Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 | All Occupations

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Occupations grouped by earnings

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VL

Very low: earnings less than $19,710

Agricultural equipment operators
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
Amusement and recreation attendants
Baggage porters and bellhops
Barbers
Bartenders
Bicycle repairers
Cashiers, except gaming
Childcare workers
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
Cooks, fast food
Cooks, institution and cafeteria
Cooks, private household
Cooks, restaurant
Cooks, short order
Counter and rental clerks
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
Couriers and Messengers
Crossing guards
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
Dishwashers
Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
Floral designers
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
Food preparation workers
Food processing workers, all other
Food servers, nonrestaurant
Forest and conservation workers
Funeral attendants
Gaming and sports book writers and runners
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
Gaming dealers
Gaming service workers, all other
Graders and sorters, agricultural products
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
Helpers — production workers
Home health aides
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
Legislators
Library assistants, clerical
Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Manicurists and pedicurists
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
Motion picture projectionists
Motor vehicle operators, all other
Nonfarm animal caretakers
Packers and packagers, hand
Parking lot attendants
Personal and home care aides
Personal care and service workers, all other
Pharmacy aides
Photographic processing machine operators
Preschool teachers, except special education
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
Recreation workers
Retail salespersons
Security guards
Service station attendants
Sewers, hand
Sewing machine operators
Shampooers
Shoe and leather workers and repairers
Stock clerks and order fillers
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Teacher assistants
Telemarketers
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
Tour guides and escorts
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
Waiters and waitresses

L

Low: earnings of $19,710 and $27,380

Actors
Air transportation workers, all other
Animal breeders
Animal control workers
Animal trainers
Announcers
Assemblers and fabricators, all other
Automotive glass installers and repairers
Bakers
Bill and account collectors
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
Bindery workers
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, all other
Bus drivers, school
Butchers and meatcutters
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Concierges
Construction laborers
Construction trades and related workers, all other
Conveyor operators and tenders
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
Correspondence clerks
Costume attendants
Court, municipal, and license clerks
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Customer service representatives
Cutters and trimmers, hand
Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Dancers
Data entry keyers
Demonstrators and product promoters
Dental assistants
Dietetic technicians
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
Driver/sales workers
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
Electromechanical equipment assemblers
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
Etchers and engravers
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Fabric and apparel patternmakers
Fabric menders, except garment
Farm equipment mechanics
Farmers and ranchers
Farming, fishing, and forestry workers, all other
Fence erectors
Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
File clerks
First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers
Fishers and related fishing workers
Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
Food batchmakers
Food cooking machine operators and tenders
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Foundry mold and coremakers
Furniture finishers
Gaming cage workers
Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
Grinding and polishing workers, hand
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Healthcare support workers, all other
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 — roofers
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
Library technicians
Library, museum, training, and other education workers, all other
Log graders and scalers
Logging equipment operators
Machine feeders and offbearers
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
Manufactured building and mobile home installers
Material moving workers, all other
Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
Medical assistants
Medical equipment preparers
Medical records and health information technicians
Medical secretaries
Medical transcriptionists
Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
Model makers, wood
Models
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Motorboat operators
Motorcycle mechanics
New-accounts clerks
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
Occupational therapist aides
Office clerks, general
Office machine operators, except computer
Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
Opticians, dispensing
Order clerks
Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Painting, coating, and decorating workers
Parts salespersons
Pest control workers
Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
Pharmacy technicians
Photographers
Photographic process workers
Physical therapist aides
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Printing workers, all other
Production workers, all other
Proofreaders and copy markers
Protective service workers, all other
Psychiatric aides
Psychiatric technicians
Receptionists and information clerks
Recreational vehicle service technicians
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Rehabilitation counselors
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
Residential advisors
Rock splitters, quarry
Roustabouts, oil and gas
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
Segmental pavers
Semiconductor processors
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
Shoe machine operators and tenders
Skin care specialists
Slaughterers and meat packers
Slot key persons
Social and human service assistants
Survey researchers
Switchboard operators, including answering service
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
Tax preparers
Team assemblers
Tellers
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
Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
Tire repairers and changers
Transportation workers, all other
Travel agents
Travel guides
Tree trimmers and pruners
Truck drivers, light or delivery services
Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
Upholsterers
Veterinary technologists and technicians
Watch repairers
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
Woodworkers, all other
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
Word processors and typists

H

High: earnings of $27,381 to $41,819

Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
Advertising sales agents
Agricultural and food science technicians
Agricultural inspectors
Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
Airfield operations specialists
Anthropologists and archeologists
Appraisers and assessors of real estate
Architectural and civil drafters
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
Art and design workers, all other
Athletic trainers
Audio and video equipment technicians
Audio-visual collections specialists
Automotive body and related repairers
Automotive service technicians and mechanics
Bailiffs
Biological technicians
Bookbinders
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
Bridge and lock tenders
Broadcast technicians
Brokerage clerks
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
Bus drivers, transit and intercity
Camera and photographic equipment repairers
Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
Cargo and freight agents
Carpenters
Carpet installers
Cement masons and concrete finishers
Chefs and head cooks
Chemical equipment operators and tenders
Chemical technicians
Child, family, and school social workers
Choreographers
Civil engineering technicians
Clergy
Coaches and scouts
Commercial divers
Communications equipment operators, all other
Computer operators
Computer support specialists
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
Construction and building inspectors
Continuous mining machine operators
Correctional officers and jailers
Counselors, social, and religious workers, all other
Court reporters
Crane and tower operators
Dental laboratory technicians
Derrick operators, oil and gas
Desktop publishers
Dietitians and nutritionists
Directors, religious activities and education
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
Dredge operators
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Earth drillers, except oil and gas
Editors
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 drafters
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
Electricians
Electro-mechanical technicians
Eligibility interviewers, government programs
Embalmers
Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
Engine and other machine assemblers
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
Environmental engineering technicians
Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
Extraction workers, all other
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
Fallers
Farm and home management advisors
Film and video editors
Financial, information, and record clerks, all other
Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
Firefighters
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 landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
Fish and game wardens
Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
Floor sanders and finishers
Food service managers
Forensic science technicians
Forest and conservation technicians
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
Gaming supervisors
Geological and petroleum technicians
Glaziers
Graphic designers
Hazardous materials removal workers
Health educators
Health practitioners and technical workers, all other
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
Highway maintenance workers
Hoist and winch operators
Home appliance repairers
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
Hunters and trappers
Industrial machinery mechanics
Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
Insulation workers
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
Insurance sales agents
Interior designers
Interpreters and translators
Job printers
Kindergarten teachers, except special education
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Law clerks
Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
Legal and related workers, all other
Legal secretaries
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
Loading machine operators, underground mining
Loan counselors
Loan interviewers and clerks
Locksmiths and safe repairers
Lodging managers
Machinists
Maintenance and repair workers, general
Maintenance workers, machinery
Marriage and family therapists
Massage therapists
Mechanical door repairers
Mechanical drafters
Mechanical engineering technicians
Media and communication equipment workers, all other
Media and communication workers, all other
Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
Medical and public health social workers
Medical appliance technicians
Medical equipment repairers
Meeting and convention planners
Mental health and substance abuse social workers
Mental health counselors
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
Meter readers, utilities
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
Mining machine operators, all other
Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
Model makers, metal and plastic
Motorboat mechanics
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Music directors and composers
Musical instrument repairers and tuners
Musicians and singers
News analysts, reporters and correspondents
Numerical tool and process control programmers
Occupational therapist assistants
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
Painters, construction and maintenance
Painters, transportation equipment
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Paperhangers
Paralegals and legal assistants
Parking enforcement workers
Patternmakers, metal and plastic
Patternmakers, wood
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Physical therapist assistants
Pipelayers
Plant and system operators, all other
Plasterers and stucco masons
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
Postal service clerks
Postal service mail carriers
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
Pourers and casters, metal
Prepress technicians and workers
Printing machine operators
Private detectives and investigators
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
Procurement clerks
Production, planning, and expediting clerks
Property, real estate, and community association managers
Public relations specialists
Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
Radio mechanics
Radio operators
Radiologic technologists and technicians
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
Railcar repairers
Real estate sales agents
Recreational therapists
Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
Respiratory therapists
Respiratory therapy technicians
Riggers
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Roof bolters, mining
Roofers
Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
Sailors and marine oilers
Sales and related workers, all other
Security and fire alarm systems installers
Self-enrichment education teachers
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators and tenders
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
Set and exhibit designers
Sheet metal workers
Shuttle car operators
Sound engineering technicians
Statistical assistants
Stonemasons
Structural iron and steel workers
Structural metal fabricators and fitters
Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
Surgical technologists
Surveying and mapping technicians
Surveyors
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
Tapers
Teachers, primary, secondary, and adult, all other
Telecommunications line installers and repairers
Telephone operators
Terrazzo workers and finishers
Tile and marble setters
Tire builders
Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
Traffic technicians
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
Water transportation workers, all other
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Wellhead pumpers
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products

VH

Very high: earnings greater than $41,819

Accountants and auditors
Actuaries
Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
Administrative services managers
Advertising and promotions managers
Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
Aerospace engineers
Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
Agricultural and food scientists
Agricultural engineers
Air traffic controllers
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
Architects, except landscape and naval
Architects, surveyors, and cartographers, all other
Art directors
Athletes and sports competitors
Atmospheric scientists
Audiologists
Avionics technicians
Biochemists and biophysicists
Biological scientists, all other
Biomedical engineers
Boilermakers
Brickmasons and blockmasons
Budget analysts
Business operations specialists, all other
Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
Cartographers and photogrammetrists
Chemical engineers
Chemical plant and system operators
Chemists
Chief executives
Chiropractors
Civil engineers
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
Commercial and industrial designers
Commercial pilots
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
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
Conservation scientists
Construction managers
Control valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
Cost estimators
Credit analysts
Database administrators
Dental hygienists
Dentists
Detectives and criminal investigators
Diagnostic medical sonographers
Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians, all other
Economists
Education administrators, all other
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
Education administrators, postsecondary
Educational, vocational, and school counselors
Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
Electrical engineers
Electrical powerline installers and repairers
Electronics engineers, except computer
Elementary school teachers, except special education
Elevator installers and repairers
Emergency management specialists
Engineering managers
Engineers, all other
Environmental engineers
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
Epidemiologists
Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
Fashion designers
Financial analysts
Financial examiners
Financial managers
Financial specialists, all other
Fire inspectors
First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material moving machine and vehicle operators
Flight attendants
Foresters
Funeral directors
Gaming managers
Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
Gas plant operators
General and operations managers
Geographers
Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
Historians
Human resources managers
Hydrologists
Industrial engineering technicians
Industrial engineers
Industrial production managers
Industrial-organizational psychologists
Instructional coordinators
Insurance appraisers, auto damage
Insurance underwriters
Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
Landscape architects
Lawyers
Librarians
Life scientists, all other
Loan officers
Locomotive engineers and operators
Management analysts
Managers, all other
Marine engineers and naval architects
Market research analysts
Marketing managers
Materials engineers
Materials scientists
Mathematicians
Mechanical engineers
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
Medical and health services managers
Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
Microbiologists
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
Millwrights
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations
Multi-media artists and animators
Natural sciences managers
Network and computer systems administrators
Network systems and data communications analysts
Nuclear engineers
Nuclear medicine technologists
Nuclear power reactor operators
Nuclear technicians
Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
Occupational therapists
Operations research analysts
Optometrists
Orthotists and prosthetists
Personal financial advisors
Petroleum engineers
Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
Pharmacists
Physical scientists, all other
Physical therapists
Physician assistants
Physicians and surgeons
Physicists
Pile-driver operators
Podiatrists
Police and sheriff's patrol officers
Political scientists
Postmasters and mail superintendents
Postsecondary teachers
Power distributors and dispatchers
Power plant operators
Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
Producers and directors
Public relations managers
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
Purchasing managers
Radiation therapists
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
Railroad conductors and yardmasters
Real estate brokers
Registered nurses
Sales engineers
Sales managers
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
Ship engineers
Signal and track switch repairers
Social and community service managers
Social scientists and related workers, all other
Sociologists
Special education teachers
Speech-language pathologists
Stationary engineers and boiler operators
Statisticians
Subway, streetcar operators and all other rail transportation workers
Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
Technical writers
Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
Tool and die makers
Training and development specialists
Transit and railroad police
Transportation inspectors
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
Urban and regional planners
Veterinarians
Vocational education teachers, middle school
Vocational education teachers, secondary school
Writers and authors
Zoologists and wildlife biologists