Occupations grouped by education and training

High school

• Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, all other
• Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
• Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
• Conveyor operators and tenders
• Cooks, fast food
• Cooks, short order
• Cutters and trimmers, hand
• Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
• Dishwashers
• Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
• Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
• Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
• Food batchmakers
• Food cooking machine operators and tenders
• Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
• Food preparation workers
• Food processing 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 — production workers
• Helpers — roofers
• Industrial truck and tractor operators
• Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
• Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
• Machine feeders and offbearers
• Maids and housekeeping cleaners
• Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
• Motor vehicle operators, all other
• Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
• Packers and packagers, hand
• Parking lot attendants
• Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
• Refuse and recyclable material collectors
• Shuttle car operators
• Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
• Tire repairers and changers
• Tree trimmers and pruners

High school / some college

• Amusement and recreation attendants
• Baggage porters and bellhops
• Bartenders
• Bill and account collectors
• Bindery workers
• Bridge and lock tenders
• Bus drivers, school
• Cashiers, except gaming
• Childcare workers
• Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
• Communications equipment operators, all other
• Correspondence clerks
• Costume attendants
• Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
• Couriers and Messengers
• Court, municipal, and license clerks
• Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
• Crossing guards
• Driver/sales workers
• Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
• Electromechanical equipment assemblers
• Engine and other machine assemblers
• File clerks
• Food servers, nonrestaurant
• Gaming cage workers
• Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
• Healthcare support workers, all other
• Home health aides
• Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
• Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
• Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
• Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
• Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
• Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
• Maintenance workers, machinery
• Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers, all other
• Medical equipment preparers
• Meter readers, utilities
• Motion picture projectionists
• Nonfarm animal caretakers
• Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
• Office clerks, general
• Office machine operators, except computer
• Order clerks
• Painting, coating, and decorating workers
• Personal and home care aides
• Pharmacy aides
• Postal service clerks
• Postal service mail carriers
• Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
• Procurement clerks
• Psychiatric aides
• Receptionists and information clerks
• Riggers
• Sailors and marine oilers
• Security guards
• Service station attendants
• Sewers, hand
• Shampooers
• Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
• Stock clerks and order fillers
• Switchboard operators, including answering service
• Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
• Teacher assistants
• Telemarketers
• Telephone operators
• Tellers
• Traffic technicians
• Transportation workers, all other
• Truck drivers, light or delivery services
• Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
• Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
• Waiters and waitresses
• Water transportation workers, all other
• Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping

Some college

• Occupational therapist aides

High school / some college / college

• Counter and rental clerks
• Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
• Financial, information, and record clerks, all other
• Funeral attendants
• Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
• Library assistants, clerical
• Library technicians
• Loan interviewers and clerks
• Parking enforcement workers
• Personal care and service workers, all other
• Photographic processing machine operators
• Production, planning, and expediting clerks
• Proofreaders and copy markers
• Protective service workers, all other
• Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
• Retail salespersons
• Secretaries, administrative assistants, and other office support workers, all other
• Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters

Some college / college

• Physical therapist aides

High school

• Agricultural equipment operators
• Animal breeders
• Bicycle repairers
• Carpet installers
• Cement masons and concrete finishers
• Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
• Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
• Construction laborers
• Construction trades and related workers, all other
• Cooks, institution and cafeteria
• Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
• Crane and tower operators
• Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Derrick operators, oil and gas
• Dredge operators
• Drywall and ceiling tile installers
• Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
• Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
• Extraction workers, all other
• Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
• Fallers
• Farming, fishing, and forestry workers, all other
• Fence erectors
• Fishers and related fishing workers
• Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
• Floor sanders and finishers
• Forest and conservation workers
• Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Hazardous materials removal workers
• Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Hoist and winch operators
• Hunters and trappers
• Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
• Loading machine operators, underground mining
• Log graders and scalers
• Logging equipment operators
• Manufactured building and mobile home installers
• Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
• Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
• Motorboat operators
• Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
• Painters, construction and maintenance
• Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
• Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
• Pile-driver operators
• Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Pourers and casters, metal
• Rock splitters, quarry
• Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Roof bolters, mining
• Roofers
• Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
• Roustabouts, oil and gas
• Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
• Segmental pavers
• Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
• Sewing machine operators
• Shoe machine operators and tenders
• Slaughterers and meat packers
• Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
• Tapers
• Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
• Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders

High school / some college

• Air transportation workers, all other
• Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
• Animal control workers
• Assemblers and fabricators, all other
• Bailiffs
• Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
• Bookbinders
• Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
• Bus drivers, transit and intercity
• Camera and photographic equipment repairers
• Cargo and freight agents
• Chemical equipment operators and tenders
• Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
• Commercial divers
• Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
• Concierges
• Continuous mining machine operators
• Control valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
• Correctional officers and jailers
• Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Data entry keyers
• Dental assistants
• Dietetic technicians
• Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
• Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Earth drillers, except oil and gas
• Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
• Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Fabric menders, except garment
• Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
• Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Foundry mold and coremakers
• Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
• Gaming service workers, all other
• Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
• Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
• Grinding and polishing workers, hand
• Highway maintenance workers
• Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
• Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
• Insulation workers
• Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
• Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
• Locksmiths and safe repairers
• Maintenance and repair workers, general
• Material moving workers, all other
• Mechanical door repairers
• Medical assistants
• Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
• Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
• Mining machine operators, all other
• Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Model makers, metal and plastic
• Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
• Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
• Painters, transportation equipment
• Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Paperhangers
• Parts salespersons
• Patternmakers, metal and plastic
• Payroll and timekeeping clerks
• Pest control workers
• Pharmacy technicians
• Pipelayers
• Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
• Printing machine operators
• Printing workers, all other
• Production workers, all other
• Psychiatric technicians
• Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
• Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
• Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
• Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
• Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators and tenders
• Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
• Sheet metal workers
• Signal and track switch repairers
• Structural metal fabricators and fitters
• Surveying and mapping technicians
• Team assemblers
• Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
• Tire builders
• Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
• Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
• Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
• Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Wellhead pumpers
• Word processors and typists

High school / some college / college

• Advertising sales agents
• Animal trainers
• Brokerage clerks
• Computer operators
• Customer service representatives
• Demonstrators and product promoters
• Eligibility interviewers, government programs
• Models
• Photographic process workers
• Radio operators
• Residential advisors
• Sales and related workers, all other
• Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
• Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
• Statistical assistants
• Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
• Tour guides and escorts
• Travel guides
• Woodworkers, all other
• Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

Some college / college

• Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
• Floral designers
• Media and communication equipment workers, all other
• Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
• Social and human service assistants
• Tax preparers

College

• Audio-visual collections specialists

High school

• Automotive glass installers and repairers
• Brickmasons and blockmasons
• Butchers and meatcutters
• Cooks, private household
• Cooks, restaurant
• Fabric and apparel patternmakers
• Furniture finishers
• Model makers, wood
• Patternmakers, wood
• Plasterers and stucco masons
• Recreational vehicle service technicians
• Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
• Stonemasons
• Terrazzo workers and finishers
• Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Tile and marble setters
• Upholsterers

High school / some college

• Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
• Automotive body and related repairers
• Bakers
• Boilermakers
• Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
• Carpenters
• Chemical plant and system operators
• Dancers
• Dental laboratory technicians
• Electrical powerline installers and repairers
• Electricians
• Elevator installers and repairers
• Etchers and engravers
• Farmers and ranchers
• Firefighters
• Gas plant operators
• Glaziers
• Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
• Home appliance repairers
• Industrial machinery mechanics
• Job printers
• Machinists
• Medical appliance technicians
• Millwrights
• Motorboat mechanics
• Motorcycle mechanics
• Musical instrument repairers and tuners
• Nuclear power reactor operators
• Numerical tool and process control programmers
• Opticians, dispensing
• Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
• Plant and system operators, all other
• Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
• Power distributors and dispatchers
• Power plant operators
• Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
• Prepress technicians and workers
• Railcar repairers
• Shoe and leather workers and repairers
• Stationary engineers and boiler operators
• Structural iron and steel workers
• Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
• Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
• Telecommunications line installers and repairers
• Tool and die makers
• Watch repairers
• Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
• Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

High school / some college / college

• Announcers
• Audio and video equipment technicians
• Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
• Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
• Fish and game wardens
• Flight attendants
• Insurance appraisers, auto damage
• Musicians and singers
• Transit and railroad police

Some college / college

• Actors
• Air traffic controllers
• Airfield operations specialists
• Athletes and sports competitors
• Coaches and scouts
• Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
• Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
• Interpreters and translators
• Media and communication workers, all other
• Photographers
• Police and sheriff's patrol officers
• Umpires, referees, and other sports officials

High school

• Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
• Graders and sorters, agricultural products
• Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers

High school / some college

• Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
• Chefs and head cooks
• Choreographers
• Fire inspectors
• First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving 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 landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
• First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material moving machine and vehicle operators
• Gaming managers
• Locomotive engineers and operators
• New-accounts clerks
• Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
• Railroad conductors and yardmasters
• Subway, streetcar operators and all other rail transportation workers
• Transportation inspectors

High school / some college / college

• Agricultural inspectors
• Construction and building inspectors
• Cost estimators
• First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
• First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
• First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
• Food service managers
• Gaming supervisors
• Lodging managers
• Managers, all other
• Postmasters and mail superintendents
• Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
• Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
• Real estate brokers
• Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
• Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products

Some college / college

• Detectives and criminal investigators
• Emergency management specialists
• First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
• Private detectives and investigators
• Self-enrichment education teachers

High school / some college

• Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
• Automotive service technicians and mechanics
• Avionics technicians
• Barbers
• Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
• Desktop publishers
• Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
• Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers, all other
• Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
• Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
• Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
• Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
• Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
• Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
• Farm equipment mechanics
• Gaming and sports book writers and runners
• Gaming dealers
• Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
• Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
• Legal secretaries
• Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
• Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
• Manicurists and pedicurists
• Medical secretaries
• Medical transcriptionists
• Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
• Radio mechanics
• Respiratory therapy technicians
• Security and fire alarm systems installers
• Ship engineers
• Skin care specialists
• Surgical technologists

High school / some college / college

• Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
• Court reporters
• Embalmers
• Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
• Health practitioners and technical workers, all other
• Preschool teachers, except special education
• Real estate sales agents
• Slot key persons
• Sound engineering technicians
• Travel agents

Some college / college

• Appraisers and assessors of real estate
• Architectural and civil drafters
• Electrical and electronics drafters
• Massage therapists
• Mechanical drafters

College

• Commercial pilots

High school / some college

• Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
• Civil engineering technicians
• Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
• Electro-mechanical technicians
• Environmental engineering technicians
• Industrial engineering technicians
• Mechanical engineering technicians
• Medical equipment repairers
• Medical records and health information technicians
• Semiconductor processors
• Veterinary technologists and technicians

Some college

• Occupational therapist assistants

High school / some college / college

• Agricultural and food science technicians
• Biological technicians
• Broadcast technicians
• Chemical technicians
• Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
• Forensic science technicians
• Forest and conservation technicians
• Geological and petroleum technicians
• Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
• Nuclear technicians

Some college / college

• Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
• Computer specialists, all other
• Computer support specialists
• Dental hygienists
• Diagnostic medical sonographers
• Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians, all other
• Funeral directors
• Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
• Nuclear medicine technologists
• Paralegals and legal assistants
• Physical therapist assistants
• Radiation therapists
• Radiologic technologists and technicians
• Registered nurses
• Respiratory therapists

High school / some college / college

• Agricultural and food scientists
• Construction managers
• Dietitians and nutritionists
• Financial specialists, all other
• Industrial production managers
• Insurance sales agents
• Insurance underwriters
• Kindergarten teachers, except special education
• Law clerks
• Legal and related workers, all other
• Orthotists and prosthetists
• Property, real estate, and community association managers
• Recreation workers

Some college / college

• Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
• Art and design workers, all other
• Business operations specialists, all other
• Commercial and industrial designers
• Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
• Computer hardware engineers
• Computer programmers
• Computer systems analysts
• Conservation scientists
• Credit analysts
• Database administrators
• Directors, religious activities and education
• Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
• Fashion designers
• Film and video editors
• Financial examiners
• Foresters
• Graphic designers
• Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
• Industrial engineers
• Interior designers
• Loan counselors
• Loan officers
• Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
• Meeting and convention planners
• Multi-media artists and animators
• Network and computer systems administrators
• Network systems and data communications analysts
• Physician assistants
• Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
• Recreational therapists
• Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
• Set and exhibit designers
• Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
• Teachers, primary, secondary, and adult, all other
• Technical writers
• Training and development specialists

College

• Accountants and auditors
• Aerospace engineers
• Agricultural engineers
• Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
• Architects, except landscape and naval
• Architects, surveyors, and cartographers, all other
• Athletic trainers
• Atmospheric scientists
• Biological scientists, all other
• Biomedical engineers
• Budget analysts
• Cartographers and photogrammetrists
• Chemical engineers
• Chemists
• Child, family, and school social workers
• Civil engineers
• Computer software engineers, applications
• Computer software engineers, systems software
• Counselors, social, and religious workers, all other
• Editors
• Electrical engineers
• Electronics engineers, except computer
• Elementary school teachers, except special education
• Engineers, all other
• Environmental engineers
• Farm and home management advisors
• Financial analysts
• Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
• Landscape architects
• Library, museum, training, and other education workers, all other
• Life scientists, all other
• Marine engineers and naval architects
• Materials engineers
• Materials scientists
• Mechanical engineers
• Medical and public health social workers
• Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
• Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
• Nuclear engineers
• Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
• Occupational therapists
• Personal financial advisors
• Petroleum engineers
• Physical scientists, all other
• Public relations specialists
• Sales engineers
• Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
• Social and community service managers
• Special education teachers
• Surveyors
• Writers and authors
• Zoologists and wildlife biologists

High school / some college / college

• Administrative services managers
• Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
• General and operations managers
• Music directors and composers

Some college / college

• Advertising and promotions managers
• Art directors
• Chief executives
• Computer and information systems managers
• Financial managers
• Human resources managers
• Marketing managers
• Medical and health services managers
• Producers and directors
• Purchasing managers
• Sales managers

College

• Actuaries
• Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
• Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
• Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
• Education administrators, all other
• Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
• Education administrators, postsecondary
• Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
• Engineering managers
• Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
• Legislators
• Management analysts
• Natural sciences managers
• News analysts, reporters and correspondents
• Public relations managers
• Vocational education teachers, middle school
• Vocational education teachers, secondary school

Some college / college

• Health educators
• Mathematicians
• Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations
• Operations research analysts

College

• Anthropologists and archeologists
• Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
• Audiologists
• Economists
• Educational, vocational, and school counselors
• Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
• Epidemiologists
• Geographers
• Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
• Historians
• Hydrologists
• Industrial-organizational psychologists
• Instructional coordinators
• Librarians
• Market research analysts
• Marriage and family therapists
• Mental health and substance abuse social workers
• Mental health counselors
• Physical therapists
• Political scientists
• Rehabilitation counselors
• Social scientists and related workers, all other
• Sociologists
• Speech-language pathologists
• Statisticians
• Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
• Survey researchers
• Urban and regional planners

Some college / college

• Computer and information scientists, research

College

• Biochemists and biophysicists
• Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
• Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
• Microbiologists
• Physicists
• Postsecondary teachers

College

• Chiropractors
• Clergy
• Dentists
• Lawyers
• Optometrists
• Pharmacists
• Physicians and surgeons
• Podiatrists
• Veterinarians