other
Glaziers
Graders and sorters, agricultural products
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Hazardous materials removal workers
Helpers — brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
Helpers — carpenters
Helpers — construction trades, all other
Helpers — electricians
Helpers — extraction workers
Helpers — installation, maintenance, and repair workers
Helpers — painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
Helpers — pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Helpers — production workers
Helpers — roofers
Hoist and winch operators
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
Hunters and trappers
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Insulation workers
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
Log graders and scalers
Logging equipment operators
Machine feeders and offbearers
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
Media and communication equipment workers, all other
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Millwrights
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Motion picture projectionists
Motor vehicle operators, all other
Numerical tool and process control programmers
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Packers and packagers, hand
Painters, construction and maintenance
Painters, transportation equipment
Painting, coating, and decorating workers
Parking lot attendants
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
Personal and home care aides
Personal care and service workers, all other
Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
Pile-driver operators
Plasterers and stucco masons
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
Production workers, all other
Protective service workers, all other
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
Recreational vehicle service technicians
Rock splitters, quarry
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Roofers
Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
Sailors and marine oilers
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
Segmental pavers
Service station attendants
Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
Sewing machine operators
Ship engineers
Shuttle car operators
Stock clerks and order fillers
Stonemasons
Structural iron and steel workers
Structural metal fabricators and fitters
Tapers
Tax preparers
Team assemblers
Telemarketers
Terrazzo workers and finishers
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
Tile and marble setters
Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
Tire repairers and changers
Tour guides and escorts
Travel guides
Tree trimmers and pruners
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
Waiters and waitresses
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders