Occupations ranked by Numerical Decrease in Employment

Change in employment 2004 to 2014

Change in employment	Occupation
-155,000	Farmers and ranchers
-115,000	Stock clerks and order fillers
-93,000	Sewing machine operators
-93,000	File clerks
-63,000	Order clerks
-59,000	Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
-49,000	Computer operators
-48,000	Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
-43,000	Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-42,000	Telemarketers
-30,000	Word processors and typists
-27,000	Machine feeders and offbearers
-27,000	Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
-26,000	Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
-24,000	Information and record clerks, all other
-24,000	Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
-22,000	Office machine operators, except computer
-22,000	Meter readers, utilities
-19,000	Switchboard operators, including answering service
-19,000	Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-18,000	Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
-17,000	Photographic processing machine operators
-16,000	Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
-16,000	Parts salespersons
-15,000	Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-14,000	Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
-14,000	Telephone operators
-13,000	Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
-13,000	Couriers and messengers
-11,000	Parking lot attendants
-11,000	Chemical plant and system operators
-10,000	Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
-10,000	Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-10,000	Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
-10,000	Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
-10,000	Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
-9,000	Eligibility interviewers, government programs
-9,000	Upholsterers
-8,000	Bindery workers
-8,000	Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
-7,000	Prepress technicians and workers
-7,000	Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
-7,000	Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
-7,000	Electromechanical equipment assemblers
-7,000	Fishers and related fishing workers
-7,000	Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
-7,000	Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
-7,000	Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
-6,000	Travel agents
-6,000	Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-6,000	Sewers, hand
-6,000	Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
-5,000	Furniture finishers
-4,000	Production workers, all other
-4,000	Cargo and freight agents
-4,000	Radio and television announcers
-4,000	Grinding and polishing workers, hand
-4,000	Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
-4,000	Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-4,000	Photographic process workers
-4,000	Woodworkers, all other
-3,000	Tool and die makers
-3,000	Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
-3,000	Material moving workers, all other
-3,000	Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
-3,000	Semiconductor processors
-3,000	Tire builders
-3,000	Wellhead pumpers
-3,000	Fabric and apparel patternmakers
-2,000	Data entry keyers
-2,000	Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
-2,000	Procurement clerks
-2,000	Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
-2,000	Chemical equipment operators and tenders
-2,000	Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-2,000	Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-2,000	Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-2,000	Correspondence clerks
-2,000	Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
-2,000	Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
-2,000	Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
-2,000	Foundry mold and coremakers
-2,000	Pourers and casters, metal
-2,000	Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
-2,000	Shoe and leather workers and repairers
-2,000	Rail transportation workers, all other
-1,000	Loan interviewers and clerks
-1,000	Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
-1,000	Locomotive engineers and operators
-1,000	Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
-1,000	Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
-1,000	Fallers
-1,000	Fire inspectors and investigators
-1,000	Motion picture projectionists
-1,000	Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
-1,000	Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
-1,000	Cooks, private household
-1,000	Continuous mining machine operators
-1,000	Shoe machine operators and tenders
-1,000	Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
-1,000	Roof bolters, mining
-1,000	Shuttle car operators
0	Postal service mail carriers
0	Industrial machinery mechanics
0	Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
0	Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0	Postal service clerks
0	Agricultural equipment operators
0	Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
0	Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
0	Engine and other machine assemblers
0	Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
0	Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
0	Electrical and electronics drafters
0	Roustabouts, oil and gas
0	Power plant operators
0	Helpers—Extraction workers
0	Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0	Postmasters and mail superintendents
0	Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
0	Proofreaders and copy markers
0	Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
0	Rail car repairers
0	Insulation workers, mechanical
0	Numerical tool and process control programmers
0	Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
0	Vocational education teachers, middle school
0	Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
0	Petroleum engineers
0	Derrick operators, oil and gas
0	Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
0	Paperhangers
0	Etchers and engravers
0	Public address system and other announcers
0	Extraction workers, all other
0	Log graders and scalers
0	Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
0	Broadcast news analysts
0	Model makers, metal and plastic
0	Power distributors and dispatchers
0	Signal and track switch repairers
0	Logging workers, all other
0	Bookbinders
0	Radio mechanics
0	Musical instrument repairers and tuners
0	Hoist and winch operators
0	Patternmakers, metal and plastic
0	Sociologists
0	Political scientists
0	Camera and photographic equipment repairers
0	Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
0	Transit and railroad police
0	Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
0	Communications equipment operators, all other
0	Bridge and lock tenders
0	Watch repairers
0	Loading machine operators, underground mining
0	Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
0	Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
0	Nuclear power reactor operators
0	Historians
0	Commercial divers
0	Fabric menders, except garment
0	Patternmakers, wood
0	Model makers, wood
0	Animal scientists
0	Agricultural engineers
0	Mining machine operators, all other
0	Dredge operators
0	Motorboat operators
0	Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
0	Rock splitters, quarry
0	Mathematicians
0	Industrial-organizational psychologists
0	Radio operators
0	Models
0	Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
0	Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists
0	Mathematical technicians
0	Geographers
0	Prosthodontists
0	Segmental pavers
0	Hunters and trappers

source: Employment Matrix; about this section

Also see Occupations ranked by numerical decrease in employment in the 2004-05 edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook
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