Occupations ranked by Percentage of Self-employed Workers

2004 percentage of self-employed workers

Self-employed workers (percent)	Occupation
0.0%	Elementary school teachers, except special education
0.0%	Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
0.0%	Business operation specialists, all other
0.0%	Police and sheriff's patrol officers
0.0%	Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
0.0%	Tellers
0.0%	Correctional officers and jailers
0.0%	Medical assistants
0.0%	Postal service mail carriers
0.0%	Dental assistants
0.0%	Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
0.0%	Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
0.0%	Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
0.0%	Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
0.0%	Librarians
0.0%	Machine feeders and offbearers
0.0%	Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
0.0%	Parking lot attendants
0.0%	Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
0.0%	Library assistants, clerical
0.0%	Vocational education teachers, secondary school
0.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
0.0%	Community and social service specialists, all other
0.0%	New accounts clerks
0.0%	Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
0.0%	Detectives and criminal investigators
0.0%	Directors, religious activities and education
0.0%	Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Maintenance workers, machinery
0.0%	Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
0.0%	Aerospace engineers
0.0%	Brokerage clerks
0.0%	Postal service clerks
0.0%	Procurement clerks
0.0%	Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.0%	Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
0.0%	Crossing guards
0.0%	Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Cargo and freight agents
0.0%	Credit analysts
0.0%	Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
0.0%	Legislators
0.0%	Biological technicians
0.0%	Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
0.0%	Chemical technicians
0.0%	Material moving workers, all other
0.0%	Baggage porters and bellhops
0.0%	Residential advisors
0.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
0.0%	Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other
0.0%	Conveyor operators and tenders
0.0%	Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.0%	Transportation workers, all other
0.0%	Meter readers, utilities
0.0%	Engine and other machine assemblers
0.0%	Semiconductor processors
0.0%	Crane and tower operators
0.0%	Food cooking machine operators and tenders
0.0%	Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Natural sciences managers
0.0%	Locomotive engineers and operators
0.0%	Hazardous materials removal workers
0.0%	Railroad conductors and yardmasters
0.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
0.0%	Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
0.0%	Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Roustabouts, oil and gas
0.0%	Power plant operators
0.0%	Urban and regional planners
0.0%	Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.0%	Chemical engineers
0.0%	Funeral attendants
0.0%	Sailors and marine oilers
0.0%	Helpers—Extraction workers
0.0%	Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
0.0%	Postmasters and mail superintendents
0.0%	Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
0.0%	Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
0.0%	Recreational therapists
0.0%	Financial examiners
0.0%	Agricultural and food science technicians
0.0%	Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
0.0%	Correspondence clerks
0.0%	Avionics technicians
0.0%	Occupational therapist assistants
0.0%	Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
0.0%	Materials engineers
0.0%	Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
0.0%	Gaming cage workers
0.0%	Media and communication equipment workers, all other
0.0%	Statistical assistants
0.0%	Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
0.0%	Boilermakers
0.0%	Concierges
0.0%	Numerical tool and process control programmers
0.0%	Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
0.0%	Bailiffs
0.0%	Tire builders
0.0%	Actuaries
0.0%	Vocational education teachers, middle school
0.0%	Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
0.0%	Nuclear engineers
0.0%	Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
0.0%	Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
0.0%	Radiation therapists
0.0%	Physicists
0.0%	Agricultural inspectors
0.0%	Riggers
0.0%	Economists
0.0%	Fire inspectors and investigators
0.0%	Occupational health and safety technicians
0.0%	Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
0.0%	Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
0.0%	Mechanical door repairers
0.0%	Emergency management specialists
0.0%	Embalmers
0.0%	Fabric and apparel patternmakers
0.0%	Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
0.0%	Subway and streetcar operators
0.0%	Mathematical scientists, all other
0.0%	Rail transportation workers, all other
0.0%	Model makers, metal and plastic
0.0%	Power distributors and dispatchers
0.0%	Signal and track switch repairers
0.0%	Nuclear technicians
0.0%	Fish and game wardens
0.0%	Atmospheric and space scientists
0.0%	Marine engineers and naval architects
0.0%	Traffic technicians
0.0%	Hoist and winch operators
0.0%	Patternmakers, metal and plastic
0.0%	Occupational therapist aides
0.0%	Shoe machine operators and tenders
0.0%	Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
0.0%	Transit and railroad police
0.0%	Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
0.0%	Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
0.0%	Communications equipment operators, all other
0.0%	Bridge and lock tenders
0.0%	Roof bolters, mining
0.0%	Pile-driver operators
0.0%	Nuclear power reactor operators
0.0%	Patternmakers, wood
0.0%	Model makers, wood
0.0%	Agricultural engineers
0.0%	Shuttle car operators
0.0%	Mathematicians
0.0%	Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists
0.0%	Mathematical technicians
0.1%	Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
0.1%	Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
0.1%	Dishwashers
0.1%	Helpers--Production workers
0.1%	Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
0.1%	Social and human service assistants
0.1%	Fire fighters
0.1%	Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
0.1%	Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
0.1%	Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
0.1%	Medical records and health information technicians
0.1%	Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
0.1%	Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
0.1%	Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
0.1%	Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
0.1%	Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
0.1%	Chemical plant and system operators
0.1%	Religious workers, all other
0.1%	Health educators
0.1%	Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
0.1%	Agricultural workers, all other
0.1%	Gas plant operators
0.2%	Teacher assistants
0.2%	Industrial truck and tractor operators
0.2%	Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
0.2%	Administrative services managers
0.2%	Switchboard operators, including answering service
0.2%	Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
0.2%	Food servers, nonrestaurant
0.2%	Library technicians
0.2%	Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers
0.2%	Flight attendants
0.2%	Eligibility interviewers, government programs
0.2%	Engineering technicians, except drafters, all other
0.2%	Agricultural equipment operators
0.2%	Physical therapist assistants
0.2%	Physical therapist aides
0.2%	Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
0.2%	Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
0.2%	Plant and system operators, all other
0.2%	Pourers and casters, metal
0.3%	Waiters and waitresses
0.3%	Customer service representatives
0.3%	Stock clerks and order fillers
0.3%	First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
0.3%	Clergy
0.3%	Information and record clerks, all other
0.3%	Pharmacy technicians
0.3%	Dental hygienists
0.3%	Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.3%	Civil engineering technicians
0.3%	Service station attendants
0.3%	Surgical technologists
0.3%	Purchasing managers
0.3%	Industrial engineering technicians
0.3%	Veterinary technologists and technicians
0.3%	Environmental engineers
0.3%	Respiratory therapy technicians
0.3%	Environmental engineering technicians
0.3%	Bookbinders
0.4%	Office clerks, general
0.4%	Postsecondary teachers
0.4%	Packers and packagers, hand
0.4%	Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
0.4%	Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.4%	Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
0.4%	Radiologic technologists and technicians
0.4%	Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
0.4%	Industrial engineers
0.4%	Office machine operators, except computer
0.4%	Respiratory therapists
0.4%	Chemists
0.4%	Bindery workers
0.4%	Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
0.4%	Psychiatric technicians
0.4%	Mechanical engineering technicians
0.4%	Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
0.4%	Diagnostic medical sonographers
0.4%	Telephone operators
0.4%	Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
0.4%	Dietetic technicians
0.4%	Elevator installers and repairers
0.4%	Foundry mold and coremakers
0.4%	Materials scientists
0.4%	Epidemiologists
0.5%	Bus drivers, school
0.5%	Parts salespersons
0.5%	Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school
0.5%	Bus drivers, transit and intercity
0.5%	Engineering managers
0.5%	Special education teachers, secondary school
0.5%	Database administrators
0.5%	Special education teachers, middle school
0.5%	Graders and sorters, agricultural products
0.5%	Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
0.5%	Electro-mechanical technicians
0.5%	Gaming and sports book writers and runners
0.5%	Nuclear medicine technologists
0.5%	Gaming service workers, all other
0.5%	Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
0.5%	Continuous mining machine operators
0.6%	Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
0.6%	General and operations managers
0.6%	Maintenance and repair workers, general
0.6%	Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
0.6%	Telemarketers
0.6%	Network and computer systems administrators
0.6%	Gaming dealers
0.6%	Entertainment attendants and related workers, all other
0.6%	Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.6%	Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
0.6%	Cooks, all other
0.7%	Registered nurses
0.7%	Security guards
0.7%	Food preparation workers
0.7%	Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
0.7%	Order clerks
0.7%	Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.7%	Helpers—Carpenters
0.7%	Sales engineers
0.7%	Logisticians
0.7%	Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
0.7%	Helpers—Roofers
0.7%	Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
0.7%	Mining machine operators, all other
0.8%	Receptionists and information clerks
0.8%	Cooks, restaurant
0.8%	Cooks, fast food
0.8%	Counter and rental clerks
0.8%	Amusement and recreation attendants
0.8%	Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
0.8%	Computer hardware engineers
0.8%	Helpers—Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
0.8%	Helpers—Brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
0.8%	Chemical equipment operators and tenders
0.8%	Helpers, construction trades, all other
0.8%	Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
0.8%	Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
0.9%	Cashiers, except gaming
0.9%	Computer support specialists
0.9%	Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
0.9%	Cooks, short order
0.9%	Helpers--Installation, maintenance, and repair workers
0.9%	Protective service workers, all other
0.9%	Helpers—Electricians
0.9%	Grinding and polishing workers, hand
0.9%	Helpers—Painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
0.9%	Life scientists, all other
0.9%	Cooks, private household
0.9%	Costume attendants
1.0%	Cooks, institution and cafeteria
1.0%	Machinists
1.0%	Data entry keyers
1.0%	Financial specialists, all other
1.0%	Insurance underwriters
1.0%	Motor vehicle operators, all other
1.0%	Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
1.0%	Stationary engineers and boiler operators
1.0%	Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.0%	Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
1.1%	Bill and account collectors
1.1%	Medical secretaries
1.1%	Payroll and timekeeping clerks
1.1%	Millwrights
1.1%	Desktop publishers
1.1%	Forest and conservation technicians
1.2%	Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
1.2%	Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
1.2%	Production, planning, and expediting clerks
1.2%	Computer and information systems managers
1.2%	Legal secretaries
1.2%	Highway maintenance workers
1.2%	Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
1.2%	Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
1.2%	Operations research analysts
1.2%	Compensation and benefits managers
1.2%	Social science research assistants
1.3%	Bartenders
1.3%	First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators
1.3%	First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand
1.3%	Slaughterers and meat packers
1.3%	Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
1.3%	Physician assistants
1.3%	Human resources managers, all other
1.3%	Electromechanical equipment assemblers
1.3%	Training and development managers
1.4%	Home health aides
1.4%	Preschool teachers, except special education
1.4%	Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
1.4%	Butchers and meat cutters
1.4%	First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
1.4%	Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
1.4%	Audiologists
1.5%	First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
1.5%	Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
1.5%	Kindergarten teachers, except special education
1.5%	Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
1.5%	Telecommunications line installers and repairers
1.5%	Security and fire alarm systems installers
1.5%	Parking enforcement workers
1.5%	Forensic science technicians
1.5%	Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
1.6%	Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
1.6%	Public relations managers
1.6%	Geological and petroleum technicians
1.7%	Pharmacists
1.7%	Industrial production managers
1.7%	Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
1.8%	Team assemblers
1.8%	Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, all other
1.8%	Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
1.8%	Air traffic controllers
1.9%	Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
1.9%	Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
1.9%	Computer operators
1.9%	Photographic processing machine operators
1.9%	Photographic process workers
1.9%	Cutters and trimmers, hand
1.9%	Transportation inspectors
2.0%	Social workers, all other
2.0%	Budget analysts
2.1%	File clerks
2.1%	Food batchmakers
2.1%	Prepress technicians and workers
2.1%	Rail car repairers
2.1%	Airfield operations specialists
2.2%	Cost estimators
2.2%	Social and community service managers
2.2%	Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
2.3%	Industrial machinery mechanics
2.3%	Loan interviewers and clerks
2.3%	Electrical power-line installers and repairers
2.3%	Structural iron and steel workers
2.3%	Psychiatric aides
2.3%	Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
2.3%	Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
2.3%	Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
2.4%	Computer software engineers, applications
2.4%	Computer software engineers, systems software
2.4%	Assemblers and fabricators, all other
2.4%	Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
2.4%	Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
2.4%	Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
2.4%	Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2.5%	Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
2.5%	Mechanical engineers
2.5%	Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
2.5%	Mental health and substance abuse social workers
2.5%	Commercial pilots
2.5%	Zoologists and wildlife biologists
2.6%	Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
2.6%	Biological scientists, all other
2.7%	Loan officers
2.7%	Public relations specialists
2.7%	Tool and die makers
2.7%	Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
2.7%	Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
2.7%	Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
2.7%	Medical equipment preparers
2.7%	Physical scientists, all other
2.7%	Biochemists and biophysicists
2.7%	Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
2.8%	Training and development specialists
2.8%	Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
2.8%	Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2.8%	Loan counselors
2.8%	Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
2.9%	Production workers, all other
2.9%	Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
2.9%	Court, municipal, and license clerks
2.9%	Microbiologists
2.9%	Insurance appraisers, auto damage
2.9%	Cartographers and photogrammetrists
3.0%	Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
3.0%	Medical and public health social workers
3.0%	Derrick operators, oil and gas
3.1%	Office and administrative support workers, all other
3.1%	Cement masons and concrete finishers
3.1%	Instructional coordinators
3.1%	Structural metal fabricators and fitters
3.1%	Counselors, all other
3.2%	Financial managers
3.2%	Printing machine operators
3.2%	Electronics engineers, except computer
3.2%	Education, training, and library workers, all other
3.2%	Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
3.2%	Farm equipment mechanics
3.2%	Building cleaning workers, all other
3.3%	Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
3.3%	Child, family, and school social workers
3.3%	Electrical engineers
3.3%	Education administrators, postsecondary
3.3%	Education administrators, all other
3.3%	Drafters, all other
3.4%	Retail salespersons
3.4%	Tire repairers and changers
3.4%	Bicycle repairers
3.4%	Terrazzo workers and finishers
3.5%	Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
3.5%	Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
3.5%	Sales managers
3.5%	Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
3.6%	Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
3.6%	Marketing managers
3.6%	Dietitians and nutritionists
3.6%	Statisticians
3.6%	Recreational vehicle service technicians
3.6%	Historians
3.7%	First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers
3.7%	Surveyors
3.7%	Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
3.7%	Ship engineers
3.8%	Farm and home management advisors
3.8%	Audio-visual collections specialists
3.8%	Anthropologists and archeologists
3.9%	First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
3.9%	Pharmacy aides
4.0%	Athletic trainers
4.0%	Gaming managers
4.1%	Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
4.2%	Paralegals and legal assistants
4.2%	Refuse and recyclable material collectors
4.2%	Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
4.2%	Geographers
4.3%	Surveying and mapping technicians
4.3%	Hydrologists
4.4%	Chefs and head cooks
4.5%	Personal and home care aides
4.5%	Computer programmers
4.5%	Physical therapists
4.5%	Opticians, dispensing
4.7%	Engineers, all other
4.7%	Political scientists
4.8%	Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
4.9%	Civil engineers
4.9%	Sheet metal workers
4.9%	Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
4.9%	Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
4.9%	Animal control workers
5.0%	Computer systems analysts
5.0%	Mental health counselors
5.0%	Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
5.0%	Plasterers and stucco masons
5.0%	Occupational health and safety specialists
5.1%	Meeting and convention planners
5.1%	Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
5.1%	Computer and information scientists, research
5.2%	Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
5.3%	Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
5.4%	Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
5.4%	Sales representatives, services, all other
5.4%	Painters, transportation equipment
5.4%	Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
5.5%	Rehabilitation counselors
5.5%	Mechanical drafters
5.5%	Marriage and family therapists
5.6%	Wellhead pumpers
5.7%	Medical and health services managers
5.7%	Advertising sales agents
5.8%	Educational, vocational, and school counselors
5.8%	Rock splitters, quarry
5.9%	Audio and video equipment technicians
6.0%	Speech-language pathologists
6.0%	Occupational therapists
6.1%	Healthcare support workers, all other
6.1%	Architectural and civil drafters
6.2%	Radio mechanics
6.3%	Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
6.4%	Electrical and electronics drafters
6.4%	Curators
6.5%	Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
6.5%	Sound engineering technicians
6.5%	Archivists
6.6%	Maids and housekeeping cleaners
6.6%	Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
6.6%	Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
6.6%	Commercial divers
6.7%	Recreation workers
6.7%	Sewing machine operators
6.7%	Financial analysts
6.7%	Computer specialists, all other
6.7%	Advertising and promotions managers
6.8%	Reporters and correspondents
6.8%	Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
6.8%	Insulation workers, mechanical
6.8%	Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
6.9%	Broadcast news analysts
7.0%	Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
7.0%	Painting, coating, and decorating workers
7.0%	Motorboat operators
7.2%	Market research analysts
7.2%	Petroleum engineers
7.2%	Biomedical engineers
7.3%	Technical writers
7.4%	Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
7.4%	Broadcast technicians
7.5%	Total, all occupations
7.5%	Word processors and typists
7.5%	Social scientists and related workers, all other
7.7%	Extraction workers, all other
7.8%	Survey researchers
7.8%	Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
8.0%	Job printers
8.1%	Bakers
8.5%	Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
8.8%	Driver/sales workers
8.9%	Truck drivers, light or delivery services
8.9%	First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers
9.0%	Conservation scientists
9.1%	Sales and related workers, all other
9.1%	Grounds maintenance workers, all other
9.1%	Foresters
9.3%	Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
9.3%	Construction and related workers, all other
9.4%	Museum Technicians and Conservators
9.5%	Electricians
9.7%	Medical transcriptionists
9.7%	Pest control workers
9.7%	Medical appliance technicians
9.9%	Motion picture projectionists
10.0%	Construction and building inspectors
10.0%	Healthcare technologists and technicians, all other
10.0%	Legal support workers, all other
10.0%	Dental laboratory technicians
10.0%	Earth drillers, except oil and gas
11.0%	Accountants and auditors
11.0%	Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products
11.0%	Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
11.0%	Law clerks
11.0%	Glaziers
11.0%	Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall
11.0%	Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
11.0%	Proofreaders and copy markers
11.0%	Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
11.0%	Court reporters
11.0%	Radio operators
12.0%	Physicians and surgeons
12.0%	Pipelayers
12.0%	Sociologists
13.0%	Construction laborers
13.0%	Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
13.0%	Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
13.0%	Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
13.0%	Interpreters and translators
13.0%	Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
14.0%	Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
14.0%	Travel agents
14.0%	Tour guides and escorts
14.0%	Orthotists and prosthetists
15.0%	Automotive service technicians and mechanics
15.0%	Editors
16.0%	Chief executives
16.0%	Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
16.0%	Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
16.0%	Medical equipment repairers
16.0%	Motorcycle mechanics
16.0%	Designers, all other
16.0%	Oral and maxillofacial surgeons
17.0%	Teachers and instructors, all other
17.0%	Actors
17.0%	Automotive glass installers and repairers
17.0%	Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
17.0%	Manufactured building and mobile home installers
17.0%	Musical instrument repairers and tuners
18.0%	Automotive body and related repairers
18.0%	Demonstrators and product promoters
18.0%	Personal care and service workers, all other
18.0%	Home appliance repairers
18.0%	Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
18.0%	Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
18.0%	Film and video editors
18.0%	Choreographers
18.0%	Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
18.0%	Etchers and engravers
18.0%	Travel guides
18.0%	Fabric menders, except garment
19.0%	Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
19.0%	Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
19.0%	Motorboat mechanics
20.0%	Network systems and data communications analysts
20.0%	Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
20.0%	Couriers and messengers
20.0%	Architects, except landscape and naval
20.0%	Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
20.0%	Funeral directors
20.0%	Dancers
20.0%	Podiatrists
20.0%	Logging workers, all other
20.0%	Watch repairers
21.0%	Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
21.0%	Veterinarians
21.0%	Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
21.0%	Tapers
21.0%	Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
21.0%	Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
22.0%	Coaches and scouts
22.0%	Tree trimmers and pruners
22.0%	Loading machine operators, underground mining
23.0%	Drywall and ceiling tile installers
23.0%	Stonemasons
23.0%	Camera and photographic equipment repairers
24.0%	Lawyers
24.0%	Insurance sales agents
24.0%	Roofers
24.0%	Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
24.0%	Tile and marble setters
24.0%	Private detectives and investigators
24.0%	Landscape architects
25.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
25.0%	Management analysts
25.0%	Interior designers
25.0%	Radio and television announcers
25.0%	Media and communication workers, all other
25.0%	Slot key persons
25.0%	Forest and conservation workers
25.0%	Athletes and sports competitors
25.0%	Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
26.0%	Graphic designers
26.0%	Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
26.0%	Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
26.0%	Fashion designers
26.0%	Public address system and other announcers
26.0%	Models
27.0%	Nonfarm animal caretakers
27.0%	Optometrists
27.0%	Psychologists, all other
28.0%	Upholsterers
28.0%	Furniture finishers
28.0%	Set and exhibit designers
28.0%	Shoe and leather workers and repairers
29.0%	Brickmasons and blockmasons
29.0%	Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
29.0%	Food scientists and technologists
30.0%	Producers and directors
30.0%	Manicurists and pedicurists
30.0%	Commercial and industrial designers
30.0%	Gaming supervisors
30.0%	Skin care specialists
30.0%	Dredge operators
31.0%	Self-enrichment education teachers
31.0%	Dentists, general
31.0%	Floral designers
31.0%	Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
31.0%	Animal scientists
31.0%	Segmental pavers
32.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
32.0%	Carpenters
32.0%	Child care workers
32.0%	Logging equipment operators
32.0%	Artists and related workers, all other
33.0%	Craft artists
34.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
35.0%	Fence erectors
35.0%	Fallers
36.0%	Tax preparers
36.0%	Shampooers
36.0%	Soil and plant Scientists
36.0%	Orthodontists
36.0%	Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
37.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
37.0%	Appraisers and assessors of real estate
38.0%	Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
38.0%	Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
38.0%	Locksmiths and safe repairers
38.0%	Industrial-organizational psychologists
38.0%	Prosthodontists
39.0%	Personal financial advisors
39.0%	Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
40.0%	Food service managers
40.0%	Lodging managers
41.0%	Musicians and singers
42.0%	First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
42.0%	Log graders and scalers
43.0%	Dentists, all other specialists
44.0%	Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
44.0%	Paperhangers
45.0%	Painters, construction and maintenance
45.0%	Music directors and composers
45.0%	Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
46.0%	Carpet installers
48.0%	Property, real estate, and community association managers
49.0%	Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
49.0%	Chiropractors
49.0%	Hunters and trappers
50.0%	Woodworkers, all other
52.0%	Fishers and related fishing workers
53.0%	Floor sanders and finishers
54.0%	Construction managers
56.0%	Art directors
58.0%	Animal trainers
59.0%	Managers, all other
59.0%	Photographers
59.0%	Sewers, hand
60.0%	Real estate sales agents
60.0%	Real estate brokers
61.0%	Multi-media artists and animators
61.0%	Therapists, all other
62.0%	Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
64.0%	Massage therapists
68.0%	Writers and authors
71.0%	Barbers
84.0%	Animal breeders
92.0%	Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
100.0%	Farmers and ranchers

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